Shipbuilding while docked

[Bags77]

I'm now at a stage where i would like to explore ship building by expanding my starter ship. And this may be a stupid question, but: is there a way to go EVA while being docked at a station? I can't find another airlock at the station i could use, which feels a bit strange. Can i somehow add another airlock to my ship?

[Joshu]

You can use a normal internal door externally! You just cant dock to the normal doors

[Bags77]

Escrito originalmente por Joshu:

You can use a normal internal door externally! You just cant dock to the normal doors

Ok great. But can i then recreate an "Airlock-Behaviour" with depressurize/repressurize that room or will i loose the atmosphere every time someone uses it?

[gulegule]

You can recreate it with air pumps

[tritton82]

Escrito originalmente por Bags77:

Escrito originalmente por Joshu:

You can use a normal internal door externally! You just cant dock to the normal doors

Ok great. But can i then recreate an "Airlock-Behaviour" with depressurize/repressurize that room or will i loose the atmosphere every time someone uses it?

Totally! There are a couple of ships you can use for inspiration such as the Bulk Loader or Heavy Tug (there's a full ship guide in guides) they have secondary airlocks that work exactly the same way as the primary airlock!

[Bags77]

Escrito originalmente por tritton82:

Escrito originalmente por Bags77:

Ok great. But can i then recreate an "Airlock-Behaviour" with depressurize/repressurize that room or will i loose the atmosphere every time someone uses it?

Totally! There are a couple of ships you can use for inspiration such as the Bulk Loader or Heavy Tug (there's a full ship guide in guides) they have secondary airlocks that work exactly the same way as the primary airlock!

hey, thanks for the replay. But not sure if i get it. As far as i see all i need is a room with 2 doors and a pump from the room into another room or canister. The pump needs to be set to auto.
However, i did that and it does not seem to work. Whenever the outdoor door gets opened i see this kind of "atmosphere" steam leaving the room.
It also doesn't really compute in my brain. For an actual airlock i would need for sure another pump into the other direction and some kind of pressure sensor? I would also assume that the doors would need to have some kind of configuration/logic to tell them when they are allowed to open (no pressure for the outdoor door and >20kp for the indoor door)?

By the way, wasn't able to find a good guide for ship building. There are some explaining the rooms or what constitutes a breathable atmo. But nothing really explaining the more indepth mechanics. Maybe i missed it somewhere

[tritton82]

Escrito originalmente por Bags77:

hey, thanks for the replay. But not sure if i get it. As far as i see all i need is a room with 2 doors and a pump from the room into another room or canister. The pump needs to be set to auto.
However, i did that and it does not seem to work. Whenever the outdoor door gets opened i see this kind of "atmosphere" steam leaving the room.
It also doesn't really compute in my brain. For an actual airlock i would need for sure another pump into the other direction and some kind of pressure sensor? I would also assume that the doors would need to have some kind of configuration/logic to tell them when they are allowed to open (no pressure for the outdoor door and >20kp for the indoor door)?

By the way, wasn't able to find a good guide for ship building. There are some explaining the rooms or what constitutes a breathable atmo. But nothing really explaining the more indepth mechanics. Maybe i missed it somewhere

I think it's important to point out that there is no automatic airlock right now, purely manual (or manual+ with signal boxes). Having the pump set to 'auto' just means that it'll pump when connected to an O2, N2, or CO2 alarm to their pre-set requirements.

I wrote a thing about airlocks on the ostranauts reddit a while back: Airlocks: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vacuum

And here's a link to an atmosphere primer

[dbfletch]

you can also hack the airlock door to the left of the Supplies Kiosk then go EVA while docked

[Myst Leissa]

Escrito originalmente por dbfletch:

you can also hack the airlock door to the left of the Supplies Kiosk then go EVA while docked

This doesn't seem possible with te new OKLG design in the Public Beta, but it could just be the "Left of the Supply Kiosk" is just hidden from sight by the presence of other doors :P

[gulegule]

Yes, supplies used to be where the cargo terminal is (just left of your ships airlock). Just left of there is another empty airlock, if you hack the lock to the inner door and power the outer door you can get outside to do work on your ship's exterior.