How to repair a ship from the factory?

[Ricardo]

Hello, I was just hit by a rocket about 3 km from my base. New ship, just from the factory. I lost my cabin, the rest looks OK. My question: Is it possible to repair the ship so that it looks like it was from the factory? I do not mean to add somewhere damaged modules, but also to make it look like before. Is there any blueprint / option that I could go for?

[mentorist]

use a repairplattform in a base and repairstation....

[TwitchyJ]

You have to unlock the repair bay T2 and its console block to replace missing blocks and devices automatically.
Otherwise you have to do it by hand.

T2 repair bay is a later game device. So if you are early game you have to repair by hand, or find a POI that provides repair services.

[mrx]

Go to a space station or base like Polaris and you can purchase a repair. Also, whenever you spawn any vehicle make sure you hit the button to remember your template so repair knows what to repair back to.

[Ricardo]

Originally posted by TwitchyJ:

You have to unlock the repair bay T2 and its console block to replace missing blocks and devices automatically.
Otherwise you have to do it by hand.

T2 repair bay is a later game device. So if you are early game you have to repair by hand, or find a POI that provides repair services.

I got unlocked this but not created yet, so only I need to transport back my ship to my base?

[shdwdrvr83]

You can take one of two paths -
As suggested, you can build a T2 repair bay and the accompanying repair station on a base, move your ship to it, and use the 'repair to blueprint' option. You'll have to supply the materials, and it will use power and take time, but won't cost money.
Alternatively and quite a bit faster, if you're able to fly the ship a distance, you can take it to any station that offers 'station services', and pay to repair your ship back to the last saved blueprint. This repairs it instantly and doesn't require you supply any materials, you just have to pay for the service, with the cost based on how much is needed to repair your ship.

I had to do this a couple days ago - while working through chapter 4, I'd turned the weapons off on my CV while I was diving into the radar station, so that they wouldn't be firing at the station wasting ammo (I should have just adjusted targeting). A heavy drone came up while I was in the middle of the base, and started bombarding my CV. By the time I got out, it had depleted my shields and done a lot of block damage, carving multiple holes into the sides of my CV, but thankfully not quite destroying any critical pieces. I flew it into orbit to a colonist station, where it cost about 12k to repair. I made that back by selling them a handful of sniper rifles, which only cost a tiny fraction of the materials and time that doing the repair myself would have cost.

[`KokoJacK_^]

You can also salvage every blocks and put them back in the factory to craft the ship again. I usually do that if the ship suffered lot of damages and I don't have repair bay yet or it is too expansive to repair at a shop