Most compact CV with all necessities without the fluff?

[Evolvei]

Looking for the smallest CV base without furniture etc.; only useable items

[JDaremo Fireheart]

try my retrofit. There's a bit of furniture but only to fill a couple voids
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=789399363

[Tryst49]

I normally use the CV Cube. No planting plots but the rest is there. You could easily add planting plots by removing some of the floor and placing them in. There's plenty of room to do it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=773409179&searchtext=cv+cube

[ZorTheCruel]

It might help if you define what you consider "necessities". Does it need to be a fully self-sustaining mobile base with all of the construction and refining stations? does it need to have a certain number of growing plots? a certain amount of storage capacity? Can it be a bare-bones CV that is basically an SV with a warp drive and warp tank?

Personally I have moved away from the mobile base CV that has every construction/refinement station and a lot of storage and growing plots. I tend to leave my CV in orbit now and only use it at all for jumping between planets. CV's have such terrible energy efficiency inside a planet's atmosphere, and in SP if you arent actually in the same zone as your CV, then plants dont grow and nothing ever attacks it. And if you die on the planet, you cant spawn back at your cloning pod in orbit. All of that spells wasted effort and materials to me, if it is anything more than a warp-travel CV.(or i have to plan on landing it. which will be spending absurd amounts of energy every time i take it in or out of the atmosphere or relocate it on a planet. And CV's are annoying to find the perfect location to land it on a planet where it is near something i want, and flat without terrain messing with its resting state being even, due to size.)

I follow some great steam workshop creators that have loads of cool SV, and BA designs that i've sub'ed to and tweaked to my liking.(everything from cheap and efficient to expensive and awesome) They are all a lot more energy efficient than most CV designs. Bare-bones stuff i tend to make myself, as im not terribly creative.

[Zuleica]

Kind of depends on what you think is a necessity but my CV has been published for a while and I use it all the time.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=785950089

[Sigh-Phi-Guy]

spawn the CV you like the look of the best into a "creative" game and then remove everything you dont like/need and move stuff around to your tastes.

[Buckaru]

I started using one called Compact-Mobile-Base by zairen999 . Blueprint lists the size as 9x5x15. Pretty cheap and functional for me so far. He left the constructor slot open so you could place whichever one you wanted. There is a spot on top to park a smallish SV and a spot for a turret. I took out two of the passenger seats and tossed in a couple more cargo containers,

Ugly as sin, but works like a charm.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=769393057

[Black Raven]

Not as pretty on outside but has everything, and is designed to fit through hanger doors

9x4x15 with farms too

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=792472644

[Loki McNeil]

The original tier 1 cv was a good fit, throw a warp drive on, and you were good to go.

[Bunks]

most important feature for me in a small cv is one that can transport HV and SV's to go to other planets. Uses very little fuel while sitting idle, and repair them quickly to take out POI quickly. and can Like sigh-phi-guy above said, I took someone's CV build a while back and modified it to what I needed.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=810468365
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=810468553

[times05]

Originally posted by Evolvei:

Looking for the smallest CV base without furniture etc.; only useable items

Tier 1 CV is exactly that. It's in everyone's blueprints by default (unless they somehow deleted it). Though T2 is much more functional (more flat surfaces for turrets, more grow room, more storage) decent looking (better than a cube, but to each their own, i guess cubes are easier to repair for sure...) though still very basic.

[Captain_NES]

Easiest cv to make is literally a platform of cheapest steel blocks (maybe 10x10) with the following on top:

6 small thrusters for directional x,y,z movement
warpdrive and tank,
fuel tank and generator (a t1 should be more than enough)
cockpit
rcs
(optional but recommended modules): o2 tank and station, fridge, at least 1 cargo box
(optional but recommended for mining runs): constructor of choice

This is pretty much an expendable economy build you can slap together in like 3-6 minutes depending on the parts you put together. Notice this has no defenses or weps so youre likely to get blown to pieces if you run into a base or descend under fire. i use mostly to get off world quick and for mining runs.

[thaalien]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=805068115

[thaalien]

the Traveler is pretty cheap, it was originally designed to be a drop ship for hv's, and still can do so, but I'm finding that this design is really practical and has become my own personal work horse. Although in game I have done some modifications that I probably should include in this version. Either way it's a damn useful platform.

[thaalien]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=805112196
Here is the original version, it's a drop ship meant to stay within a planetary system.

These are the tanks to go with the drop ships:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=805067722
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=805067522

[thaalien]

Here is a Space Battle version:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=809287257

I have yet to try this out in a fight, but it is highly maneuverable, and cheap.