Space Engineers - We'll Be Gone A While - Hard Survival

We receive a hard reminder of why we're doing what we're doing, and we get straight to pre-flight preparations and launch for a long-term trip away.
We're playing Space Engineers with all the hard settings - meteor showers, no jetpack (none at all), permadeath turned on, spiders on, auto-heal turned off, MES with Assert added, and AQD vanilla ore distribution for harder to reach ores.
The only helpful Space Engineers mods we're allowed are air leak scanner, ore detectors +, and paint gun.
#spaceengineers

[@Chilled_Mackers]

I did like KSH's teaser on the launches - they just needed spin, decoys and vast amounts of explosives. After all, there is no problem that can not be solved with the right amount of explosives. Overkill, is always enough kill.

[@Psy-Prime]

Always! But function over form any day!

[@samonuskey]

havent got to watch the whole video yet but maybe a cheap way of getting stuff back would be a cheap station on the edge of gravity a small ion miner and then drop your containers on your base with parachutes?

[@Psy-Prime]

Self Spoiler alert lol. However Ions are out of reach for now as platinum is only on Mars in this playthrough. And meteors… but that’s a stretch.

[@samonuskey]

@@Psy-Prime ah forgot about the no ions lol, hydrogen would still work. only mentioned ions cause you can make a miner thats more simple but wasn't thinking aobut cost.

[@Psy-Prime]

@@samonuskey yup got something sorta along those lines planned - possibly a bit more wacko than that but not a million miles off that idea.

[@Kontar0]

if you would have connected your hopper to the base (if it is conveyered) you could move over the materials from you buildplanner directly into the containers with the buttuns in the middle of the inventory screen... i assume you know that?!

[@Psy-Prime]

Yup I’m aware of that. Trouble is the conveyor size on the hopper. It was built as a bus originally so can’t convey large items (eg steel plate) from the connector to the new cargos. Would have been even more work to fix that than manual handling was.

[@Kontar0]

@@Psy-Prime totally get that, anyways love your videos, especially the music, keep it up!

[@Mad_Hat_was_taken]

What does MAVs mean?

[@Psy-Prime]

Officially it means “Micro Air Vehicle” - but can be used to describe technologies that enable small scale flight. In space flight they’re usually called RCS (reaction control systems) but that doesn’t sound as good. Lol