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I have never watched Space Engineers before, and I must admit, this has been a great introduction! As another comment suggested, I think “My Other Ship is a Star Destroyer” would be a funny name!

You can tell it's an "express" cargo ship by its lack of retro thrusters. This looks like an interesting series. If you've grown fond of that ship, consider building a small grid hydrogen powered grabber drone (i.e. it has a landing gear pointing forwards) so you can reposition those thrusters by detatching them and using merge blocks to put them elsewhere. You'll be doing a lot of that if this is going to be a piracy heavy series.

I did this once with a bit of roleplay and it turned into my most memorable playthrough. I didn't use any cargo ship mods, but instead just relied on the vanilla encounters. Normal day at work, doing a spacewalk for a little maintenance on the ship on our way through a new region. We picked up a pirate signal and the pilot panicked; he jumped away immediately and left me out there. As I fled the pirates on my own, I picked up a distress signal and followed it to find a few damaged and abandoned habitat pods clustered together. Apparently the original owners had long been dead or gone, and either they or the pirates left the place booby-trapped. I managed to disable most of the traps and salvaged parts from two of the pods to get the third one mostly functional. From there I salvaged what I could find in the wreckage left behind by the pirates that apparently plagued the area, learned what I could about the things I took apart, and cobbled together a decent ship for defense, exploration, and eventual escape after hitting the pirates hard. What finally ended that run and prevented me from doing another like it was my annoyance at the ridiculously short character limit in the data pads that I was using to keep logs. We can develop jump drives and compact, automated manufacturing, but we can't store more than a few hundred text characters in a handheld computer? Bull***t.

I've never before watched any sort of Space Engineers content, but this has been a pretty good introduction to the game. All chill and with calming explanations of what's going on, rather than the jarring "high-energy" that you expect with a lot of let's plays.

ship name : my other ship is a star destroyer

I thought you'd be literally starting with only the suit, not even the tools, probably possible but a grind, still excited to see how you get around the challenge!

Shift + p lets you copy a color. The f1 menu has a list of color commands.

Take a look at the Advanced Welding mod, might let you detach/reattach the NPC thrusters in different directions

glad to see you do suit-only playthroughs too! consider the wood+crafting mod that we made a few years ago for ours :)

Really interesting play through idea, really interested to see how you do as a suit only start is no joke. Just a quick FYI, landing gears are good for securing your ship down but attaching your ship to voxel will kill your shield as it counts as a static grid

I love this but something that would REALLY add to your playthrough is the infestation mod. Its compatible with ME and most AI/Faction spawning mods, but it adds miniature spider encounters on abandoned wrecks and stations and certain finds out in space. Its spooky and definitely a recommendation

12:28, Dont forget to close the Secondary rear hatch, and repair the hole you made in the ship to get in.

With that HUGE cannon on top, the only logical name for the ship would be "The Compensator", cause he was clearly compensating for something..

28:11 the sheer panic in your voice, sells this whole episode! I SO want this game, been wanting it since it came out!

theres a function with NPC weapon replacer that allows you to adjust the size of the weapon that it spawns with. so if a 3x3 weapon is replaced with a 7x7 you can configure it for the next one to not be so big. or go ham and make little gat turrets become might warcannons on a simple 10x4x5 escort ship

There is actually a mod to let you construct and refine a limited array of items in your inventory. The 'Independent Survival' mod. The original no longer works properly due to some recent-ish security features related to distance, so you can't open your suit due to it technically being a grid far away, but I've uploaded an update of that mod which makes it work again!

To be clear, the thrusters aren't a Keen (game dev) thing, it's a Splitsie (mod dev) thing

New viewer here: This video series looks awesome and the intro for it was hilarious. Looking forward to more installments!

OMG Madmavn and his NSS as well as his short multiplayer series - may I just say he was amazing at his editing on those vids. Seriously professional looking cinematography.... Not to downplay how excited I am for this series though, this is gonna be a fun adventure!

umm, yes, yes it is 100% possible to start from zero in space engineers. You do not need to pirate, you don't need to steel.. its dooble on the moon easiest. but you can also do it on plants like earth type. BUT takes a lot longer. Step 1, find a space station that sells consumables. find out what ores that station buys. step 2, mine ores, sell the ores to the station, buy o2 and h2... buy energy packs, mine, sell mine sell... before long you can earn the cash to buy your first craft. Some stations have small rovers, others have ships. you need to pick and choose here, an ion mining ship for example may be a good starting point because it doesn't' require fuel, again, mine, sell repeat... your goal is either a ship with a survival pod on it, such as the large block level 1 green freighter. Now you have a surival pod, a ship with a reactor, and a h202 generator again.. we start building again. with some creativity you add a basic refinery, basic assembler, then shift to a standard assembler.... depending on your cash, you can buy the pipes and mount a drill right onto the freighter. now the money really starts rolling in the problem is the luck, yo need to spawn close enough to a moon, to make it to the bases... power and o2 are your limits here. o2 though is pretty cheep, you can even buy extra tanks at some stations. 1 o2 costs about 300 credits or so, 3 will fill a bottle, 1 will fill your personal tank.

Thank you greatly for the modpack, it’s nice to have a KZfaqr for once share the mod list as an URL instead of saying the mods

Yes! More SE content creators, if you ever fancy a "storyline" play though, check out the Ares at War scenario.

Oooh beltalowda... Oooh an Expanse reference... me likey! Great content my dude! I find it really hard to get my hands on good SE content made by personalities I sympathize with. You are now the second creator like that, first one is Splitsie. Thank you!

Space Engineers yay. Still one of the best sandbox space 3D games

What a fun episode! I've never seen a start like this before. Well done!

I haven't played this game since like 2014. It was such a cool game at the time! Glad to see it still has a community because I'd be sad if this game was lost to time. Glad to have found the series! :)

I giggle at the thought of the ship spinning helplessly after firing a salvo from that battleship turret lol

Finnaly i love space engineers

A trully beltalouda perished on the boat that started it all. Props to the captain, rest in pieces

Can't wait for episode 2 this is awesome !!

"Count up timer" had me burst out laughing

Congrats on the 1/2 a million views... I just found it and subbed after watching... Great to see someone having a successful launch to a series and the interest in it still active 8 months down the line.. Well done fella!

I tend to start similar games like this, more recently going to no-oxygen planets... takes me a few hours of mining stone before I can get a small place with a functional airlock. Also recently been more keen to look for ore nodes instead of making a stone mine, as it is already going to be faster to build up what I need by doing that instead of just mining stone. There is the exception of my mining rig design I am still occasionally working on making it auto-print an extended line to move the platform down, which is capable of producing over 100k of stone in about 60 percent of the operation (takes about 3 hours before it auto shuts off due to an excess of stone and my refineries not being able to keep up); I set it to start before going to bed, and let it build up a ton of resources while I sleep. One mod I would recommend though, is Space Got Real. It makes the dark of space as dark as it is IRL, so like when you put your ship on the dark side of the asteroid, it would be impossible to see unless you had lights on it. That one and this other one I can't remember that replaces ore nodes with mixed variants (like iron and ice or silicon and nickel) would also be great.

Suit Only Survival .... or S.O.S. for short 😂. It's pretty tuff to start with nothing else but yoo toes and a T-pose

Love the video already i got into space engineers about 2 months ago and just fell in love with the game. As for what i personally would like to see from the series (hope it is one) in the future maybe some space warfare. 😊 Love what you do keep it up.

i just started this game(and my laptop sounds like a plane taking off playing it lmao) and i'm so bad- but i just found your channel and i feel so much confident and i've already learned a bunch from here so thank youuu

as i did with OSRS, i started watching a series from a game i don't even play, and im loving it lol.

You can recharge power sitting in a chair. You can see if there is another turret from any panel (even if you don't own the block).

Serious suggestion: "Spring Rain". To symbolize new beginnings. Shaman King reference. I believe this was the name Amidamaru gave the first sword his friend Mosuke forged for him. Joke Names: "Runaway Express" because you got no breaks. "Shipy McShipface"

This shown up in my feed yesterday. I am now playing SE again and definitely subscribed

I LOVE this guys over the top sarcasm!!! 😂😂😂

I suggest naming it Constantine after it's former Captain. It's also the name of a ba DC character. Also, I really liked the video. You earned my Sub! Can't wait for part two.

Subbed, keep up the impressive work homie

I loved this and cant wait to see more and for the color select its shift p to get the color of the block u are looking at

pulling the colour is I think having the block and then looking at the block you want the colour form and press shift+p

"What am I short on?" Well, the one hydrogen bottle you're trying to disassemble for one :) Great episode, just discovered your content. I think I'll hang around.

Slight tip: If you're holding F while hand mining, you immediately pick up anything you mine up (as long as there's space in your inventory). I find this really helps prevent "losing" resources when mining in zero gravity.

Silver was a very lucky find, basically turning this into a better start than starting with one of the starter respawn ships, all you need is the big refinery and you can start work on a survival kit or even better a medical station

I remember sinking so many hours into this game as a teenager, super glad to see it again ❤

What should we name the ship??

Lucky to find a pretty much defenseless ship so quickly to take over. Most vanilla ones at least have a couple gatling cannons to spray at things closing in. But I guess that's what it had to be since wouldn't be much of a series if you flew around space for 10 minutes then ran out of power.

It's possible to do this without piracy but there's definitely a lot of luck involved. You need to beeline it to Earthlike, grind down any unknown signals on the way. You're looking for at least 10 interior plate. Then you can build passenger seats onto unknown signals, which you can sit in and turn the battery back on, recharging your suit. Now you can recharge power at any unknown signal. Head to Earthlike and gather resources, prioritize computer chips. Once you hit Earthlike you need to kill wolves and try get power cells. When you have more than 80 computer parts and 4 power cells you can make 2 small batteries, attach them to a rotor and use your computer parts to make a basic assembler. Rotor lets the 2 small batteries power the assembler so you can make enough girders for wind turbines. Once you have a basic assembler and wind turbines it's easy to recycle parts to make a basic refinery then you're back in business. Takes a few hours, you can't die without restarting and you need to luck out on enough interior plates to get recharges and hit Earthlike atmosphere before you run out of air. But sometimes it works out

There used to be a really cool suite only mod where your suit had an o2 generator, refinery, and crafter in the suite. Idk if it still works.

a count up timer....also known as a clock.....bro....u just killed me!!! i had to stop right there and sub ... much luv and thnx for the awesome content!!!

Taking that second ship at the beginning would have been a really good idea... Each ship you steal is extra resources you cant currently manafacture at the moment, plus your ship has a pre-build merge block which means you can easily join the two ships into one grid. Best option would be merging the second ship, traveling to that neutral base that appeared, and destroy the ship while docked so you have power and O2 while you dissect both ships and rebuild one big ship (or sell of items to buy one) If the two ships are the exact same this also means you have 8 largegrid storages at the very beginning of the game which is HUGE because now you can just stockpile resources as you take apart both ships.

finding a local rimworld and space engineers enjoyer is rare, keep it up

I like that count-up timer

I like how the main gun also can double as a propulsion device

Holy i love this serie so far

I’ve been playing Space engineers for a while now, recently got on stationeers and I’m loving that too

Nu-uh, you can build up even without basic tools I start up with the one and only mod, that increases the speed limit The easy way: Trading You start with 10k, go buy the tools and then it is a rush to find 3 medical something to build a survival kit The most scarce resource is energy, and disabling the comms does not help:( it just drains The hard way: Go and find a pirate outpost with saw-bots and minigun-bots, and force them to make a hole in the station hull Get inside and you'll see a message of activated self-destruction, get outside and wait, because you can't access anything When it'll blow - try to see a ring of small debree, disable your dampeners and follow it, if you are lucky enough, you'll get some tools or canisters of fuel/oxygen Then, look for MAYDAY signals, and build up from wrecks You can do it in many ways But that was my way

Trust me that last bottle was wild.

I’ve been doing this with 2 pals. We just got cobalt and made a refiner and an assembler. Honestly not sure what to do from there so I’m excited to get some tips from this video.

I alterady finished this series and its awesome, i wanted to go back to the first episode just to remember when u took the NFFP now called FFP. btw, u made me want to buy the game, so im going to buy it next week!

Firing that gun should likely make it tumble head over heels o_0

looks like an armed courier, mayhaps? (i’m more used to endless skies, where it’s split into cargo, miner, brawler, skirmisher, transport, and carrier, roughly, and the low cargo space but decent speed is typical of “courier” jobs)

Ive never played space engineers or seen any gameplay beyond people showing off crazy builds like a big railgun accelerater thingy. I didnt even know it had a single player like this.

From now on: "Count Up Timer" (CUP) It is an innovative new twist on the old concept of Count Down Timer. I don't think it will catch on though.

Count up timer is my new favourite word

Just before the new dlc comes out. I can't wait to see what shenanigans keen is going to throw at us this time.

Love it. Well done. What a comiclly over powered ship. lol

loving this series, how did you get this start though? is it like a workshop or custom scenario. i wanna try it for myself but im not sure how to load up a random world like this

Good video, keep it up!

Great series, I'm really enjoying it. I've started a new game using the mods that you've listed. I particularly like the mods which bring color and added functionality to the UI and the automation ones. I'm not really a fan of all of the drones attacking though (I prefer to build rather than fight). Which Mods would I leave out to get the all of the mods but the ones that bring attacks on me?

There is actually a mod that gives you an even more basic refinery inside of your suit. Refine ice and you get oxygen and hydrogen for your suit. And otter than that, the typical refining stuff to make your first survival kit and i belive a solar panel? Could be Hydrogen Engine. Dunno. Dont quite remember. Its been a few years.

OMG! Thank you for following MadMavn example! I was searching for anything like that NSS searies for so long I Love it !

the soundtrack from Factorio in the background is awesome

To copy colour you press shift+p with a none built block in hand hope that helps you man

27:20 You could have just accessed the terminal on the button panel of the outer door and shut off the turret instead of running all the way to the flight seat. :) Nice video

I am back to Watch für entire series agiane thats how Good it is

"Only two motors in this thing? Nah not worth it." "Hm, I just need two more motors, I like doors but I guess that'll have to be the place." Like bro Ima need you to be aware of your last 15 seconds at minimum 😂. Fun video though, I like the concept and how you approached it. Thank you for posting!

IIRC, ctrl+shift+P to copy colour and pattern of the block you're looking at or maybe another combination without using either shift or ctrl - also if you type /gps and type anything it will quick save your current position naming the gps marker whatever you have typed E.g; /gps Earth Space - Silver will save a GPS co-ord named: "Earth Space - Silver" - (Probably TMI at this point, so TLDR: quick save GPS co-ord in technicolour 🥳) you can also select the markers colour while typing using 255 colour scheme, E.g; theory: /gps (name) (1-255* 1-255* 1-255) application: /gps Earth Space - Silver 255 255 255 will name the marker "Earth Space - Silver" with a black or white font for use with the marker, (I'm not too familiar with 255 colour scheme ATM, it's been a little while since I've played any game using it) although I find colours much easier to control through the GPS menu

Not saying anything, but that starting ship you found, seemed... really convenient.

I know I'm late, but I would have named it "The Lucky Find"

Last time I played this you had 60 seconds of boost and around five minutes of oxygen. Made survival almost impossible 😆

Have you ever started off on a planet and hollowed out a mountain with a hand drill to get all the ores? It takes quite a bit of forethought to get everything inside a mountain and leave it a hollow shell, perfect for building a base. Maybe that could be your next challenge.

Have you tried the “suite only” mod? It lets you craft from your inventory.

I think you should name the ship "Constantine's Rest" Also, I'm glad to see another MadMavn fan, I love his NSS and Skyjack series XD

I tried this same scenario with the same mods the guy had for most of the day and I can tell you from now it is almost impossible, he either spawned that ship somehow or he loaded so many saves till he got the perfect one. Also the way the ship he stole acts is completely the opposite that happened to me when I found one (rare like 1 every 1h if not more) they instantly kill you the second you are around 800m away from them.

I've done this several times, it's fairly easy. I'm setting up a modded version with (hopefully) no ice on asteroids and eating/drinking/sleeping required.

There used to be a mod called "3D printer gun" and I think that's how the base game should be - kinda like empyrion: galactic survival where you can craft a survival printer with your hands

Happy New year an a new sub here watching first time

Thanks, helps a lot!

That turret up top 🤣

I've been playing SE for a while now and I've always wondered why there isn't a pathway to build up from nothing

When you said wait where's my ship I felt that so bad 😂 btw your playing kinda of like a scraper letsplay. I think it would be better to make a scraper and or a scraping bay or mechanical scraping thing. It seems faster to hunt ships and get components. Plus you could make battle ships or drones. Some of the best space engineers videos in a long time. Big sub. Also if you want to do a coop let's play let me know. Keep it up!

I’m subbing, im very interested to see how this progresses

Stone, cobalt, and silver will get you setup for a LONG time.

Have you thought about streaming those? While I don't really have a lot of time for watching live streams, I would definitely watch the VODs.