We Ride Again

**We Ride Again** is the 11th episode of Survival Impossible. Splitsie builds a to-do list, moves his drop pod (with the survival kit) to the nickel mine, and revamps and names the Absconder.

## Synopsis

### Mining Magnesium

Splitsie opens the episode by saying that he was given a very good suggestion in the comments last week, but as he was getting low on ammunition, he first goes on a trip to collect some magnesium to ensure it does not become a problem.

He heads out in the GUFI-too, using the ore detector trailer just in case it spots anything exciting underground. He drives to the nearest boulder of magnesium, discussing his plans for the episode along the way, and mines out a significant chunk of the boulder.

After returning to the base, Splitsie builds a temporary second connector (on a rotor) to park the second trailer to, allowing his basic refineries to automatically pull the magnesium from it.

### To-Do List

Splitsie builds a text panel with a to-do list on the wall of the production facility, filling it out with several bullet points.

### Turning the Drop Pod into a Rover

The next task of the episode is to move the survival kit. To accomplish this, Splitsie adds another set of wheels and a remote control to his drop pod, converting it from a two-wheel trailer into a four-wheel rover that can be driven on its own.

Splitsie also puts components into the cargo container on the back of the drop pod in preparation for building a support structure at its final site, and several oxygen bottles so he can fill his inventory with them in preparation for needing to walk back on foot.

Splitsie proves that his jetpack doesn't really help him land softly from falls, with how weak it is made this series.

### Ladybug Flyby

Splitise is about to drive the drop pod, when he realizes that there is an incoming ASSERT. Ladybug cargo ship about to fly overhead, which is going to spawn a drone.

He doesn't think he has enough time to get out of range and prevent a drone from spawning ("Not with the current bike at least" according to on-screen text added in the edit), so he tries positioning himself away from the base in hopes from drawing fire away from it. He mentions wanting to have a "decoy shed or something."

The Ladybug spawns a Fleeting Rival. It flies past the wrong side of the base to get distracted by Splitsie, however it doesn't appear to shoot the base before getting shot down anyway.

### Fortifying the Survival Kit

After waiting for the Ladybug to fly away, Splitsie drives the drop pod to the nickel mine.

He hand-drills out a little nook in the side of the mine tunnel to park it in. He replaces its landing gear with a rotor and rotor-locks it to a large block built into the mine floor. He builds a trail of blocks outside the mine to act as a power cable, and builds two gattling turrets and two wind turbines on the surface above the mine entrance.

#### Walking Home

The survival kit finally in as safe a location as practical, Splitsie walks 2.78 kilometers home in a timelapse. He filled his inventory with oxygen bottles for the trip to make sure he doesn't suffocate, but is surprised to find out that he only actually needed two.

### Fixing the Bike

After checking on how the magnesium is refining, Splitsie moves onto the "next project" of the episode: "fixing the bike" that he built two episodes ago.

To do this, he projects over the existing bike an updated blueprint that he designed in creative mode beforehand in a Twitch livestream (the VOD of which is available on his flipsie channel). That livestream was previously mentioned at the start of the previous episode (as it happened before it), though he got cut off by a drone attack and spent that episode fortifying the base instead.

This blueprint was already published on the Steam Workshop at the time, and was called The Absconder, which Splitsie later explains is now the name of this bike.

The new design includes four "skid" wheels with zero friction, a shorter wheelbase, and a lower back wheel, moved gyros, amour at 45 degree angles instead of 22.5 degrees, and extra pieces of armour.

#### Test Drive

The sun had gone down by time he finished building it, so the test drive happens at night. Splitsie drives it to the nickel mine, in order to heal at the survival kit since he reduced his health to 70 off-camera partway through rebuilding the bike. He checks on the large grid battery he built at the survival kit to confirm that it is still slowly charging.

##### Running from a Ladybug

Still at the nickel mine, before Splitsie can mine some ice to give the Absconder some more charge, he notices a ladybug flying overhead, so he uses the bike to flee from it. Splitsie is impressed by the upgraded bike's performance, stating that "it even handles Splitsie driving."

### Wrapping Up

Splitsie returns to base and deletes the completed items off the to-do list, and briefly contemplates which items are most important for next time, before giving a formal outro and rolling the timelapse.