Ship components?

[Vinny Letrush]

Hi I’m new to SE I’m building a ship on Star System and im asking what are the basic things I should put in the ship? (I’m making a big one).

[casualsailor]

Large grid or small grid it doesn't matter. You need:

1) Controls: Cockpit / Flight Seat / Command Seat / Remote Block (At least one)
2) Power: Reactor / Batteries (technically Solar panels but they don't provide enough juice for flight) Either or both.
3) Gyroscope: Without this you cannot turn
4) Thrusters in all 6 directions.

Edit: On Large Grid ships make sure you put a medbay so if you lose your ship you can suicide and respawn on it to find it or if you die you can respawn on it since without a waypoint you won't know where it is.

On Small Grid ships put an antenna and set it to max distance broadcast for the same reason, i.e. if die you can find your ship.

Everything else is pretty much optional. Look at the workshop for more ideas than I can type in a hour.

Edit 2:

Understand the different type of thrusters before you put atmos on a space ship or ions on a aircraft and can't move it.

http://spaceengineerswiki.com/Thruster

[Vinny Letrush]

Thanks this will help a lot!

[Vinny Letrush]

One last thing: the reactors need plutonium, so where can I find some?

[casualsailor]

Originally posted by ggnore76:

One last thing: the reactors need plutonium, so where can I find some?

Uranium like all the other ore can be found on asteroids, planets and moons. On asteroids it will appear as a black ore on the surface and is easily seen. On planets/moons it will be found with the other ore in dark patches.


Use your hand drill or build a drill ship to extract it. Check out the workshop for examples of drill ships.

Also, check out Splitie's channel for the most up-to-date tutorials.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Crbon9_pHDEXm5aKHTeAQ

[Vinny Letrush]

K thx