Space Engineers - Being Salvaged

I saw the Space Engineers 10th Anniversary video used clips of Being Industrious. That's what got me out of my grave. This video is the 3rd installment in that series, which never got finished. I found it on an old hard drive just now and thought I'd upload it. This video is from 2013 - 2014.

I started building this ship alongside the other two as a prospective look at what salvage could be like in a more complete version of Space Engineers. At the time, there were no grinders or conveyors or construction mechanics. Multiplayer had only just been added, which allowed me to control the ship with one computer and film with another.

Perfect became enemy of the good, and I held onto the video just long enough that Space Engineers had actual salvage mechanics added. I amended the video with the arrival of the orange ships (and filmed with the new spectator camera instead of multiplayer), but encountered an esoteric bug that prevented production going any further.

The bug, for anyone interested, was that armour deformation would grow over time with repeated saving/loading, and the save(s) had reached a point where the damaged ships with subgrids would self-collide and start spinning violently out of control. This prevented me from being able to feed the yellow ship into the giant ship muncher at the end.

Also, I wasn't really sure of where or how to end it. Ideally, to do justice to the amount of features added to Space Engineers in that time, I should have had the giant ship muncher feed a factory that produces the orange ships. The next several minutes would be a montage of them ganging up on other creations intercut with those being ground up and the factory continuing to produce legions of orange ships.

[Joe-tokj]

This was like watching a nature documentary for space ships

[CaptPatrick]

Did I just watch a ship breaker engage in _melee combat?_

[blackdog]

"What kind of ship do you fly?"

"A Lovecraftian horror with a medical licence."

[fanboyfast]

That scavenger battle was 10x better than any warship battle with cannons just laying into each other than I’ve seen.

[eelacanth]

coming across a ship that's been gutted like that would be downright ominous

[Wolf-Nyan]

Yellow ship: surgically remove the most valuable pieces of salvage, very efficient
Orange ships: “We take the whole ship, that’s 80% more ship, per ship!”

[xrgoldii]

it feels like a national geographic documentary about some animal that has been never brung up ever in a conversation. good job.

[handsomejamesgrandinternet]

The most fascinating thing to me is that it was made on one of the original versions of SE, they didn't have much in terms of quality of life. And Klang was strong with these contraptions

[gannon]

Yellow: I'll just cut it open and grab the choice bits and get out

Orange: mind if I yoink everything?

[Hasus]

This feels like "What if ships were animals in space?"

[justafan]

Wow. That thing was like a freaky surgical droid and i was not expecting how cinematic this video would be

[power]

I have never seen such mechanical creatures, splendid machines, complex and beautiful. They seem to be alive.

[radnorshiz]

The fact that this has been sitting in an old hard drive and is only now seeing the light of day 10 years after it was made is a crime against space engineers. This video and all ships used in it are spectacular and now I really wanna go watch your old videos

[thepizzaman]

Watching the salvager just snatch the refinery has hilarious. Watching this felt like watching a scavenging animal eat a corpse, and the orange ships attacking the scavenger felt like a swarm of piranhas.

[thunderjaw]

This man disappeared for 8 years and came back with a space engineers video before returning to the void.

[mrmateusz]

Man this was so cool! How it looked like animals fighting over food instead of machines! Especialy loved the part where the Orange ship used the broken „blade” of the Yellow one to impale it

[shotjon]

With the physics it feels like this is held together by hopes, dreams, and a shit ton of duct tape

[BloodyCrow__]

Imagine this was what the multiplayer was like. There are gun battles and then there are salvagers fighting eachother with their salvage ships for salvage.

[thevibesinquestion]

the design of the salvage ship is so awesome yet incredibly menacing, the way it grabs onto the ship with the needle-claws, the small 'eye' peeking in and then the arms that tear open the roof to get at the goods inside, I absolutely love everything about this!

[minecraftworks]

When the world needed him the most, he returned.