how do i recharge my ship's battery

[jyrsc]

stuck at flotilla and i have no idea how this works

[Xzystance:TTV]

There is no store to do pay to have it done, you have to either salvage batteries from other wrecks, otherwise, if your stuck with no power at the flotilla, you can uninstall your battery from you ship and install it on the station and the stations reactor will recharge it, you should then be able to uninstall it from the station and put it back on your ship

[madpraxis]

As a side note to the absolutely great advice given, always consider installing a secondary battery, or more then one, that is NOT hard connected to the ship. Throw a switch between your backup and the ship circuit. Why?

Cause its a great idea. And you *will* at some point lose track of time and strand your ass in space with a dead battery. Which, honestly, is an easy fix but its time consuming. Because you can catch a shuttle ride somewhere, either take or buy a battery there, and plug it in wherever to charge it before dragging it back home.... Or, just flip a switch and make a note not to be that kind of stupid again ;)

Note: None of this matters once you go big time and install a reactor. But at least this way you don't need to charge straight at that goal if you don't want :D

[jyrsc]

you're acting like i know how that works you're very funny

[jyrsc]

so i've tried connecting the battery to the reactor and a conduit but i only got a little charge before it stopped entirely, i'm using the side that has a power icon but i need a full battery to get anywhere reliably

[ThatCat]

Flot doesn't have charging station, you need to use PASS to go back to OKLG, buy a new battery, and then go back and install it.

[madpraxis]

Originally posted by ThatCat:

Flot doesn't have charging station, you need to use PASS to go back to OKLG, buy a new battery, and then go back and install it.

... Or just steal one from the flotilla from one of the (many) easy to hide in areas where nobody can see you that also have batteries.

[MayorMcWeed]

you can fill your batteries at the little fuel kiosk at K-leg fyi

[Mansen]

TLDR; Pirate lifestyle isn't really possible till you've got a functional reactor. And even then, you're in a bit of a pinch with not having access to KLEG for consistent topups of your reactor resources.

Hoping Flotilla and other stations get kiosk services (at a markup as needed to reflect their economy) down the road.

[tritton82]

The Ostrawiki FAQ covers options available to you.[ostranauts.wiki.gg]

[Mansen]

The options that the FAQ offer were all already provided btw.

[tritton82]

I know, but it's a resource that's underutilized imo and hopefully by linking to it as much as possible it'll cover these repeat questions.

[Mansen]

The wiki needs a lot of love to be worth visiting for the most part. Basically every single question I have asked on the Discord (and there's a lot) were after unsuccessfully using the Wiki.

Hoping to dedicate to time to turn a lot of them into better articles, even if stubs once I've explored more of the current content. :)