I'm building a Space Station out of Stolen Ships in Space Engineers after the Contact Update ep 14

I have acquired 4 ships that I am turning into a starter space station in Space Engineers during this episode of my contact update gameplay series. I will also work on a jump drive to replace the one destroyed by the Factorum. I just need a ship to attach the jump drive to...
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[@Luke-ow9ku]

I have Three tips for this one. First, you can auto damp to those spinning unknown signals, it makes them easier to catch. Two, build a conveyor sorter on your mining ship, whitelist stone and set to drain all. Then build a connector on it and set that to throw out. Third, now that you have a jump drive, you can do hauling missions which will take you to other stations. Also jump drives never crash you into something.

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

@@Luke-ow9ku thanks! I’ll check out the hauling missions for sure!

[@StellarisIgnis]

It's all fun and games until you auto damp them and then they crash off a mountain into the ground and you die.

[@arcamean785]

One possible restriction you COULD apply is that you can't build a battle barge, you have to cobble one via "Diplomatic Acquisition". You can still modify as any good PRIVATEER would but you don't build them. You can still purchase vessels as every good privateer still needs someone to keep their credits clean but otherwise most ships including the station are "salvages". It keeps the base from becoming sterile and gives a good reason to "negotiate" for new sections of your home away from home. edit: well maybe not ALL ships purchased but the main ones at least, mining is after all quite fun/relaxing and every privateer needs some fun and relaxation! edit 2: Remember it's not stealing it's "Aggressive Acquisition of Relinquished Property".

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

I like it!

[@Controlled_Insanity_003]

41:40 Bob says "I'm a pretty nice guy" after pirating several vessels

[@roelcoenders5669]

Jumpdrive- Astroid hopping. Just set jumpdrive to max distance and blind jump at an object. Use a camera to aim. If the jumpmenu says it only can jump partial you are Good to go. Jumpdrive Will put you near the object never in it. Mint that you jump with 0 speed! Just incase.

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

Good idea! I jumped at full speed one time and it could have gone bad if I was pointed in the wrong direction

[@lostscotsman]

In the previous episode 13 where you claimed the Vanguard Outpost, at 35:55 it mentions that you can claim it, but you still need to hack all the blocks to gain ownership. Maybe that's why it disappeared. That might be something important you need to figure out for the next time, it would be a shame if you found another base or a ship that's really cool and it goes poof again! Like the idea of building things from wrecks and unattended lost ships.

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

Yeah, I think that was it.

[@elliotperrien8891]

Funesp here, glad you are enjoying space engineers! It's one of my favorites. Enjoyed the vid!

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

@@elliotperrien8891 thanks! 🙏

[@grillbears]

Love the evolution of the space station. Come on down to pirate Bob's used ship emporium...

[@phforNZ]

SurvivalBob's Used Legitimate Salvage & Assorted Miscellany.

[@moonthesinner2307]

I made it. Thanks for the sorta honorable mention in your video lol

[@rorythomas9469]

The prospector cockpit is not plumbed in, you need to switch it for the industrial one.

[@jkirkwood2018]

I only scanned through the comments, but I always turn off cleanup. I have lost too many grids to that junk! :P You can hit backspace instead of dropping out of the sky or suffocating... Backspace is the suicide button...

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

I’ll definitely do backspace instead of suffocating. I kinda like dropping out of the sky though. When it’s on purpose that is.

[@Skidman2000]

Love the content :) watched to the end . You should build a small solar panel array for your space base so it tracks the sun. You could turn those solar ships into it .

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

I’m planning to! Honestly power hasn’t been an issue so I didn’t rush it.

[@UnicronX51]

Great series Bob! One of my favorite games ever.

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

Thanks! I’m really enjoying it too!

[@kerrikwolf4695]

In the GPS, I add the word Mine to whichever resources I'm actively harvesting, be they on the surface or in space so I know which ones to visit. If there's time and resources, I often construct a solar powered refinery at asteroid mines to process ores so I can take the refined material back to base to increase efficiency per shipment. A refinery, solar panels, batteries, a large cargo container and maybe rotors/controllers are relatively cheap by the time I'm in space. Yield modules get put on as needed for the rare ores. I didn't realize how viable piracy could be now. I'll have to look into that. Be warned, many of the new spawns do shoot at you without warning.

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

Good ideas! Thanks!

[@PanicOregon]

You might like the new Plugin that makes all lights cast shadows, Tho the plugin is limited to prevent lag. At most 4 shadow casters will be active within a defined distance of the player.

[@mediocreman2]

The new unknown signal seems to be related to the contact update, because when you start interacting with this unknown signal device, you get a prompt telling you that you have two hours left before the prototype tech disappears.

[@JohnBelding87]

You can build an ATM on your station and deposit your space bucks at home if you want to

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

@@JohnBelding87 what! 🤯

[@philmajster6604]

Made it to the end : ) Just a suggestion now your in space would you think of using a speed mod? I can recommend relitave speed mod not too cheesy but speeds things up abit loving the space engineers content big thumbs up 👍

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

Thanks! I’ve thought about it but since I got the jump drive I haven’t been too bothered by it.

[@philmajster6604]

@@SurvivalBobGaming Probably for the best tbh I forgot I installed the mod and destroyed my ship by holding W while talking to the wife..... Thank Keen for back ups lol 😂

[@Controlled_Insanity_003]

Put the assembler ships at either end of the blue ship, then run piping

[@rizziclueless6595]

Instead of the old cockpit in the prospector, replace it with the industrial cockpit, it should fit well.

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

Good idea!

[@Controlled_Insanity_003]

Use the merge blocks to unify your ships into 1 station

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

I will once I decide on a layout!

[@RvnKnight]

I found that when you refill hydrogen and oxygen from the stations that if you exit the store interface and reenter it then it shows the correct amount. I think that the refresh button in the store is bugged.

[@miles2378]

That happaned to me when I tried to raid a factorum listening post.

[@phforNZ]

I am sure you did everything right with that vanguard base. Only thing I can of is did it run out of power, and get cleaned up by the games trash collection on unpowered grid? Enjoy the hydrogen supply too. Don't spend it all at once!

[@snafu2350]

I don't think Bob turned off one of the floodlights. Given the amount of time spent between episodes (he says), maybe that drained the power?

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

I think I claimed the grid but didn’t assign ownership to myself. Since I started doing that I haven’t had a problem. It doesn’t make sense to me but that’s the only thing I can think of

[@phforNZ]

@@SurvivalBobGaming Maybe, maybe not. Seen others complaining about disappearing grids too. One even had they noticed that the grid had reassigned itself back to the original owner (after taking it over)

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

@@phforNZ oh wow. I’ll have to be on the look out.

[@CyberKeith]

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[@lordrodney-oldschoolgamer9106]

To the moon!

[@jamestaylor9887]

I'm not sure what happened to your vanguard base. I did one yesterday and I wasn't able to access anything computer wise without hacking it first. Now, I still have a battery that I can't find and hack so I'm expecting that to disappear because I can't claim it even though I claimed the grid the same way you did. But they also did a small patch yesterday that may have changed something, but it was a very small patch. Another possibility is that building is part of global encounters from the contracts update and it's designed to disappear like the unknown signals

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

Well…I found out I still had some admin tools on from when I move my base to the new world. I clicked on access all terminals and forgot to take it off.

[@jamestaylor9887]

@@SurvivalBobGaming That makes sense. In the future i found the second battery. its located behind the corridor x intersection opposite of the ladder going down to the storage area.

[@SirPigglezWorth]

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[@StellarisIgnis]

They did a patch yesterday, for some reason the unknown signal changed color after it.

[@kahvozeinsfang6953]

The reason was because they changed it. Read the patch notes sometime 😂

[@StellarisIgnis]

@@kahvozeinsfang6953 There is no patch notes for the hotfix yesterday. That is when the change occured. There is a comment on the Contact update on like the 4th page that there was a hotfix, but nothing mentioned about the unknown signal change. I see a line on the 14th post that they changed the color for Strong Unknown Signals, but that is not when the color for the change yesterday happened. i.e. it was the lime green even after signal came out until yesterday. So they probably shadow changed it because they forgot.

[@StellarisIgnis]

@@kahvozeinsfang6953 I did read the patch notes, no need to be an ass. The patch notes did not address the change just for Strong Unknown Signals (i.e. Space Pirates, the new factions etc). Even then the contact update did not change the color from the lime green. It wasn't until the hotfix that they changed it and there were no notes for that change in them. It was a shadow change.

[@grandgab]

Not much to say, just some engagement.

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

Thanks! I’ll take it!

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

This is the 14th? Let me go to the first one then.

[@MrAwesomdary]

Nice one Bob, I like to see the Station Developing, Looking forward to see it getting built up and getting corridors or something between the different ships to make them stuck together, I really like the look, I would probably take out the square blocks it's sitting on and just have them connected to eachother instead of making a surface for them.

[@MrAwesomdary]

Would love to join you and pirate those pesky merchants encroaching on your sovreign space