So, you're finally confident enough to make tutorials :) I think you forgot couple things: - COMPASS - when you said about sense of direction, this tool can aid you. Just remember which way you left your base, and you can backtrack if lost. - Flares are useful to mark your way at night (breadcrumbs technique) - Portable Power Generator - this thing is survival lifesaver. If you are in a pinch you can take fuel (O2H2 mix) canister from your welder and use it to generate power and charge your batteries. Even at night. It's essential early on on low sun starts like Mimas. - Coal generators are useful, just not so much early in game - 20kW is a lot. But you need station battery to make full use of it. Generally they are perfect backup power. - Solar panels are not obstructed by windows, allowing you to use them indoors - very useful early on in place like Vulcan when you can't go out during the day to adjust panels. - Tanks and chests are mobile, it's easier to drag components chests near where you're building instead of going back and forth - be careful not to crush yourself. - You can top up your personal tank in portable tank black-yellow striper port. A thing that would save me lot of piping effort in my early plays. - You can drag cables through blocks - handy if you don't want to get two lines get across each other but not connect. If you want to make solar tracking tutorial next, let me know if you'd like to discuss anything. I still have save with my Solar tutorial i made for you over half a year ago :) While you're working on simple setup, I think I'll try to make more advanced one ;]
@@grahamr2809 Well, not literally. But you can grind frames to the point you can walk through them and then place cables inside. Once you're done, weld everything back up. Just make sure they are safe from burning or it may be difficult to find. Same tactic applies to pipes as well. I think you can place other things inside unwelded frames too, unless they changed it recently. I used to store tanks and logic chips inside frames when couldn't find space.
@@octavioferreira2846 I just tried and it works for me. They may still be obstructed by window frames or other junk, but produce normal amount of power most of the time. Are you playing on some beta branch? Maybe they did something there?
Finally, a tutorial from one of my favourite you tubers, on a game I’ve only really run around lost in. Thank you sir, your content as always is engaging and helpful. 10/10
Super Splitsie, I was hoping and waiting for this series. you taught my how space engineers works and i have enjoyed all 3600+ hours to date. Thanks for all the time and effort you spend in making you're works of information and entertainment.
Man, I cannot thank you enough for your 'Getting Started' tutorials! I bought this game roughly 8 months ago, played it once, was completely overwhelmed by the many complex details and never played it again. A few days ago I decided to seek out guidance on understanding the systems of this game, found your vids and I now have a fully functioning Solar Panel Array powering my modest attempt at a base. Thank you so much for your help it is really appreciated!
I've come around to buy the game yesterday. And while I consider myself a fan of complicated games - you Sir, are a godsent. I 'mastered' the tutorial, just to realize, that I have no clue how to apply the learned things. Or rather to be confronted with problems, the tutorial did never go into. Like - HOW you get power and stuff... In my first try I was running around like a headless chicken searching for coal, just because the damned solar-panel didn't produce steady enough power to let my workstations run and such. Never had anticipated how important the APCs really are :D So let me dive in there once more. I think I can handle the later problems, fiddling with piping and such - but the first steps, to see, what the game even wants from you, they are incredible. Again - thank you :D
Well done! This is the cleanest, clearest starting tutorial series I have seen yet. I have watched this one and the solar tracking one, and am looking forward to more. Thank you!
It's a really fun game, I'm in the process of learning about how the game starts out again after they made a bunch of changes which may mean more tutorials on the horizon :)
For those wounding if this game is worth of concern or just overcomplicated. It is overcomplicated, but when you actually use to it, it allow way more complex in interesting way designs. Large basses can become quite insane. My only negative (at least last time I played) was that you couldn't really pick gamemode, as it was fixed to map. I needed to hack it to build by Fallout Vault replica on Mars.
Agreed, it's got a rough learning curve like Space Engineers, but probably a little steeper but like Space Engineers, once past it there's definitely some fun to be had :)
Splitsie does Stationeers streaming with Capac on Fridays over on Twitch. If you want to see the VOD's headover to Flipsie which is his stream youtube channel.
Yup, we're currently 3 streams into our survival on a modified Europa but if I have fun with these tutorials I haven't ruled out extending the tutorials into a bit of a series as well :)
Just a few things: -Torch fuel is precious early game. Always make a point of turning it off. Then take a breath and check that you turned the torch off. -Pressing either of the yellow buttons on any production machine will cause it to complete the current item, then stop. No more waiting around to stop a machine. -Jetpack fuel is any gas and decidedly non-critical early game (or ever). Your suit exhales to a waste tank as long as you are 1)wearing it, and 2)breathing. When your waste tank is full or your jetpack fuel tank is empty, simply swap them. No downside to using your jetpack.
Great Tutorial, short and informative in detail. Thank you, keep going. Tip for absolute beginners: Turn off terrain clutter, those rocks disapear and you only see ores. On the moon its way brighter at night, no need for the flashlight moste of the time and the sun is exactly in the middle, just a bit easier imho. They recently changed the Solar Panel Recipe to need steel :/ You can switch on/off with rightclick, too.
Turning the Arc furnace off midway remind me of something, when you were doing the Mars run you were complaining that you didn’t have access to stacker/splitters for halving ingots, you can actually feed ingots into the arc furnace and it will “process” them, turn it off halfway and it spits the processed out the back and the unprocessed in the input so you get your two bricks (I haven’t tried will alloys but it works for the basics) and to combine stack just put them into a production block and eject, Great tutorial as always mate 👍, wish it was around when I started stationers
I found the solar panel with power and data on one port much easier to work with than the separate one. Batch writers can write across power networks. You can have a batch writer with power and input connected to your normal cable network, and output linked into the solar panel network. In this way you can save a lot of cables and you can also have multiple rows of solar panels compactly (one per frame).
I always prefer to use the separated one because it makes creating an isolated logic circuit for the panels easier which is helpful as your base gets larger and more devices are connected to your power system
I guess they changed the solar panels to needing steel for the upgraded ones, but this tutorial was the easiest to understand out of all the ones I’ve seen. Just started today. Thanks for the help man
lol yep, I couldn't think up a way to do that with Stationeers as I don't actually know a way to set up a second PC that won't starve and die mid way through recording a time lapse :D
Build on top of a mountain to get more sunlight per day. The oven can be placed in your base at first to heat the place in the night. Saves you the suit energy.
Bought this game because of this video. Having a great time. So far I have... Turned my furnace into a bomb... Cooked my base using my furnace... Melted my face walking past the exhaust from my furnace... Automated my greenhouse to pull in cold CO2 from the martian environment to keep it cool.... Automated vented atmosphere from greenhouse to keep pressure proper.... Got thrown off a mountain by explosive decompression.... Automated 1-axis solar tracking with only 4 chips... Busted my helmet multiple times reach for things under stairs and bonking my head because crouch isn't a thing.... Automated my arc furnace with chutes and logic chips so I can isolate it in a small room to claim its gases.... Having a blast. A couple tips for early game. Use the wrench to detach the cargo containers from the lander, then drag them to you base site. Autolathe can build lockers. 2x locker kits makes a big 30 slot lockers. Most things can only be built on frames. But it connected up will remain when the fram it gone. So make a frame roof and put your lights up there and wiring them. Then remove the frames and the cables will hold up the lights so you can use walls or windows for you roof. Similarly, if you want multiple floors without a full frame for the floor, put the frame in the lower level, build your stuff for the next floor up, remove frame, add floor.
Nice tutorial. But @18:25 - lies, deception!!! I started the game as a distraction from Space Engineers and though I find it very tediuos I want to give it a try.
thank you Splitsie, been thinking about getting Stationeers at some point soon but due to some of the things required to survive and being able to pick it up it was one game i was debating on whether to get and play, or just continue to watch as i tend to get frustrated a lot when i cant figure something out.... and memory isn't great these days (I WILL forget something even moments later) oddly enough visual guides like this seem to help me assimilate the information better... so thank you so much :)
I'm very happy to help, Stationeers has some adequate in-game tutorials for showing how things work but they don't really do anything to help you know why so hopefully these videos will help more for that side of things :)
@@Splitsie and if your Space Engineers tutorial video's are to go by I am certain they will :) other than 7 Days to Die and the odd game of The Forest, i wasn't really big on Survival Sandbox games but had my eye on SE for a while so when i attempted to get that, and begin building my creations were squarer than a box... and about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.... and my mate introduced me to your videos, then it was pretty much all steam ahead from there :) think it's the way you explain things that help, as many tutorials for games out there often feel lacking, or come across as a chore, where they poorly explain things... but i've found your's have been more watch and play minus the frustration and confusion :)
No reason to eat food at full health, you can stretch your starting food stores out quite a bit if you wait until you're at "critical" health (25%) then taking just a bite of the cereal bar. By the time you run out of food meter again, you'll just hit full health. A great method for early game, but I recommend turning down the UI volume to zero or the constant alarms will drive you nuts.
My plan with these ones is to probably do somewhere between 4-6 of them as that should give people a solid foundation, after that I haven't decided which game to focus on (whether it's SE, Stationeers or another game entirely) :)
Thanks a lot man, your video is the most helpful to kick starting than anything else I've found. If you're planning to do something else, please consider a basic tutorial for the initial farming with a hydroponic station and the relative atmospheric/water supply
When you get to the data ports, maybe in a later video: there are very few machines that absolutetly need the data port connected to be able to acccess data from that machine. In fact, the only one i can think of is the computer. All other dataports are more for seperating data lines from main power grids. You can access data from both the data and the power port. When you try to find data from a certain machine and try that on your main power line, it gets messy. Seperate data lines was one of the design challenges that i liked the most about that game. For instance, i really liked my solar logic wall, that had its data from solar Panels before the station battery, but the power ports were connected to the main grid after the battery, so the logic could run at night and reset to the sunˋs position in the morning
Thanks, I've also got a stream series going with Capac as well - on Twitch each Friday with the VODs over on my second channel ruclips.net/user/flipsie :)
It would be nice if we could get an updated tutorial video, due to updates since this video originally released, some info doesn't work any more for example, solar panels (the ones used in this and the next tutorial) require steel to be crafted and I have no idea how to use the furnace. It would be highly appreciated if this tutorial could be updated, but besides this hiccup, this is a great tutorial. Thanks Splitsie!
@@Splitsie hah, seems that way, also thanks for responding in such short order. I wish more content creators interacted with their communities as much as you do. I’ve been loving the Terraformers series you’re doing, it’s what made me get stationers in the first place!
I have watched you and Capac play this game. Today I watched this and now I bought the game. I have no idea even how to start lol. Will just take it step by step. Hopefully your next tutorial comes out quickly.
The hardest part to figure out for me has been the atmospherics (gas management): mixing gases, managing temperature, and pressure in your base. Once you get a small room built, the tank of O2 I would actually save for your suit. Use an active vent connected with pipes to a passive vent to put a bit of atmosphere into the room, then melt a little oxycite at a time to get oxygen in the room. You don't need much more than 50 PSI to have enough to breathe. The tablet comes with a gas sensor board that can tell you when its safe to breathe without your suit. If you make a 1 frame hole in the floor and melt water ice in the room, water will collect in the hole, and you can put a vent with pipes down there to use it to run water to hydroponics trays. Room air pressure will be enough to pressure feed the water. Also, run the in game tutorials, they help a lot!
Hi Splitsie. I got a sneaky feeling you left the autolathe running. Something you said Capac should not do on you Live Streams. HAHAHAHA. Again a great and easy way to start a awesome game, than reading all the other items. You are a master.
Yup, sadly it does - they changed it only a few weeks after I put out the video too which was frustrating. I'm planning on returning and making more of these but I want to wait till things in the early game settle down properly before doing that work
Agree with @John Hathaway, I went through the Stationeers tutorials and nearly died my first couple of days from running low on power. I was trying to build an airtight base first (and on the Moon) so this tutorial is very helpful. Thanks @Splitsie! Update: they changed the recipe, The Solar Panel Kit now requires "steel" that you cannot make with an Arc Furnace. I built a "furnace" but I have no idea how to plumb it. Sigh.
With the basic furnace a simple way to plumb it for basic alloys like steel is to attach a pipe to the output, then a pipe valve, then another piece of pipe and finally a passive vent. With this setup you can put oxite and volatiles into the furnace directly and if done at the correct ratios you can also put coal and iron in and get steel out. There's a fairly well written guide to how to do this in the Stationeers wiki stationeers-wiki.com/Main_Page
@@Splitsie Thanks for the reply! I managed to figure that part out (eventually) and I've figured out how to use active filtering to capture CO2 and Water (from ice thrown in the furnace). What I can't figure out now, is that I read that you can use a "Kit (Atmospherics) Electrolyzer" to separate water into H2 and O2 to power the furnace. I got it plumbed in, but it won't seem to light. Either that requires way more water than I have or it's been nerfed out of the game.
More should be coming soon. I've started recording some gameplay with a big 5 person coop setup, once we've got a couple of recordings done I'll be editing it and posting it (want to have a little buffer before any of it goes live). My longer term goal is to do some tutorials while that playthrough is going so that I'm as up to date as I can be :)
You don't HAVE to hit the little icons in the corner of each items picture in your inventory. clicking anywhere on the item will open its menu, the little icons just tell you what the options are, 4 squares means it has slots for other things like belts and backpacks, the lines mean it has options like the helmet or flares.
wow this is the only series you guys do i have not been watching fig 2 much like Space Engineer.... I had no clue it was so Crafty ... Beasty boys: Shes Crafty and just my Type..
it hurt me so much when i went to make a solar panel kit, only to painfully realize that the recipe was changed to require steel instead of iron... upgraded furnace.... here I come, I'm legit completely out of power during the night, hanging on by a thread of my small batteries
Just got the game, and the thirst is killing me super fast. Funny thing, there are no tutorials on getting potable water in the game yet! Had to dig some sites to manage some sort of water dispenser using a default small water tank. It kept me alive for about 5-6 ingame days before running out completely. So I figured there's this ice crusher thing which I connected to the system and stuffed a stack of ice inside. As I was waiting at the cooler to pour me some sweet sweet water, the stupid thing realized I'm putting too much pressure on it and blew up in my face point blank, killing the bald midget instantly. I'm beginning to fucking love this game.
I was about ready to do a tutorial on that side of things and then they went and changed a bunch of stuff so I've been holding off until things settle down before I return to make more tutorials for it. Glad you got it worked out though :) explosions aside :P
Great to see your tutorials again brother. You taught me well in SE, and I'm looking forward to here on stationeers. I will say I wish you had Capac along, because while you give great information, a bit of cheeky humor is always good for a certain old fat Texan (No not Texfire dangit -- me)
Thanks, I'm quite enjoying doing the tutorials for Stationeers and hope to cover some other games in the coming months as well :) As to Capac in tutorials, it's not often that his presence is helpful to the teaching process as he's quite an effective distraction, however just in case you haven't seen it, we have been playing Stationeers over on Twitch with the vods backed up to my second channel at ruclips.net/user/flipsie :)
Haven't purchase the game yet, but it seams so time consuming putting things in your hands all the time. Somthing like Space engineers with that 10 + 80 slot quick access bar would have been great.
Hi Splitsie Long time lurker, enjoy your vids, only comment that popped in my head is Number 5 the uniform/shoes has 2 cereal bars in it, was doing advanced metals before I found them.
The next video is the one I really want to see. I haven't played this in ages, and honestly, I completely forgot how to do solar tracking. The current tutorial in the game is basically useless with that hyper complicated setup they have.
Is it possible to pressurize some space fast enough to eat not magically through helmet, before you get hungry? Or you just need to accept breathing some fresh martian air while eating?
The in-game tutorials are great but it's difficult to figure out how to get there! Haha. Shame those advanced solar panels can't be built without steel anymore but I'll follow along best I can. Thanks!
You may want to turn your suit temperature back up after you get power going. I remember seeing somewhere your hunger goes down faster in low temperatures, but that could just be my superstition.
I found this game on steam, from the description it sounded like a perfect fit for games I would like. But it's the only game I ever refunded. The interface feels like it was designed to make your life miserable. I like some level of realism in this type of game. But the 2 hand restriction, and just the number of steps to do even the most basic thing. "Move grids to your hands, place them, move welder to your hand, chose that hand, turn on the welder, weld the thing, turn off the welder, run back to base to swap grids for sheets, place the sheets, chose the welder, turn on the welder,..." it just wasn't fun at all. I want the fun and challenge to be in the building and engineering. Not on having a frustrating sequence of unintuitive button clicks and needless item interactions like needing the wire cutters in your hands to be able to splice wires.
As much as I like Stationeers, I totally agree with you. I much prefer the SE system with a welder to construct and a grinder to deconstruct. And I'm definitely not a fan of the multi-stage construction of stuff.
@@MistahBryan Well, another huge one is that in space engineer you actually make ships, and vehicles, and they are dynamic, and move about. In Stationers, you have a base, and there's one truck rover thing you can build, and that's it.
I don't disagree, for me Stationeers is a game to play when I want to mess around with some more complex systems as a little break from SE but it won't ever replace it (maybe it'd do more to replace it if we could build custom vehicles though)
Hey did you do something special to get multiplayer working, because I wanted to play with a friend but I can’t connect to any server and my discord always crashes when the game is started. Yes really strange but do you have any tips on how to work around this?
Nope, I just hosted a game and invited my friend to it through steam. I've not had to do any troubleshooting so unfortunately don't know any tricks. Might be worth going to the stationeers subreddit as there could be people on there who can help :)
I'm honestly not sure, my plan for 2020 was always to get some more games on my main channel so it could happen but I'll see where I'm at when I've completed the planned tutorials I want to do :)
The only thing thats better on the Moon than on Mars is solar efficiency. For new players id always recommend Mars because its easier with its little bit of atmosphere and higher gravity. It also looks alot friendlier
I wouldn't say it's better, it's different - doesn't have the aesthetic or vehicle design opportunities that SE has but instead has some fairly detailed physics and systems design which is fun to mess around with :)
so the better solar panel requires steel, and i have no idea how to make it xD I know in the manual it said it uses coal, and iron at a ration of 3 iron and 1 coal, and it said to use it in a furnace. I tried the arc furnace, but you can only put one ore in it, and idk how to use the other furnace
splitsite says the learning curve is a bit rough people who have only played 2 hours in the game and dont understand a thing they say its more like a learning cliff on fire and covered in bears (edit) but still good tutorial
Not sure the game changed since then, but what I'm experiencing is that suit temp and pressure make little difference (even though I'm doing my first game on Europa), while the light consumes an insane amount of power. 🤔 Would be nice to be able to see the actual consumption rate in the game.
I've never done a test on if the lower temp used less power, but it seemed to and several reddit threads/wiki entries confirmed it to a level I was happy to mention it, though they've been tweaking the balance heavily in recent patches so it may well have changed
@@Splitsie yeah, it does make sense to assume, and I've also read it in multiple sources, I just didn't experience it that much in practice. Would be nice to be able to read the actual current consumption in the game.
I changed my mouse look to shift in my opinion it's much easier at least on my massive keyboard. The pinky already rests on shift anyways it's a waste not using it on something you'll be using constantly.
hey splitsie can you tell us which of the two games are better ? Space Engineers or Stationeers ? i like that both of them seems like you can weld structures from scratch and not just automatically pop them out of thin air like "Satisfactory" but some says space engineers is limited to having blocks whereas Stationeers can have wires etc. what is your opinion on the matter ?
They're similar games but on a different scale, stationeers is focused on smaller things and everything you build is a 'station' whereas Space Engineers allows you to go larger and build things that can move (rovers, ships etc) so for me it'll depend on whether I want to play something detail oriented or grander in scope
Yeah, they went and changed a bunch of stuff after I started making these, I'm holding off until things settle down again before I try and make more :(
@@Splitsie I am liking what they are doing tho, bunch of stuff I haven't touched yet and bugfixes. Heh, and the cereal bars are gone, it's soup for days now.
Yup, I only briefly mentioned that when I was walking back from the overnight mining as it's something I don't use as often since they made the direct mouse controls better
I'm certainly having fun with it recently, it's a nice game to play for a bit before going back to Space Engineers once you want to build bigger again :)
I love your tutorial videos its just unfortunate that this is the second time i have uploaded a hints and tips video about a game and a few days later you upload something better :/
"Always carry duct tape". Well duhh, if a game has duct tape then of course you carry some. Its like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together ;-)
@@AsilarWindsailor Original thoughts based on extensive research of the Red Green show and Myth Busters. But really, if you can carry duct tape, why wouldn't you?
So, you're finally confident enough to make tutorials :)
I think you forgot couple things:
- COMPASS - when you said about sense of direction, this tool can aid you. Just remember which way you left your base, and you can backtrack if lost.
- Flares are useful to mark your way at night (breadcrumbs technique)
- Portable Power Generator - this thing is survival lifesaver. If you are in a pinch you can take fuel (O2H2 mix) canister from your welder and use it to generate power and charge your batteries. Even at night. It's essential early on on low sun starts like Mimas.
- Coal generators are useful, just not so much early in game - 20kW is a lot. But you need station battery to make full use of it. Generally they are perfect backup power.
- Solar panels are not obstructed by windows, allowing you to use them indoors - very useful early on in place like Vulcan when you can't go out during the day to adjust panels.
- Tanks and chests are mobile, it's easier to drag components chests near where you're building instead of going back and forth - be careful not to crush yourself.
- You can top up your personal tank in portable tank black-yellow striper port. A thing that would save me lot of piping effort in my early plays.
- You can drag cables through blocks - handy if you don't want to get two lines get across each other but not connect.
If you want to make solar tracking tutorial next, let me know if you'd like to discuss anything. I still have save with my Solar tutorial i made for you over half a year ago :)
While you're working on simple setup, I think I'll try to make more advanced one ;]
Ooh, good tips. I've never made much use of the portable generator but it's a good one to remember :)
what do you mean by drag cables through blocks?
Unfortunately solar panels are now obstructed by windows. You can't use them indoors anymore. They changed it in some recent release.
@@grahamr2809 Well, not literally. But you can grind frames to the point you can walk through them and then place cables inside. Once you're done, weld everything back up. Just make sure they are safe from burning or it may be difficult to find. Same tactic applies to pipes as well. I think you can place other things inside unwelded frames too, unless they changed it recently. I used to store tanks and logic chips inside frames when couldn't find space.
@@octavioferreira2846 I just tried and it works for me. They may still be obstructed by window frames or other junk, but produce normal amount of power most of the time.
Are you playing on some beta branch? Maybe they did something there?
Finally, a tutorial from one of my favourite you tubers, on a game I’ve only really run around lost in. Thank you sir, your content as always is engaging and helpful. 10/10
You're very welcome - I've been enjoying Stationeers a fair bit recently so I'm looking forward to learning more so I can teach it :P
Another tip would be to mine a bit of uranium (if you find it) and drop it somewhere high on the base as a bright green beacon at night.
Oh nice one, never thought of doing that :)
Super Splitsie, I was hoping and waiting for this series.
you taught my how space engineers works and i have enjoyed all 3600+ hours to date.
Thanks for all the time and effort you spend in making you're works of information and entertainment.
You're very welcome - hopefully you'll be able to get some fun out of this one too :)
Glad you finally felt comfortable enough to make a tutorial. Can't wait to catch the next stream.
Thanks andir :)
I'm very much looking forward to tutorials from you Splitsie!
Thanks, hopefully Stationeers will only be the start of me trying to do some more tutorials for other games too :)
Man, I cannot thank you enough for your 'Getting Started' tutorials! I bought this game roughly 8 months ago, played it once, was completely overwhelmed by the many complex details and never played it again. A few days ago I decided to seek out guidance on understanding the systems of this game, found your vids and I now have a fully functioning Solar Panel Array powering my modest attempt at a base. Thank you so much for your help it is really appreciated!
I've come around to buy the game yesterday. And while I consider myself a fan of complicated games - you Sir, are a godsent.
I 'mastered' the tutorial, just to realize, that I have no clue how to apply the learned things. Or rather to be confronted with problems, the tutorial did never go into. Like - HOW you get power and stuff...
In my first try I was running around like a headless chicken searching for coal, just because the damned solar-panel didn't produce steady enough power to let my workstations run and such. Never had anticipated how important the APCs really are :D
So let me dive in there once more.
I think I can handle the later problems, fiddling with piping and such - but the first steps, to see, what the game even wants from you, they are incredible.
Again - thank you :D
Well done!
This is the cleanest, clearest starting tutorial series I have seen yet.
I have watched this one and the solar tracking one, and am looking forward to more.
Thank you!
First class tutorial Splitsie. Clear, with no bullshit or attempts at humour. Thanks!
Hopefully you will continu this series splitsie, your tutorials are the best there is!
One of the best videos I've watch to date and I've watch a few.
today we are going to go with Mars because well splitsie has some obsession with Mars (not a bad thing)
Are there trees on mars? ;)
@@Valenorious Not anymore...
lol You might have a few good points there :D
The fact that I just learned about this is crazy, I love super in depth and interactive games!
It's a really fun game, I'm in the process of learning about how the game starts out again after they made a bunch of changes which may mean more tutorials on the horizon :)
For those wounding if this game is worth of concern or just overcomplicated. It is overcomplicated, but when you actually use to it, it allow way more complex in interesting way designs. Large basses can become quite insane. My only negative (at least last time I played) was that you couldn't really pick gamemode, as it was fixed to map. I needed to hack it to build by Fallout Vault replica on Mars.
Agreed, it's got a rough learning curve like Space Engineers, but probably a little steeper but like Space Engineers, once past it there's definitely some fun to be had :)
So excited you have done my favorite tutorials. Cant wait to do some more learning.
Thanks, I'm quite enjoying learning more about Stationeers lately :)
Splitsie, You’ve done it again, great tutorial! Thank you.
Splitsie doing Stanioneers? Great! It fit great his style. I absolutely would love to see a proper series.
Splitsie does Stationeers streaming with Capac on Fridays over on Twitch. If you want to see the VOD's headover to Flipsie which is his stream youtube channel.
Yup, we're currently 3 streams into our survival on a modified Europa but if I have fun with these tutorials I haven't ruled out extending the tutorials into a bit of a series as well :)
Just a few things:
-Torch fuel is precious early game. Always make a point of turning it off. Then take a breath and check that you turned the torch off.
-Pressing either of the yellow buttons on any production machine will cause it to complete the current item, then stop. No more waiting around to stop a machine.
-Jetpack fuel is any gas and decidedly non-critical early game (or ever). Your suit exhales to a waste tank as long as you are 1)wearing it, and 2)breathing. When your waste tank is full or your jetpack fuel tank is empty, simply swap them. No downside to using your jetpack.
Good point about the jetpack, it's always difficult for me to remember how much fuel you have with how long I've played Space Engineers :P
Just wanted to say Thanks! This has been collecting dust in my library for a couple of years now. Time to revisit! Looking forward to more episodes!
You're very welcome, hopefully the next one will be coming soon :)
Great Tutorial, short and informative in detail. Thank you, keep going.
Tip for absolute beginners: Turn off terrain clutter, those rocks disapear and you only see ores.
On the moon its way brighter at night, no need for the flashlight moste of the time and the sun is exactly in the middle, just a bit easier imho.
They recently changed the Solar Panel Recipe to need steel :/
You can switch on/off with rightclick, too.
what do you recommend instead of the solar panels, given steel aint easy?
Turning the Arc furnace off midway remind me of something, when you were doing the Mars run you were complaining that you didn’t have access to stacker/splitters for halving ingots, you can actually feed ingots into the arc furnace and it will “process” them, turn it off halfway and it spits the processed out the back and the unprocessed in the input so you get your two bricks (I haven’t tried will alloys but it works for the basics) and to combine stack just put them into a production block and eject,
Great tutorial as always mate 👍, wish it was around when I started stationers
That's very true, I think it could be worth pointing that out when I get to the tutorial on the basics of the gas furnace and alloys :)
I found the solar panel with power and data on one port much easier to work with than the separate one. Batch writers can write across power networks. You can have a batch writer with power and input connected to your normal cable network, and output linked into the solar panel network. In this way you can save a lot of cables and you can also have multiple rows of solar panels compactly (one per frame).
I always prefer to use the separated one because it makes creating an isolated logic circuit for the panels easier which is helpful as your base gets larger and more devices are connected to your power system
I guess they changed the solar panels to needing steel for the upgraded ones, but this tutorial was the easiest to understand out of all the ones I’ve seen. Just started today. Thanks for the help man
Just came looking through the comments to make sure this got pointed out.
Thanks so much for the tutorial Splitsie. This game has been languishing in my library for months. Now I can get to playing it.
You're welcome, I find it's a nice game for a little break from SE without being a replacement for it :)
I miss the time lapse as the end music plays.
Great job as always Splitsie. Thanks for all of the work.
lol yep, I couldn't think up a way to do that with Stationeers as I don't actually know a way to set up a second PC that won't starve and die mid way through recording a time lapse :D
@@Splitsie Try DLC robot species. Give him nuclear battery and should last quite a while. If not, then maybe there is 100x battery mod out there.
Build on top of a mountain to get more sunlight per day.
The oven can be placed in your base at first to heat the place in the night. Saves you the suit energy.
Bought this game because of this video. Having a great time.
So far I have...
Turned my furnace into a bomb...
Cooked my base using my furnace...
Melted my face walking past the exhaust from my furnace...
Automated my greenhouse to pull in cold CO2 from the martian environment to keep it cool....
Automated vented atmosphere from greenhouse to keep pressure proper....
Got thrown off a mountain by explosive decompression....
Automated 1-axis solar tracking with only 4 chips...
Busted my helmet multiple times reach for things under stairs and bonking my head because crouch isn't a thing....
Automated my arc furnace with chutes and logic chips so I can isolate it in a small room to claim its gases....
Having a blast.
A couple tips for early game.
Use the wrench to detach the cargo containers from the lander, then drag them to you base site.
Autolathe can build lockers. 2x locker kits makes a big 30 slot lockers.
Most things can only be built on frames. But it connected up will remain when the fram it gone. So make a frame roof and put your lights up there and wiring them. Then remove the frames and the cables will hold up the lights so you can use walls or windows for you roof.
Similarly, if you want multiple floors without a full frame for the floor, put the frame in the lower level, build your stuff for the next floor up, remove frame, add floor.
lol Those sound like some very fun things to do (things I may well have done myself too) :D
Dude...you have no idea how long I've been waiting for you to do this
I hoped a few people would be interested in me doing these :)
Nice tutorial. But @18:25 - lies, deception!!! I started the game as a distraction from Space Engineers and though I find it very tediuos I want to give it a try.
The way a tutorial should be done, GREAT WORK!!
Thank you :)
If only Space Engineers ore was as easy to see! XD
Yup, I think I still prefer the voxel based ores in SE though :)
thank you Splitsie, been thinking about getting Stationeers at some point soon but due to some of the things required to survive and being able to pick it up it was one game i was debating on whether to get and play, or just continue to watch as i tend to get frustrated a lot when i cant figure something out.... and memory isn't great these days (I WILL forget something even moments later) oddly enough visual guides like this seem to help me assimilate the information better... so thank you so much :)
I'm very happy to help, Stationeers has some adequate in-game tutorials for showing how things work but they don't really do anything to help you know why so hopefully these videos will help more for that side of things :)
@@Splitsie and if your Space Engineers tutorial video's are to go by I am certain they will :) other than 7 Days to Die and the odd game of The Forest, i wasn't really big on Survival Sandbox games but had my eye on SE for a while so when i attempted to get that, and begin building my creations were squarer than a box... and about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.... and my mate introduced me to your videos, then it was pretty much all steam ahead from there :)
think it's the way you explain things that help, as many tutorials for games out there often feel lacking, or come across as a chore, where they poorly explain things... but i've found your's have been more watch and play minus the frustration and confusion :)
space engineers: space engineers
stationeers: cartoon space engineers
This is a bit easier to follow than the suicide speed of the Flipsie/Capac - can we fall to death down a hole - videos that are pure entertainment.
lol Yup, I can bet this would be easier to follow than the streams for learning :D
Yay! A Splitsie Stationeers Tutorial!
Hopefully it won't take too long before I can make the second one :)
Awesome.... I've been following your Survival videos on Space Engineers. Just bought this game and will TRY to follow you through! Thanks mate!!!
You're very welcome, hopefully I'll be able to get the solar tutorial up soon :)
This is a really really good tutorial! Thanks bud :)
No reason to eat food at full health, you can stretch your starting food stores out quite a bit if you wait until you're at "critical" health (25%) then taking just a bite of the cereal bar. By the time you run out of food meter again, you'll just hit full health. A great method for early game, but I recommend turning down the UI volume to zero or the constant alarms will drive you nuts.
I hope for more frequency of videos with this series compaired to SE. ;)
My plan with these ones is to probably do somewhere between 4-6 of them as that should give people a solid foundation, after that I haven't decided which game to focus on (whether it's SE, Stationeers or another game entirely) :)
@@Splitsie Sounds cool. Whatever you decide :)
Splitsie, you carry Cereal bars in your jumpsuit pockets as well. Hit '5' to look.
Dang it I was meaning to mention that. I'll make sure to point it out when I talk about food in a future tutorial :)
Thanks a lot man, your video is the most helpful to kick starting than anything else I've found. If you're planning to do something else, please consider a basic tutorial for the initial farming with a hydroponic station and the relative atmospheric/water supply
When you get to the data ports, maybe in a later video:
there are very few machines that absolutetly need the data port connected to be able to acccess data from that machine.
In fact, the only one i can think of is the computer.
All other dataports are more for seperating data lines from main power grids. You can access data from both the data and the power port.
When you try to find data from a certain machine and try that on your main power line, it gets messy.
Seperate data lines was one of the design challenges that i liked the most about that game.
For instance, i really liked my solar logic wall, that had its data from solar Panels before the station battery, but the power ports were connected to the main grid after the battery, so the logic could run at night and reset to the sunˋs position in the morning
Oh cool, that makes sense about the power thing. Will have to remember that :)
Fantastic video as always splitsie! :)
Thank you :)
Hi Splitsie,
Could you make a tutorial for the Gas furnace like you were planning to do?
Sweet! Been waiting for someone as good as you to play this game!
Thanks, I've also got a stream series going with Capac as well - on Twitch each Friday with the VODs over on my second channel ruclips.net/user/flipsie :)
Sweet, a new series. :D Though great, here I am stuck waiting to figure out how to automate these solar panels. I'm gonna die, Splitsie... xD
Hopefully I'll get it done before next week :)
It would be nice if we could get an updated tutorial video, due to updates since this video originally released, some info doesn't work any more
for example, solar panels (the ones used in this and the next tutorial) require steel to be crafted and I have no idea how to use the furnace.
It would be highly appreciated if this tutorial could be updated, but besides this hiccup, this is a great tutorial. Thanks Splitsie!
I've wanted to do one for ages but every time I do the Devs seem to have some massive change coming that makes me wait 😂
@@Splitsie hah, seems that way, also thanks for responding in such short order. I wish more content creators interacted with their communities as much as you do. I’ve been loving the Terraformers series you’re doing, it’s what made me get stationers in the first place!
I have watched you and Capac play this game. Today I watched this and now I bought the game. I have no idea even how to start lol. Will just take it step by step. Hopefully your next tutorial comes out quickly.
Hopefully you'll have some fun and hopefully I will manage to get the next one out soon :)
The hardest part to figure out for me has been the atmospherics (gas management): mixing gases, managing temperature, and pressure in your base. Once you get a small room built, the tank of O2 I would actually save for your suit. Use an active vent connected with pipes to a passive vent to put a bit of atmosphere into the room, then melt a little oxycite at a time to get oxygen in the room. You don't need much more than 50 PSI to have enough to breathe. The tablet comes with a gas sensor board that can tell you when its safe to breathe without your suit. If you make a 1 frame hole in the floor and melt water ice in the room, water will collect in the hole, and you can put a vent with pipes down there to use it to run water to hydroponics trays. Room air pressure will be enough to pressure feed the water.
Also, run the in game tutorials, they help a lot!
splitsie nice change of pace
Thanks, I've been wanting to do this ever since Capac and I started playing it more regularly on stream as I've been enjoying it a fair bit :)
Hi Splitsie. I got a sneaky feeling you left the autolathe running. Something you said Capac should not do on you Live Streams. HAHAHAHA. Again a great and easy way to start a awesome game, than reading all the other items. You are a master.
lol You might be right :D
@@Splitsie You did switch it off later. always funny when you tell capac in that Voice CAPAC!!!
It looks like those better solar panels now require steel to make. That makes for a very different initial set up.
Yup, sadly it does - they changed it only a few weeks after I put out the video too which was frustrating. I'm planning on returning and making more of these but I want to wait till things in the early game settle down properly before doing that work
Agree with @John Hathaway, I went through the Stationeers tutorials and nearly died my first couple of days from running low on power. I was trying to build an airtight base first (and on the Moon) so this tutorial is very helpful. Thanks @Splitsie!
Update: they changed the recipe, The Solar Panel Kit now requires "steel" that you cannot make with an Arc Furnace. I built a "furnace" but I have no idea how to plumb it. Sigh.
With the basic furnace a simple way to plumb it for basic alloys like steel is to attach a pipe to the output, then a pipe valve, then another piece of pipe and finally a passive vent. With this setup you can put oxite and volatiles into the furnace directly and if done at the correct ratios you can also put coal and iron in and get steel out. There's a fairly well written guide to how to do this in the Stationeers wiki stationeers-wiki.com/Main_Page
@@Splitsie Thanks for the reply! I managed to figure that part out (eventually) and I've figured out how to use active filtering to capture CO2 and Water (from ice thrown in the furnace). What I can't figure out now, is that I read that you can use a "Kit (Atmospherics) Electrolyzer" to separate water into H2 and O2 to power the furnace. I got it plumbed in, but it won't seem to light. Either that requires way more water than I have or it's been nerfed out of the game.
would love see more stationeers content !
More should be coming soon. I've started recording some gameplay with a big 5 person coop setup, once we've got a couple of recordings done I'll be editing it and posting it (want to have a little buffer before any of it goes live).
My longer term goal is to do some tutorials while that playthrough is going so that I'm as up to date as I can be :)
Love the content you provide - anymore coming for Stationeers ?
You don't HAVE to hit the little icons in the corner of each items picture in your inventory. clicking anywhere on the item will open its menu, the little icons just tell you what the options are, 4 squares means it has slots for other things like belts and backpacks, the lines mean it has options like the helmet or flares.
Ah, good to know I'd never noticed that :)
wow this is the only series you guys do i have not been watching fig 2 much like Space Engineer.... I had no clue it was so Crafty ... Beasty boys: Shes Crafty and just my Type..
It's quite fun, for me it's more of a game to play when you're wanting something more detail oriented than SE but not replacing SE as such :)
it hurt me so much when i went to make a solar panel kit, only to painfully realize that the recipe was changed to require steel instead of iron... upgraded furnace.... here I come, I'm legit completely out of power during the night, hanging on by a thread of my small batteries
Just got the game, and the thirst is killing me super fast. Funny thing, there are no tutorials on getting potable water in the game yet! Had to dig some sites to manage some sort of water dispenser using a default small water tank. It kept me alive for about 5-6 ingame days before running out completely. So I figured there's this ice crusher thing which I connected to the system and stuffed a stack of ice inside. As I was waiting at the cooler to pour me some sweet sweet water, the stupid thing realized I'm putting too much pressure on it and blew up in my face point blank, killing the bald midget instantly.
I'm beginning to fucking love this game.
I was about ready to do a tutorial on that side of things and then they went and changed a bunch of stuff so I've been holding off until things settle down before I return to make more tutorials for it. Glad you got it worked out though :)
explosions aside :P
Great to see your tutorials again brother. You taught me well in SE, and I'm looking forward to here on stationeers. I will say I wish you had Capac along, because while you give great information, a bit of cheeky humor is always good for a certain old fat Texan (No not Texfire dangit -- me)
Thanks, I'm quite enjoying doing the tutorials for Stationeers and hope to cover some other games in the coming months as well :)
As to Capac in tutorials, it's not often that his presence is helpful to the teaching process as he's quite an effective distraction, however just in case you haven't seen it, we have been playing Stationeers over on Twitch with the vods backed up to my second channel at ruclips.net/user/flipsie :)
Haven't purchase the game yet, but it seams so time consuming putting things in your hands all the time. Somthing like Space engineers with that 10 + 80 slot quick access bar would have been great.
Hi Splitsie Long time lurker, enjoy your vids, only comment that popped in my head is Number 5 the uniform/shoes has 2 cereal bars in it, was doing advanced metals before I found them.
Good point, I must remember to highlight those when I get to the food tutorial as I had meant to mention them here and completely forgot :P
Oh i see whats gonna happen, And im excited for it :)
VERY helpful video thank you.
The next video is the one I really want to see. I haven't played this in ages, and honestly, I completely forgot how to do solar tracking. The current tutorial in the game is basically useless with that hyper complicated setup they have.
I'm hoping to record it today so it should be up this week :)
Is it possible to pressurize some space fast enough to eat not magically through helmet, before you get hungry? Or you just need to accept breathing some fresh martian air while eating?
The in-game tutorials are great but it's difficult to figure out how to get there! Haha. Shame those advanced solar panels can't be built without steel anymore but I'll follow along best I can. Thanks!
You may want to turn your suit temperature back up after you get power going. I remember seeing somewhere your hunger goes down faster in low temperatures, but that could just be my superstition.
Interesting, that would make sense. Might be interesting to test at some point too :)
I found this game on steam, from the description it sounded like a perfect fit for games I would like. But it's the only game I ever refunded. The interface feels like it was designed to make your life miserable. I like some level of realism in this type of game. But the 2 hand restriction, and just the number of steps to do even the most basic thing. "Move grids to your hands, place them, move welder to your hand, chose that hand, turn on the welder, weld the thing, turn off the welder, run back to base to swap grids for sheets, place the sheets, chose the welder, turn on the welder,..." it just wasn't fun at all. I want the fun and challenge to be in the building and engineering. Not on having a frustrating sequence of unintuitive button clicks and needless item interactions like needing the wire cutters in your hands to be able to splice wires.
and THAT is one of the major differences between Space Engineers and Stationeers.
As much as I like Stationeers, I totally agree with you. I much prefer the SE system with a welder to construct and a grinder to deconstruct. And I'm definitely not a fan of the multi-stage construction of stuff.
@@MistahBryan Well, another huge one is that in space engineer you actually make ships, and vehicles, and they are dynamic, and move about. In Stationers, you have a base, and there's one truck rover thing you can build, and that's it.
I don't disagree, for me Stationeers is a game to play when I want to mess around with some more complex systems as a little break from SE but it won't ever replace it (maybe it'd do more to replace it if we could build custom vehicles though)
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you are quite correct, and that is a major part that I enjoy :)
Space engineer's vs stationeer's. Similarity?
Great tutorial, keep up the awesome work!
Hey did you do something special to get multiplayer working, because I wanted to play with a friend but I can’t connect to any server and my discord always crashes when the game is started. Yes really strange but do you have any tips on how to work around this?
Nope, I just hosted a game and invited my friend to it through steam. I've not had to do any troubleshooting so unfortunately don't know any tricks. Might be worth going to the stationeers subreddit as there could be people on there who can help :)
you don't need to power down the furnace, just press the "smelt" button again to stop smelting.
Will you ever do a series on this game on this channel or is it going to remain on Flipsie?
I'm honestly not sure, my plan for 2020 was always to get some more games on my main channel so it could happen but I'll see where I'm at when I've completed the planned tutorials I want to do :)
Hey, that´s nice! Maybe, now, I can actually decide to go in for this game. Thanks!
Hopefully you'll have a bit of fun with it as I've been having recently :)
Chemistry is still really underdeveloped,would like
to see if it ends up like STARTOPIA!
29/11/2020
I subscribed because of the Stationers tutorials; they're very easy to follow. Unfortunately you only have two.
The only thing thats better on the Moon than on Mars is solar efficiency.
For new players id always recommend Mars because its easier with its little bit of atmosphere and higher gravity.
It also looks alot friendlier
Yup, agree with all of that especially the friendlier looking bit :)
I needed a refresher on how to play since I forgot everything.
You are the best, And is this game better then space engineers?
I wouldn't say it's better, it's different - doesn't have the aesthetic or vehicle design opportunities that SE has but instead has some fairly detailed physics and systems design which is fun to mess around with :)
Love your videos!
Thanks :)
so the better solar panel requires steel, and i have no idea how to make it xD
I know in the manual it said it uses coal, and iron at a ration of 3 iron and 1 coal, and it said to use it in a furnace. I tried the arc furnace, but you can only put one ore in it, and idk how to use the other furnace
Wait, did you say mining coal? on mars? huh interesting. Thanks for the nice video you explain really nice! :D
You're welcome, and yeah the coal on mars thing is odd but easy enough to ignore and still have fun :D
splitsite says the learning curve is a bit rough people who have only played 2 hours in the game and dont understand a thing they say its more like a learning cliff on fire and covered in bears (edit) but still good tutorial
Solar Panel Kits need Steel now.
So next time, a Simple Sun Seeking Solar Cell System.
Dang that's some impressive alliteration :)
Not sure the game changed since then, but what I'm experiencing is that suit temp and pressure make little difference (even though I'm doing my first game on Europa), while the light consumes an insane amount of power. 🤔 Would be nice to be able to see the actual consumption rate in the game.
I've never done a test on if the lower temp used less power, but it seemed to and several reddit threads/wiki entries confirmed it to a level I was happy to mention it, though they've been tweaking the balance heavily in recent patches so it may well have changed
@@Splitsie yeah, it does make sense to assume, and I've also read it in multiple sources, I just didn't experience it that much in practice. Would be nice to be able to read the actual current consumption in the game.
I changed my mouse look to shift in my opinion it's much easier at least on my massive keyboard. The pinky already rests on shift anyways it's a waste not using it on something you'll be using constantly.
hey splitsie can you tell us which of the two games are better ? Space Engineers or Stationeers ?
i like that both of them seems like you can weld structures from scratch and not just automatically pop them out of thin air like "Satisfactory"
but some says space engineers is limited to having blocks whereas Stationeers can have wires etc. what is your opinion on the matter ?
They're similar games but on a different scale, stationeers is focused on smaller things and everything you build is a 'station' whereas Space Engineers allows you to go larger and build things that can move (rovers, ships etc) so for me it'll depend on whether I want to play something detail oriented or grander in scope
@@Splitsie thank you
Try to get a Station Battery as quick as possible. 50 coal will last forever.
I bring dire news ) these solar panels now require steel and thus a gas furnace first, making this extremely helpful tut a bit outdated
Yeah, they went and changed a bunch of stuff after I started making these, I'm holding off until things settle down again before I try and make more :(
@@Splitsie I am liking what they are doing tho, bunch of stuff I haven't touched yet and bugfixes. Heh, and the cereal bars are gone, it's soup for days now.
You can press F to swap something from your inventory to your hands quickly.
Yup, I only briefly mentioned that when I was walking back from the overnight mining as it's something I don't use as often since they made the direct mouse controls better
@@Splitsie I find it much faster when I have to juggle items around. For moving items from 1 inventory to another, I usually use mouse though.
This was very helpful. Should have had you make the official tutorial for the game.
upon finishing mining i always think about orange juice o (turn off drill) j (jetpack on) idk if it helps
Due to your video's on survival in Space engineers, I was able to thrive and now I have many bases on 4 planets.. So this might be the next game..
I'm certainly having fun with it recently, it's a nice game to play for a bit before going back to Space Engineers once you want to build bigger again :)
Funny how 1 years ago, the Iron have the gold ish color while the gold have the iron ish color.
I love your tutorial videos its just unfortunate that this is the second time i have uploaded a hints and tips video about a game and a few days later you upload something better :/
now for the adjustable solar panel need steel ?
"Always carry duct tape". Well duhh, if a game has duct tape then of course you carry some. Its like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together ;-)
Ah someone else who watches Tex the Madman Urbie Pilot I see X)
@@AsilarWindsailor More like Mythbusters, I'll have a look though.
@@frankenberry9670 Oh hahahh. I thought you were quoting Tex of the BlackPantsLegion on RUclips in one of the Mechwarrior Stream Highlight episodes
@@AsilarWindsailor Original thoughts based on extensive research of the Red Green show and Myth Busters. But really, if you can carry duct tape, why wouldn't you?
@@frankenberry9670 Seems reasonable. Duct tape is handy
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