Station Complex

Avorion guide for connecting station complexes together.

First, Position.

Build your stations in a modular fashion, with large docks to link together. For this example, we are making a Red Steel factory as the "Parent" factory, with a Blue Scrap metal trader factory, and an Orange Coal Mine.
Once built, set them to "Transport Mode".
Using a large, maneuverable ship, dock the stations to the ship and position them close to where they need to be placed.

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Undock the ship from the stations, then enter your "Parent" station.
Once in the main Factory, dock the other stations to the factory.
(Tip : make the docks very large and equal on both stations in order to easily link them together)
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You should have all your stations now connected, and all in "Transport Mode".

Second, Configure.

Once all the stations are in position, set them all to "Station mode"
Wait for the cooldown timer, then enter the Main factory to configure it like so -

Set the Factory to fetch goods from your connected stations, and disable the buying goods options.
As the other stations make or buy goods, they are added to the "Parent" stations cargo hold automatically.
It is recommended to have your "Parent" station cargo bay 2x's larger than your other stations cargo bays... in order to have sufficient space for manufacturing your goods.

Third, Profit

Once done, your factory can be left alone to continually produce goods for sale, and you will never have to manage transport ships, transporter buying loops, or any other troublesome trading methods.

Note: Avorion only supports one Parent Station... so you cannot chain dock multiple stations together. The stations can only all be docked to One other station.

Enjoy.

[Watchman]

Has anyone else noticed a maximum number of docked substations? For some reason, I can only attach 13 to my primary station before it refuses to take any more on...

[Buffinator]

* After putting all the stations back in station mode and back in transport mode the issue seems to be resolved.

[Buffinator]

How does the game decide what is the parent or not? I am able to get my coal mine to pull itself to dock with the steel factory but the steel factory doesn't pull in the coal mine. does it matter which one becomes the parent or do they all end up with a shared pool?

[chromatom]

maybe, but then it's bad implemented. docking a ship to a station is quite selfexplaining, why docking stations together is such a mess?

[SivCorp]

Seems like you are doing it wrong?

[chromatom]

Why doesn't the "transportaion" mode let me move the station by itself? Why is the docking process so inefficient and complicated? Why is the docking linited to one parent station? Why is the parent station pushing my other station away? The whole system is broken, fiddely and much to uncomfortable. Good idea, bad implementaion. Sorry, but I think it's not worth it.

[SivCorp]

I believe all the stations share inventory, so yes.

[Doom Lord Max]

Can a Child Station pull from another Child station through the Parent Station? also thanks for the guide.

[bogan70]

may try soon, in campaign i am going a station heavy route, guides like this are very helpful thank you!

[SivCorp]

Yes. Stations that are connected don’t need shuttles or transports.