Space Engineers Tutorial Ore and Refinery management 

You know the tutorial is good when you can hear that laptop fan going full blast in the background

I love the build style, looks super industrial! Great way to sort your items without scripts.

Even with 2300+ hrs I barely used sorters because I wasn't sure if they were necessary. There is always more to learn.

I just picked up this game just over a week ago. I probably should have dabbled in it before now, it's quite fun. Thank you for the hints and design ideas. =]

The sorter coming off the O2H2 will disallow gas and oxygen coming through the output, so while you may be able to around that by filling bottles, you won't be able to fill ships H2 tanks.

I have 600hrs on this game on pc, 6k+ on console i will say that if you build massive stations like me for 12+ players and you have hundreds of refineries and hundreds of cargos for ore it takes time to unload the ore into the cargo, to make sure the refineries are fed enough to keep it at max production rates. I have 180 sorters on my largest production section on the station, that is just to get the ore out of our large minners which can hold 10s of millions of a single ore. We have 86cargos for strg and 42 for ingots and 64 for comp storage, we also have an ice system, over all around 1k+ sorters or so. I will say copy and paste a single sorter in creative with the settings you want helps a lot.. it is still a pain, but very much worth it if you are to go through the pain because you can make such a flawless system. Also you need conveyor junctions at every cargo container so the sorters do not smash all the ore into one cargo, because the cargo when full will not empty into other cargos so to stop jams and clamps in the system make conveyor junctions onto more than a few ore cargo containers.. just a tip. This is only for the committed lol

In one of my own builds, I made an ore processing station using a similar system as this, except separating cargo by ore, ingot, component and ammunition. Ice and h2/O2 are in their own dedicated system as well. My system is designed such that there's a dedicated refinery for each ore type, with speed or yield modules used as needed, such as speed on the two iron refineries and yield on the uranium refinery. The processed ores will then merge conveyor lines with the initial ingot line, and be put into a storage container that acts as a buffer for the 6 assemblers in the facility, though the assemblers aren't set up for filtering specific items for obvious reasons. All the assemblers have full speed modules, of course. After the components are made, they're put into the last storage container, where they also share space with the initial component and ammunition lines. A sorter with a filter to whitelist Gatling ammo helps feed the 4 defensive turrets on top of the building. The input/output is handled in an enclosed garage designed specifically for low-slung small block rovers, with the input and output connectors being inline on the floor and ceiling, respectively, to interface with my standard rover cargo transfer design of a collector block in the roof attached to a large conveyor block that also has a connector attached coming from the bottom of the rover. When the in-floor connector is docked, everything lines up such that anything dropped from the station's roof connector will roll down a small ramp into the collector on the rover.

A quick question, on the sorter for « other » don’t you need to add ice to the blacklist ?

@Royal Rollin Any chance you could provide this as a blueprint? Great tutorial but I'm afraid your camera work makes me dizzy.😵‍💫🤢

So you have 4 sorters that go from ore storage to the refineries, but the pipes are all linked after the sorters, so no point to them being there. If each sorter was going to a single refinery, i would understand the point of them, but then in the pipes after, it all gets mixed up again, so just a waste of power there. You could have just added the bottles to the ice sorter at the start, and that would have done the same thing.

wait you guys dont just throw ore where it even it defaults to?

Could you upload this to the steam workshop

your microphone scratches just so you know there is a simple solution for that use Nvidia Broadcast it eliminates even clapping while talking like the youtube videos on it show. Still a great video.

I appreciate the tutorial, though the background noise is decently annoying :