AVORION Survival Guide 1: Getting Started & Building Your First Ship - Beginner's Guide Series

[@ZeroDivide]

One of the best Avorion guides I've seen so far... clear, informative and well delivered. I'm enjoying this game so far but struggling with ship design and control. This guide has been really helpful, Thanks!

[@Jlmccurnin]

I hope you keep this series up. Thank you for explaining all the components and whatnot. Ive just begun playing the game and i appreciate the help. Not to mention all the help you've given us with PoE. Thanks man.

[@Cruzz999]

So I got this game five days ago, and I've logged 66 hours so far. I may have a problem.

[@ReaBeee]

Cruzz999 no you don’t I got the game like 5 or 6 days ago and logged like 87 hours

[@neidhartmuller8804]

@@ReaBeee casual i got like 95 in 2 days

[@ReaBeee]

First of all 95 hours when a day is 24 hours so you could have only played 48 hours so yea

[@ShadowDog-tq3yu]

@@ReaBeee bro... he was joking

[@akstormtrooper508]

You only have a problem if you haven't killed the Jedi by hour 67.

[@lightningcutey9852]

to generate power with Iron, an efficient method is to get stacks of solar panels(at 0.05 width) then copy and shrink them they work off of surface area and so you can generate a lot of power with a small amount of space

[@thisisnowtaken]

You didn't mention: - Scroll wheel on the blocks at the bottom of the build mode to change them. - The 3D crosshair in the build mode is the center of mass for your ship - Gyro Positioning: They want to be near the center of mass of the axis they're working on. You can judge this by looking directly through the circle that the gyro shows and see if the center of mass is within in. - Use of the Block Stats window to keep track of the size of the blocks you're placing

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Good tips!

[@Maxi25554]

@@Boy_Ling A bit late lol

[@seanwarren9357]

@@Maxi25554 the internet has no use for the constraints of time... "Where were going, we don't need roads"

[@stevezturner7052]

I watched the entire series so far and wanted to say thanks for putting together this guide. Really help me improve playing the game and get more out of it. Before I was dying a lot and having to restart over and over again.

[@Encaru]

I've been having such a hard time getting into this game because I don't understand it a lot and this video tutorial is amazing you did a really good job explaining everything very simply thank you

[@Nikkeftw]

Just found this game and then found the series, still havent bought the game but Ive watched the first 4 episodes in a row tonight! Damn it looks cool :O Really appreciate your style Ziggy, good content!

[@73mpn]

As always, great information in this video. Thanks ZiggyD, I hope you can help to get more eyes on this game, its so good and well worth the price!

[@MrOlinox]

Great that you took the time to make this tutorial Ziggy! Make more and you will soon be admiral of a spaceforce ^^

[@veryek]

It's so cool how space in this game looks like a cloudy sky with different tints for different areas.

[@jjjohnsen4455]

This was great! I learned a lot from this, please do more of them.

[@Loulabelle100]

Thank you for this! Ive had this game for like 3 months but I'm so bad at it so it is great that I now have a guide

[@TNTrevor]

I played this game awhile ago, it was pretty fun, but at the time there wasn't a lot of people playing. Hopefully ziggy can help bring some life to the community

[@Deckard575]

Good tip on the Giros..didnt know just have a blok in mine.

[@Krovah]

I've been looking for something close to this for awhile! Thanks a ton Ziggy, and I can't wait to tune into your Path of Exile stream!

[@TheGodofdeathryuk]

Would never play this game, but love to see a lets play of some sort!

[@josh1136]

I must say, an excellent tutorial! And always great hearing our Aussie accent on KZbin! Onya ZiggyD keep up the amazing vids!

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Thanks mate!

[@LemonAiden]

Hey dude just wanted to say this is my first time watching your vids and im already loving it :)

[@ZiggyDGaming]

LemonAiden 3340 thanks mate! and welcome.

[@hfalcon77]

Absolutely the best stuff i've seen about this game. Thank you.

[@eagamessports9889]

17:46 i like it how a random pirate showed up and is getting gun downed

[@catnip7755]

Thanks for introducing me to the game, i think i might buy it thanks to you!

[@tjjjaneway]

Great content as always, Ziggy

[@pavin8757]

32 hours played and you taught me so much, wish I would have watched this first!

[@rcpainter3023]

So I recently picked up this game. Started it up one morning, was about 9 a.m. Messed around with building a ship, came here to watch the Awesome Aussie Tutorial, kept building, learning, building, flying, testing, build some more, watch some more, got a drink, used the bathroom... 6 hours later I realized I forgot to feed my cat, take the trash out, pick up my cleaners, brush my teeth and take my shower...Oooops

[@backseatdriver9576]

Joined a server. Started to build a ship...got 3 blocks in for crew and pirates came and blew me up. Tried for a second time in a different location...3 blocks...dead. Great game. This is on a PVE server. Kinda hard to get to know the game when it kills you before you even have a chance to build a first ship. Think I'll go back to D3.

[@Vessarian]

No idea how I missed this game, looks amazing :D On a side note, at the beginning of the construction I was like " Meh this is going to be one ugly flying brick, but by the end with the colors and hull it looks pretty dope :D "

[@bismuthcrystal9658]

As a rule, I avoid early access, even on already-good games, as I'd rather experience them when finished and polished and not be burnt out by the time they're released. Sometimes, I'm tempted though. And a space game where I get to build super customized lego ships... so tempting. You monster.

[@pavelrahl6284]

I love this video. Thanks for the laugh with the uncontrollable rocket and the awesome tutorial!

[@lostscotsman]

Just finished watching this video for the second time. You explain things very well, but Avorion has gone thru a major update or two since your video was made and could use an update if possible. Thanks either way for the help.

[@snowwann273]

Basically, we want thrusters furthest away from the center on the ship to have the most impact/Effect for rotational movement. Straifing whichever axis of the ship the thrusters wouldnt matter if they was centered or furtherest from the central cross-section of the ship.

[@seanwarren9357]

Idk how I missed this, but man, this gon be gud. Thanks Zig!

[@miamianz]

just got this game your vids helped me out greatly. now i gotta figure out to power up this cold fusion power plant . because im short and i dont want to fly a solar panel

[@thetravelerformallyknowasw7912]

I just got this game, and now have to learn everything

[@krizsanzarathud7133]

Thanks! Great content, truly helping. Best chuckles on the internet, you make smile every time ^^

[@UchihaSumairu]

This game looks awesome. I just purchased it thanks!

[@DxBlack]

Prepare to lose sleep...

[@seanwarren9357]

I would suggest using larger scale blocks till you get a hang of building. It's quite useful for nearly all of a build, and you can scale the ship up and replace the ship completely by making it a blueprint, which means you can build things in ratios of system importance. I large bolcked out ship built that way can later be customized aesthetically with more complex and micro scale blocks easily... I have one design thar is basically built of essentially all systems, balanced around a large core vertical or horizontally oriented slab that tapers down outward consisting of decreasing size slabs like a sandwich of systems ordered by need. You can make about as many slabs as you want and can easily select an entire system to replace it, or change material, swap it with a different system or whatever, and you can stagger them to make more complex simple geometries too, though primaries are always a good call in design and aesthetics, so that's a thing too. Man, avorion is so damn great. Here's hoping my comment gets you back playing, this game is kind of like that, it comes in waves. 💪😉👌

[@matts6607]

great fun game. Thanks Ziggy for this recommendation. I have bought a few games that you have reviewed.

[@FeedBunnies]

Space engineers but a bit more simple. Looks fun.

[@FluffyFractalshard]

ziggy is such a good teacher..

[@breez7823]

Always a pleasure.

[@Estel2121]

loved the tutorial Ziggy, keep them coming!

[@Aardvark892]

This video was posted in 2017? I'm posting this mid-Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, and have never even heard of this game before. Thanks for the video!

[@danj7348]

First thing you wanna do, is build a small mining ship, give it a captain and put it on automatic mining duty - saves you tons of time and you´ll always have plenty of iron and titanium ...

[@Slipperyjim8]

I found this guide very useful, I've followed it 3 times so far after brigaders blew me up each time...

[@mmorrow2938]

So 1000 brigadors vid soon?

[@Slipperyjim8]

Those scum will pay for what they have done.

[@spirreviip]

so when are you starting your own lets play?

[@seacucumberable]

Ziggy! Great content - BUT - can you PLEASE post your ship designs somewhere? I've been trying to catch you on stream to ask you live, even spot-checked streams on twitch to find a timestamp where someone asks you about this, no dice. Thank You!

[@basildaoust2821]

WOW, I'm 6 years late, but that wasn't bad, and I learned a few things. I played ages ago and mostly did not remember much, so I started a new run recently. I might have done it wrong because I basically just mined iron and titanium until I could build a ship better than my starter, then I'm not sure I think I might have made a couple more starter junkers to mine more ore, but not sure anymore, but it's likely, I had another frame already downloaded from before so I built that ship for a fighter type, and it worked great for many jumps deeper and deeper as I unlocked ore 3, 4, and 5 and then I think I decided my ship was too weak to solo a dozen pirates without my being exploded, I tried another ship and it was not working for me, so I found another ship and built it, it had shields but it basically had no hull, so if the shield is destroyed then next second the ship is destroyed, which did not make me happy but I added a couple different shield improvements and the ship has been doing much better but I have never been in the core but I think my shield only ship should not head in :) So yeah I got another ship, this one I have killed weak enemies with it, but it needs help with more systems so I can add like 22 more guns :) Plus it is also a carrier so I need many fighters I have like 8 miners on the ship for now and no loader, but I should add one :)

[@MrGermandeutsch]

11:00 ZiggyD Gaming: We're up to thirty-seven. *>removes Block* ZiggyD Gaming: We're down to *_THIRTY_*-nince Nice Math Bro.

[@Corvothing24]

MrGermandeutsch thirty-*NINCE* Nice English bro

[@h4mburg3r55]

@@Corvothing24 LoL

[@gamesjaguar2316]

If you use shaped armor pieces (say - edge armor 2) is the protection of the armor just as good on the "small side" as it is on the "big side"? Or does it scale with the shape of the armor, offering nearly no protection on the "small side".

[@Stupha_Kinpendous]

Superb guide. Thank you!

[@aeshettr]

Insane(now Expert) is the most engaging way to play this game.

[@skykal841]

Red, because it makes it go faster :)

[@ThYac0b1]

"...Now it's quite important to get your ship looking as dope as possible."

[@MunchinOnDew]

9:30 -- if you want to skip straight to the building part

[@PGMP2007]

You should need cargo bay's for the metals and such... its kinda silly you can get TONS of metals being carried on your ship without affecting it xD.

[@pegasusted2504]

Interesting stuff mate although you did make a glaring error in your explanations. If you put a thruster on the top of your ship you wont get Yaw so there is no wonder you didn't. The reason you should put thrusters in the center of mass area is they give the most thrust possible whilst still keeping the ship in relation to how you were positioned :~)

[@cornishjackal2048]

quick question the unloading and loading of sectors you mentioned were your stations stop working when your not in them is that still and issue or has it been solved ?

[@alignedmonkey6147]

Did anyone else get the sudden craving for McDonalds fries after he painted the ship?

[@demos113]

Very good info , keep up with Avorion! :-)

[@DmytroBogdan]

Its one of the best Avorion series IF not the best I've seen to date. Any plans of starting a new playthrough? p.s. You'll get an extra subscriber ;)

[@nobewayo]

Are you going to be making a new tutorial now that 2.0 is out? :)

[@TheSatanogria]

i'm a bit late to the party but i just got this game and i am wondering if these guides are still accurate or has the game changed too much since the videos were made.... ?

[@BobbieBlade21]

I just started playing this because of you zig. One problem, the insurance button is gone. =(

[@Sadowsky46]

Excellent guide, thanks a lot. Usual ZiggyD quality ))

[@amateurmechanic7773]

I never knew about after burners and I have been playing for a long time...

[@spynorbays]

I wasnt interested this game when it came out because of its graphics.. But I realised the mechanics are pretty good so I just bought it and downloading it

[@MarkTarsis]

Really nice guide. Thanks.

[@3dparagon]

Thanks for the video... helped me out alot!

[@doubleheadedeagle6769]

That looked like a Borg cube space station.

[@Nalasys]

What version of windows/ mac do you use to play this game?

[@ericseidel4940]

Hi Thank you very much for this guide. Sooo useful

[@kizz4life]

Don't you link your twitch in the description? I wanted to watch more of you playing Avorion. Now I have to go to your channel manually. :)

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Usually do just forgot in this one thanks for the reminder!

[@Esoterik1987]

Very cool Ziggy, going to have to check this out. Is it possible to play with other people?

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Yep! you can host multiplayer games, run 3rd party hosted servers or join someone else's server

[@Esoterik1987]

Wow thats awesome! Thanks for the reply man, been following you since early PoE days, keep up the great work and HF :)

[@TheAnatic]

Lol what's with the Stranger Things music at the end Ziggy? Great vid by the way, making me really want to pick up the game now

[@ZiggyDGaming]

It's not Stranger Things, it's Le Matos from the movie "Turbo Kid"

[@TheAnatic]

ZiggyD Gaming cool, thanks for the clarification

[@PwNaGe77]

are you still playing? and are you satisfied with the game?

[@amateurmechanic7773]

My tactic is to build a small mining ship (no war lasers) then find a captain and let him fly it so I dont have to spend all my time mining and have time to explore or fight

[@TheGuardingDark_]

Between this and Skywanderers. I think I've found my replacement for Starmade.

[@AcanLord]

so sad, the current state of starmade it had so much promise....

[@Surr3alD3sign]

Wait wait wait... why am I only seeing this now? Wtf youtube... I have almost 2000 hours now, where was this recommendation when I needed it lol

[@keithwinget526]

For some reason I want McDonald's french fries...

[@sirspoony2902]

You must be fat....hehe

[@aliim8]

So this is like kingdom hearts gumi ship?

[@TeamROsky]

nice video i am going to buy this cool game

[@Perqqq]

This should actually be in the game as official tutorial

[@fantasyfootball2122]

I sell insurance in Colorado USA. I don't think we cover space ships, but I can check.

[@stoxxed]

excellent video! thank you

[@FluffyFractalshard]

this game looks epic! i just got it, 1.0 is out now :)

[@Corvothing24]

Wow, this guy even builds a space rectangle better than me

[@clifflexmiddleton]

Great tips. Thanks!

[@generalsaufenberg4931]

do i have to build a ship? is there a way to buy some of these giant space haulers?

[@walmartian]

you can buy them and you slide bars and choose selections and when you slide the bars the ship your buying changes, like if you click more speed it will add more engines and sliding the bars changes the stats and requirements of the ship the station will build for you, the ship it builds looks like a random NPC ship but you can see a preview of it while you slide the bars the preview morphs in real time

[@RavienGaming]

Awesome guide!

[@OM4R_FARUK]

WE WANT MORE AVORION DUDE

[@ShadowDragon1848]

Is it still possible to build thrusters over thrusters?

[@LeyKonNar]

Thanks, very smooth walk through. They should make you the tutorial A.I. for Avorion.

[@krimsoncrusader198]

i can just imagine that someone is just gonna rock up with like a HUGE dick ship... i can just see it happening eventually XD

[@ALPHAOMEGA1500]

how to delete mix folders from saved play list

[@JJLCFC]

Can I ask? Why the hell do people take time out to downvote something like this? The bloke has taken time out of his life when he could be playing games or doing his own thing, to show us what the game is about. If you don't like it, just move on? I don't get it.

[@zeronth]

A great video... truly. My only critique (and it is truly petty, but I mean it mostly as a joke) is the use of "haitch". It burns my ears... so much burn. But seriously, a top notch starter video and the reason I just purchased Avorion. I doff my cunning hat to you regardless of your local dialect. Carry on you magnificent bastage!

[@austinmsoren]

Thanks for this!

[@gaminglt8493]

i can't get the f to dock thing to pop up. pls help.

[@JJ-si5pr]

You have to target the base, should be click middle mouse button while looking at the station.

[@ResistTrump]

Is your ship created in this video on Steam?

[@Crazy-Chicken-Media]

the entire time all I could say was ooohhhhhhhh thats how it's done...