Survive with me #2 - Building a mining ship! (Space Engineers)

[@kerrikwolf4695]

Something else you might explain if using the standard cockpit is that it's atmosphere tight. In the beginning, this means that you're burning valuable ice to breathe while you're inside it. Putting a vent on the side port of the drill, the rear port of the medium cargo container or on one of the ports of the connector lets you pressurize the cockpit with outside air and saves the ice until you find a supply. It's a cheap way to fill O2 tanks before going into space. It also gives you breathable air on some of the other planets where the air is too thin to breathe but it still has air. Great series so far, especially for new people and people like me, who are always looking for more efficient ways to survive.

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Ooh handy to know. I did not know this at all.

[@guynamedmaggi5520]

I thought they patched that?

[@kerrikwolf4695]

@@guynamedmaggi5520 An easy check is to put down a cockpit on a battery and get inside it. If your oxygen goes down, it's airtight.

[@mimic4844]

It´s kinda weird seeing this game under survival category,when the only danger are the spiders and my own stupidity 😄

[@LunarKolony]

and klang

[@bigboibob2568]

​@@LunarKolonyAll hail our true god. I pray for all of my fellow engineers to never have to succumb to klang's blessed hand

[@williamlove6876]

One of those two are seriously hazardous. The other one has vicious fangs!

[@comcastjohn]

I added the wolves, spiders, meteor showers and lightning strike to mine, but you will also have the other NPC Factions to deal with eventually. 😇😇😇😇

[@AutieTortie]

Don't underestimate your oen stupidity

[@AlternateF8]

I just finished binge watching your other survival series last week and learned a lot from that. Excellent videos, thanks for all the hard work and I'm looking forward to learning more about how to stop flipping ships and rovers.

[@LunarKolony]

If you've watched the other series you'll know I can't help on the flipping rovers department 🤣 glad you enjoyed, thank you! :)

[@jiminma50]

Wow I'm so glad I found your channel, these tutorials are soooo helpful, well thought out, and not slow and drawn out for every instruction. Thanks you for all the time you put in to make these videos, it has made my experience very enjoyable.

[@battlehaggis4421]

Maan lol.. i wish i knew it was that easy to convert the drop pod to a miner.. i went a much longer way around getting my first little miner... And yeah ur a hundred percent right it crashed and burned hard lmao.. thank you learned a good few things i didnt have any clue about on this episode.. awesome work thank u 😁

[@hillllll6039]

I loked the part where u recycled the pod & turned it into a mining ship. I just started playing Space Engineers and these tutorials are really a BIG help! Will finish the playlist. Thanks my guy!

[@elijahpostell6553]

Very nice can't wait to see more keep up the good work.

[@LunarKolony]

Thank you!

[@nyxborne1786]

instead of opening the G menu and clicking "new from current position" you can type "/gps [name]" and it places it at your feet. ALSO like to point out while you were explaining the built-in ore detector on the Hand Drill, higher tiered Hand Drills have a larger radius ore detection as well.

[@nathanielhauser6948]

The marking is the same thing I do. There are modes for better range but it is nice to show another way, since modes don't work while off line from Internet.

[@TheDovensian]

Crank up that detector my boy

[@LunarKolony]

Did check it and it was maxed, but will point it out in e3 anyways

[@orangemynt806]

fun watch

[@LunarKolony]

Thank you!

[@ThoughtlessDNB]

followinf along to this, first time playing this game. i made a little Rover with an ore detector, spend about two hours driving around looking for cobalt and still haven't found it. found everything else, even gold and silver 😢

[@thewispo]

You still out there?

[@GoldDragon1]

The only thing I would add to this video is the fact that, by default, Ship based Ore Detectors are set to 50% range.

[@LunarKolony]

Mine was at 100 for some reason, regardless I'll make a point of it in e3!

[@jjcraft9099]

@@LunarKolonyThe ore detector on the spawn pods are at max range by default. Too bad they aren’t at max range after you build them fresh tho

[@noneyaonenoneyatwo2879]

Ive taken to making my first vehicle is a jet bike using two full size batteries and a medium cargo to putter around and find iron nickel and cobalt. This has yet to backfire on me as the start pod already has 4 thrusters you can use so construction is relatively easy and cheap. It speeds up the process so much it's wonderful... Upthrust is very important though lol I've slammed into a number of hillsides because I'm going too fast too low

[@noneyaonenoneyatwo2879]

The starting world I normally pick is pertam, so distances between ores or just finding ores takes much more travel sometimes so a vehicle that goes farther and longer on battery just makes it worthwhile

[@step_fodder2917]

never thought to turn my pod into a miner lol. I do add a small sorter and ejection port when I don’t want stone that I can toggle off and on

[@bomerfett3836]

Awesome!

[@cypress1337]

I always use a large grid detector on my first small grid vehicle / ship.

[@Hailstrumm]

i crashed a ship once when i just built it, i had added an extra drill and even before it was "uneasy" in nature. in short i was comin back to base over 11km and fell out of the sky at 100 m a second because it didnt have the power to hold up a connecter and 2 medium cargo containers work of ore. one of the chunks of stone i was carrying flew off and struck my rover.

[@jjcraft9099]

I love tutorials still even though I have been playing for over a year already lol. You never know maybe you will learn something new!

[@LunarKolony]

Always good to see how others play!

[@Inglonias]

I've only been playing this game for a few weeks now, and that cruise control thing was not something I had considered. Neat trick. Yeah, My friend and I did a lot of savescumming early on when we were learning to pilot vehicles. Lot of flipped rovers, or flipped aircraft, or whatever.

[@gordonshumway888]

Is it possible to fly using only four "UP" thrusters switching power between the front and back thrusters to change the bias ?

[@The_608_jk]

cannot unhear "cobble" when you say cobalt.

[@LunarKolony]

maybe I am saying cobble

[@The_608_jk]

@@LunarKolony WHAT

[@Jonofwrath69]

Same.

[@Mark1607979]

what if i dont find cobalt :) thats the question. Great guide series helping me a lot since i just started yesterday.

[@Dagonius.]

5:15 Pause the video. "Shift + MMB = Put Components to production!" Lunar! I've been telling you this for ages!

[@comcastjohn]

The large grid ore detector on a small grid ship does work, as I just did that a week ago. What I would recommend first is building the large ore detector on your base first, maximize the range and look to see if any ore deposits are 150m around and underneath your base. Just a suggestion. 😇🫡

[@draksis4591]

8:50 how far apart do wind turbines need to be?

[@LunarKolony]

9 is optimum

[@zacharythomas8617]

In my version of Space Engineers I can't collect the survival kit without the medical components getting turned to scrap.. Same with Batteries.

[@chrisbt5508]

Batteries you never could. Medical components on the other hand is very heavy. That 3 pieces of it usually takes up all your inventory space so its possible you were full and ended up accidentally grinded down the components after it appeared.

[@BackyardShenanigansYT]

Who else was hearing him say cobble, instead of cobalt for the longest time

[@rhysnicholson9331]

Whats in your opinion the best early game power source ive been playing for a few weeks and saw the hydrogen engine is it best to use that or something else for my ships. Context my current base is just a giant aircraft carrier i have no stationary one

[@LunarKolony]

Solar and engine depending on your access to ice, turn the batteries to recharge and fire up the engines to charge them, once out of hydrogen, flip the batties back to auto. Of course if you have access to uranium, reactors are the best by far

[@andypocalypse]

I finally managed to find Cobalt after about 10 hrs playing xD

[@andypocalypse]

Found silver and gold before it lol

[@LunarKolony]

Yep, had that same issue in my other survival series ;-; pain

[@LunarKolony]

@@andypocalypse wait until you search for uranium

[@andypocalypse]

I got Ice from the snow on the tops of mountains so I'm good for that too

[@comcastjohn]

Also with the wind turbines, put a block on all four sides on the second block below the top turbine, then you can add four turbines horizontally. Then you have added 4 more turbines that produce the same or near same output each as the top turbine. Now you have five times the output with minimal spacing. 😱😇🫡

[@kyleroberts3562]

took me 3 days to get my first ship past the 1 hour fly time lol.

[@nomekop777]

The wind turbines need to be 8 blocks apart/above the ground, not 7

[@yeetboiaug9615]

Recommendations for new players: I highly recommend playing with scripts enabled. This will severly help new players. Automatic lcds to see base storage etc. PAM autominers are great and are worth setting up. Although try to make a vertical Pam miner as it will be much easier to use if you are in gravity. If you have started on a planet with higher than 1g gravity then it could be worth using rovers over ships. 1g-0g will be fine for mining ships. If you started in space then a vertical miner is fine as you dont have to worry about countering the gravity. Just allow scripts for convenience and then try to automate as much as possible. If you have AI/player pilotable fighters on your base then you can place 1/multiple timer blocks on the base with an AI defensive block that triggers the 'trigger now' on the first timer block. Have the timers enable the ai move and ai offensive on the fighters and then decouple them. Then you will have a base that automatically deploys ai fighters. This can also be applicable to large ships with small fighters on it

[@Major-Dan]

Just subscribed. You make good videos, but I haven't subscribed until now because frankly the language in most of your other videos is a bit much. It's not that I am shocked by it, just that it's jarring and takes away from the useful things you pass on. I play this game and others with my grandchildren and while I won't share your videos with them, I learn from you and can pass it on to them. Thanks for moderating.

[@robertbarton4776]

Early game, wheels on mining ships save loads of battery power and allow greater carrying capacity.

[@kyleroberts3562]

iv just started play the game, on xbox unfortunately but I keep forgetting about gravel being in refiner and not being able to produce anything.

[@AutieTortie]

"cobalt", not "cobble". 😂😂😂

[@LunarKolony]

Cobbul

[@krazyivan007]

It is super difficult to watch you play without using all the vanilla shortcuts there are in the game.

[@chrisbt5508]

Why I cannot see any comment replies here? Even my replies.

[@SueBoi3909]

First comment 🤚

[@LunarKolony]

:D

[@SueBoi3909]

@@LunarKolony if you get bored sometimes of doing this series( I know cuz I get really bored of starting over in survival) and you need a break, I’ve been really wanting some more warship class videos, but I know you’ve pretty much covered them all so idk really how you would make more. But it’s just an idea 🤷‍♂️

[@Telemaniakus]

99% of players probably cut the lander into plates...

[@hillllll6039]

Damn, I was about to after watching ep 1. Good thing I decided to watch another episode

[@Telemaniakus]

@@hillllll6039 did You know you can fly it?