HOW TO BUILD A CAPITAL SHIP | Empyrion Galactic Survival

Here is a tutorial on how to build a capital ship in Empyrion. This video is intended for new players.
Download the Hammerhead from the Steam Workshop: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
Support the channel on Patreon: / spanj
My Amazon Storefront: www.amazon.co.uk/shop/spanj
Check out the Merch: teespring.com/stores/spanj-merch
Low.ms hosted Multiplayer games servers: billing.low.ms/aff.php?aff=126
Follow me on Twitch: / spanj
Follow me on Twitter: / _spanj_
Join me on Discord: / discord
My Steam Workshop: steamcommunity.com/profiles/7...
Contact me via email:
[e-mail]
My Rig:
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
16GB DDR4 RAM
Nvidia RTX 2070
1TB Intel M.2 Nvme SSD
Windows 10 Pro
Recording software Used:
OBS Studio x64
Videos Edited with:
Sony Vegas 15

[@Albireo8]

Best Empyrion video ever. No one else comes close with Empyrion. It`s so damned complex and no one else cuts through it all like spanj. Brilliant. My first ship will be a Borg Cube.

[@BillionDollarBaby96]

Over 2000 hours in Empyrion, Still watches tutorial about how to build a CV because Spanj.

[@apollogamer8758]

Same here Deadmetal! :)

[@matthewwilson5019]

Same here lol and I have about 500 hours

[@_cul8r_]

@@matthewwilson5019 @Apollo Gamer Dito! +1 hahaha

[@chuckaule6292]

when he said 3k hours in the game, I was like :O. yeah this the guy il take advice from for sure lol

[@ReachGaming]

Brick Space ship crew talking here. I am jealous of your building skills. 🥺

[@Spanj]

Thanks man, I cant build in 7days so we're evenly matched I'd say 🤣

[@ReachGaming]

@@Spanj 🤣 would love to see you give 7 Days To Die a try at some point.

[@Blitzcreeper239]

One thing for new players to not lose orientation, hold a freshly H menu generated cockpit block and the phantom seat will face the front of the ship. You can reset a block to its default orientation(upright, facing forward, first shape in its selection) by opening your menu and attaching and detaching the item in your hotbar to your cursor - or double left click.

[@KevinPlayingGames]

Looks great, Spanj. Great job. Now I'm going back into the game to work on a new CV. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@solospirit4212]

Updated CV tutorial is very timely. 😎Nice looking ship too I just started my first build in a long time..MP CV carrier..which I have wanted for ages. Building yourself is definitely satisfying..and gets easier and goes faster with practice. 😁 I still have basic block handling skills..but I'm learning new ways to get round other limitations 😎 plus all the damn blocks are different!😁 I follow your build process...figure out what areas you want/ need in the ship, drop the components in, then see if it fits your mental blueprint of what you wanted. Spawn ships you like from the workshop...drop them in a creative session and take them apart..figure out how other builders do stuff....it may not be the way you end up building, but it'll give you ideas.😁 Overall..have fun...as Spanj says..building and flying around in your own creations is one of the best bits of the game 😁

[@pantheis]

Watching this shows me I have a long way to go on building. So much better than any of my builds to date. Absolutely seconding the "built it yourself and it's much more rewarding" comment. My ships still resemble flying boxes to a point, but they're my ugly boxes and have been exceptionally useful. Every ship I build starts looking better and better.

[@CuriousMind477]

Looks great Spanj, and thank you for making these types of videos. It is sometimes hard to remember that all these people who make these amazing ships on the workshop started out with box shaped ships too

[@thesalyers1599]

I do like this little build videos you put out. It has me thinking slightly more about how to build my CV's.

[@fbapaseall]

Thank you for your time taken and shared with us. Shared? Yes I have enjoyed many Empyrion vids you have made. Thank you and more power to your elbow good Sir.

[@StateFarmGaming]

It looks like a badass crossbow

[@michelleclaudiavanderharst3022]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!! I've build some CV's but am always struggling how to start and build a good CV (or other vessel for that matter). I will try this approach and hopefully my only struggle will be making the CV look good ;-) Very nice CV! Looks very good!

[@truezulu]

This was really excellently narrated and cut and done, Spanj... Cudoz.

[@codymullenniex8025]

i watched this video over then had to reference how to use plane symmetry . thanks for actually telling us in the video. helped alot

[@stevek6921]

Nicely done!

[@karlsonvomdach2827]

Just fantastic! Thanks for this gorgeous tutorial! Keep it up!

[@fluff7773]

Awesome Spanj I have missed the montage building videos. And now I need to apply a lot of changes to my CV I'm creating

[@Pubcrawler644]

Really enjoyed this tutorial. Thank you

[@leeshorey2063]

Wow I now have a greater new out look to this game I'm going to give it a try and build myown capital ship and with this great video thanks for all you do and tips . I think I have a better understanding about the workings of this game.

[@markyerhardt]

nice work ya make it look so easy.

[@DanielJirca]

thanks for the video! Very useful techniques on basic structure and element placing. A similar video on shaping techniques and how to work efficiently with blocks to create nice shapes would be greatly appreciated!

[@meerkat7361]

My cousin and I are currently attempting to build a Death Star basically. Complete with a small army's worth of weapons (not quite sure if we can build the nuclear laser cannon) and a warp drive. Because it won't be huge, we can land on planets to refuel or cause chaos. (More of a Geonosian Capital ship than a death star)

[@ICKY427]

my problem is im always worried about min/maxing. i hate having a single redundant block anywhere. basically i end up with a platform with all the needed devices packed in nice and tight then i build a box around it lol. but then i rarely get into much cv combat anyway, i tend to keep the cv away from danger in fear of just losing everything.

[@buhguulmorkt1875]

Thank you very much!!! Great tutorial.

[@psionicxxx]

14:00 I usually leave only the bare minimum when saving the template. I create it with full the equipment, then delete very expensive bits (e.g., CPU extenders T3, biggest thrusters, and stuff like that) Cost less to produce early on in the game, and you can then just slowly fill it in as you progress. Even maybe find most of the stuff on wrecks once you get into the open space.

[@normal6969]

Howdy you do? Very good starter CV tutorial! Reforged: Armor counts no CPU, only mass. So you might consider not putting the pentaxid-shield-warp together in the same compartment. It also recompenses bigger, more advanced components. I wonder about enemy (PVE) targeting preferences! It did seem to me that they also prefer the closest turret? Watched your PVP tutorial so I know about lag-armor and stuff.

[@AlarahCA]

I like the kinda hammerhead front end with the second set of turrets splayed out at a higher elevation

[@emtpayislow]

Your a master builder, love the front

[@redkawa636]

Thanks for the tutorial, but you fast forwarded the only part I was really interested in:-)) Learning what block to use to achieve a particular shape takes time and experience, yours would have come useful. Thankfully you have quite a few "chillin and building" videos;-) I'm really enjoying your channel, thank you very much!

[@Spanj]

Join me on my chillin & Building livestreams on Saturdays and I'll show you that stuff, for. A YT episode I have to fast forward or it would be 2 hours long 😜

[@redkawa636]

@@Spanj thanks, but I never have time for livestreams and I cannot stand the livestreams format, too messy too distracting. Yes off course it would take ages, that is totally understandable, I was more laughing then complaining. I'll try to steal a hint here and there, thanks again for the great help you give to the Community:-)

[@apollogamer8758]

A really great video Spanj, very much enjoyed it thanks for posting. There are still lots of people relatively new to the game that are still stuck when it comes to building and this is an amazing tutorial, lots of people myself included right now are probably feeling deeply appreciative. In a multiplayer world at the moment and this video is going to really help my team mates. Going to post it to our discord as it will help them out loads. On a more superficial level got to say you have created a really good looking ship, I think looks wise actually your best to date. it looks amazing and hope to see it on the workshop soon. The only thing I would change is inside I dont think a small constructor is enough, I would take it out and replace it with a large. To get the extra cpu I would replace some of the reverse thrust and perhaps some of the side thrust with small thrusters. These can always of course be changed back to large when she is upgraded to T3. Again though amazing ship mate love it, going to use her in my next game for sure! :)

[@Spanj]

Thanks mate, hope its useful to your friends. Good point on the constructor absolutely valid. It's on the Workshop already, link in the description by all means make those modifications if that's what works for you

[@NitrousMonk]

In the words and and voice of Spanj, “goddamn”😂😂😂 love it! Gonna try to build one one day....

[@thezanzibarbarian5729]

I've hardly done any hours into this game. Did a wee bit of co-op, but that didn't last long as the friend I played with didn't continue with it. But when it comes to building ships, I used to play a lot of Avorion. And every ship I built, ended up looking like a flying brick with a wedge for a front end so i knew which way it was supposed to be pointing. I guess having engines at the other end helped!? But Avorion didn't have any internal areas. It was all about the exterior. This game however, looks to be far more in depth. A sort of cross between Avorion (In the fact that you could build almost any ship and No man's Sky in the fact that you start off on a planet and expand from there. I'll have to re-download it and add to the 25 or so hours I've played it and build some more flying bricks 8-))...

[@kalisthenes6650]

This is a great video for intermediate builders. I echo some of the comments here, with wishing the montage was slower, I could slow it but then I would have to find my own cool montage music lol. One of my gripes with the way things work now with respect to ships is that the block strength (and weight) is modified by block shape. It encourages armoured cube ships as you get more bang for your buck. It cost you the same in mats to build a teeny triangle corner as it does for a full block. It’s not a big deal as you can just use carbon composite for styling I guess. I would like to see any block that is up to around 40% the size of a full cube have the same weight and HP and then anything smaller be left as it is. Just a thought, to encourage fewer vogon construction ships and more stylish stuff.

[@mauricebenoit2773]

Great tutorial!

[@rijkaard1579]

Oh wow I subbed to this on the workshop and I didn't notice u used it for a video :D

[@anthonyshaddox7594]

Looks good, Spanj. You can also cut CPU by reducing your cargo container space to 240k, or 160k for a tier 2 vessel. It'd give you more room to complete your load out. Have fun :)

[@SonOfAvari]

So helpful because I had no idea how to make a CV

[@malcolmkekua9476]

It's not that I don't know how. It's the fact that my CVs end up looking like a minecraft house

[@operatorhoot470]

you know, if I hadn't already seen it posted in the workshop, I would have told you that you forgot Landing gear, so you're over CPU again, but you've obviously sorted it =)

[@Spanj]

Forgot a lot tbh, there i so much I could talk about when building anything in this game the tutorials would be over an hour long XD

[@zangetsudx1]

@@Spanj I'm ok with an hour long tutorial

[@tommargarites2811]

@@zangetsudx1 and @Spanj , me too.

[@nickjaycee316]

Hi from the new forest Spanj, ta for the work, i've subbed, stay safe mate...

[@dirtybird2202]

Great Teaching Vid Spanj, keep up the good work.This gives a lot of logical and different ways to build a persons first CV. And explains some of the Flight characteristic's a new person to the game really need to know, since all that changed some time ago. many older players that are coming back to the game will also benefit from these Vids. Still wished they would raise the Tier one CPU a bit as it's a bit restrictive on CV's Sv's and HV's especially. The only thing a person has to hold them back is their imagination and of course the physic's of the game. You might add in some on Radiation and Heat from some of the equipment that new players would need to know. Or do a small vid of those items spanning, bases and vehicles Love seeing your builds. Though i can't get the Delete function to work for me. So i use a Multitool. Would hope they see to putting in Rotational types of blocks and some more blocks to make rounded shapes.

[@pineconey]

Very nice build

[@jfhalshsfdalkj]

I feel like Leonardo DaVinci decided to teach me something, and he threw together the Mona Lisa as a "Quick and Dirty" sketch. Then he handed me a brush and said "Right, off you go." Thumbs up Spanj, but you make me feel inadequate, as when I just make a sloped ramp on a base, it usually takes me 2-3 tries building it to get the slope height correct so a HV can actually climb up... I would ask that you add: "Now you have it in CREATIVE, how do I get it into my game?" I assume, Alt+O to save as blueprint?

[@Spanj]

exactly Alt+O to save it, then in your normal game ,F2 to open the blueprint library

[@VYM]

Absolutely amazing, bro. It will take a few weeks for me to create something similar :D

[@mootan2]

sat here waiting too see how to shape the hull an it was in FF DOH!

[@qkirafan1000]

Man, the creative talent I wish I still had T^T

[@jaffamanchang]

I love your tutorial, my ambition is to build my first CV with pointy bits all over (antennas) like a porcupine

[@M00_be-r]

Nice boat Spanj ;)

[@jakkrit6910]

it's almost 2 years old but still the best cv build tutorial so far.

[@nwanzer]

Another good build. Love the look. What was the track for the time lapse?

[@ArakiSatoshi]

KZbin's compression really hates that symmetry grid haha. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@epsilona1]

the music used in the time lapse was aweome

[@Spanj]

Uncharted planet by Formantx

[@skotty1962]

I also have 3000+ hrs in this game and my ships don't look this good Spanj. But they are not flying bricks anymore. Good job.

[@mshatters28]

My ships seem to ice cream vans of various sizes...

[@gabeevers8281]

My first CV was just a really long plastic cylinder. It was t3 and I dont know why. It had a pentaxid tank, but nothing that took pentaxid.

[@markpaterson6024]

Noice LoL boat Mr Spanj 👍🏼

[@evacuatedspace6946]

Nice ship, and THANK GOD YOU FINALLY CHANGED THE COLOUR OF YOUR ARMOUR.

[@Spanj]

What!! My armour was awesome as it was, but now it's more awesome 😜

[@evacuatedspace6946]

@@Spanj You mean awesomer.

[@jbgaming9874]

I've started to play this game I play Minecraft and I love building so I see myself doing alot with the build option

[@stormelitegaming8067]

Love the shape of the ship ,i was watching the video at slow speed to learn about block placement and @23:36 with CC on at 0.25%speed its so funny as soon you come back to normal speed you sound drunk and the caption picks up alcohol as word i rofl so bad 👽🚀

[@Spanj]

Lol

[@redknight3439]

Hi Spanj, Nice vid. I am wondering if theres such a thing as a copy block and or copy selection? I have seen some of the selections in the N menu but have not been able to copy things in creative.... any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks

[@shoo_nl]

Great video, im a bit confused tho, im just starting Empyrion, on vanilla, to learn the game but when i wanna make a own ship i do that in single player or in the mp game im in with friends ? your video are good help for starters btw, wish there were more

[@hossumquat]

Maybe it was mentioned and I missed it, but what material are you building the hull from? Steel? I usually use steel in my ships but they die quickly when attacked too so was curious what you go it typically.

[@forkittens]

it doesn't matter the direction you place the starter CV block, as the direction you place your cockpit will determine which way is front/foward(w).

[@mikegraham7078]

That is a nice looking ship, and I appreciate that it is symmetrical. I was curious, though, that you put the turrets on the side. I think I recall you saying some time ago that you don't like turrets mounted on their sides... Did you change your mind on that?

[@Spanj]

Turrets have better lateral flexibility when aligned with the ship imo but in this case. I put them on thier side for more aesthetic reasons

[@neilrowe6858]

Nice video buddy very useful. Can you do a video on how to use the block to get some good shape and transition, please? All my builds sem to look like flying Rubix cubes with thrusters or hover engines.

[@Spanj]

I'll see what I can do 👍

[@belliott538]

Yes but my "Brick-Shaped" CV is THE MEANEST, FASTEST AND BRICKIEST Battlebox in The Galaxy!!! 😎👍

[@jillflyt6191]

personally I would nerf the storage a bit in favour of keeping that large constructor I haven't played in a while myself but I still like watching videos once you have the large do you still need a small constructor around?

[@Yenaledstorm]

Nice interior design

[@DanielJirca]

I would use small thrusters where possible. For a survival CV you don't need 4x M thrusters in front, top and sides.. You can do with 2S and maybe leave some room for the player to add more S thrusters. Also, space requirements for M thrusters are not too different to S, which means that players can easily upgrade S to M.

[@Spanj]

It's a good point but, if I'm building with upgrades in mind I will put in the Ms to then replace with smalls at the end of the build, then I know I have the space there to swap them out for Ms when on survival and I can upgrade to T3 but both approaches are valid

[@hydrogenmissle]

LOL make sure you build forward. I mean... you really dont have to, my first time building a hover vessel I deleted all the blocks except for the core and i didnt realise what the arrow was so when I used the map to navigate the arrow was pointing one direction but i was going a differant direction

[@reinhartkrempler7654]

After all, the Borg flew around in big boxes...

[@sirdarklight1501]

Not a bad design for a starter

[@PrasAtreides]

Can you build Aldonah Zero - Deucalion?, Is it also possible to create Kataphrakt model for Hover Vessel?

[@challenger784ify]

Is it me or it does look like the Defender in KORTOR ?awsome work btw!

[@xtended2l]

Amazing tutorial, thank you! Still confused how you upgraded CPU to tier3, cause it was obvious from the start, that t2 wont handle all of this, my 200hours experience are enough to understand it lol You should have at least 20% spare CPU power for the hull at any time. My personal issue is, I don't have native designing skills. Many others have the same issue. It takes ages to design something smooth and with extra details for me... But I'm not so frustrated because of that, because flying bricks are always winning against good looking ships anyway lol P.S. A little bit tired of dildo looking ships, do you have any advice on how to build a saucer or something like death star?

[@estevaobk]

I'm relatively new to the game yet, but do we really need that much thrusting power for a relatively starting CV?

[@elihenline6089]

How do you turn that into a blueprint you can use in survival via the factory? Did i miss that part, im sorry if i did, but it is the $20,000 question for me. Love yer stuff!

[@whatjake7898]

I watched this to get better at building symmetrically and then he fast forward through that part....sounds about how life works.

[@Spanj]

try this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmGvqa2HnryhY6c

[@jeremyortiz2927]

Auto like, like always. 👍

[@adenmoroz]

how do you rotate blocks tho?

[@screaminz2002]

Inspiring, thanks Spanj.

[@radde0]

What is this for a Track @20:30?

[@Ironbuket]

Could you do a video about the mechanics of creative vs survival in relation to building ships, as I find it really confusing? In creative ships appear to ignore mass even when you force it on via the console. Ships will happily lift off from a planet overloaded, then when you bring the same ship in to survival it flys like a wet dog. Is there any way to test fly a ship in creative or is it the case that you just have to keep switching back and forth between seperate games? I even ran into problems in survival where Ive somehow managed to cheat spawn in a ship which ignores mass in a survival game where mass is on. Im not sure what causes it, but might be something to do with when you are in gm and overload a container beyond its normal capacity from then on the whole ship ignores mass? PS. You forgot the landing gear? Can you get out of the boarding ramp when it's on the ground? :P

[@Spanj]

Best thing to do is test them in survival with w/v enabled you can then use the console command cm to change it to a creative session, cm again to switch it back so you can test and build in the same game

[@Ironbuket]

@@Spanj but that way you lose the undo command and you have to delete blocks with a tool instead of just right-click?

[@JourneyLife]

How do you delete blocks? I have been using the multi-tool on both sides. But your way looks a lot faster.

[@jameswagner1490]

Shift then right click while the transparent image is against the block you want to remove.

[@floranverrept8461]

I dunno if its said in the vid but do i have to build a 2 layer wall around the core with combat steel? Or is 1 block enough

[@Spanj]

Cores are rarley targeted by the AI, still you want to protect them but generally its better to move them away from things like warp drives and generators where possible and a single block of combat steel or hardened on each side will do fine

[@floranverrept8461]

@@Spanj thx bro!

[@tonyug113]

my problem is getting my designs to work in 'reforged' - the thrust to weight ratio is completely different, and nothing below Large thrusters (2,4,2) seems feasible, any clue on reasonable thrust to weight ratio needed for that mod?

[@Spanj]

Hmm not yet, need to spend some time with it

[@djtimoent.1710]

The beard scratch 😂😂😂😂😂

[@thebigbrzezinski3201]

I'll tell you what I told the guys on the official forum; this method doesn't work for new players who don't already know what sorts of rooms and devices go into a ship. Know what? It's high time I wrote up my own tutorial.

[@Spanj]

Dooo eeet! I'd. Love to see it, always good to get other perspectives

[@Michael-rk9iw]

lol this just lets me know how little spatial awareness I actually have, as I continue to fly in my giant brick

[@DmytroBogdan]

If only we could combine small grid blocks with large one for an extra detailing 😦 I'd call this video "Tips and trick for building an efficient capital ship" Also, hello 60 fps, haven't seen you for a while! 😁 If your ship looks exactly like on the video - congrats, you find out how to use Steam workshop! 😂

[@Ironbuket]

It may be possible within the limitations of the existing game? Ever salvaged a container from a POI and found it was a SV rather than BA container. How does that happen?

[@normal6969]

Don't look at the building in Starship EVO then :D

[@ivisyung3088]

i can finally import my ships from space engineers to this game by rebuilding them

[@IamGhede]

Wow Spanj, you are amazing. Bravo, no! BRA-FUCKIN-VO! How long did this take? I cannot even imagine painting it too.

[@Spanj]

About 4 or hours in total 😁

[@Jay_Dee420]

Why didn't you just go with tier 3 wouldn't it of benefitted the build for expansion is there a reason why you didn't? I'm a bit confused lol

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

I get devices adding cpu, but steel blocks shouldn't effect cpu use(of the ship, not your pc to be clear)

[@RtBuccos]

Did you do this after you DU endeavor to release the stress of that game, totally understandable.

[@Spanj]

Lol, i did but over a day later so was over it by then 😂

[@RtBuccos]

@@Spanj yea I tried it in alpha and immediately ask for my money back 🤓

[@anonymanonymous9763]

so whats the difference between this game and space engineers?

[@merlinhughes2329]

I will get there one day

[@estevaobk]

My first CV looks exactly like a box and was proudly named "The Box".

[@matthewwilson5019]

Or the borge cube lol

[@VulpisFoxfire]

Hmmm. No place to park a HV, and don't know if you placed landing gear or not.

[@CARLXGAMING]

One of my favorite things to do in this game is grab a ship from the workshop, and build it in survival. I then gut it and rebuild it to suit my needs. There are a lot of great ship designers on the workshop that create exterior hull designs that are amazing, but interior design is bland or sometimes just doesn't make sense. Another issue I often find is bridge design, they design a beautiful ship, but the bridge is an eyesore and doesn't fit the ships design features. I like making a great ship better, but out of respect for the original builder I refuse to upload them to the workshop. They also take me a long time to rebuild since they are being done in survival.

[@matthewwilson5019]

I did that to a star trek ship lol

[@matthewwilson5019]

It's about 665 meters long

[@JF42506]

What's the haich key?