Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
This is the part 2 of a tutorial series to guide new and old players alike through Space Engineers survival from the very beginning and through to the point where ridiculous builds seem plausible.
If you haven't yet bought Space Engineers and decide you want to here's an affiliate link to use :)
It's also good for Space Engineers merch link.xsolla.com/DpunfKVB
This video covers the construction of a mining ship for use in atmosphere, as well as all the info you need to understand for the building of any ship in space engineers.
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.
00:00 Previously in this guide series
00:21 Building a battery on the base
01:24 Ordering some extra components
02:00 Starting to build a small grid ship with a landing gear
03:14 Building the cockpit and the basics of Build Planner
04:49 Drills, Cargo and conveyors
07:02 Turn auto-rotate off
07:50 Connectors
08:55 Batteries
09:40 Atmospheric thrusters
13:08 Gravity as down thrust
13:38 Why can't my ship turn? Gyroscopes
14:44 Base mounted connector
15:22 First flight tests
17:05 Docking to the base, making connectors safe with magnets
18:49 Charging our batteries
20:07 Doing a Capac
22:10 Flight test 2
23:47 Ore detector
25:21 Getting the drill on our toolbar
26:08 Mining without flipping over
27:35 Why mine horizontally? Pancakes.
28:16 Setting up sorters and ejectors for stone
32:25 Lazy way to add drills to the toolbar
33:08 Offloading ore to the base
34:54 How to paint things, and when you can use P
37:18 Adding lights
39:27 What to do if you crash
40:23 Adding more drills
42:15 Weight watchers
43:15 Advanced techniques for starting your next small ship build
44:50 Outro
The blueprint of the ship can be found on Steam
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3171444429
and mod.io
mod.io/g/spaceengineers/m/fodie-starter-atmo-miner
For those of you kind enough to want to support me in making more videos: patreon.com/splitsie
Discord: discord.gg/zebramonkeys
Steam Workshop: steamcommunity.com/id/Sp litsie/myworkshopfiles/
Space Engineers is used pursuant to the terms laid out in their video policy, found at keenswh.com/press.html
Music and Sound Effects by:
Space Engineers
Artlist.io
This is the part 2 of a tutorial series to guide new and old players alike through Space Engineers survival from the very beginning and through to the point where ridiculous builds seem plausible.
If you haven't yet bought Space Engineers and decide you want to here's an affiliate link to use :)
It's also good for Space Engineers merch link.xsolla.com/DpunfKVB
This video covers the construction of a mining ship for use in atmosphere, as well as all the info you need to understand for the building of any ship in space engineers.
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.
00:00 Previously in this guide series
00:21 Building a battery on the base
01:24 Ordering some extra components
02:00 Starting to build a small grid ship with a landing gear
03:14 Building the cockpit and the basics of Build Planner
04:49 Drills, Cargo and conveyors
07:02 Turn auto-rotate off
07:50 Connectors
08:55 Batteries
09:40 Atmospheric thrusters
13:08 Gravity as down thrust
13:38 Why can't my ship turn? Gyroscopes
14:44 Base mounted connector
15:22 First flight tests
17:05 Docking to the base, making connectors safe with magnets
18:49 Charging our batteries
20:07 Doing a Capac
22:10 Flight test 2
23:47 Ore detector
25:21 Getting the drill on our toolbar
26:08 Mining without flipping over
27:35 Why mine horizontally? Pancakes.
28:16 Setting up sorters and ejectors for stone
32:25 Lazy way to add drills to the toolbar
33:08 Offloading ore to the base
34:54 How to paint things, and when you can use P
37:18 Adding lights
39:27 What to do if you crash
40:23 Adding more drills
42:15 Weight watchers
43:15 Advanced techniques for starting your next small ship build
44:50 Outro
The blueprint of the ship can be found on Steam
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3171444429
and mod.io
mod.io/g/spaceengineers/m/fodie-starter-atmo-miner
For those of you kind enough to want to support me in making more videos: patreon.com/splitsie
Discord: discord.gg/zebramonkeys
Steam Workshop: steamcommunity.com/id/Sp litsie/myworkshopfiles/
Space Engineers is used pursuant to the terms laid out in their video policy, found at keenswh.com/press.html
Music and Sound Effects by:
Space Engineers
Artlist.io
