Find my 2nd ship again if broken??

[Jacra]

I have found a crashed ship that is badly damaged, close-ish to my home base and added it to my collection to repair and then switch later as my primary one. Unfortunately I got into my primary ship to fly it back to my base, was then planing to walk back to my second one, repair the engines, then fly it to my base too.
Unfortunately the planet is not exactly full of landmarks and I have lost my bearing on the flight back with my primary one and my secondary broken one does not show with C or F scanner??
How do I find my second ship??

[swg8313]

Hit the x key then scroll over to the summon icon (looks like a syringe) hit tie up arrow the the right arrow to scroll to the group of 3 ships icon hit the up arrow it should be there.

[causeofentropy]

Apparently, freighters are the answer. I was in a similar boat until I got one. A couple warps later and I noticed my non-functional ship was magically in the hanger bay. There's a few other threads about this floating around, so I'm calling this an undocumented feature?

Nota bene - if your ship's still busted, summoning as swg8313 suggests won't work. Although I've seen some people say you get one freebie and I kinda vaguely recall summoning it to a landing pad but it certainly didn't work the second time. If it does work, fix it immediately. Otherwise, check your freighter.

[Jacra]

I've no freighter yet but I guess that means I have something to look forward to ... Thanks.

[TomHud™]

you can recall a broken ship to u anytime regardless of what planet u on
Just hit x and summon it

[Jacra]

Says it can't. No engine nor fuel.

[Texas Pete]

Similar situation here. I landed next to a broken ship, repaired it and took it home.
When I tried to recall my old ship, it’s out of fuel. I have NO idea where it is now. I’ll be experimenting tonight so if I come across anything, I’ll report back with it.

[DukeSatan]

i found so long as your on the planet of the broken ship you can spawn it, but the simplest option is to make a base computer, put it down by the wreck, claim the wreck AND the base land, then you can come back anytime, even add a teleporter on a wood square floor if needed.

[Kaydin]

so i know this was a year ago, but i just had the same issue, i located a crashed ship, and built a base right beside it, i logged off for the night and got back on a day later and its not there. where would the ship be if i have no freighter?

[IFV enjoyer]

Originally posted by Kaydin910:

so i know this was a year ago, but i just had the same issue, i located a crashed ship, and built a base right beside it, i logged off for the night and got back on a day later and its not there. where would the ship be if i have no freighter?

I have the same issue

[Jacra]

I have a freighter by now and it is as people said, it is loaded onto the freighter hangar - even if you don't yet have a freighter. But you get a freighter for free pretty early if you do the system jumps and then help the freighter in distress. Once you use a teleporter any of those ships is there. The moment you claim them and leave the area they are whisked away to your freighter, even your future one. :D

[DirkSchulze]

If I did not mark the ship with a becon, it will be lost forever if I did not fix the base components. Can not you target such a ship with a radio signal in the future after update

[Jacra]

The ship will be automatically in your freighter, repaired or not.

[Don]

I just had the same problem, and i could just summon it back even though the thrusters were broken. So summoning does work for anyone wondering.

[s.ballgame]

I just had the same problem. Cannot summon it back on the same planet or other planets.

There's a lot this game just doesn't tell you and you have to figure out the hard way :(

[quiescentCeez]

Old thread it seems.. but for the record I've had this problem too. (summoning ships (via x) but cant due to broken engine/gas/etc)
Found a crashed ship and claimed it but did not repair it and just left with my old current ship. Went back to base but couldn't summon the crashed ship to my base/location. At the time I logged(quit the game) out since had no time to figure out why I couldn't summon. I was able to summon my other ships though.
Hours past an logged back in and tried to summon ship again and it worked.

So i would try first to save then just reload the save and see if you can summon it and if that doesn't work, than the old log out and log in trick and summon it. The latter workaround worked for me although i didn't tested the first workaround due to time constraints.