Can’t get an abandoned ship to fly

[Jeff]

Found a same faction abandoned ship. Ion thrusters are all on, but can’t get it to move.

Any ideas?

[TheHellKat]

Is the ship in space or on land. If it's on land it might have voxels in it.

Also go into the control panel, select everything and set it's ownership to you.

[ShadedMJ]

It looks like a ship, but may be a station. Did it move before?

[Commander_Black]

does it have enuff thrust to move?
It is in ship mode or station mode?
Does it have voxel cliping through?
Does it have a gravity anchor?

[DopePope]

Ion thrusters only work in space .. and if the ship is under the ground it will not move at all .. you have to grind it down and use the components to build a ship :)

[frag2k4]

Ship might be a station, when sat in a chair does it give you weight numbers in the bottom right near the power and hydrogen bars of the grid or does it stay station, if it says station press K go to info and click convert to ship and see what happens.

Does the ship have a landing gear? If so that will hold the ship in place, switch lock of this and move away quickly or turn off auto lock and then unlock.

If it is a station and can't be converted this means there is voxel inside some of the blocks, you are likely going to need to dismantle the entire ship because while you might clear everything from inside armour cubes and such there could be small fragments in small pockets of space and while you can convert the craft to a ship, moving will almost always tear apart your ship violently.

If ion thrusters, is it on planet? They only work somewhere between 20 and 30% so might not move your craft at all, though this is less likely since it should still move somewhat in various directions.

[Jeff]

As I said before, the ship is abandoned and drifting in space when I found it. I've taken ownership. All systems working and I've repaired any damage. Ion thrusters all working and turned on, but I just can't move it past with the gyros.

[frag2k4]

Can you blue print it and share it here? Or maybe share the world save if possible, easier to trouble shoot from inside the save/ship.

[DopePope]

I believe you need to grind down and weld all the blocks that control the ship .. antenna, cockpit ,remote control programmable block .. should be able to take it over and fly it after

[Jeff]

Gonna try that, DopePope. If that doesn’t work I’ll post the file.

[Jeff]

Grinding down past the computer on two assemblers, two vents, three doors and the control seat gave me access to propulsion. It may have just needed the control seat that did it.

So now I can fly the ship. Thanks for all the help!