Finding the Factorum EP01 - Martian Genesis (Space Engineers)

Finding the Factorum is a sandbox scenario, where the player obtains perfectly legal salvage from random encounters to gather resources to build a strong enough vessel to first find, and then confront the Factorum faction.
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[@EngineeredCoffee]

Excited for a new series! No notes today, but I will feed the algorithm. I like the 'wait to record for feedback', makes it fun and interactive! Can't wait for next week.

[@Wellington6012]

Thanks Coffee, really appreciate the support and validation about the path I've decided to take.

[@ryodenshipwright]

Dude this is great, I was looking to change up the build restrictions. Your mod is right like what I want. I'm going to use it now.

[@Wellington6012]

Any thoughts on improvement welcome, I've set up a development channel over on discord.

[@MrJeffro56]

Great dramatic entrance. It started out like it was going to be a tremendously hard or almost impossible. But that first find really changed the outlook. Looking forward to your future episodes. I have made some major improvement in flying in the earth’s atmosphere and base building. So still learning by your videos.

[@Wellington6012]

Actually that encounter was fairly representative or slightly above average of what you can get, there are better, there are worse. It's not that much of a challenge surviving on encounters, but I need to do more than survive, I need to a mass enough resource to take on the Factorum. Thing will be how long until I get an assembler? There's not many encounters with one.

[@slab-dd6vj]

great start, you can use that encounter as a new base. just make an airtight room and put your survival kit inside of it. after that, you can explore the other encounters to get more parts. If after a while nothing viable comes up, you can just give it a slight push to set it adrift at 5-10 m/s. I played a scenario where you start like that (Adrift - Newtons first law) and it was quite fun

[@Wellington6012]

Thanks Slab. There no rush to get into things, the Factorum isn't coming after me, so starting with a comfortable base, with air, I think is the right idea.

[@phforNZ]

Looking forward to more. Good little episode to start with too. Notes: parachute if going planet. Also, grab anything with nickel in it as you go, it'll be a pain. And is it too early to harass with reminders of habitation? Haha.

[@Wellington6012]

Thanks, I genuinely need the prod in the right direction on that one. I've been thinking about it overnight, I captured habitation, so I think I'll use that to start with, fix it enough to make airtight and maybe keep the ghost as shipmates.

[@XtrovertedHermit]

playing it. The hostile miner was tough to take over, the wave of drones is tricky, the second hostile miner took me by surprise....

[@Wellington6012]

I think I a long way off trying anything like that, I hope they keep staying 7000km away from me for the time being.

[@marksadler4457]

I think I would try hurling the captured bit toward Europa :)

[@Wellington6012]

46ltrs of hydrogen in a small grid ship, I don't think there will be much hurling ...but I think that chunk of ship will get on the move at some stage soon.

[@ssislo84]

Europa will have ice to make hydrogen from. There is a good chance that the other encounters will shoot at you also. I may jump into this scenario, I have already got a few things I would do different.

[@Wellington6012]

If you've got any thoughts on how to improve the mod, let me know. I'm thinking restricted components added to NPC containers and stores for sale could be an optional add-on to the mod.

[@Garuthius]

I was hoping you were going to moving onto solo Factorum content :D

[@Wellington6012]

Was not planned in advanced and not specifically doing it because simply because of the new update, but everything has just worked out that way, fate one could say.

[@OMG.HopsGnue]

Of to a great. Watched and Liked 👍

[@Wellington6012]

❤ ur 👀 & 👍

[@marksadler4457]

Very excited for a new series :)

[@Wellington6012]

Mark, nice to see you. Hope all is well with you and the wife.

[@OMG.HopsGnue]

I like your work , but at 2 am , time will tell .

[@Wellington6012]

Just a premiere for the live chat, it's really not that big of a deal, the episode will be there for whenever suits you or anyone else for that matter.

[@AnonNopleb]

2 am is perfect for the spoopy encounter

[@bear4263]

Great new series!

[@Wellington6012]

thanks Bear

[@jacksonbarkerthebluehairedfox]

Did you see the new Real Solar Systems mod? Think ya might do a series around that?

[@Wellington6012]

I spotted it, have got past that yet. Certainly interesting, can't imagine the scripting that went into that

[@jacksonbarkerthebluehairedfox]

@@Wellington6012 Probably one of the most revolutionary mods to come to SE. It's surprisingly easy to work with too!

[@Wellington6012]

@@jacksonbarkerthebluehairedfox I never tried it, but there was the rotating planet mod too, must be the same mechanics. Only base game system or can you set for custom planets?

[@jacksonbarkerthebluehairedfox]

@@Wellington6012 You can, but it currently looks wonky. It generates a proxy for the planet, and only the vanilla planets have proxies currently. The developer's working on a way to generate proxies for modded planets, but for now they appear as black balls until you go to their surface.

[@rorythomas9469]

Might not be worth going to europa until you have more cargo/ hydrogen tanks?

[@Wellington6012]

It's a chicken and the egg decision. Thing is I burnt through 2.5k ice going [in theory] a straight line and now I have none. It's a gamble whether one of those two encounters even has hydrogen. I really on the fence.

[@rorythomas9469]

@@Wellington6012 I think then the only real option is Europa. Might even encounter something while you're there.

[@Wellington6012]

@@rorythomas9469 If I slap one of those new cargo containers on, they'll be 3x the medium containers volume.

[@rorythomas9469]

@@Wellington6012 only limit is the thrust to get back into orbit. Go big on cargo.

[@michaelmalden4589]

Make a small ship and move on to the planet.

[@Wellington6012]

I'll have to see what I can find, only got the one small grid battery right now and no assembler to make more power cells. Large grid is a fuel issue, I don't have any. But when I'm able, planting the haunted section a base on Europa might be an option.

[@catlikelemur2760]

❤❤❤ catching premier ❤❤❤

[@HeilTec]

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