Getting Started in Space Engineers
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- This is the start of a tutorial series to guide new and old players alike through Space Engineers survival from the very beginning and through to the point where ridiculous builds seem plausible.
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This video covers everything I do during my first day in survival. From how to get your first assembler and refinery built, how to power them to what useful items are available on your drop pod.
If you have any tutorial topics you'd like me to cover in the coming videos please let me know in the comments. If you've got burning questions about how to do something, ask here and I'll do my best to answer.
00:00 Selecting the correct scenario
01:21 Turning off Lightning
01:44 Selecting the respawn location
02:05 Dropping down to earth and checking our inventory
04:18 Refilling your suit from a survival kit and the basics of conveyor systems
05:21 Basics of batteries and power systems
06:23 How to build a wind turbine
07:38 Getting started with hand mining
09:36 Producing materials with the survival kit
12:15 Building a wind turbine on a tower and why
16:20 Building a basic refinery
20:16 Progression, unlocking blocks and how it works (or doesn't)
22:02 Are the blocks on the same grid?
22:58 Do survival kits make more from stone than refineries?
23:44 How to find ore on planets
27:45 Building a basic assembler
30:31 Adding compact extra wind turbines
32:18 Refilling hydrogen or oxygen bottles
34:28 Building a cargo container for storage
37:25 More basics of conveyors and how to change your hotbars
39:38 Moving our survival kit onto the base
41:44 Outro
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For everyone who is playing on a non-Steam version of the game, the "Star System" start is broken into 3 parts, you'll be looking for the "Home System" instead. This will allow you to begin as I've done here as that one contains the Earth-like planet. Apologies for any confusion :)
In Space Engineers on Steam the Star System start contains: Earth-like, Moon, Mars, Europa, Alien, Titan, Triton and Pertam. These are divided amongst 3 separate starts for the non-Steam versions (all console versions and the gamepass/windows store versions), those 3 starts are called Home System, Distant Moons and Distant Worlds, with home system containing the Earth-like start as used here while the others can happily be explored once you feel confident in the game.
I quit before it even launched just to complicated
@@freakcascade6809It's definitely not for everyone.
Splitsie do you have a tutorial about scripting, printing or missiles (guided/normal ones)? I play in SE for few years but im still green when it comes to this fields, especially when its comes to scripting.
Splitsie is the patron saint of Space Engineers.
The Go To Guy
He got me into SE
Blessed be thy name
We need something like The Rotor of Saint Splitsie... Actually, maybe piston...
@@daz8405 No no, hinges are his bain. we need one that is blessed by St Splitsie it goes 'SPLANG!@' every time you touch it.
Same here. I stumbled onto one of his videos for SE years ago and I was so interested I purchased the game.
To quote and paraphrase a great man; "Space Engineers has less of a learning curve and more of a learning cliff, on fire, covered in bears." -Martincitopants 2020
While not exactly untrue, I think this is even more true for stationeers. Couldn't get any of my friends to play it more than once with me
The X games: now _there_ is a learning cliff!
@@marcusdirk yep SE is harmless compared to any of the X games
@@marcusdirk thats a learning cliff, on fire, covered in bears :D
I put eve, stationers and SE in this category.
After nearly 3000 hours, I definitely don't need a getting started tutorial, but I'm still going to watch anyway. Your tutorials are the best, and early game is my favorite part of most games. It's full of potential and inspiration before the collection of stuff and to-dos that burden the imagination.
Such a good feeling having all that potential in front of you with nothing to weigh down your dreams 🙂
I second that, it is so useful to watch, even after 4.5k hours in the game.
Agreed! I just love to listen to him talk.
3777 hours here, I still enjoy the calming voice of Dr. Splitsie
I thought I was a veteran at >1000 hours, and here I'm being humbled ferociously. :D I'm genuinely impressed.
Not being super nit-picky, just helpful if anyone needs. With your landing pod if you do grind down your survival kit and lose power in your suit before you can weld it back up you can still recharge by sitting in the seat in the drop pod as long as the battery is still there, you can't respawn or heal though so get that kit welded!
Absolutely, there's always a bunch of information I can't fit in without making the thing 8 hours long so hopefully people take a look through the comments to find some of these extra tips and details 🙂
isn't it possible to heal up to like 60-70'ish % hp if you're in a decent and breathable athmosphere? Or is that just in enclosed cockpits?
@@diazinth Depends on your settings, there is a world setting that will allow you to heal up to 70% without a medbay/survival kit, not sure if it is environment dependant though, i think as long as you aren't taking damage and the setting is on you'll start to heal.
@@TheInfernoShards if that setting is on then as long as you are in a "high" oxygen environment you will heal, so a pressurised space / powered cryo or cockpit with an oxygen supply.
Boost for extra good pointers and tips
Just thinking about starting playing space engineers and I see this pop up, it must be a sign
It might be, but only if the sign is without the letter P
It's my most favorite game ever. My advise to you is do let it suck you in or you'll find yourself spending 1000's of hours in it before you know it 😂 it is a good game though. And if you want to know just about anything SE...Splitsie is the man.
One of us!
@Splitsie is literally the reason I started playing SE
@@DeepCZero3 same.
I originally found your channel through the old tutorials when I first started SE. They were actually fairly new then. SE is now my most played game on Steam, possible ever, and I have been watching your videos ever since. I love this community and the content. Seeing these get remade is very nostalgic.
And bonus points for Teacher Splitsie. We don't see him enough!
Thanks Padstow :)
@@Splitsie you are solely responsible for me picking this game back up in 2019 and the 2000 ensuing hours enjoyed with my friends....
thanks mate. 😀
Your original beginner series is how I got started. 1,000 hours later... I have had a wonderful time. Thank you, Splitsie :)
This is gonna be real helpful for new people since keen added tons of stuff over the years
Hopefully I covered a couple of the gaps from the older one (without opening up too many more)
Awesome, thank you for updating these tutorials and thank you for being the only reason I was able to get into this game back when I first started.
I agree. Splitsie was also the reason I started playing SE
You're very welcome ☺️
Yeah absolutely, I was hopeless without these.
Same here, I came from Planet Nomads and although it was similar style, the mechanics of the game were far different than SE. I almost quit playing SE not long after I started because of the learning curve. I found Splitsie's tutorial videos and I stuck with it, and now I have been hooked on SE for over 4 years and over 7000 hours. I may not have the same play style but everything I learned came from him. Than you Splitsie!
Yes, 100% the same sentiment as the OP!
Thx to Splitsie, the only reason why i did not bin SE. Your tutorials helped me so much to love this game!
You have done a lot for SE, and for me as well!
You're very welcome, I'm always happy to hear that I've helped get people past the rough learning curve :)
Ive watched Splitsie for years, played Space Engineers for years, already seen every tutorial, and he drops a new one and I watch it anyway.
I LOVE his content.
This will be my new sleeping aid for now just to get the views up... and cause we all appreciate the soothing tones of Splitsie
lol Thanks :)
Man I remember buying this game back when you did Survival Maybe. Now even though I have more experience in this game. the little kid in me gets all excited to learn all over again lol. Thank you for being you Splits.
lol I think I felt about the same as I began even the re-records for this tutorial. There's something about the pure vanilla start that just seems so full of possibility :)
This Beginners guide is one of the most comprehensive guides I have seen. Splitsie is amazing at using his transition (Flying to certain location) times to give great information.
Thanks so much :)
I have about 3,000 hours in Space Engineers - almost entirely in survival, and Splitsie's tutorials made that possible. If you're a new player, you have done well coming to this channel.
Even a veteran like me still watches his tutorials, because the game has changed enough over the years that there are new things to learn. There was nothing new to me in this video, but it's rock solid. Listen to him!
I would highly suggest a few QoL mods, like Build Info, Build Hints, and Build Vision are must-haves; I won't even join a server if these aren't present. Don't forget to first add Text HUD API.
Can confirm! Have 17K+ hours in game. When a Splitsie video comes out?! It's like Christmas!
I'll make up for the new info not being in the tutorial and give you something in the replies instead ;)
You don't need to add Text HUD API any more, as it's a dependency of both build info and build vision it'll automagically be added to your mod list when you add either of those - which is super handy
Also, thanks so much for the kind words :)
I learned the game from watching your old tutorials from 7+ years ago.
VERY glad that at last they're being updated :)
4 Years ago I watched your Tutorial Series when I was first interested in the game, Today I redownloaded it after not playing for a couple years and I see this new series.
Your tutorials helped me learn how to play space engineers years ago and I still play to this day. Now my wife is starting and she’s watching all your instructional videos and getting into the game slowly. Your vids are as always the best. Thanks for what you do in helping getting others into the game.
That's awesome and I'm super envious, one day maybe when I get my son into it, I'll finally get my better half to try too 😂
@@Splitsie Getting your son into it is easy, u just tell him that he gets a dollar of allowance for every 4000 PCUs in the game. (gets him set up for being a you-tube influencer too, lol). I will let you determine the rewards for the better half.
I have been playing SE since April 2014 now, and it was a pleasure to watch this tutorial. Damn... it is a delight to watch every blammo... uh... every content of you! Thank you so much for all the years of entertainment and teaching, Splitsi/Flipsie (and Capac, of course).
Lol somehow even with the rough landing I managed to avoid a proper blammo (at least in this take, I do have a recording somewhere with about 15 botched landings) 😂
No worries, once I Hit the side of a Mountain, crashed down its side and had the pod hang in the side of a cliff, heavily damaged, but with the survivalkit intact, first leaving it I nearly died and needed 10 minutes to work me back up to the wreckage.
I think much worse a Start cant be.
@@Splitsie Oh yeah... you're gonna catch a bunch of flak for that one... Because MOST of the time, if you roll like that on landing... and it just kept going... it's MEGA-Blammo time... people are gonna be "Damn! Mine always blow up!"
@Splitsie Well, at least this parachute HAD canvas... 😂
And can we get a special compilation video of the botched landing
1600 hours I've played, watched a heap of your content, and still learned something from this. As always, top notch Splitsie
To paraphrase Rafiki the wise: "The king of tutorials... Has returned.."
Using the flying Capacs as pointers is an excellent addition
Splitsie finally found a way to make Capac useful 😂
I haven't played SE for 2 years, so much has changed in that time- this is a very timely video series and will make for a great refresher for returning players ( I want/need to update a lot of my old workshop creations with all of the 'new' blocks ).
Although im pretty adept at SE now I still love watching your tutorials Splitsie, just to see if there is anything new to learn or maybe something i've forgotten about. Love the channel. Looking forward to your ongoing adventures.
Thank you for this guide! Mega clear and helpful. I literally played a long with you to help me get into space engineers. I’ve had the game for years but got easily overwhelmed. Hopefully my space engineers career is finally up and running!
YAY!
Thumbs up if Splitsie taught you how to play Space Engineers!
Back in 2020, when I first started out in Space Engineer, I followed your old tutorial playlist about how to get started in this game. And I cannot thank you enough for both the playlist and the newest videos. I forgot almost everything and this refreshment is easy to understand and follow.
And you bringing me back into SE once again. Although I have more then 100 hours into the game and warched your "old" tutorials, I even learned one ore two things in this tutorial again. Looking forward to see more of this. Thanks a lot Mr. Splitsie.
love it Splitsie, excellent updated redux of the how-to that helped us all get started and inspired in SE!
Nice! So glad that new players to the game are getting an update tutorial series for this game.
Going back about 4k hours I remember how disorientated and overwhelmed I was the first time I played SE (to be fair it was pre-planets and everything has improved since then) so how I wish I had something like this.. thanks for help keeping the game alive and enjoyable.
Thanks, I remember those days too - thankfully there was a bit less in the game (only 7 asteroids at most) so the cliff was a little bit shorter to fall down :D
So glad to see you getting back to doing starter and tutorial videos. Thanks.
Splitsie! I love that you did an updated tutorial. The game has changed SO MUCH since I first started watching your videos.
Great to see you refreshing the beginner videos. Your series were always teaching me and inspire some of the silly ideas I tried to create
yo this brings me back YEARS to when i first was learning how to play and you had that getting started playlist that helped me out so much. always love the content Splitsie!
Many moons and 500 hours of SE ago old version of this video saved me from many-many headaches with SE learning curve. Thank you, Splitsie, for SE educational content)
You gave me the confidence to begin playing se 5 years ago and over 1800 hours later I’m still watching your videos and still being equally inspired as back then, thanks mate and keep it up
You're very welcome :)
i remember watching your old tutorials when i started playing SE at the end of 2022. had it on xbox originally but repurchased on steam a few months into 2023, and i have already put almost a 1000 hours into the game on steam alone.
Amazing video, wish it was around a few months ago when I started playing. Can't wait for the rest of the series!
I was thinking about restarting a Survival World in Space Engineers. And once again you make the perfect fitting video. Thank you.
You did an amazing job on this new and improved tutorial, Splitsie! Clearly structured, well paced and super-informative. It was worth the wait, even for non-beginners!
One tiny thing you could have mentioned is the "T"-feature and why it should be off at basically all times.
Ah, good point. I'll be sure to highlight that in the miner design section as I'll be working with armour shapes that are more complex there 🙂
@@Splitsie Thanks, great to hear that! If you made a drillship with at least two drills, be sure to mention another rarely-used "feature" (more like annoyance), which is pressing Middle Mouse Button while operating any grid tool.
Yeah that's another good point. Super easy to get caught out on that one
i just got into the game after watching the tutorial series from 4 years ago i cant wait to see what new things this one may teach
I haven't played in years (after watching your tutorial series way back then). This video makes me want to play again, and I think I will. Thanks!!!
Yay! Good to see you again Splitsie!! I thought we lost you there for a while. Keep up the good work!
Woah I thought I was seeing a re-upload for a second . So happy to see an updated version nonetheless . Thank you for helping learn , to this day , my favorite game . Cheers hermano !
You're very welcome 🙂
Great video, I am looking forward to the next episode.
Another great tutorial, I watched all your original ones and still found your new one engaging and informative. Keep up the great work .
Thanks :)
Very cool to see a new instructional series! I started about a year ago and watching your earlier instruction videos and other series has taught me a ton. Can't wait to see what I can learn from this new series, I'm happy to wait and watch until you get to ai blocks and event controllers.
Nice. Its been a while since i have seen anybody make an up to date getting started series for SE. Thanks for putting in the effort
This video is really helpful and the most comprehensive guide I've seen so far for beginners!
Thanks!
Thanks for making this, saved me quite a bit of confusion and frustration coming back to the game after it first released. I knew that one day the game would be amazing and well, here I am. Bloody brilliant vid mate, thanks so much for sharing.
Oh man.... your channel made me purchase the game a few years ago and had a blast with it. I haven't played in 3-4 years this makes me want to go back!
Beautifully done.
Always good for a refresher.
because there has been so many new updates and space engineers has become so much more popular it is great to see some doing a new fresh start video so we can get more new people involved in it thank you Splitsie
Thanks for doing a new tutorial series for SE. This is so helpful. I have started the game using your tutorial and look forward to your future videos.
You're very welcome :)
Great video man! I remember the first time I played Space Engineers and i din't understand anyting until i saw your old tutorials. And I hope this video inspires new people to join the great Splitsie and Space Engineers Community!
Thanks :)
Ah, this takes me back when I first started to play Space Engineers. No idea what I was doing, I was looking up for tutorials and found your great tutorial series that way.
Glad to see it getting a renewal covering all the things that have been changed over time and such to allow even more new players to understand how to even begin with playing this game.
Good work! :)
That being said, I hope that your start the next entry with the introduction to the Build Planner that you already hinted at here, as queuing up all those components manually is really tedious and nobody should get in the habit of building anything in SE doing that if they don't have to ^ ^
The build planner thing was tricky, I'd tried to include those bits in this but it just ended up feeling way too overwhelming and I felt like it was more likely to leave players in a situation where they didn't understand the production menu, which seems worse than missing out on a few shortcuts in the early days. My plan is to add bits and pieces in the coming tutorials always linking back to the standalone build planner tutorial I did :)
Very relaxing to go back to the basics occasionally: and I learned a couple of new things! 👍
I just started playing SE and was having trouble figuring it out lol. You helped me understand more in the first few minutes than the multiple hours of video ive watched. You freaking rock brother!
Thanks :)
I never use progression, so I’m glad to see you covering it; informative!
I've literally been playing this game for years, and I still managed to learn a few tricks from this video. Looking forward to watching future episodes!
Thanks :)
I'm from back in the days of the small cluster of asteroids; but Splitsie , I appreciate you. Keep doing your thing,
Splitsie you do an absolutely fantastic job at tutorials for us noobs. I’m genuinely curious if you aren’t too stretched would you be interested in doing a progression tutorial series? Showing us how you’d start a new world, and progress your base with each unlock?
I was just thinking about coming back to space engineers and hadnt had a chance to check out your channel again yet to see if i can get my head back onto it. Then here you are on my feed lol 💙
The King of SE is back with another tutorial! 😁
This wind turbine tower (the one with 5 turbines) is the best layout in my opinion. You can actually stack these towers (with tops of turbines "touching" turbine on adjacent towers) with perfect distancing. Power production density of such layout is insane.
It's a really effective layout but I mainly chose it because it also shows wind turbines mounted sideways without me having to make the video longer by talking about the different orientations still working 🙂
Its the upside down turbines that I worry about.@@Splitsie
Since you were using spacer blocks for the horizontal turbines, you could have raised all four turbines up one block, and had even more (slightly more) power.@@Splitsie
Excellent content, thank you for the effort!
You are an absolute maniac and a legend, Splitsie.
7k hours and I'm watching this. There is a weird comfort in doing so.
As many hours that I have in SE, This was a absolutely wonderful refresher/watch! 🤙
So cool! Loved your First one, and this one ist so good Made and helpfull.
Thanks for a new starter series!
You're very welcome 🙂
I started playing Space Engineers after I saw your original Getting started video's and have been hooked ever since. I have also followed your channel and your exploits which are informative and entertaining. I might want to consider a Capac death counter as a standard feature in your videos :) Keep up the good work and continue to inspire.
lol Thanks, though I think I'd have to hire a mathematician to count the Capac deaths at this point :D
Abssolutely superb tutorial. It's got me back in and playing!
Thanks, glad to have dragged you back in :D
unphased by your pod spinning two more times, the narration continues :D
Thank you alot. this tutorial came at the perfect time. i just started some week ago and got bored as i didnt remember what to do first so i quit. now that this came it made me go back and inspired me to continue! Thanks!
Best of luck and hopefully this'll help you get past some of the frustrating bits to find the real fun :)
Thank you so much for this video, very helpful! 😊
I wish I had this tutorial when I started playing space engineers. Keep it up splitsie this is good work
Absolutely THE BEST explanation of early stage.
Thanks :)
lol love that beginning roll. Always love your vids Splitsie
I was really hoping I would get one of those in the recording 😂
Well done! Very helpful, thank you.
You made this game so fun for me. Thank you for the series Legend.
I’m playing along to this video. Thank you splitsie. This game is awesome but I was always too afraid to play it because of how technical it is. No more fears!
i just finished my first mining craft. i refused to use tutorials because i thought it wasnt as complex as getting started. and after destroying my nearby turbine tower 2 times, totaling 3 different ship designs, and indenting my landing platform a dozen times, i have my own mining ship design! and god was it fun.. i reccomend anyone following this tutorial series to try playing on their own first! i know its daunting, hard and god was it frustrating, but having the reward is amazing.
Appreciated... Everyone wants to be cool and exciting with explosions and fast gameplay..... then new players jump in and get wrecked, have no idea what to do, get frustrated and leave. This is what we need to start with a clue. Just re-installed SE after a 7 or 8 yr hiatus =))) Thanks mate!
Completely agree and you're very welcome :)
Thank you! This was needed...
Yay! More Splitsie content! I was just getting bored. You're a godsend. As always, love the content. Keep up the good work boss!
Hopefully even though this will be starting out very 'tutorial focused', my plan is to have the series evolve into something like my other series as I start to explore more crazy builds, mods etc so it will be interesting to new and experienced players 🙂
@@Splitsie that's cool to hear, though I think it could be very useful for users coming in later if you make a clear border(?) between tutorial basic and tutorial+. Seeing a long list of tutorial videos can be overwhelming and/or off-putting. Also, for users going back later to find the one you need, for yourself or someone else, it'd be a bit more user friendly. The latter might also influence the click rate(?) and average view length of your videos, which I've heard is important for youtube voodoo.
I'm fairly confident you've thought about this already, but in case you hadn't; I had a couple of minutes and thoughts I didn't mind giving ;)
Awesome... Thanks Splitsie...
Even i don't need a starter tutorial i still want to watch it 😂. Thx Splitsie for this update on tutorials .I started playing SE because of your series and like the game very much. 👍
My initial introduction to SE was Splitsie's first tutorial. New functions, systems and updates, new tutorials.
Can't wait to see his first miner. :)
I'm looking forward to sharing a different way of building a miner compared to the previous series where I refitted the pod. Building it from scratch should let me explain a lot more concepts with more clarity than last time (I'm also keen to show off some ideas I have to make it look good too) :)
@@Splitsie I was remembering the butterball actually. I based my own first miner (that I called bumblebee) off of your design.
Ah right, I still use the butterball as something to spawn in when I need a solid reliable atmo ship for something. I really loved that design 🙂
@@Splitsie me too! I'm hoping you show something more like Ugly Duckling!
Bro thank you for this comprehensible guide, its helping me understand everything super well
Super happy to see an update of this series! You got me started when I first picked up space engineers.
Minor Quibble: towards the end, when moving your survival kit, you mention topping off suit energy before moving it as you wouldn't be able to recharge. This is generally a good idea, but it appears not to be fully accurate in the video. If you forgot to do so before grinding down your kit, you still had the chair on your pod you could sit in to recharge. It would make the difference when it comes to needing to respawn and start over!
100% I noticed it in the edit but didn't like the alternate ways I thought of handling that so just left it in even though it's not technically correct :D
I want to say a huge thank you for this. I have owned this game on xbox since 2019 and never played it. Got it by a friends request and he said he would teach me, he unfortunately passed away so I never really got the hang of the game. Recently wanted to revisit it, found your guide here ironically while watching an old series you and Capak did. Huge thank you again man, you are the best!
That really sucks, hopefully you end up being able to have some fun and get some good memories from it thanks to your friend, even though he can't share them with you
Another great tute, as always.
lovin the pointing Capac.
Thanks, I started using it in some of the more recent tutorials like the ones I did for gyroscopes and antennae and found it super handy to highlight things :)
I've just been following the old tutorials again as hoping to get a friend in to SE with me. Watching but not playing for a while now for various reasons, single player fatigue being one of them. Needed a refresh so pleasantly surprised to see this come up today. Will forward on. Thank you.
Hopefully your friend finds the fun before the frustration :D
So true. You guys make it look easy but I'd forgotten how unforgiving it can be. I'm already digging a broken, upside down miner out of a deep hole. Disasters will abound !
Useful video for anyone! First started playing this game because of SovietWomble's video, but learnt all of the mechanics in the game because of Splitsie's! Thanks man! You are the best!
I haven't played this game in years. I did learn how to from Splitsie all those years ago. Good to see you're still around.
900 hours in space engineers and I'm just now learning the survival kit produces more resources from stone than the basic refinery. Always good to review the basics.