But Can it Lift? - Scrapyard #16 

Twice now, RU-vid has randomly started playing this in the middle of the night after my music track has run out, and I've had a dream where I'm waiting for Splitsie to stop talking long enough for me to make a suggestion. Only for me to eventually wake up and realize that the reason he won't listen to me, is because it's the video.

Flying train….. FLYING TRAIN!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just a nugget carrying a bridge.

Splitsie: I need 2 railway bridges for my sign Also Splitsie: How about a fun train thingy And I think he forgot about his sign ;)

I'd just like to take a minute to appreciate the community. The fact this random chad of a lad dropped off a thruster for Nugget only demanding symmetry had me cracking up🤣 Keep up the great work on the awesome vids Splitsie! Love the content!

The Nugget lifting the bridge reminds me of a dacshund carrying a massive stick

The Nugget is already designed to be a modular detachable design. Why not expand it with that in mind? A passenger module for search and rescue with extra lift and storage. An armoured module for high risk search and rescue. An armed module for assault search and rescue. All detachable and compatible. The final name of course being the Mega Nugget.

Told ya 4 large thrusters can lift a lot! All u have to be careful to have enough gyroscopes if u lift complete large buildings (and maybe the leveled flight script as an option). BTW didn't one of the trucks u found has/had a few of those "flat" type of thrusters?

3 trains connected together and you drive them with a chariot in the back. Madmax style

Got to remember there's no gyros on the driver cars yet.

There's actually precedent for leaving parts of a train behind as you go, they're called slip coaches, you just uncouple them and let them roll into the stations without stopping.

The armored train will be interesting as well because, once you make a working design and standardize it across all your rail cars, anyone else can find and modify another rail car with the same changes and bring it to be fitted into the train even last-minute. Whether it's packed full of decoys and covered in blast doors, or a ridiculous custom turret, or anything in between. A small mobile crane and flatbed car for recovering supporting vehicles might also be interesting, for instance. I think it'd be fun to see the train given a spiked plow and some thin frame barbed wire on its front. I'm curious, regarding the poles, if it would be viable to build something near enough to poke at and draw out some drones, and then down them and attempt to salvage them for their thrusters and batteries. It might be warranted to build a larger air hauler, something that would fly farther out, gathering more before returning, just as an excuse to use large thrusters for manuvering thrust. The shortages would be batteries (to also extend the range, particularly with a flatbed or rack style carrier rather than just the skids) and gyroscopes which it's shown you probably could use more of.

I am really loving that Nugget, just a good looking flyer. Suggestion for your Crazy Train... The Aussie AusBorn... 😂

so i binged this whole thing since yesterday, cant believe no one has made a jawa sandcrawler

Just want to stop in and say Thank you for this series it made me get the game, and learn to play in a scrap yard scenario. I am having a blast and people are laughing and giving me great pointers, thanks again JD

The RBLF notes the Splitsie is starting to recognize the value of Batteries and Power Cells. But, he still values mere thrusters over the Batteries… Bad Splitsie! 😂😂😂😂😂

This is my favourite series on RU-vid at the moment!

I swear that I have an instinct that lets me know whenever one of these is posted. Because everytime I check to see if a new episode has been posted I’m right on time.

I have a suggestion for a hub, because you mentioned you wanted your base to be a place where everyone meets. Instead of using your base, people can contribute to one specific location, where everyone can get together for events and stuff... And you could all build it together like a scrapyard community, piece by piece (if that's something that could be arranged that is)

I feel that this series really has Mad Max written all over it and how as an Australian you have resisted that, i shall never ever know

wow .. hard to believe this has been going on for 10 years now ... i think back to your first series, and how much the game has changed too .. and everyone else who has made videos along the way ... and life as well ....

You could make a lift module with storage a survival kit and another battery that links to the nugget

Rip crane truck you served us well but you’ve been replaced

I want to see a thruster powered mad Max train with a fighting caboose on the back with armed people hanging off the sides. Train vs a defense tower armed with people shooting as well.

Nice! Really loving this series, I don't have the time to watch regularly but on occasion I get some free time and I come back and binge watch to catch up.

23:25 Apparently Splitsie has the same luck in spawns as he has for not dying to fall damage :p

One of my ideas for the train-cars is to redesign one of the wheels (or both) in to a bogie, that has the coupling point on it, so it could work like a pully (or a toy/model train); or the lazy idea is to reduce the friction on the front set of wheels so the wagons act like a trailer!

if you got more small thrusters (or traded for them with the big ones you have) you could make a welder-grinder worker type thing

You can use the thrusters together with the chinook to make a storage houler for the nugget!

you could add some mag plates to the sides of the flyer so u can attach small grids to them

The community interaction is great!

Don't give in to those that want everything symmetrical. insisting everything be symmetrical is not a logical compulsion, but actually weakness of character, an indulgence of base tendencies. Resist and be a stronger person for it.

28:32 remind me of recognisers (from tron) I think my brain might just be fried though, loving the series so far!

Might want to put a couple mag plates on the tops of your landing skids so you can attach small blocks instead of having to land ontop of them

As you have noticed, the question is not can the nugget lift this thing? It's do I have the power to get back and the patience to fly back at 2 mph (for vary heavy objects).

Can't help but think you could use a few towers with turret controllers and spotlights to help aim for night cleanup

Have you though about having a wearhouse with a foldable roof so you can drop in salvage inside right away?

Oooh! New sleepytime scrapyard survival!

Can use truster on your yellow bus to make a "Fortnite" kinda deplow ship lol 😂

30secs ago, lets goooo :D

Surprise rail bridge, see this is what happens when you binge drink on the weekends. You wake up and random things you don't remember have happened somehow

Bro, do you even lift?

28:00 Definitely could do with more Gyroscopes on that little nugget :P

Thx for saving my day! You're my ray of light inbetween doom-scrolling 😊

it'd make sense to have searchlights at sides of the nugget cockpit, you can control one and have a move'able camera

if you make a bigger flying bird, it needs to be named the SAND CRANE! because you're in the desert, it's kinda acting like a crane...and because en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhill_crane it's too perfect. chicken/nugget is perfect for the lil guy though.

Should definitely turn that train into a connected tank armour it up and salvage some controllable turrets so that when you all meet up there's a turret each to controle 😂

I had the biggest surprise today In my own Scrap game on Satreus (125Km) : - Finding Scraps : Check. - Going after the Excavator Cockpit : Check. - See something move : Check. - Being Shot at by a NPC space Engineer : Check. - Go after him with the Grinder : Check. I use the Mod Crew. It add a serious stress when you go after scrap with cockpit and maybe something else. You should try too !

Wrong question... the question is why WOULDN'T you want a longer railbridge?!

Your death train mission sounds like fun, but based on that first trip a successful polar mission will need multiple flying vehicles. Sit on those spare thrusters for making a few armed ice mining gunships with a pilot and gunner. That's the only way you're collecting any ice. Idea: a single-grinder pit that just does the last clean up of fiddly plates and loose blocks after you've done the bulk of the work with a hand grinder. You have to do some of the work, but you get max possible speed, minimal hassle, and little shrapnel. Give it a main on/off switch and a safety sensor so it can't grind when friendlies are in the pit. PS: 2 atmos can comfortably lift one small-grid large container full or ore in 1G (~80 tons IIRC), so yes add one to the Nugget.

Regarding the sacrificial railcars you mentioned, how about building half-length ones (or cutting regular ones in half). If they are decoys they don't have to be large. Can shed sections like a tapeworm. Edit: Since you have a surplus of thrusters how about a single-large lift "forklift" flyer for working in/around all your mess . . . er, "stock"? Will need some smalls for the lateral thrust. But you do have a few. Also you need a "mobile battery". Something to run around and charge up your other items as needed when they run out and are not connected.

I just had a vision, Something outta Shanghai Noon, a train; after laboriously trudging across dunes, now has to run: side panels blow off and fall away as the wheels detach, large atmos extend out, rotate to merge block into upward thrust, and the entire train just lifts off and flies away dragging the traincars upward, surprising all of the passengers with its sudden and inevitable transformation- as Clang Drive starts to play on all the speakers- To (para)quote Furiosa Movie: "But are you going to make it EPIC?"

Could construct a spare nugget for just-in-case emergencies (including another merge block to temporarily merge the two together for *even more* lifting thrust for large projects). Maybe even just make an auxiliary thrust module to make up for the Nugget's shortcomings?

Splitsie I have a question: I genuinely want to know why you play with tool shake, since I haven't heard an actual answer in any of your videos I've watched (you usually make fun of the comment when people mention it). I would like to compare your answer to my observations of my time in the game (almost 8k hours at this point) for three main points: A) Welder blocks don't seem to be affected by tool shake at all. B) Drill blocks aren't affected to much by tool shake unless you make a super basic drill ship (ie. a bear minimum design) or you have drills at the end of long chain of sub grids (ex: 10 or more pistons in a row). C) As you've shown many times at this point, tool shake makes grinder blocks pretty much useless due to how violently and fast small sections of blocks get launched (regularly phasing through voxles and blocks as a result) and no amount of engineering seems to work for it. In my opinion ( which of course you can take with a grain of salt if you like) unless Keen cuts the tool shake for grinders in half, there is no point in it being on except for a little immersion for drills (which btw you still get the screen shake in first person when tool shake is off if the cockpit is close to the tool blocks). Would really like an answer for the question and your opinion on those three points.

4 small-grid, large atmos on that planet should be able to lift 146 metric tonnes. So you should be able to cary 80 Mg 'without' issue.

I think you should attach the 2 train engines together, side by side, similar to a F-82 Twin Mustang. It'll make the wheel base wider and look really badass. It'll also help avoid the totally unlikely event of the front engine taking a critical hit becoming floppy dead weight in front of the rest of the train. Each side can provide redundancy for the other.

About the large small grid batteries on train cars - Is it worth putting one of those onto a carriage you're planning on sacrificing? Also when you said something about the flying train... Dr. Everett Brown maybe???

what your base needs is a bowling alley an arcade and a gift shop. (yes a rolling ball and pins to knock down and pin ball machine ... hint hint.)

If you want to take it one level further: combine train and escape vehicle. Just needs the style to change from Mad Max to Doc Brown...

Stupid idea alert! Theme the train on Thomas & Friends. The two locomotives would be perfect for Harry and Bert, or Diesel himself. Orrrrr, convert one into a certain T&F tram engine 😉

Instead of building a few small rockets, why not build a big somewhat good loking spaceship and fly off with it. Since its build from scrapping it would give you a reason to crash on another planet (maybe a frozen one) and make a new series?

Continued complaints about rotors in hitches here. Anyway, train looks good. I suspect that making train roofs out of a double layer of the new girder blocks will be a defensively good idea.

Your making the connection to hard for yourself. Hinge on front train go up/down hinge on the next car go side/side with 1 block in the middle. Maybe 2 blocks. You have to try to see what ya like.

49:08 Is the Mass on your vehicles being measured in Magnesiums now? Your train weighs 34.1 Mg... lol 2:23 same with the Nuggets mass.

When I cruise in atmosphere I always turn directional thrusters off and only turn them on for precise landing. Otherwise inertia dampeners slow you down if you don't go full throttle. This causes extra battery usage and adds instability when you carry another grid. I'm looking for a mod that switches inertia dampening for a chosen thruster/axis.

Well here's a crazy yet not crazy idea. If you've seen back to the future part 3. You could make a flying train like Doc did. Just an idea

So you could turn your chinook into a heavy lifter, just put the large thrusters inside, make the “rotors” spin just cause, and you would have an epic lifter ….. because why not lol

Don't use rotors on trailer hitches, you don't need them. Vertical hinge then horizontal hinge behind the truck, then enough blocks to give clearance to the trailer. Put a 30 degree or so limit on the hinges and that's all you need. Look up ISL by Spite in the workshop, his trucks and trailers are all like this and work great.

You could use the thrusters to give the nugget a "trailer", so you wouldn't need to return to base so often. ~edit~ You could use the detach block that's on the nugget and switch between the normal thrusters you have now and then a "flatbed" type setup (with cargo and a survival kit).

Make another segment. Replace the connector on the chicken nugget with another merge block. Then connect a another cluster of cargo containers, large thrusters and batteries, and perhaps crane. Then you make a modular flight truck :) You can make a land on connector instead of front an back, with camera assisted landing.

Love the videos, learned a lot. Just started playing a month ago so still a baby engineer. You should really start a video book and name it space engineers guide to the Galaxy. Cheesey I know but it would fit the banjo theme you got going. Love the content

Please blueprint the chicken nugget, it looks so perfectly scrapyard built!

I suggest a pair of coloured spotlights on the nuggs win pods to highlight whilst scouting (and maybe add to some junk vibe with mismatched colour) Could add large drive thrusters on those pods if you take off the beam blocks at the top. Run away mode engage

Unless I'm completely wrong couldn't you use an engine, hydrogen tank, and a few vents to make a passive charger on top on the nugget to increase flight time. Just set it to turn off the engine when the nugget is docked and always have it sucking up atmospheric hydrogen to fill up one or two tanks.

Splitsie builds a Train, now he has to steal a Service Station to serve as the Depot for it! be curious as how how his Boobytrapped Cranes handle being stolen by a nugget!

Do you remember Capacs Hanger roof from the moon? could that building work with grinders at the bottom for a grinder pit?

Try an x-shaped double connection between the cars, that should help the train stay lined up. Set one 'arm' of the X above the other by a couple of blocks, that way there's no interference between them.

"do i have any need for 2 bridges?" A rail system between players so they can do remote order/delivery? HA-HA-HA

you should cut the cab off of one of the locomotives and merge block them together, going for a BR class 20 design rather than a class 08.

The nugget seems pretty vertibird inspired. I would be tempted to give it a detachable cargo extension with tail thrust to complete the look for long haul flights.

@splitsie you have the merge block on the flight control of the nugget with the directional thrusters, the only thing that is connected to, is the 4 large up thrusters. You could make another lifting rig designed for heavier scrap with more directional thrust that way it is interchangeable for what you need

Next episode of scrap survival splitsie comes online and finds the chicken nugget no longer A symmetrical

I wish that new Temp Container for inventory of a ground down item did not require going to character in the inventory screen. Don't you mostly go for fun style first?

Love watching this series. Decided to reinstall the game and try it again, but the game keeps crashing. So now I cry a little inside as I keep watching these videos.

Re: the coupler design. Are you going to need conveyor access along the train? If some cars are being left behind do you want to be able to shift ice/ammo to the front of the train?

A third section of the chick & nugget called the coupe More cargo more batteries and more thrusters Attached by the large connector on the back Ps I just wanna know if it can lift a warehouse in its current state Not that you need 3 I just wanna see it done.

Get 3 flatbeds, cut the cabs off, join the trays together side to side, cover top in mag plates, stick all the extra thrusters on it, attach to the nugget, flying platform for collecting all those smaller loots like batteries.

since you have all those large thrusters could you maybe do a third section of the flyer like the mid section just have the arms mirrored and facing out the back? not like you need much more lift but it could also act as a bigger battery and cargo pack too.And on the backward facing arms you could maybe set two thrusters on a rotor so they can give you up and forward force at the same time. you could technically do that with all four on the back arms but that might be a bit much

Here is a challenge. speaking of DC's and deadman switches ... set it up to auto return and land.

More of the big thrusters 3 each side! And extend it so u can add storage and survival kit, and batters! That would be awesome

For the nugget, if you plan to do more batteries, you could make it a bit longer then add the additional thrusters to be able to lift a LOT more stuff (in terms of amount and weight)

You should give the nugget landing struts that fold down from the wings so you don’t have to disconnect what you are carrying every time you find something new.

There are some wreckages (such as train) that I never encountered on my earthlike save. Is it exclusive to your new planet?

I am a somewhat infrequent Watcher however I also like the nugget design maybe you can make an adapter that fits around the current frame turning it into a heavy lifter so much to the trains design combined with the idea of a Russian nesting doll

That Train is more of a B-dubble, to be a road train ( because there are no tracks ) needs couple more trailers. Watched and Liked 👍

You could have merged the two train engines together making a larger train engine like 4 wheels each side with a larger wheel in the rear adjusted to the same settings as the forward wheels. 4 forward wheels for steering and 2 larger wheels rear for propulsion and balance. Would be interesting to test.

You should try the heli assist script. I use it on my flyer and it makes the need for lateral thrusters much less. As it will automatically tilt the grid for maneuvers while at the same time holding altitude and managing your braking thrusters.

so if you are the meeting place, where will the business center/conference room go to? You already have beverages for it as well!

Obviously you need 3 or 4 bridges to stretch across the entrance, then you can build ramps up on either side, and park your train there when it is not in use! On the other hand, direct connecting both engines together into one grid would give you some more tractive power and control over the rest of the train?

why not just make another nodule for the nugget for heavy lifting or just a maneuverability one