Tricks for making doors or ladders?

[Lochar]

I can't tell if this is a glitch , but when I modified the razor leaf I took out the 3x1 , hab and made 2 2x1 habs with a companionway above the companyway entrance, hoping for 1 ladder access.

But it builds it weird, I either get

A. No door to hab at bottom which has to be accessed via the ladder and then down to next hab in back via ladder

B, I can access door to bottom hab but lose door to top hab from 2nd floor companionway and need ladder at bottom to access it.

Also moved Entrance to F

Not sure if this is confusing but will try to make basic diagram

H - Hab
C - Companionway
x- Blocked section
P- Cockpit
E Entrance


A. P H C H
E CxH

B. P H CxH
E C H

The is a side entrance entrance btw

[wtiger27]

Create a ship which has no ladders. It can be done. The doors however, takes several tries before making a layout you will like. Trying different Habs. Save the game before you do. Then when you have no red warning from the ship builder, make it your home ship and pay it a visit. If it sucks, load your save game and try it again.

I do not know of anyway to look at the Hab connections to see how the doors will act in them. I have had some Habs not even be accessible and it still passed the Modification warning. :P Trial and error has been the way I got what I wanted. If anyone knows of a different method, I would love to know it.

[Lochar]

There are no warnings and this is first time ever had this pop up in modding ships. I know ladder placement is iffy but first time ever had a companionway not make a doorway.

Yeah I can make no ladder ships but tried to keep Razorleaf fairly similiar , I just figured using companionways would force the only ladder spot , but I can put back to original form if need be.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Lochar:

There are no warnings and this is first time ever had this pop up in modding ships. I know ladder placement is iffy but first time ever had a companionway not make a doorway.

Yeah I can make no ladder ships but tried to keep Razorleaf fairly similiar , I just figured using companionways would force the only ladder spot , but I can put back to original form if need be.

Well good luck on your building adventures. They need to add a way so the player can preview the inside of your ship before you finalize a Hab change. Also the cargo being transferred all the time when you make a simple change, is ridiculous.

Every time that happens, you end up with a bunch of useless additional crap in your storage, like the other day, I checked and had 70 barbells. Which weigh 10 each. Who the hell would need 70 barbells on a ship? ;p I ended up selling the useless crap, which can build up a lot if you do a lot of changes to your ship.

And yeah, you can get no warning from the ship builder and yet end up with a sucky Hab layout.

[Pinoy_Daddy]

I saw a thread here that talked about building the ship from the bottom up HOW you want it to flow. I think companion ways/storage will always have a ladder, but I tried the method of building from bottom, placing the next piece I want the ladder to be next, then the next piece I want the ladder in above it and it worked. I got my ladders in the spots I was expecting.

They also need is a way to add stairs inside habs, especially the round ones, I made a 6 story hab but had a ton of those 2 story ugly green ones all over the place.

[Lochar]

Originally posted by Meat_Popsicle:

I saw a thread here that talked about building the ship from the bottom up HOW you want it to flow. I think companion ways/storage will always have a ladder, but I tried the method of building from bottom, placing the next piece I want the ladder to be next, then the next piece I want the ladder in above it and it worked. I got my ladders in the spots I was expecting.

They also need is a way to add stairs inside habs, especially the round ones, I made a 6 story hab but had a ton of those 2 story ugly green ones all over the place.

I will try bottom up but I figured companionway to companionway would do it, and it did but wasn't expecting the companionway to block a door and then force a 2nd set of ladders to get to it.

[DaiShan011]

There are modules you can use to force doorways. They are the Nova galactic crosspieces and spines. This video explains it all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qp_8AlLao4&list=PLpJBBKPyZSf8RacmXPayfMuDjN_A8G4n3&index=13&t=601s

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by HondoXP:

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Create a ship which has no ladders. It can be done. The doors however, takes several tries before making a layout you will like. Trying different Habs. Save the game before you do. Then when you have no red warning from the ship builder, make it your home ship and pay it a visit. If it sucks, load your save game and try it again.

I do not know of anyway to look at the Hab connections to see how the doors will act in them. I have had some Habs not even be accessible and it still passed the Modification warning. :P Trial and error has been the way I got what I wanted. If anyone knows of a different method, I would love to know it.

You can replace and move habs all day long at no cost. Only when you add a hab does it cost credits.
You can swap any 2X2, or a 2x3 for a 2x2 and compainionway. Deimos, Nova, doesnt matter. Once you own that hab space you can modify to your hearts content.

Thanks. But I know that. It still does not address the issue of not being sure how the doors will be for the Habs.