Don't Delete My Drop Pod - A Space Engineers Tutorial

[@sgt_retiredcharlie4102]

Great video, as always. I'm new to the game (at 53 years old) and I'm still learning so much from your tutorials. The new ones as well as those from 6 years ago! Thanks for all the content, it's going to take me forever to get through it all. (At least I can watch at 1.5x speed. LOL)

[@Splitsie]

Hopefully my accent doesn't cause too many issues at the higher speed :D

[@bendejong1271]

Just stared playing a week a go or so. And i really REALLY wanna thank you for your vid's. It really helpt me out a lot. So thank you. Iam loving the game thanks to you.

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome, always nice to know that my videos have helped :)

[@elfbrownie7226]

​@@Splitsiehow do I build toilet??

[@Thiloyeah]

6:13. Oh, this must be the Armageddon setting.

[@Splitsie]

That would be one hilarious Armageddon mode :D

[@charlieodom9107]

I thought it was the Capac respawn thingy but with pods!

[@DRUMnBLESSed]

Battle Royale Clang Style

[@YEAHKINDA]

"So to show that this works, I'll turn off my respawn point..." "THEN KILL MYSELF!, and yeah it works"

[@Splitsie]

See, my lifeless corpse proves it!

[@YEAHKINDA]

@@Splitsie *reanimates* "See I told you, and you didn't believe me."

[@Geneticus0]

Australian for "Hold my beer while I try this..."

[@unfluffydave8798]

One question that might help newer players with this tutorial: Where did you get the small steel tubes for the merge blocks? The survival kit cannot make small tubes and you didn't seem to grind anything down that contained them.

[@Splitsie]

I was thinking about that on the way in to work this evening, I probably should have mentioned that you'll need the assembler up and running to build all the blocks here due to the need for tubes for the merge block and the gyroscope (though at least that one can be sourced from your thrusters)

[@charlieodom9107]

Drop containers!!! Go get them and steal the parts! They serve as an important resource early in the game.

[@JoTheVeteran]

Just noticed as well, but as the commented above me noticed, those tubes do exist in drop containers. You only need to find one.

[@0623kaboom]

@@Splitsie ok so although the tutorial is right it is missing a large portion of required things needed from vanilla needed to actually do it ... kind of like ordering food and then eating it ... but forgetting the 2 hour drive to get the food ... kinda works but without that bit in the middle it doesnt work

[@armastat]

@@0623kaboom On the other hand its like teaching someone how you do a hand brake turn in a car. you don't need to teach them how to start the car first.

[@Telowin]

Whaaa? More Splitsie videos than normal??? Yes please!!

[@Splitsie]

When the idea strikes I just gotta get it out :)

[@Splitsie]

I also like the idea of occasionally doing quick ones like this to allow me to cover random little topics :)

[@PantherDave]

Hey Splitsie, love your videos! There's a much easier way to do this though, with no unlocks or welding required! It has to do with how SE treats grids when they split. If you create an appendage to the drop pod which contains more blocks than the drop pod itself, then disconnect it, SE chooses to mark the larger grid as the drop pod, thereby removing the mark from your real drop pod. It's very quick and easy. You can check that you have more than doubled your block count in the terminal before cutting it loose.

[@Splitsie]

That's a good point and nice to have an alternative :)

[@mb9769]

Whats that?

[@vondred]

How can you love a 30 second video that was Spand out in the six minutes

[@voraga]

Saw the title of the episode and came to watch Splitsie die. He did not disappoint. Great tutorial, never thought of using the rotor trick to cheaply solve this issue, glad you're still at it. Thanks.

[@Splitsie]

Lol 😆 Rotor doesn't work though, you have to use a landing gearas the grid has to be locked to a static object

[@Wolf350]

I remember when we used to have to do this to the old large grid drop ship. Didn't know you could do this with the small grid drop ship. Thanks for the tip :)

[@Splitsie]

Yeah, I didn't realise either. I only learned it over the weekend so figured I should share it as I figured I wouldn't be the only one who didn't know :P

[@JollywoodJoel]

I got over 3,000 hours playing and i didn't know this worked for small ships, thank you.

[@Splitsie]

I'm about the same and I didn't know either :P

[@kevinminchew4530]

For Science! For dummies! Just purchased this game recently and your tutorials have been a great help

[@Splitsie]

Great to hear (read) :)

[@Canard3D]

Hey Split, Without your videos, I would have never understood the Space Engineers' mechanics. Thank you so much

[@TheRealCatCatCat]

"...because P is a bad habit to get into." *immature giggling*

[@Splitsie]

Just think about my first P rant :P

[@Humanoidmp]

It’s extremely useful on servers with “dispawn respawn pod” setting enabled. Also I do it every time I start in space just in case sth goes wrong.

[@Splitsie]

Yeah I imagine it's quite handy for that situation, hopefully this'll help a few people out :)

[@unclegreybeard3969]

It's probably easier to do it in a space respawn pod because you already have full flight control in every direction. My usual start system in space is to place a basic refinery on top, then a basic assembler, add conveyors and a drill on the front, then merge block the ship to the asteroid. After that you are you own limitation.

[@MarcWeavers]

took ages to find this, might need adding to your Tutorial playlist :)

[@MawLex207]

Omfg if only I had seen this sooner! My life would have been so much easier. I thought it had to BE a station you connected to, not just another grid that is stationary. Fucking brilliant. Trying to find ways to merge a small grid ship to a station was a nightmare.

[@Splitsie]

Glad it was helpful, I figured I had to share it when I learned of it over the weekend :)

[@BookofHolyH2O]

yay tutorial's are back!

[@Splitsie]

Hopefully not such a long break before the next one :)

[@cagstix]

THANK YOU!!!! I have been grinding/rebuilding it every time... so annoying. U are the best!

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :D

[@Atepa09]

A Splitsie tutorial, in 2020! Exxxxcellent...

[@Splitsie]

Hopefully only the first :)

[@biglwrab9634]

I Iike these tutorials. KEEP IT UP

[@Splitsie]

I hope to :)

[@serdaraytemiz]

Ah this really nice. I have just started and my miner is built on the spawn ship and I was worried that I would loose it. Now problem solved... It will be nice to play with merge blocks as well as I havent yet :p Thank you for your tutorials. They are a great help to move along have a much easier time. I already did get stuck once and restarted. (the connectors didnt work and couldnt transfer energy or materials. ) so Ijust scrapped that try and started a new and it is a much nicer experience.

[@kradlyn]

Thanks for this! I've been trying to figure a way to do this for near a week now. Now my poor little miner shall be safe from a possible accidental removal.

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :)

[@Genjokoan]

If you are single player - which I always am - F10 and plop a pod works for me. :D . Often I setup a world and spawn into a creative game. This allows me to fly around a while and pick a nice looking spot. Once a promising spot is found, I put down a couple of blocks, then use F10 to place my drop pod on them. If everything is looking perfect now, save the game. Then save again with a new name. Exit to the main menu, choose load a game, pick your new save-as game and edit settings and turn it into survival mode. Save again. Reload and you are not playing survival mode, with a level respawn pod in a spot with a nice view. Enjoy. I find this a better, faster option than starting a new game and reloading/respawning myriad times until the random number generator offers you a landing spot with less suckage than usual. And if you really really want to have two drop pods, well plop down two instead of one and play on.

[@juliusklein6245]

Back in the days that i played we usually turned the big grid lander into a car or airship and went to a suitable base location.

[@Splitsie]

Yep, one of the reasons I was glad for the change to the little drop pod with the survival update was that the old lander had far too much stuff in it for the start to feel like you were actually scrabbling for anything :P

[@pondafarr]

Once you merge block it, can you then disconnect and keep the ship? Example: Mergeblock the spacepod to an asteroid, once I disconnect, does it remain a valid ship, or is it still considered a spawn ship?

[@Splitsie]

Yep, just grind the lot down if you like and it'll not be considered a spawn ship :)

[@jordank1813]

I've been trying to get the landing pod to fly for hours. To simply fly. The most I can do is get the thing to hover, but I cannot apply thrust in any direction. I have the remote control, I have the gyroscope, I have thrusters for days and the thing will just..... hover.

[@obbekjaer]

One word of warning. It doesn't seem to affect subgrids like wheels! I converted my spawn rover the other day and it seemed to work just fine. Now today while building on another ship I happened to mouse over the wheels on the rover and they still gave the warning. Not the suspension but the tires.

[@Splitsie]

Wow, that's weird and good to know 👍

[@deanworrall4567]

That explains it. Rejoined my server today and thought someone had jacked my wheels... 🤣

[@TheFoxfiend]

I loved this video, even though I clicked on it because I actually just needed a reminder on how to get the drop pod to fly XD

[@Splitsie]

lol Thanks :)

[@nadomir7609]

Thanks for sharing this handy little trick, including; how do I get my droppod flyiong within 5 minutes :D I think, that is something a couple of folks might struggle with, too. Also we see how effectiv droppods are as a weapon... with the parachute: not so much :)

[@Splitsie]

I'm glad you liked that little bit, thought I'd show it as another little bonus tip :)

[@nadomir7609]

@@Splitsie We start to need to have an inventory list or index of all your tipps and tricks and where to find it. So many usefull thinks and so many great tutorials to look up :) That could be something we can do as a comunity and sum it up on your discord.

[@dougdimadome8616]

This is great i needed more metal grids in the beginning so I can make more thrusters and storage

[@fridayhawks-spangenberg8979]

I usually grind down everything but the battery, a few light armor blocks, and a landing gear before turning the drop pod into a ship, at which point you can just add a 10ish block line of armor blocks (or unfinished batteries) and shear it off at the finished battery. Whichever side has more blocks becomes the temporary ship 🙃

[@Splitsie]

That's another good option too :)

[@jaymurray7269]

Many public servers use this mechanic, some may also require a beacon attached to each grid, or that each grid be renamed, less they be "auto cleaned"

[@Splitsie]

That's true, many do indeed and I'm hoping to explore that side of things as the year goes on :)

[@TheGarageGamer86]

Thanks splitsie, this saves me rebuilding the whole thing! :P though I'm totally stealing the buttercup design later on, that thing is a work of art 👌

[@ImmortalJunior]

What about the unique built in gps? does it create a second one or remove the first one ?

[@astarrobotics]

Splitsie, have you done a 2nd "Lost Colony" stream? I am pretty much where you are in the world, but am stuck now. I need 3k silver for reactor components and don't want to mine for it if the map is designed for me to get it in some other way.

[@Splitsie]

We haven't been back to it so unfortunately I'm not sure :/

[@astarrobotics]

@@Splitsie Aww. Thanks for the reply!

[@rvendelstrego6688]

Nice. After years of playing, this is the first i hear of that. Probably 'cause I never really tried to keep the spawnship.

[@Splitsie]

I might have been the same when remaarn told me :)

[@Dragonorder18]

I remember when I'd do this with the larger landing ships to where we would converge, and then make sure we would keep two ships as improvised bases, while the third would be scrapped for parts. And then make sure the temporary ships became permanent.

[@Splitsie]

Yep, I did that a few times too - especially during the early multiplayer tests, much easier to do the conversion with the large grid old lander though since all you needed was an armour stalk and a merge block :)

[@butterslingshot4130]

Thanks again Splitsie, I was actually wondering how to do this with the new small grid drop pod, since just normal merge blocking it didn't work.

[@Splitsie]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one :P

[@jjmaccky9198]

Hey not sure if you are planning to make one, but a turret tutorial would be really nice video. Keep up the good work.

[@Splitsie]

What sort of things were you wanting to learn about turrets?

[@jjmaccky9198]

@@Splitsie Just some good settings and groupings to use. Maybe locations that are effective and efficient for ships vs bases. What situations are better for missiles or gatling. So far it seems like gatling is the best but I don't have much experience using turrets at all. Lot of the videos I have found seem to be fairly old.

[@un0RRS]

I tried merging batteries from a space respawning pod to my base and it wouldn't let me place merge blocks on them. Ended up putting a rotor head on them and attaching it to a rotor attached to my base, and then I could put merge blocks on them.

[@gagalogola2480]

Notification squad for life. love your vids man

[@armastat]

Real handy for supplying a large battery to your 1st station

[@MarcWeavers]

nice trick, i had no idea that was possible with a small grid and just landing gear + merge block connected to voxel embedded grid :)

[@Splitsie]

Neither did I until Remaarn told me, that's why I had to share it :)

[@Cee64E]

There is an easier method. The drop pod is something like 165 small blocks. If you build an easily removed wing of just plain light armor blocks that is more than the blocks that make up the pod, and then cut that wing free from the pod, the "Respawn Pod" tag stays with the bigger half. You don't even have to fully construct the blocks. I just did a 'sprue' of single blocks off one side of my pod and built a big cube, then cut the sprue. The cube, now free and laying on the ground, became the "Respawn Pod" and it's GPS tag changed to "Respawn Pod Last Known Location" You can now grind down the loose blocks and put them away. I just recently did this on the Keen Public server. Did the trick. Try it.

[@Splitsie]

Yep, that method will work too, wish I'd remembered about it before posting the video as I would have included it as well :P

[@Cee64E]

@@Splitsie, I only recently learned it myself. I'm following your videos and your video on Keen's public servers convinced me to give it a try, as much as I am loath to give up all the useful scripts that I normally use. It's an interesting challenge, though less daunting than "Survival Impossible". I will need to work up to that one. Keep up the good work.

[@AppleGeniusInc]

You can also merge your respawn pod with another ship as long as the ships part count is higher than your respawn pod

[@Splitsie]

That's a good point - I'm honestly not sure which approach is easier

[@MikeMoneyGMR]

"The dropship is flyable in this design but it will be difficult" No kidding XD it's the easiest thing in the world to lift it off the ground and then it becomes this more or less out of control disaster XD. I almost blew mine up after finally figuring out how to do it because it went soaring off at high speeds, and every direction I tried to move it to stop it from doing so only somewhat helped and then is slammed into the ground severely damaging the o2/h2 generator XD fun times, fun times. I was shocked it didn't destroy the Survival kit as well XD

[@mikeallenma78]

Thank you, again, Splitsie.

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :)

[@Frank-ys4yz]

There's no way that new players can fly the pod with no left and right thrusters (unless they were kerbal players)

[@Splitsie]

I suspect they might struggle, but since this was something new to me I wasn't thinking of just new players with this one so may have gone a little too advanced, hopefully I'm not the only old dog for whom this is a new trick though :P

[@Avoncarstien]

Honestly if it was me, I'd probably do forward and left or right, then tilt on an angle and ease in. Matter of personal preference in handling though, and just about anything in SE is easier than flying heli's in ARMA >_>

[@DeepBlue10055]

I started playing a couple weeks ago and did only up thrust for my first scouting ship... let's just say there were a few no-save quits involved. That being said, I've been playing flight sims for years (including various games with helicopters) so I knew more or less what to expect.

[@Frank-ys4yz]

@@DeepBlue10055 You can press F5 to quick load the previous save

[@ltrico3814]

Hahaha I’m not a new player and I would probably still wreck trying this with only 4 thrusters lol. Some of us just don’t have that skill set hahaha.

[@CaptainFigaro]

Test another tutorial! This channel is so underrated

[@Splitsie]

Hoepfully more little ones soon :)

[@Jormungrandrserpent]

So useful, solves early game woes!

[@Splitsie]

Hopefully :)

[@JoTheVeteran]

Tried some multiplayer myself, the KEEN servers are the only ones you can play somewhat decently. The community servers crash all the time, or have very low simulation speeds, it's just impossible to play there. Also, I don't get why we don't have scenario based servers yet. Like, some kind of race, or destruction derby, or epic space battles where you have to kill the other big ship, or something. Even Unreal arena type ones, with a few modded weapons. Do any of those exist and I just don't know?

[@LordLuciendar]

I don't think it's accurate to say it's merging to a static grid, since it's small ship the only way to do that would be via rotor given that small grids can't be static. It's merging to a second small grid. I'm curious how this impacts one of the primary benefits of the drop pod, that being that it's original blocks don't count towards PCU limit. Does the ship remain non-PCU impacting once merged?

[@Splitsie]

From what people who know the code much better than me have suggested, it is actually a static grid (due to things the engine does to handle two grids locked together) but even if it's not the critical part is that the grid is stationary, you can't do this with rotors. It counts as normal toward your PCU from what I saw, but I didn't pay any particular attention to that

[@usenye0dikut]

excellent tutorial, this does help a lot for making sure I will not lose a pod. It looked like the gps for the pod was still there when you merge blocked, is it just showing it's last location or is it still linked? It would be great if we could have a linked gps for grids and if the pods gps stays linked this would be amazing.

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

The pod has a beacon of its own, as well as the GPS.

[@Splitsie]

The GPS was showing the last location as you thought, it'll no longer move with the grid :(

[@usenye0dikut]

@@Splitsie yes I tested this out and was disappointed. It would be nice to be able to make a linked gps like the the pods start with :(

[@JoTheVeteran]

I used a big rotor build in the voxel, removed the head, put a small head, then put a small merge block on top of that. This version makes it faster since in bypasses the rotor part, so less resources. I had no idea merged landing gears, are considered static blocks, will keep that in mind... or Keen can put a button where you convert the temp pod, permanent?

[@Splitsie]

The rotor part didn't work when I tested it, when I detached the ship remained a 'respawn ship' :(

[@JoTheVeteran]

@@Splitsie odd.. it worked fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Splitsie]

@@JoTheVeteran I think I might know why - if the stuff on the rotor side has more blocks it'll end up being the bit with the respawn ship tag when the grid splits again as you can also use the trick of placing a long line of blocks of greater number than are in the pod and remove them to pass the tag to the line of blocks :)

[@JoTheVeteran]

@@Splitsie hmm... I don't know. I made the simplest merge mechanism I could think. 1 rotor with 1 head, and 2 small merge blocks. So just 2.. well, 3 if you consider the small rotor head part of it.

[@tonechild5929]

It's been over a year now, is this still available?

[@IVizir]

sorry, but was this removed from the game in any recent patchs? i cant get it to work. the block on the base wont snap to the one on the ship. :(

[@andreaaristokrates9516]

I installed it earlier today and just got it to work. The respawn pod marker got detached from the grid and no red message, but it was not so easy, there was no snapping, in the end I had to build the merge blocks already in connecting distance, welded them up, it connected instantly.

[@agamerandyou9854]

do you have tolock it like this each time before you log off?

[@Splitsie]

Nope, done once and you should be good. As long as the warning about it being a respawn pod has disappeared

[@BIGSWIGGER]

Fortunately despawning is turned off in survival impossible. I'll try to remember this from when I'm feeling less masochistic.

[@Splitsie]

Hehe, yep it really needs to be off in survival impossible :D

[@black_darte7124]

Hi can you make tutorials about walker, I love to see them but can't create one. And another about track can be useful too, there is no explanation on how to do those.

[@FooFoo4230]

He doesn’t really know how to make them at the moment, but BlackArmor might have a tutorial or two.

[@Splitsie]

That's right, I've not toyed with them before but if I do get a chance to make a functional one I'll be sure to share :)

[@1D991]

Sooo I deleted my drop pod last night before seeing this video and the "Spawn Pod" marker didn't disappear. Just wondering if you know of a fix for that? I've looked around and haven't missed any blocks.

[@Splitsie]

Just delete the marker from your GPS list as it's a regular mark once your pod is gone :)

[@1D991]

@@Splitsie Thanks man! I'm a noob (Played the Xbox beta a bit after I pre-ordered but last night was the first time I've sunk any real time in to it - kept me up til 5am!) and still have a lot to learn. Your vids have definitely helped me out a ton, though!

[@beaawsome2211]

Didn't know P existed for so long and I never use it for ships as every ship I've used P for has broke immediately somehow. I only use so rovers sit still.

[@galaxygamingplaystation2319]

Is there method to where you don’t have to use merge blocks?

[@Splitsie]

None that I'm aware of

[@galaxygamingplaystation2319]

@@Splitsie there is another way for planet drop pods you don’t need static grids All you do is put conveyor thing right where you would stick the cockpit and boom that’s it and you obviously need a new thrusters. I don’t know if I missing anything but it works for me but thanks for the video really helped.

[@OramiIT]

So is there a work around? as a MP admin I don't want people just spawning more pods to get resources I want them to actually go play the game.

[@Splitsie]

The effort it would take to reach their old pod makes it pointless as a means for resources. Much easier to mine :) Also, there's a time delay before you can spawn another pod on the same planet to add even less efficiency to pod respawn

[@OramiIT]

@@Splitsie There didn't seem to be much of a delay the other day when this random guy joined my server and respawned over and over.- either torch has those setting different by default or the delay isn't as long as you think.

[@panc8ke324]

I've been doing this for a while, good shout. Why are you putting the merge block onto a landing gear? Why not just put a merge block on top of the block in the ground? Also, the warning about lining up the merge blocks isn't warranted. You aren't able to place merge blocks incorrectly.

[@Splitsie]

Different grid sizes can't merge and small grid can't be placed in voxels in survival, also you can place the merge blocks in such a way that they won't be able to lock without acrobatics so I felt it was worth mentioning

[@panc8ke324]

@@Splitsie Of course, it's small grid...i'm an idiot. I always like to start in space, and of course , you start with a large grid respawn ship so i've never had that problem before. I get what you mean about the orientation problem, well said :-)

[@borkhthree-jackdaws5918]

Hey Splitsie, I've loved your tutorials. Do you know if there have been any updates that have made some of your older tutorials outdated?

[@Splitsie]

The ones produced last year are all up to date, the only minor thing that has changed since I made the survival ones is that the survival kit now processes ore in 100kg chunks instead of 500kg which makes very little difference to the game overall :) Some of the older ones aren't strictly accurate but that largely relates to how easily available uranium was back then, so if you can look past that they're still correct too - if you're in doubt, check the comment section as that'll usually clear up most confusion :)

[@borkhthree-jackdaws5918]

@@Splitsie Thanks Splitsie! Your tutorials have really helped my friend and I!

[@nickbriggs9803]

Can anyone confirm if this still works?

[@AndToTheRepublic4WhichItStands]

Pretty sure they patch this bc i cant get the merge block to attach to the landing gear

[@Real-Ninja-IV-XX]

so you said merge blocks dont need power, but actually one of the 2 does need to be powered

[@Splitsie]

I just tested this and you can 100% get merge blocks to lock without power to either half, although to do so is awkward because you need to bump the grids into position :P

[@Real-Ninja-IV-XX]

@@Splitsie now that i think ive not done the test properly with both sides not having power XD MB

[@benfurdyna]

What was up with the drop pod pile up at the end?

[@Splitsie]

Just me messing around , I often do something ridiculous like that at the end of my tutorial videos :)

[@benfurdyna]

@@Splitsie nice!!

[@djula29]

Good tutorial Splitsie!!!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@Bitskit1]

Does this also work with space pods and asteroids?

[@Splitsie]

Yep, but for them all you need to do is stick a block into the asteroid , then a merge block on that and a merge block on the ship, no landing gear required as it's large grid :)

[@Bitskit1]

@@Splitsie Thank you!

[@CptTiki]

This wasn’t created because the vanilla servers decided splitsie needed more of a challenge right? Love the 2 new single player series splits! Only thing wrong with either of them is having to wait for the next drop! 😜

[@FooFoo4230]

I hope not...

[@Splitsie]

Thankfully not, at least not yet :P

[@BrianJ1962]

Handy info - thanks!

[@Splitsie]

You're welcome - glad Remaarn told me about it :)

[@BrianJ1962]

@@Splitsie Thank you Remaarn, also :-)

[@elfbrownie7226]

How do build toilet?

[@CantMakeMunyon]

If the respawn pod gets destroyed does the world reset

[@Splitsie]

Nope, if your respawn location gets destroyed, you'll have to respawn in a new pod but the old stuff will still be there where you left it :) (at least what remains of it) :P

[@CantMakeMunyon]

Splitsie how would i find it😭

[@Splitsie]

You would still have any GPS markers you made before you died :)

[@randomperson-up5vt]

nice tip!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@Kamizoll44]

Thanks for this great tip. 👍😉

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :)

[@1234kkna]

Can't you just disable it in the advanced settings menu?

[@Splitsie]

Not if you're on a multiplayer server that you didn't set up yourself, which is where the topic came up for me - on Keen's servers

[@bl4ckdogwhv]

i didn't play SE for a while.. so it's no longer possible, to convert to station? o_o #feelsbadman

[@Splitsie]

You've never been able to do that for small grid, you can still do it as you always have for large grid though - assuming the option is on for the world settings

[@TarisRedwing]

excellent tip

[@Splitsie]

I was very pleased when remaarn showed me - had to share it :)

[@martinrwolfe]

Why not just replace the passenger seat with a flight seat?

[@Eisen_Jaeger]

time and resources, you can replace with a cockpit if you wish

[@Splitsie]

Pretty much, it's just fewer resources to use the remote control :)

[@lt.bishop3633]

how do you download space engineers

[@Splitsie]

It's a game on Steam

[@lt.bishop3633]

Is it a free to play game or cost I don’t have a computer rn to try and recover my steam account or whatever I need to do so I wanted to plan it out

[@ovo5037]

"never press P" me playing on xbox: ok ill Y

[@Splitsie]

You could always plug a keyboard in just so that you have the option to press the thing you shouldn't :P

[@ovo5037]

@@Splitsie i might

[@STbattlefront]

Wish I knew this before hand XD

[@Splitsie]

Same :P

[@barretthageman3350]

Just learned this by accident.

[@Splitsie]

It's quite handy and something that I only learned a day or two before I made the video, that's why I had to share it - super handy for a lot of situations where you can't turn off cleanup :)

[@AllergicFungus]

This is patched and no longer works. Sorry folks.

[@Ming1975]

Hey splitsie, my faction is on your trail. Hahahaha!

[@JackyIsSnacky]

*A wild 10 turrets have been discovered at 200m*

[@Ming1975]

@@JackyIsSnacky turrets don't work on players, just delays them. Even I don't bother, i use them to detect for me.

[@JackyIsSnacky]

Well unless you just started the game and then you don't know how to dodge turrets but ye xd

[@Splitsie]

I almost hope that someone finds me, though if they do - it'll be much more fun if they go for a capture mission (which I would 100% play along with) :)

[@Ming1975]

@@Splitsie i suggested that but he says he got another plan and ended up crashing -_-

[@ChristopherClemmensen]

Thank you.

[@Splitsie]

You're welcome :)

[@DeepCZero3]

Why use merge blocks when you can spawn in ten thousand pods Capac style!

[@Splitsie]

Por que no los dos? That's why I did the ending bit - couldn't resist the temptation :D

[@alanchandler7859]

Just to let you know, this method works on console as well. Even after 4 years.

[@Zanathal]

*spawns In survival mode and starts crafting immediately*

[@Splitsie]

I didn't have a lot of time to record this so there was a little bit of cheating required, it was either that or wait at least another week before I'd have a window to do it strictly in survival :(

[@Zanathal]

Splitsie I would rather have this

[@reallynobody2462]

if I get SE, im going to have to watch this tutorial so I dont just walk away, turn around and realise i've lost my respawn pod I think I will, anyway

[@Splitsie]

You've just gotta test these things ;)

[@DarkEva096]

When ppl only use this too duplicate in servers ..a not worth it one if theirs pirates

[@tyrschampion471]

Are you sharing this because on your other multiplayer series you lost the pod/ miner ? 😂😂

[@Splitsie]

Nah, just been watching chat on the servers and listening to what people have been struggling with, and some have been struggling a lot :P

[@tyrschampion471]

@@Splitsie I was like "nooooo" 😭 . Lol good video , straight to the point and really helpful. The new multiplayer series should give you a good insight to what's causing people trouble

[@Splitsie]

I really hope so :)

[@thegamingboss3347]

If you play single player you can just turn it off in advanced settings.

[@Splitsie]

Yep, but it was playing on the official servers that I saw a lot of people struggling with this so thought it was worth sharing a method that works on servers :)

[@poof1907]

another tutorial :)

[@Splitsie]

It was nice to make one again, I've got a few partly started that I really need to find time to finish

[@divygames6661]

Nice

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@Miiidge]

Splitsie bro i love your series ideas except for the plain fact that they are too long for me man!! Around 10 minute videos please and I feel you will get a lot more views! Well at least one more :) love space engineers bro!

[@janne_kekalainen]

That wouldn't work well, one simply can't get anything done in 10 minutes.

[@Miiidge]

Janne Kekäläinen it would take a lot of editing for this kind of content but just including all the funny parts and key parts for story development i believe it could be done!

[@Eisen_Jaeger]

@@janne_kekalainen Agreed, 10 minutes isn't content, its a commercial.

[@Splitsie]

I'm not likely to start making all of my content that short, there are several reasons for that: - as mentioned, achieving something from a story perspective in that amount of time while still having the flow coherent just isn't practical for Space Engineers, at least not without spending more than twice the time I already spend editing, which usually amounts to around 8 hours per video (I don't have that much time) - I get far more people asking for longer than shorter content - while it's true that there are a larger group of people who are after something short and sweet, would this channel feel the same if I were targeting that group rather than the niche I currently fill? I strongly suspect not, and I like my community of people and the feel of this place, I wouldn't want to change that :)

[@Miiidge]

Splitsie I completely understand! Maybe a good compromise is videos like this one? Bringing back the quick tutorials or the quick tips and tricks! Or who knows a “funniest moments compilation” hahaha just spitballing! Thanks for the response bro

[@Cybo-Man]

I really don’t know what you’re trying to explain

[@pkwork]

Thank you!!!