Space Engineers Beginners Guide - Your Best Start in Survival

WOAH there! Don't struggle through - this is your new Space Engineers manual. Get the best start from the menu to your first base right here.
Space Engineers doesn't have much of a new-player experience and the learning curve can be steep so I've created the ultimate Space Engineers beginners guide - a new starter tutorial to guide you through the menus to create a new game, through to learning the UI and basics of surviving and establishing a base.
This is 100% vanilla, using the default star system with no mods and no worries.
00:00 Starting a new Space Engineers game
02:00 First drop pod spawn
03:00 Know these basics
07:22 Resources & building grids
12:49 Power your grid
17:19 Production Blocks
22:04 Transferring your respawn point
23:25 O2 & H2 & more Power
26:56 Customising your base
28:24 Cargo containers
29:26 Where to go from here?
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[@GWPRO_YT]

I dont need a beginners guide but i am sure this will help alot of new players

[@Psy-Prime]

Corrections (thanks to the community)
1. Alien planet has O2 - you can't breathe it with your visor open, but you can suck it into an o2 tank with an air vent set to depressurise (thanks @draxie9448 )
2. /gps has to be typed in lower case followed by a space, then the name of your gps like this: /gps iron (thanks @thesurrealtaco8097 )
3. You can save more battery power to buy more time to start out by turning off non-essentials like ore detector, beacon, lights, timer block on your drop pod. (thanks @bendover1028 )

[@bendover1028]

A fairly detailed guide covering the essentials and at a good pace. One thing I tend to recommend is that as soon as you have landed and at least landing leg is locked I go through and turn off all the electronics that aren't helping, the ore detector, timer block, lights, beacon etc and this helps slow the drain on your only battery. Also you didn't mention the H2 tank in the O2/H2 Generator to extend flight time. Just saying. No offence meant, it is a good guide. Cheers mate.

[@Psy-Prime]

Thanks for the detailed comment! Good points.
The H2 tank idea is great for speed runs where some extra hang time is more important than keeping a longer O2 and H2 supply for scouting. I wouldn't recommend that for new starters though as every drop of Ice could be valuable on the ground. Always good to turn off stuff too.

[@datsiqreaper5943]

Now this is a very good how to guide.Thank's Psy

[@thesurrealtaco8097]

So this video lacks 1 thing Sp33dweed demonstrating how not to die. Oh and if viewers struggle /gps is lower case to type (on screen captions used /GPS)

[@Psy-Prime]

Great suggestion! I’ll keep that in mind for a 2024 update. And thanks for pointing out that /gps is lower case!

[@draxie9448]

fyi alien planet has 10% o2 which you can extract using air vents

[@Psy-Prime]

Good point, but not exactly beginner friendly. Thanks for the reminder.

[@comcastjohn]

Holy crap! This is the best well explained guide I have seen ! I am brand new and the others I have watched were ok but this one, I totally understood everything. The others left little things here and there as well as some explanations. Thank you so much! Subbed! 🫡🫡🫡🫡

[@Psy-Prime]

Thank you very much! I'm so glad you found this useful. Looking forward to hearing about your space engineers journey in future comments ;) (definitely do share how you're getting on).