Space Engineers - Home System Survival - Episode 01

Space Engineers - Home System Survival - Episode 01
In this new series on the channel we start a survival playthrough using the Home System scenario and landing on the earth type planet. How do we do?
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Gameplay recorded on Xbox Series X

[@magnagazoo4863]

Re living my start.

[@magnagazoo4863]

First get that pod flying and find a lake.

[@dolphinrapture]

Tech unlocks as you build prerequisites, so, basic refiner and basic assembler open up basic things, one of them being batteries.
Batteries open up a lot more techs in the tech tree.
Check the seat of the drop pod for a weapon and a data pad, the data pad will ping for you the nearest Point of interest that is an outpost, from which you can take on missions, trade, etc.
It can be relatively close, or a good few Kilometres away.
Once you’ve gotten power to the base and a basic refiner set up and a battery or 2, start refining all the stone here for the better returns, however the basic refiner can only process Iron, Nickel and cobalt ores. Gold and beyond, you’ll need its bigger brother.
The basic assembler can make more stuff than the survival kit can, and like the refiner, it’s older cousin, the assembler, can assemble the more complex items you’ll need for the more complex items for base building and ship building.
Keep the survival kit on your pod until you’re certain you can move it to a more permanent location. As no survival kit, no respawn point.
Some base items have connection ports. The size of the port, will restrict what items can pass through them, once you have a conveyer system set up. Typically, small conveyers allow ores, ingots, ammo, and small base construction items. Large ones will allow pretty much everything. Conveyor systems might sound daunting at first, especially when you start to white list and black list things, but it allows you to just land at a connector, connect to it, and the conveyors will move things where they need to go from your ship/rover storage, to base storage. From there, you could then pipe up to your assemblers and refiners and queue up items from the refiner and assembler and it’ll get pulled from the storages, saving you the hassle of carrying it all over manually.

[@praggersgaminguk]

Perfecto, thank you! The refiner doesn't process stone though does it? and I've not found any ore veins, yet, but I believe there is an ore finder on the drop pod.
I'll check the drop pod chair for that POI as well.

[@dolphinrapture]

@@praggersgaminguk the drill you have can also detect ores, but the range isn’t great. About 15-20 meters.
I think the basic refiner can do stone, I’m happy to be corrected, though, should I be wrong.