Survival, Maybe... #61 Is Splitsie's Goose Cooked? (A Space Engineers Survival Series)

[@LoriH2O]

You might consider adding deployable decoys for the goose. You could then drop them in place on the ground and back up to give yourself something else for an attacker to focus on while the turret takes care of it. Or worst case... drop them and run for it. :D

[@nonplayercharacter6478]

I was thinking that too. During a run back to the base he could say "Deploy chaff" and decoys would pop out as he runs. ;)

[@LoriH2O]

"Deploy chaff" Nonono... Geese lay eggs :D

[@Splitsie]

That is a really cool idea, I could even just have a manual set of them hanging from under the cargo containers or somewhere similar :)

[@nonplayercharacter6478]

A set of golden eggs hanging below a cargo container. Now where have I seen something like that before? Splitsie, you stress my PG algorithms right to the edge. ;)

[@Frank-ys4yz]

But decoys need batteries to work and that can be expensive.

[@SatieDutak]

Splitsie "Ah, A drifting pursuer coming for the goose, must shoot it down with my rifle.” Hidden observer “dosen`t he have a fully operational combat drone in the base?”

[@auraswolf]

when he said that he knew what to do i through he was gonna use it to take the fight away from the Goose XD

[@Splitsie]

Can you imagine me flying the chicken hawk at night? That's asking for lithobraking shenanigans :P

[@lowrads3653]

Wasn't that the point of the brick'n squawk?

[@lowrads3653]

Can't wait for the next episode of Garage Engineers. At some point I think we will need a vertical docking bay for the flying vehicles.

[@Splitsie]

Lol, I might need to go for a name change for the series :P

[@dooku186]

Not gunna lie a verticle shaft off to the side going down (maybe a topside blast door) with little off shoot rooms on the side would be cool to see for more vehicles if they become necessary

[@harrison.gaushell]

Always a good day when a new episode comes out.

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@ZorillaMyrid181]

Every Wednesday and Saturday!

[@Nob-Stop]

When I see Goose Cooked first thing in my mind is What did he DO!? Edit: I mean in the the thumbnail

[@macgabhann1108]

same here.

[@Splitsie]

I do like to have some fun with them ;)

[@trinitytruth5681]

Excellent episode once again. What's really enjoyable about this series is as a viewer, there is a genuine desire to see you succeed. Example... you say "going for a second load" and I get concerned about a possible disaster! Literally saying.... Nooo Splitsie! Don't do it! On your way back up to the base I'm thinking... A - Don't talk to us! For the love of heaven, just get up there safely, your going to get stuck.. don't tip.. don't tip... LOL and B - Why am I gripping my coffee cup so hard? It's just a SE survival video. LOL Conclusion..? This is exactly what a survival series should be. Great fun. Thank you!!!!

[@Splitsie]

Wow, thanks Chris, that's really nice to hear :) I'm really enjoying making this series as so much of the story-like elements have come from the interactions with everyone watching - plus some of the funniest ideas in the base (elevator music as an example) :)

[@tassie7325]

Talk about taking unnecessary risks. Going out to mine as the sun is going down is one thing, but when you realized that you had to stay and fight and there was a chance that you could take damage to the Goose, why didn't you park the Butterball in the mine? One less risk and a means to get home if the worst came to the worst.

[@Splitsie]

It's that old military maxim: people don't rise to the occasion, they sink to the level of their training I probably should have had some training :P

[@tassie7325]

Yeah! train hard; fight easy. Back to boot camp for you young man 😉

[@tidusklein3387]

Splitsie....why not add a rotor with a large grid head on it to the goose, that way you can set your turn table sensor to detect large grids only and wont have to worry about your other ships triggering it at all. Just set the range close to the ground and your rotor kinda low so the buttercup cant tigger it. Another option, put a small ship rotor head (on a large rotor OC)with a bock on your base where your sensor is now and put a sensor on the goose, then use your transmit and receive script to trigger the Command for the turn table, that way no other vehicle could ever trigger it :D. Also i play with the deep ores mod, :D tons of fun but be ready to really have to hunt for ores.

[@Splitsie]

I wouldn't really like to have a giant rotor head on the Goose, not the most attractive of attachments :P I'd probably enjoy the hunt for ores, at least once I find a fun way of doing it :)

[@d-zeronut5094]

arrows with LCDs might also help on the turntable just in case something goes wrong with it

[@Splitsie]

I could probably put corner LCDs somewhere on it with an arrow...

[@relentlessdragon2751]

for the ores you mentioned why not go in off camera and voxel edit a huge area so you can build the mining station i can not see the community minding as its somthing elce to watch you build and tinker with and its not like your just giving the iron to yourself you still have to mine it

[@yonoqueriacuenta]

after all the manual mining he did I'm sure no one will complain if he adds a huge node in the current world. I personally enjoy his tinkering around the problem more than the final solution after all!

[@Splitsie]

I may do a reset of the planet at some stage so I can incorporate the mod - then I'll still have to work out some way to prospect for the minerals and keep the challenge. Not sure what point I'm happy to do that yet, but it's something I've been thinking about :)

[@Splitsie]

When I say reset of the planet, I mean just the voxels, keeping the base exactly as is and mining it out with voxel hands in creative mode :)

[@OldCrunchyTuna]

2 years after being posted and this series is getting me through quarantine time. So sad you made the hanger door and literally NEVER use it though 😭

[@Splitsie]

I used it for at least a couple of cut scene/time lapse bits at least :P

[@IG40fied]

Goose trailer idea: Your "pumpkin launcher"! Could be a form of artillery with some gats (plus deployable decoys cuz that was a good idea) for firefights. I imagine that would combo your constructive tendencies with your destructive desires very well 😉

[@Splitsie]

I absolutely want to do this, be able to launch bombs or decoys from out of range of the enemy turrets. Probably not the best thing for getting salvage but man the waste would be wort it :D

[@eaudesolero5631]

wow dude you've done so much up to this point and i see this series is still going. ,,, wonder what else you've done that ive not got to yet .... makes it necessary to wait til i catch up to say much els. ... nice series

[@Splitsie]

Thanks so much, I'm glad you're enjoying it so far :)

[@josephwytkamp5114]

When are you going to finish the refinery and the assembler rooms?

[@Splitsie]

Ummm..... Next question? ;) More seriously though, I'm hoping to get onto them once I've done the bridge

[@PetrusRossouw]

You need an LCD screen named LCD Autocrafting. You can then set the minimum reserve levels of all the components, and ISY will replace them as you use them. If you are going to need more plates or something for a project, just edit the text on the screen and ISY will do it's thing. Keeping one assembler with the string !manual in the name also helps.

[@Splitsie]

The reason I haven't used the autocrafting yet is that my production rate is too low. At the moment I prefer the greater control I have over what gets built first. Of course once the big parts of the base are complete I'm absolutely going to be setting it up :)

[@zachw2906]

Hey Splitse, I had an idea on how you might solve the driving-at-night problem (besides, you know, NOT driving at night XD ) - set up a bunch of waypoints between you and the base, then build a drone with a bunch of lights on it and enter the waypoints into its guidance system as a patrol route (I believe that will make it go A->B->C->B->A->etc, but you've had more experience with autopilot). If you find yourself about to drive home at night, summon the drone to you via the waypoints, then follow it back - autopilot always moves like it is out for a freakin' Sunday drive, so keeping inside its light radius shouldn't be too hard. If you want to get fancy, you could rig up a timer at the base to launch the drone when you push a button on the Goose's control console, and if you wanted to get REALLY fancy, you could set an action at the mine waypoint so the drone will automatically turn autopilot off and wait; then you don't have to worry about it running off without you. Extra points if the interior lights on the drone are on pistons so they can extend outward and increase the lighted radius, then collapse inward when the drone needs to fit back into its nest. Great episode. Looking forward to the next one :) Cheers. -Z

[@Splitsie]

That would be a pretty cool use of a drone :)

[@TheAshran]

So you did use the conveyor frames in the end. Nice

[@Splitsie]

Indeed, can't ignore a good idea :)

[@macgabhann1108]

0:30 for the angled spots you could try using an advanced rotor to get the angle you need then a second one to go back to the default orientation so that the end could be merge blocked into place, that way your not having to go left right left right. 7:06 the only thing you need suit power for is tools and suit light, the jet pack will still work as long as you have hydrogen, it no longer requires suit energy. so the only issue you would have in that hole would be lighting you could still fly. 16:36 that is good to hear the small grid welders are useless currently so I will definitely be looking forward to that update.

[@Splitsie]

I don't know that flying in perfect darkness would be my smartest move, but it is useful to remember the pack still works without power :) I'm hoping it sneaks into the multiplayer patch but I think that's unlikely :(

[@macgabhann1108]

yea flying in darkness only results in death, though when there is plenty of light around I often find my self with 0% power when doing a lot of welding, and luckily the riffle still works with 0% found that out the hard way.

[@rishoh]

Suggestion: put a control panel under the gooses trailer, so that the next time this happens you can stay under cover while shooting the turret.

[@Splitsie]

That's a good idea :)

[@Comicsluvr]

I felt for you mining that vein of Iron. I've never seen such a narrow vein in all my hours of play. You had to thread the needle the whole time. My hat is off to your patience.

[@Splitsie]

That's about what I've always seen as normal, I wonder if it changed with the graphics update - since these voxels were generated a long, long time ago :P

[@UnkleAzazael]

Thanks for another great video Splitsie. As someone who has wasted far too many hours with deep ores and complex mining rigs I'd love to see how you tackle the problem. Two things to bear in mind though: while it can be hugely rewarding, it can also be equally frustrating - once you get more than a couple of rotors involved you have around a 98% chance of seeing your beautiful creation become one or more epic whirling clang-bombs. The other thing is, having seen what you have achieved with just one modest iron ore deposit, what would you use a larger one for?

[@Thade780]

UnkleAzazael hopefully finish welding the base! 😂

[@Splitsie]

Lol, well that would be the first thing to do with all that Iron I guess :P Though maybe I could use it to make an entire fleet of motherships all carrying chicken hawks on rotor and piston mounted connectors... or something like that ;) Really it would just be an excuse to build a permanent looking mining base :)

[@jamesmyers7418]

So for the lights on the way back, what your going to want to do, since they will be bulky anyway, is a battery, a solar panel, an interior light, and a Gatling turret. This should be large grid. This will not only give you a clear path at night for whatever you may be doing, but also increases the amount of ease to defend yourself and the valley.

[@Splitsie]

That would certainly work, not sure if that much infrastructure is worth the effort though :/

[@jasonwrathorn9281]

I liked the suggestion of using the deep ores and building a whole mining base... that sounds like an interesting project. You might consider rolling in the 'lighted path' project with some additional large grid turrets, making small fortifications along your path at key points to mark where you need to go up a specific way. That would give you an extra level of defense if you need to make a run for it. They might also be able to stretch armored block out to either direction so you could use more of the smaller lights off the one battery/power grid. Also, it might not be a bad idea to do a scouting trip in here somewhere so you know where your next patch of iron is. It would suck to fortify the whole route and find out that it goes in the wrong direction or some such.

[@Splitsie]

I've been expecting this iron deposit to run out for several loads now which was why I delayed building the lighting infrastructure, the irony of that is I'm probably going to put the infrastructure in just as it runs out now :P

[@RJ-fm2bd]

What if you put piping around the perimeter of the vent. Might give a good illusion of insetting the slatted windows.

[@Splitsie]

That might work, I'll toy around with it and see if I can make something I like :)

[@demize7498]

Splitsie, I've used catwalks as a parking guide to correctly park my Nomad truck. Maybe do something like that to use as a bumper in the rear so you're not going too far. As for your mining area, maybe it would be a good idea to make a C.O.B, something like your bunker without the massive window. Plus, you'd be able to light up the mining area. Keep up the good videos, I've been on a Witcher 3 kick lately but watching your videos have me wanting to get back into SE.

[@demize7498]

Also, finish painting that damn pillar yellow! The one right next to the turn table sensor.

[@Splitsie]

That's a nice idea, I might use the railings as a bumper :) Hehe, yeah I do need to get some proper painting done, once I've welded everything up I'm going to go through the base and fix all the bits I find

[@tsabito]

Rly nice! :D That scene, when all the Sandbags fired at the drone, was awesome! :D I know it's a bit dodgy, but how about, a small battery, and solar panel, with some small armor block to make a pillar, and at the top of the pillar a small rotor, with a large rotor head, and a large interior light? It would almost look like a promenade light. Or you could just make a blueprint of maybe 4 lights on a single large battery with 7-9 armor block between them keeping it all together, and project it in a way, that the joining armor is underground, and only the pillars with the lights are above the voxels. A large welder should be able to weld them through a little bit of voxel. The other thing I was thinking about, you really need some LCDs with the battery status of your ships, next to their parking spot :D Just like you wanted with to do with the Tick's parking spot.

[@Splitsie]

I really do need to set up a bunch of LCDs about the place especially around the vehicles - yet another little job I've left half done :P I'm slowly ticking some of them off :)

[@KristianS80]

I love the realization @min20.

[@orwellianhaggis4314]

I was going to suggest a conveyor-fed series of turret & light towers leading to the mine. Additional protection in case of attack while mining and also a well-lit road home.

[@Splitsie]

That might be a little more infrastructure than would be repaid by the ores :P

[@Lazarus_Jones404]

You could try turning the rotors for the hitch on when reversing off the turntable as this would make the goose and trailer rigid and better for going backwards.

[@Splitsie]

I might just give this a go, nice thought :)

[@Shakads]

Regarding the conveyor system for the angled spots, if you don't want to zigzag your way into them, you could always use another advanced rotor preferably under the center of the turntable, and rotate it 45°. You'll be able to go straight towards the two parking spots in the corners, although it may be a little bit more difficult to setup the connectors at the end but I'm sure you could come up with an interesting design!

[@Splitsie]

That could be a good solution, and as you say, it would be fun to build :P

[@titogilbert2]

In your timer block room just to the right of the door when you enter the room, you could put a LCD or Text panel showing which timer blocks are used and what they are used for... Just another reason to "complicate" things a little more. : )

[@Splitsie]

That's a good thought, I should probably get better at labeling things in every way :P

[@etrun3871]

I really want there to be spinning, flashing lights when you open the blast doors at the front of the hangar, it's just one of those things lol :D

[@Splitsie]

I know exactly what you mean, I want them too :P

[@charleslee1858]

Large grid rover miner. Maybe with a road? Should be a fairly large operation and relatively easy to run between base and mine site if any rough spots along the way are smoothed out just a bit

[@RJ-fm2bd]

Another thing you could do is paint the blocks on the floor of the bays where you want the wheels of the goose and/or trailer a different colour to help guide the parking

[@Splitsie]

That would probably be a good start :)

[@HoundRogerson]

I was thinking, if you are still interested in fine-tuning the connector gantry for the Goose, you could switch where the Advanced Piston is, from the floor, to the top of the gantry right behind the corner piece. This would enable you to have the connector flip up parallel to the ceiling (which look be more visually interesting), and wouldn't have to worry about waiting for the whole thing to move out of the way of the turret.

[@Splitsie]

The main reason I didn't do a drop down like that from the ceiling is that I would lose the ability to change the offset to get a lock if the suspension leaves the Goose a little bit low, it would look nice that way though

[@wholleyseasons3296]

Make streetlights similar to your sandbags, that way you can move them as needed.

[@rvendelstrego6688]

Try coloring the ends of the turntable. Green, drive on ... Red, drive off ... Well, those were my first thoughts. The sensor is quite useful. Destructive behavior. Sounds intriguing. I can't wait to see your solution.

[@Splitsie]

I had thought about colouring it or painting it in some way that indicated direction, but thought this might end up looking prettier :P

[@0623kaboom]

something you could do is take a battery with a turret on it and a light and drop them along the return path so you not only get some cover fire but actually light the path at the same time

[@tobiasbrandlehner9618]

Hey Splitsie, have you thought about putting corner LCD's in front of the timer and programmable blocks with there name or function,so you would always know which one is doiung what and which one is free. Maybe this also looks good, maybe. An old idea is, maybe it would be good to place a status light red/green somewhere visible in the hangar to show if the turrets are on or off, only as a safety feature. Also Isy support LCD Output, so you have your Ore, Ingot and Componet Information on one View. Thank you for your videos, i love this series.

[@Splitsie]

That is a brilliant idea! I may have to come up with a different lighting solution though...

[@jakal1988]

As mentioned before ... you seem to forget about the poor chicken hawk for your defense ... it wasn't allowed to fly for a long time ;) Few more small ideas came into my mind: 1st Why don't you use the power in the Goose to recharge the Butterball. In the beginning it might made sence to create the exception in Isy's script but now where you have a proper Connector you could save alot of time and get 2 trips done a day. 2nd you could use some sandbags to create "gates" on the way back for orientation at night untill you come up with a better idea. maybe adding some white lights on those so you can drive from gate to gate. aswell it would create some protection if you don't see enemy drone coming before you start going back. 3rd As you were talking about mining bases i got thr idea of a dropable cargo/processing module witch can be moved from mine to mine either on a trailer of the goose or by any flying ship. Power supply could happen by battery modules you aswell mentioend moth ago that you are thinking about building new solar towers with battery modules before your solar tower got attacked. Hope you get what i mean cause i am struggling to get my thoughts into a proper text. Aswell it wouldn't be very usefull just somehow cool. Another small question. Can we get an updated save on the workshop? :) i would really like to try out some of my ideas there again ... even your solutions in the end are much better then mine.

[@Splitsie]

I didn't completely forget about the chicken hawk, but it does lack lights so it's not the best thing to fly at night :P I avoid stealing the power from the Goose as it is more wasteful for power - you lose 20% when transferring from one battery to another, so if I do that once from the base to the Goose, then from the Goose to the Butterball it adds up. Plus I'm terrified I'll leave the goose without power accidentally :/ I'm pretty busy this week coming with a course (which is also why my replies were late last week) but will hopefully get the updated world on the workshop next weekend or early the following week :)

[@jakal1988]

Already looking forward to the new save :) If you would build your additional solar tower with battery modules there would not be any worry about the amount of power you lose ;) Even when you use the thrusters fully loaded you had still 29 minutes energy left in the goose in the video what is alot more then you would ever use especially cause the charged batteries from the butterball are adding energy again even there is a loss of 20% ... adding 2 more batteries to the goose trailer would leave you with alot more power. One battery can be switched off permanently so the connector can always be powered again and in case of emergency you could use a battery module you could connect to recharge again. even right now aswell i am not sure if you include the exception into the scrip in the goose aswell may it's batteries charge from the butterball at the moment. looking at the trailer again you could add 6 more batteries without changing the desing too much. that would leave you with being able to recharge the 4 batteries even with considering the loss of 20% and even leaving 1 additional battery for safety. maybe next time after mining have a look at how much power actually is left in the goose in percent. if it's still about 70-80% it means you already have alot spare energy

[@peters2928]

Have you considered putting a removable battery system on the Butterball or maybe another drill ship similar? Having a spare battery pack makes it possible to charge batteries while using the ship. And would interior blocks work to guide you along the path?

[@Splitsie]

I didn't think about using a removable battery to allow for recharge, that's a really cool idea. Not sure I can retrofit the butterball but I'll try to keep it in mind for using in the future :) That's a really cool thought, I wonder how far away their small amount of light cuts out...

[@Pecomica]

Another good episode. Really looking forward to each new episode you make. Don't know if i have asked this before or such, but with all the scripting possibilities out there, with such a great community. Is there a script or the possibility of a script that will alert you if you hit a specific weight on your ship? And maybe even turn off the drills? Since you now have so much ore and are working on fixing up the hangar bay, how about sending another bomb drone to the enemy bases? Just to let them know you haven't forgotten about them. I think that is why they send their emissaries to you. They feel left out :)

[@Splitsie]

I've not seen something that can detect the mass of a ship, I'm not even sure if the programmable block has access to that information. Would be incredibly useful if it were possible... I might have a plan to make them feel included that I think you'll like :)

[@Pecomica]

Yeah. It does seem difficult to find. Maybe a tweak on one of the inventory scripts, that instead of setting a limit on how many steel plates you can carry, you can set a limit on how much ore you can load? Sounds to me it might work, but I can't code so I have no idea what is involved :) Looking forward to your solution to the pesky neighbors

[@zrebbesh]

With a follow script (maintaining relative position w/r/t a player-piloted vehicle), a drone could do overwatch when you're driving the goose. As a side benefit, you could mount downward-pointing spotlights on it.

[@Splitsie]

I should really look into some of those scripts, it'd be awesome to drive into battle in a tank with a swarm of follow drones providing overwatch :)

[@harmonicadude4732]

Use a roter to only make the light large grid

[@Splitsie]

I could do that, I'm hoping to come up with something attractive that takes advantage of the transformer box from Eikester's decorations to build the light from as then I can make them static grids :)

[@harmonicadude4732]

You could put the tubes on the surface that conect to the base cargo system and put the transformer box on it with a light. The reson to conect it to the base is so you could fly the butter ball down mine land recharge and dump ore. This could be almost infinit mining time and no more dangoris jorneys down the hill with the goose

[@dooku186]

Why not create a light "tower" or little solar powered light posts with interior lights near the mine for night time use. Like one battery, a couple solar panels and a bunch of small grid studs poking out of the ground (fairly spread out so as not to run them over with the goose) to provide a bit of illumination during night trips

[@Splitsie]

I think I've come up with a little design for something to use as marker lights that I can start building along the route to the mine, very small and I think it looks decent too :)

[@Zenarisu]

you could have put blast door pieces to vents like they use in big ship engine vents

[@geordiecarl3409]

Yeah I panicked when I saw the video title haha great stuff Splitsie, i patiently await your next video. Looking forward to you taking the fight to the pirates, any plans for a hydrogen built to grab some platinum

[@Splitsie]

No plans to grab some platinum very soon, but I do want to build a hydrogen powered ship soon anyway, I'm just trying to think on what purpose the ship would have...

[@rich_2739]

There is a slight issue with the turntable logic: Take bay 2 for example. When you park, you want to drive onto the table and be rotated 135 degrees, then reverse into the bay. However, when you drive out you want to be rotated 45 degrees (to position 180) to drive out. That means 0 isn't your exit position, 180 is. So when using any bay other than 3, you will need to drive in, press bay number, park, drive out, press bay number 3, exit. Just a little thing to remember!

[@Splitsie]

The angles that I've set up for all the bays are for reversing in, so exit will always be the parking position for bay 3. I can't remember when I did it, but I have also set up a sensor to reset the turntable position to 0 whenever I leave with the goose. As far as I can work out I shouldn't be able to run into any troubles with the system as it's set up now. But I guess I'll find out :P

[@charger8624]

you could use a ship that flies, but can pick up the goose, that would most likely blow up 11/10 times, but it would be fun!

[@Splitsie]

That would be very expensive on my power. Would be cool to make a mothership to fly the goose to a new planet though :)

[@greyskull3363]

I noticed you have a large maze of tunnels. I guess this would be very difficult to build on a Moon or Astroid. Because the Stone is not airtight.

[@TheLexander23]

Ooohhhh, completely forgot about the possibility to use small grid blocks to center the connector 😅 Looks good, better than the whole "connector-arm" rotated I suppose.

[@Splitsie]

Hopefully with some armor around it, it'll look even nicer :)

[@jaymiddleton772]

Did you consider a slightly different color for the vent blocks on that hole-covering-up-vent-thingy? I think the dark grey you've used elsewhere would add the thing it feels like is missing

[@Splitsie]

I did try that off camera, and I felt like the whole vent looked too hidden, but maybe I need to play with different colours on the slatted windows instead to see if I can make them feel inset :)

[@navidjon692]

Maybe use a power box for the lights

[@theonecalledstein]

That's my suggestion as well. The transformer boxes work great for "street" lights.

[@Splitsie]

That's a great idea, I'll start toying with some designs to take advantage of it :)

[@potatoking5602]

You could try to add a big spotlight on the goose to be able to see 120 meters beyond

[@Splitsie]

The spotlights that are on there at the moment reach out to 120m, but it's just hard to get enough situational awareness even with that range :/

[@matthewhutchinson6310]

Night combat tactics 101 always fire your weapon in bursts. That way you can see to aim.

[@oliverhayes1357]

So you didnt put a lot of sandbags around one of the places you go most with a lot of valuble things. Good job splitsie

[@Splitsie]

I had 8, it worked out nicely. I'd say that was plenty :)

[@waylandsmithers2815]

Traffic lights would be perfect

[@L0rdNikoN1]

You could do like a portal crane style arm in the Hangar corridor, leading to the dome, so that you can load Different things to the goose, like the butterball, while it drives out of there. Also, you should really Start to upgrade your power situation.

[@Splitsie]

I do need to increase my power output, though it's been fairly stable with the recent constructions thankfully :)

[@zrebbesh]

Around 18:00 you switched from talking about marek announcing increased range for small-grid grinders to all the amazing things you can do with increased range for small-grid welders. I didn't actually see that announcement; so which is it? Or is it both?

[@Splitsie]

Both got returned to a more reasonable range around the time of this video :)

[@collinbarker]

Trees do provide cover. My brother and I took out a base from the planetary installations using trees and rocket launchers

[@Splitsie]

Awesome :) Thanks for letting me know

[@HellHasNoFear]

I was thinking it would be easier to set one timer block to a 30 degree turn each push for the turn table. Would it really matter if you had to push it 3 times to get to the centre bay? You could also have a button to do out of the cockpit.

[@Splitsie]

That would certainly be an option, but I like having the one push solution even though it was a bit of extra work at the start :)

[@GarryGabriel]

don't necessarily need lights, could just mark a gps route then have a clean connect the dots from base to mine

[@Splitsie]

The main reason I didn't want to do that was due to the HUD clutter from GPS markers, it felt more role playing to do it with lights too :)

[@83Sk1ns]

I can see the idea of an 'R&D' area being built off from your hanger, it'd have it's own bays for prototypes, test beds, designs and others along with what you once said with having a wee bit of RP mixed in with your survival series. Looking at the front of the goose, it reminds me of Ed209 from Robocop (not the remake). Not going to spoil it for anyone lol, however I'm interested in seeing this 'destructive' thing you speak off :D I've tried your survival maybe out and was interesting, well erm I ended up with around 20-25 (may well be more) drones intact and locked to armor blocks just outside the cabin, at this point the pirates ran out of drones to send my way after give or take 40 minutes of fun and games although it took 4.5 to 5 hours for that to start. A question for you Splitsie, did you build a large ore detector close to your base (or apart of it), to find out whether or not there is any ore around it, mainly iron? You may well have a new sub come your next vid. Ps, if you're interested, check out morilibus, He did a solo survival (now a playlist), way before planets were added. Not sure what vid it was however he came up with a design for a welding bay for small ships (keep in mind it was in space) and was based on timers and sensors, it may well give you an idea or 2 for your own. Anyway, thanks for reading.

[@Splitsie]

An R&D bay would be a cool idea - I could stuff it with a few of the older versions of some vehicles half built to really get the feeling down :) I'm glad the scenario was some fun, it could certainly use some tweaking and I'll hopefully get some time to do that eventually :P

[@camdengallup8671]

I love these videos so much❤️

[@Splitsie]

Thanks! :)

[@TheDanlovejoy]

i almost thought you were going to hula hoop that drifter on its way down

[@Splitsie]

Hehe, that would be a fair bit of fun to try :D

[@bkleindel]

Nice night fight!

[@JustinLight]

I'm still fairly new to Space Engineers (working on my third mining ship after blowing the first 2 up on their first trip) so this might not be possible, but is there a script that would allow you to have the Butterball dock automatically when returning from a trip? I would be cool to see it take off and go dock as you drive the Goose by.

[@Splitsie]

Sadly at the moment I don't think so, since the Goose is mobile and the autopilot uses GPS I don't believe there is a script that works reliably yet, though there are some people working on things like that for motherships and drones. Fingers crossed they work out a solution :)

[@commiccannon592]

3:45 temporal incursion detected uss enterprise 1701-J or the time ship relativity will be after you

[@Alecs_automotive_adventures]

Maybe you could make something like a street lamp with a solar panel to guide you to the mine.

[@Splitsie]

I am thinking something like that, just trying to control the size of it so that it will look somewhat attractive :P

[@xixMrepicxix]

You should rename the Butterball to the Gosling because the goose carries it around and protects it like a child

[@Splitsie]

That would be fitting, the name is stuck now though :P

[@Zenas521]

You don't need a sensor for the turntable. You just need a color scheme to know which way front is.

[@Splitsie]

The main reason I went with the sensor is that I didn't think I'd like the look of painting the turntable to indicate directions :P

[@MarcWeavers]

many people have already fixed the small grid welders, simple model fix, so why wait? :)

[@Splitsie]

Largely to keep the modlist as short as possible and to keep Igor in business :P

[@thenb28501]

I hope it's cooked, I don't want you to get sick!!

[@Splitsie]

Probably wouldn't be very tasty either :/

[@Trotils]

Isn't it possible to get some script that trigger flashing light when you reach maximum set weight ?

[@Trotils]

25:10

[@Trotils]

45:54 place guiding beacons in some places. Two colons- one on each side of road, like gate for RedBull air formula races.

[@andrewlehenbauer2370]

Could you paint the interior walls just outside the goose parking bay to yellow to match the others. Most of the time I don't care but that's a ton of paint missing

[@Splitsie]

I will definitely get to it, I'm planning on going through the whole base once the welding is finished :)

[@RJ-fm2bd]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't large grid lights use no power? Could you just use a large block and put lights on all edges?

[@Splitsie]

They use no power, but still need it to turn on, so I'd need to put down a whole bunch of batteries. I'm going to start trying to come up with a large grid design that uses the interior lights and the transformer box as the battery, then I'll be able to have the markers :)

[@stanpollard]

Did you ever cheat splitsie and use voxel hands to dig out your tunnels. Sometimes I use it when I get bored of digging

[@Splitsie]

In this series I've done all of the mining properly, no voxel hands at all. I can completely understand why you'd use it, but for this series I feel it'd lose some of its integrity if I started using cheats (even if no one else found out) :)

[@egbertdefatt9259]

Looking wonderful so far! But the OCD part of me keeps seeing those incomplete blocks under the turntable. Only you can calm my anxiety! 😮

[@Splitsie]

I might be willing to weld those up, and I'll eventually get around to correcting all the painting too ;)

[@sabersight908]

maybe make a welding arm area ? and where are you thinking for a launching room or are you not yet that far ? :)

[@Splitsie]

I'm planning on making a printing area in the future, but it'll be a fairly big project and I'd like to do some more around the base and maybe a little combat before I start on that :)

[@scifimyth2537]

When you were mining, it looked like you were dropping iron, not just stone. I don't remember if the Butterball has filters and drops stone rather then carrying it home.

[@Splitsie]

It has filters, all those bits are just graphics particles to make mining more exciting :P

[@Hermslice]

What if you put an alarm on the butterball to let you know when you are over X weight? is that possible?

[@Splitsie]

I'm not sure, it would be really nice if it is accessible data to the programmable block

[@a-tad-ape]

You had me scared with the title I thought you burned the Goose with a thruster or something. I was at the edge of my seat every time you unloaded the Butterball. As for night driving in the Goose, I do like the idea of interior pillar blocks with lights though power is a bit of a problem. Maybe you could just set up waypoints on top of all the pillars and spread them one every 150m or so. It'd be nice if there was a mod that lets you set the draw distance for when waypoints come into view. Oh, something that bugged me was unpainted blocks on the entryway pillars to the turntable room (at 18:57 in the video) though I assumed you'd touch it up when you got to finishing the walls and ceiling. Something else I noticed in the other episodes is that the Buttercup's thrusters don't seem to be aligned right as the Large Thruster block has an angled inlet. It would look prettier and I don't think it would mess with the script if you rebuilt them. Like always, I'm excited for the next episode!

[@Splitsie]

Hehe, I might have been having a little bit of fun with everyone with the title ;) Huh, I never noticed the buttercup's thrusters being off, but it is harder to see with the way they move. I'll have to look at that and make sure they're right :)

[@MarcWeavers]

steal a couple of turrets from sandbags and add them to the goose and the butterball?

[@Splitsie]

Lol, the butterball would look hilarious covered in turrets :P

[@kelemvour]

Why not a "breadcrumb trail" of sandbags modified to have one light blinking white??

[@Splitsie]

That would have been a good solution, as long as they don't slide down the hill - when you catch up to the latest episodes (I think it was 75) you'll get what I'm referring to :P

[@pietercrois9122]

Make lighting sandbags?

[@Splitsie]

I'm tossing up between that and trying to design something that uses the transformer boxes as a power source, just not sure how to make that idea look any good :P

[@strex2062]

I think you should build a outside connector becouse it's not efficient to drove in hangar with goose if you want only little recharge and drop ores. But ofcourse you like challange so build connector moving from the ground :)

[@strex2062]

If you want i can create for example

[@Splitsie]

I didn't want to build anything outside purely for aesthetics, I like the way the outside looks at the moment (apart from the unfinished bridge) so I'm trying to keep it that way. I don't mind driving in and out of the hangar :)

[@strex2062]

what if it's moving from bridge?

[@Derzuel]

yo Splitsie a drill on a piston will allow you to mine uniform straight lines more easily

[@Splitsie]

That won't work for the way I drill, ship drills have too large a volume they remove so the corners would end up being too rounded :/

[@crackspy101]

Sorry this is so late but for the lights you could have always dug a tunnle under ground to each light and put a cheap block there to conect it to the base and have a timer or programable block to turn the lights on at night saving you all the power cells needed for all the lights

[@Splitsie]

The trouble with that is the massive performance hit you get from very large spread out bases - and mine's not exactly small to begin with :P

[@matthewclark7885]

Hey splitsie, I just thought of something, what if you built a "gun-boat" trailer that could atach a second trailer and use IT as a safe guard.

[@Splitsie]

That's an interesting thought, setting them up like a B Double. Nice one :)

[@BrianJ1962]

I'd have called the connector beam 'Goose Neck' - rofl

[@matthewrogers94mr]

Didn’t you build a small gun ship, also maybe put some guard rails on the bridge for safety reasons.

[@Splitsie]

I did, just terrified to fly it at night :P

[@enginerd1985]

I'm surprised you didn't notice at 19:15 that you have over 345,000 iron ore, and 32,300 iron ingots.

[@Splitsie]

I noticed, I just know I need MORE :D Ok, so maybe it's not need but want :P

[@danielsturdivant632]

Should have made the system go, conveyor junction, piston, adv rotor, conveyor tubes then connector

[@vojtechsejkora1554]

Hi, Why your base large containers are soo big? Do you change settings or use some mod or it is, becouse this is older and they change it? Thx for answer.

[@Splitsie]

They're still exactly the same as they were back then, large grid large containers are 3x3x3 in size. If you've got the container on your hotbar with the + symbol on it, scroll with your mousewheel to access the other sizes :)

[@vojtechsejkora1554]

@@SplitsieSorry, I mean their volume. You have 1M and i have only about 420k or so.

[@PoolOfTrees]

@@vojtechsejkora1554 You can make inventories of all objects multiples of the default when you create the game. I think you need to go into Advanced settings when creating the game.

[@jaz2498]

Azimuth mod pack has a mod welder for small grid that is very useful - well worth a look matey.

[@Splitsie]

I've always found the Azimuth mods to be overpowered and make the game a little too much like creative mode for my taste (just a personal preference)

[@jaz2498]

I agree the mods are waaay OP but it's the only decent small grid modded welder I've found that seems to do what its supposed to do.

[@lordsherifftakari4127]

somehow, I have yet to date seen or tangled with a Drifting Pursuant in any of my playthroughs. Fleeting Rivals to no end. a couple Stinging Adversaries. a pair of Spiteful Aggressors. Robberflies have caused me no end of grief while Hover Bikes have also brought a fair bit of discomfort to me and my bases. but like here in this playthrough, the Muzzle Flash is horrible. regarding Streetlights to aid in Night Driving. it would be nice of Keen to add Conductors that can be strung like Powerlines to feed power to distant lights without needing to attach them directly via Grid blocks. it would also aid in transmitting power from a Remote Solar Tower in a good location to one's hidden base.

[@Splitsie]

The drifting pursuants come from certain vanilla antennae, I also used to have them in one of my mods but have since moved to my own custom drones - some of which are more deadly, most of which are less but also far less damaging to the ground around your base :)

[@sabersight908]

hey can the destructive thing be a big missile for the pirates XD

[@Splitsie]

Maybe ;)

[@dragonpc8258]

Instead of worrying about the light distance to illuminate the terrain, why not instead make two lanes like a airport runway, where you just have to "keep it between the lights" and you'll be fine whether you can see or not.

[@Splitsie]

That's probably the smart way to do it :)

[@soulewh]

Says he's an idiot for forgetting a mundane item like the attachment point on a rotor, comes up with using a small grid large tube conveyor system that I never would've thought of in a million years lulz

[@Splitsie]

I can be more than just an idiot some times :P

[@auraswolf]

a few ideas for ya first with the turn table set on of the unused timer blocks to set the table to 0 then in all the timers u already have set them to have that one at the end and set the 0 timer to have a count of more then 1 second. second i have a small grid battery that uses rotor heads to connect to large grids to have a form of modular battery that also uses Isy's solar script to charge them when they are disconnected could try using something like that to charge lights for that mining path??

[@Splitsie]

I shouldn't need to recharge the lights if I use interior lights, I'm hoping I can come up with a design that uses the transformer box from Eikester's decoration pack as the battery as that'll be a nice cheap solution :)