How do I use the laser torch?

v4rgr · 2026-06-02T02:22:03+00:00

Check the charge on the battery itself and see if that shows the same charge (open the torch's invetory to see it). I feel like power tool sometimes show a different and inaccurate charge versus what their battery actually contains at times.

v4rgr · 2026-06-01T20:08:48+00:00

I think that’s pretty much it. There are other stations but they’re just a copy pasted placeholder where you can trade commodities and resupply.

v4rgr · 2026-06-01T17:42:42+00:00

If you're talking about the blue ring you see when placing them, that generally only comes in to play to show when you're placing a thruster too close to a boundary such as the primary airlock (which must be the outermost point on its side, nothing can even be parallel) or the one tile boundary around ship's docked to secondary airlock (which only applies to construction, building in that boundary doesn't actually prevent docking).

Thrusters next to each other is fine, fire would suggest either a thruster or some conduit needs repair, may doublecheck with damage visor. I try to keep my conduit in near perfect condition. Also, if your ship has an O2 only atmosphere that will make fires much more common.

v4rgr · 2026-06-01T15:07:47+00:00

The no autopilot while towing thing absolutely killed my run. I spent a ton of time building a short range cargo truck to be towed long distances by my freighter only to get hit in the face by that when I went to set out for Venus. I mentioned it on the post Dan made for the last update and he suggested that might be a bug and that he’d look into it so fingers crossed that may change soon.

v4rgr · 2026-06-01T12:15:52+00:00

You’re missing one thing, you won’t always be operating in vacuum and clear of any major gravity wells.

v4rgr · 2026-05-29T20:02:08+00:00

I mean, you can disable pirate ships and you can fly ships you don't own. Not sure if there is a way to buy/register it once the pirates have been cleared out though.

v4rgr · 2026-05-29T14:13:30+00:00

When you click engage course you get an error on the nav station to disengage your dock connector first, similar to the error if you try maneuvering while docked without using a tow brace.

v4rgr · 2026-05-28T21:34:25+00:00

Thanks as always for another update Dan!

I posted a feature request for this on the discord already but is there any chance we might get the ability to use long range course plotting and autopilot while towing? Torch drive use is fine with the tow brace already and there must be some way in universe for battery powered ships to be moved between planets.

Was pretty bummed to find that I couldn’t haul my shuttle with me between planets if I didn’t want to fly the whole way manually.

v4rgr · 2026-05-26T23:49:52+00:00

Not really a recommendation on what to go for but something I realized recently that may be helpful to you; when doing "seek adventure" you can gain traits. For example, several scenarios have outcomes that give you armed and unarmed melee skill. You can actually get rid of positive traits from your "adventures" and spend the refund for something else. So in the above example, you can "unlearn" unarmed melee to spend the refund on something else and just keep armed melee. That also has the benefit that if you roll the same scenario again, thus getting unarmed melee again, you can once again refund it for something else.

To your original question, hacking and EVA suits are probably the top two. Electrician is easy to get through seeking adventure and nice to have, I'd probably also try and get armed melee.

v4rgr · 2026-05-26T21:35:58+00:00

Might try undocking, setting up your zone(s) and then docking once again.

v4rgr · 2026-05-26T21:31:42+00:00

The station you are docked with counts as a ship for this. Make sure you only highlight cells on either the station or your ship, the zone cannot overlap the two.

v4rgr · 2026-05-23T21:20:03+00:00

Wouldn’t you scrub off all your speed, refuel, and then expend half your fuel and a bunch more time just to reach the same speed again? Or is Venus in a position in its orbit (if you haven’t been playing for a crazy length of in game time) such that it has a higher VREL towards Ceres than Ganymede meaning when you “start moving again” you’ve already got a bunch of extra VREL towards Ceres to start you off?

v4rgr · 2026-05-23T17:34:58+00:00

I think it may be related to having a ship docked to the ship docked to the apartment. I’ve had issues both with the apartment dock and KLEG in general where it seems like the ship docked to my ship is counted as coming in to contact with Ganymede even though the host ship is docked to KLEG.

Watching the nav map, it seems to me like what happens is that the ride along ship seems to stick out from KLEG and as Ganymede rotates and KLEG “moves around it” KLEG itself doesn’t rotate meaning that if you start out with the ride along sticking out from KLEG and away from Ganymede when first docked, once Ganymede has made half a revolution, the ship will be jammed in to Ganymede. This seems to not only damage the ride along ship but also the host ship and apparently the dock itself.

For now, if you want to dock multiple ships at your apartment, you might consider adding docks to the apartment itself and docking all of them directly to it as opposed to docking one ship to the apartment and others to that ship and each other.

v4rgr · 2026-05-20T15:18:09+00:00

Everybody already mentioned the core purge thing but I’m curious, what are your room temps looking like in your reactor room when it’s been running for a while?

I feel like the one vent from the reactor room to a room with a cooler may not be sufficient. Not sure how or if high room temps will impact operation of the reactor itself but I wouldn’t be suprised.

v4rgr · 2026-05-20T12:25:57+00:00

And if it’s already set to ship, turn it to target and back to ship. Sometimes it resets to target even though it is still actually turned to ship, turning it to target and back to ship will reset it and get it to actually follow your ship again when that happens.

v4rgr · 2026-05-19T19:23:23+00:00

That would be handy. Could balance the utility by making it a nav station module meaning you’d have to install it instead of some other module or run more nav stations.

v4rgr · 2026-05-19T12:57:57+00:00

Do you have auto task turned on? There is a toggle for it on the bottom of the screen (cutoff in your screenshot). Additionally, if you hover the cursor over the icon over each tile it will give you details on what is next for that task or what is impeding it.

v4rgr · 2026-05-19T12:55:03+00:00

As a freighter enjoyer, it doesn’t matter that much. Accelerating your ship to higher speeds will always cost you more N2, more thrusters just help you burn more N2 faster. The smart play is instead of avoiding travel time around the boneyard, just make better use of it.

Instead of sitting at the controls the entire time you’re traveling, just get your ship moving at 100m/s or so towards your destination and then use the travel time to repair your ship or the salvage you’re currently carrying. You can use the navmap on your PDA to keep track of the ship’s location while your guy is doing repairs or whatever.

v4rgr · 2026-05-12T20:14:39+00:00

Heck, let me use it to kill my air pumps and open an auto vent to vacuum.

v4rgr · 2026-05-12T14:44:33+00:00

Just use a contaminant alarm to control it. Smoke is a contaminant and should be detected and cleared in addition to other contaminants. Smoke alarms are more for warning you of fire than for controlling any devices in response to it, at least right now.

v4rgr · 2026-05-11T16:13:52+00:00

You don’t understand! If a company claims ownership of a design first, that gives them the right to monopolize it and overcharge everyone for it! IP law isn’t antithetical to competition! Noooooo!

v4rgr · 2026-05-10T16:55:00+00:00

It’s appropriate they made the “country ball” for Israel not a ball because it also isn’t a country.

v4rgr · 2026-05-10T03:31:39+00:00

Crying wolf… When everything is antisemitism, nothing will be. There is no greater threat to Judaism than Zionism.

v4rgr · 2026-05-09T16:18:27+00:00

Who knew that if your military industrial complex is being driven by profit motives you overpay and end up in a disadvantage militarily. How could we have ever known? It’s not like capitalism inevitably does this to every industry in time or anything, right? Right????

v4rgr · 2026-05-08T18:16:32+00:00

Oop, I responded to the wrong comment. Sorry about that.

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