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Love this tutorial series. Really helped me to get to grips with playing the game properly. Keep up the great work.

I just picked up this game after finding your stream looks like fun. I have the same starter ship as you but it's not going very well. My ship is constantly needing repair. I spent a long time fix it and things appear to detreat quickly. The lates thing that is happening, the inside door of the air lock is in full repair. I go to buy an item at the supply store and can't get back in the ship because the door is damaged. The first time I figured I did some wrong, so I started form the recent save but the same thing keeps happening 3 times so far. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I not having fun!

I see this situation on the NAVMAP where there are two copies of Venus - same with Asteroid that supports OKLG. Very confusing; glad you figured that out for me!! I think, in general, I'm only going to explore the Venus stuff in this build using lots of help from the debug console and insta-port - but not for a "serious" playthrough for me. I would like to pursue the cargo trading route in and around OKLG, however.

Delivery gigs are great when you start. You can get 700-1000 credits under a minute. It get's a little boring but you can get enough money in first shift to pay for license,tools and EVA suite. 30 min of running around KLEG and you have an easier start. But maybe to easy if you like the starting challenge.

At 5kg per day, I imagine it's cheapest just to keep the reactor running ....

Just a little tip for anyone following the series as it was missed in this video, but on world generation if you press the 's' key it will open up the full world generation settings menu which gives you much more flexibility for setting exact parameters rather than the simplistic 3 generic sliders shown in the video.

It's best to leave your reactor idling. It uses a lot of fuel to start up

You do not appear to have noticed - they added a throttle to the Maneuver Drive. You've been playing with it set at about 15% and that's hugely impacting just how fast you can accelerate using the RCS/Rotors. You need to open it up for faster acceleration.

18:42 Oh gees, Rick!

Hilarious. I just reinstalled the game after watching your videos. The very first ship i went to salvage had a pirate onboard and he had just killed and stripped some other poor soul. He then comes up and shanks me and takes all my stuff and leaves me to bleed out on the floor. Brilliant first encounter and RPG.. time to reroll!

I bought this game after watching your videos and I've played 40 hours in the last couple of days. Wonderful game, I got to venus and bought the OKLG permanent residency. A couple hints for everyone interested: 1: Before a long range voyage ALWAYS SAVE, pay attention to your course (yellow line) both departing and arriving at destination. If departing OKLG and arriving at VORB, check if the venus station will be on the outside side of the planet when arriving (away from the sun). The autopilot won't tell you if your course will intercept Venus and will happily smash you into the planet. if it is on the wrong side just wait a couple of hours before plotting and engaging your drive. 2: When approaching destination the autopilot will sometimes disengage prematurely, in that case I saved my ship by disengaging torch safety, pulling 3+g for a couple of minutes and then replotting the course (you need to be 5000Km or more from destination). You can do the last bit of slowing down with RCS if you have enough. 3: When the autopilot works correctly it will use RCS for the final approach (inside the no-wake zone), this is useful for VORB because of the strong gravity. 4: If arriving at OKLG from far away you can plot to an OKLG_NAV beacon and do the final approach manually, so you don't risk arriving on the wrong side of the asteroid. 5: Cargo pod trading is profitable, especially OKLG->VORB (it paid for my citizenship). The VORB->OKLG route pays less, but at least you cover the He3 expenses. 6: I'm not sure if it is supposed to work this way but while I died of dehydratation, I never died of hunger. Even when the bar is full hunger seems to never kill you. You need to drink a lot per day but you need a lot less eating. Also, drinking reduces hunger too so drink first, then eat if needed.

AUX airlock is useful. If you dock at AUX any ship you buy will spawn docked to the main one. However if you buy a ship while docked at the main one it will spawn next to the station in space, and drift into the planet.

Will you do a guide on how to do gigs? Especially those long range gigs are a mystery.

The maroon circle around a planetary body is the zone of effect for gravity, there are ships to scrap near venus, but you need to have the tow brace, lock them in, and then boost out of the well so you have time to scrap them. That's the way to get aero parts without falling into the atmosphere.

1: N00b in a coffin 2: Master ship scrapper 3: Trader (Cargo Pods) or Master Ship Restoration Artist. (Restore wrecks and sell them) 4: Buy residency/houses and quit the game or something. You seem to have missed transitioning into being a trader and I've not seen you ever try ship restoration and selling.

i love using GIG, that make the 5k need for first time come to station become not important

I will mention for whoever plays this game and runs into this problem. The starter ship Chad and Quill18 is running here needs a spare N2 hooked up on the right to keep atmos high, elsewise all the venting will get oxygen concentration too high.

Thanks for the tour!

Why not use the construction tools? The reactor is one piece when using the tool and you can easy plan out the entire build, until you are happy. Though the game does not like large amount of tasks, so don't do as me, plan the entire room, the reactor and the fuel setup, while having a few other builds going. Though I did found out that the fuel tanks work with cargo web and only need 3x3 floor under it. (The task break if say you pre-plan something without having all the items, had to save/load cycle over and over to get it past missing items, so it would go salvage the items.) Though you can break that logic with the builder tool, as you can tell it to do something, then change the blueprint and it can still build say a tank without floor, if you cancel the floor.

a crew video would sit nice in thise playlist ;)

I don't see the point of making money during the character creation since you can get the same amount of money by doing quick delivery gig at the station. You should focus on making traits like leader and all. Feeble and unfit can be remove by doing exercise in game.

After watching your entire beginner's guide, I now feel confident enough to give the game another try. I had just started but failed numerous times, almost leading me to abandon it entirely. Your guide has restored my hope in the game. Thank you, sir. Godspeed!

cell phones are fairly useless other than as a source of electronic components and working on your skills. A lot of the stuff zombies carry is still useful for training sewing too, for example. Since it's been some time, I'm sure you've found that yes, un-pulped zombies will revive (I think you can turn it off in the advanced settings). Alternatively, you can butcher them for survival training. Rather macabre, but it'll actually give you useful stuff. Wasps and ants brought me back to my nethack days. They're the worst. Part of it is that they have a poison sting that affects your ability to fight back. Not quite as bad as your melee skill levels up, and as you get some armor, but early on it's murderous.

Well I just finally managed to arrive at venus, but there is absolutely no way I can dock with it. The acceleration is just insane... I could never have enough fuel for that.. and NPCs CONSTANTLY dock with me and while I'm docked with them I just accelerate like crazy towards venus... absolutely nuts and soooo frustrating. Time to start again I guess!

On a recent playthrough, I got financially broke without ever leaving the station, my act of defiance was to try leaving the station without paying for the overdue bills and fees, for that I overrode the thrust limiter, activated the thrust cycle and set everything to max, I proceeded to accelerate at max while docked. There was a huge noise, followed by the prompt message that I was no longer in a pressurized room, everything got laggy and the game crashed AHAHAHH.

This game is like an onion. I love it

My time playing Starmade is about to serve me well. As you point out, those are not just signal boxes, but also logic blocks. In theory, you can fairly easily rig a couple up to automatically lock down a compartment and it's air pumps if depressurization occurs, rather than needing a manual toggle. I imagine that there are other things you can do, like auto-switching to backup power with a lighting change to indicate you're running on auxiliaries and/or a power-saving mode that does the same with lighting, but also does things like shutting of the nav console and other non-essential systems when docked. I figure of they've added logic blocks, it's only going to be a matter of time before various sensors are implemented, aside from the current atmospheric sensors now ingame, to augment and diversify what can be done with them.

when i try to dock my ship auto stops when i lert go of thew thruster, any idea why?

Thanks!

One way to avoid bumping a thruster during Torch Drive travel might be to click on the Nav Mode switch so it's set to map controls instead of RCS maneuvers.

the reason the smoke zombie didn't trigger your safe mode is because effectively you didn't see it. It could have been a smoky fire My first vehicle is usually a hand crafted cargo bicycle, can recommend The fungaloids are a pain, but also a reliable source of fibers for thread and fresh vegetables

the ship controls are impossible is there auto tracking or something

Oh, don't worry. The ability to sleep will come to you over time It's the waking up with all limbs attached that's the tricky bit

i just keep dying, that is y i am here lol

Is there a way to de-couple the torch drive from your power grid so it only provides thrust?

I just can't figure my fusion reactor out and i'm struggling to find anything online that can help me. I see that people start up the reactor, and then after some time toggle the ignition off.. but as soon as I do that, the reactor turns off completely. Also, once I start it, the las align and las cap just flash endlessly.. the reactor keeps running but then when I do my jump, it trusts for about 30 seconds and then the reactor shuts down and autopilot switches off... i duno what I'm doing wrong but it isn't working. Everything has been installed, repaired, restored, tons of fuel, cryo and d20.. but yeah it isn't working :(

I like these single-subject videos. It means we can dip into them when we get to the same point in our own playthrough. If I may suggest a few extras... 1. Sleep Management for a Single Pilot - How to use the Roster to sleep effectively before getting exhausted, not wasting money while asleep and how to find suitable beds when you have not expanded your ship. 2. Tool vs Tool - which tools (such as Weber Laser) replace others and whether single-function tools are better or equivalent to the multi-tools. 3. EVA Suit - what equipment you need in your ship to use and maintain one, how the systems in the suit function (light, O2, CO2) and how it compares to the Pressure Suit.

Congratz on making it to Venus! Also thanks for the vacuum tips, I'm going to try the rough, then to turbo, then to off to see if its even more efficient. Also I picked up on your backpack storage tip and I never thought of storing them full, I know it's a very basic concept but in 200+ hours in orbit I've never thought of doing anything with the full ones other than throwing them on the floor. Might have to wait to watch your next video till I get to Venus myself tho. Thanks again for making these great, concise guides with thorough explanations, you've made my time in the game so much more enjoyable.

Hi Chad. Liking the guides and appreciate the effort. Another game that is similar that you may want to take a look at is Space Haven. I would love to see your reviews. Cheers!

Question, how to increase the amount of reactant that you're using for these trips? Is it He-3 or both that and d20? or is it nitrogen?

love the series, especialy that you're correcting your own mistakes on the fly. that feels realy rare and authentic and sweet. thanks for the work you put in to this.

'Tis a shame we have rotors and motors but no stators which are the other component of motors.

this game is very hard to understand, but i will not give up

You really should record a playthrough. Your familiarity with the game and ability to learn/explain would make a great rags-to-riches series. Either way, edited or real-time.

A video on how not to build the character that you will be using going forward. Interesting approach for a tutorial.

Some parts of the video could be cut. Waste of time watching them as you correct yourself and your spelling mistakes. 20 minutes of basic talk about building walls and floors, i think you could just go through the special stuff from the game (like putting floor under walls and stuff like that).

Very mindful fuel, very demure.

Do you have a video about how to refuel? I pulled into the station and all my lights went off and the door doesn't work. I got it open but I'm not sure what to do from here.

I will say, and maybe data just doesn't exists in this version as technically I have just started and am playing on 0.14, but leaving that ship without at least taking the navstation was basically passing on what can sometimes be a cool 20k if you sell the station and its data on the black market. even with the normal selling spot its at least 10k in my experience so I'd say even if nothing jumps out at you take the nav stations, and if you want you can take thrusters too those are extremely expensive for how little space they take up.

Honestly without these videos I would have really struggled with this game. Keep up the amazing work and I really do enjoy these videos!