Customize Sentinel Minotaur?

[Meatball]

When I got the Minotaur exocraft it let me change the colors to my liking, but after applying the sentinel upgrades it no longer can change color and is stuck blue. I dont mind blue, but ive enjoyed getting color schemes matched to my character, is there a way to change it or no?

[Jaggid Edje]

If you do the Trace of Metal questline and install those hardframe upgrades, then the color is indeed locked and unchangeable, unfortunately. Your options, if you do want to change it's color, is to either remove all of those specific upgrades or use mods to reskin it.

There's a mod with a pretty wide variety of reskin options available, here[www.nexusmods.com] should you want to go that route.

[Guyver8]

the only way to re-colour the upgraded Minotaur at present is via a mod (i use it myself)
gMech Hardframe Exomech Reskins - New Colors for the Minotaur Mech

PS. this mod is a a visual mod involving texture & mask replacement and as such isn't likely to break with an update to the game
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2180
EDIT: ninja'd by JE Lol

[Jaggid Edje]

Haha, sorry @Guyver8.

I use the gold version with yellow light myself...right now at least, I tend to change it every few months.

[Guyver8]

@JE: mine's sporting the white evening wear with gold highlighted accents

[Comradovich]

Ever since "A trace of metal" went live with the Sentinel update, some of us have been speculating that they weren't done with bases and settlements. Like they gave you the tech now, because it fit with the Sentinel update theme more, but the customization options are being held back until some sort of big customization update happens. Or just some sort of big update that includes more customization options with whatever else they're giving us.

You'll notice right now that the "Type-B" space stations models are big on the speculation channels. If you play with the mod that forces these to spawn, (and assuming the mod itself isn't a Blender fake-out), then you can speculate a bit off the fact that the interiors of those space stations are unchanged from normal stations. Like one of them has a huge triangle hangar port... but the inside still seems exactly the same as a normal space station. This is complete with ships still clipping through the roof as they come in for a landing. The sort of thing you'd normally fix if you were redoing a station's model. If we assume that the models are genuine and have either accidentally been left in or HG purposefully left those breadcrumbs for us to find, then the lacking interior redesign might be a sign of a bigger update.

Now look back on Utopia, because one of the things this expedition did was show us that the Anomaly specific research tasks could be "untethered" from the Anomaly itself. Those utopia research stations aren't really new code, (one of the past base construction mods let us spawn sentinel walkers and quads from a sphere generator, so making an object with coded behaviors isn't new). However, if I were trying to lay ground for something bigger in the summer update, these little breadcrumbs would be where I started. It might be that we didn't get the interiors to "Type Bs" because the interior is where the MT, Exosuit and Starship expansion terminals currently are. That part isn't being leaked, because it'd be a big honkin' reveal if suddenly there's a big customization area where the dinky little stations are now. Or I could be off in the weeds...

Until then, I can only chime in that I've taken to calling my upgraded Minotaur, "The Mirth Mobile", because of the color. I like to ride it down from orbit with the enduring battlecry of my people: "Party on, Garth!" Feel free to join me.