Overcomplicating the printer in a different way - Survival Impossible #75 

Man, sad to see this series end. But AA is awesome, and The Collector has been fun so far! (Which both seem to end up using future ideas for this series)

Love the new printer! The angle to each of the canary parking spots is more or less fixed by the angle the projector assembly to the individual spot. So if you wanted to, you could replace the hinges in the floor with rotors that could then rotate the freshly printed canaries to face directly out of the hangar door instead of a wonky angle. Although, part of me also wants to recommend putting in a rotisserie there for when your birds are finished cooking.

Really looking forward to a season 2 of this series! You can’t end this until you give that lonesome battery a home

When he drops the first Canary onto the connector and says "It works!" I'm hearing Doc Brown from the past seeing the Flux Capacitor work "IT WORKS, IT WORKS, I finally build something that works" I know, I know, Splitsie has a much better invention completion record than Doc, but it's what I hear :D

holy crap, two episodes inside a single month! Personally would have just started a new world after such a hiatus, know personally how hard it is to get back into a world you're not used to anymore.

Great to have you back in Survial Impossible, loving the new vibe 🙌

“Overcomplicating” Sounds like Splitsie would be a fantastic software engineer. Solving problems that MIGHT exist!

Automatic LCD2 by MMaster could work for displaying "Canary" print status.

Who the heck is running in background and making that shadow on the wall in 2:34 +- ? :D

Yey, another survival impossible 😍

Another fantastic episode! I know these take an incredible amount of work but we (or me, at least) really love them- so thank you Splitsie

Hopefully the new drone blocks will give us enough functionality to allow for things like having a fully autonomous canary fleet so you don't need to manually grab one whenever a reaver shows up

sounds like a fun plan coming up with the combat. After that I'm craving for you to go out revisit the asteroid base and find silver and uranium. Maybe you would have to set up the asteroid base as a refueling depot as well with some trips out to get ice from the asteroids.

Hey Splitsie, remember to double-check that your survival kit battery still has charge!!

Anyone else notice the engineer shadow walking around near the beginning

39:27 You asked for a script that would show the total unbuilt blocks on an LCD. OpenAI Chatbot (with a lot of testing and prompting from myself) created the following script for you: //////////////////////////////////////////////////// // This script is designed to display the total // number of unbuilt blocks for all the projectors // that have a specific tag in their name on one // or more LCD panels that also have this tag in // their name (last tested in version 1.201.014). // // Authors: OpenAI Chatbot (with help from Genzzry) //////////////////////////////////////////////////// // This tag is used to identify which projectors and LCDs the script checks // Feel free to change it to whatever you want (in case of multiple scripts) string tag = "[checkMe]"; //////////////////////////////////////////////////// // !!! Do not edit anything below this line !!! //////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Create lists to store the LCDs and projectors that have the tag in their name List lcds = new List(); List projectors = new List(); // Declare a string to store the output to be displayed on the LCDs string output = ""; public Program() { // Set the update frequency of the script to Update10 // This will cause the script to run every 10 game ticks Runtime.UpdateFrequency = UpdateFrequency.Update10; } public void Main(string argument, UpdateType updateSource) { // Get all the LCDs and projectors with the tag in their name GridTerminalSystem.GetBlocksOfType(lcds, x => x.CustomName.Contains(tag)); GridTerminalSystem.GetBlocksOfType(projectors, x => x.CustomName.Contains(tag)); // Echo the number of LCDs and projectors with the tag in their name to the programmable block's debug output Echo ("LCDs containing the tag " + tag + ": " + lcds.Count); Echo ("Projectors containing the tag " + tag + ": " + projectors.Count); // Set the default output to be displayed on the LCDs to indicate that there are no projectors with the tag output = "Add the tag " + tag + " to at least 1 projector"; // If there are projectors with the tag in their name, get the total number of unbuilt blocks if (projectors.Count != 0) { output = GetTotalUnbuiltBlocks(projectors); } // Loop through all the LCDs with the tag in their name and update their content for (int i = 0; i < lcds.Count; i++) { // Set the content type of the LCD to TEXT_AND_IMAGE if it is not already set to that if (lcds[i].ContentType != ContentType.TEXT_AND_IMAGE) { lcds[i].ContentType = ContentType.TEXT_AND_IMAGE; } // Update the content of the LCD with the output string lcds[i].WriteText(output); } // Echo the output string to the programmable block's debug output Echo (output); } // This method takes a list of projectors and returns the total number of unbuilt blocks for all the projectors public string GetTotalUnbuiltBlocks(List projectors) { // Declare a variable to store the total number of unbuilt blocks int totalUnbuiltBlocks = 0; // Loop through all the projectors and sum their remaining blocks for (int i = 0; i < projectors.Count; i++) { totalUnbuiltBlocks += projectors[i].RemainingBlocks; } // Return the total number of unbuilt blocks as a string return "Total unbuilt blocks: " + totalUnbuiltBlocks; }

If you replace the hinges for advanced rotors you could set it up so it corrects the orientation automatically when you lock each Canary! Great episode, it made me want to play Space Engineers! Maybe some of this days =)

there's one consistency over these past 3 years that i appreciate. it's that I can get distracted by life from this series for months or a year and there's always been a ton to catch up on. thanks splitsie

And how about put sensor type of "warning" light thing to back wall? So when you push thing too much it lits light to indicate to not go further. :3 Very nicely done the printer system ^^

As a small decorative suggestion, I think you should paint the floor inside the printer. If the sensor fails you don't want someone wandering in while the welders are on. (Just for RP, I know that's not really a concern in space engineers.)

Scripts can access the projector to find out how many blocks are left, but there is currently no way to tell the difference between an incomplete armor block and a fully welded one (the same applies to all blocks that don't show up in the grid terminal system)

2:34 Guys look at the shadow on the right. I saw an engineer moving!

You are getting real good at these cinematics keep on being awesome.

With the block state compairer they are adding you might be able to automate batteries to recharge when connected and maybe auto again when not.

Oh, Soplitsie, why! Why you are like that, Splitsie? Why you abandoned such a sweet story? Oh, Splitsie, please, continue!

I really hope this will get resurrected... :

How old is your red pet-battery now? Does it breed at some point? What is it's name? It seems friendly. And faithful above all. It never runs away. Not far at least.

Wasn't there a trailer planned for the Rock Lobster? Would be better to leave the Lobster in the Mine location and have a Armored cargo truck to transport all the mined materials!

You are slowly getting better at naming blocks as you build them. One day it may become a habit ;) So satisfying seeing that row of Canaries all ready to fight.

Splitisie if you had used rotors instead of hinges on the Canary connectors would there have been a way to have them rotate to align for takeoff after moving them over?

Wait, did Whiplash's SHART script stop working too? That's the one I used last time. 39:35 You can use AutoLCDv2 to show "block status" which is the text on the far right in the terminal for a block. For projectors, this is the list of blocks left to weld.

I've been rewatching the series after new episodes started popping up, its interesting seeing all the ideas that never came to fruition, wanting to spend most of 2021 in space sure didnt pan out :P

I'm really looking forward to the future of this series, I've been following since ep 8 and things just keep getting better and better. Keep up the amazing work Splitsie!

Personally I would probably have tried doing a "spinning plate" setup with 4 connectors on a rotor to receive a drone in one location that's able to spin 90 degrees. Anyway it's nice to finally have some Survival Impossible back, I feel like it's one of your more creative plays, any chance we'll see a guest appearance from capac for the attack on the bases?

I believe the Auto LCD2 script can display projector details if I remember correctly.

You remembered your safety sensor all by yourself! I’m so proud!

Another Impossibly perfect video! I love the new Canary printer, it is compact and simple in its elegance. I like how the nested pistons looks like chain links and wondered if you might paint it to resemble such. Also as a name... The Chain Smoking Canary Printer... After all, after combat they will be smoking 😜

Splitsie, how about trying out some remote-guided kinetic missiles for base strikes?

All this stuff with setting up the new Canary printer reminds me of the teased AI blocks update. Wonder if it'll lead into automated Canaries patrolling the base for you.

1:55 it's not even 2 minutes yet but the Almighty Clang gave us a sign already. 16:07 called it.

Survival impossible with random explosions! :)

Loving the new Canary printing system, I'm going to have to add a similar printing system to my construction facility. I agree that having a LCD script that shows maybe the completion percentage of a blueprint build would be great. Loving the Survival Impossible series as it's giving me some great ideas for my world builds.

Nice. Another Survival Impossible to start the weekend!

odd suggestion to consider the "spatula?" at end of arm that hold the ship. put a hinge at each end and run them in opposite directions. they will maintain level and lower the drone.

Now make some kamikaze drones since this process is easier

Hmm... the new printer system is probably less likely to spontaneously disassemble itself, but there's something about a giant tool arm that I really like. Having the welder on an arm makes the system more flexible, in that you can use it to weld/repair pretty much anything within reach _including_ the hangar building itself. This obviously doesn't mean that "you're doing it wrong", just that I have a preference for versatile systems.

First, THANK YOU for continuing this series. Survival Impossible was the first "Splitsie" video I stumbled across when I got into SE almost a year ago, and I binged it for weeks, until it just stopped... Have been satisfying my Splitsie (and now, Capac) addiction with Wrong Way Up and others, but have been praying you would continue it someday. That aside, if you replace the hinge under each Canary Connector with an adv. rotor, you could spin the Canary to face directly outwards after it's connected...

3:30 You can differentiate between small and large grids by power usage.

For showing what blocks are still needed for the projector, you can use MMaster's Automatic LCDs 2. The Details command is the one you need.

How about lock connecter's grid to base using landing gear or mag plate, Splitsie? Then hinge's subgrid(connecter) turns static, so you don't need to turn off Canary's thrusters or dampener off when docking. example record : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-De56Io1t_Iw.html

Splitsie, I've enjoyed watching your videos, here and the Flipsie channele, off and on for a few years. Recently I've binged a couple series including SI. I have decided to finally Subscribe because I've really enjoyed them and want to see more of this series. I'm hopping you have the time to start making more episodes more often again.

Just saw something that woke up memories, are you ever going to do something with the red battery ? 😄

When you lock to your base... Start a Timer Block on the Drone to LOCK its connector and to Turn OFF its 'grouped' thrusters Check out Sharpy1o1 Game’s as I'm sure you have already... (im Sharpy1o1 and this is my second account lol)

An idea: create a local storage to your fighter printer, that requests enough materials for between 1 and 3 fighters. this serves a double purpose, first so you can print quickly if necessary, second so if the connection between is severed, you know you still have enough to print a few.

I’m actually staying awake to watch this… Regarding the reverse thrusters on a second hot bar: I cultivated the habit of having a launch/park hot bar and an in-flight hot bar. I started doing this when I accidentally toggled half my batteries in-flight (upgraded power, but didn’t upgrade the battery group) and accidentally toggling all thrusters while in-flight. Battery, thrusters, connector toggles on 0; reverse, ore detector, cameras, ship tools/weapons, etc on 1 or higher. Then it’s just ^0: 3, 2, 1 Launch; return: ^0: 1, 2, 3 safe to get out.

Aww, the mArmOs Arm is gone. =( Did you ever see the updated design I posted on your discord back in 2020? It was subgrids galore, you'd love it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jbTtsXFi8JU.html Mouse rotation was relative to the projected green box, WASD Movement relative to Rotor, forwards facing the opposite wall. Also: Why not put a helm on the Platform canary?

I’m so glad you came back to this series. All the work you have done on this base is phenomenal. The improvements you’ve made are great. One suggestion to improve the canary parking, replace the hinge with rotor. Another idea would be to put the merge block that’s on your piston arm onto a rotor. I love the time lapses you put at the end also. You truly do a great job at what you do. The way you explain things so others can implement into their games rather than just building and keeping information to yourself. Keep up the awesome work.

Here is me after watching all 75 episodes of Survival Impossible that Splitsie will make some new episode with that "plenty more to come" soon(tm). Luckily he has more SE content to watch Ideas for future episodes: 1. Repurpose the Gufy into a cargo hauler, so that the Rock Lobster can remain at "Steve's Hole in the Wall"; 2. Build aerial personal transport vehicles and place them at the main base, the Nickel mine (Reggie's retreat), and "Steve's Hole in the Wall". You can use these to fly to the other parts of the base. Then use AI blocks to automatically return the transport to the start point. This has the added benefit that when you die(tm) you don't have to run back from the Nickel mine to the main base but you have an aerial transport vehicle there so you can fly back.

May I suggest adding two scripts to make your life a whole lot easier? 1) Whip's Simple Door script Isy's door script always annoyed me a bit with a few of its idiosyncrasies, but ... i absolutely love Whip's door script. Especially his super easy implementation of airlocks (capac proof airlocks) 2) Isy's Ship Recharger (or was it Ship Refueler? I can never remember) This one automatically turns batteries to recharge and tanks to stockpile (if so desired) whenever you dock. It can even be set to keep one battery in reserve on auto (it cycles which one, thus still charges all batteries). That way you can just dock, let Isy's Inventory restock your supplies and Isy's Recharger handle power and fuel. Aka dock, hop out and do other things and know for certain that it'll be good to go when you return... no more forgetting to recharge/refuel/rearm anything! and no more forgetting to take things off of stockpile/recharge either since the script will automagically do that for you the moment you undock (assuming you enabled that 'keep one battery on auto' setting)

is Survival Impossible Dead?

Wait... where's the rest??? When do you get to spaaace? I'm very late to the party....5mseconds into the vid, but what about a sensor pair so a zone above the print projection, and a zone high above the roof. When both are occupied, (so a printed fort is raised and ready PLUS the panini is over the roof) when the zones both read as triggered the roof opens? Once the printed fort is gone the roof can close on its own. No scripts. Add appropriate time delay so save getting crushed by the roof 😂 this should avoid roof opening without a fort ready to go as well.

Automatic LCDs 2 will show you how many blocks still need to be completed on a projection if you use the "Details" command in the custom data.

Umm, editor Splitsie... I think your noise reduction may be conjuring demonic whispers in the background :D

I have designed a fairly compact drone printer for expendable drones which fit in a single large space (like a torpedo tube) and can be pushed out by a piston once ready to rock. Currently there are 5 combat variants (with different weapon load-outs) , and a utility (lifter) variant of the drones, all with a 5x5 small grid cross section. Also when did you turn a canary into a lift/welder combo? Did I miss an episode?

I have an idea.. I’m at 35:00 so not sure what happens in the remaining 10 but before I forget… what if you used a rotor to put a small connector and use a timer block to lock, AND rotate the rotor 15’ or whatever it takes so that the canary is lined up and ready to fly out of the hangar.. granted you would need a timer and different degree for each dock… but your a smart feller I know you know what I’m trying to say and you probably already know of a reason why it won’t work but 🤷🏻‍♂️ was just a thought haha love the videos regardless

You know, with all your cockpit contraptions. what we really need is a mod which places a camera output onto an LCD panel. So you can stay in cockpit view and just look onto a display to see a camera overhead to the projection pit. I think I saw one at one point. On the other hand if we had one which did something simple like taking the distance between two objects (we know the sensor does this) and allows you to push that number to a simple display routine which moves an icon across a LCD display. IE., A box (representing the crane load) and a line (illustrating the back wall)

Splitsie, I haven't played in some time so maybe something has changed, but can't you simply use merge blocks to attack and detach? Just ignore this comment, I should have finished listening. 😆 After listening, It looks really great what your doing. Loved the sort of automation for making the drones. It would have been cool if you would have automated the welders as separate entities to move in from the sides to weld, or maybe up from the bottom. Have them just back away slowly or go back down into the ground. Use the hangar doors make them retract and then have the welders move right up from the bottom. lol. Give you something to do.

So, I have a pretty interesting thing to say about about the autocannons and assault cannons. The autocannons do more damage per shot than the gatlings ofc, and, I'm pretty sure they're more accurate, but their slower fire rate is not so desirable, but apparently, if you add a bunch of them they start to fire off sync and so you get a pretty high rate of fire, it chews through Assert bases like it's nothing. And for the assault cannon... it's powerful and it's got longer range, but, since it has to reload between shots, there's a lot of time that the enemy spends not being shot. Which is not good, gives them more chance to do damage. The solution I found was Whip's weapon salvo script. It will fire the guns on a salvo group in sequence, instead of all at once. I've made a custom turret with 6 autocannons, using that script. the result was amazing, the potential a continuously firing assault cannon turret has is immense. Whip's salvo script also works with rocket launchers, artillery cannons, and the railgun if you add custom firing delay to account for the reload. it doesn't work with the autocannons and gatlings but thankfully they don't need the script. It will also work with modded guns but it's not guaranteed and you may have to adjust stuff by yourself, but, overall, really nice script. On my current playthrough, I've bought the Cursor fighter at a station, and modified it to be a weapon to surpass metal gear. I removed the four gatlings, added small conveyors where they were so i could add even more guns, and added a whopping TWELVE autocannons, and an assault cannon instead of the rocket launcher, right below the camera for accurate long range shooting. Assert stood no chance.

You can use MMaster's "Automatic LCDs 2" to show which blocks are incomplete/damaged. Just use command "damage"

I am SO glad you are back doing these!! Love this series.

I think Splitsie came right after he unlocked that merge block. For the sound effect 37:15

Nice! About your drone fac. I think you ought to put three connectors on each side of your printing arm instead of four on one side. You might need to extend your hangar a bit to allow that. I would consider making some changes to your canarie design to improve it. - The merge block might be better placed ocming out horizontally instead of vertically though that might mean changing the tail feathers. - A more substantial change would be the connector since it looks like Keen is finally changing the small grid ejector into a connector (see the ore delivery drone teaser). To futureproof your design you could consider adding your ejector-to-connector mod to the game for a few weeks to allow the canarie to have that option early. This would also allow changes to some of your other vehicles. to remove rotor head recharging. To overcomplicate things you could even consider building one or more small grid small refueling/ore unloading arms at your base. - A last canarie change, in conjunction with the connector change, would be to add three or four mag plates to the underside. These should allow it to land on a large grid connector without klanging or selfdestructing. The game will allow small connectors to connect to connectors at about a half (small grid) block's distance. One last thought about the fort printer. Why don't you use a merge block to link that to the projector? That way you could remotely detach them from the Panini and only have to get near them to load ammo, which you could even do after delivery.

for all the big block who don't necessarly need ot be directly on the main big grid (antenna, Timer) I usually attach a small grid with a rotor on wihich I use a small grid head and put the small version of the block For the new canary printer, why not having the merge block horizontal from behind instead of vertical from below? It sounds way less problematic

1:00 I know it's early in the video and I know you have probably already done whatever you're going to do but when it comes to antennas on large grids, I almost always use a rotor or hinge to create a "computer bank" of small grid blocks for the build, including timers and programable blocks and, of course, with a beacon and an antenna. I don't think small grid antennas have any disadvantages when compared to large grid antennas. They have less power need and a smaller space footprint, and have the same range, so I haven't run into a situation where I'd need a large grid antenna because despite being on a subgrid it still connects through to the console and as a relay. 1:20 Nevermind. 8:20 A better method I've found is to turn off dampers instead of the whole thruster group, mostly because the hotkey is outside of the hotbar, and it means you can easily reactivate them after disconnecting. 9:14 GodDAMMIT

Having a sensor to turn the welders off is safe, but it doesnt really fit in with the theme of awesomely over complicating the heck out of everything. OSHA says you need railings that lie horizontal so an engineer can enter the building but are vertical preventing access to the building while the welders and projector rig are active :) Warning lights and LCDs that change text when active too :D

For the canarie parkingspots you should replace the hinges with rotors. When you have set the turning limits up you can make the canaries turn from the angle you plced them on the connector to straith out with a press of a button.

(...) in a different, over-maybe-(un)efficient - but coolest! - way. 😎👍👍👍

Hey, how much time does it take you to get to the magnesium mine? 10 minutes or so? Awesome pathway/tunnel btw

Ahh, s'good to see more SI. Superb as always, Splitsie! What would life be without it's interesting little complications anyway?

Rotor on the connector? Or just fly the Canary straight? I guess a drawback of a rotor is if Capac ever invades, you'll find the Canaries spinning.

One thing that might make small subgrid connectors safer if the don't need to move is to mag plate them to the large grid so they can't go crazy when you doc to them. Won't help your Ft. Capac situation, but can make your Canary dock less dangerous to park at.

OK Splitsie! So what's the scoop with this series? You certainly didn't sound like you were ending it, but it's been a while since you released a new episode. Are you taking a break or did you decide to retire this series and focus on the others? Either way, this series has been a ton of fun! If this series has a successor, I'll have to check it out.

Congrats on returning to this series! I cannot wait for you to make a large grid rover and curse those overhead conveyor lines you painfully set up long ago ;)

Dude I just heard some interesting news about space engineers coming to the PlayStation 4 and 5. Which is going to be awesome for which it may be coming out next year in 2023 at some time unless they delay it for the year after or something

Survival Impossible [to make a new episode for] )';

I recommend having camera over welding thing. and as soon you turn off merge block turn off projector too. That way you will never be confused when it is not printing

Do you plan to implement grid AI into the SI series? At this point it really isn’t necessary for resource acquisition but could be a hit for growing the fleet of ships using AI based fighters

Why is this the last episode ?

It gives me the warm fuzzies to see Survival Impossible back. I love the new printer.

What is it with connectors exploding recently? Has there been changes to the behaviour? Hasnt been THAT bad before.

I fell asleep watching you and I had a weird dream where you were talking about wanting a bunch of flowers to remind one of a canary all while flirting with my sister “flirting with actions as he was saying everything you were saying”

The Panini always looked quite big until i saw it next to the printer building. This series has been great glad to have more episodes to watch

Maybe put the mergeblock and projector on a hinge. That way it's possible to park the canary straight on the connector.

Why do i keep thinking of replacment the hinges with rotors underneath the connectors, triggered along with canary detach... :)

For offloading the canaries, instead of having four connectors in a row, how about... A Canary Carousel!

Put a self destruct sequence into your drones. Set it up for up to 5minutes after launch unless aborted. Just in case an antenna gets destroyed or you use them for cover and escape with larger ships, this way you have no loose grids dragging on the server

What if you put some welders up top and maybe the bottom. so you dont have to do that wiggle maneuver. Don't really matter I guess. might not look as good either.

Splitsie. why don't you use one of the dlc cockpits. the Helm. for the platform's.

Totally am binging the entire series have learned a lot but the panini turned into the name I don’t know yet totally looks like the Oscar Meyer wiener mobile.

Hy Splitsie i think Automatic LCDs 2 has that now i cheack and there is one for projetor