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Modular Space Station Kit [MSSK] Pack 1

Introducing the Modular Space Station Kit [MSSK] - Pack One from the Einmann Mining Corporation.

This kit is designed to help you quickly design and prototype your own near-future style Space Stations, Planetary Bases, Asteroid Lairs and Spaceships.

The kit contains a mix of rooms, corridors and interchangeable, functional ‘modules’.

This kit isn't really designed to cover every single situation (though I may do future packs), but to give a time-saving framework for trying out ideas. Instead, customise the pieces to suit your needs, or make your own to fill the gaps.

Mod.io Link: https://spaceengineers.mod.io/modular-space-station-kit-mssk-pack-1

I built some example structures to show how the kit can be used:

• E.M.C. Jacob’s Ladder - an Orbital Supply Depot
  
• E.M.C. Boreas - an Inter-Planetary Container Vessel
  
• E.M.C. Schiaparelli R-03 - a planet-side Factory-Refinery Outpost

1. Download the pack and copy the whole build into your (creative) game
   
2. Separate the pieces from the sprue as you need them
   
3. Copy and paste them into the configurations you want
   
4. Be sure to add any missing conveyors and lock all the connectors when finished
   
5. (Optional) save your creation, then re-build it in survival using a projector

• To reduce frustration when pasting pieces together, target the two specific blocks you want to join when copying and pasting
  
• To avoid unexpected merging between parallel pieces, add a 1-block spacer doorway (dark grey) between each main piece
  
• ”Modules” (e.g. solar panels, turrets, refineries etc) are designed to be attached using merge blocks with connectors, so they can be reconfigured or moved between ships in survival. If you don’t want to use them that way, you can of course replace the merge blocks with light armour blocks, and the connectors with conveyors.
  
• Don’t like pristine white? I use Meridius_IX / Lucas’ “Color Replacer Blocks - V2" to replace colours and textures in one go.

If you want to make (and share) your own pieces that fit in, these are the rules I set for myself:

• Standard corridors, junctions and small rooms: Keep to within 5x5x5 blocks
  
• Terminal pieces: These can be any length, as they’ll stick out into space, but try and keep the width and height to less than 5 blocks so adjacent pieces don’t merge or overlap
  
• Connecting doorways: Should be in the middle of each 5x5x5 face, with a conveyor 2 blocks below and facing the same way
  
• Rooms and larger pieces with 2 or more entrances: Should ideally be 5x5x(5+(n*6)) - i.e. will fit with the 5-block grid including spacers (example: Power Station is 5x5x11)
  
• Modules and Containers: Place the connector in the middle, and a merge block immediately adjacent facing the same way. Templates are included in the kit. See the reference images also.
  
• Ships and Docking Bays: Ships should connect with an airlock door at the top, merge block below and connector below that - all facing the same direction. (Some people don’t like merging ships together - if you’re one of those people, then don’t!)

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Rooms:

• Medbay
  
• 8-berth crew quarters
  
• Power Station (1x large nuclear and 4x hydrogen)
  
• Control Tower
  
• Retro-style cockpit

Corridors and Junctions:

• Regular, windowed and battery corridors
  
• L-bend, T-junction, X-junction and 6-way junction
  
• Quarter-Ring
  
• Vertical (ladder)
  
• Corridors with up or down ladder
  
• Wide corridor (or empty room) end
  
• Wide-narrow X-junction
  
• 1x, and 2x ship docking bay
  
• 1x, 2x, 3x and 4x module node

Freight Containers:

• 4x cargo container variants
  
• Oxygen
  
• Hydrogen
  
• Batteries
  
• Colony Pod (contains most things you need to get started on a new planet)

Modules:

• large hydrogen thruster
  
• 5-way small hydrogen thruster
  
• twin gatling turret
  
• oxygen farm (with tanks)
  
• solar array
  
• refinery (includes conveyor sorters and upgrades)
  
• assembler (includes upgrades)
  
• satellite dish
  
• jump drive

Miscellaneous:

• Escape pod (4-berth)
  
• Lifeboat/shuttle
  
• Landing pad for small-grid craft
  
• Connecting doorways (including up/down ladder)
  
• Stilts (for planet bases)
  
• Terminals (window, airlock, module node etc)

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I hope you enjoy using this kit as much as I did making it.

This is Pack One, and if there is demand I can make future packs with any new rooms or modules - just put your ideas in the comments.

It’d also be great to see people’s creations using the kit, or any new compatible pieces you choose to make, so feel free to share them with me and/or tag them [MSSK] if you want others to find them.