Splitsie's Motorcycle Club

**Splitsie's Motorcycle Club** is the ninth episode of Survival Impossible, in which Splitsie mines some nickel ore and creates the motorcycle that would become the Absconder in later episodes.

## Synopsis

### Mining Nickel Ore

The episode begins directly from where the previous episode left off, with Splitsie driving the GUFI-too to the underground nickel ore deposit he discovered.

Splitsie plans on using the GUFI-too to drill a tunnel to reach the ore, but when he gets to the site he realizes that it doesn't have an ore detector, so he first uses his hand drill to drill down to the ore to create a GPS marker. Now at the bottom of a very deep vertical hole, Splitsie remembers that he cannot use his jetpack to fly out of it (due to it being modded to be less effective in this series).

After escaping the hole, Splitsie picks a spot to create the actual mining tunnel on the side of the slope, and drills it to the nickel ore deposit with the GUFI-too's drills, leaving its detached trailer outside. He then makes a couple trips back and forth between the ore and the trailer to collect some nickel, and also collects some iron from an iron ore boulder that is right next to the new tunnel before driving back to base.

He also decides on the naming scheme for GPSs of ore boulders, starting their names with a "`.`" before the chemical symbol of the ore.

When he is back at his base, Splitsie hears an unexplained distant explosion, which he hopes is just an unknown signal.

### Creating a Motorcycle

Splitsie then starts building a motorcycle, as he said he wanted to do in the previous episode. He also remembers that he wanted to build some of the things from the Daily Needs mod on the base, but he manages to again not get this done today, as is reassured by on-screen text added in post.

He builds it using the 5x5 wheels, since they are wider and will make the bike more stable and hopefully not even need any gyroscopes on override, though he does end up have to add one gyro on override anyway.

After constructing it, Splitsie sees an unknown signal and takes the opportunity test the motorcycle by driving to it. He gets a badger drill skin and finds some food items contained in it.

After grinding down the unknown signal, a Ladybug ASSERT ship appears. Since the motivation for building the motorcycle in the first place was for driving it to escape the drone spawning radius of the ships, Splitsie notes that he is now testing out the motorbike "for real" as he runs away from the ship in the bike. This drive reveals a design flaw in the motorbike: as it drives on less even terrain, the width of the 5x5 wheel suspensions makes it long enough to keep colliding with the ground, creating several divots in the snow as it goes along.

### Adding Lights

After returning to the base again, Splitsie adds a vanity plate to the back of the GUFI-too, reading "GUFI-Too," and adds some interior lights to the GUFI as well as the base. He then takes a look at the GUFI-too's ore detector trailer, and adds more armour blocks to the middle of it so it isn't held together by a single line of small conveyor tubes.

Another ASSERT ship then appears, a Thrush. At this point it is nighttime, so before running from it, Splitsie quickly adds a spotlight to the motorcycle before driving away in it.

The motorcycle collides with the ground again, tearing off its back right wheel suspension. Luckily, the rear wheel was only attached to the wheel suspension on the left.

He is then interrupted from driving by an O2 warning when he runs out of oxygen in his bottles. The motorcycle has an O2/H2 generator, but he never put any ice in it, so he has to stop and get out and drill some from the snow.

Splitsie returns to base off-camera, and wraps up the episode.

## Trivia

The official Space Engineers Twitter account retweeted Splitsie's tweet about this episode.

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/SpaceEngineersG/status/1213462840729726976