Space Engineers Tutorial - Starting on Servers Quickly and Keeping the Pod [1]

[@WalterWhite-lm2fy]

0:33 - grind door and vent. 1:09 - placing small landing gear, then welding and grinding it up. 1:22 - welding and grinding the seat. 1:50 - placing the drill by grinding steal plates and 2 thrusters. 4:30 - drilling a stone asteroid. 5:30 - searching for resources on asteroids. 7:20 - building basic assembler and refinery. 9:20 - placing a solar panel. 10:00 - connecting (parking) space pod to an asteroid with merge blocks. 10:50 - grinding down the merge blocks. 13:35 - placing more cargo containers. Hints: LMB to add to a building plan. Shift + MMB on container to add to production from the building plan. MMB to collect from container. Ores: Stone - processed on Iron Ingots, Nickel Ingots, Silicon Wafers, and Gravel. Iron Ore (Fe) - Red and Grey, Rarity: 50% Nickel Ore (Ni) - Brown, Rarity: 2% Cobalt Ore (Co) - Blue, Rarity: 2.2% Magnesium Ore (Mg) - Blue, Rarity: 2.4% Silicon Ore (Si) - Grey, Rarity: 2% Silver Ore (Ag) - Bluish-Silver, Rarity: 2% Gold Ore (Au) - Gold, Rarity: 2% Platinum Ore (Pt) - Grey, Rarity: 2% Uranium Ore (U) - Black, Rarity: 4.4% Ice - powers the Jetpack, Medical Room, hydrogen thrusters. Scrap Metal - Iron Ingots.

[@Bjkrause71]

i always get the blue cobalt like only that ;-;

[@meestuinier4486]

Isn't adding a building plan RMB with the welder?

[@Cloakerson]

Thank you Heisenberg

[@unclegreybeard3969]

@@meestuinier4486 Yes, as Endar shows @ around the 8 minute mark.

[@meestuinier4486]

@@unclegreybeard3969 was reacting to Walters comment where he stated it was with LMB :)

[@MasthaX]

Do note (for multiplayer servers) that many (that I played at least) have a beacon-policy enabled on their server. This means a grid must at least have one beacon block on the grid else it will be removed in X amount of time. In most cases it doesn't have to be finished, just placed.

[@endar949]

Yeah I play on Alehouse and thats the case there I'll mention it in part 2

[@unclegreybeard3969]

@@endar949 You already mentioned "specific blocks" in this one, that should suffice, and the space pod doesn't start with a beacon so there's the clue suggesting that this is not one of those servers.

[@axialivanov6101]

That’s not a thing for official servers

[@kahwigulum]

2200+ hours played and i have literally never seen a single server with this policy

[@jackbrunato8960]

Dude this seems so much faster than majority of my playthroughs

[@lucakrokrowinkel9576]

We are all gonna be okay, brahs. Wipes are temporary. Spacepods are forever.

[@Gottaculat]

Using that space pod technique, and teaming up with other engineers to map asteroids super fast, I've been able to build my main ship with 14 jump drives in under 8 hours (vanilla servers). Once I have my main jump ship, I can be flying around with over 500 million space credits in less than about 4-5 days. Selling platinum and doing deliveries can make mad bank (Pt sales can be over 18M SC per order), and if you are selective on whom you do business, you can make NPC allies and get serious discounts. Fantastic for buying entire war ships to quickly bolster your fleet, even loading one up with warheads for the express intent of ramming a rival base or mothership. Might cost you 200-300 million SC, but with a jump ship capable of doing over 15,000 Km single jumps, you'll make the money back stupid fast. Just gotta keep the reactors fed.

[@jacksonmulville2200]

Holy shit

[@arisenspirit]

L lol

[@arisenspirit]

L

[@tevarinvagabond1192]

And everyone clapped

[@OriginalALK]

You're a menace to society😂😂

[@trex6325]

9:00 you dont need a merge block, you can just build some frames (unwelded blocks) (at least 1 more than the ship block count) and grind down the block between the ship and frames, the bpart with bigger block count will be a starting ship That helps if you dont have enough resources for some reason or something like that

[@mrJMD]

Cool tip, 2000 hours in and still learning stuff. Thanks!

[@tldr_rm_-rf]

Building merge blocks takes less time

[@kerbalairforce8802]

You can place 100 steel armor frames before you can gather the materials to build 2 merge blocks

[@L0stf00l]

Guess I should have read comments before I basically said the same thing

[@thedudeabides3138]

Thank you SO much for just “getting into this” and not faffing around like all the YT’ers whose video’s I’ve watched in trying to get a handle on how to get started. Lovely and concise, getting straight to the meat and bones of what we need to mimic in terms of getting a solid foundation, leaving the rest up to us to explore and find out. Immediate Sub and Like…and very much looking forward to any further content.

[@daz8405]

Never even thought of salvaging parts of the thrusters for the drill - thanks for this, very useful; Space Pod is my preferred start, now I can make it even better.

[@noneyaonenoneyatwo2879]

I always took one from back and one bottom

[@Dardomor]

Same here Daz! Really grateful for this practical set of toys for a quick start, which still keeps the engineering work in place so it's not breaking the experience, just a more practical start so you can be quickly on your way to your next engineering adventures! 😁👍

[@waschbaers_werkstatt]

you can also use the 100 steel plates above the function line from the gyro ;)

[@gustaveliasson5395]

Brotip: When mining with the ship drill, turn off the ship's inertial dampeners and let the ship "drift" slowly through the asteroid. It'll save a little bit of power compared to constantly accelerating and decelerating, and requires less button-mashing.

[@razziel4599]

I never knew about the build planner thing, that's so helpful! Even if it wasn't the point of the video thanks so much!

[@endar949]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mintyvole]

i second this! i thought the build planner trick was just to use it--which i only figured out yesterday, haha--but this trick makes it all the more useful

[@dnielbloqg]

I did not know the middle mouse button was that powerful in Space Engineers! Thank you for that insight!

[@dichebach]

An excellent tutorial. One trick I didn't see you use that is handy: CTRL + MMB when interacting with an inventory port will drop everything that the game does not consider to be personal gear: components and materials.

[@gwailol7881]

This guide is surprisingly good.

[@Rhamirezz85]

Fantastic! Haven't played SE in years, I'm kinda overwhelmed now with amount things They added, but maybe I will give It a try again thanks to Your video. Cheers!

[@-_Tyger_-]

Great tutorial. You can also get the large steel tubes you need for the drill by grinding the hydrogen engine. As of the latest update, you won't lose the hydrogen if you grind it down past functional and weld it back up later. The gyro is great source of extra steel plates, since you can take up to 100 (just don't go past functional) and it still works. If I need more steel plate (in my Steam guide, I build a basic assembler and refinery, plus a drill before drilling), you can get 60 plate each from the batteries without going past the functional line. The only thing I would change about this tutorial is to start at least the 80 computers for the basic assembler in the survival kit before leaving to map asteroids.

[@shadeofsound23]

This is a really excellent breakdown on how to start. Imminently practical and handy.

[@loxynova]

I knew about most of those tips from the KZbinr "Lucas the guide" but you've refined and improved some of those.

[@Anvilshock]

4:07 - This is also a good point to learn about disabling the inertial damper and coasting, so that you don't look like the greenest learner driver who's afraid of the accelerator, holding W against the speed limit all the time. Like that guy.

[@johncairncross1724]

this is the best starting guide video i have ever seen the faked that is only 15 mins is so good many coodous you are a pog man indead

[@glabifrons]

These two videos are so dense with information and tips that they should (at least) be listed at the top within the game, preceding or maybe even replacing the hours of videos linked within the game. The title actually does the videos a bit of a disservice. I didn't watch them the first time they were suggested, or even the 20th, as I've never played on a server. Even though that's your main point, you have many excellent tips that aren't directly related to that goal. I think you should make more tutorials like this, maybe a planet-start one, for example (but please include the same UI tips you did in this one, as I still learned a lot with a couple hundred hours in the game, so it'd be phenomenal for newbs!) I've linked to your two tutorials in the Steam forums many times in discussions asking how to get started... not sure if people are actually following the links or not (no-one has commented on them).

[@endar949]

Thank you! Glad it helped you and hopefully others too! And yeah. while planet starts aren't usually the most practical, they can still be fun and thanks to a guy in my faction I know for a fact that they can last for a long time if they are hidden in the right place, so I'll certainly do a planet start tutorial at some point.

[@iama_spartacus8288]

I've played for about 600 hours and almost 200 of them were on that space pod trying to figure out how to refit that into a nice little miner and the idea of grinding down a couple of the thrusters never once crossed my mind and left me to hand drill days. This fact has left me perturbed.

[@Womblewobble1321]

Very informative video Endar, good job. Always struggled with starting out on servers, but this has helped tremendously!

[@brady157]

clear, to the point, fast. Way to go Looking forward to episode 2.

[@Aracnah]

I have 2115 hours ingame and did quite a bit of survival by now... TIL I learned you can make GPS points from without the menu and the shift + middle mouse thingy... Nice! Thanks :D

[@MrBlack99199]

Make more of these vids, great tutorial. Helps a player like me who last played in 2015

[@DavidFeliz]

Precise and concise.. thank you very much! Immediately subscribed!

[@ZigzagEnd]

5:25 you can also go to your inventory, GPS tab, and press (new from current pos) and name it.

[@kahwigulum]

i know it didnt exist at the time, but i replace the air vent with a full air vent and put the drill on there but the very first thing i do is the merge block trick, where you put a merge block in the voxel of an asteroid to create a station then merge the ship to the station, creating a whole new grid that is no longer a respawn ship. this ensures your ship will not despawn when you log out. i also replace the floor of the middle section with solar panels to get some passive recharge while im floating from asteroid to asteroid the down thruster at the back of the ship is blocking the conveyor port on the side of the o2h2, so i remove that thruster and put my basic refinery there. the gyro falls off but is easily reattached in the same position, just on the bottom of the refinery. the basic assembler fits perfectly on the side of the cargo container i also dont like the position of the side ion thrusters as they block access to the center, so i move them up on top of the batts the two blocks on the left side of the cockpit are just armor and they are behind catwalks, so i replace the armor blocks with my ore detector. makes the cockpit a bit more roomy, too. i put a connector on the bottom of the cargo container (remove the armor block with with light on it) so that i can link up with stations when i find them and make money to eventually buy the best NPC ship, the H-01 Prospector.

[@awesomebean540]

dude this is genius thank you

[@Dagonius.]

Yup. This is a good video! This should help people a lot. Nice work. Looking forward to more! Take care!

[@Hillbillysniper]

you can always merge block it to a station, then turn survival off an spawn in another pod, most time you spawn relivable close

[@s.g.3898]

Similar to my style with the Pod but I put two conveyor junctions between the drill and the Kit. Lets me start putting more drills on easily. Can be done after doing it your way first Mostly though, I like the challenge of Space Suit starts for the randomness of mayday signals. Mainly for solo play

[@Alex.Scotti]

Endar, this is a perfect way to do it! It's definitely the fastest most efficient way I can think of ;)

[@daveallover]

You're channel should be way bigger. You're almost at 1k subs. Good stuff.

[@haroldmcbroom7807]

Wow, I've been playing this game since at least 2014 and I never knew you could create waypoints using a /gps command, thanks :)

[@endar949]

Glad I could help!

[@louhartin4483]

Just finished a video going over he exact same thing but I found the yours much more helpful

[@ross2905]

1600+ hours in this game and never thought to salvage thrusters for the drill!

[@gustaveliasson5395]

Also, thanks for the tutorial. I ended up having to scrap the starter ship (server starter-ship auto-delete), but it did speed up the process of gathering enough materials to built a proper station and mining drone. I then ended up with a SUS that forced me to rip the station off of the asteroid it was built into, and use the drillbot as a shunting engine to escape the danger zone.

[@AuxenceF]

SUS?

[@gustaveliasson5395]

@@AuxenceF Strong Unknown Signal AKA "Hey, I'm the server and you look lonely, so lemme just put a marker down so that everybody who's logged in can see where you are!" The SUS spawns a couple dozen kilometers from the targeted player, but people can save the SUS coordinates and given enough time they'll eventually have three or more coordinates that they can use to pinpoint your location. In my case, i was far away from any of the planets and should've been alone out there, but I'd already had one SUS show up close to me and had started to build a ship so I could get out of there. Then a second SUS shows up on the opposite side of my base from the first one, but that was fine because the ship was coming along nicely. Then after a couple of hours this *third* SUS shows up and it's kinda close, but too far out be aimed at me (~63km). And then it hit me. The previous two signals were on the opposite sides of my base. They were close enough to obviously have been targeted at me, but still at about what I thought was the maximum distance a SUS could spawn from a player was (~50km). Which meant that if another player who was logging signals took those two signals and drew a Venn diagram around them, the overlapping space would be pretty small. And if you have a 3D cad program or some math skills, you can easily calculate a GPS position right in that in-between space. Which meant that the *third* SUS that was too far out to be aimed at me must've been aimed at another player who might've been as close as 13km away from my asteroid station. So I tore the station off of the asteroid and used the still-attached partially-built ship to GTFO. Then I nearly lost everything anyway because while I was accelerating away from the "danger zone", an asteroid cluster spawned in directly in the station's path, and the inertia of my three fully loaded large cargo containers and processing equipment meant that even though I turned the station sideways and set the main thrusters to full power override as soon as I spotted the cluster, I only missed it by ~400m. Again, I wasn't actually *at* top speed yet when the cluster spawned, I was just _slooowly_ creeping past ~70m/s. It more or less meant that my station had a maximum safe speed of like 75 or something because of how long it took to change course with that payload and thruster setup. Anyway, I didn't get caught, and I eventually upgraded the ship with more thrusters so that it'd do a better job at being a space tug, and fitted the station with a jumpdrive. And then I think my stuff was auto-deleted while I was on holiday. You live and you learn.

[@damienmacnaughton919]

This was a great story, this is what I love and hate about SE

[@onex0064]

Great video thanks really helped much cuz I usually only play creative mode not survival one and always wanted to join a server but never know what to do :)

[@bloodysath]

Very good Content, Part 2 would be cool

[@endar949]

SoonTM

[@mattmurphy1065]

I used to do this kind of thing on the original yellow spawn ship, good times.

[@Spoon80085]

You'd think I'd know about the building planner with 2k hours in this game

[@tiemenvanderbijl785]

tip: sneakysounds mod so people can hear you. your video is cool

[@goldridder]

This has made me want to start in space. This feels much better that my lowkey mega cavern built by 5 basic assemblers 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@realnerdethan]

Really helpful guide, thank you!

[@noneyaonenoneyatwo2879]

Never knew about making markers in the chat I've always used the menu and also didn't know about the middle mouse button

[@natpat6394]

Very well done with this.

[@localvruser1351]

I usually play in space since there are occasionally crashed ship with a lot of components and then I place down storage to store more, then plan on making a base or making the ship bigger and better

[@kingseb2252]

Im a complete beginner and just started 2 days ago ive been playing solo does this work on solo as well i has thinking if learning the game before playing on public servers

[@D_Rogers]

Interesting! :) The space pod does seem to have good salvage potential! I usually start on the earth-like planet for max challenge, then relocate to an ice lake immediately... But I'll do some experiments with some space pods and see what I get! I usually leave 'progression' (or engineer amnesia) off... :D

[@Sonik02]

I was going to talk shit about grinding down your ship over mining things by hand...but dammit you did it more efficient than I had in mind. Good video!

[@waffle4589]

extremely helpful thankyou

[@professortrog7742]

Nice, dense, no faffing. Thanks. Just a shame that i have a very hard time with the impossible control setup on the PS4 version of this game, but that may be partly me.

[@Switchblade1722]

After doing the merge block part of the video in the bottom right my ship is now labelled as "station" and I cannot seem to fly it

[@endar949]

Go into the ships's terminal, then go to the info tab and click 'Convert to Ship' at the bottom right

[@beaawsome2211]

I actually removed the first door my first time but I kept the vent as I would just manually turn on and off the oxygen(as I was confused where my oxygen was being made so I didn't dare to to find where to put the bottles)

[@matthews2715]

Can't put the solar panel on my ship. I get the response ship error. Help?

[@endar949]

Ship error? Never heard that one before

[@wittyjoker4631]

Bonus tip to stop having to scav your ship. Do the merge block trick, turn off your emergency kit, die respawn in new pod. Fly to old ship and scav off New ship to biff old ship.

[@ethank.6602]

my basic assembler refuses to build anything because it cant draw material from the oxygen producer, how come yours works?

[@endar949]

Double check the conveyor ports are aligned and there's a conveyor path from the assembler to the materials. If any functional blocks with conveyors or conveyors themselves are damaged, they won't be able to transfer items, so check with a welder. Other than that, I have no idea what could be causing your problem, if that doesn't work let me know

[@lastechocorp1841]

nice video my dude and some very good starting advice, but may i sugest you lower the ingame volume for future videos as the grinder and welder drown out your voice and are quite loud.

[@alexandrehable]

How do you do to build on the ship? Most of servers erase it

[@endar949]

Use the merge block trick or place a big stick of unwelded armour blocks with more blocks than the ship itself then chop it off then the stick, that will make the ship a new, permanent grid. Some servers have a beacon policy where ships get deleted if they have no beacon so remember that too.

[@tldr_rm_-rf]

It's better to build a small grid ore scout with large grid detector attached to it to scout for ores. It can take too much time to scout ores with 50m detection radius. Building basic assembler and refinery should be done simultaneously while building that scout

[@SaiceShoop]

what is the need for the small grid landing gear?

[@endar949]

Building it unlocks a lot of stuff in the progression tree including the control seat which we need to unlock the drill.

[@SaiceShoop]

@@endar949 Ah its been ages since I played. Progression is a new thing to me.

[@FFlaminscorpion]

turn this into a survival series

[@SubayAdamm2]

so uh somehow my hydrogen is depleted what can i do (cant move the ship cuz its 0)

[@endar949]

The ship's thrusters are powered by energy from the batteries, hydrogen shouldn't be a problem as you can just respawn and get a full jetpack.

[@Raven5431]

Nice never thought about the merg blocks to keep the main ship. Ive allways started on planets only to need to get to space for a better ore anyway so it seems space is technically the better start i guess but i do enjoy trying to get off planet. They should definately give planet travel more incentive, and im still waiting for better vanilla ore detector dang it no reason my hand drill and small grid detector are same exact range lol.

[@chrys1ler604]

Tip of advice, Drills don't take impact damage, so if you are going to hit a asteroid with a mining ship hit drill first

[@rpshenanigans5502]

Interesting I was just doing a video like yours yesterday, xD

[@Dragos6x]

Nice video.. But what is the kill command? 👍

[@dnielbloqg]

10:53 Instructions unclear, ship turned into station irreversibly… (I managed to fix it somehow, but that caught me off guard and new players might not know that ships can turn into stations and back into a ship via "info" tab in the inventory. At least it happened in a single player test world.)

[@LordRazer3]

Ok getting useful stuff out of stones a new one when did they add that?

[@endar949]

Like 2 or 3 years ago

[@demos113]

Nicely done. 🙂

[@SpunkMayo]

This was a really well-made video. Hope you stick with it.

[@stavinaircaeruleum2275]

Your best option, (if they're around) is to capture npcs. Hydromanning can be very effective.

[@endar949]

Aye aye

[@willrhodes3508]

Very helpful! Thanks!

[@valdir8928]

hey i am waiting second part its looking good i was born planet it's really hard i hated earth but titan is the best opinion for start

[@kerbalairforce8802]

I like starting on the ice planet. Plenty of hydrogen fuel, and it has breathable air

[@goldridder]

I figured out the reason you have to middle mouse multiple times is because not every component is in the container you are drawing from. Fix: just keep middle mousing until all components are good. Sincerely, 100 hours

[@ColinJordanVanDerMerwe-tr1kv]

Can I build a ship I want to start with ?

[@XadeGrimm]

now just need a nice remodel design to convert this pod into after the static conversion.

[@oaw117]

This guide is good but you should turn game volume down slightly it's hard to hear you over the grinder

[@comrade_wtpilot8729]

waiting on part 2 please post another

[@norske_ow3440]

I have wasted so much of my life hand grinding roids and chasing rocks across space

[@guillermoelnino]

i tried starting on the moon thinking it would be less popular than earth. couldn't last more than 2 seasons without being unsecured.

[@ugo7395]

what is your keyboard, it gives alot of nostalgia for some reason

[@endar949]

GTX 830 Avonn. I want a mechanical keyboard tho

[@axialivanov6101]

Hey man I would love to play with you if you have any time

[@robertlcgarcia123]

Soo I spent for about a hour searching for ores and I've found 13 veins of ice, 9 veins of silicon, 6 veins of uranium and 2 veins of iron can't wait for a pebble of cobalt

[@zuzanguan9810]

Jesus christ I have almost 1000 hours and never once thought to place a drill on it

[@GG64du02]

I thought the merge block on the asteroid needed power 😅

[@connorcrick4515]

See ive owned the game but ive never really had the insperatoin to play until i seen this

[@luke07880]

What server is this?

[@elskaalfhollr4743]

Want part 2

[@Fuzkin]

TIme to get a new keyboard or adjust the audio gain. Video is great. Sound is awful

[@vano03voin]

im need all gpc comand. i think it is good idea for video

[@danielberrett2179]

Sneaky sounds. or lower game volume

[@tozek1035]

11:21 i see you did this crushed in asteroid

[@maciejklasa6783]

"Single player only" person here. People actually play with "progression" and third person view enabled?

[@endar949]

Yeah they are pretty much standard on most servers

[@nakkiibrks]

Your voice remembers me Wheatley from Portal 2 lol

[@engineergaming6502]

unfortunately, my closest Cobalt Asteroid was 20 km Away :)

[@endar949]

F o7

[@bertvsrob]

i swear stone used be useless and you had to go mine those materials separately >

[@kerbalairforce8802]

That's true. When they added survival kits, they made stone useful for early game

[@NovaEngineer69]

You sould like obi wan kenobi

[@endar949]

Hello there

[@teijanelm4682]

cool pfp

[@endar949]

thanks, but unfortunately i'm changing it to my boi anomalocaris