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TutoredSpider12 Jul 10, 2019 @ 5:40pm
How to expand your ship?
I have no idea how you're supposed to get more room on your spaceship
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Originally posted by Radiosity:
Have you done Esther's first quest?

As for upgrading, it works like this: you find a friendly settlement on a planet, talk to one of the people with a yellow ! over them, complete their quest. Do this a few times, and one of them will offer to join your crew. Talk to that person and accept to have them join. Now do this again to get a second crew member. At that point you can upgrade your ship to the next level by talking to Pete and giving him 2 upgrade modules.

Keep doing this and you can keep upgrading. You need 4 crew for the next upgrade, then 6, and so on until you have the 12 max.

OR, you can skip the quests and buy the upgrades from the penguin in the ark (just to the left of Pete) for pixels, but that's expensive (10,000 for the first upgrade, they get more expensive after that). But you'll still need the upgrade modules to actually upgrade the ship each time.
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battlesteel Jul 10, 2019 @ 6:10pm 
yea if you wanna "upgrade" your ship you gotta cough up alot of pixels, about 11000 pixels for the first upgrade, just buy a fake ______ license from the mysterious guy near penguin pete
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Fryskar Jul 10, 2019 @ 10:45pm 
Both not too correct.
Post 1 is only if you use the BYOS mod (or its predecessor) which allows you to build freely your own ship (after unlocking the free build mode).

Post 2 misses the fact that you can do it with getting crewmembers.
You can either do quest and hire crewmembers (or buy them) or you can bypass the need and buy a fake license to bypass each crewsize check.

If you play vanilla, get crew, don't waste pixels on buying upgrading licenses for your ship.
You need either way still upgrade modules to upgrade your ship and its an easier way to get them by looting any settlements.
Last edited by Fryskar; Jul 10, 2019 @ 10:48pm
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TutoredSpider12 Jul 11, 2019 @ 9:39am 
I have some upgrade modules, but I don't know how to use them
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battlesteel Jul 11, 2019 @ 9:59am 
if you want, you can go and get a license and it will use up the upgrade modules automatically
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Fryskar Jul 11, 2019 @ 10:05am 
Originally posted by TutoredSpider12:
I have some upgrade modules, but I don't know how to use them

Penguin Pete at the outpost (the trader right after 2 stop tele, outside of the outpost).

Originally posted by battlesteel:
if you want, you can go and get a license and it will use up the upgrade modules automatically
Pretty sure it doesn't work that way. You still need to upgrade it after unlocking the upgrade.
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TutoredSpider12 Jul 11, 2019 @ 10:37am 
How do you get the guy that sells the licenses?
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Fryskar Jul 11, 2019 @ 10:51am 
Originally posted by TutoredSpider12:
How do you get the guy that sells the licenses?
The shady vendor outside of the outpost (near 2 stop tele).
its expensive.

You need to unlock each tier on its own.
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battlesteel Jul 11, 2019 @ 10:51am 
it should be near penguin pete in the shipping container
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TutoredSpider12 Jul 11, 2019 @ 1:28pm 
I'm new to this game. How do you unlock him? I assume it's the box with an anchor in it, but there's no one there. I'm also not that far in the game.
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Radiosity Jul 11, 2019 @ 1:41pm 
Have you done Esther's first quest?

As for upgrading, it works like this: you find a friendly settlement on a planet, talk to one of the people with a yellow ! over them, complete their quest. Do this a few times, and one of them will offer to join your crew. Talk to that person and accept to have them join. Now do this again to get a second crew member. At that point you can upgrade your ship to the next level by talking to Pete and giving him 2 upgrade modules.

Keep doing this and you can keep upgrading. You need 4 crew for the next upgrade, then 6, and so on until you have the 12 max.

OR, you can skip the quests and buy the upgrades from the penguin in the ark (just to the left of Pete) for pixels, but that's expensive (10,000 for the first upgrade, they get more expensive after that). But you'll still need the upgrade modules to actually upgrade the ship each time.
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