HOW TO BUILD YOUR FIRST SMALL SHIP (SV) | Spanj's Build Academy | Empyrion Galactic Survival

Today we look at SVs and how to build them in the latest version of Empyrion with all the changes to the flight model.
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[@Spanj]

The Audio is off in this episode, sorry about that. I had a bit of a nightmare with the recording and had to do some jiggery pokery to get it work. Normal service will resume next week.

[@solospirit4212]

Good enough for a tutorial.. Cane across fine here.😎

[@stevek6921]

SPANJ PLEASE FIX!! It was fine, really. :)

[@stubert8125]

Just a little thing I wished I knew when starting this game years ago. By default "V" puts you in third person If you press Left alt you will go into like a free view, but if you scroll the middle mouse button you can move away or closer to the ship. Also page up and down moves the height of your view. If you have difficulty go into your options menu all the mapped keys are there. Great video Spanj I'm still learning about the Thruster placements myself.

[@glenr7393]

Nice tutorial, also love the fact your videos don't have ads, it makes them much much more enjoyable

[@TheBrendanMeister]

I have just recently come back to Empyrion after a long time, and this video helped loads. Thank you so much.

[@Spanj]

Glad I could help!

[@thesalyers1599]

Its cool you do this Spanj lot of new builders are kinda clueless

[@mikesheahan6906]

I am so glad I watched this. You saved me so much time and frustration. Thanks for making this.

[@skocore]

The Thundertank lives!

[@TTHIAGO666]

Very useful video tutorial, I have the game a short time ago and did not know what was necessary to add on a ship, this video will help me a lot, thank you.

[@dr.d5681]

Wow you made that look easy. Great vid! Thanks for sharing!

[@kithid]

That SV looks really cool mate. Good video!

[@lbschatz]

I've been struggling with this game. You video helped me a lot. I learned stuff I did not know. Thanks for posting it. You have a new subscriber.

[@IliterateAshole]

Me: I’m a Space Engineers veteran, I don’t need no STINKIN tutorial! Also me: How to place first block??

[@messirastaroth7644]

Spanj, your builds are as always pretty awesome, damn. How you can even imagine those things, lol

[@Hemotem]

Yea!! More builds even if it were a "simple" one Better than all of mine lol. Thank you fer this.

[@pbehler]

Surprised I didn’t see any comments how much this looked like the tank from Thunder Cats

[@HikaruLing]

was hoping to find this in your workshop it looks neat.

[@skitzoboizz7570]

Great video, it helped me alot! Cool SV too, it reminds me of the thunder tank from thundercats haha

[@M00_be-r]

Very cool looking ship Spanj! I m still playing pr Eden but tbh I only build sv s en a new CV last week, love the building :-) edit: audio was fine for me on mobile phone.

[@solospirit4212]

Useful little tutorial😎 For testing in survival a couple of console commands to spawn and destroy a blueprint might have been handy to include But all the essebtials are here.😎

[@jb613jb]

sir, we regret to inform you that your commonwealth card has been revoked for your very american pronunciation of the letter Z. In all seriousness, thank you once again for some great content, your since of style and your ability to build quickly with style is quite mind blowing. If you don't mind me chiming in, I would like to add some advice for new builders. (as I've just started playing again after a few years absence, some of the hard lessons are fresh in my mind) For God's sake keep track of which direction your ship is facing.... trust me. Build the frame of the idea you have first. Place as near to all of the devices possible (i.e. thrusters, fuel tanks, generators, O2 tanks, warp drives, really anything of substance). Now start testing. Don't wait until you've spent 3 nights and 4k blocks flushing out the look. Test it now!! in space and on planet. If you have to make changes to thruster placement or large devices, now is the time. save often (blueprint). you can delete starter_sv.1,2,3,4, and 5 later, but if you make a major mistake it's nice to be able to start just one step back. Test often. After your initial testing with a frame and most of your devices, things will change as you add weight. Get in the habit of flying it quite often during building, and checking the statistics to keep track of where it's headed. It helped me to write down the statistics as I went. Test with weight in it. I was quite shocked to find how differently my new CV handled after spawning it into a server and loading it with ammo. Luckily I had the space to move my ammo controller to correct it. And lastly quite a few of the builds I was happy with in creative found their way into the dust bin after using them on a live server. So now I don't do all the paint, texture, deco, or whatever until I know that the design is a keeper. Once again, thank you for the excellent content. Your ships are awesome!

[@Spanj]

oh bloody balls

[@skyesfury8511]

I get funny reactions when I say "zed" while on the phone with customers. I'm from Texas. The customers I deal with are from American states. It's endlessly amusing the reactions I get.

[@StyxAnnihilator]

My main advice is to learn how damage works if to be used so it can survive attacks (in combat). How to protect important devices and draw fire to others, avoid chained damage, be aware of "lag shots" and explosive damage (AOE).

[@theredscourge]

One would be better served to build a bare minimum starter SV that is basically just a flying cockpit, then get to the moon, collect moon resources, and THEN build a real SV this size or larger.

[@npulliam2344]

New player to the game as well as a new builder. Your videos are great and I am learning a lot. I know you are trying to keep your videos short so people will watch. I do however wish you would do a video of a starter SV from start to finish. I know the detail work is a personal choice but I could learn a lot more seeing it built all the way through.

[@Spanj]

I do full builds during my live streams, this is one a build a couple of SVs from start to finish, I hope it helps. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH7Yqmpsj7B-r7s

[@valkyries2077]

@@Spanj thanks a lot, very helpful, i just got the game and was asking myself how to build a starship from scratch coz we cant in no mans sky.

[@full8497]

cool, it seems like they've balanced things a bit since I first started with CPU. I seem to remember only being able to have 1 gat on a tier 1 starter SV

[@luckyx16]

DOH!! Just started playing and built a harvester and miner, while in survival, wasting so much material, and all but mining the moon in to an asteroid, lmao. Harvester came out great! But while I was out mining for ore for the miner, I discovered the landing spot I had put it on was not a landing spot, and it fell through the roof in to my base. Unfortunately the multi tool I found while following the story line, had just ran out of charges.

[@skyesfury8511]

22 minute video for "Download Spanj's awesome ships from the Workshop". ;p I've been playing around with modifying Workshop ships lately. It's helping me see how to do it myself.

[@mrpopsful]

I found a few good Gun Star models from The Last Starfighter in the Steam Workshop. How awesome would it be if they could design a Deathblossom type attack?

[@DeltaTh1ngs]

Can you believe this was 3 years ago!?

[@shqiperia60]

Hello spanj 😃

[@dragonsync12666]

Trying to find the other video you made for the design aspect of the ship and cant find it could you possibly hyperlink it in the vid or link it down below somewhere in the description ?

[@CharNatorn]

My turn block controls are up and down arrows for turning axis and left and right for turning the block

[@KingKrad]

Hey, @Spanj, do you think it's needed to redo a fresh video to take 1.0 into account? Unless you already have a newer more recent version already uploaded... Then I completely overlooked it..

[@psionicxxx]

Spanj dude, I remember you from Starmade videos :D Seems we both have an awkward gaming taste for indie space games that make no sense at all to "normal" people :D

[@mathieurr7090]

or use a blue print, if it is too hard, it is fun to build his vessel but if you don't like this, try this for example (F2 in game) : steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2227851740

[@K1N6ChiLL]

How do you remove blocks without multitool ?

[@DmytroBogdan]

Ok, nice video but can you make a similar video but for a new players? :)

[@swiftbow2110]

I wish you played space engineers Spanj. Surprised you don’t.

[@shahbazfawbush]

What about the gyroscope? Coming from Space Engineers...

[@KydNotorious]

I'm watching and waiting for all the filler bits and the making it pretty part.... And it was completely skipped over. Not too many tutorials on how to do that so I'm kind of out of luck

[@Spanj]

I cover a lot of that on my Chillin & Buildin stream, it takes a long time to do, that SV took over an hour, so i stream it instead, join me on Saturday from 8pm UK time, I build in real time.

[@bishopvida]

@@Spanj Timelapse, man.

[@sephvernon5786]

@@Spanj I think you missed the point entirely of the video! People want to know how you build these crazy shapes and get the nice designs! The other information was helpful, but THAT's the gold. Upload that part, I'd watch an 1h long video of you choosing the right shapes and designs to make the ship look awesome. "Big missed opportunity,

[@mcbrite]

Agreed... Who gives a f*** how long the video is... What's the point of making the length fit, if half is entirely missing...

[@savmass]

Spanj, I got this game cause I love your videos. I was just trying to build this but got lost when you placed those wings. Are these mods? I couldn't find them anywhere in the block :(

[@Spanj]

under the blocks tab, you should see wings and modular wings

[@walazzawi]

@@Spanj Awesome, I'll take a look after work. Thanks for the new obsession! :D

[@Fuji_77]

If you are building in survival mode instead of creative certain blocks will only be visible via the large or advanced constructors.

[@Siinwu]

hmm did they changed something again? I dont see you use an RCS? slightly confused...

[@Spanj]

yep, thrusters not give some torque to a point where most light craft dont need RCS

[@norunaround1624]

Still watching the video but I wanted to mention on the topic of 'needing direct access' - to my knowledge the O2 Station absolutely requires you to direct access it and can not be used/accessed through the control panel.

[@Spanj]

quite right, the O2 station does indeed need direct access

[@fordman7479]

I can't even build anything that will fly anymore. I liked building small well armored vehicles, but thanks to their thrust balancing you need to many thrusters to make a small CV's. I haven't even tried SV's.

[@im_piano]

Spanj, how do people build small vessels without cockpits?

[@im_piano]

Okay, I realized there are some 'open cockpits' which can be placed inside any kind of structure.

[@sbourdondvm]

why did you not use the 1x1x1 fuel and generator?

[@ironwolfF1]

I suspect those items are meant for 'ultra-basic' HVs rather than an SV. Given the weight of even a 'no-frills' SV (as compared to an equivalent HV), you'd wind up with an SV that flies like a pig that needs to be constantly topped-off. Now where the one by's would be useful is adding them in to give a vessel (HV / SV) a slight buffer, power & fuel wise (think APU).

[@amysilverstone9059]

Pretty looking ship, but still a bit costly, Could've make it almost twice as cheap...

[@ddssrr1614]

Do you not need RCS anymore ?

[@livinglifeinanrv5473]

RCS's still help

[@finipops]

I hereby rename this ship, Magnet!

[@monkeybarmonkeyman]

Horseshoe

[@finipops]

@@monkeybarmonkeyman Magnet it is my good sir!

[@ivisyung3088]

its space engineers but modernised

[@masterclif]

Why isn't the RTS included in a starter vehicle?

[@Spanj]

thrusters provide torque, RCS cost too much CPU and should be used sparingly, thruster placement is important

[@masterclif]

@@Spanj Interesting. Thanks.

[@alilxmas]

Really nice ship, enjoyed watching the build. But I can hardly call this thing my "First Small Ship", as you need Sathium, Erestrum, Zascosium, Neodymium, and also Cobalt. Most of these are not easily found on the starter planet. So I would need a ship before this one.

[@anthonysurman8192]

A silly question ..your building in space..does the first ship able to get into space...:)

[@livinglifeinanrv5473]

all ships can (or at least should) be able to get into space. Unless you are saying 'how did you get into space in the first place". From a new game, I can get into space in 60 min tops with cpu and M/V enabled.

[@mauruskpus]

I was following the video then... 16:28... How...

[@Spanj]

everything from that point is just blocks, just hull and decoration which is entirely up to you

[@madman026]

thing that pisses me off the most about his game 5 years running now is you cant put a medic station on your SV its total bullshit

[@livinglifeinanrv5473]

You can in reforged eden

[@madman026]

@@livinglifeinanrv5473 omfg i gotta try this thank you

[@BlackRainStudios]

jesus waffle much

[@IamGhede]

Not showing the building of those wings and other aesthetics was highly disappointing.

[@remusblaque8207]

why do you call a ship "she"? english is not my nativ language, so i don't get it maybe?! i heard that in other videos as well and i'm wondering...

[@jaym2112]

This is something with a lot of history and is very normal in English when referring to ships (primarily sea faring vessels). There are probably more specific details of the "ok, but why?" that you could google.

[@remusblaque8207]

@@jaym2112thanks. strange

[@d00mnoodle]

I wouldn't encourage new builders to use that cpu bs. It's hard enough as is. I got 1200 hrs at this point and i don't even get to build what i want anymore. Can't build the creative, crazy, unique and outlandish designs i want to build in that system, so i ignore it all together. It's just complete rubbish and i don't get how no one else sees that. Even the great jrandall hates the system.

[@ironwolfF1]

Once again, the devs at Eleon gave us the answer to a question that (nobody sane) asked. But in Spanj's defense, Eleon has seriously buggered the flight mechanics when considering "server play" (vs single-player / non-server)...just have a chat with the owner of the Unknown Skies server to get an earful on that topic. ;-) True be told, everything they've done since the start of A10 is meant to hobble the PvP maniacs (at the expense of the other (95%) EGS players...). (And as you might guess, I play with M&V off as well...) P.S. -- Love your builds in the workshop. ;-D

[@Seraphous]

If you start a video for a survival build game with "the first thing you want to do is go into creative" then you've already defeated the purpose. I want to know how people build these ships when the snap feature is so bad and you can't build downwards nor can you lay a foundation because parts can't be built without the core. (edit) Again, you're building in space in creative god mode. If you want to show players how to do this, show them in survival on the ground. If I wanted to play in god mode I'd just go back to playing gary's mod.

[@livinglifeinanrv5473]

he is not 'playing;' in god mod, just the building. The build technique that he showed could be done on the ground or even in space on survival mode. Also the game has blueprints there for a reason. In addition, the title for this video is NOT "how to build your first ship in survival mode" but rather "HOW TO BUILD YOUR FIRST SMALL SHIP".. So stop being an ass and realize that what he was showing is helpful.