Searchie

This article is about the vehicle. For the Survival Impossible episode, see Searchie (episode).

## Appearances

### Debut

* I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK (as a Fleeting Rival)
* Searchie (turned into Searchie)

**Searchie** is a remote-controlled atmospheric drone built and operated by Splitsie in Survival Impossible.

## History

### As a Fleeting Rival

In I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK, an ASSERT Fleeting Rival drone is spawned over the production facility by a Thrush cargo ship that got too close.

The drone gets shot down by the facility's turrets, but on the way down it shoots and damages the building's walls, the Liftsie, and the GUFI-too's large ore detector.

Splitsie investigates the crash site after noticing that the drone was still moving about a little.

Although no longer armed nor capable of flight, Splitsie is impressed by the remains. He figures that he could quickly turn it into a little drone to do some scouting with, so he marks it with a GPS waypoint titled "wreck to make scout drone" and only disables its battery and remote control.

### Recovery

The need for Splitise to transport the wrecked drone back to his base inspires him to build a crane truck. He starts building this crane a few episodes later in Making a Clang Crane. In the next episode, It's Alive!. Splitsie finishes the crane truck and uses it to pick up the drone and bring it to his base as planned, though he leaves it dangling on the end of the crane.

### Conversion into the Searchie

Main article: Searchie (episode)
The episode after he brought it to the base, he maneuvers the drone into the garage building with the crane truck and turns it into a scouting drone as planned, creating the Searchie. He also builds a large grid ore detector module for it to carry.

Splitsie then takes it for its maiden flight, flying it remotely around the areas surrounding his base to scan for ores. He manages to discover with it an underground magnesium deposit that is on the side of the cliff.

In the next episode, I think I need the O2 warnings, he builds places for the Searchie and its module to charge.

### Building an antenna tower

In North Mountain, Splitsie builds a cargo container module for the Searchie and builds a passenger seat on top of the drone itself so that can use it to transport himself and building materials to build the North Mountain antenna tower. During the process of building the tower, he also figures out that he can stand on top of the Searchie while remote controlling it so he can more safely place blocks off the side of the tower.

### Getting damaged

In There and Back Again, a Sparrow shoots the Searchie as it is docked at the base, destroying its main thruster pod.

### Repairs, Building the Panini, and Losing its ore detector

In Whuuu? How did that happen?, Splitsie repairs the Searchie, redesigning and building its middle thruster. He then flies it to the Panini crash site, where he weld-pads its large grid battery, ore detector, and connector module to the crashed ship before remotely piloting the Searchie back to the garage. The Searchie was also used to discover that the main base had been translated into the air, though this was reverted as a backup was loaded.