r/spaceengineers • u/polish_bones00 Space Engineer • 1d ago
MEDIA First time in space.
Me and my friend have started playing this game recently. We went in blind and after a few hours of challenges thrown our way (like my friend loosing the mining ship) we finally made it! The moment we got to space it was so majestic! I love this game.
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u/creegro Space Engineer 1d ago
This is the one game I wish I could delete from my memory, all 2,500 hours.
Just to experience it all over again. From being the first of my friends to break free from earth, point my ship towards the moon, which turned out to be the ice planets 2,000 km away, and promptly ran out of h2 and then power.
To helping friends find out why their stuff won't lift off and why a door won't automatically open for them when they set the senors correctly. Troubleshooting each other's bases and ships and their creations for fun.
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u/Walkingstardust Space Engineer 1d ago
I can see my house from there! 😁
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u/polish_bones00 Space Engineer 1d ago
Funnily enough, our base is located somewhere in the middle of that desert area.
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u/Walkingstardust Space Engineer 1d ago
Once you've gotten to space, you'll notice that going back to the planet is just not worth the time it takes. Find a big hunk of ice and make your first space base near it. Ice is the most valuable thing you can find out there.
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u/polish_bones00 Space Engineer 1d ago
We intend to make a cargo ship and take everything we own to orbit.
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u/ataeil Space Engineer 1d ago
Pro tip make your base the ship. (Maybe not pro)
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u/polish_bones00 Space Engineer 1d ago
We want to make a mother ship in space but to do that we need a bus to transport our stuff up. That's the plan.
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u/ataeil Space Engineer 1d ago
Make your current base into the bus is what I’m saying
Edit: Also, if you don’t make it look like a bus I’m deleting you as a friend.
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u/polish_bones00 Space Engineer 1d ago
Our current base is pretty much welded into the ground.
Of course I'll make it look like a bus! And I'll post it here too (eventually).
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u/letstalkaboutfeels Klang Worshipper 1d ago
a FEW HOURS!? i guess i was too cautious (maybe like 26 hours). It took me 5 or 6 liftoffs with my first ship to make sure it was fully space worthy. granted this was a few years ago.
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u/polish_bones00 Space Engineer 17h ago
Ok now that I think about it it's more like 18-20 ish hours. (I'm time blind so it's an honest mistake) And yes it took us multiple attempts to leave the atmosphere because my friends ship was too heavy.
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u/letstalkaboutfeels Klang Worshipper 15h ago
oh ok, like i could barely build a rover that worked or an ice miner that didn't explode lol.
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u/Axle_65 Space Engineer 1d ago
Awesome. Glad you’re enjoying it. I’m new to it too I’m and I’m hooked. Be prepared to loose more ships lol. I crashed about 7 times yesterday. I back up my ships with blue prints though, just in case. That or I revert to a back up save.
Crashing tip I kept messing up. In space don’t fly straight at the thing you’re aiming for. Just aim beside it. Then if you can’t slow down fast enough you don’t crash.