How does the custom ship thing work?

[Darth Cervantes]

The thing at the space station where you can make them implies you can salvage parts off crashed ships? I'm at a crashed ship now and don't see any additional options. What am I missing?

[Garion X]

You can get parts from any ship you salvage or buy. You choose between scrap or take a part of the ship. If you want a part pick a C Class to not waste credits. The core you must buy at starship vendor. The ships must be assembled by 3 parts + core.

[[HYST] JDM12983]

You have to take the ship to a space station to salvage it.

Once there; you get to chose to keep ONE of three parts: cockpit, wings, or engines. You salvage that part and it's put like a resource into your inventory.

Once you have three parts needs for a ship [they must all come from the same ship type]. You buy a engine/hyper drive type from a ship dealer there [the same ones that sale upgrade parts for ships] and then you can assemble the ship.

Just note: You can only use those parts ONE TIME. So, get it right the first time or you have to get the parts all over again.


Personally dislike this system. You can only build the ship once - can't later edit it. And you have to collect tons of parts if you want to build anything more than once.

[Darth Cervantes]

Originally posted by HYST JDM12983:

You have to take the ship to a space station to salvage it.

Once there; you get to chose to keep ONE of three parts: cockpit, wings, or engines. You salvage that part and it's put like a resource into your inventory.

Once you have three parts needs for a ship [they must all come from the same ship type]. You buy a engine/hyper drive type from a ship dealer there [the same ones that sale upgrade parts for ships] and then you can assemble the ship.

Just note: You can only use those parts ONE TIME. So, get it right the first time or you have to get the parts all over again.


Personally dislike this system. You can only build the ship once - can't later edit it. And you have to collect tons of parts if you want to build anything more than once.

so if i get a certain type of wing. I have to scrap a different ship with that same type of wing over again if i want to make a 2nd ship with that particular wing?

[[HYST] JDM12983]

Originally posted by Darth Cervantes:

Originally posted by HYST JDM12983:

You have to take the ship to a space station to salvage it.

Once there; you get to chose to keep ONE of three parts: cockpit, wings, or engines. You salvage that part and it's put like a resource into your inventory.

Once you have three parts needs for a ship [they must all come from the same ship type]. You buy a engine/hyper drive type from a ship dealer there [the same ones that sale upgrade parts for ships] and then you can assemble the ship.

Just note: You can only use those parts ONE TIME. So, get it right the first time or you have to get the parts all over again.


Personally dislike this system. You can only build the ship once - can't later edit it. And you have to collect tons of parts if you want to build anything more than once.

so if i get a certain type of wing. I have to scrap a different ship with that same type of wing over again if i want to make a 2nd ship with that particular wing?

Yep. Well, at least until people get the save editors updated to work with this new update; anyways.

[[HYST] JDM12983]

Originally posted by Darth Cervantes:

Originally posted by HYST JDM12983:

You have to take the ship to a space station to salvage it.

Once there; you get to chose to keep ONE of three parts: cockpit, wings, or engines. You salvage that part and it's put like a resource into your inventory.

Once you have three parts needs for a ship [they must all come from the same ship type]. You buy a engine/hyper drive type from a ship dealer there [the same ones that sale upgrade parts for ships] and then you can assemble the ship.

Just note: You can only use those parts ONE TIME. So, get it right the first time or you have to get the parts all over again.


Personally dislike this system. You can only build the ship once - can't later edit it. And you have to collect tons of parts if you want to build anything more than once.

so if i get a certain type of wing. I have to scrap a different ship with that same type of wing over again if i want to make a 2nd ship with that particular wing?

Basically; let's say you want to [for whatever reason] make two identical fighters, but different colors. You will needs 2x copies of that wing, cockpit, and engine type; and then buy two of the "cores" [whatever they are called] from the vendor.

[Darth Cervantes]

Thanks all for the explanations. If not for you, I'd still be searching oceans for drowned ships, lol

[[HYST] JDM12983]

Yeah, I hope they change some things with this down the road.

Because every part being a one-time use. Will not make me want to build my own ships. Especially sense the hauler have 10+ pages for wings alone when I quickly looked ><. lol