Searching for Ore

**Searching for Ore** is the 8th episode of Survival Impossible. Splitsie builds a large grid ore detector and discovers an underground nickel ore deposit.

## Synopsis

### Planning & Mining

Splitsie opens the episode by discussing his plans to build a large grid ore detector on one of this vehicles. The idea he has in mind is building an extra trailer for the GUFI-too. He also mentions an idea to build a motorbike.

Before starting on any of those, he heads out in the GUFI-too to mine stone, specifically for nickel. He mentions that it would be nice to find an underground nickel or iron ore, as well as some extra boulders so he knows where more resources are, in advance of his current boulders running out. He forgets to fill his oxygen bottles before this trip, so he also collects some ice and makes use of the GUFI-too's O2/H2 generators.

Splitsie finally plans on building a connector onto his base, postulating that it might be worth its resource cost. He starts work on building an advanced rotor based connector arm before getting interpreted.

### Ladybug Flyby

Splitsie gets interrupted by an ASSERT Ladybug cargo ship heading straight over his base. He gets in the GUFI-too and flees from his base in order to avoid his character being within range for the Ladybug to spawn drones.

Once fled, Splitsie starts running out of oxygen again and has to mine some ice again. Suddenly, the GUFI-too's trailer turrets unexpectedly shoots at something. This causes Splitsie to discover some wreckage, presumably of an Assertive cargo ship that didn't survive Omicron's gravity. After getting oxygen from a boulder of ice left from the wreck, Splitsie decides to grind down the wreck for its scrap metal before returning home.

Spltsie looked for boulders of ore while driving home, but did not find any.

### Building

Using the materials from the wreckage, Splitsie completes the connector arm. He connects the GUFI to his base for the first time, saving him the effort of manually transferring the stone from it to his refineries.

Splitsie disconnects the GUFI-too from its trailer so he can extend it, building a medium cargo container onto it before its docking rotor, and also adding some sideways 1x1 wheels as skids so he can drive the GUFI-too by dragging these skids on the ground instead of relying on the gyros.

#### Ore Detector Trailer

After collecting more stone for nickel off-camera, Splitsie builds the new trailer for the GUFI-too.

By connecting a large grid advanced rotor part to a small grid advanced rotor, Splitsie is able to build a large grid ore detector onto the new trailer to maximize his ore detection radius. He tries to build the ore detector on its side, but the game won't let him place it so he ends up building it upright.

He isn't able to finish a battery on the new trailer due to running out of nickel.

Splitsie mentions that he was hoping to build the motorbike this episode, but he pushes it back until the next episode since the trailer took a fair amount of resources to put together. He also mentions that he plans to build the daily needs mod stuff onto the base in the next episode.

### Searching for Ore

With the new trailer finished with the large ore detector and connected to the GUFI-too, Splitsie heads off with it in the direction he fled to earlier in the episode, hoping to find a few boulders, and maybe if "really lucky," an underground deposit.

After finding a few boulders, Splitsie is ecstatic to discover an underground ore deposit of nickel!

He considers mining some from it with the GUFI-too right away, however he gets chased off by another Ladybug. He is concerned that he didn't actually put any ammunition in the turret on the new trailer, so he hurries back to the base, the turrets of which do have ammunition.

### Wrapping up

After the Ladybug passes, Splitsie tries to switch back to the original trailer to mine the ore deposit, though he backs into it too hard and destroys the rotor and rotor part instead, forcing him to mine some more stone to get the resources to repair it again.

Splitsie also adds two more drills to the front of the GUFI-too, bringing it up to five drills, and a stone ejection system.

Splitsie signs off the episode whilst driving to the nickel deposit.