Space Engineers - Your First Vehicle (Survival Tutorial) #2 

i wouldnt mind seeing this a full series from start on the planet to into space with a full space ship

I have 150 hours in space engineers and I still haven't figured out how to build a decent ship so thanks for this

I have over 2000 hours in Space Engineers and still enjoy tutorial videos. Splitsie has a great tutorial series, his SE videos are epic, when he and Capac get together it is great.

Space engineer vet here couple thousand hours. Love the tutorial! Did a great job very informative and hope it helps new players :) From the space engineer community we all welcome new players! Build well, fly safe, and if you must crash hard!!!!

My friend and I have been wanting to get into space engineers for a little while, thank you for the tutorial Shack.

One big tip you missed on atmospheric ships is to set your breaking thrust to a separate group. This will let you coast instead of wasting power with the dampeners trying to slow you down. Just don't forget to turn them back on before you actually reach the destination. I have my miner as a ship with a cargo rover. Rover is 2 large containers, 6 batteries, a piston mounted landing gear(parking break) and a merge block on the front. Miner has connector on the bottom and a merge block on the back so it has low center of gravity while driving but easy docking for unloading. Base has connector on a piston to unload when I get home.

Was so excited to build my first ship the second I built the batteries I took off with so much excitement. Then 10 seconds later you say dont forget the gyro. RIP first ship lol

"... flip an upside down rover ASAP." It always takes just one more piston!

I use the piston and drill idea of a pit mine but go horizontal into the mountain side. Not only does it give me tons of stone but also a possible hanger/garage for my vehicles.

I would love more of this. Listening to Shack playing SE while Playing SE is just relaxing.

Agree completely that the trial and error stages of building are some of my favourite parts of SE, theres just something special about gradually optimizing a ship until its unique to you and to that moment in your game

I have almost 400 hours played and didn't know the Build planner thing loll

When it comes to starter, battery powered ships, is good to remember a very powerful concept: cordless drills. Sandwich your battery pack between 2 merge blocks. Build 2 charging ports on your station, one of them with another battery pack. While you go mine, your battery pack on the station is charging up. When you come back, unload the ore, then simply switch your battery pack for the loaded one, then go mining again. You can scale up easily, by building more charging ports and different sizes battery packs !

Old school Space Engineers was a great way to exercise your mind and your memory. Snap view something then remember how many motors and small tubes and metal grids you needed to make it !

I have been watching you play space engineers since the start of the mod all the things series and that was my introduction to space engineers I remember how the mods at the time were a lot simpler you didn’t have great performance the original shield mod had just been introduced the game was still in beta I have enjoyed watching the game grow and the community grow around it too it is nice to see you helping new players out the same way you helped me out with your mod all the things serious I am excited about the future of this game and this community.

Dude thanks for more tutorials this will help more then what i've been working on and then some. I'm hoping to see a Shack transport design one with an a interior for people to be moved along with cargo.Tbh i think i have seen one that fits this in a former video. ( it fun when you forget gyros and thrust on your ships isn't ;( )

had this game since 2016, couldn't ever really figure it out but your videos have helped out with that, so thanks!

The drop zone was a brilliant idea. hahahahaha 'Crab Baskets' hahahaha

I started playing SE back in the day when servival was still in it's early stages. My first ship didn't even remotely look like any of these ships, that just shows how much SE has changed over the years and I love it for that. I had modified the old large yellow spawn ship to function as a mobile base floating true space, it was a simpler time. PS. I wasn't really a ship builder at first, the space pirates were nothing compared to us. We would basically be doing some odd jobs around the base untill a signal showed up and we would move out with a small fighter with a big canon to intersept the ship. At some point most of the ships in our fleet were stolen. But that gave us enough time and saves material to build an epic base in an astroid. I miss that world... PPS. Speaking of trail and error. My first small fighter was modeled after the ship of Boba Fett, but as you know it only has thrusters on the botem that becoumes the back when flying. I wanted to do that too. taking off and flying went fine although a bit wonkey. But when I wanted to return for landing I exidentally threw myself in an orbit around the astroid, that is when I knew something was definately wrong...

I bought SE quite a while ago, but then suffered from 'analysis paralysis' and never got into it. Thanks to your well-made tutorial, I think that I will give it another go. Thank you.

So glad that he eventually put the second set of conveyers on! My OCD was freaking out!

Haven't made it to the end of the video yet, but I don't want to forget. More build planner hot keys that are super useful, Alt+Middle Mouse pushes everything (except tools and ammo) into a highlighted cargo container. And Shift+MMB adds your build planner to the production queue.

Great video Shack! I'm getting back into Space engineers after a long hiatus and this is the perfect refresher. May your coffee be forever strong, good sir! o7

Thanks for these Shack, I really enjoy all the content you put out and I needed a tutorial to help me figure space engineers out!

Can you continue this series please? I'm new to space engineers and am learning so much from these.

Hey Shack, thanks for making an updated tutorial for SE! I have played some because of your survival series, but having some tutorials to help figure things out is awesome!

Put a Battery in Middle Behind the cab, you dont need to access the containers from cab on miner, put a Container on each side of the battery(s), a Drill on front of each Container, Normally on Normal Gravity I would not say to use Down thrust but on Miner, with it tilting a lot I do, allows you to spin in any Direction. Connect the back of the containers together with Connector out rear, also can use rear connector to be a Exhaust sorter for stone when your doing iron, Ice, Cobalt & etc.

I have 350 hours in Space Engineers and I had no idea you could right click with the welder to automatically add unfinished objects to the Build Planner. This whole time I've been queuing items up into it from the G menu.

Good to see you back in SE again, really enjoying the content😎👍👍 This series is pretty great for the new guys and the veterans alike, I’ve never used Keen’s build planner yet but I might want to try it out now 😎👍👍 Looking forward to the next video Shack 😎👍👍

I also still think of Splitsie as a newcomer. Funny thing though, he's actually been at it for 3 years now. I still remember the days when it was just Sage and Aaron. Strange times.

I do have to say the voices in your head are great company

I was kinda looking forward to seeing the motorcycle you mentioned in the previous ep...

Thanks Captain Shack ! If I ever get a PC good enough to run Space Engineers, I'll be returning to these videos. 😀

Loved the Starcraft reference

Thanks for both of your tutorials - super helpful! - Grey

This is great series. I've contemplated trying the game again and this is showing me that even just plain vanilla is pretty decent nowadays. I was hesitant to try again just because I didn't really feel like taking the time to mod it. Still want to mod it but it looks like you many only need a few. I think you've done a video on what mods you think are essential. If you haven't I'm hoping that you plan on doing that for this series.

Great tutorial to follow along to for a new player like myself, I'll be sending it to my mateys that wanna get in on this. Thanks much!

dammit Capn I have the urge to go back and do a 100% vanilla playthrough now :) A couple of things that might be worth mentioning to do with connectors and Wind Turbines: If you just place a wind turbine with nothing requiring power such as a battery, assembler etc it will show a power output of zero. This is different to what other power sources show in their info, it confused me the first time I placed one because it was giving no power, or so I thought. Connectors: After you unlock from a connector, if you do not fly away after a few seconds the connector will "soft lock" again and you will struggle to pull away. If this happens just lock and unlock your ship again to pull away.

Holy cow build planner is a life changer.

I've played since early beta. I dont have that many hours, but I've played on and off for years. There is so much new crap in survival I'm here relearning the game. For new players and old players alike, a refresher course is sometimes the best thing to have.

Enjoyed this and the first tutorial, massive help thanks!!!!

The only problem with SE (Space Engineers), is that when you complete the progression, do some fighting against the AI (which is lame) and go to space and build another station, you lose interest in the game. Luckly there are mods there increase the "challenge" ingame, but IMPOV it lacks interactability, enemies and fauna. SE is a game of patience. To build a decent ship you'll spent hours, days and depending on the design, weeks if not months. First get use to the game. Then when you get bored, i advice taking a look at "Modular Encounters" mod and "Reavers" mod. There are more, but to add some challenge, those are good enought.

These videos are so helpful I can't wait for the next one!

Number one rule in a fresh start... Get Ice. :)

Dump dirt into a box; use it to make a flying drill machine. Seems legit.

I've been watching other RU-vidrs play SE, and always saw the gyros, so I never did the mistake of forgetting them. The mistake I did though, was put too many of them. I knew they were important, I just didn't know what they did. As soon as I took off and turned my mouse to the left fast, my first ship turned into a beyblade and turned around violently until I crashed into the side of a mountain, obliterating the front half of my ship. The remaining half got badly damaged falling and rolling down the side of the mountain.

im a little beyond this stage but looking forward to more advanced videos. good walk troughs

Excellent tutorial. Earned a new subscriber.

Your ship looks like a Federation Workbee from Star Trek

Anything ending with forge hmmm? *Makes the Mur- I mean, Merger forge, for Khorne. Jet propelled lawn chair with missiles strapped to it, and the mark of Khorne, for good measure*

What a beautifully complicated game.

I started a new game and landed in the pole area and found that though there are some great things about it I am considering restarting because everything besides stone and ice is very far apart. Also you get a lot of Ice fog in the mornings which has an annoying habit of reducing visibility to like directly in front of you! 😢

You should call it the Minor Miner

Just once... once... I'd like to find one of these tutorial videos that is presented by someone who doesn't love the sound of their own voice. One that gets straight to the meat of the title (in this case your first vehicle).

Can you show how you connected the cargo container to the refinery?

This video helped me a ton.

Looking forward to more.

whatever happened to group survival

Are these videos from a playlist that I can't seem to spot in the list or were they a two-off? They were quite enjoyable to watch and I'd like to see the rest if there are any more

i would love to know what band is playing in the background at around 7:40 minutes into this vid, and love your vids also. :)

Please do a full series out of it :D

It would be cool to have a community server for this game

Hi Shack - enjoying this series so far, but one very important thing you skipped is how to place the storage cubes - every time I try to place one, it's ghost is smaller than the standard building cube and it refuses to snap to the alignment of the base or stay in the centre of the space for it's cube and just drops to the floor, bounces, and is all out of alignment. I've also tried snapping it to a port on the refiner (with and without conveyor) and it just floats off at an odd angle and refuses to snap into place. This has got me stopped dead and unable to progress as I try to follow along with your tutorial.

Next video maybe ground miner or something ?

Hey Shack, I've been watching for a while but I'm new to SE proper. In your last video I saw you paint an existing block a different color without destroying the block, how do I do that? And is there a way to repaint an entire grid?

a small hint you could drop is to turn off useless stuff (like the lights etc) on the dropship, that way you can conserve as much power as possible on it. the effect isn't huge, but better safe than sorry, losing your survival kit before building a new one, could be quite the pain if you die xP

wish there was more of this :-D

A list with mods and DLCs would be nice

just a heads up for those still learning watch out for storms now as of the latest dlc's you can have weather mess with you now. I just had my wind turbines destroyed by lightning .

Flip rover, Steel plates, with Battery Frames, still same massive weight even not built, stack so weight makes it flip, if need cut off and repeat.

It would cool if you post this on the workshop because I would love to build this on my server. thanks.

Is there some kind of swivel mechanism that would all the thrusters to be directionally controlled? Kind of like Gimballed Thrusters?

I’m pretty sure they don’t need permission. Anything in SE is owned by Keen. They do offer credit out of courtesy.

please more tutorials with this base

Hi PXGamers, your tutorial make it easy to make to understand what to do in Survival game, specially to survive on the planet surface. But there is one problem, I can't find cobalt anywhere. So I can't build a part that is essential for making a thruster. Thus hinder me from making an aircraft. Then, what is the solution? I think about making a land vehicle, so I can extend my ore detector range in my quest to find Cobalt. But this is the problem, how to make a battery car that can easily charge it's battery at the base (my base is similar to you, with some modification). And how to make a car battery recharge station at the base? Thanks.

This is rather useful as I’m figuring out how to play Xbox

Are your cargo containers connected to your refinery, I never saw you show that . 🤔

Colors should be like this : Red when not connected, Yellow when connected but no power and Green when connected with power available, that should be more logic imho.

You mentioned a sorter conveyor? What does that do? And when should we use it?

Shaks probing miners again

why does barely any game just have a wiki with step by step explanation how to do these things? so much easier than searching all over the place to find something that works XD (yes this is a very not hidden hint I wouldnt mind some yter making a website for a game when theyre already making videos about it anyway)

hey dude, dont you have a twitter account to follow on you ? btw really great video ! thanks to you i can say that i know the basics of Space Engineers !

Hey shack get this so I just finished my first ever ship in SE we the drill wasn’t work in so I turn it on and get flung into the hill next to me and lose half the ship not even 3mins and I broke it

Yay SE at last

Next he should show us what a fighter ship requires

I build a ship like yours but my materials are just going from the drill to the cockpit jow to I get it to go through the cockpit into the cargo containers

Rule number 1 of building any ship, make sure you've got "extra parts"

Can a totally enclosed thruster pack/unit still take off. Include about 3 to 5 block space directly in front of thruster noze. To prevent a possible burn through. As part of the encasement problem.

I didn't. But then again, I've never really built ships. I use pre-built ones in a map.

43:34 ... why would you want to generate hydrogen peroxide?

WHERE'S PART #3!?

Ah the chair forge I recently researched enggineer corps great series should so.ething like it again (story line)

I tried to build a mining ship like this but I keep rolling backwards and up as soon as I try to fly?

i've been stupid and making a stand out of just light armor blocks instead of a singular landing gear while making new vehicles...

Goat

I keep hearing you and w4sted talk about BOB in your space engineers. Who or what is BOB ??? If it is a mod like I think it might be. What is the mods name ???

Can you put a drill on a wheeled vehicle?

So just curious, is there a reason you chose to build it on your base? I started a vehicle on the ground and realized I needed some materials, came back and it was gone. I ragequit for the day. Do I HAVE to build my vehicles on the base for them to stay? What did I do wrong?

Hi I want to get this game but I don’t have the pc for it yet. Is the xbox version good? Which do you recommend?

I suck at flying the ship and always end up crashing it.. Any pointers or am I just a crappy pilot lol?