Stuck. Any ideas how to get out?

[Raen]

I'm in a bit of a jiffy. I was wandering around a planet, gathering ressources, and found a crashed ship. Not better than my old one, but certainly worth some units, so I claimed it. Figured I'd just fix the launch thrusters and dismantle it on the station.
Hovering over the launch thrusters it said I need some pure ferrite and di-hydrogen jelly to repair it. Easy. Crafted that, clicked on the launch thruster and suddenly it says I need chromatic metal and microprocessors instead. What gives?
Don't have any microprocessors, so I wanted to call my old ship to get some. Can't call the ship, launch thrusters are empty.
Since I wandered quite a distance and I have NO idea where the other ship is, I can't get off this planet.
What can I do?

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by Raen:

What can I do?

learn from this lesson... before claiming another ship, call your first one to you... be sure to also keep it filled with launch fuel until you can get the launcher recharger addon...

[Orion Invictus]

You can ask someone to meet you wherever you are and give you some resources.

EDIT: You can also just use the save editor to fix up that ship, if you don't mind using it.

[Raen]

So after wandering around for 2 hours or so (after leaving a marker at the new ship), I found a trading post where I could buy the microprocessors. Walked back and repaired the launch thruster.
Let's just say, I never realized you also need to repair the pulse engines to be allowed to take off. Good thing that stuff is all craftable. Let's just say, I got a couple of distance milestones that day.

[Bored Peon]

The pulse engine is how you fly in space, launch thrusts only make you take off. Kinda makes sense.

Also if you recently visited the Anomaly and it is in system you can recall back without flying.

[Guyver8]

...or you could have saved yourself the walk and just built a base and teleported to a space station, scrapped the crashed ship and another of your ships would have been called in for you (specifically it tries ship slot 0 thru 5 in that order)

[Captain.Jartyk]

This is what you can do next time you are out hiking and finding a ship (much easier solution), first, save the game (jump in and out of the crashed ship), now, restart the game (do a reload).

In a newly started game, it is always possible to summon your ships with the X menu (even if they are defective or lack fuel).
So call you your regular ship now.

Refuel your ship, and fly out into space, you can leave the crashed ship there, and you do not have to fix it ..
Call the Anomaly, and when you land there, change your ship to the crashed one with the X menu.

Go to the teleport upstairs, and from there teleport to a space station, scrap the crashed ship, and you will also then notice that it has been magically repaired on the way there.

[Guyver8]

Originally posted by Captain.Jartyk:

This is what you can do next time you are out hiking and finding a ship (much easier solution), first, save the game (jump in and out of the crashed ship), now, restart the game (do a reload).

In a newly started game, it is always possible to summon your ships with the X menu (even if they are defective or lack fuel).
So call you your regular ship now.

Refuel your ship, and fly out into space, you can leave the crashed ship there, and you do not have to fix it ..
Call the Anomaly, and when you land there, change your ship to the crashed one with the X menu.

Go to the teleport upstairs, and from there teleport to a space station, scrap the crashed ship, and you will also then notice that it has been magically repaired on the way there.

Lol....no, no...here is wot you do...don't leave your ship without launch fuel.

but as in the OP's case, if you've done that AND claimed a crashed ship AND have no other assets (ships/exocrafts)...THEN instead of walking...plop down a temp base computer and teleporter