Crew will not build hull

[S7riker]

I must be doing something wrong but I am trying to follow the tutorial thingy and I place the new hull area but my ppl will not build it....

[RawCode]

1) make sure that your crew have build skill, there is safeguard but you still can make crew that can't build

2) make sure that "craft" is allowed and not blocked

[Sam Look]

Make sure after you "sketch" the hull that, you then drag over it with the "activate sketch" tool to confirm it.

[NegativeX]

I've had it bug out a few times on me...

Ended up having to remove the hull to be built, then re-add it to fix.

[卖女孩的小火柴]

bring up the Crew Management menu. make sure their construction has a higher priority than other tasks they were given. They could be doing other tasks instead of construction.

Also, if you are doing the abandon mining station scenario you can pick a construction only guy and limit him to only work on the new ship instead of both ship and space station. if the only job on the new ship is building new hull, that is the only thing he will do.

[Mein Schweg]

make sure you have hull blocks lol, because gotta cover all bases

[procrastinating_]

Ran into the same issue. Crew uses pods to build hull and all the pods were being used for mining. Once the mining was done and pods were back, they started building the hull.

[Pumathang]

I think I ran into the same issue... I used the "Build Hull" option and selected an area and it turned yellow. Nothing ever happened with the area. Eventually I removed the area, then used "Sketch Hull" followed by "Activate Sketch"... and this triggered the hull to be built.

Maybe I missed something obvious, but for someone on their first attempt, it's hard to pin down cause and effect right now. (I also spent the longest time trying to power the tools facility because of the warnings about it having no power, but apparently I just needed to move on and build the next few things without power, and the tutorial eventually addressed how to power them.)