Can I survive in Space Engineers with nothing but Money?

[@petergreening1334]

Piracy is just pre-emptive salvage

[@LargelyUnemployed]

Based and tortuga-pilled

[@arceyplayz]

10 Million is actually super easy to get if you can quite literally get a hold of an enemy ship, and then just sell all of the parts of it. You can probably reach 10 mil in one episode because I've done it in VANILLA while starting with nothing. What I would say would be a better number is to get 1 Billion credits because that takes much longer. Also there are basically 3 different NPC types, which all sell different things. Components, Ores, or even entire Ships. Their faction name will give a clue to what type they are. The best one IMO is Ores, as you can buy the raw materials and then use them to either sell it back for more, or to make stuff. (You can buy raw ore, refine it with max yield modules, and then sell it back for profit.) NPC stations in space have ALL missions available. (The contracts such as hauling, escort and repair is only available in space space stations.) NPC stations on Earth only have acquisition and search. If you want a lot of different stations, then you should go to planets as they have multiple stations on them. Stations in space are always like 10,000km+ from each other.

[@TheGodshelper]

Adding to this: moon type planets often have a couple of station on or near them in close proximity of one another. ideal for an economy playthrough

[@Kikabopom]

just had an even better name than my last suggestion: name it "Not Fit For Purchase"

[@magickmushroom]

@Largely Unemployed come here

[@Tharicnar]

That would be a good name for a salvaged ship.

[@SlothfulTom]

I vote sunfish for the ship name, it's absolutely tiny when it hatches and grows to absolutely ridiculous size. It also might lure you into a bit of a different ship shape because it looks like a random disc swimming vertically through the seas.

[@freddavis348]

I think the should be stingray because it has the little wings on the side

[@micr0n0va]

In Australia, Ibis are kind of a pest and commonly referred to as 'Bin Chicken' which is just perfect.

[@magickmushroom]

we call them Hadedas, because they (very loudly) scream HA DE DA whenever you're trying to sleep

[@LargelyUnemployed]

Are they the same thing?? I thought the ibis was smaller

[@Ninjamilk_]

The Australian white ibis is a large bird. Often found around the rim of bins

[@BrokeWrench]

Im glad that i remembered that properly.

[@spennorex]

@@LargelyUnemployed I also vote for Bin Chicken xD

[@beardedzeus1337]

The thing that makes spotting someone in space difficult is the fact depth perception is destroyed and they would be extremely tiny, you'll experience that in SE OFTEN when there isn't waypoints from beacons broadcasting all the time. You'd need to be able to scan them, plot their course, and overlay the course on a hud so you could see it. Without all of that they'd be invisible to you until both of you are within weapons range. Also itd be even more terifying as youd see them coming but unless youre faster than they are... you couldnt escape from them. Just like piracy in the old times. You could see pirate ships coming from miles away but were powerless to do anything other than run and hope your ship was faster. Also Zone Chips are used in the block that creates safe zones. In vanilla each zone chip lasts 1 hour(irl) so you'd need 24 of them for a full day(2.8M SC, which is extremely cheap considering many of the larger ships sell for 10M+ easily) there are mods that raise them to 1=24hrs which imo is just too much bc it's infinite safety bc the 24 you'd need in vanilla would keep your safe zone active for almost a month lol.(so yes you can survive SE with nothing but money granted you have the power supply).

[@TheDainerss]

If no one has mentioned yet, the Zone Chips are used to power shields. The shields consume a certain amount of Zone chips per day based on the shields size.

[@LargelyUnemployed]

Understood, thank you

[@The-Lone-Dalek]

what shield mod?

[@TheDainerss]

@@The-Lone-Dalek None, the base game includes Safe Zone generators.

[@The-Lone-Dalek]

@@TheDainerss oh those 𝕤𝕙𝕚tty things

[@LargelyUnemployed]

10,000,000 was definitely too low, what should we aim for?? Also, name the ship!

[@arceyplayz]

1 BILLION CREDITS you can buy ships for literally 100million or 200million, so 1 billion sounds like a nice number.

[@Gemoron]

10 million i definitely low. 100 Million for a short playthrough and a billion for the long haul. I guess it is important to get a refinery and an assembler. with these you can mine ores, process them and sell them to stations and fulfill aquisition contracts, or do ore aquisition contracts. Without a refinery and assembler, it will stay on capturing ships, grind them down to sell components or sell the ships completely. As you have mentioned splitsie, his Assertice Aquisition series shows how space piracy can work, but unable to make your own ships, it certainly is a hard playthrough, but once you get rolling, it might be finished surprisingly quickly.

[@u.n.reviews7359]

put the tyranids in😉

[@gibmeister5854]

10 billion net worth. once you buy a good ship it is easy

[@Akaado93]

1 billion would be funny to try hard to have 😂

[@bearnaff9387]

The best version of Space Piracy I ever ran across was in the book Neptune's Brood by Charlie Stross. No FTL in this universe, barely any very relativistic flight. Pirates match course with the ship the MC is serving on and board. Very polite, they don't take anything or end up harming anyone. They do perform a customs-grade thorough audit of the ships manifest and crew, however. The pirate ship, _The Crimson Assurance_, works with/for a market insurance cartel in the destination system. The thorough inventory and audit of the ship is to allow their parent organization to short whatever options need shorting to respond properly to whatever properties the victim ship could be selling on arrival. Basically, they are willing to go right up to the line of things that could negatively effect commerce for them - i.e. actual theft and murder, which have bad effects on a system's reputation. And yes, the whole idea was inspired by the piratical insurance company from Monty Python, but jiggered until it almost make sense.

[@AtrakKarta]

33:57 Fun fact: when crossing mountains, semi-trucks can became runaway if they let their speed get too high for their weight. So, every couple of miles down a mountain pass that trucks frequently use will be a runaway truck braking spot, which is just a tall artificial hill with a steep slope for trucks to use to slow down. When both friction brakes and engine brakes fail, they use 'gravity brakes'.

[@magickmushroom]

in south africa we use geobreaking (the trucks sidle up to the curb and gently grind against it to slow down)

[@AtrakKarta]

@@magickmushroom Lol. You make it sound gentle, but I hear the sound of screeching metal.

[@pseudo.Random-KF]

I would love a salvage playthrough. Maybe a floating shipyard with a heavy tug moving hulls around to be emptied out, and a little corner with a bunch of useful stuff and a scrapping pit for the hollowed out hulls.

[@Ninja-eg4nr]

This might be a dumb question but: What's your opinion of having your patrons make a space engineer run? Like having them make up a mod list/survival challenge with some sort of "end goal" for you?

[@AtrakKarta]

28:40 The button that actually says "Unknown Signal" on your HUD is the one that works.

[@OoUNSTOPABL3oO]

The full-ice asteroids DO exist. My current playthrough has me living inside a hollowed out one in the microgravity of high atmosphere of the earth-like planet. VERY useful for power and very pretty too.

[@alexs5814]

And so it begins once again. Wonderful start and the many restrictions tickle my imagination about how you'll go on to help yourself complete this challange. Great start and i'm exceited to see the next episode.

[@ralphsexton8531]

The prices and availability fluctuate at the stations, about every 20 minutes or so. Some things get cheaper, others pricier, some become unavailable. There are typically about 4 cycles, so if you saw something for less, or it disappeared, check back later.

[@jeizen]

34:50 Not sure if it's been answered already but I'm pretty sure Contracts menu is ; by default.

[@LargelyUnemployed]

You're a saint, thank you

[@Tropingenie]

Funny to see Splitsie come up, I have been watching his older content to get my fill of SE content while waiting for your triumphant return 'today'!

[@MrMontugar]

Geobraking? Nah Aerobraking? Nah Lithobraking? Ayyyyy!

[@CreeperCraft73]

I am for going for a carrier run. I think that might be fun, especially with the building restrictions.

[@magickmushroom]

Big agree

[@murasaki848]

16:45 "Committed sudoku?" 🤣

[@himdo1]

On unknown signals the waypoint is always on the correct button. Its pretty easy to find the button with that knowledge.

[@WakkaWakka25]

The acquisition quests roll over daily, even the ones you accept. The zone chips make a player done safe zone used in multiplayer.

[@magickmushroom]

ooooh that makes sense I thought they were for making your own inhibitor zones

[@Meyoni]

Completely ice asteroids are a thing just rare pretty easy to identify if you can run the far draw distance as they are light blue in the sun

[@Glorfindel_117]

Call the ship The Mustard Seed. The smallest seed that grows into the biggest herb.

[@superspider64]

maybe name it Celestial Koi, there's an old japanese legend where a school of koi fish swim to a tori gate to try and become dragons, only for all but one to turn back when they see it's on top of a waterfall, the lone koi who still decided to try working tirelessly to reach the top and eventually being rewarded for his efforts

[@gamerwolf-ne1yl]

Someone might have already said that, but there is a "Auto pickup" mod for mining. All it does is picking up the ores if you use your drill. Its one of the most important mods to me, as i hate picking up everything by hand every time. That said, I dont know its influence on performance, but I don't expect it to be big.

[@Peoplelikefood]

Ship name idea: Mostly ambitious

[@jetepp7850]

Love the Hitchhikers guide reference

[@pseudo.Random-KF]

17:49 Major point in the expanse: stealth coating and asteroids. A hard lesson you learn in Nebulous is that you can't see through asteroids.

[@IrisCorven]

That starter ship is actually significantly good, once you toss a drill on it. I used it up until I had enough resources to start auto-welding larger blueprint ships.

[@nommy8599]

Name: the 'flailing tortoise'? The ship kinda looks like a turned-over tortoise, stuck on its back wiggling to try and flip upright...

[@eddipank155]

I would like the Giant trash ship, Nomad Style. No Piracy!!

[@ws_stelzi79]

You know all Ice asteroids do occasionally spawn in but are a bit rare to encounter!

[@WakkaWakka25]

I hear rare, in one play through I found like 6....😂

[@devinsmith3019]

I would name the ship Paul. because you'll be robbing Peter, and everyone else, to pay for its upgrades 😂

[@benthedaddyYT]

Was that James May crashing into the wall? 😂

[@magickmushroom]

perhaps

[@finoyo]

From what I have seen on the trading you want to make a Faction then accept the most profitable adquicition task (they don’t expire) also be careful with the “Patrol ones” it will get spicy

[@Epb7304]

solid ice asteroids, (I call them icetroids) are possible, but fairly rare, at least they were possible 2 years ago, I haven't played in space in a while so

[@PoolOfTrees]

Yeah, I'm sure I've come across a pure ice asteroid at least two or three times in all the time I've been playing.

[@asdfjoe123]

Largely Unemployes is back with SPACE ENGINEERS? HELL YEAH! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[@magickmushroom]

Hell yeaaaahh!

[@RedstoneManaga]

Ship name: Bin Chicken

[@billlowery1658]

I used to work in Aerospace. Using the groud as a break is valid. It's called K-Breaking

[@Michael-qv7wt]

The Goliath grouper Starts small then grows massive Tough suckers too

[@Vanitas12Matt]

A spot of advice, if you press Ctrl+G in a cockpit/seat it allows you to place blocks without exiting your cockpit or seat

[@bearnaff9387]

With the big tail at the back, I recommend the name Blue Bettafish!

[@wChris_]

Geobreaking? i thing you mean Lithobraking!

[@georgeashbolt3330]

I think the magpie would suit it well? Stealing shiny things.

[@michaelwicker9538]

I've seen where people start by buying all the data pads and then they get deals from all of stations to get lots of money quickly, not all of them will be that far away.

[@themoss7115]

Opening the contract menu was hilarious. It reminds me my first time I saw that menu - after I rage-smashed keyboard :-D

[@Michael-qv7wt]

I would say remove the build limit mod but use honor system and only build important stuff to reduce the risk of insanity

[@magickmushroom]

it's very good content when he goes insane though (watch The Hole that Broke Me)

[@Nova02964]

I guessed 29984.3 Km’s - also how cool name for the ship could be the magpie? It’s named after a bird anyway but rags to riches, those scheming things can steal a watch of an earring if you are not on guard!

[@Nova02964]

Bot fly is pretty cool too - if you can compare it to lavae being laid in flesh and eating its way through nutritious parts?

[@sampfrost]

name suggestion : merchant galleon (in training)

[@cobalelek1485]

There are actually asteroids completely made of ice i got one on my first playthrough.

[@proconceal666]

Ship name idea: "Whale Shark" it may not fit it right now, but it's like a whale shark pup right now. Once it fully develops, it will be huge and dangerous just like the whale shark! 🦈

[@JonSchlueter]

waiting to see the ship fall into the gravity well while looking at the asteroids

[@SinnerD2010]

RED ALERT!!! Thoughts of piracy detected, activating the antimatter drive now. 🤣

[@monad_tcp]

16:49 lol, committed sodoku

[@rameymj]

Ship name: Innocent Farm Equipment (IFE)

[@BuildersFight]

Ship name idea "the nest"" also mag boots wont work in gravity you were in planetary gravity for a bit

[@GrinningCoyote]

Ship name suggestion: The Ponzi

[@MegaGordon2011]

The ship should be called Rational Profit.

[@PiroteusGaming]

I kinda was expecting him to start with 10 million on a station and nothing else....

[@LargelyUnemployed]

Yeah the title is proving a little tricky to nail down. Any suggestions?

[@magickmushroom]

oh my god now I can't unsee that

[@neuro3423]

I found you on the suit only but I really enjoyed the Zomboid and DSP playthroughs! You're very funny and I'll eventually be a BaldBoi as well lol. I'm doing all I can to fight it with Finasteride and Minoxidil

[@magickmushroom]

welcome brother, hair loss doesn't mean we're hair losers

[@finoyo]

Another thing you could create a safe zone but you need some zone chips to build the block and to mantain the shield you need a absurd amount of energy and so chips every hr

[@OhMeGaGS]

Ship name idea: Lobster! Not a fish, or a bird, but it starts as a humble smol boi and can technically speaking grow forever (they only die when they are too big to mold (or when they're cooked)) so it can grow and grow along with your trade empire! Also female lobsters are illegal to fish which kinda fits the "I'm a trader don't touch me" vibe :D Also there's a great mod that adds food / drink / sleep meters and food/drink can mostly only be bought at stations or looted :)

[@Michael-qv7wt]

Yes

[@masterzedric]

The "Unladen Swallow" would be a fun name. At least we might finally find out what the air speed of it is. And if and how it can carry coconuts.

[@dasisvas6040]

African or European though?

[@WakkaWakka25]

Well I don't know that.

[@magickmushroom]

Well of course, African Swallows are non migratory@@dasisvas6040

[@benthedaddyYT]

Ship reminds me of a Stingray for some reason

[@magickmushroom]

especially with the solar panels

[@xXr0tt3nXx]

The Nymph is my suggestion

[@The_Finalizer]

I am loving the space engineers series, you should check out No Man's Sky

[@mrfreetime5177]

I love the name chappie for the ship from the engines part at 5:20

[@capslfern2555]

8:31 lithobraking

[@petergreening1334]

ship name: the Sunfish

[@BobbyVanSasen]

Ship name: Swim Shady

[@LargelyUnemployed]

God that's good

[@professortrog7742]

Something Ferengi related, Or after that weird jellyfish with a sail: the man-o-war

[@SiggiGumma]

Nice video. I think that it would be cool to name the ship Nauvoo, after the big ship from The Expanse Anyway, here is my guess on how far it is: around 40k

[@brown56765]

In Kerbal Space Program, we like to call using the ground to slow down "lithobraking" =)

[@Simontookie24]

Genuinely love your editor. Magic is a legend.

[@LargelyUnemployed]

That makes two of us

[@hharter8319]

This Let's play you should only be able to use items if you have bought them made them yourself or spawned with them so you may sell whatever you get but to be able to use any items other than for repairs you must buy them yourself

[@themanbehindtheman1587]

Have you ever thought about playing Outer Wilds? Its an incredible little indie game, and i definitely think you'd enjoy it!

[@LargelyUnemployed]

Of course! I'm just not sure it fits the channel

[@mdbgamer556]

"Looks kinda like a fish. Big ambitions, small beginnings" Gyrados. No, seriously. :P

[@PoolOfTrees]

A number of people have suggested Stingray for your ship name, but I'd like to suggest its overlooked relative, the Manta Ray, which can grow to be up to 7 metres wide. Also, not to put down your starter ship, but I don't think its sting is sufficiently venomous.

[@aaronpaul5990]

For the ship name let it be Bumblebee .... the completly way to heavy to fly insect that still somehow gets the job done ^^

[@chaosgirleva]

Also just scifi kinda relies on the idea that we've overcome orbital physics like our thrusters are powerful enough we can just trivially overcome the forces of gravity and essentially are just auto dampened to the nearest star, plus despite being able to see infinitely in space, that also works against you there is so much to see and scale is so hard to grasp and so even a very crude cloaking system and we'd never visually notice it unless we happened to look right at it

[@LargelyUnemployed]

For a person, absolutely. But ships could have automated passive sensors that look for distinct phenomena right? Like engine ignitions or radio broadcasts. Would probably work in a solar-system only setting. I guess that's why ships are always meant to have transponders on in these shows

[@JamesTDG]

5:20 the silhouette looks like the Pelican from Halo.

[@razuaza]

Bin Chicken!! Aka what Aussies call ibis

[@jameswatts5523]

Console version has ice astroids that are completely ice so I think you've just never seen one.

[@magickmushroom]

I tell you what we better see one this playthrough or I'm gonna be mad. They sound amazing

[@jameswatts5523]

They usually spawn around moons or in deep space for me but they are a rarity nonetheless ​@@magickmushroom

[@jocax188723]

Name it the Bin Chicken. Don’t get any more humble than that.

[@Hellhaunter66]

maybe add scarpper to the end like "The Bin Chicken Scrapper" and just built different moddels for different purposes

[@PoolOfTrees]

It's semicolon for the contract menu. Nice to see you back in SE. :-)

[@atomicrc_8303]

so hilariously im running a server for splities scrapyard shenanagans. and seeing you use it gave me a chuckle

[@LargelyUnemployed]

I love the concept!

[@atomicrc_8303]

@LargelyUnemployed ......yea i did too until my server exploded and now i have to be the bad guy and implement harsh block limits to keep sim from goimg to 0.2 :/

[@Vaprol.]

Vaguely ambitious for the ship name, and higher goal for the credits, 10 mil is a bit low.

[@Jpiter]

My vote for the ship is "the Porta potty" because its basically just going to be used for the bare essentials until you find a better option.

[@Jpiter]

Or "the Flounder", flat fish with most of its body pushed to one side like the cargo bays and the survival kit.

[@maartenvandenberge7116]

didn't see it awnserd so i'll add the contract button is ; : right next to the L button on qwerty boards usualy

[@j0hnnygfilms]

Ship name suggestion: The Stingray

[@pocketfulofgeese]

Colon/semicolon key opens the contracts menu.

[@LargelyUnemployed]

You're a hero

[@magickmushroom]

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need

[@DirkDwipple]

Have a salvage ship. Will travel.

[@busterb1328]

I say to call it The Bass - Big ambitions small start . It is kind of got that fish look to it so calling it the Bass could do fine

[@asdfjoe123]

19:25 -- You already generated the name: Night Flyer

[@tessathundercloud4514]

The "Down bad" would be my suggestion Thank you for the awesome content ^v^

[@bord1122]

Ship name suggestion: The what am i doing

[@wilcojar]

Piracy as people think it is, historically is dumb. Pirates took ports more often than attacking ships. By taking a port (or in space a station) they can exploit ships that require supplies. Charging exorbitant fees or confiscating ships illegally while in port. On the ocean if pirates attacked openly on the trade routes, the military naval forces would then hunt them down, but a naval vessel alone could not take back a port on land. They would need naval, infantry, and enough soldiers to occupy afterward, to prevent recapture. In space this would also be likely alongside the massive sensor and view range that a would be victim would have in order to prepare. A good tactic for taking ships in space would actually be putting out a false distress signal and once brought aboard to safety, killing or imprisoning the captain and crew and taking the vessel, or taking stations in space and using their computers to hack any ships that dock

[@gazehound]

25:34 that's what the FBI found in my garage too!

[@redhavoc4144]

Me too!

[@tyrusing]

5:18 Marvin.