Mysterious Signals - Scrapyard Survival #2 

Needs to be run on a server i presume?

Nope. In fact, if you're playing on your own you'll have a much better experience being local hosted since you can just turn off trash cleanup, and a lot of the physics stuff runs better too 🙂

@@Splitsie nice. I have a second machine i can run a server instance on but its a bit of a pain for solo play.

Been trying the MOD since your first video. The change of pace and the need to engineer solutions makes for amazing emergent gameplay. Had a few crashes and roll overs with the rover, and despite getting upset, every new challenge is aproached with renewed entusiasm.

@@Splitsie 18:46 you gotta love the ghost items glitch

I ended up building something a bit like that in my test livestreams of the mod, I found it hard to make it all that useful in the end - but maybe I overcomplicated it in the first place by building with a hinge rope :D

@@Splitsie Mayhaps. Just some nesting pistons would probably work better. XP

@@Splitsie A centrally-mounted "pick and place" arm with a cab perhaps? Like an inverted version of your crawler crane? Except it will not need so many axis.

If you need a reason, how about helping your "clients" with help installation. A crane inside or adjacent might be very useful

I think having a building jack, the plate and piston you use to lift your car and tweak the tires, built into the roof of your early shelter might be cool. Instead of the usual gluing a new jack to the side of the vehicle.

Also, a tiny permanent, 1% chance to find, 32 place diner with trade booth to allow players to trade their junk, in a tiny permanent safe zone with a rusty robot behind the counter. This location would be unique and removed from the spawn list once it appears. Prefers flatlands so that irs foundations are touching the ground. Could add a parking lot if there is room too. Would act as a trade hub and meeting place.

Hopefully I'll manage to get things together well enough to build my little trade outpost up :)

I would love to see the shop block being used on a multiplayer server. You rarely find that on RU-vid.

lol Fair :D

"I clean that up later" "That is just temporary"

lol I'm totally not going to need a gun... yet ;)

This, except "guess I'm staying in bed another hour with my morning coffee".

Huh, that's a kinda cool idea with the plane. I may do that with one of the builds eventually just for some fun :D

I too would find that to be absolutely hilarious :D

Thanks so much, I think this slower gameplay is where SE can really shine if I've got the time to play it the way I want to :D

Somewhere between 7 days and 0 days 😂

😂 thank you splitsie

thats thinking like a Space Engineer! I bet it works

@@dham99 It didn't work, I tested myself after I commented. The power cells turns into scrap inside the battery regardless

@@stianaasland9740 damn..well thanks for the update 😅

Embrace the jawa lifestyle

The main challenge with that is the no mining, no refining and that you at best might find a basic assembler. But other than that there is nothing but time preventing you from doing just that and in fact I might convert my base into a rover if I find I am to far away from the rest to join in to the community events once they start :) But going large grid is a challange, I am not sure if I will find any large grid gyros and without that, any serious inclines would be be dangerous :P

Utinni!

The Big Orange Rover rides again

@@Ericshadowblade Well, there's a small DLC pack idea for Keen (The PL company, not Keen GmbH of Enshrouded!): A Jawa suit or two, with accompanying tool skins!

Thanks 🙂

lol Very nicely done :)

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It could be a decent option for a buildable suit upgrade if they did, since anything that makes the default engineer less capable would be incredibly annoying for a lot of people, having this as a useful bonus could be a cool thing to do :)

lol Tasty

lol It could indeed :D

I normally would build something like that, the only thing that is making me hesitate here is that I'm hoping to drag some of the other people on the server together so was thinking of hiring them to drive a flatbed while I drive the crane :)

@@Splitsie Establish a Beacon at highest broadcast with the name "Now hiring drivers and laborers. Competitive pay, 401k, Annual Stock Options."

The portal crane needs to be controlled by GlaDOS. And a speaker needs to play “Still alive!” at random intervals.

Thanks 😊

Lol you had me confused for a moment there 😅

@@Splitsie (▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿)

lol :D

The helicopters in the mod were all submitted by UfoL and I completely agree, they're incredible builds - he nailed the scale and style for the scrapyard :)

the downside is, they're almost entirely steel plates. Minus like two small rotors, a battery, partial hydrogen engine, and a few hidden panels. Its just for looks, but agree, it is really cool. Ive come across a few and thought about bringing one to a garage and making it fully functional. Imagine having one of those to fly around and lift items from Scrap locations. be the only cool flight capable vehicle in a World of dusty, rusty, rovers almost like in Mad Max 😅

I'm hopeful that they'll be safe enough if I just start putting them in the middle - I guess we'll find out :D

@@Splitsie 2x1 ramps have worked well as skid plates for me in the past

It's such an ideal solution to base mounted connectors. I'm normally someone who likes doing things differently just for the sake of it, but in this case I make an exception :D

I'm definitely wanting to build some sort of flatbed, not sure how best to get to use that with other people but I'm going to try a few ideas :)

The main reason to conveyor the survival kit is for those rare times when you need to use your jetpack to put a block under something else. The jetpack helps make this possible, even if it's still quite awkward :)

Thanks, I think it'll give me some nice shades of grey and blue to work with and nicely stand out against the sand dunes :)

At this stage I really don't have any time to consider new projects. I've got more things I want to do than time to do them so am not actively looking for more people to play with unfortunately. That may change in the future, but I suspect I'll be working through my current backlog of ideas until at least the second half of this year

I hope to find an opportunity to do something like that in the future as I've tried something somewhat similar and it was so ridiculous when it somehow worked :D

lol always :D

Thanks, I'll hopefully not miss that if I find another one of those helicopters :)

Thanks :)

That would be both tragic and amusing :D

Thanks :)

I'm thinking I'll use a different technique each time, I'd recorded this episode before the other one was released so there's always a bit of lag between reading the comments and being able to act on them :)

Or it could be called The Scavenger, since it kinda looks like an ant, and the series is about repurposed blocks. Also ants in the desert are mostly scavengers so would fit quite nice.

Yeah, but then I've got incomplete heavy armour and nowhere to shove the little batteries 😂

lol :D

I should probably name the containers something unique then too :D

Yes they do. I think if you empty your inventory at the right point, then reweld the battery before starting grinding you CAN avoid breaking cells, but with lag that is close to impossible ;) But I have managed once or twice.

Even if your inventory is full the power cells will grind to scrap if you take the block's health down to that level. As David said, the trick is to add the right number of components back in with your welder, so you can then do another little 'stab' with your grinder to hopefully take off just the computers but no power cells. It's doable, but I've completely forgotten how I used to do it :D

PvP is explicitly of limits and anyone caught doing it will according to the stated rules be banned. And since its a supporter server, anyone doing it would first have to pay to be a supporter for then just to sabotage, takes a quite dedicated griefer for that I would think ;)

@@davidmartensson273 makes me happy much less anxity for me :D

Much less for me too, outside of boardgames I'm not someone who revels in PvP :P

I'd definitely recommend spending at least some time in vanilla first as this playstyle isn't very forgiving, but hopefully you have fun :)

@@Splitsie I’ll do I never played it before so I wanna learn first thanks for the heads up

I mean, this time I had a counter balance - but it probably wasn't needed :P

Well you creations are always interesting. Clang clearly likes you. You forgot your hydrogen tank. Perhaps you don't need it, but then you would have to add one later on. Clang be blessed

I don't know about better, but I have played it for nearly 10 years at this point so I'd hopefully have learnt something :P

That sounds like I thing, I wonder if I should do that...

The crane is actually dead centre on the vehicle, at least unless I add an extra rear axle at some point

While my setup does gain some strength, I can certainly see the merits in your much cleaner setup. Though if I'm honest with myself, my ultimate preference for cranes is to go full piston actuation because I'm obsessed with overly complicated machinery :D

Yup, they could have been that snug, though I'm hesitant to do that on a dedicated server as sub grids that close to one another can get really weird. In a single player game, I'd do it in a heartbeat though :D

Thanks :)

I've never really looked into using the DAS script, I know some people love it and others hate it so I feel like I'd need a bit of time testing it out

@@Splitsie Basically, if you have a 'typical' rover (only wheels, no thrusters), it will automagically set your wheel turning angles, your suspension is dynamically updated based on the mass of the rover grid, accelleration and braking is kept in safe ranges, the handbrake is set automatically if you leave your seat, and if you have gyros it will use them to keep the rover balanced (even during 'hops' 🙂). Frankly, I just build a rover with some wheels, gyro(s) and a seat, add a remote control block and run the script on a programmable block. It does it's own setup and away you go! No need to tune or fiddle with settings. You can add more stuff later (bottom ground-facing camera, thruster support for keeping balance, different functional lights like direction indicators, backup lights etc...) if you really want to. Just recompile and most often you're done.

lol I like it :D

There's a large and bold rule in the server info that says NO PVP, people who know me know that I'm really not fond of PVP gameplay so most aren't interested in it anyway, so those who ignore the rule will be swiftly and permanently banned from this and any other servers I host :)

@@Splitsie Thanks for answer, PVE then.

Mainly goodwill, but they'll also be banned from this server and any others I run 🤔

@@Splitsie How will they know it belongs to a player though?

Welders and grinders show ownership on a block when you point at them

That's the most fun part of it, you can progressively improve how quickly you can get the pieces together as you engineer better ways to handle all of it :)

Nah, it'll totally be fine :P

I still get nervous linking things this close together too, though it's been a while since things went as weird as they did back in the Survival Maybe days :D

Thanks :)

Park can do multiple pistons as well and I've exploded a few too many things with marmos 😂 I'm definitely doing something wrong with it but I'm not sure what

lol I might have to build a red battery on a sign for my trade shop :)

I may well come across your base, hopefully soon I'll get time to add the ability to make datapads from the survival kit so we can all have a little mailbox for visitors to leave notes so I can drop something when/if I find it :)

lol I'm surprised I haven't flung myself into the air yet :D