Crashed ships

[Erek]

Started on the moon, saw a Spart-signal coming to a position in 3.5 km and not moving anymore.
Many days later I had a vehicle to go to that signal, found a crashed ship and nearby a second but without power or antenna, so no signal.
Is that a seldom event or do SPART-ships frequently crash?

[Erek]

Maybe that was one that broke into parts?

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Could be it went too close and didnt have the thtust to get out. There was a problem with that on earth aswell a while back but they sorted it out. Maybe its back.

Do you have any mods that add different enemies? Maybe some arent as capable in low moon grav as the vanilla ones :)

[Erek]

Only darknessmod "Space just got real", none else. Is a great gain (more then 10 t of salvage material picked up from the ground, a storagecontainer has components for ion thrusters, two intact ion thrusters,
not so bad.
200 m distance, maybe from the same ship?

[Buzzard]

SPRT is the faction tag for the Space Pirates. Those brief flashes from a beacon are due to a timer setup that turns on said beacon (usually a 'Mayday', but can be blank in certain cases) for a couple seconds, then off for 1-5 minutes.

As to what you'll find when you track those down... well, sometimes you'll find really cool things left behind by those who knew they weren't going to make it home, and sometimes... you brought guns, right?

Now if one were to park their ship (with plenty of automated guns) just outside of turret range (800m or so) then jetpack over to see what's going on, then, possibly, the ship could be safe-ish along with the medbay/survival kit.

[RoofCat]

There are all kind of crashed pirates. Some in space, some crashed into an asteroid, some of them easily recognized as repeating, some no idea as I haven't bothered too much about them. Because those maydays tend to shoot. While don't offer much in return.

Always have camera on your ship as that one can zoom in to evaluate weapons and value of the salvage.

You can ignore everything that doesn't have ion engines. There is almost zero value in salvaging hydrogen ship. Easier to mine those materials and just build as you need than run around, fight off the stupid guns on dead ships just to salvage piece by piece pretty useless plates and pipes.
Ions on the other hand are very time intensive to build yourself due to all the cobalt and platinum and then the assembler speed for thruster parts. Also ion ships might have uranium. At least those still flying. While hydrogen ships don't have any reason to have any at all.

[AIM-9X]

in the DLC update. (If you have it) some ships/drones tend to attack each other. So... that could have happened due to some drone bases attacking nearby cargo ships. Or the premade/generated crashes. Though I have only these crashes in space.

[AIM-9X]

Originally posted by RoofCat:

There are all kind of crashed pirates. Some in space, some crashed into an asteroid, some of them easily recognized as repeating, some no idea as I haven't bothered too much about them. Because those maydays tend to shoot. While don't offer much in return.

Always have camera on your ship as that one can zoom in to evaluate weapons and value of the salvage.

You can ignore everything that doesn't have ion engines. There is almost zero value in salvaging hydrogen ship. Easier to mine those materials and just build as you need than run around, fight off the stupid guns on dead ships just to salvage piece by piece pretty useless plates and pipes.
Ions on the other hand are very time intensive to build yourself due to all the cobalt and platinum and then the assembler speed for thruster parts. Also ion ships might have uranium. At least those still flying. While hydrogen ships don't have any reason to have any at all.

Hydrogen ships can be quite useful. On the moon some of the only places to get ice is on the poles. Just with a rover (which is sometimes your only choice) it would take a long time to travel to the poles depending on where you spawn.

[Buzzard]

I've been known to go out to those and harvest... everything. Downed ship, grind it. Trap of some sort, shoot, then grind. Dug-in base in a rock, drill away enough rock and grind everything.

Of course, I also maintain a shipyard gantry that can go through mountains of materials in mere moments, so...

[RoofCat]

Originally posted by The Pickaxe Gamer:

Hydrogen ships can be quite useful. On the moon some of the only places to get ice is on the poles. Just with a rover (which is sometimes your only choice) it would take a long time to travel to the poles depending on where you spawn.

wtf are you talking about? We are talking about crashed pirate ships in space.

Also regarding Moon - ice can be found underground as well like any ore just like on Earth afaik.

[AIM-9X]

Originally posted by RoofCat:

Originally posted by The Pickaxe Gamer:

Hydrogen ships can be quite useful. On the moon some of the only places to get ice is on the poles. Just with a rover (which is sometimes your only choice) it would take a long time to travel to the poles depending on where you spawn.

wtf are you talking about? We are talking about crashed pirate ships in space.

Also regarding Moon - ice can be found underground as well like any ore just like on Earth afaik.

I am quoting on you because you said to not care about scrapping hydrogen thrusters/tanks and telling that you should.

[Buzzard]

Parts is parts. Components can be converted back into ingots, to be remade into whatever parts are needed for the project at hand.
Besides, if it's sitting there in space, it's taking up computer time/resources running timers, inventory, power, etc. If it's ground into pieces, it's just another number inside a container somewhere.

[RoofCat]

Originally posted by The Pickaxe Gamer:

Originally posted by RoofCat:

wtf are you talking about? We are talking about crashed pirate ships in space.

Also regarding Moon - ice can be found underground as well like any ore just like on Earth afaik.

I am quoting on you because you said to not care about scrapping hydrogen thrusters/tanks and telling that you should.

Did you read my original argument? You can build hydrogen ships from low amount of cobalt and some iron you can make from stone everywhere. While ion engines require high amount of cobalt, gold and platinum. Platinum is slow and also low yield ore. Cobalt is just slow. And then thruster components are also slow to produce. Nothing in hydrogen thrusters is as slow nor expensive. I'm not saying hydrogen ships are bad. I'm just saying you will probably make new one from "stone" faster than wasting your time on salvaging crap. Which is rather not the case for ions. I often ignore everything on those ships but thruster components from ion thrusters. Just leaving the rest.
Repairing the stuff makes hardly any sense and even captured flying ones I usually redesign. Which means tearing apart and then rebuilding would often take more time than just building from scratch and taking just the most valuable and slowest to make parts.
Also game engine won't stop spawning/spamming more crap just because you salvaged one. That can turn into dog chasing his own tail rather quickly.