[Challenge] Ship Builders Challenge (WIP)

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Overview (Please Read)

This guide still isn't finished. Please contribute via the comments section :-)

The Beginning

In the beginning we begin with a man floating in space. He needs a ship and a home.

We craft a small ship and form the first piece of our new fleet but thats not good enough for us ship builders.

We need to think bigger and brighter than our dinky little space ship.

Read on... If you wish to follow my challenges to build your fleet.

Spacecraft Design: Shapes

Spacecraft Design: Ship Classifications

Primary ships

• Attack Fighter
  
• Battleship
  
• Attack Cruiser
  
• Battle Cruiser
  
• Heavy Cruiser
  
• Light Cruiser
  
• Dreadnought
  
• Destroyer
  
• Escort
  
• Explorer
  
• Frigate
  
• Interceptor
  
• Starship
  
• Mothership

Support ships

• Auxiliary craft
  
• Captain's yacht
  
• Escape pod
  
• Runabout
  
• Shuttlecraft
  
• Shuttlepod
  
• Blockade runner
  
• Cargo drone
  
• Courier
  
• Freighter
  
• Raider
  
• Science vessel
  
• Scout
  
• Survey ship
  
• Supply ship
  
• Tanker
  
• Transport
  
• Colony ship
  
• Tug

Spacecraft Design: Ship Systems

[Wiki] Component list[spaceengineerswiki.com]

Sci-Fi Movie Spacecraft

Are you interested in making something from a Sci-Fi Movie or TV Show?

Look no further here we have a huge list of ships to re-create in Space Engineers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_spacecraft

So What's The Challenge?

Your challenge is to build the following:

• Build a Small Speedy Ship - Lets you navigate the area quickly to do challenges
  
• Take your new speedy ship through an asteroid field. Fly through an asteroid and spin a bit.
  
• Build a Shipyard - A place to build small/medium ships & dock them
  
• Build a Starbase - Must include a Home and a Large Ship Hanger
  
• Build a Starship inside the Hanger of your Starbase
  
• Make sure your Starship has 10+ items from the "Ship Systems" section.
  
• Take your Starship on a maiden voyage
  
• Dock your Starship in the Starbase Hanger (Hard)
  
• Build Mothership - One Rule: Must Be MASSIVE!

This section needs expanding... Please make a suggestion!

[Luxocracy]

You forgot a ship. Well not really a ship but for some (me) its is a main one. Escape Pod.

[Borker]

Build a Dropship capable of establishing a base.

[RogueDelta]

To rebuild most sci-fi ships from tv/movies/books, I would suggest the following mods:

x1000 hydrogen efficiency
Thruster power x2
Helicarrier Atmos thrusters
And possibly ultra light or Carbon fibre armor block mod.

Most fictional ships have much more thrust and a lot less weight than is possible in vanilla space engineers, even real world air/space craft have slightly better thrust ratings and weigh less than is possible in vanilla SE.

The technology represented in SE seems more indicative of post WWII, the 1960's to 1980's than current or future technology.

But it's still my favorite game.

[SGT_MAJOR_FISH]

Build a monolith (at least 5 million block count)

[Requiem, The Slender Questioner]

Trade station and trade vessels

[EpicLegoCrafter]

Maby to fly the mother ship

[Gordon Freeman]

If anyone has any ideas or additions to make this guide better please let me know and I'll paste it into the guide :)

[JuiceGuzzler]

is there one of these that talks about building modular ships? this was VERY helpful, just nothing on modules, not complaining, just curious.

[kymsheba]

Those shapes and names are out of the PC game 'ELITE' fantastic to see them again, was a huge fan of 'ELITE' absolutely loved that game. released in 1991 for the PC under the name ELITE Plus it was the grandaddy of the trading space games of today. TRULY EPIC!!!!

[Mister White]

Thanks Bielbo, i think this is a nice Guide with idea's on what to build =)
Sinds the game has no goals yet its nice to have some guidelines ^^