Survival, Maybe... #51 Rudolf the red-nosed PMW (A Space Engineers Survival Series)

[@rudolfcopieckelberg4239]

That's right, leav'em to me. I'll be busy blowing up while you build stuff. Typical.

[@Splitsie]

LOL :D I'm lost for words

[@madcapmagician3130]

By now surely you have learnt not to make such sweeping statements, 'Nothing can go wrong now', 'Now we are secure' and, 'The base has plenty of power' something dreadful always arrives on the tail of such a statement. Really enjoying this series, keep up the good work. Leave Igor as he is, Ugly is in the eye of the beholder lol

[@macgabhann1108]

the moment he said that I knew something was going to happen, happens every time

[@gentlejake605]

fr though lmao so over confident all the time so funny love his vids

[@Splitsie]

You really would have thought I'd have learned by now :P But, with no filter and feeling positive about something I just keep getting over excited 😁

[@macgabhann1108]

lol I know what you mean Splitsie speaking of which remember talking about the whole skynet thing as well as Clang getting revenge, well.... after watching your video on the auto-miner script by Rdav I made a new drone with that to test it out and hopefully replace the one drone that WAS MIA and after a successful test I was going to send out the new drone to go get some silicon considering my silicon drone has been missing for a few days(figured it was due to exiting the game while one of its timer blocks was running) and I was getting low and I was planing on using space master to locate it and either remove it or upgrade it, when guess who shows up with 3 of its drills and 2 of its many timer blocks missing, then suddenly "error: this world is corrupt and can not load" considering the world was already loaded that was an odd message and it appears that even my backups are the same way so looks like i am starting over, so new world new challenges this time im going to limit myself to 1 mod the no automatic jetpack activation mod which means i am going to have to re think some of the automation stuff i did as some of my automation designs rely on a few mods, and this time im planing on relying more on scripts and less on timers that have to be reset all the time and one of the things I checked with the auto-miner script was the ability to continue after a reload worked great way better then the ugly timer block mess with tons of GPS markers that always needed a restart.

[@kevingriffith6011]

I know it's been suggested in the past, but I'll say it again. You really need some decoys around your solar tower, since it's proving to be extremely expensive to repair and you're having to do it with alarming frequency.

[@macgabhann1108]

decoys as well as a few turrets on the tower as well.

[@gentlejake605]

fr both of those and a camera so he dont have to go look would be 100%fool proof almost...... almost

[@Splitsie]

I may have just thought of something that will look ok and give a couple of decoys for at least a small delay in time before the solar panels get hit :)

[@tackytrooper]

Decoys at the ends of the solar arrays?

[@Splitsie]

Yep, but may have an idea to make them look a little nicer :)

[@gabrielglouw3589]

Proposal: The Leroy Jenkins Class heavy kamikaze attack drone. An elongated drone with a quad barrel Gatling in the nose and a warhead directly behind it. The drone fires a stream of rounds directly at its impact point allowing deeper penetration into the enemy base. Not cheap, but might be fun to do at least once.

[@Shakads]

Might as well also put a sound block with that infamous war cry ^^

[@Splitsie]

I don't think you two realise just how tempted I am by this idea ;)

[@DerIsy]

Yay! You're using my inventory manager! Cool! A few things I noticed: 7:33 The script seems to detect a 'Shelf' as an usable inventory.. I think this is a decorative item, that has no conveyor access, so the script will complain about not being able to do stuff with it. Also the owner is different.. For cases like this, consider adding Locked to the name, e.g.: "Locked Shelf" ;) 14:10 "Fill bottles BEFORE storing them in the bottles container". Where did you store them initially? Right! In the bottles container, so they won't be moved anymore. Unfortunately I can't read the bottles' fill level, so I had to create a workaround for that. Every bottle that is found in the system and is NOT in a bottle container, will be pushed to the first found O2/H2 gen and in the next cycle to the bottles container. Btw: 16:32 Nice trick with the cameras.. I ran into this problem before! No I won't anymore - thanks! ;) And: Igor should stay as he is - he's the ugly ducklings brother.. Some kind of tough guy with a very pronounced nose and a slavic name.. No pretty coat needed :P

[@Splitsie]

I'm so glad you saw I started using it, I really love how easy it is to setup :) Thanks for the tip about the shelf, I wasn't sure how to deal with it since I want to keep it half constructed. That's unfortunate there's no way to detect the fill level of the bottles, what's worse is that I've already recorded and uploaded the next episode and have no time to fix the bit where I talk about it, but I will make sure I mention what you said right at the beginning of the next episode, and I should have known if you hadn't worked it out that it probably wasn't possible :P Perfect description of Igor, I love it :)

[@DerIsy]

I forgot to mention another thing: my script has internal sorting = sort items inside one cargo container by name, type, amount and so on... The default setting is by name ascending. With your mixed containers it could be cool to sort the items by type and name so that tools, bottles and so on are next to each other in the container.. The sorting key for this is "Ta" (type, ascending). Look for "Internal item sorting" in the config to change this.

[@Splitsie]

Sweet, thanks that'll make it a bit neater :)

[@kevingriffith6011]

The design of the new chicken hawk scares me immensely, because if that connector gets shot out (and it will) the entire front half of the ship will fall off with it. Maybe run some armor from the battery to the sides of the guns.

[@macgabhann1108]

turrets do seem to like targeting connectors

[@Splitsie]

I think if the connector takes that much damage, splitting the ship I half is the least of my worries as I doubt it would be able to fly long before that happens :P

[@tassie7325]

When in doubt - re-boot. With the failing bunker guns, as nothing obvious appears to be wrong, de-construct and rebuild them. You have nothing to lose and it may fix the problem.

[@macgabhann1108]

that would definitely be the next steep nothing nothing else seems to fix it so time to grind them down and replace and hopefully that should fix it I just had to grind down a programming block and remote today myself due to them getting stuck in a loop that does seem to fix things when all else fails.

[@Splitsie]

Yeah it's looking like a rebuild is on the cards :(

[@parker1315]

I just spent 8 hours today (MURICA day) out and about and had to be a DD but im back home binging your survival series

[@Splitsie]

Enjoy! Hope your July 4th celebrations were fun (even though you were the driver)

[@madmann225]

Splitsie, the turrets on top of the bunker is 2 blocks tall. Have you thought about putting one block up in front of it to protect the bottom half of it? I use a heavy block in my lookout and the turrets have no problem shooting over the top of them. As long as the enemy does not come in low they should provide some more protection for your turrets.

[@Splitsie]

Given the size of the bunker I don't think there's room for extra armor that's outside the turret's bounding box, I'd have to expand the bunker a fair bit too fit it...

[@AntoTabey]

Sliptsie, build a griding pit trailer for the goose !

[@Splitsie]

I may attempt such a behemoth, but I don't believe for a second it will be easy :P

[@lordsherifftakari4127]

another advantage of putting the battery behind the connector is the narrow forward profile making V-2.0 a smaller target.

[@markcunningham2243]

Turning off your light was a great tip, made me laugh

[@solidgold2]

First, igor is awesome, just put a protective rib on his back. Second, you should have a min of 3 thrusters on the missile; up, down and forward - this will allow for best control as you only need to turn 90 degrees to correct flight path. And a light if used at night, a rail gun is also something you could add. Cheap is the best for a kamikaze mission. The drone would be great but more expensive.

[@Splitsie]

It makes me smile every time I read the love for my goofy designs :) That's a good thought on the missile, just one extra thruster would make control a large amount easier :)

[@wraithleader2906]

I noticed red lights on the conveyor tubes under the bunker floor

[@Splitsie]

I think the cargo containers have been damaged which would have broken the link as power still appears to be on, well maybe it won't be after that last attack...

[@wraithleader2906]

Keep up the good fight and crush those ……….

[@lowrads3653]

1)If you want turrets to spend less time and ammo targeting debris, simply occlude their firing arc. I like to use hangar doors for this, since they can be lowered in a pinch. 2)Consider adding an on/off switch to the reversing thruster to gain "cruise mode." 3)Rotors are an excellent way of mounting subgrid PMWs with protection.

[@Splitsie]

I hadn't thought about blocking their arc stopping them targeting something, that's a neat idea. Not much I can do that won't look horrible for the base mounted ones but I may be able to come up with something for the bunker which seems to be most affected

[@HoundRogerson]

In modifying Igor for a second battery, I would move the gyroscope to the top of the rear battery, and add the second battery in front of the conveyor junctions. That would effectively balance his load front to back, although it would increase his tipping risk as you aren't widening his wheelbase.

[@Splitsie]

I think that's the easiest place to put the battery, but you're right it does make Igor even more top heavy which could get interesting the next time I roll him :P

[@HoundRogerson]

Ya know, I was thinking, if you want to try something interesting (and maybe humorously destructive), you could remount Igor's wheel suspension on laterally mounted pistons. That could give you the option to dynamically widen the wheelbase for turning, I just don't know how the pistons would react to that kind of stress. I also have an idea for stabilizing the elevator, whenever you get around to rebuilding it to more match your elevator design in the tutorial video you made. It should mitigate a lot of the shaky behavior, even with sharing the tensor between the pistons.

[@teresabooth312]

The bottles don’t auto refill in the cargo container, it says fill bottles BEFORE sorting so it will let it fill then it will take them

[@LordRenegrade]

2:08 - You don't need to have a horizontal profile. My Blade attack drone uses a vertical arrangement where the connector is vertically oriented but facing such that the side is where the docking end of the connector is. I always try to minimize width as my inspiration for attack drones is the AH-1G Cobra / AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter. Those are narrow as heck, both for speed/efficiency reasons, but also to present a minimal profile to enemies.

[@Petrzelll]

Use that camera align to gravity script you used for making map. Put merge block on last rotor. Use another merge block, camera and some armor blocks as bomb that is easy to use and way cheaper than rudolf. Add projector and you can recreate this bomb as much as you want.

[@Splitsie]

That would actually be a great use for it, but I might use it more on a bomber type vehicle - line up your camera and release knowing you'll be spot on target :)

[@etopsirhc]

damn was just about to crash for the night as well. well, lets try this at warp er.. 1.5x speed! flying into walls? tons of tools? multiplayer? sounds like some one watches uncooperative survival. lol

[@jurezupancic9813]

etopsirhc It’s only missing an insane number of mk1 batteries and a metric tone of BOBs

[@macgabhann1108]

i'm guessing he was referring to Capac when he said that.

[@Thade780]

Jure Zupancic I see you are a man of culture.

[@jurezupancic9813]

😁

[@CaptPatrick01]

Seen the tons of tools part in other survival series too... as in, *ALL OF THEM!* Well, now there is a solution to it.

[@a-tad-ape]

This episode was a lot of fun to watch! it looks like your bunker is still acting up and since we know the range isn't the problem, I'm thinking it could be targeting debris from all the wreckage as it's probably closer than the actual enemy drones. I think that should be higher of a priority and you have a few vehicles at your disposal that could do the job. Just make a grinder pit somewhere accessible maybe where the Tick used to dock before you had a hangar. For Igor, His biggest problem is the high CoM (Center of Mass). I think you should replace the two side conveyor junctions with elbows as I'm quite sure they're lighter. I also think you should re position the batteries just behind the junctions so they're slightly lower down. The CoM will be further back than centered but at least it will be lower to the ground. Now the missile; I've played around with weapon designs for a while in SE and there's one that might work well for you. Its a sort of cluster bomb where instead of using warheads, you make some kind of device that drops explosive components. I'm not sure if they changed it but when I tested it, they explode on impact when traveling at high velocity. Though their damage isn't very powerful, when you have a large quantity, they're able to blow out windows and take out less armored parts like antennas. This is especially useful on enemy players space stations as it can blow out their oxygen and Comms to control drones. There's also Ore bombs which uses a similar principle but they do not explode on impact. I think this weapon system has become obsolete with one of the more recent updates though. I'd say test them out in creative mode before trying something that could fail and use resources. I wish you luck and as always, I'm excited for the next episode!

[@Splitsie]

I suspect you're right about the bunker, it makes getting a grinding pit up a little more important. As you say ore bombs are now non-functional, not that I'd use them here since the AI has no defense against them, but they were fun to throw around :P I often test things in creative, but thought it would be an interesting exercise to do all the testing for the missiles in the series, the insights that people share end up teaching me a lot more than I could learn myself, and hopefully some of the newer players get something out of it too :) As for Igor, I feel like his high COM is part of his charm and I might get lynched by some people if I fixed him :P

[@davfree9732]

My advice, build a under-slung detachable shield for the next drone and drop that before going on the dive bomb. You can approach lower, take more hits and drop it to distracts the turrets when it's time to pounce.

[@Splitsie]

What if the underslung shield is a missile/bomb that I drop from the chicken hawk? ;)

[@collinbarker]

isy will dump bottles into container if they are not in the container already. It will bring it to the container, not move it from the container. Chuck them in a connector and it will work. Also, if you put in "Special" in the name of a thing with inventory, you can customize what it contains (and how many) in the custom data

[@Splitsie]

I will have to have a play around with the special settings, thanks :)

[@msv2610]

I always check the length of the episodes and this time, I'm up for a treat.

[@Splitsie]

Where's your sweet spot?

[@msv2610]

I don't really have a sweet spot but I guess the longer the better? :P I just like it when the videos are longer than 40ish minutes (which most of them are). But anyway, love your content - keep it up!

[@Cyberguy42]

Splitsie It's probably not that important, but it looked like you left the dampeners enabled on Rudolph while you were transporting it via the Butterball. As for Igor, its ugliness is its best quality! If/when you retire Igor, you could always put it on display next to the Ugly Duckling. If you decide to build another 'ugly' ship/vehicle, you could call it the Medusa! :-)

[@Splitsie]

Why yes, you're absolutely right I did do that, though since it doesn't have any braking thrusters it shouldn't have mattered too much (probably why I didn't notice anything was up :P ) My ugly vehicles are so ugly they turn onlookers to stone! (not sure that's going to be the best sales pitch)

[@MarcWeavers]

Smart Targeting mod, allows to set limits on individual grid size as a valid target, as well as other great features

[@Splitsie]

I'm going to have a look at it, from what I've been reading the performance hit I may run into will be quite significant - I've got a lot of turrets, but I think it'll be interesting to show everyone just how much it might be :)

[@claytonmcnurlin3841]

you can mark Igor's container as special then set what you want them to hold. Do what you like and move the welder forward.

[@Splitsie]

I will have to learn some more about Isy's script so I can take advantage of those extra little functions :)

[@Shakads]

I haven't finished watching the video yet so maybe you already thought about it but, I was wondering if the bunker turrets were maybe aiming at debris closer than 600 or 700 meters, while ignoring the incoming drones until they were close enough to shot at the bunker ? I must confess I have no idea what the turrets would be doing in a scenario like this but considering the amount of debris you have collected on the nearby hills, and knowing how much turrets like to keep shooting and waste ammo at useless pieces of dead drones on the ground, that could be the reason ? For example at around 31:38, the left one is still focusing on something in the direction of the base.

[@Splitsie]

I suspect you're right, it makes me think that getting some sort of grinder pit goes up the priority list so I can collect all the drone pieces

[@billyhyde1415]

I find the camera view 'above' the connector helps me align because with the large-grid connectors, you can line up in reference to the protruding light-bulb looking things. Also, I agree with everyone else, Igor should stay Igor. he's awesome.

[@Splitsie]

He is awesome, despite being very poorly designed :P

[@gulashsoup]

Igor should stay as he is! I like him that way. I even bulid him in my survival and works perfectly!

[@Splitsie]

Would you be against him getting uglier with a pair of welders in the front?

[@tackytrooper]

Lol, "Igor the Bugman" I like it.

[@gulashsoup]

Uuu Splitsie :D sounds great. And when I say great, I mean ugly. Do it :D

[@jameshansen1148]

0.1 of uranium and a small-grid small-reactor seems like a great way to power your warheads since batteries are a bit bulky and expensive, gotta use that Uranium some time! 😁 Loving the un-manned strategies, super fun!

[@Splitsie]

I'm currently cleaning up a few unfinished jobs around the base and hope to get back to launching missiles straight afterwards :)

[@shadowtooth7432]

Watching you fly 20:45, I honestly just want to get into a rover or ship and just fly around the planet. No AI,no survival,just a drive around taking a look at the sights. This game does get down right pretty sometimes...and sometimes relaxing,when you're not trying to anger our lord and savior Clang.

[@Splitsie]

That it does, Keen really did manage to bring amazing visuals to a voxel building game :)

[@incoherentscreaming5011]

While I doubt you want the build and repair system mod, you might benefit from building pits where the drones would crash down into after being shot down by turrets within said pits. Just fit some grinders in the bottoms and it'll work pretty well-- might need tweaking though.

[@Splitsie]

A grinder pit is in my current plans, as I'd really like to just be able to dump the pieces off and know they'll be dealt with :)

[@Pecomica]

good and exciting episode. I like the idea you mentioned this time and last about a grinding pit. I would suggest you add some more turrets around your base. And maybe do a few lines of defense leading up to it, with sandbags or something more permanent, like the bunker. Would it be possible to add some sound blocks to your base that causes flashing lights and a siren to sound if a drone gets to close? Also would suggest you maybe build a (well defended) drone bay outside your main hangar, maybe next to the grinding pit that would produce the drones for you. One thing I really want to see is a security room. A place where you have monitors placed that provide feed from outside your base in the directions of the enemy bases. Set them up with some turrets you can remote control from the base, along with maybe some LCDs that provide information about the state of your outposts so you know if they are operational or not. Not sure if this is doable, without connecting it all to the same grid, but if it can be done, I am sure you are the one to do it :)

[@Splitsie]

I may do a fake control/security room where there are LCDs that show a screenshot of the outside on various screens as the mod that used to let you do it live killed performance (which is why it's not part of the vanilla game). I've been trying to think of a way to give some indication of the defense failing to work properly so I can have an alarm but haven't come up with something reliable yet, if I do you can bet I'll be hooking it up straight away :)

[@Andrew.A.]

RE: Missile To change direction or when you have marked a target, roll the missile to correct lateral movement using the downward thrusters. Adding a second gyroscope might give you a nice tight spin (albeit nauseating)

[@Splitsie]

That's a good thought, I can always edit out some of the spinning time so people don't feel too sick (I'm pretty immune to most motion sickness thankfully) :)

[@Andrew.A.]

Splitsie Something else that occurred to me is that for 3/4 of the rotation you won't have downward force keeping you aloft. I would expect the missile to travel in a parabola whilst en route to target.

[@wodentubercolosys]

Place one thruster on a rotor on the back and use the vector thrust script so it can rotate on itself and push up-down and left-right!

[@Splitsie]

I'm avoiding using vector thrust as I want to be able to print them later so I can't use any subgrids :(

[@Thade780]

I see you liked my suggestion for a remote controlled missile. Love the name.

[@Splitsie]

I did, and thanks :) I think I just wanted an excuse to put a cartoon reindeer in a thumbnail :P

[@macgabhann1108]

as far as Igor goes I am all for upgrades that make things easier such as the battery recharge script or the inventory script to keep it topped off with components and anything else that will make life easier, i have never been a fan of having the yellow ports exposed , but this is Igor we are talking about so what ever makes it the most functional will be the best option after all function before style. also you could add in the auto docking script to the new Chicken Hawk also not sure if the missile did it or if it was already damaged but looks like the enemy base solar panel is no longer functional.

[@Splitsie]

I'd love to take the credit for that, but I think a drone spawned in the wrong place and did that :/ Yeah, I might look at using sprug's docking script, largely just to have an excuse to test it :)

[@SirTragain]

Move the gyro on Igor and place the other battery but don't add any armor.

[@Splitsie]

Not even just a couple of pieces above the pistons, like attachment points for the pistons? ;)

[@auraswolf]

no :p

[@MistahBryan]

Put the Warhead on the REAR of the Missile with Decoy's and Camera's in the front.

[@glenntanner3]

You should make a RTH GPS marker above your base so that you could just set a remote control block to auto pilot home. "Igore II", leave the original and make a better one that doesn't fall into holes and has a more welders. Git er done!

[@Splitsie]

I like the idea of being able to let the chicken hawk fly home on its own, be a good excuse to properly check out Sprug's autopilot script too :) An Igor II you say... that is an interesting proposition

[@tassie7325]

I was thinking about your salvage task and the way you are planing to go about it ie picking up the pieces and returning them to a grinding hopper. An alternative is to build a ship with 4 (or more) Grinders facing down (like legs) which allows easy harvesting of all the debris laying on the ground and will save multiple trips back to the hopper. I built one with 4 Grinders (a cargo on top of each) and it works like a dream.

[@Splitsie]

Not too much bouncing away of parts? That was the main reason I was thinking the grinder pit, well that and I wanted to build a pit that looks like a dumpster (and maybe put a picture of Oscar the grouch in it ;)

[@tassie7325]

😁

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

If you want to go full annihilation mode, design a Cardassian Dreadnought missile. Three massive warheads surrounded by an armored shell, protected by some gatling turrets and a small missile launcher. Expensive as hell (on the order of the Manhattan project) but it would definitely take out that base.

[@Splitsie]

I've always tended to go more for designs that have a real chance of failure, makes for more exciting encounters with the enemy if everything could go wrong ;)

[@jeremyswain9842]

A Missile trailer will still be really cool. Maybe have it with some welders so it can continuously launch missiles.

[@Splitsie]

That's the hope, or at least some way of making new ones when out in the field :)

[@asgardiumccx6216]

Well i think you need at least one thruster pointing down if you want to do some diving bombing with rudolf. As for the bunker, maybe, maybe the problem is the related to the reloading time for each turret. If they reload at the same time, it mean that neither of them is able to shoot the incoming drone. And so perhaps this drone is able to kill them before the end of the relaoding. One possible solution is two more turret with shorter range. And so they will cover the turret one and two durring the reloading time. Another option is to set one or two decoy coupled with welder set on (and spare part), both covered by a thick layer of heavy armor block.

[@Splitsie]

I'm planning on the rebuild of the bunker including at least one decoy that could later be upgraded to include a welder as that should at least make the turrets last that little bit longer. I also agree about the downward thruster, I wanted to try one shot in day time so that when I do add that thruster I can hopefully notice the difference more and see whether it's really worth adding :)

[@DarthRRuff]

Splitsie. Maybe, bunker don't work because turrets aim for wreckage? Turrets don't shoot through voxels, but they might calculating some wreckage with reactor\battery as target and giving priority to them. If this is true, then sandbags will also fail after some time.

[@Splitsie]

I think you're right, the upside of the sandbags is there are more of them so less chance of every one targeting the same piece of wreckage, plus they've already got decoys on them which can't hurt (something I'm going to add when I rebuild the bunker) :)

[@lucaspatrick7478]

13:25 I am the same exact way! Ha good to know I not the only one!

[@Splitsie]

Where logic escapes me, I fall back on what just feels right ;)

[@FunkyBaconArts]

Add a third turret to your bunker. I too had problems with two turrets but after adding a third they wrecked anything that got in range. Also I added two decoys on the side of my bunker but they never got any use as the drones never got in range.

[@Splitsie]

That's the best kind of decoy, and I think I certainly need another turret with the bunker out of action

[@Viperflight1984]

some small welders on the front of egor to see if it will help make it so you can drive straight over your projections, they don't have to weld it in just enough so you can do it automatically instead of manually doing it, still allow the large welders to do all the work though, might make things quicker for ya mate

[@macgabhann1108]

when he first built Igor I was half expecting him to do just that, was surprised he didn't.

[@Viperflight1984]

MacGabhann I'd say that it's because he has been so busy with other projects and the attacks he hadn't had a chance to sit down and think about it

[@macgabhann1108]

so true he does have a lot of things going on all at once and with the drone attacks coming for a visit that hasn't helped much

[@Splitsie]

Yeah, there's quite a lot going on. I might spend a bit more time thinking about upgrades to Igor, including some forward welders when I do his battery addition

[@AndrielChaoti]

*before* sorting. Put the bottles somewhere else, then Isy's script will put them in the O2/H2 generators before it puts them back in the containers marked for bottles.

[@Splitsie]

What I was hoping to do was save a step each time I grab components and refill the bottles, putting them in the container I open will work when I access through a container, but when I use one of the pipe access things it'll still need those extra steps :(

[@AndrielChaoti]

Yeah, having to juggle it around isn't exactly efficient :)

[@titogilbert2]

To upgrade Igor without losing his "charm"... Add the second battery where the gyro is and put the gyro off center on the back battery and then a light armor skin around the gyro... Igor needs a hump!

[@Splitsie]

I love the thought of putting the gyro deliberately off center, that will irk some people so much ;)

[@trwolf2k]

Are you sure the Bunker has power? Its got 2 turrets and a beacon to power on what was it, just a few batteries? You've never done anything to recharge it since it was built and every time you've gone to look we on our end have not seen you check them. As they say, "Assume nothing!" :D

[@macgabhann1108]

good point I wondered that myself but figured he had checked it off camera.

[@TyoAtrosa]

the thing is the display last said it said a few weeks worth of power, so i doubt that was it.

[@Splitsie]

Definitely has power, I'm starting to suspect my done graveyard is the problem, I wonder if there are some pieces they're targeting and only switching to the new targets too late

[@trwolf2k]

Splitsie Then maybe you should look into the smart targeting mod. You can set turrets to ignore grids with certain block counts.

[@Splitsie]

I might give it a try just to test it, from what I've read I suspect it will have too much performance impact due to my rather sizable number of turrets, but since they don't appear to be working very well it might be with trying

[@lunalore2613]

No! Don't body shame Igor!

[@Shaunus82]

Isy's Inventory Manager is fantastic. I'm using it on my Asteroid Base, and will also add it to the planet base when I eventually get back there. I had the same problem as you though, in that I could not get the bottles to refill. I spent a long time trying to figure out why they would not refill, but could never get that feature to work. As for the Chicken Hawk, and Rudolf, Hmmmm!!!! not sure about them. Seems to me like an awful waste of resources to do a job that could easily be done by a well armed and armored ground vehicle, or ship, and you still have no parachutes on the Chicken Hawk.

[@macgabhann1108]

by default with out a script the O2 generator should auto pull bottles that are not full to it, and the script from what I can tell is supposed to allow for that , yet I have heard from a few people that it seems to be preventing that default behavior, however I am not sure about that as I have only used that script once considering I always forget about it.

[@collinbarker]

It will pull if the bottles are not in the container labeled bottles. Put them anywhere else and it will move them. The variable that you change even suggests this, not very clearly though. Pull bottles to O2 generator BEFORE moving to cargo container.

[@Splitsie]

That's unfortunate, I hope I can find out a way around that as it would be nice to just be able to type cc like I do each time and deal with components and the bottles in the same place, saving a couple of steps

[@justingreene2592]

I agree with most of the other commenters, igor should be left ugly. But some functional upgrades do seem to be in order, like the 2nd battery, and the front mounted welders so the igor can place blocks as well. As for the chicken hawk it could use some armor to reinforce it's structure, so that it doesn't fall apart if the connector gets shot out. The solar tower needs decoys to protect the panels and a turret or 3 would be to the wise. Mainly because its such a vital system of your base. No tower = no power And repeated repairs is starting to get really expensive. Rebuilding the turrets on the bunker may fix your issues with them not working. With Rudolf I would say a daylight test is in order before making any changes to the design that way you can also see the damage caused

[@Splitsie]

Definitely leaving him ugly, I just felt like making him look finished, and ugly ;) For rudolf I think I need both daylight testing and a complete recording using reggie so I get some good angles on the strike :)

[@macgabhann1108]

Might want to try putting a gps marker right at the base of the enemy base antenna build a new missile but have thrusters in all 6 directions and a remote block with collision avoidance off then send it to the gps marker

[@Splitsie]

That could be an interesting experiment... I suspect it wouldn't end well as won't the autopilot start freaking out the moment one directional thruster stops working?

[@macgabhann1108]

Most likely but if you have a decoy on the thrusters should hopefully survive long enough.

[@auraswolf]

just a thought maybe the bunker wasn't shooting because there was still "active" targets closer then the drones were able to slowly get more and more shots in until it was disabled??

[@Splitsie]

That's what I'm thinking, it seems to be the only real possibility now, and fortunately is a good excuse for making the grinder pit a higher priority ;)

[@Duke00x]

You really do need to add the turret AI control mod. It will allow you to set the turrets to not shoot grids with less than a certain number of blocks (say 15 or 20). This keeps them from shooting parts that fall off and keeps them shooting the part still flying and dangerous and it also keeps them from shooting the wreckage once the ship has crashed. This will save you lots of ammo.

[@Splitsie]

I avoided adding it as I felt it would give me ask unfair advantage vs an ai that needs all the help it can get. But with the bunker playing up I might look at it again. Performance appears to be an issue with it from the comments on the workshop though, and I do have a fairly large number of turrets...

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

if I was in charge of making defense drones it would be overkill so call me the hellhound also a good idea would have been to make rotor thrusters(up,down) with gravity orientation script so you can never run out of lift

[@Splitsie]

Sadly can't use rotor thrusters on something like this because the intent was for it to be printable, since you can't project sub grids you can't use them in something you want to print :(

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

well thats good to know despite the fact that its a design flaw with the projector

[@nemesiskapn2406]

Build a vehicle with silo, protector and welder. Load with materials, drive out and shoot missiles all day long.

[@Splitsie]

Eventually ;)

[@potatoking5602]

The Igor's possible changes are actualy good because you can lower it's center of mass

[@Splitsie]

Oh, no. I'm not planning on making it better, just finished ;)

[@tauseefraza400]

You should add the guidance missile from the work shop. Now that would be cool.

[@Splitsie]

I'm going to toy with automated guidance after I have a fly by wire missile that's working nicely :)

[@trinitytruth5681]

Yea, give Igor some love. Whatever you do, don't loose those pistons! :-P

[@Splitsie]

I would never deprive Igor of his pistons, they've become his trademark :P

[@KeithRCmafia1967]

Thanks for another great episode Splitsie!! Ya make my day😆

[@Splitsie]

Thanks Keith, glad you're enjoying them :)

[@sampfrost]

maybe rebuild the bunker such that it has auto repair using welders, and connect it to the main base for cargo, if you sink more of the bunker underground might be more durable?

[@Splitsie]

I am certainly thinking of a complete rebuild of the bunker, and putting it a little into the ground is a nice idea :) My main reason for not connecting it to the base is performance related. I've got air tightness on and very spread out grids cause fairly harsh performance drops so I try to avoid them where I can :)

[@sampfrost]

Splitsie ah, then a a supply drone carrying stuff too and fro? maybe using the laser things to check cargo in bunker and program shenanigans to use that to decide when to resupply?

[@Splitsie]

If I can get sprug's autopilot docking script thingy to work that might actually be feasible...

[@KMaciej84]

Can You actually make (via script or maybe another way) mechanism that will automatically return drone to specific GPS after losing connection or stopping of controlling the drone? That would be helpfull.

[@Splitsie]

A few people have suggested I set up an autopilot to return the chicken hawk to the base, that would come in handy if the front camera were shot off as I could just turn autopilot on and let it fly back for me, plus there's a script on the workshop by Sprug that I want to try which may make it even more effective :)

[@stanpollard]

You can get Igor to do the job on a matically if you set GPS markers I put a remote control on him and set the GPS markers and if the speed down to 5 or 10 will do the all the welding automatically

[@Splitsie]

Sadly as he's wheeled the autopilot can't control him and to attempt to add thrusters and get the autopilot to work is probably a whole lot more trouble than it's worth since the autopilot doesn't even work as well as it used to a few versions ago :(

[@jackhama8155]

Hey Splitsie slowly been working my way through the series and toutorials love the content 👍 keep it up but I do have a question have you come across a game called empyrion galactic survival ? It looks very similar

[@larrytyler1578]

The reason the bottles are not being pulled and filled is there is too much ice in the O2 generator. You have it at max capacity, the generator seems to stop pulling when there is over 15k ice.

[@Splitsie]

Isy's script seems to deal with that when it wants to move the bottles through the generator (which is very clever). From what Isy sent me as to why what I was trying didn't work (sadly I got the message too late to change the video) it's because there's no way that he can get the programmable block to detect the fill level of the bottles, so the script pulls all bottles through the generator on their way to the 'bottles' storage, but if they're already in that storage it'll ignore them. So it would appear I can't have my dream of being able to have the bottles filled if I put them in the spot where they'll end up being kept :(

[@riccardogemme]

Man you're making Subs fast! I remember when there were like 5 or 6 comments each video.

[@Splitsie]

I remember that time too, it's crazy that there's normally around 100 on each video these days. From being excited getting 1 or 2 comments per day, to having to limit myself to spending no more than 1-2 hours replying to comments each day :P I'm very lucky everyone's so engaged with the ridiculous things I do :)

[@kelemvour]

That missile looked like a J-Dam bomb... Pretty cool

[@Splitsie]

I was pretty happy with it, not the prettiest thing, but works ok :)

[@rurotetsuro9555]

Splitsie, here how can you improve the missile, put fins with decoys at the of it, so it may distract the incoming fire

[@Splitsie]

I might pop a decoy or two onto the second version, but with how small it is I suspect the bullet spread will make them mostly ineffective :(

[@Andrew.A.]

Splitsie I'm not sure how the OP pictures the design. My suggestion pertaining to decoys on the missile would be spread out and behind the main body in a Capital 'Y' pattern. This should direct fire directly behind the craft. In addition, a spiral on approach might make the decoys more difficult to target. The farther from the center of rotation, the faster the decoys will move out of path. If it works as expected, you might extend the life of your decoys this way.

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

Just wondering, if your target is at a distance couldn't you use missiles on it and switch to guns when you got in closer❓

[@Splitsie]

If you're talking player made missiles like the rudolf, sure you could, though you'd probably want to use one of the automatically guided missile scripts so that you can remain in control of your vehicle that has the guns. Sadly I don't think any of those scripts would handle exiting the launch site that I built :P

[@cgrant26]

"Lots and lots and lots and lots of basic tools..." Looking at you, Capac. :P

[@Splitsie]

That might have been who I was thinking of at the time :P

[@DarkPhoenixDack125]

Stayed late at work for an additional 4 hours, come home past when I go to bed, still, haven't eaten, OH look, Splitsie posted a video! P.S. Egor is perfect the way he is P.P.S Maybe use one forward thruster, a small reactor with a tiny bit of Uranium with a gyroscope and warhead for a very sleek and cheap missile!

[@Splitsie]

I'm actually really liking the idea of a mini bomb/missile like that, especially if I combine it with another idea that was mentioned which is to use the chicken hawk as the launch platform :)

[@hogfry]

This was a bug for a while. Not sure if its still around now. If your turrets seem edlike they weren't firing at 800 meters. You had to manually reset the range from 800 to 600 then back again. If that didn't work you had to grind down and remake the turret. I only ran into it once but what i was told is it was common with lots of different unconnected grids close together with turrets on.

[@Splitsie]

I've heard of that before too - thought it's really hard to test if that's what the problem is :/

[@robertrenato]

Nice drone-graveyard, You have there :D

[@Splitsie]

Why thank you :)

[@lathspellsolannis7942]

Helloo Splitsie! ^^ Maybe you should build a Decoy-HeavyArmor-Welder combo near the Bunker (but not too close), connected with the base, so the welders can repair the damaged armor. If you combinate this with a projector, the welder could rebuild armors, if its totaly destroyed. If you set the height and the position of this decoy, it should defend the Bunker. (You need sooome iron to use this..)

[@Splitsie]

I'm thinking a complete rebuild of the bunker could be a good idea, and this time I intend to include a decoy as part of the plans :) I don't think I'll set it up to be welder backed at first, but I'll try to leave space for that to be added later

[@garnth6594]

+1 for putting lipstick on Igor. When re-building the bunker, could you use some laser antennas to connect it to the base so you could remote in ans see what it's doing when you hear random gunfire? Maybe even control it if it decides to rebel again? Also, I'm all for moving your sarlacc pit style wreckage disposal system up the priority list. Isn't all that random wreckage hurting your performance?

[@Splitsie]

LOL ahhh, lipstick on a pig, love it :D Since the bunker is probably not firing until too late as I suspect it's constantly targeting some of that wreckage, yes it is moved much higher up the list of priorities :)

[@charlieodom9107]

You should run the script many people have suggested that only targets enemies above a certain block count.

[@Splitsie]

I don't like to give myself additional advantages over the AI, it's generally too easy a fight already

[@wraithleader2906]

A pic of Slim Pickens riding the bomb? Can't think of the movie name.

[@Splitsie]

Dr Strangelove, that was exactly what I was thinking, or find a 50's style pinup of a similar idea :)

[@L0rdNikoN1]

YES ! Beef up Igor :D Make him looked buffed with a adv. Rotor and two Large Welders XD

[@Splitsie]

Lol, that would certainly leave him top heavy :P

[@L0rdNikoN1]

You could Offset this with mass blocks..

[@Splitsie]

Or just roll with it ;)

[@L0rdNikoN1]

Splitsie literally xD

[@Altaree1]

You could set up some walls that prevent the turrets from depressing their guns too far.

[@Splitsie]

That probably would have helped, but once you've caught up to the current episodes I think you'll really like what became of the bunker ;)

[@BrianJ1962]

Would Igor have benefited from an artificial mass block, or was this before they were implemented?

[@tackytrooper]

I definitely think you should do a bit of terminal effectiveness testing with the missiles before you send them at the enemy; ever since the big physics update I've noticed crash damage has been wildly nerfed to the point that you can hardly even deliberately crash a ship anymore, much less achieve complete destruction of a missile on impact. In my missile testing most designs with any armor on them at all practically bounced off the target even at maximum speed.

[@Splitsie]

It seemed like the warhead exploded pretty well, plus I'd prefer to make craters around the enemy's base than my own if explosion fails :P

[@tackytrooper]

Ok I take some of that back, I've been really busy and haven't really been able to play SE for a month or two. It appears Keen went back to the table and tweaked their physics a bit so things can fall apart again, which is certainly a welcome discovery. For a while there though I was really stressed out when I couldn't get any sort of built missile weapon to work properly.

[@renxiu3564]

dude.. how abot attaching the gravity sensor script for the camera.. so that whenever you want to sure hit the enemy base, you just need to aim and let the missile fall.. but this thing requires a lot of things.. 🤔

[@Splitsie]

It's a great idea to weaponise that script, I might save it for a bomber though, perfectly accurate bombing :)

[@ScorpiusZA.]

I know why you removed your cross hair, but when it comes to firing the gatling, it will help your aim a lot more. Side point - why dont you add that clear camera mod. will make seeing where you are going easier?

[@Splitsie]

It certainly would, but it's such a pain to turn on and off that I just live with some of the challenges, I feel like I'm getting pretty good at estimating the exact center of the screen though :P I may add a clean camera and the camera panning mod by digi, I've added so few mods since the start of the playthrough I'm trying to be careful to avoid the usual mod bloat that comes with playing SE...

[@tackytrooper]

Splitsie used my suggestion yessssssssss

[@TheCrunchyThing]

You should convert the duckling into a missile delivery system and I'm glad to see it works better than the missile printer you made in survival unlikely lol

[@Splitsie]

Hehe, things in this series tend to work better since I have fewer distractions dressed in orange :P

[@unclegreybeard3969]

Would it be feasible to carry a load of gravel and drop it from up high thereby using it as a weapon??

[@Splitsie]

Sadly not, since gravel and rocks don't do damage to grids :(

[@maxwelllandry9685]

Dose he still have the fuse box battery If so might be a cheaper alturnitive for the missile

[@Splitsie]

I don't think those are available for small grid but maybe I should check as that's a very useful point :)

[@btCharlie_]

I have a similar issue with turrets in my base. At some point a pirate base spontaneously spawned within 5km of my base and the streak of drones began - it was fine for a while as between my two base turrets and a parked battle tank I was sufficiently armed. After 10 or 20 drones however, one turret got buggy. It would shoot at less than 100m range, sometimes wouldn't shoot at all, and the other turrets behave weird too. It's frustrating because I literally can't do anything other than repairing the damage done.... If this continues I will have to either turn off the drones or get rid of the pirate base in creative as I don't have any means of taking the fight to them, and the drone attacks and repairs prevent me from building anything substantial.

[@Splitsie]

If it's one of my bases from the assertive installations mod I'm going to be updating those soon so even if it's that close you'll get some down time to get some additional defenses built :) I completely rewrote the antenna range modifier with the help of Octavio so that it'll send 3-4 drones at you, then give you somewhere between 25-45 minutes of peace before doing it again. Should be a much more interesting way to fight them as the original script was really only suited to the scenario I setup for this series, not so much for procedurally spawned bases

[@btCharlie_]

@@Splitsie - That sounds really great, combating more than two enemies at once is rare in SE, and deadly, too. It probably is a base from your mod, otherwise I dunno where it came from :D I usually stick to vanilla, but this time I installed a bunch of mods when I started the world, so I kinda lost track of the stuff I included... But either way, the problem isn't in the mod because everything was going fine for the first dozen drones or so, it's the sudden weird turret behavior that sabotages me. If the turrets were behaving properly, all would be fun and games. I'm thinking maybe the debris around the formed drone graveyard may be messing with the turret targeting, so I'll try to do some cleanup and see if it improves. Other than that, I haven't found any solution and it's frustrating. Edit: Just got to the next episode and listened to you suggest the very same thing :D I swear we think alike :D

[@zachmann8895]

Mk-ll looked more like a wasp or bee oh you could call it the "bumble"

[@Pyrenthius]

leave the missile as is, but like you said only use it during the day. maybe encase the camera a bit more in some half slabs / half slopes so you stand a chance of getting a better aim at the base

[@Splitsie]

I'm thinking there are two designs I want to try in the day time, the first is with no changes, the second is a very pared down one that can be dropped from the chicken hawk and is more like a rocket/bomb than a missile ;)

[@Pyrenthius]

time to get out the arc of trajectory maths coz id rather not come to a dead stop over the top of a base :P

[@WheresJimToday]

Can you not mount a spotlight side mounted on a small rotator so you can angle it at 45 degrees?

[@Splitsie]

I probably should have to be honest, and I think I eventually did fit some to the trailer of the goose (I'm guessing that's what you're talking about)

[@WheresJimToday]

Yes. I've been binge watching the survival maybe series. Finished it last night. Are you going to go another planet soon or stay on the current one?

[@Triaxx2]

I realize, this is an old comment, on an old video. But were you not aware that F6 returns you to player view from any camera you're viewing?

[@cmilkau]

Thrust vectoring is probably more lightweight than thrusters in all directions, isnt it?

[@Splitsie]

It is, but that would mean the missile or drone would have to be built by hand due to the subgrids. I was wanting these to be able to be printed from projection

[@SanguineRazor]

Splitsie, you should just make a bomb with one thruster forward, backward, left, and right to guide.. Just fly over and drop. Cheap and easy.

[@Splitsie]

Maybe a bomb that can be launched from the chicken hawk, 1 thruster, 1 gyro, 1 reactor, 1 warhead and some heavy armor. Pretty cheap and should be ridiculous fun to try to aim ;)

[@The1wsx10]

oh, hey sanguine

[@SanguineRazor]

Hey 1wsx10

[@riccardogemme]

32:20 Capacish rage noises.... you're learning :)

[@Splitsie]

I'm being assimilated! Save me!!!

[@riccardogemme]

Resistance is futile.

[@sgt.gunslinger1532]

Build a grinding pit trailer with a connection for a "forklift" ship.

[@sgt.gunslinger1532]

Maybe something that you can drop off and use as a semi perm structure

[@Splitsie]

This idea is growing on me, it'll end up enormous but I might be able to fit it in the trailer dimensions I've set...

[@sgt.gunslinger1532]

you might consider using the small ship gone wild mod to make a smaller grinder

[@sgt.gunslinger1532]

Also, make a small 1x2 hanger for the chicken hawk, you could probably use a sliding door as a hanger door for it. build this at the bunker as a FOB for it