Polar Ice Hunt No. 2 - Scrapyard #21 

So, Splitse gets everyone killed, again, I’m seeing a pattern here.

Well, that was fun to watch from another angle than jammed in the Trailer Hitch running like a Madman …….

Oh wow. No train, no ice, and no one but Splitsie... I see how it is.

When you said about your little buggy: "It looks like a tractor." DisTractor would be a fitting name was my first thought.

So what i'm noticing here is for every train there has been 1:1 train to person survival. first with mine and now with this one, so clearly the only option is a fleet of trains! :D

Splitsie: light speed is too slow. We're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed!

The view of the train flailing and disintegrating behind Splitsie is my new favorite moment of Space Engineers.

You need to send the decoys in sooner and not move the train in until all the drones spawn, go after them, and have more anti-air with a lot more ammo.

Rather than a turtle, build yourself an armadillo - you can call it the Arma-drill-o... It's disappointing that the Train didn't do better - would have been a fun feat to repeat, considering how much ice you're all going to need to get off planet.

Ice hunt #2 final result: TEN ENGINEERS ENTER! ONE ENGINEER LEAVES!

Now I get to see what I missed, I died right at the start, respawned and got strafed by a drone, wound up at my base.... Definitely need more armor and guns.. (SIC Dragonfirecustoms)

This went pretty much as i expected.

Just need a train of 3 people (driver, guner, driller) and the rest run teams of 2 in Ute's with aa

RIP train. Like any failing chain, it was of course the weakest link: 1x1 hinge and rotors. Engineers truly know- - 'what works nice and looks cool' and 'what can take a few kicks and ill advised operations' are rarely the same build

the little buggies did work, just add a Gat Turret to them to act as mobile pillboxes running like mad all over the place.

To quote Sir Terry Pratchett (somewhat paraphrased from memory) Just-Ice, mr. Pole-ice man, Just-ice.

It was hilarious to see the locomotive be like, "Finally, I'm free!" and just fly off as soon as the drones destroyed the coupling.

I bought Space Engineers just because of you, Splitsie! It's amazing, thanks for your videos!

Lol Splitsie's battle cry: "Run awaaaayyyyy!"

whoever built that excavator/trackhoe/drill nice job

What a ride 😉 Thanks to be a part of this!

or what about doing a tunnel outside of the ice area into the ice area and make it big enough to use the train as transport?

you may be able to salvage some of those lost cars

I'm glad the engine survived, a good way of showing the road warriors might hahah! I think you should retire it as a monument in the middle of the base till your ready to go get the ice again my friend!

I like the idea of the turtle. And I have some ideas on how to make it easier to build, economical with materials and probably safer. The idea is to collect buildings, weld them together, attach multiple turrets, attach wheels to it, armor it inside and outside. The main part is to send these thing on the ice and have holes on the bottom for the drill to collect the ice. I also thought of a plan B. To build an exit from the stacked-up hangar doors as well as a flying escape capsule in case escape with the moving fortress is impossible, to escape with a flying capsule, loaded with valuable items and ice, and fly away.

I figured you'd have a flatbed car for the decoy rovers rather than trying to launch from the top of the coal cars. I don't know if this would make a difference in SE physics, but IRL, tail-heavy trailers do that "sway of death". Maybe try to keep each car's CoM forward of the centerline measured between front/rear axles. It might save you from having to employ friction/braking in the rear cars to settle it down. Survival kits in multiple cars might help, including one or more left outside the warning perimeter, but in different direction(s) than you enter/escape from. When all you "targets" are trying to escape in the same direction/same vehicle, you make it easier for the drones to hunt you down. Scatter like roaches do when the lights are turned on. Depending on how much flight time the drones have, if everyone draws some far enough away, even if they get you, they might not have enough left to return and target someone else. It would be rather expensive to build, especially if you lose it right away, but how about something like the Nugget with turrets? It goes in first to draw enemy fire not only away from the train, but above it. The "rolling turtle shell" idea is interesting. Maybe have the shell/umbrella on a piston or 2, raising it up to let the other vehicles in/out. Or... similar to the train, the "Umbrella vehicle" takes along the others but not in a long line. Connected at various points, they all travel under the umbrella where they can mine for ice under it's protection, and can detach & escape on their own if needed.

Literally a survivability onion. It has layers

I think a "every one for themselves" escape will give you a better chance of getting some ice out. Don't all run in the same direction but in several, spread the drones apart.

Did you guys actually check if the coal cars survived, at least their cargo containers? Maybe you already have a bit of ice you just need to go picking up out of reach of the defense drones?

This turned from "Get up soldier, we are leaving" into "Entrance of the Gladiators" really quickly.

a suggestion about dodo dropping RVs as decoys, priceless :)

I'm reminded of the cat Abbott & Costello cartoon, where they're going after a pink Tweety Bird, Cat-stello get's launched into the air with wood wings, & Tweety calls down the THUNDER in the form of anti air guns, Splitsie looked juuuuust like Cat-stello, Lol.

One option you could explore @Splitsie, is boring a tunnel to the pole. Using the SG Drills attached to vehicles, you start out far enough out that you are safer, can drill much longer, and you still can use heavily armored and armed cargo vehicles - with other vehicles that can draw fire away!

while the train was an incredibly fun idea, looking at the sheer number of grids present in the area when you trip the drones it was maybe less practical than originally thought. with the fact that each car accounts for like, three or four grids minimum when you include the hitch, plus all those grids are tugging on eachother, the performance dropping and causing the train to go insane and start clipping into the ground a bit once the thirty additional enemy grids showed up seems a bit obvious in hindsight. it sure was a doozy to watch tho lmao, but maybe next time it might be more effective to just form a posse with well-defended grids that aren't attached to eachother

The moment i saw that man between the cars, i knew how it was going to end

Splitsie makes his buggies with heavy rust while I'm sitting here thinking "SHINY AND CHROME"

I like the turtle idea as well.... and maybe even a vic with a drill that just drills the surface of the ice as it drives the edge.... away from the rest of the party, so it doesnt interfere with driving?

Tbh Split that went much better than I thought it would.

I love transforming builds like this! It transformed from regular train with cars behind to bullet train!

I'm finally here, I have watched all of this series in the last 3 days now that I have time to watch

It might be worth elongating the main locomotive to be like a freight hauler or the Union Pacific 'Big Boys'.

WOW i new the train should of been made from building LOL, but thank you , gave me something to watch while on lunch at work

You should have someone go to the pole and try to dig an underground area to park vehicles. That way you can make a big haul all at once. It would be awesome!

Soooo new train for the museum 😂

25:42 "Astrotrain, get us out of here!" -- Starscream

I was watching on the tv my dog decided to watch y'all too the hole video I have not seen that from her 😆

Train: engine, cargo, drill, guns also gun vehicles for decoys and defense. Mad max style, war semi!! Lol

its interesting to see perspective from the front of the train. All i saw from the escape was people dropping off the train and being left behind one by one. And then i saw coal wagons crash in front of me... I thought i was last survivor alone in DOG wagon slowly losing fight with disobeying wheels and that last drone with stormtooper aim getting ever closer. Eventually stopped at the foot of the hill.

Probably worth adding some event blocks to up the friction on the rearmost car if the one behind it detaches. Should prevent some of the wiggles you got there at the end.

The chaos of the escape had me dying. I've personally never played this game, but your videos have me waiting for the weekend to see what happens next. I'm glad I found your channels, you've got me watching all of your series on here and on Flipsie. keep up the great content!

Sooooooo, here's a thought, just like "The Road Warrior"... the Train "IS" the decoy! Not sure if it will work, but have 1 car, unpowered, drop off as you enter the zone. Timer block to turn it on, and it has lots of storage, a drill, and a Survival Kit. The train just goes straight to the pole and you fight like hell, and drags all the enemy with it... maybe? Respawn point is back at the mining car (which of course can drive itself home.)

choo choo drones, choo choo.

@ 9 min.... It's not dumb, it's cute.... "Farmer Splitsie"

Great laugh. Cheers

38 minutes? I would call this a very slow train wreck.

A large grid wheeled umbrella with spaced armor on a 5x5 wheeled frame. Put some function blocks attached to the underside to act as targets for focused fire. Then spin the umbrella so it is more difficult for them to punch holes through it. Mine underneath until it starts getting sketch. Then, bolt out from underneath with the ice you mined. Start with some decoy grids then the cargo grid. Maybe build a tunnel or hideaway to make a run for 4-6k away from the ice field. Give it a bit of defence incase it does grab some aggro.

Hello and thank you for the fun video . You can just go near the pole ice, dig underground to the ice then go back. not fun but efficient. ^^

i think that when u rush in a single vehicle (train) you focus fire on you. maybe build several vehicles capable of drilling and a lot of small decoys vehicles. and rush for the ice. u have more chances of getting the ice the more drilling vehicles you have. when u rush in a train it alwyas will go down because a ton of enemies are getting spawned

You inspired me to finally make a motorcycle with your last video and it worked out amazing! Didn't even know it was possible to make one that drives well without scripts

Once more..... with feeling? that pole reminds me of the time i put orks and reavers together 😂

In conclusion...Splitsie got everyone killed and drove into a hole. Sounds about right.

Idea - BECOME MOLE MEN!! Basically, use terrain as armor. - - - Scout the ice location that is as close as possible to the edge of the enemy activation range. GPS marker that scouted Ice Site. GPS marker the nearest site at the edge of the enemy activation range as Base Camp. build up Base Camp with: defenses, ability to launch distraction unmanned craft, and Build a huge tunneler. Tunnel gradually down and then across to under the GPS ice marker, manually drill ice, and slowly create ice cavern. (The enemy will likely remain targeted to the tunneller. If so, it could tunnell away and deeper so the enemy wastes effort trying to fire at it.)

That went as well as i expected XD

One thing that might help the decoy rovers balance speed and stability is to split the power more to the rear. EG instead of making the front and back both 30% power, make the rear wheels 40% and the front 20%.

let's be honest, the best possible option is doing mole work, going underneath to collect a lot and then mole out

I'd say u should try the roli-poli ball decoys (as i suggested), and reinforce the edges with blast panels or heavy armor if u can afford it (can't remember how much metal grid a small block heavy block needs), not sure how to deploy them to be the most effective tough, but the rovers were too exposed to damage and rolling. And maybe the loco should have a cargo container just to make sure to save some ice if all goes bad; again.

That reminded me of Major Payne's Little Engine that Could story.

Honestly the train idea can work and wold have worked if Splitse had all of the cars heading south. if he had set the ones he left at home on his back trail on the way down he would have had cover on the way out.

Don't know why you expected the enemy to be One Direction

Oh no.. my beautiful train was smashed to pieces. Oh the humanity!!

It's time for an Mole Ship.

maybe next time, or in future, make the train engine and cars longer, slightly wider and try and make them heavier to reduce swinging and swaying? plus that way you can then add more turrets, or have dedicated trailer cars for the rovers

You should do a large drill and start a tunnel next to the ice so it's not over powered

nice work i like this mad max style builds

Splitsie you need more guns more vechicles. Consider bulding little fighters to triger drones and catch their atrention. Doging is easier in 3d plane with 100m/s then 2d plane drving 30 m/s on average. Also consider better consolidation of work. Two heads is better then one. 4 arms can lift more then 2.

Noooo! The Road Rage rode to the end of its rage! The fires were not strong enough to keep its fury burning, the solution - more exhausts! And paint it red, everything goes faster painted red!

my fav small transport is a segway helm 2 2x2 wheels 1 gyro 1 small battery you can use a merge block to connect it to the train sides

That was a good try! In my opinion, you need some more firepower and may plan the decoys to "awake" the enemy sooner. Looking forward to the next try! 👍

So Splitsie plan is to turn everyone into Splitters ...XD

"I was so lonely on my way back"... (after abandoning entire team) lol

Big grid turtle rover discussion … and you’re all standing in front of the ideal starting grid … you have two of them on your base already … find another warehouse and build it up into a mad max style moving village 👍

Lol maasaaybe no more trains.... kinda putting all your eggs in one basket. I loved it though, very entertaining lol 😆

The train could be called the underminer

make a few holes on the bottom so you can hop down and hand mine and a couple drills that would lower from the belly and drill out the ice to fill the vehicles while you mine hand mine or defend with more turrets that you control on top

Getting "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977) vibes. No clue if Splitsie has ever seen it, but the strategy with the decoy cars is very similar.

flying decoys with weapons

Hi Splitsie how's about tunneling under the ice to mine it?

Maybe 2 or 3 big large grid rovers would be the way to get to the pole and back.

Build an flying mother ship with lots of forward thrust for escaping, lifting thrust for hauling the ice and few directional ones just for keeping steady, build some drills pointing bottom and stick some turrets operated by players just in case. Then just build lots of small decoy rovers and small drones as an support for a mother ship. When entering restricted area, rovers should scatter around like 500m from a mother ship and mother ship should drill the ice as fast enough as you can until enemy appear on radar, then soon as you see them, just move the ship fast forward and escape leaving the decoy rovers to hold the enemy. I know mother ship is expensive but it should be able to escape fast enough from the enemies and small rover decoys should draw attention toward them instead of already escaping mother ship. You get the idea ;) If you make turtle on wheels it is less likely to survive against those enemy drones, only flying drilling mother ship with lots of lift and forward thrust can escape on time.

Splitsie gets everyone killed pt2

Bro really built the Ninky Nonk

make a second train on the end so you dont have to turn around to save time and accelarate faster

Well that was upsetting. I was really hoping that would turn out better. Is it just me or did it seem like the AI was targeting the connection points at the end?

Look at the semi truck road trains you guys have down there in Australia. The cars probably will handle better that way than your double hinge set up

22:00 reminds me of the KSP orbit music for some reason

I would say you need more Guns, a whole lot of more Guns! 😅

I was expecting for the train to be completly destroyed and none of them to make it back 😅as lots of small grid subgrids attached together in a long vehicle with a tiny wheel base running on S.E. multiplayer is recepie for disater 😅 but i really enjoyed the train it's a cool concept. It would be fitting for an event that didnt need to fight 50 enemy ships 😆. More guns could be the way to go. 4 turrets against 40-50 enemies made the train really under protected i think.

How about a Turtle vehicle with cargo piglets (as in suckling piglets) scrambling away from under its shield when the sky gets angry? :P Just make sure the cargo piglets are the only places where ice can go once inserted into the system. So maybe have each piglet have a front connector where miners can deposit ice, the turtle have an internal conveyor system connecting all the piglets, and connect the piglets with rotors/hinges. 4 decoys, one for each cardinal direction, should suffice to draw aggro for a while. Pairs of them heading in roughly the same direction (away'ish from home,, East-West) should help delay aggro on the cargo carrying vehicles.

After watching this.. all i can say is LMAO.. choo choo went bye bye.

So many drones