Cannot find freighter construction area

[Whatever]

Just got the first free freighter and trying to build the fleet command room. On pc keyboard I press Z key and get message "Must be inside freighter construction area." If I stand in front of captain and turn around, I see 3 sets of stairs illuminated by lights - left and right white lights and straight ahead past the big yellow ball thing its green lights. I tried all three ways and just end up outside on the freighter deck or back at the hanger at my starter ship.

Anyone give me a hint as to where the construction area is located?

I have done this in the past in another game play-through a long time ago and did not have any problems finding this construction room but cannot recall where it is. Thanks.

[Nettle]

Construction area is beyond the green-lit door.

[jazz3601]

the most recent update changed freighters so it's moved. for me it's exactly opposite the freighter captain as soon as you enter that door your in the buildable area this includes the deck

[NZ.Zero]

up the green stairs and just through the door - that corridor you can build out from (and you can delete the corridor but dont recommend you do that until youre used to the build parts)

[Whatever]

I went up the stairs illuminated by green horizontal lights and immediately in front of me is a door (opening) illuminated by green lights on left top and right side. I go through it must go left or right - nothing straight ahead but the wall. Right leads to a small room with harvestable plants - frost wort etc.

If I go left I pass into a very small room with a rotating ball thingy on a pedestal made of two rings. Further I continue and hallway makes immediate right and straight ahead is a non-illuminated door leading out onto the freighter deck. If I stay inside and continue I must make an immediate right and continue and the hall leads right back to the room with the captain and the big yellow ball thingy.

Been at it for over an hour and cannot find the construction room.

Ok thanks for responses. I'll follow the suggestions. Thanks

[The Knowledge Seeker]

When you are in that area with the spinning ball thing, press the Z button (pc) or what ever your build button is :)

[NZ.Zero]

Originally posted by Whatever:

I.. a door (opening) illuminated by green lights on left top and right side. I go through it .

ok, at that point press the Z key (on PC) and youll be in build mode... select a corridor or something to build and start looking around and things should become clear ..

if its still not clear, look up NMS new freighter base on you tube

[Whatever]

Ok - went there and pressed z on my pc keyboard and got construction options. Nice. I should be good now. Thanks for help.

[wkitty42]

what i did was to extend that corridor from the green stairs on back... i plan to move the outside area and make its current location more growing areas... just past the room with the ball, i placed 9 or 12 industrial rooms for a large open floor area... then i added the teleport, scanner, and frigate mission terminals around the left and outer edge of this room... the right side of the room has the refiner(s) and trade terminal... i'll be moving that room with the ball so there's only one entrance into this open floor room...

further down that central corridor, i added another corridor to the left two or three sections long and placed the stellar extractor at the end of it... that think is noisy and annoying after a time... i'll be adding the storage containers along the right side of this corridor in another expansion room area...

that's just the start... i'm sure i'll revise is more as i go... i mainly wanted the teleport and the scanner as near the bridge as i could get them followed by the mission terminals...

something like this (awful) ASCII drawing...

      ------------------------------------------      -----------
      |mission    mission    mission   mission |      | stellar |
      |terminal   terminal   terminal  terminal|      |extractor|
      |                                        |   -------   ------
      |           open    open   open          |   | s  |  c  |  s |
      |mission    room    room   room          |   | t  |  o  |  t |
      |terminal   area    area   area          |   | o  |  r  |  o |
      |                                        |   | r     r     r |
      |           open    open   open          |   | a  |  i  |  a |
      |mission    room    room   room          |   | g  |  d  |  g |
      |terminal   area    area   area          |   | e  |  o  |  e |
      |                                        |   |- --|  r  |-- -|
      |           open    open   open          |   | s  |     |  s |
      |mission    room    room   room          |   | t  |     |  t |
      |terminal   area    area   area          |   | o  |  c  |  o |
      |                                        |   | r     o     r |
      |           open    open   open          |   | a  |  r  |  a |
      |mission    room    room   room          |   | g  |  r  |  g |
      |terminal   area    area   area          |   | e  |  i  |  e |
      |                                        |   |- --|  d  |-- -|
      |           open    open   open          |   | s  |  o  |  s |
      |scanner    room    room   room   refiner|   | t  |  r  |  t |
      |  room     area    area   area    room  |   | o  |     |  o |
      |                                        |   | r           r |
      |           open    open   open   trade  |   | a  |     |  a |
      |teleport   room    room   room  terminal|   | g  |     |  g |
      |  room     area    area   area          |   | e  |     |  e |
      ---   ---------------   ----------------------------   ------|
bridge  corridor  corridor  corridor  corridor  corridor corridor  |  future outside
      ---   --------   --------------------------------------------|      area
       | grow |  |outside |                                             platform 
       | room |  |  area  |
       |      |  |platform|
       | grow |  |        |
       | room |  |        |
       --------  ----------

the grow rooms will be all along the bottom to balance out the open room and working areas at the top... the whole outside area platform moved to the far right and spread out up and down across both open room and grow room areas... there's room for a few more refiner rooms on the right side of the open area, too... i think this will work nicely... i've not even thought about a 2nd level or higher... yet...

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by wkitty42:

i think this will work nicely... i've not even thought about a 2nd level or higher... yet...

yeah... about that

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2887244021
i now divide the build area into four equal quadrants with decking modules... two rows of double grow rooms on both far sides, left and right, and also on the 2nd deck level... sometimes on a 3rd level, too...

right off the bridge is my large open tech room with Frigate mission terminals on both sides going in... teleport, sales terminal, scanner, etc are spread out in here... maybe internal stairs up to 2nd level...

i keep the central and axial deck lanes of the quadrants clear of blockage, other than hatches, all the way to the very back and sides of the ship... definitely external stairs used outside the rooms from deck level to deck level... occasionally maybe an SRT from 1st level up to 3rd or 4th if it can reach...