Real Civil Engineer returns to the haystack for part two

Find The Needle supplies a million-view sequel amid Mars excavation, train scrapping and beaver construction.

Channel: Real Civil Engineer Story of October 17, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Is this the most efficient way to find a needle in a haystack?

Finding a needle apparently wasn't enough to settle the matter. Real Civil Engineer returned to Find The Needle for a second installment, and "Is this the most efficient way to find a needle in a haystack?" drew roughly 1.3 million views, the largest audience among the week's new uploads.

The game's premise is literal: a giant pile of hay, with needles to find. The audience's discussion is rather more industrial. Viewers question whether unchecked hay is going into generators, suggest putting a needle scanner on the assembly line and compare arms with rakes. Efficiency, it seems, is a topic on which everyone has a design review to offer. Several commenters also describe losing hours to trying the game themselves.

There were eight uploads altogether, with plenty of alternatives to agricultural sorting. Alien Archeologist took the digging to Mars, Train Graveyard Simulator turned abandoned trains into scrap, and Cities: Skylines II supplied a whole-world recreation. A separate Order Of The Sinking Star puzzle-game video was sponsored by Arc Games and used in-development footage.

The busiest upload right now is another construction project: "Engineering a SKYSCRAPER CITY was my best idea yet!", part of Timberborners Season 16's beaver-tower build. Train scrapping follows it, while the original Find The Needle outing continues attracting more daily views than its sequel.

Across the channel, daily viewing is modestly above its usual level, while subscribers held steady. OperatorDrewski is also drawing a larger-than-usual daily audience in the simulation and strategy neighborhood; lilsimsie's viewing is close to its customary pace. For RCE, the haystack has become more than a one-off curiosity: the original "This game nearly broke me..." is approaching three million views.

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The videos drawing views on Real Civil Engineer right now

A game about digging a hole... ON MARS!?486,833 views · 2026-10-12 This is a totally ethical fishing game...323,976 views · 2026-10-13 Scrapping ABANDONED TRAINS for huge profit!313,605 views · 2026-10-15 I recreated the ENTIRE WORLD in Cities Skylines 2!281,550 views · 2026-10-14 This game took over 10 YEARS to make... Order Of The Sinking Star!263,318 views · 2026-10-10 Engineering a SKYSCRAPER CITY was my best idea yet!129,978 views This game nearly broke me...2,851,114 views

The numbers

Here is how Real Civil Engineer's week adds up.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Real Civil Engineer

7,201,455

WolfeyVGC

4,639,066

Here's Johnny

3,616,091

lilsimsie

2,825,370

The Spiffing Brit

2,336,301

ambiguousamphibian

1,698,363

OperatorDrewski

1,154,567

Oxhorn

1,115,949

Vixella

230,280

subscribers

2,880,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,204,948,088

views per day

1,047,143

typical day: 918,362

first-day views of each video posted this week

Is this the most efficient way to find …

748,377

A game about digging a hole... ON MARS!?

293,140

This is a totally ethical fishing game.…

235,147

Scrapping ABANDONED TRAINS for huge pro…

255,383

I recreated the ENTIRE WORLD in Cities …

210,167

This game took over 10 YEARS to make...…

169,452

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

The Spiffing Brit

4,490,000

Here's Johnny

3,680,000

Real Civil Engineer

2,880,000

WolfeyVGC

2,390,000

OperatorDrewski

2,330,000

lilsimsie

2,240,000

Oxhorn

1,770,000

Vixella

1,700,000

ambiguousamphibian

1,680,000

As of October 17, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.