Anyway to get a blender model from a ship I built?

[Bob the blue blob of goo]

Yeah, I am dreaming here, and would love to somehow get a blender model plus skin of my ship. I want to massage it and then 3D print it :) And, I want to then render it out and try to silk screen it on a shirt.

[VanGoghComplex]

You're not dreaming. Exporting a 3D model of a ship, complete with textures, is a function in the vanilla game.

Or at least it used to be. You'll have to search patch documentation to see how to use it. Not sure if it exports directly to a Blender compatible format, but it is a feature.

[DiabloDBS]

ctrl+alt+e when while targeting your ship will export it. They should be blender ready:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1312547590

Look out if you have modded blocks. They might crash the game and not export correctly.

[Ancient]

Be prepared to have a lot of cleanup to do on what the game exports. It does not export only the clean external faces but every face of every block including internal ones. This also means the exported UVs are generally useless and need redone manually to match the cleaned up model, though you don't need them at all for 3D printing but, you will if you want the model to have materials applied for a render.

[Bob the blue blob of goo]

Thanks, that should get me going in the right direction.