Where's the Leak?! - The Collector #6

[@kingwolf468]

SE is a pretty wholesome community, playing on the Keen server I once met a man named Tiberius and he ran a massive trade empire but one day his base was destroyed by a particularly persistent pirate leading to a massive manhunt for this guy… we never heard from Tiberius again but we definitely found that pirate

[@Umeshu365]

Other space engineers KZbinrs doing solo series: I sleep. Splitsie doing solo series: Yes please.

[@ShiftyshadowTV]

Other Space Engineers KZbinrs, watching Splitsie doing a solo series... instead of working on their own. XD

[@Chocoscooter]

just a heads up for splitsie, at 37:00 you can see that one of the ion thrusters on your ore detector scout is on and trying to stop you.

[@dinohansen5074]

So, here's my suggestion, Splitsie. When you finally get to collecting people and put them in cryotubes, you build a great big gravity accelerator cannon on your ship. You put each cryotube on a battery and enough artificial mass blocks. Then you fire the cryotubes (with the person inside) at various enemies. It's an instant win.

[@Devilhar]

I volunteer for the testing of said gun

[@j0st1kid923]

He must see this!

[@Billabong1264]

You have me in the second half

[@timmyingelbrecht6977]

you had me at gravity

[@FacteriaPhage]

I know this has been recorded well in advance, but a possible solution to the refining offline/power consumption worries, use an event controller to turn off the refineries if stored power drops below a certain point. Keep a backup reactor isolated from cargo with it's own uranium supply, turn it on when the refineries get turned off by the event controller. Optionally, also have an isolated H2O2 and H2 engine also set to turn on.

[@WilliamTythas]

I know he isnt a fan .. but solar panels as off server power is a good safety net too

[@HairyHillman]

Could even just put the refineries on a timer so that they turn off after 4 hours or so, gives them time to work through some ore offline but doesn't run them until the next log on

[@mandrakejake]

Great ideas but both unnecessary when refining uranium. As long as a reactor is on it'll take from the refinery

[@sodcactus]

Couldn't you use a event controller to shut everything of if the battery charge get's too low? So let the refinerys run while offline but as soon as you hit

[@darrenharper609]

TIL: You can choose the order that the refineries take ores. It's only taken 4000+ hours to learn this. Better late than never I guess.

[@MichaelArlt]

We all learn something new every day 😉

[@seannemo8076]

TIL that grav gens are power hogs...

[@ChrisSDParker]

As in just rearranging the order in the refinery UI or is there a more permanent fix?

[@seannemo8076]

@@ChrisSDParker Arrange the ores in your cargo container in the order you want them processed... Apparently the refineries draw from the 'top' ore in the container. I'm still using sorters, though.

[@Splitsie]

It's nice when you've just got the one cargo container for ores 🙂

[@jonathanbair523]

"A stranger is a friend you have not made yet." A saying I picked up along the years from somewhere....

[@chipstix_213]

I believe an old Irish proverb

[@RevokFarthis]

A stranger is a friend you haven't abducted and shoved in a cryofridge yet.

[@baronvonschnellenstein2811]

That's one nice maxim to apply in real life :) That's one extremely optimistic maxim in the context of an online multiplayer server that allows PvP! 🤣

[@talkingonthespectrum]

You ever watched star trek voyager, it's included in a few episodes

[@lachlank]

if u have no friends thats a good way of thinking 😅

[@trindleshadowmane2495]

When I'm playing on servers that stay up 24/7 I set up a couple event controllers to shut refineries off when the batteries get to about 50% and toggle on/off reactors and hydro engines to keep it at that level so I won't lose the medbay.

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

Splitsie getting found via actual astronavigation at the start of the series is hilarious. Truly these are space engineers you're surrounded by. The way your connector backs up against the ship's hydrogen tank when you destroy it and release massive ice balls is nerve-wracking. I don't know how explosive those are but it could be catastrophic. The ore markers will seemingly sit a certain distance away from the surface of a deposit, but won't strictly default to the center. This is particularly visible with ice lakes or massive ice asteroids, for instance, where the marker will just follow you along the surface of these gargantuan deposits. This is also noticable when mining, as mining too close to the marker will cause it to relocate to somewhere else. I like the exterior of the cockpit. It's got a very industrial, armored look with the angles and the ribbing (something I've always liked about block-building games, that industrial feel you can easily get from such a simple design) and that definitely fits what the ship is, being a self-sufficient factory intended to support dozens of people. I do think maybe you should put back those bridge windows in front of the cockpit; the design just looked nice and would provide you with a bit of extra armor in the event you hit something or something (like a bullet) hits you in that weaker point.

[@CirJohn]

Turn the strength on your connectors to near-zero. The exploding connector is usually caused by the miner being pulled to fast to stop. EDIT: If lag is the issue, you could slide in sideways to the connector to prevent being on a collision course.

[@Splitsie]

It's almost certainly a combo of both things, the latency means I'm seeing the explosions more often than I would in my normal play where I'm usually the host. I should probably do both things, but it'll likely take me a while to get in the habit of turning down the strength of them

[@carltonace1606]

Well, I'm hoping Splitse will be making a random length jump after he finds gold between episodes to throw off any would be stalker.

[@stickboyae3296]

I Just started Playing space engineers and love watching you because I learn all sorts of new things in space engineers from you.

[@frederickschmidt7879]

I wonder when Splitsie realises that he's heading back to his start GPS at the 28:30 of the video

[@RogueMandoGaming]

he in fact, did not :D

[@dinohansen5074]

We were all wondering that, I'm pretty sure.

[@DWal32]

32:00 actually :)

[@Splitsie]

It took about as long as you'd expect 😂

[@JeffCariveau]

another option for your timers: one or both; your cryo and bed, on an event block, occupied; ship off / not occupied; ship on

[@arlangaming3022]

The ship is starting to look like a giant DS9 runabout.

[@mattp1337]

I'm not a huge Trekkie, but there's an undeniable logic and practicality to Star Trek design. Separating habitation, industry/engineering, and outboard engines nacelles just makes sense. It doesn't have to mean a Starfleet configuration (or any of the other Trek faction configurations), but it's one very natural option.

[@lessel1103]

finally, more of this series I would love to be picked up, just tell us the server and time when you are ready for it

[@richardjessnitz761]

7:14 Looks almost like there's a drill rig grid in that asteroid.

[@libreriapapiros4771]

i think is a base

[@Takamiki]

splitsie you should really remember to turn off the pull strength of both connectors when you have a heavy ship, they tend to almost always cause damage and destroy each other when connectors get close and pull each other towards one another making them collide at dangerous speeds

[@Stormcrow_1]

It'll be interesting to see whether you redesign, with the new blocks added with the last update. 31:46 Splitise realises he's a complete doom voxel. :)

[@Gracefulwarrior2124]

I hope that'll be a recurring joke😂

[@JeffreyBlakeney]

The trick to keep your drills on without holding down the mouse button should be easily solved if they implement the same system as the hand drill. With the hand drill, double clicking the left or right mouse button keeps the drill running constantly in mining or destructive mode respectively until you click the button again. I'm surprised it isn't actually in the game already. Oh, and the double click method works with hand welders and grinders as well.

[@brucerobertson7839]

Great video, Splitsie. I really like the cockpit design inside and out. I can see a double Mohican going on with those two parallel raised lines on top.

[@matthewpohlmann6623]

Thoroughly enjoying this series Splitsie, thankyou

[@JustAnotherPerson3]

You can setup power monitor with event controller and based on "Crap, i'm running out of power" turn off refineries.

[@jacoblansman8147]

The sense of relief and euphoria in Splitsie's voice in the moment he found gold sounds like the closest he's ever been to being drunk without actually drinking alcohol. Also my experience with ore signals would indicate that the signal is usually the center of the closest 3×3×3 large grid space to your ore detector. As in, I've seen the signal for an Iron deposit move around while I'm mining that Iron deposit.

[@dajosh42069]

@32:00 AHAHAHAHA!! I LOL'd and clapped when I saw that. Cause I hadn't noticed at all, either. You've backtracked something like 60-70KM. 🤦 I suppose it's a good way to avoid pursuers... doubling back on yourself. :P

[@ronnie9457]

I found a very useful plugin that means you no longer need sorters and ejectors, the plugin deletes all stone and ore Ice from your drills and cargo, its useful because you can toggle the option on and off. also more friendly to servers ;) . I am Enjoying the causal series.

[@redseafrog]

i always re-color the "start" point GPS that i set, red for start, green/teal for where i want to go

[@gomerkyle9840]

Funny episode with the air I had a feeling about behind the med bay 😅 Any way would enjoy being collected just spinning in a cryo pod with a tank and batt on it

[@FrostyZayYT]

I love this series. More please

[@anumeon]

Mystery Stalker... Capac hiding his identity from you to do a jump scare at some point.. :D

[@Splitsie]

Lol the world would be a very different place if Capac put that much effort into things 😂

[@jakebswenka]

I would recommend if you wanna keep the refineries on after log off, having them chew thru uranium and have one reactor on would give plenty of power for those, and would possibly handle 6 refineries possibly with yield mods on each as well possibly. but maybe drilling a large hole to hide in a large asteroid would help with safety. also, if you wanna stay on hydro, more tanks and cargo for the tons of ice alone.

[@Kyrinson]

I have been binging these for a bit today and every episode where you are traveling and outside your ship after you built the ore detector ship there has been an ion engine acting as a breaking force whenever you are moving. Not sure if you saw this in the later episodes but i didn't want to forget to mention it. example 37:09 @Splitsie

[@spock023]

Died in a new way. this is like a programmer getting a new error while debugging. Progress!

[@SteamS01dier]

You could use Searchlights as well as turrets to spot stuff on asteroids.

[@Splitsie]

Yeah they're another good option :)

[@TomOfBattlefront]

I have watched and rewatched so much Assertive Acquisitions, that at the end of each video Splitsie uploads, after he says, …”So all that, and plenty more to come, and I (or we), will see you then.” I audibly hear, Capac say “CATCH YOU NEXT TIME EVERYBODY!” And TFE say, “Byeeeee”

[@marcusdirk]

I wondered, when you went to look to see if you were heading towards an asteroid, whether the distance was supposed to be going down with the marker ahead being "Where it all began"! Glad you realised 😀

[@russbennett5470]

Your stalker named himself stalker? Well that’s very imaginative!

[@Eisen_Jaeger]

now he can use the "Get out of here Stalker" line.

[@czbuchi86]

May i suggest that you change color of starting waipoint? ideally something reddish :D

[@CaptainLongbeardTuds]

Glad you found gold finally. An enemy is a rival, and a rival is a friend.

[@kingblinn]

So great to get a new video in this wonderful series.. the only bad part is waiting 2 weeks between each one!

[@PiroteusGaming]

In the end we find out the server has a discription gold only on one single planet :D maybe some side windows the armored rounded ones made out of two tiles.. not sure how they are called.

[@danielhomant2832]

The click menu hold trick is a common minor bug on many, many games. But definitely good to share for people that don't know.

[@altontacoma]

Finally some gold and some time with the helmet visor open so you can brush your teeth. Life truly is like a hurricane.

[@AndrielChaoti]

You can use the build planner button "deposit all" to empty all of the inventories visible on the left side of the inventory screen, not just your suit inventory.

[@jonathansweet7616]

Consider this miner hotkey: turn off all reverse thrusters except for one (use for docking to prevent smashed connector) (edit: remember to flip reverse thrusters back on after connection is made, or pair with timer block that does this automatically after a reasonable amount of time passed)

[@diabolicalshadow]

So, pro tip about that "glitch", if you double click your activation button when mining, it remains active so you can stop holding it down. Works for the hand drill as well. Haven't really tested it with guns, but im fairly certain it works for gatlings.

[@Splitsie]

Except that you can't. Double clicking doesn't work for grid based tools/weapons etc in vanilla - if you're able to do that it's a mod adding that feature :) And just for clarity, double click very much works for hand tools

[@baronvonschnellenstein2811]

Aha! Found a useful amount of gold, at long last - as well as taking on more ice when the opportunity presented :) Externally, I can feel some greebling coming on for the bridge exterior 😜 - but the overall form looks like it has potential. - On that, I see a couple of earlier comments echo my thoughts: The sides of the bridge just aft of the command chair could probably do with those multipart windows like what you used on the refinery part of your base in Survival Impossible (the first major structure you built there)

[@dwsage_]

Amazing content! Love your style of story setting and presentation. Keeps you engaged on the slightest details, of cause the video editing to segment clips with rich content is the key. Well done! I am just impressed, fan of your work.

[@Splitsie]

Thanks so much for the kind words 🙂

[@paulchaisson8301]

You can always Event Controller the Refineries, so they turn off when you only have a week's worth of power left.

[@ghamerons6287]

Time to get a snack to watch another glorious episode

[@monrastbreil3927]

Myself I was picturing dropping the pilot seat one block so you could get a bit of a more dynamic shape for the front, inside and out, an a wider field of view

[@Alexander-ms6bf]

You could use an event controller to turn off the refinery when stored power is low.

[@B1gRedOutdoor]

that drill trick I used in scrap yard in combo with turret controllers

[@lordsherifftakari4127]

consider placing a bank of solar panels strictly to run your temp Refineries when you log off after turning everything else off/stockpile on. this won't put your primary equipment at much risk since enough solar can run with a slight surplus when the refineries are going full tilt.

[@Splitsie]

With the new panels I might consider some spaces where I could put them :)

[@PriorUniform721]

Not gold, but I can't unsee the face when you were searching number 12. Good example at #8:28

[@Splitsie]

Ah us humans and our uncanny ability to turn nearly anything into a face :D

[@BannorPhil]

Having so much experience in Space Engineers, having so many hours in the game, being so knowledgeable about it, having made so many excellent tutorials about it, so many series - one would have thought that you'd have mastered the skill of docking by now....

[@Splitsie]

It turns out I'm far too used to being the host with zero latency 🤣

[@ptolemaicfoxxo3032]

Split, being a moth, saw blue and was blinded by it

[@LugborG]

You could always use event controllers to run things while you’re offline. Set it to shut things down when the batteries get low and turn on hydrogen engines, and shut the engines off when the batteries fill.

[@heighRick]

Thansk for the video Splitsie, helps a lot

[@JAY-fq7sb]

It's no longer the Collector. It's DAD IN SPACE! WRONG WAY BRO!😂🤪🤣

[@martingq32]

Just a tip. Turn off the magnet on the big connector to evade future looses.😊

[@CinnamonKnightEntertainment]

So I've been playing a game that somewhat clones this game, planet nomads(actually bought it when it was new and it failed to deliver the exspensions that would have made it better but meh), but it is just less in almost every way. Even was getting ready to stream it or maybe make it a youtube series, now I have to get the better game. FANTASTIC! but seriously, thank you for your dedication to this game and interesting content..... I'm finally going to get off my butt and get the game.

[@Chucklingsaneman]

The porpoise is giving me proper battle Star galactica vibes. And it’s such an awesome design

[@DefaultFlame]

"Cutting the goose in half three times." Can't say I've heard that one before.

[@calebjtv]

just noticed while he is builing the jump drives he is literally headed in the wrong direction and doesnt notice for a long time LOL I love this series

[@Splitsie]

My sense of direction is really hard to find sometimes 😜

[@brandonlaird6876]

Hey Splitsie, I'm late to this video but I just wanted to point out you can double-click with the tools and they stay on; no need for a glitch ;) Works with ship and hand tools.

[@Splitsie]

Nope, only works with hand tools in vanilla

[@brandonlaird6876]

Whoops, sorry. I thought it worked for ships too. Thanks for the reply though, love your vids 😁

[@lschn4]

The front nose section of the cockpit reminds me a bit of a shark 😮

[@Splitsie]

Yeah, I can definitely see that 🙂

[@transistordave]

Hi Splitsie! I watch all of your Space Engineers content, I love your stuff. I have a suggestion for you, based on my 4000 hours of play. Connectors. Right-click the strength in the control panel of every connector, reducing the mag strength to 0.0002%. They still grab just fine, but your rate of connector-smashing will be GREATLY reduced.

[@Splitsie]

Yeah, it feels like it's become worse recently so I probably should get into the habit of reducing the force on them

[@DiZtheJedi]

43:10 This is why you always turn connector strength to zero. At least on miners. It's not that hard to eyeball it yourself if you don't wanna organize a docking camera.

[@dandler3910]

You could build a "refinery barge" you disconnect from the main grid when going offline so if it does fully drain it's power source it won't have any affect on your main grid.

[@Splitsie]

Sadly that would then get deleted along with my ores and ingots, so while less painful, it would still be very painful to lose 🫤

[@Chrizzx3]

Oh yeah, another episode! Love it. Time to get my snacks. I make sure to always like the video in advance to help out!

[@johnqpublic120]

One would think a guy with as many hours in game as you would just automatically change the mag strength on the connector to around .01 so you would stop smashing connectors. It wasn’t a piloting problem it was a setup problem. I offer this observation because the exact same thing happened to all of you in Assertive, the unexplained mystery of the exploding connectors. Cheers Mate

[@weltenatlas]

You could set up an event controller to auto-lock as soon as your mining connector is in range. That should avoid the collisions

[@violent_shadow]

if you push out the side thruster packs by 2 blocks maby... and find a way tp connect them with "beams" to the ship or have a 2nd floor on the top, i think its a nice shape to start with... its not half bad looking TBH!... i do hope now that you found gold, the series does not end in 2 weeks....

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

Normally i usually have to search between 20-30 asteroids to find gold/uranium/platinum, I always number each asteroid i explore and it's not uncommon for me to have near 60 by the end of a playthrough. I still remember when you'd find deposits of nearly every one on a single asteroid and deposits were easy to spot. I really miss those days.

[@user-ve5ei2xe8h]

I like the overall shape of the ship so far. Not to fancy, nice and functional.

[@katerinahasilikova9415]

I recomend you make a solar panel turret an then when you log off you just enable the turret and refineryes will be able to work

[@mandyspence1599]

Two songs came to mind when you realised you were going the wrong way - Do you know where you're going to? 🎶 And line dancing song my Nan introduced me to One step forwards and two steps back, nobody gets too far like that 🎶 Also... maybe you need a reversing sensor on your miner... not that you're a bad driver, but you know, just in case...

[@Splitsie]

This many crashes and I'm still a safer driver than capac 'danger parking' amaru 😂

[@arceyplayz]

Turning the refineries on when offline IS possible if you do decide to make a solar farm. Ive done it before and I made sure that I made more energy from the solar panels than the energy used up by the refineries. If you do decide to do this, use yield module refineries as time in this aspect isn't important! For the people finding your location just by your skybox, I think if you delve into the textures and just rotate or delete the skybox itself, it should basically make it impossible for anyone to find you as they won't have any reference points anymore!

[@mugsy8]

nice, I do kinda like this series. Vanilla Public with the rest of us plebs. It's a bit more relatable to most people.

[@markcunningham2243]

32 minutes of you going the wrong way .. that was awesome, made my day lol

[@spaceghost5698]

Perfect start to a sunday morning

[@Rumblestrip]

If you double click, either right or left itll stay drilling too. Do it all the time

[@EikeSky]

I tried this with right click a while ago, and it didn't work. Glad to hear that's been unified 😎

[@AthinCZ]

Not sure if this works for right double click as well, but it might. I can't test it right now.

[@ADAHANDLER]

It was fun watching, thanks for uploading, like !

[@daz8405]

As bad as this sounds... The front of the ship looks like a large grid missile... I think you need to go back to your AA missiles and built them to look like that.

[@Memlapse]

I think that time with wasted you referred to was doing the never surrender scenario

[@Splitsie]

Yup, you're right :)

[@Erikblktrn]

If you need a turret for it's camera, a searchlight can do the work too.

[@Splitsie]

That's true, not sure why I went straight for the interior turret in this case

[@georgepitts6500]

nice. You have gone from a slightly Enterprise looking thing to a definitely Runabout looking thing.

[@ericwemmer402]

As much as I enjoy watching the fearful approaches to connectors, I always turn the connector strength down to .00015 to avoid the sudden alignment causing collisions.

[@Splitsie]

At the time I was blaming the disasters on the latency and the frequent sudden lurching that would happen when I tapped my thrusters, arguably the connectors make that worse but I figured the lurching was the primary cause so tried to adapt to that with my flight style. I probably do need to get into the habit of turning down connector strength though (which has started to happen in my other series)

[@trwolf2k]

Cockpit looks like some of the ones you get in Starfield. Looks fine to me, just forgot the side windows.

[@timtiny01]

Ooo, well THIS is a treat!

[@jacovaneck968]

I tried to replicate ur ship design and i could not ... ur designing is superb re watched the series 3 times , il wait til u make a blueprint so i can steal it :)

[@m4c0br]

Splitsie wasn’t moving backwards. He was confusing his stalker with pro-level mind games.

[@zzzires5045]

That cockpit just looks super industrial, if you spread the thruster pods it would make me think of a comercial haulage ship. I like the semi simple, but then some guns would ruin that vibe

[@joan_of_craft4690]

22:13 ...I actually had no clue you could use your mouse for drills. I've just been binding the toggle block/off to my selection bar.

[@Splitsie]

Glad to have saved you some time when you need to drill a large hole with right click :)

[@midnightbonbon5591]

you could use some of the new inset blocks that will help with cockpit deco

[@Gracefulwarrior2124]

Depending on how much of a time buffer he has, the update may not have been out when he did the cockpit

[@Splitsie]

Yeah, I'm a moderate way ahead so may have to re do a fair bit, particularly with the new Cryo pods

[@ToaDrakua]

5:00 -When you forget that you removed the control seat that had the text, remembered that you did, then proceed to forget to add it back onto the new one, as well as forget you did any of that.-

[@Splitsie]

Except I did replace the text, that's why the screen was black - it was still set to text but the text was missing

[@ToaDrakua]

@@Splitsie Oh. Huh.

[@Splitsie]

Yeah, it's really strange 🫤

[@diabloi]

maybe one day when you log in, you will find that an unknown person has built a cryo on your ship and slept in it....XD

[@Splitsie]

lol That would be pretty funny :D

[@71trm]

If memory serves me, you can double click left or right MB and the drills will keep going

[@Splitsie]

Sadly that's only the case for hand tools, ship tools don't have the double click function :(