No Suit Survival Europa: Ep. 2 Rough Start - Space Engineers

[@chrishoppner7875]

Have a free tip from a no-jetpack veteran: every single grid has an antenna, a remote control, and some cameras, even if it doesn't move or do anything. Having an antenna on a grid means you can remote into it and control blocks like doors and whatever. Having a remote control on it means you can set up grid-specific hotbars, and also move it around if it's a grid that can move. All of these are invaluable if you can't just jetpack back up. As for why stuff ends up in your inventory instead of the ship when you press the magic button, make sure the left side is showing the inventory you want to move things to. It moves it to the top-most inventory on the left by default.

[@StoveFortuna]

I'm enjoying this series of No Spectator Survival, but it will be nice to have it back! Thanks for the great content so far.

[@MadMavn]

Hahaha it kills me. I had some cool shots too. Idk what happened to make it start freaking out but it needs to be fixed ASAP.

[@czzuehlke]

@@MadMavn could it be possible that the recording program was recording say 6 instead of 60fps as if it was intended for a time-lapse? I wonder if that could have caused it to stutter like shown.

[@testsubject515]

@@MadMavn Use STEEL PLATE BLOCKS they are vanilla, and they are really thin, so they do not add to much to the base, so it does not makes it chunky and bulky or just big and small inside , and keep goingon the videos, they are great, allways watch till the end, dont know if you are gonna see this, but good work.

[@Haladmer]

@@MadMavn Don't know if you fixed the problem yet or not, but when it happened to me, I found that a combination of recent Windows and app update(s) changed some of the recording settings (thinks like the mic levels [Windows], resolution/compression [app], codec [app]) and it played holy hell on my settings until I went in and manually reset everything back to the previous values. Basically the recording app changed how it was doing compression on my selected resolution/codec settings, also changed how it was supporting the selected codec, but didn't change the selection visually. When I finally got to verifying all of the numbers manually, figured out it was a setting conflict and resetting everything to the "good values" (had to select a different preset, then reselected the original preset) fixed the issue. Either way good luck (if you haven't fixed it yet) or congrats (if you did!)

[@redshirtwookiee]

Just a short tip I discovered myself, 1 interior plate can get you 2 blocks of height using the stairs. Very useful for getting up quickly.

[@pupschaoticmess308]

UPGRADE UNLOCKED SCAFFOLDING

[@party4lifedude]

I only recently figured out you could even use the 2x1 stairs vertically, but this is a nice tip.

[@equifax147]

I love the Emotional Support Neon that found it's way into the base by the end of the episode. Seems like it really helped!

[@MadMavn]

HAHAHA #EmotionalSupportNeon!

[@equifax147]

@@MadMavn @MadMavn I feel like Neon Lights are the Engineer's 'Wilson' and when they aren't there to literally illuminate his way then he gets lost staring at the neonless walls. Just another reason for the #Justaddneon campaign to gain the momentum that's slowly sweeping the cosmos.

[@Mase8]

9:00 Holding control while clicking "this button" moves x10 over to you weld ship. And shift+control+"this button" moves stuff over while not removing it from your build planner.

[@RWF51411]

Considering all the problems you had get back into your hanger and even the Mualer after you exited, you may want to add a landing pad for the Mualer and an Emergency surface entry to your new Base as Part of your To Do list.

[@Kampftroll]

Played Space Engineers the day it came out and ever since, i never knew that that button for the build planner existed. Its not just you

[@will6162]

I mean build planner was added considerably recently compared to how long the game has been out

[@Kampftroll]

@@will6162 Well yeah, should have phrased that differently.

[@hotdogman4208]

Build queue is one of the best things to ever be put in the game, and sadly it's one of the must underused parts of it. I have hundreds of hours, maybe even a thousand hours in the game. I've only recently started to use the build planner this month, and it's absolutely changed my life.

[@vincentm.2458]

Same here, I discovered it around 1000 hours, and didn't know about the keybinds like alt+mmb and mmb a hundred hours after that. Turns out after playing the game so long, you don't notice these buttons until you see people using them. That and ISY's inventory script made the game so much more fun

[@equifax147]

We'll always enjoy our weekly dose of NSS!

[@MadMavn]

Happy to hear that!

[@rukinaa]

Can we all just appreciate how smooth he has gotten with the block placement while piloting the ship? Keep up the good work man!

[@exelsiar]

Only found this series like a month ago, and am addicted! It's one of the best produced SE series I've seen. Keep up the great work dude.

[@zebrin]

I keep yelling at the screen "Build weapons you goof! Build some weapons and a couple decoys for when the reavers inevitably show up to wreck your base!" All it takes is a single rocket to depressurize the entire thing right now.

[@ttvnotabot1199]

Good vid from the first 30 seconds i really like the intro

[@MadMavn]

Hahaha riveting stuff. It builds suspense

[@jimguppy7204]

The base may be small but it really does look good in the end, plus at least this one isn't getting zapped every two seconds 😄

[@hoveringgoat8061]

amen

[@MightyAssa]

I love how you deal with problems in general. You always sound very reflectiv and positive about what you could have done better and you are open minded to new solution which makes watching you dealing with problems very enjoyable for me. SE is full of little tricks like the withdrawing comp. for build planner. I red recently that you can switch between camera's with "." and "," back and for once you are in the camera view

[@maszugsh9009]

maybe you should build a prefabricated structure blueprint and a sky crane printer that only places steel plates layer by layer, you need to build a facility and safe interiors quickly, you need to build the work camp before you can build the city, It is not pretty but it's smart. This isn't Heligan you need to think about it like building a city underwater...

[@Tashmann]

Damn....... LOL I have been doing the same as you for a year and hand loading build planner in to the ship. Absolute game changer right there.

[@uncleweirdbeard86]

1 thing I can tell you about SE is, no matter how many hours you have in the game, there are still new things to learn. Thats why I try and teach other players what I know and those very players teach me stuff I never knew

[@sighmon5640]

i think clean for the interior works! there's almost no atmosphere on europa so it would make sense that there's not much damage on the armor plating, as opposed to the oxygen and dust on helghan

[@Its_just_Dave.]

I’ve been binge watching since the beginning and now I’m all caught up and patiently waiting for more. Love your videos. Love the no suit survival series.

[@AkiSan0]

im so happy to have stumbled upon this series! top content creator, fun to watch, amazing music choice and fun scenario to play along with! :)

[@Stormcrow_1]

A few things if you have Reavers, Base defence is number one priority (and you never have enough guns). Compartmentalise your base so they don't vent your whole base in one shot. Build a really deep hole and place some stores, med bay and manufacturing stuff, so when they flatten your base you're not stone aged.

[@singerman7560]

I look forward to watching this every week. Thank you for suffering through it - I'm amazed by your creativity in solving these problems!

[@Agora2021]

Oh yeah, this is gonna be a fun planet.

[@MadMavn]

Haha.... ha. yeah.......

[@TerribleResults]

Your little base looks so cool! I think the lack of thunderstorms is really improving your building rate.

[@Thoron_of_Neto]

It's always rough moving to a new place, starting over from square one. Add in that you've mad this a challenge that's insane, and can't set foot outside and I think it's pretty dang amazing you even manage to knock one thing off the list an episode in these early days!

[@Rumblestrip]

One mild suggestion for your welder ship, swap the welder for either a connector, or a rotor or hinge, mount a welder and grinder on the reciprocal part then you got some tools for your ship..could do the same with a drill.... Theres some small connector mods that can help keep that down to a decent size Mounting a collector in similar fashion might help to pick up things.....stone...parts......corpse bag.... Lol remember, connectors dont need power on both sides to connect anymore

[@fakshen1973]

Find iron and build a drone miner. Then build an outside connector and start banking iron and ice. Let's get some resources going. Keep your small base as a temp base, then design a new base nearby once you have your workflow established. Also, you can use a couple of turret controllers and some pistons to make robotic arms. You can control pistons on the toolbar using reverse and on-off

[@avantly8969]

Commenting on an old video I know.😅 Just figured I’d say, love to see how much this channel has grown and how well you are doing. Remember finding the first video brand new over a year ago. Got busy with work and couldn’t keep up. Luckily the algorithm brought me back and I am definitely not disappointed. Keep up the good work, you got big things going!

[@tommyroselius2941]

Thanks for the tip at 9:00

[@riotintheair]

I've used the same airlock script for about a year with some changes (to run my whole environmental control system in a low power environment on a 1% O2 planet) and it's really good and flexible - I have a ton of airlocks and weird spaces that are usually air tight but can be evacuated for construction or vehicle transit and it handles things really gracefully once I figured out how to use all the tags.

[@Iliurgul]

You have completely come back during the episode, congratulations! The new base looks awesome

[@oktokt]

I'm gonna go binge NSS S01 while I wait for Ep. 3... Your struggle is far too enjoyable. Good show!

[@micheallinne3159]

You know I discovered your channel literally just today and checked and saw your oldest video posted was 10 months ago because I can't believe I hadn't come across your channel sooner. I like your content so far. Definitely subscribed now and hope you continue making this great content for our consumption.

[@devoncummings5769]

I don't know if it has been said but I use The " build your own turret" blocks to make welding and grinding arms for the basis and use a reverse piston button for reach it really helped on some of my builds @MadMavn please consider 😀

[@KovaxVotu]

I've binged all of your videos in a week, and I'm blown away on the quality. It's hard to believe this is your first project ever on youtube. Keep it up Mavn!

[@jayschmidt2196]

Was gonna mention you can achieve the mouse controlled crane arm in vanilla now with the custom turret controller.

[@BrianRonald]

With your mauler docked to the base, opening the "locked door" can be done from any terminal. *Always* have a remote control and antenna.

[@thekidsareawake2935]

I really dig the new timelapse music! Your video making skills are on par with your excellent SE skills. Great work

[@MadMavn]

Thank you very much!

[@kalandarkclaw8892]

Nice way to adapt to your situation. It's never easy. Also maybe I could recommend a couple small worker drones that you can control remotely that are outside.

[@henrywill5347]

my man is playing my fav game, has a nice clear voice and is doing smth "new" that not everyone is doing. guess ima sub then edit: AND HE GOT TIMELAPSES like wtf do i want more

[@Str8UPdyeabolick]

Just highlight the cargo/connector yellow door and hit middle mouse button, it will withdraw all planner components. Like wise, shift+mmb will add all build plans to the assembler.

[@terracgaming8030]

9:10 you can also use middle mouse button to grab the stuff you have on your build planner if you use it on a inventory access place. Also holding ctrl then using middle mouse button it should grab 10x what was on the build planner.

[@Derzuel]

speaking of the build planner, you can specify where the parts are transferred to by searching for the a specific cargo container before hitting get materials.

[@ChrMuslimThor]

The inside is starting to look great! Great content as always!

[@trp.715]

If nobody has mentioned it before, you can use the turret control blocks to pretty good effect in order to control crane arms for welding/grinding etc. Less capable than the mart script but less effort to configure as well.

[@EngineeredCoffee]

I am still catching up on episodes, so late comment. Thanks for trying out my airlock script! Sorry for the case sensitive issue / long setup. I will try to address. I am an engineer so function works, but form...

[@MadMavn]

Oh no problem at all. Honestly it was 100% user error. Your script works great I really enjoy it

[@l.y.dindustries3058]

If ya didn’t know you can open the hanger doors on the back through the ship when it connected to the bace. Great content keep up the amazing videos.

[@homermongrel1]

Your editing and use of music is excellent. I have really enjoyed watching your thought processes and designs. It must be a lot of hard work but it is worth it I assure you. Looking forward to the next episode.

[@keatoncampbell820]

Wowwowowow that build planner tip, I gotta say I missed that button too... there's a few survival builds i might finish now lmao

[@shadowforge]

The button you're talking about also pulls stuff from other grids so its good if you have multi grid ships or connectors on pistons

[@MadMavn]

Word!

[@rannma1]

You need to be extra careful with that build planner trick you learned. I knew about that one as well, but the biggest issue with it is, if the inventories you're trying to transfer components into (on the left) actually has some of the components required, it'll move them from the right side to the left side, effectively counting the components without actually adding any. My solution for this is to just *not* be lazy, and label all my grids, so if I do want to use build planner inside and inventory like that, I just search my ship on the left, and the station on the right, and things work just fine!

[@allmhuran]

I thought you did really well getting the interior of that hangar set up. I was worried you would need to expand the whole thing by a few blocks in at least 2 dimensions, which would mean tearing up and rebuilding your exterior aesthetics and so on. But it turned out rather nicely.

[@4rtanx]

For your Problem at 20:55 you can place the stairs or ramp block (in the Ladder group) with an interrior plate. It acts like the slope steel armor but in a one click fashion and you can bridge a 2 block gap or elevate 2 blocks in one click easy. I haven't seen this tip in the comments yet. Hope it helps some folks

[@darkkilo521]

If I may add, if someone else has not mentioned it. On the left, your ship, yes; on the right, I search the cargo container holding all the components (give it a unique name) and then do the build planner transfer button. Sometimes if you don't have the right amount in your source cargo, it transfers what is in your welder ships already to reach the totals needed. (Basically transfers from your weldership to your weldership) So you end up thinking you have everything you need but don't.

[@SirPigglezWorth]

Tethers Mod Solves your power transfer issue. I Think you'd love the Full Block Air Vent. The mod comes with a junction/vent, meaning one side is flat air vent and all others conveyer able. I use to change conveyor directions and or add another vent or two on the side, saves time, vanilla speed vent. SPECTATOR FIX?!? I know most people just set and forget World Settings, But if you turn down render and objects for spectator camera. Also if your not already Hollow Planet CleanUp, gets rid of ships that spawn inside stuff.

[@cappinspanky9522]

Love the vids keep them coming mav :)

[@MadMavn]

Thanks! Will do!

[@Void-in2pz]

I think it would be somewhat cozy to utilize small pressurized walk ways all over the place, to be able to walk from ship to mines, to a bridge and so on

[@Void-in2pz]

slide show actually looked interesting, like a hidden camera footage, add appropriate music, and It would might be fine.

[@prozacgod]

Oh man, that build queue thing... when I discovered it... oh boi... yeah game changer. ( I was probably1200 hours into gameplay when I realized it existed)

[@Jeffs40K]

One you could use Forcefield Hanger doors, they have versions that reach 1 block all the way up to 10 Blocks long ... I would have made that Hanger MUCH larger, also added a Remote to your ship and that base (Wih Antanas), so if need can remote it back to you. ... I think it mich been cool to make a ship like Thunderbird 2, when its Belly is a Huge Hanger Pos Base that it lowers in Place, with all the Base Mechanical Components in it. ,,, Now I have to go and Design that HAHA

[@HLIWrigley]

Need a custom name on your bulk component storage, so you can isolate which location it pulls parts from. If not, it can pull components from the ship you are trying to move the build wie to. If you fill your ship with more than one build que worth of parts.

[@iamzid]

it would probably be wise to add an emergency access at ground level. like a rotary air lock leading into a stair or ladder shaft.

[@czzuehlke]

For a airlock I have a theory you might be interested in, what if you used a merge block as your connector and airtight doors that extend to make an airtight walkway from ship to base. May be complex but may work and be cool

[@DecidedlyNinja]

You don't even need the hangar doors. Merge blocks are airtight, and any sides of the passage not covered by merge blocks can be sealed by two slope blocks placed corner-to-corner.

[@jonnyd8399]

2000 hours, and you just taught me the same thing lol

[@mailleweaver]

Using that button for transferring build queue supplies can be problematic since it will pull from all visible inventories. If you have the receiving inventory listed on the left and the right, then it might pull from receiving inventory to fill the receiving inventory, meaning you'll not have all the components you need. The safe way to do it is to prefix all your cargo containers with an abbreviation of the grid name, then "search" each side by those prefixes (receiver on the left and donor on the right). If you're accessing inventory via the receiver ship, then you can filter the left side with the "this ship only" button like you did in the video and only "search" the right side to make the receiver cargo not visible there. I always just use "Station" as my prefix on stations since they're never going to connect to each other, and I can easily type "stat" with my left hand without letting go of the mouse. Ship prefixes need to be unique so if you have multiple of the same ship type docked on a station (or onto each other) you'll not accidentally put some cargo in the wrong one with that auto-transfer button.

[@mailleweaver]

I learned of that button pretty soon after it was added. There's an older function, though, that I didn't learn of until I had more than 2000 hours into the game, though. There's a little check box in the paint menu to allow you to disable painting with color so you can paint with just the texture. Super nice for updating an old blueprint or cleaning up rust from a piece of salvage since it lets you paint the entire grid with one click without screwing up the color scheme. For example, you could have changed to the frosty texture on your new hangar without changing the color of your walls or ceiling.

[@MadMavn]

WAIT SERIOUSLY!!! That's amazing. Thanks for the heads up! Also thank you for the suggestion about naming your containers. I think I ran into that issue that you were talking about pulling from my ship back into my ship.

[@mailleweaver]

Renaming a bunch of stuff on a large, existing grid can be a bit tedious, even with copy/paste. There is a mod by Meridius_IX that can make it a lot easier, though. Its Steam ID is 2077166496. It will let you select a bunch of blocks, type in a text string, and click a button to make that string a prefix or suffix on all selected blocks at once. Or a different button can completely rename the selected blocks instead of adding to the existing names. For example, if you don't like numbers following all your H2/O2 Generators you can select them all and rename them to "H2/O2 Generator" at once and that will remove the numbers. And if you made a typo that affected a large number of blocks, you can easily reset the names to default and start over. It's a really handy mod that I've not yet found to conflict with any other mods.

[@StormHerald3D]

At 8:45 "ahh yes you have learned one of the dark arts of the build planner, but beware learner for when you gaze into the planners heart... it gazes back at you, have care young apprentice" lol, thanks for another great episode

[@SimeonRadivoev]

I like how your walking speed is 6m/s that is 21 km/h

[@KrKesomackan]

well you are not alone not knowing about the buildplanner button....... see theres always new things to learn =D

[@prozacgod]

You need to start using radio controlled gates on your ships, since the need go in and out with a ship is getting greater.

[@Fenrir414]

I didnt think of using that option either, nor knew of it

[@RtepPWR]

Can´t wait for tomorrow's episode! ♥

[@Arthezius]

6800 hrs and I just found out about the build planner button today. And...AND....I have read what it was before and my brain just never clicked to it.

[@zweianderson6546]

Next time you're isolated away from your ship....just control panel open doors. Most doors have that functionality.

[@zeroshadow8913]

You can do the same thing of the air vent scrip whit just the air vent, it have a setup action config like a sensor thing if it have pressure or not, by the way, I really love the series, keep going is good stuff you make Pd. Sorry my English

[@Spharkii]

I'm sitting here at 20:00 thinking "has he forgotten that he can work the doors through the connectors?" Ooof.

[@pironiero]

Dude, just get Build and repair system mod and use it just as janitor to get rid of dropped on ground scrap, it wont interfere with your gameplay but will get rid of situations where you cant build something because some piece of scrap is in the way.

[@xejdikmiecik4137]

Im really love this series but also i am sure that we need more of a Skyjack episodes. I hope, that you didn't forsaken this co-op

[@robertdrexel2043]

Hmmm... 16:35 You know, I cannot help but wonder if you could extend the Mauler's docking bay downwards a fair bit and then you could literally have a bay that would be like the bays onboard the UNSC Infinity with its escort frigates with your Utility Ships.

[@sunny-420]

i knew about using the build planner to fill your ships cargo but i think it was a feature added lately in the past few years it wasn't originally added

[@magpiejames1440]

I had no idea about that button, or the ctrl+bracket trick!

[@batchnerd]

You should try the better spot lights mod. It's really how light should have been implemented in the first place.

[@mastere6115]

Obviously you're not likely to change it now, and tbf, it looks sick as is. But to bring on the point of the paint on one side, and a different on the other, a good alternative to full blocks could be having armour plates on the exterior of the building, it can be obviously difficult in some places to make it work like for more complex shapes, but at the least it would have helped with the majority of the walls you needed painting and would allow for more room on the interior, with minimal affect to the exterior appearance.

[@MadMavn]

That's a great point. I honestly need to remember that the panels are a viable option for this kind of use case.

[@Haladmer]

Don't feel bad about the build menu bulk transfer button, I refused to use the build planner for like 3 or 4 months, but was using the EZ Inventory mod (that the build planner was built up from lol)

[@MStrickkk]

You forgot, you could have opened the hanger doors from inside the mauler once you connected it to the base.

[@Domaorn]

MM!!!! build a ball turret with the new turret control youll be amazed.. we have drop pods on my server.. they literally erase them to scrap metal before they get to 400m my set up is just two with 6 small grid gats and one with 6 auto cannons haha splitsie has a vid up if ya need to look it up

[@knutzzl]

Ctrl+[ you learn something everyday The "grab build planner button takes from ALL the inventory's on the right side. That can include the inventory's on the left. 3x3 rover cockpit is on both sides so it can pull from there to put it in there

[@MadMavn]

Ty for the heads up. I definitely made this mistake!

[@trp.715]

6000 hours in, had no idea about that inventory button you mentioned....

[@Highman82]

Funny, That the inside of the base looks bigger when it is filled then it did when it was empty.

[@xejdikmiecik4137]

13:07 belly door for the Evermore are open LOL Edit: i forgot that you said earlier in the previous episode that this door are exception NVM then

[@willgnue2240]

Only you truly know the strugle, your dieing were just sitting back watching, to give us a complete scale of your strugles, how about you place a body in and around your base every time you die ? Watched and 👍 Liked

[@MadMavn]

Hahahhahahaha it would become a very grim series for sure if all my deaths were memorialized. HAHA

[@fuzzball1251]

your not alone i also have thousands of hours and i did not know that was a thing i was doing the same thing you been doing

[@MadMavn]

I'm glad to know i'm not the only one haha. Thanks!

[@kaiz0099]

I was getting cranky thinking you Didn’t post this week

[@burgesskj]

NSSE is inspirational.

[@BuildersFight]

You know for the whole power thing large grid batteries start with 25% more than enough to jump start you hydrogen engine/mine situation, thou I guess you would've had to connect it anyway for cargo but still it was an option

[@hoveringgoat8061]

Yessss nss content!

[@hoveringgoat8061]

Okay after watching I think the top priorities should be establishing an ice mine (even if its super basic) and then either defenses or if iron is low we should get a resource mine established. Does Europa have deposits other than boulders? Are we going to asteroid mine for most resources?

[@thomasbarker8214]

Please... bring this series back

[@raiderthetavernkeeper]

Make a ship that u can use to pressurize spaces so u have emergency o2 for a bit since u die fast

[@MadMavn]

I like this idea. Emergency O2!

[@raiderthetavernkeeper]

@@MadMavn could add a ship for it or a little node on ur ships for pressurization. Like o2 tank and some vents that way if u dont have the base set up to be pressurized u can have air before u build or poke holes in the base. This would make that box of doom less doomy. A ships upside is that i can gather o2 from out side and maybe u could hook it into the base for extra o2 and what not. Also most planets have o2 that vents can gather . They say no o2 but the vent can grab some on most planets

[@unqualifiedengineering]

Wow I had know idea that you could move build planer stuff like that

[@sampfrost]

would blueprinting some prefab building modules be useful - for example a room template that can be stuck onto multiple ones for a building, or a refinery room or a tower template and so on and so forth, since it’s harder to detail using get in ship cockpit placing thing if i remember right