Making a Mining Ship - Space Engineers Tutorial

[@jonnoble5624]

Who here has played plenty of Space Engineers and still watches all of Splitsie's tutorials? This wasn't the first SE content I ever subscribed to but it's always been the best.

[@charlieodom9107]

I have almost 3800 hours in SE, and I'm still enjoying these tutorial episodes!

[@BewareTheEngineer]

Watched his original series when I was first learning and now watching the updated new tutorials after having almost 1000 hours and still enjoying/learning from them!

[@Darkclaw00]

Splitsie gave me the knowhow to really enjoy SE and it is now one of my favourite Games. I definetly see Splitsie as a Mentor and he even gave me the permision to mod his Butterball miner and even looked it over.

[@SinnerD2010]

just shy of 2k hours... Always down for a Splitsie tutorial 😁

[@yautjagames6988]

2k hrs and i dont think theres a splits vid i havent seen def one of the best 😊

[@echomande4395]

Splitsie's Space Engineers tutorials. The standard against which other Space Engineers tutorials should be judged.

[@Splitsie]

Lol thanks 🙂

[@DasAnthra]

He has a Point i learnd a Lot from them oh Lord the solar turning Script was a Game changer in my early game

[@Sanguinus85]

Me too. I was unsure what to do at the start, but found Splitsie tutorials for game start and, frankly, had it run in the background and following every step 😁 Now I am passing this knowledge to friends, who don't speak English.

[@VoidCrafterYT]

Honestly, Splitsie makes better tutorials then keen.

[@ptdafool3372]

Another fantastic tutorial series. This is definitely for players of any skill level. Whether you have 10 mins or 10000 hours in SE. These have tips for everyone. I love the way you explain things. Solid reasoning and a bit of humour along the way. Good on you mate, keep it up. Your series are brilliant, mate.

[@davidwarburton-burley9967]

My biggest tip to newbies is to remember that braking distance increases considerably when youve got a full load. Ive crashed quite a few times because I was going too fast 🙂

[@themoss7115]

Let's be real, you will always be loosing ships to dumb things like that. I have over 2000 hours in game and I am still loosing ships to "unlock while recharging" 😀

[@davidwarburton-burley9967]

@themoss7115 Ha yeah the other day I couldn't understand why my hydrogen ship kept on crashing on undock then I realised I had the tank on fill 🙂

[@armastat]

I feel ya, been there done that ... repeatedly. I have gotten into the habit of creating status indicators. You can use logic blocks (timers, scripts, programmable blocks, etc) to remind u of whats going on , in this case I add exterior light that can be blinking yellow when batteries are on recharge and are off when not. Or more likely i would have the use the light (and others) as navigation lights. I used to fly planes so I enjoy adding colored navigation lights to my vehicles.

[@AnonNopleb]

My first major accident was drilling straight down with an atmo miner. It started to pitch a bit too far and was like a turtle on its shell inside the mining hole

[@davidwarburton-burley9967]

@@AnonNopleb I put two large thrusters facing forward now 🙂

[@TheMarneh]

Even as a somewhat experienced player, I really like to watch well structured tutorials like this because you can ALWAYS learn something you didn't know before

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@jsamue12]

knew about the landing gear trick, but never know you could drop a connector down as your first block and have it work

[@frodrickfronkensteen9241]

Seconded.

[@Neetje42ever]

@@jsamue12 I didn't even know the flat atmo thrusters were a thing... Ergonomic improvements coming to my planetary miners.

[@gremlinbd]

This... over 300 hrs. in game and I still learn so much. It doesn't help that I haven't really played for the last couple updates.

[@bobmay1515]

For docking and undocking, I like to use an Event Controller and two Timer blocks. Name one timer block "Undock" and one timer block "Dock". Set the event controller to monitor your connector, and on connect, trigger the "Dock" timer block, and on disconnect trigger the "Undock" timer block. Then on the timer blocks, set batteries to recharge/auto, turn thrusters on/off, turn ore detectors on/off, antennas, beacons, set H2 tanks to stockpile or auto, etc. On small grid, this takes up only 4 blocks, and means that I can free up my hotbar so that I really only need my connector and maybe my lights. And when docked, my small grid ship consumes a minimum of power from the parent grid. The Event Controller is definitely the best block added to SE in recent years.

[@Splitsie]

I prefer to do things this way too, I'll definitely be covering it in a future tutorial on the more advanced stuff 🙂

[@mrJMD]

Having a ton of beacon/antenna markers around my base drives me nuts, using a docking event controller to turn them off when docked makes my brain so happy. A nice clean display. Ahhhhhhhh.

[@ArmitageShanksMC]

I'm not sure if something has changed since this was posted but you don't need timer blocks for this, you can just use the event controller to change the battery states, turn your thrusters/antenna/ore detector/lights/etc on and off. The event controller has 9 hotbars, so it can change the state of 9 blocks/block groups.

[@VoidCrafterYT]

Honestly, Keen should hire Splitsie to make all their future tutorials. Always nice to watch these tutorials even though I'm an old player. Edit: Honestly, I've suffered under auto-rotate for so long. I literally forgot it was a thing and it was so annoying until I realized it existed again. Glad to see this tutorial warns new players (and old players that forgot it was a thing) about the suppressor that is auto-rotate.

[@Splitsie]

I'm glad I was reminded to put the detail about auto-rotate in. I've had it off for so long I forget that it's there (until I fat finger it and accidentally turn it on) :D

[@marcusdirk]

"Space Engineers is going to try and predict the orientation of the block", but it's not very good at it. "Prediction is difficult, especially of the future." - Niels Bohr

[@SteffDev]

I'd love to see Keen hire Splitsie for their new game they are working on, that would be awesome!

[@renn_frenn]

Not knowing how to use the build planner was causing me so much wasted engineering time. This is a tutorial on top of a tutorial. Gorgeous gorgeous man

[@Splitsie]

You're welcome, there's more than I put in here that's included in the standalone tutorial for it, but my goal is to slowly add the pieces in the subsequent videos in this series :)

[@dan271291]

110%. I spent hours reading ingredients and manually making components... when Shift+MMB could have got the same task done in minutes.

[@RvKsword]

ive been playing for bout 2 years but still like watching tutorials to see building techniques and i often learn new tricks. for example I HAD NO IDEA YOU COULD DOUBLE CLICK TO LEAVE HAND TOOLS ON DO YOU KNOW HOW USEFUL THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO KNOW AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@greyic]

"It's not save-scumming in Space Engineers. It's just having a better day." Amen

[@MacEat]

Fur real lol i had my first capitol ship crash yesterday and just immediately closed app

[@fcytv]

That's one nice looking starter miner! As for things you probably should mention in this one: 1. Point to the fact that spotlights work just as suit flashlight and can be controlled by pressing "L" when you're in the cockpit. 2. Starting small grid builds became easier than ever when they added a "add small head" button to rotors. It's way easier to do and way less chance to do it wrong since the rotor and the rotor head will be locked in place... well you'll have to explain how to lock the rotor too but still worth mentioning this method too along with connectors.

[@Splitsie]

Good point about L, it's one of those things I use but seem to forget to mention :P As to rotors/hinges, I don't think they're a good option when just starting out. Things like the thrusters going nuts while attached to a sub grid adds some extra complexity that I think are best avoided, even if it's the technique I always use myself :)

[@phoenixfire596]

@@Splitsie I know what you mean. These days I always use a projector off of a LG-SG locked rotor for building my SG ships. Design in creative, then project for easy building. I also save all my blueprints with the batteries on recharge and the thrusters off, to start charging as soon as the battery is welded as well as completely avoid that problem with thrusters on subgrids.

[@flgbanjo]

Been playing the game for years. Splitsie is still the best resource for learning and watching his videos I always learn something. So many "I didn't know that!" moments! Also, his presentation style is just awesome!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks so much :)

[@ryanmcdonald7992]

I have been playing SE a while and just learned so many things from this video. I quit months back and started back recently only to realize I had forgotten many things, so I watched this video as a reminder, but I kept saying, "oh that's how you do that." Really good video the way you explain everything you do rather than, "ok so off-camera I did A, B, C, and D." NO! I wanted to see those things, but you do them all on camera and explain everything.

[@choobakasmooth9465]

I just started playing this on xbox gamepad yesterday, didnt actually think I'd find an active information outlet as I thought the game was old but your channel is a goldmine for me right now 😂😂

[@Splitsie]

Glad you're finding it helpful - SE is old, but still actively developed with a pretty active and great community :)

[@frankenberry9670]

@@SplitsieI prefer the term "highly experienced" ;-).

[@ВладиславВладислав-и4ю]

@@Splitsie How to search ores in ne updates?

[@stormcrown9384]

Honestly same, I tried to do this with a downward facing connection.... it broke everything

[@slab-dd6vj]

Nice to see updated tutorials from the master itself. 2 tips that you might add for a flying miner: 1: Breaking thrusters on/off on the hotbar. this is a good habit to have for saving power when you are flying more than 300m. A more advanced tip: 2: When right-clicking or left-clicking mining for long periods, you can go into your inventory or the control panel while holding the mouse buttons and releasing the button while in the panels then exiting the panels. This will keep the tools working even if you are not holding the buttons anymore. To stop them you can press the buttons again (or get out of the cockpit)

[@Splitsie]

I toyed with whether to explain the use of braking thrusters on/off as it's definitely a useful thing to have. I ended up not adding it because it was already 45 minutes long but will definitely fit it in for one of the future videos :) Same with the workaround for no grid based double click - so handy to be able to use when clearing large spaces

[@charlieodom9107]

I agree with both the suggestions, and feel they should be added in a later episode, going more in depth with certain control quirks once a player has progressed more.

[@xxbongobazookaxx7170]

1 is a bad tip for new players imo as it increases the chance that they'll forget something and explode because of it. As a new player it's less likely that they'd be able to diagnose and fix even such a simple issue before crashing, better safe than sorry for a very first build imo.

[@BoroMonokli]

Braking thrusters were part of the last mining ship tutorial four years ago.

[@WaylonWhisler]

On Xbox it works the same but with the home button

[@vfrc152]

Absolutely phenomenal video. Explained a ton of concepts that were completely lost on me. Thank you for this guide.

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :)

[@eddieruhier319]

As always, concise, well-planned, and well-illustrated. I've got 3,500 hours in SE and I still love watching your tutorials - and I'm still learning from them. Thank you :-) - Eddie (leatherboyUK).

[@Splitsie]

Charli says hi (or it was a sleep yip, who knows) 😂

[@MykolaSkotynyanskyy]

Great tutorial! Just few tips to improve quality of life: * Backward facing remote controller + camera on top of connector simplifies docking and flying out from tight mines * Event controller on "Connector Connected" + 2 timer blocks for dock on/dock off sequences (recharge batteries, turn off/on thrusters/gyros/antenna/ore detector/ejector sorters/stockpile/lights etc.) * Event controller + Holo LCD for cargo filling control - just turn on/off lcd with preconfigured text (checked AND gate, use level 90%-95% for small miner to avoid flashing when ejcectors pull out stone and drills push new stone) * Event controller + Holo LCD for drill filling - turn on/off lcd with text (unchecked AND gate, use level 95% - it is hard to fill drill to 100%) * Hide tanks, ejectors and sorters from inventory screen

[@Splitsie]

Agreed, all great tips. I'll likely be including a lot of them when I get around to demonstrating the more complex stuff like Event Controllers :)

[@charlieodom9107]

You only need a TB with an EC if you have more than 9 groups of blocks you need to toggle. I use an EC for docking with no TB on nearly all my ships.

[@xxbongobazookaxx7170]

Never thought about putting the RC on backwards, seems useful, all the rest are great tips for anyone who doesn't like or cant use scripts as should be expected of new player tutorials

[@AnonNopleb]

One of my fav uses of the event controller is to set it up so it automatically switches all drills off. This only works if you mine by setting your drill group to "on", though.

[@phoenixfire596]

I've never needed RC or EC before, maybe I'll experiment with them on my heavy miner. Sounds useful.

[@Ty-bz7zx]

I always hated when tutorials or teachers / instructors tell you exactly what to do... correctly .. but not WHY or any practical application of said information or technique. =)) No worries here... You explain what to do, why to do it that way, what happens if you don't, and most importantly the key presses and shortcuts to do it all. Impressive tutorials without useless "attempted" comedy or video clips, silly voices, or gimmicks. Well done as always! Earned a sub here. Tyvm for the effort.

[@Splitsie]

Thanks, I similarly find such things quite annoying - if there's comedy in these it normally happens by accident :P

[@BoroMonokli]

There is plenty of comedy in your other videos. Right Crashpac?

[@johnrtrucker]

The auto rotate... hundreds of hours in game and I just learned that... 😂 apparently I still have so much to learn! Lol thanks again splitsie 😊

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome 🙂

[@phoenixfire596]

One thing that I've taken to building while in space, and in the process of building a jump capable ship, is what I call a jump sled. Take a jump drive, add two connectors to it, surround it with solar panels and add two batteries. The thing will passively charge up jumps and hold 3 of them at a time, and you can use it to jump a small grid ship anywhere you want, while being dirt cheap compared to a true jump capable ship. You can also run conveyors around the drive to connect the two connectors, so inventory can run through it. Such a simple build, but tremendously useful, I find.

[@skipper2285]

Completely satisfies KISS for beginners. Well done!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@davidalexander4076]

If you ever find yourself lacking in cobalt, you can substitute the small cargo container on your base with a welder, which can not only help you build refineries and assemblers on your early game build, but also holds the same amount as a small cargo container, without the need of grids!

[@davidalexander4076]

Additionally, when building your first large grid ship - If you use the aforementioned method of building the ship off of a connector, you can build welders on said ship to pull directly from your base's inventories to help save on trips, time, as well as fuel on assembling the larger components. Sometimes it's worth building additional conveyers to extend a welder to certain parts, such as an unwelded jump drive or even additional smelters. Don't just limit yourself to your handy dandy hand welder!

[@Splitsie]

I'm certainly guilty of overusing the hand miner but will be trying to work in the use of a grid welder for building the refinery when I cover that 🙂

[@phoenixfire596]

I actually recently built a welding arm in my Never Surrender I'm playing with my dad. The thing works really well for building a very large ship off of a projector. Certainly saves on trips, what with the thing being plated in heavy armor!

[@sgt_retiredcharlie4102]

I didn't know this. Thanks for the tip. I'm glad I read a lot of the comments. I've already learned 3 or 4 new things (but I'm still new to the game (at 53 years old)! LOL

[@davidalexander4076]

Thats what the E-4 mafias for old sarge ;)

[@aracron]

I always use one of your other techniques where I build a large grid rotor and give it a small rotor head. Then I build the ship off of that, and it is connected to base power while I do so. But that is definitely more resource intensive early on. I love these tutorial videos! I hope you keep them going.

[@Splitsie]

Yup, I do the same. But I also know that when the thrusters start going nuts on that rotor I just need to turn them off until later. I decided not to go into that side of things in order to keep the other more useful info more clear - even though I really wanted to :D

[@14Blackspirit]

I just wanted to say thanks for this tutorial series. I bought Space engineer when it came out and got overwhelmed and quit on the spot. This series after all this years brought me back and I love this game. Your tutorials are amazing and teaches me some fundamentals to improve on. It is so much fun how my ships change with every build.

[@memeberfunk2731]

Im loving this cant wait for more. One suggestion / request, Can you complie a list of all the building plans used? This will make the process easier and faster instead of going back to watch the same spot over again multiple times.

[@zacharythomas8617]

...By Bob, if I ever get as talented as you, in Space Engineers I'll credit you, and Kanajashi for being the two that got me addicted to this beast of a game. I just hope that this content never stops. Or by some miracle we get Space Engineers 2. Thanks for the years of glorious Klang induced explosions.

[@Splitsie]

Thanks so much, I'm glad you've enjoyed the game so much, considering the game addiction I had before SE was EVE Online, I couldn't be happier to be addicted to this one :D

[@zacharythomas8617]

​@@Splitsie I always wanted to get big in that, unfortunately when it came out, I had familial obligations. So I am 60 hours from the school of hard-knocks. Got my ship built, never found silver, but found a wreck that had a few medical components. Got my Survival Pod built, hooked up my conveyors to the connector. Not getting power, do I need the connector and the survival pod hooked up together to get charged up?

[@Splitsie]

Power will transfer through any connected blocks, if you're transferring from one grid to another eg your base to your ship, then the two connectors need to be locked, they'll show green when locked.

[@mandyspence1599]

Nice and easy to follow, and pleasant as well, your chuckles really brightened the mood. However, and this is my only criticism, I personally thought there were a few jarringly sudden cuts early on in the vod. Other than that, awesome!

[@Splitsie]

It's tricky with tutorials to avoid some of those cuts (especially with clouds moving in the background). I record myself saying things multiple times to get them right, or in many cases actually went back and re-did segments by rebuilding what I had at the time in order to demonstrate it in another way so couldn't quite get them as smooth as I might have liked given unlimited time :/

[@mandyspence1599]

@@Splitsie I enjoyed it and found it helpful, looking forwards to the next one. Release them in your own time though, Splitsie, you have a lot on your plate, dont burn yourself out. As for new players, your old stuff is still good, better than good, so they wont be left floundering.

[@igorbrown3756]

​@@mandyspence1599 ive been watching all of his tutorials on repeat for a couple days now. It definitely takes a bit to wrap your head around this game

[@squeeky11111]

Dude, if it wasn't for your detailed tutorials for Space Engineers I would have thrown in the towel on this game. I had no idea of the steep (at least for me) learning curve when I decided to try the survival genre of gaming and since I work as an engineer this seemed to be a perfect fit. I was not going to give up easy but struggled mightly as other videos tended to gloss over the fine details such as adding to the build planner and and withdrawing components. And trying to understand the use of conveyors and sorters was brutal. Up until now. Thanks for taking the time to help the newbie out. Much gratitude!

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome, lots of these systems are quite opaque and it has no doubt helped me that I've had to gradually learn them over the past 10 years rather than all at once

[@stockcar92a]

A good middle ground for drills is to place a conveyor on the front port of the cockpit and a drill on each side of the conveyor for two drills total. This is my usual 'starter' miner design and gathers nearly as much ore as the three drill setup.

[@unclegreybeard3969]

That's also what I wanted to say, it is more efficient drilling than 1 drill but without the risk of overloading to the point that you are too heavy to fly.

[@Splitsie]

With this design the 2 drills would still have been able to get a bit too heavy to lift if filled, but that's a good option for a tidy design that's a bit more capable than a single drill :)

[@phoenixfire596]

@@unclegreybeard3969 That's why my heavy miner has a truly excessive amount of lifting thrust. 8 large atmo and 3 large H2, carrying 9 drills and 3 large cargos. I can't overload it, no matter how hard I try. Blown up so many ships designing the beast though.

[@sgt_retiredcharlie4102]

@@phoenixfire596 Do you have that Beast on the Workshop? I'd love to take it for a ride!

[@phoenixfire596]

@@sgt_retiredcharlie4102 I'll upload it tonight when I get home from work. Check the workshop in about 5h and it should be there

[@BillysFingers]

New player here at 20 hours. This video is fantastic, if not a little daunting when you're first starting out, but if you persist and follow every step, you end up with an awesome mining ship! A couple of issues i experienced that might help other newbies, the first was control. I found the ship very difficult to control until i had done all the thruster upgrades mentioned later in the video. Then the ship becomes much more stable. The other issue i had was that the ore located in the drill was moving down to the cockpit storage but not going past into the medium storage crate. This i discovered was due to me having the storage crate orientated wrongly. I had it with the small three squares facing towards the cockpit, but it actually needed to be facing outwards so the big yellow square meshed with the same square on the conveyor converter. This was the only part of the video that confused me. But the solution is to get them to match, then your ore will travel right through to your base's storage. The last tip i can give is that as soon as you install the batteries, you have about 30 minutes before they run out and your ship falls and damages its thrusters, so get it attached to your base as a priority the with it charging and stable you can continue with the building etc. So glad i found this video, Splitsie you are a genius! :)

[@KoraynosTR]

Such a good tutorial for beginners! I would also add an antenna on the ship if say i were to leave it somewhere

[@Splitsie]

Ah, good point. I do that so rarely in my own games but it seems like it would be a good habit to have 🙂

[@zythaar8317]

Or at least a beacon :)

[@charlieodom9107]

Beacons use far less power, and should be used unless you need to access the grid remotely.

[@phoenixfire596]

I have an antenna on all of my ships, for just that reason. Never lose a ship again because you had to abandon it!

[@TheFedebarx]

Lear how to have fun with space engineers years ago with Splitzie's tutorial! After 1000 hours of play time still learn something new!❤

[@chaosknight626]

Fun little trick: When using the Block Tool option for the drill, you CAN force it into a constant on state like double clicking hand tools. Just hold down left or right click, open the K Menu (Other menus more than likely work), then hit the button again to close the menu

[@Splitsie]

That is indeed super handy, I use it all the time when drilling out large caverns :)

[@marksadler4457]

So loving going back through a tutorial with you - I started playing SE after watching one of your videos years ago (I now have over 8300 hours in SE). Also, another advantage (since a recent update) to building off a conveyor piped connector is you can access inventory though your ship's cargo (if a large port) which is very convenient.

[@Splitsie]

Absolutely, love having those little side ports on the small grid one for grabbing stuff :)

[@Eisen_Jaeger]

Tutorial Capac seems a lot more savvy than the regular one :P

[@Splitsie]

Still gets blown up though 😂

[@Zeroflag665]

😂

[@Stomperdon]

Very long time player and I still watched the entire video. I just really enjoyed the way you deliver the information.

[@Splitsie]

Thanks so much :)

[@Chaister_T._Janai]

Very thorough tutorial while still keeping it easy to digest. Learned some neat things as well as review on the basics. Wonderful video Splitsie!

[@TheSukitani]

I've played for about 180 hours. Last time I've played was years ago. Forgot SO much and still figuring things out. This video was very helpful. Nice pace, and clear info.

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@naturalselection28]

I always use advanced rotor for the build platform. You get the benefit of power to your ship and the flexibility to start however you like with armor blocks.

[@Splitsie]

I seem to default to hinges these days (for no particular reason) but chose to avoid hinges/rotors for new players due to the other complexities of the blocks and the fact that the thrusters go bananas when part of a sub grid, meaning you often need to turn them off while under construction :)

[@charlieodom9107]

I agree with both statements. Maybe the rotor/hinge method can be included in a later video, with more advanced controls, like the K-Menu trick to keep the ship tools activated, and reverse thruster disable to allow coasting.

[@Tantalus7Aura]

I bought this game back then it still was in early access. Each year I support the developers by buying the dlc and start to play again and of course forget completely how to play. Thank God there are You Tubers like Splitsie who still make new tutorials to help me get back on track.😁

[@DarylBanttari]

I have thousands of hours in SE and learned a couple of things. Not a wasted minute in this tutorial, fantastic

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@AfroUnk-StealNeal]

I’m playing these game for the first time now and your tutorials are “almost” cheat codes, you’re so informative and helpful!!! Thank you!!!!!!

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :)

[@crowxar]

Did the series just stop? Where is part 3??

[@nastyy_mk4]

Fr. I’m following his exact steps so I can learn. I’m lost without him lol

[@franciscoleite353]

I'm starting now with the game and not only these new tutorials, but the old ones are being so helpfull, the only thing that bothers me is the lack of objetive while playing the game, I'm not really sure what exactly can I do in this game, I have played Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous and No Man's Sky and I could do a lot like, bounty hunting, mining, trading routes to make money to buy more stuff, but with Space Engineers, I'm not really sure where I should be goin or what should I be persuing. Anyway, love the way you explain stuff, is so easy to understand! Thanks for the videos, keep it up!

[@Splitsie]

Space Engineers is a real sandbox, no goals besides those you create for yourself. It's one of its best and simultaneously most challenging features. Having such a clean slate to start from gives so much more potential but it takes a lot more work on the part of the player to see that. With the help of some of the NPC mods a little more structure can be added though and Keen have talked about potentially having more NPC content coming this year but I'll not count those chickens until the eggs are properly hatched :P

[@betwandet41]

I NEED PART 3!!!!! :)

[@Cr4sHOv3rRiD3]

Regarding sorters between 28:20 and 32:20, If you allow I can add some tips for sorters and ejectors: - the best ratio of 'things' ejected thru 'ejectors' is to slap 1 sorter per 1 ejector (in some cases I put 2 sorters to pull on one ejector but it clogs ejector after some time so I call it like 1 vs 1). - if happens sometimes that you need the stone for some reason (let's say you don't have gravel in your base and you need it), it is good to group ejectors in a group and put them in hot bar for On/Off (you can add sorters as well but there's no reason unless you want to save power while offline etc). - you can also set sorters to always pull resources, that way you will always have full sorter inventory for an ejector to pull from (if you have 2 ejectors and 1 sorter, ejectors will throw 2 chunks but it will have the same amount as 1 sorter and practically you will waste one ejector, that's one more reason for slapping 1 sorter and 1 ejector only). - sorters and ejectors are working on ticks, it means that everything going thru them it will be calculated in a single tick , that means on each tick sorter inventory will be full and it will be empty instantly by ejector, on the next tick it will pull the next inventory, that is another reason to use only 1 sorter for 1 ejector as well. :D For offloading the ore to the base 33:12 to 34:50 , you can build an dedicated miner docking spot, it is same as one you have build one on a side of an survival kit, just build on another spot (free conveyor spot) an sorter on a base (arrows toward the base) and set the sorter to white list the ore and pull all (you can also set Ice in a whitelist), then slap an large connector and basically, when you dock a miner it will pull every ore and ice from the mining ship to the base cargo, just open the inventory and check when it's empty, close it and you can fly for another round. Later on you can see how much time you have to be connected until empty and without opening the inventory just fly for another mining trip ^^ Few tips for building conveyors. If you can try to fill all the slots of an conveyor ports specially when building large ships and when playing multiplayer game (game have an tick system I've mention above and it will check everything that have conveyor port, unless you put some functional blocks to cap an conveyor. It is not much affecting game render speed in single player but it affects a lot on multiplayer server or as well in single player game where you have lot's of grids which have lots of open ports on conveyors and not connected to something. Example: Conveyor block have 6 sides and sometime you slap like few in a row to connect something and it leaves like 4 on each open while only 2 are connected, imagine a big ships filled with that kind of build and have probably thousands of them opened and not connected and game have to check every tick all of the ports. My advice when building conveyor system on a grid is to build the conveying system as much closed as possible, without opened ports not connected, just try to keep the ports connected or use proper conveyor blocks such as pipe, curve, T piece etc... I know this is not like something for maybe new people but it is helpful for even some experienced player, I have noticed that many of multiplayer games have player which doesn't know those stuff or maybe they just not interested in to remember them :D Anyway, keep up great content and channel Splitsie, even with my 6K hrs of SE I still watch your tutorials and I like them every time as well as recommend them to anyone interested in SE

[@Splitsie]

You can have an almost unlimited number of 'ejectors' per sorter as they can all independently pull material and the sorter's own pull becomes irrelevant at scale 🙂 There's a through put limit for conveyors but in practice you're unlikely to reach it in survival play. The conveyor thing was fixed a couple of patches ago, the performance issues are now almost non existent 🙂

[@Cr4sHOv3rRiD3]

@@SplitsieDidn't know they've fix the conveyor thing lol, thx for the update though. I really have to read the logs in detail in the future I guess :D They have probably fix the ejectors thing with that conveyor updates since they can all pull from one sorter. I have to test it one day just to make sure. I will also check the code to see what's going on in deep. Thx for the update again. Those tests I was made for sorters are like 1 year plus old, maybe more can't remember, but anyway it doesn't matter to much as you say :D Keep up great content and channel. Also, tutorials are awsome

[@taz640121]

Hey boss, can we get your mods list and and updated pve how to please

[@Toughbeard]

Thank you Splitsie for the update :) When I first started SE I watched the old ones which were pretty new then. I am so glad to see the new ones. TIP: For double click action on your drills to work you mouse click and hold the action you want, left or right click, then you hit K to open K menu, then close menu with ESC. your drills will continue to run... To stop just click mouse button again... Enjoy less strain on your hand...

[@insane7718]

Pro tip: watch this video

[@elgordo4827]

ive played a lot of SE but not for a while so these tutorials are so helpfull - thx Splitsie - couldnt see if its been mentioned but you CAN set the drills on a ship to "auto" - hold L or RMB - switch to inventory (or any menu tbh but inventory you can see what youre picking up) - release the mouse - you can stay in the inventory or another menu and move the ship without your index finger cramping up 😉😉

[@haphazodus]

I have had 4 goes at learning Space Engineers and get overwhelmed with the learning curve. I think I might have attempt number 5.

[@Splitsie]

Best of luck, hope it makes sense this time around :)

[@rocketloncherboy]

normally i hate tutorials but man you landed all of the incredibly proper points explain excellently. Thank you so much for your time taken for this process.

[@baileyhumphreys8078]

Very detailed guide 👍🏼 also another little tip for newbies, you don’t have to follow this ship design exactly, as long as you have the fundamentals it will work. Get creative with your ship builds, you’ll love it so much more 🙂

[@Splitsie]

Yup, completely agree. Every design I build in a tutorial is there as a framework, something to build upon as you learn the systems and make your own cool stuff as a result :)

[@BariiAlyn]

I learnt how to play from your original tutorials and know everything you've covered so far and this video still kept me from bed. Good stuff.

[@agoosecalledxaro6679]

If you remove the center drill and use conveyors to connect the two on the outside, you get the larger mine radius and you don't have to worry about weight because it won't get heavy enough to fall.

[@Splitsie]

Almost but not quite - I've had issues with a 3 block gap and having tiny pieces of voxel ruin my day :P

[@agoosecalledxaro6679]

@@Splitsie I disconnected and reattached the drills. I only have a T conveyor to attach the drills. They are closer together, but I think it works really well. Amazing tutorial BTW.

[@Splitsie]

Oh yeah, with a single block (or two) between the drills they'll work perfectly 🙂

[@Baito009]

It took me a good number of weeks when I first started playing to figure out the ships drills could do the mass clear without collection mode. Absolute game changer

[@alantrowbridge7472]

😮After watching more than a dozen videos this is the only one that makes sense is step by step and actually works. I don't always like and subscribe but I'm going to get on this guy's Channel cuz he knows what he's doing for sure. Thank you I have been trying for 2 weeks to get a ship in the air

[@Splitsie]

Glad I could help get you started :)

[@Minimeister317]

As someone who just purchased the game a few days ago, this video was just what I needed. Thank you so much, Splitsie!

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome, hope you're having fun with it :)

[@JRJ-]

im like 5 hours into the game and thank god for these videos. eagerly awaiting part 3!!

[@andrewnelson8044]

Honestly you are one of the best guides I've seen. Started playing this game recently and this video explains everything. It's thorough and informative while not being too complicated. You explain things slowly and make them make sense. Well done

[@Splitsie]

Thanks so much, glad it's been helpful :)

[@sgt_retiredcharlie4102]

Splitsie! I only just got into this game about a month ago (at 53 years old) and your tutorials have really been the one thing that have taught me the most! I'm surprised you didn't mirror the Ore Detector with an Antenna on the other side, just so you can still see the ores if you ever need to get out of the ship.

[@Splitsie]

An antenna there would have been a good idea, I'm so terrible at remembering to put antennae or beacons on my ships - something I should probably work on :P

[@wolfen210959]

I can absolutely guarantee that if i was to buy and play Space Engineers, I would be replicating every step of this tutorial, that ship looks amazing, as well as being functional. :)

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@oWAR1OCKo]

@Splitsie, ty for making these guides man, Im a solo players, and somewhat new, and I used to follow your older guides and Im at the point where Im essentially all set up on my earth like home planet and getting ready to go into space for the first time. These guides, although they do have alot of info that I already know at this point, are really invaluable to players like me I feel who dont have others to play with in game.

[@Siinwu]

18:15 usually i reduce the magnetic power to 1/3 (on both), remove the 1 and replace it with 0. ive not once seen a dmg connector in 6 years doing this. :) adv tips: event controller is excellent to setup tanks to refill fuel on ship using the connecter connected option and you can also string on turning thrusters, lights, gyro and ore det. off/on with it. if u have designated cargo container for ore, make a loop with a sorter on it to auto pull ore when the ship is docked (connected) and have a event controler do the job. i love making industrial ships, mining transport building :)

[@juggalospsyco420]

@Splitsie I think its awesome you are going through all this again for the new generation of Space Engineers to understand the game in survival with all the new stuff that the devs have added since survival came out. And I am sure even veterans like me that watched, inspired, and was taught from your original series, that have either played or took a break from SE. I am learning a lot still. Keep up the good work and cant wait till SE2 does come out and your videos following the release.

[@Splitsie]

Thanks so much :)

[@jackbounder6374]

I've owned this game for years played it for 20 minutes and put it down due to just the sheer amount of controls (using almost every key on the keyboard). It's weird because I own most all of the newer titles of somewhat "complicated" games (at least I believe on average most would say games such as Kerbal is fairly challenging especially to successfully achieve the later missions) But after this video popped up I swear you not only explained everything in detail but in absolutely ridiculous detail so much so that as I watched I would cross play then look at your video and continue as you proceeded. I still have allot to learn when it comes to all the configurations and not doing things the long way around so to speak but as far as fully understanding not only how to build a ship I can now build a pretty friggin massive miner (on free mode so I didn't have to spend the hours collecting lol) but I honestly get it fully. The parts how they function and just from this video even blocks you did not address I even get now and no I'm not exaggerating I'm being dead serious when I say I appreciate it. Especially since when I bought the game it was in if's first stages where it blew up and most KZbinrs that do more complex games were playing so when I bought it I can't remember what I paid but I remember it was allot, much more than I would normally pay and I really thought I was just never going to pick it back up. You got my Sub and undivided attention as I'll now definitely binge watch your videos just to get better ideas and advise. Thanks again. 😁

[@membranealpha5961]

im in the same boat, this game desperatly needs a indepth tutorial in game because i have a feeling they way it is now has made them hemorage several thousand players that would have played the game otherwise

[@NTC_Transport]

I'm glad to see the updated tutorials. I had no idea we had the flat fans.

[@rexpimplemyer3839]

This was a great design. It works well, and is rather easy to manage. I've tried tuts using the drop pod, but they were always unwieldy and awkward. This version from scratch was the first one that I totally dismantled the drop pod to make, and worked really well. Thank you for the videos.

[@Splitsie]

You're welcome, my previous tutorial I used the pod because it looked nice but you're right, it's much more difficult to build something that's stable so for this remake of that tutorial I decided that from scratch was the way to go :)

[@BobTheTrollKing]

Little bit of a tip for newer folks that I just learned. If you have a "Tool ship" whether it be grinders, welders or drills, you can get the tools to stay on without holding LMB. If you turn the tools on by left or right clicking, and then open your inventory while it's held, they stay on. Great for mining and welding.

[@JustToBeHere]

First of all great tutorial... Again... :) Some suggestions / tips for beginners : - setup event controller for batteries to change recharge state when you connect and disconnect for 2 reasons . (1) you will not have problems if you forgot to change the recharge state when you disconnect and (2) in case the base consume more energy that it have , will not use the energy from the miner - you can setup an antenna to see ores location when you are outside the miner - consider to add a beacon when you play on servers - also if you have problems and damage a lot the back connector use a connector under the grid , I saw that this trick help a lot of my beginner friends - keep in mind that a small grid drill cargo capacity is same as a small grid medium cargo Personally I think to better improve the design remove 1 thruster from left and right and use them for uplift - ( Usually for miners i use same number for thrusters for forward, left and right thrust and 50% more for back-thrust) . Full disclosure I start to play SE after a I saw Splitsie on beginning of "Survival maybe" 6 years ago and I learn a lot from him

[@czbuchi86]

i dont think any of those should be teached to absolute begginers - so maybe @splitsie could make 'advanced' tutorials after he is done with those basic ones...

[@JustToBeHere]

@@czbuchi86 I understand your point but as you can see they are "suggestions / tips" , not some things they are omitted in tutorial

[@czbuchi86]

@@JustToBeHere yea .. my exuse is that english is not my first language :)

[@DC2022]

- For beginners, event controllers are a bit to crunchy. But yeah, on further tutorial I'm pretty sure Splitsie will talk about them because they can be really, really handy. - Yup, good point even if that's not necessary, this can be handy to have. - If you don't have an antenna, a beacon is a must have even in single player to get back to your ship when wandering around. I spent too much hours searching my ship because I forgot to place a beacon to forget them now 😅 - for connector I use to set the main base/ship connector mag force to 0.005 (just replace the 1 on the default force by a 0) and disable it on the small one. This way I still have a bit of mag force, but it not only will be unable to turn my little ship into a battering ram and this will also prevent the sticky connector issue. - Yup, drills are also good to store the ore so it can be useful to add those extra drills soon. - Yeah, I would set to 4 thrusters for every direction except front where I would stick to 6 and would improve the sustentation one upgraded with the extra power. And would add two small batteries just for sake of security. They cost nothing, are small and have a really nice density. I would have loved to have tutorials like that when I started but even after thousands hours playing Splitsie nonetheless manages to teach me stuff. He produces the most complete and easy to grasp tutos on SE.

[@Splitsie]

Agreed that all those things are useful, beacons/antennas are something I really need to work on making a routine addition to my ship :)

[@goomba313]

very helpful, simple but covers all the bases; watched it on 1.5x speed no problem! AWESOME CONTENT, GREAT JOB!

[@chrisburrows9758]

Connectors found, and thank you for posting this (didn't know about the options with the mining drill) and will be adding the lights and getting rid of the stone. Wanted to add that I love this mining ship as its is really great mining since it doesn't fall forward like other ships.

[@mementomori5580]

I have over 443 hours of Space Engineers clocked on Steam, but... 34:32 , I did not know about that. Glad to have learned something new once again from your great tutorials :)

[@Splitsie]

It's a super useful way to empty whole ships without needing a script. I knew of it ages ago and then never used it, recently I was reminded of it and have now been using it everywhere :D

[@ConMan1504]

This tutorial series stopped me from quitting this amazing game out of frustration, thanks man

[@bobabv]

Thanks for your tutorials. I gave up the first time I played this game but now you taught me how to start. Please, make a video about building a spaceship

[@DC2022]

One soft spot with magnet force is having the one on the base/main ship set to 0.005 and disabled on your current ship. This way, there is a bit of magnetic force, but never enough to crash and/or being stuck to the connector. Thanks for those very well detailed and easy to grasp tutorials!

[@Splitsie]

If you disable it on either connector there's no force at all, you need to make sure it's a tiny force on both to get that gentle (but sometimes helpful) little bit of attraction :)

[@Comicsluvr]

I have 4 thousand hours of SE. I've played it since the map was bounded at 50k on a side. And I STILL learn from Splitsie's tutorials!

[@m1leswilliams]

I had no idea that pulling the materials out to complete a build also cleared the build planner of the item... feel so dumb. Love these tutorials.

[@Splitsie]

Glad I could help, I've got a full video on the build planner that covers a bunch of the other oddities about the system too, as it's got more than a few quirks :P

[@diazinth]

Great stuff as always! A little clarification I guess: The "ejectors" try to collect and throw out everything, but the sorters only allows stone to get to them. This means that if you by mistake conveyor your cargo around the sorter to the "ejectors", they will start throwing out everything else as well, your ores included.

[@Splitsie]

Yup, I probably didn't state that as clearly as I could have :)

[@greyic]

Don't know if two separate comments on the same video is bad form, but I built one of these in my game shortly after watching the video and, man...this little guy rocks! A note, disable your headlights when you aren't spelunking to save some power in transit.

[@Splitsie]

Glad you've liked it - I tried to put a lot more time into balancing this design around function than I normally would so I hoped it would pay off :D

[@Davidson0617]

Please continue this updated series of new player guides. It just dropped on gamepass, translating the keys to controller is a bit of a hurdle, but your previous guide and this one were perfect for getting me introduced to the different systems, and started. Thank you.

[@Splitsie]

Don't you worry, I will be. They won't have any specific release timing as I'd prefer to make them good than make them fast, especially since the older guides are still accurate, I just think I can improve upon them with what I've learnt since then :)

[@Davidson0617]

@@Splitsie thank you 🙂 that sounds great. It introduced each system very well, including the tech progression unlocks, so that there were no hangups. The learning curve is definitely steep if this is someone's 1st game like this.

[@MrNeutral01]

on thing you probably could have noted is that you can put a sorter on your base, just before the connector you dock you ship to, and set that sorter up to pull everything from the ship. This means you can dock up and the system will automatically empty your ship. Obviously this would cause issues if you have a cargo ship that you don't want to remove everything from, but for a mining ship that you intend to drain, it works perfect.

[@arthurleao5296]

I learned so much with this video, thanks a lot for putting your time to make it. Your attention to saying out loud the keys you were pressing really helped me out figuring a bunch of stuff up. Thank you so much and keep up the good work!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks, glad it was able to help you get started :)

[@scruffygaming627]

Awesome vid, you covered every main aspect of early ship building. I liked that you added in the question of vertical drills, and why you prefer horizontal. I actually prefer vertical drills, simply because they are far more stable if you keep the ship always in the same vertical orientation. Keeping the same vertical orientation also means you do not need (many) upward thrusters, and far fewer horizontal thrusters as the ship will never need horizontal to keep the mass airborn. So you you can eliminate a lot of weight from excess horizontal thrusters, and add more downward thrusters and carry more mass. And if playing with remote control options (or programmable block), its much easier to automate a downward drill ship in atmosphere. All the reasons why I tend to go for mostly vertical drills. :) Yes, you end up mining a bunch of material you may not want, but if you mine an icelake, you can turn that ice into hydrogen for hydrogen thruster ships, and also stock up for the eventual hydrogen powered space ship. So mining all that extra ice down to the ore isn't wasted. With a Programmable Block, there's workshop mod programs to automate mining simply too.

[@corpnut2906]

just got into SE from your video series of just a suit and a buddy who has played for years. I am glad I took your tip on saving before undocking I forgot to add fwd thrusters on and KABOOM... reloaded and fixed it. thanks for the tutorials

[@Kevin_Kyle]

This series gives you a great start.....hoping you can continue it a little further. Good stuff. This may be my go to start vid from here on out.

[@Nymrod78]

Hi Splitsie!! It is always a pleasure to see your videos. Lost track of since when i follow you, at least sice Survival Maybe. I have a TIP if you dont know about it yet: it is a little but usefull bug, there is a way to use the ship drill on auto (like doble click on hand drill) and work on both modes, mine and tunneling. Must use the "Ship Tool" in the Action Group. Mouse click to start working (the mode you want to use), then, while pressing the mouse button,press "I"(i) to open inventory, then release the mouse key and press "I" againt to close the inventory. The drill will continue working like in auto mode, to stop it just do a simple click on a mouse key. Keep it up with the good work!!

[@paps7121]

I made it and love it. Well balanced and easy to handle. 1 step bigger would be nice for next ship.

[@Baneironhand]

Only suggestion I would add is bumpers. Couple blocks on the back corners that stand proud of the batteries and thrusters. I usually only do the back two corners cause I tend to rub the back on the mineshaft. Rubbing a battery or thruster on the wall causes problems, usually in the form of an explosion. Great tutorial as usual. Cheers

[@Splitsie]

That's a good call, it's something I should try to do for my welding ships too (though at the front in that case) :)

[@Baneironhand]

Yea you would think welders would be more durable. I use very sedate thrust on my welding ship. No sudden movements. 😀

[@VeilEverbright]

Thank you! Just got into the game, and I'm struggling to make a ship. This helped immensely

[@BillyBobdonkerman5942]

I have over 200 hours on SE and i just learned this thank you 25:25

[@jkirkwood2018]

I bought space engineers a LONG time ago. Then I found Splitsie. These tutorials and his initial tutorials are why I didn't smash my PC with a hammer and I am coming up on 10,000 hours in game.

[@EngineeringVignettes]

This is a good tutorial, learned a few things even with 800+ hours in the game. Miners in space, on moons and ice moons will need different thruster tech to work but the basics are in this video. (eg. weird situations where an ice moon has atmosphere) Maybe adding a trigger to switch batteries on a disconnect could help some forgetful people :) A key thing to remember is to watch the ship weight and know when is enough, in mining. More complicated ships can do with writing up a checklist as well, for docking and undocking procedures. Cheers,

[@Splitsie]

Agreed, I plan to cover automated docking procedures with event controllers once I get around to showing what they can do :)

[@swiftbow2110]

Nice, I learned something new after 3k hours playing this game with the connector build options at the end (always just used landing gear). Thanks.

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome - glad it ended up useful, I still get taught new stuff in the comments all the time even after 5750 hours :D

[@NotTheBomb]

Shame that this is the last episode of the tutorial. I was enjoying it, and watching it to help me get a grasp of the game, as I am looking to buy it. I figured watching beginner guides would be a great way to ground myself, as I would not be building freighters any time soon lol

[@nzdobbs]

Oh man I have sooo many hours in SE and still learned something new. For probably the hundredth time, thanks Splitsie!! Edit - Ok make that 2 new things. And I haven't finished the video yet....

[@Splitsie]

lol Glad you found something good in there Dobbs :)

[@nzdobbs]

Always mate, and I truly mean always. Thank you for so much entertainment, advice and inspiration over the years. A lot of my builds have been influenced by your content. And a special thanks for replying to comments so often too!!@@Splitsie

[@SavageMonkeyJizz]

Biggest tip to new players is watch splitsie. Seriously, watch his let's plays they're funny, enjoyable and informative. I learned to play thanks to watching Splitsie and Capac on the survival series (all of them) and downloaded the survival impossible scenario. Brutal and beautiful

[@fernandogouveia2924]

Thanks for another great tutorial, Splitsie! I've started playing SE recently and your tutorials are absolutely great and helped me a lot! I've found something silly messing around with miners: If you hold the mouse button (which ever you're using - mining or digging), and then open the inventory, then let go of the mouse button, the drill will keep going. So, now we have the 'mouseless interaction' for both miner drills and hand drills. Hope this helps =D

[@Splitsie]

Yeah the menu truck for the drills (especially when right clicking) is super handy 🙂

[@bronney]

See, should I honestly make yet another tutorial while my lessons from 15 years ago work just as nice? YES, because I still watched it lol. I dunno mane, your SE vids are just good. Thanks for the years of lessons dude.

[@lostscotsman]

Very helpful thank you. How long do items dropped on the ground stay around before despawning? Is it possible to have things connected to your main grid but not physically be connected? Example: Base down in a valley but want to put wind turbines up on a hill a ways off.

[@Splitsie]

Items on the ground remain until you hit the item limit, then the oldest items are deleted first as new ones are spawned. The item limit is by default something around 50 (I'm uncertain if there are different defaults on each platform). All connections in SE are 'physical' connections, so there's no power transmission without it :)