Your First Mining Ship - Getting Started in Space Engineers #2 (Survival Tutorial Series)

This video covers an approach to building your first mining ship in Space Engineers. How to build it, how to fly it and how to get the most out of it.

New tutorials will be posted as soon as I feel they are complete but hopefully will be able to get them out about once per week.

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.

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Space Engineers

Extra music by these amazing artists:

[Splitsie]

This ship is more friendly to new players and teaches some other things which have been added to the game since this video was made :)

[JFinker]

Note: if anyone is planning on dumping a few thousand pound of Rock from your inventory - do NOT stand next to anything.
I was crushed to death by my giant ice ball.
Just a forewarning.

[RenzitoARG]

You, sir, taught me more and faster than the official videos. I'm glad Youtube's algorithm recommended you.

[cameronkramer]

when you said “now let me quickly tell you something very important” i thought you were gonna say “this video is sponsored by raid shadow legends”

[JoTheVeteran]

11:57 "Pee is bad, pee is bad in so many ways..."


- Splitsie 2019 -

[luangu]

I followed this along as closely as possible to get started and promptly flipped my ship upside down wrecking it. Now I'm doing all of this on foot since I refuse to restart my game. The stars and moons mock me as they beckon. LOL.

[Forcemaster]

Pro-Tip for using ship drills. While holding down either the left-mouse or right-mouse button, open your inventory menu, then let go of your mouse button and close the inventory menu. Your ship drill will continue operating until you click a mouse button to stop it!

[billiem]

I would have refunded the game if I hadn't found your videos. Thank you!

[CollinCF]

You forgot the part where I overestimate my flying ability and flip multiple times

[Gebunator]

Huh, I might be "veteran" with this game, but it never occured me to toggle off backward thrusters for cruising. That's handy. I do have one extra tip: Add a camera by connector, preferably so that the camera's "up" is ship's forward (If you've a bottom connector, that is). If you place camera right behind a small port of the connector, you can get pretty clear view of where your connector is and that makes parking a lot easier than fiddling with third person camera.

[mnj]

I've been playing space engineers for about 4 years and I was still able to learn from this newly starting series

[MattHatter]

Me and a couple of friends have had this game for a really long time but were always put off by the difficulty. So much time has passed and in a few days we're going to start playing all together thanks to your videos. By now we're all in college and some of my friends are actually taking engineering. This series is extremely well made and everything is expained in a simple yet complete way, all while remaining extremely efficient without clogging it with info. Truly an amazing job! You gained at least one subscriber.

[tassie]

Another tip for keeping your ship horizontal.

Sometimes the HUD artificial horizon is hard to see (either because it gets lost in a light background or its in an unexpected location). But all is not lost. To the right of the Hot Bar there is a circle that also provides a representation of your orientation. It is often easier to use this for your vehicle orientation than the HUD version as it is always visible and always in the same location..

[creativecorner]

Lol I was gonna say couldn’t you just turn off inertial dampeners instead of switching off the front thruster. But then I remembered there is this thing called gravity.

[fernandon]

thank god, i was waiting for this
just grabbed the game and im watching all your tutorial videos and replicating them on creative trying to understand more about the mechanics, pretty okayish so far


thanks for the videos dude, ur a beast

[dan]

I played this game for a bout 15 minutes several (maybe 5 or so?) years ago - gave up because of how overwhelmingly difficult it was for me to get started.

Your tutorials have made the game 1000x easier to start and soooo much more fun to play.

New addiction unlocked.

Thank you, Sir!

[FoeKilla]

These tutorials are good for new players. Please don't make we wait a week again for the next one :)

[procastrination]

Wow you may be the best person on youtube I've ever seen when it comes to transfering knowledge. Your format and talking is so on point, not too slow, very articulate and clear and very interesting as if it is a lets play and not a tutorial. I'm subscribing just because I've never seen someone as good as you at teaching stuff. And I tried SE and gave up 3 times now I'm quite eager to hop into it and start playing, thank you.

[thesleeplessone]

Xbox beta player here:

Controls are difficult but your videos are extrenely helpful

[ZapattaZ]

You saved my life! I started playing few days ago and designed things alone as far as I can until I need to spoil things a bit with youtube tutorials, this one seems to be the more simple, exhaustive and concise I'de found. Thnk's so much.