Surviving Mars - The Best of the Bot 

Jon: storing fuel next to a rocket is a sensible place to store fuel. Yes, I too enjoy storing flammable materials next to rockets that violently controllably explode as part of their takeoff cycle

I like to think that Jon's boxes, which are ticked by this game, are hexagon shaped.

Yes, Jon, water can be converted to fuel with electricity; electrolysis separates the hydrogen and oxygen into hydrogen and oxygen gas, both of which are used in actual rocket fuel.

I love how Jon points to lots of things saying "that's probably not how science works" for things that are not totally unreasonable for science (even if some instances they aren't the best option), but the most obvious "that's not how science works" is completely missed: wind turbines being useful with an atmosphere as thin as the one on Mars.

"Conveniently Mars speeds up it's rotation during the night, and slows it down during the day." - Jon, showing off his -10 perception as we head into the long days of summer.

Sometimes I wonder how you can play all these games without actually looking at the UI at all.

Jon a dust Devil is sort of like a mini tornado made mostly of dust or sand, they mostly aren't as strong but they can still cause problems

STOP MAKING ME WANT TO BUY ALL THESE GREAT GAMES!

I swear Paradox goes through my subscriptions list when deciding who to send preview copies to.

The RC transport can also mine metal deposits by themselves and the drones will take supplies off of them even if the transport doesn't dump it onto the ground.

The "power accordion" is based on a real world concept in which excess energy is used to push a weight upwards and suspend it there. When the energy is needed, the weight will fall down and the energy produced by that will be harvested by a dynamo.

Maybe it's just me, but whenever I see something that says "Don't Panic" my first reaction is to find out why I shouldn't be panicking, followed very quickly by looking for a disco...

Why do I think that It will all go wrong and Jon will have to recolonise Earth

Jon, you can leave the resources screen open, and mousing over individual resources will show you the daily tally of production versus consumption.

Woah, triple upload, what a day to be alive

I've had my eye on this for a long while, it scratches my nerd itch nicely. We must have very similar alphabetically arranged tick boxes labeled on our colour coded hexagonal storage unit.

SpaceY, my favourite space agency!

Paradox interactive are expanding their repetoair. Me likey

Jon you say you love automation you should try factorio it is a game about research, surviving on an alien planet and automation.

"I'm not seeing a farm here, but here's a farm." Come ON Jon, that's not even your -10 perception, you'd already seen it!

Have you had your eye on this for while jon ?

if you like automation jon you should play factorio itll take a bit to wrap ur head around but once you do youlll love it

The whole video I was on the edge of my seat hoping that this would be a series.

Something like this is what I imagine happening when your colony ships have landed in Stellaris.

Jon! If you love a game like this (colony/survival/automation/scifi) then you should check out RimWorld! Its very similar to this (in that you’re establishing a colony on a distant planet) except that you’re working with people who can be randomly generated and have unique personality traits and skills. Its a load of fun and i think you’d love it.

My god that “DONT PANIC” logo reminds me of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

I don't think I've ever bought a game faster. I love this, Jon! It's like Factorio but newer and shinier.

Jon. There's a thing that makes the day longer than the night. It happens on earth. It's summer.

I've read that extractors generate dust in this game which solar panels don't react well to being covered in. You may want to move it further away from the concrete extractor so it'll break down less often.

Jon your awesome and I’ve watched you for few years but I wish I had found you sooner. You make me believe you know what your doing even if you have no clue. I just have to say thank you for making videos and keep it up. You make my day thank you.

Jon's wiring makes me cry.

Water into fuel is actually a possible thing

"Blue Sun Corporation" *narrows eyes* I'm watching you

Love Jon's obsession with hexagons

Actually Jon you can make Fuel with water in site, you only need to separate the Hydrogen from the Oxygen and now you have both the propellant and the oxidizer, a lot of rockets use Hydrogen and Oxygen as their fuel, so by using water you can make fuel, it is exactly the idea that Space X has, and the ship they used for the ships you send is actually the SpaceX BFR, which is only concept now, but it is in development stages.

The video was set to 1.5x speed from a previous video... and I thought Jon sounded excited before...

also ya. visual ques on big base building things are great. it was extreamly small (only cuz everything was so massive) but in supreme commander the storage units for power/mass would actually rise or fall based on how much power you have stored. it was so nice and i love when games proper do that instead of just "heres a meter. this is what you got"

Love the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference on the concrete plants

Forget the U.S.S. Enterprise, all hail the U.S.S. Tabby!

I like that the technology throughout even with the new updates isn't unheard of. Most of the technology is being developed today and the future tech is theorised. So who's for Space Y getting their colony going first?

Glad you uploaded this! I was curious on getting this since it piqued my interest when I saw some trailers of it.

I see those tiny drones, and the first thoughht that pops into my head is, "Gadget, Gadget." And then a tear comes to my eye...

Drones, Driods, Probes Jon's three names for them!

I love this game simply because it annoys all my OCD friend's when I dont place everything symmetrically.

Night is probably shorter than day because it’s summer In the hemisphere where your colony is sitting. It would be interesting if that changed over the course of a Martian year.

I like how Tabby was centrally located and Jon made Claire sit in the corner.

Hearing his enthusiasm again makes me want to see him do a series.

This one has many echoes of Planetbase, another game you've played that I've come to adore.

Likes the completely unscientific stuff cause it looks neat, questions making fuel from water.

Oh my God, this looks fantastic.

for a game that has a lot of complex interwoven systems it is far more intuitive than that search and rescue builder game that was recently featured.

Stellaris and Surviving mars in one day? And a new SM series? Jon you are my favourite RU-vidr.

I've been looking forward to this Edit:this is could also be me guessing the start of the video

For the love of the automation god, play Factorio already! :D

Rc explorer and the rc bot controller came out nice a slow really cautious then the rc transporter just comes speeding out

When I saw basic metals symbol I just thought wow so that's where the timurids went

good old jon just letting free science sit right next to his base

SCIENCE! Earth to Mars travel time is ~7 months with a transfer window about once every 26 months (assumes Hohmann orbital transfers and that you'd want to start and end in a circular orbit). Our fastest spacecraft to date (New Horizons) could cover that distance in 39 days however that doesn't involve deceleration time so you would make a new crater when you got there if you went that fast. Time CAN be cut down with a conventional rocket (the ~7 months time frame) via a hard burn to the mid point between Earth and Mars then turning around and starting deceleration immediately. You would then land with a suicide burn. That would be incredibly expensive, obscenely dangerous, and we really shouldn't do that.

Can't wait for this game.

Usually Rocketfuel for a Marsmission should be Hydrazine. So N2H4. Nitrogen and Hydrogen. Nitrogen isn't quite plentiful in the marsian atmosphere, but at 2.7% it's still not ignorable. So with water providing the Hydrogen and the Atmosphere providing the Nitrogen you should be able to make a decent supply of Hydrazine as a Rocketfuel.

SCIENCE! Water into fuel on Mars is actually how it could work. Water can be split into hydrogen and oxygen and liquefied, some of the oxygen can be split off for breathable air or other industrial applications with the hydrogen and remaining oxygen combined into H2O2, the fuel that was used by the space shuttle orbiter and the upper stages of a variety of orbiters. Carbon can also be extracted from the atmosphere and combined with hydrogen to formulate hydrocarbons, in turn, refined into kerosene. If a small volume of additional resources (sulfur, etc) can be located that carbon can be refined into RP-1 and combined with oxygen to make first stage fuels. So LOX (liquid oxygen) + RP-1 gets you off Mars, LOX + Hydrogen gets you from Mars back to Earth. All you need to find is the water ice and tiny amounts of a few other chemicals.

Thank you. More please.

Not so fun fact for your colonists. Nights on Mars are actually often longer relative to nights on Earth due to Mars' tall mountains casting things near them in shadow during sunrises or sunsets and without much of clouds or an atmosphere to bounce back light from the sky it's pretty dark in those shadows. Not quite nighttime dark but almost as dark.

Since each extractor needs 5 power, it might save on cable building to build a wind turbine next to each extractor and build a decentralized grid. Then when you have everything up and running you can connect the entire grid.

I like how every videogame has discovered the advantages of impeller, while in the real world all the wind turbine companys are like: nah... propeller is fine.

I would love to see more of this amazing game!!!

Jon missed his calling as a mechanical engineer working for an unprofitable startup

Thanks for the video, been waiting to see this for a while.

i have to still wait 6 days for this game. looking forward to it

You can store electricity as a mechanical force. So if you wanted you could make a completely mechanical battery, that uses years, and generates power using gravity to drive the gears by having a heavy weight move downwards. Likewise you could use electricity to drive the years in reverse to raise the weight on the "battery" to store energy for later. It's just unlikely you could make such a battery as efficient as a chemical battery, however it may be in an environment like mars the upkeep of a mechanical battery to extend It's usable lifetime may be low enough to make the unit last much loknger than a chemical battery in the martial environment (just speculation)

Loves automation. Still hasn't done a video on Factorio.

If you run electric current through water, it will separate into hydrogen and oxygen gases. You can then remix those gases and light a spark to make quite a big boom, so yes in fact you can science water into rocket fuel.

I really like this, please do more

The battery rising up is actually a hydrogen blatter. Electricity in your electrolyze water into HOX and then you burn it to get your water back and your power out.

"I don't see a farm here, but i am seeing Soil Adaptation.... so i can build a farm"

The only thing I distinctly dislike about this game is that if you start with a tech unlocked you never get the bonus points you'd have gotten when it was researched.

The point of all those techs that let you build things that you can buy as a prefab is to reduce your reliance on rockets; you can become totally self-sufficient.

This game was made with actual space science in mind. So while it may seem dubious, some of the tech may be viable.

Just got into it since it's free in the epic store, still getting the hang of it but I remembered this series. Helped to watch, figured since we play Stellaris similarly we would have a similar style in this game... Haha yeah not so much but possibly more so in my next go.

I think dustdevils are like tiny tornadoes with lots of dust?

water does so make rocket fuel! the most common 20th century rocket fuel is a 'LOX' system, O and H are combined (by burning) .. like V2 ww2 rockets, or the nasa moon rocket. separating them takes power .. you kinda get it back when you burn it (exhaust == water)

There was a game very, very similar to this that I cannot remember for the life of me.

A dust devil is a tornado but sandy.

If tv has taught me anything don't drink the water on Mars.

Water into fuel is science. Split the molecule and you have hydrogen and oxygen, which is what the Space Shuttle used. It takes a lot of energy to do that, though. They are hoping to make hydrazine from the CO2 in the Martian atmosphere.

Good job there are no roads in this game or this would be going very wrong!

Revisit the game please

"I don't know anything about the game, but Paradox is paying me, so I will keep publishing content."

Another game that makes me wish for time travel so I can play all the games. Also, there exists 'heavy water' which is super nuclear water. =)

I've been waiting for this video for a while now. =)

The ship is like a shark!!!

I hear you talking about cute robots, but I don't see RUMU anywhere.

I wonder what the mystery will be. Will it be cubes? A sphere? Possibly a cylinder? We might be lucky and it's a torus....

You cut out the rocket take-offs and landings, wtf! Also, you completely ignored factories!! Fundamentals, Jon!

yes jon, water broken down into hydrogen and oxygen, when in thier liquid states then mixed, are pretty good liquid rocket fuels ^^ science is great.

I hope this goes better than his kerbal stream...

The air pressure on Mars is 0.6% of Earth's. I'm not sure a wind turbine would do anything at all.

i bought the game thinking that since everyone was playing that it was out. now i can't play it and im sad

Yesssss! More!!!

Please sir. Can we have some more?