How to choose which Hab connects to another Hab

[[BR1] jaws9000x]

When designing your ship, how do you control which hab has a doorway into another hab. For instance I will have 4 habs all connected in a square (where 2 are not touching but diagonal to each other) and I want the doorway to go a certain way

[Corrancarpenter]

I'd like to know as well.
I'm having a problem with habs not linking to one another (I put 2 3x1 on top of each other and they don't link vertically).

[lagrangewei]

the neat thing is you don't. only thing you can do is to make that hab only connect to 1 other hab

[shlizzrd]

You don't. It sucks so much, but there is no way to dictate where ladders and doors are placed inside you ship habs.

[AGENTMOO]

I would love to adjust the interiors of my ships. Maybe a mod someday?

[Zy Soua]

You don't need to "choose". It is a matter of convenience when you are inside your ship. WORKSHOP hab has all the workstations, all-in-one hab has research station and navigation table. Other habs are mostly useless. Best cockpits are the one with 4 crew stations and the one with 8 crew stations. They are most wide, but the one with 4 has limited view area for battle.

Each piece of the ship should be weighted by mass as you put them together. The lighter it is the better. If you can find the lighter piece with better crew capacity/thrust/cargo space/etc for some extra credits or cheaper - use it, because it will allow you extra ship speed/LY speed and crew space the lighter your ship is.

[Lofty]

Originally posted by Zy Soua:

You don't need to "choose". It is a matter of convenience when you are inside your ship. WORKSHOP hab has all the workstations, all-in-one hab has research station and navigation table. Other habs are mostly useless. Best cockpits are the one with 4 crew stations and the one with 8 crew stations. They are most wide, but the one with 4 has limited view area for battle.

Each piece of the ship should be weighted by mass as you put them together. The lighter it is the better. If you can find the lighter piece with better crew capacity/thrust/cargo space/etc for some extra credits or cheaper - use it, because it will allow you extra ship speed/LY speed and crew space the lighter your ship is.

That wasn't the question. The question is to choose how habs connect to one another. When making the ship, it seems to be entirely random how habs connect to one another, other than of course it choosing between a point of contact with another hab. For example, you might place a hab next to another hab and above another hab, and you can't be certain whether it will get a ladder to it, or a door.

[RainyDay]

To control connections you need to add habs directly to the connection point rather than dragging and dropping them in. To do this, hover over the connection point and hit "g" to "attach" this will bring up a list of pieces that work with that specific connection point. You will notice when connecting habs that different variants and brands will have different positioning. I think this is because some positions on the habs will just never be able to be doors due to what's there on the interior. So you will need to choose the right habs to connect to that point in the position you prefer.

To make this trickier, it appears the "attach" option is missing on controller. You will need to use a keyboard to do it or bind a key to "g" on your controller (like on the steam deck)

[Twinky]

If all else fails, you might try using the 1x1 companionway/storage room modules to force a ladder or door connection.

[Ganjo]

YOU CANNOT CONTROL WHRE/IF A CONNECTION IS MADE. Building off another piece DOES NOT SET A DOORWAY OR CONNECTION. Using 1x1 companion modules DOES NOT FORCE A CONNECTION. Most modules can ONLY HAVE 1 CONNECTION from a single side. Some have 2 but you have no clue where they will connect.
Bethesda WILL NEVER FIX THIS. They will leave it to the modders just like they did in Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout 4.

[Dawn Wolf]

Originally posted by AGENTMOO:

I would love to adjust the interiors of my ships. Maybe a mod someday?

There is a way to decorate and design the interior. I don't how in depth it is, but apparently there's a piece you can get later on that allows you to customize your interiors.

[Zerberr]

Use store rooms 1x1 to connect Habs vertically.

[DANEDANGER]

The blue icons ontop of the habs you see when building are telling you something, i do not know them all yet but for example- blue circle with square in it is a weapons mount

[VladK02]

no way to control that I could see, but you can work around: building using 1x1 connectors as intermediaries works. As is attaching modules to one point only, so that they have no choice. 40 meters is quite a lot of room to play with, so its okay if modules arent touching directly.

[Topper]

I just build hubs in a tube configuration with only 1 overlapping. So there's the ramp with the air lock facing upwards. I put a hab over it, the ladder goes into that hab. Put the cockpit in front and branch to the left and right for two rows of habs (lets call them tubes.) You can put cargo container between those tubes to fill up the space. One level above, only one tube, in the middle lane, so there's no connection to the other tubes.
You can build a giant behemoth using more tubes on either side, I stick to only three of them because of weight.

[AGENTMOO]

Originally posted by Arytiss the Dawnwolf:

Originally posted by AGENTMOO:

I would love to adjust the interiors of my ships. Maybe a mod someday?

There is a way to decorate and design the interior. I don't how in depth it is, but apparently there's a piece you can get later on that allows you to customize your interiors.

Don't know what your talking about. I haven't finished the game yet though.

There was this article from PC gamer:

https://www.pcgamer.com/decorate-the-inside-of-your-starfield-ship-to-your-hearts-desire-with-one-simple-console-command/