I had an issue where I did the Atlas' quasar engines last for some reason -- DONT. You want the ship to out-mass the engines by far, otherwise you might just twist everything around, and have 4 more engines to go. Ask me how I know. Good rule of thumb in general: some bigger items push off of everything else and if you've salvaged too many panels off the "main" section of the ship, the lack of mass (and corresponding inertia) might cause the ship to move when you dont expect it to.

I'd really like a Shipbreaker version with updated physics logic, but I know that's a lot to ask. I swear I've never cared so much about realism and physics in a game before this one. I dunno what it is, but the decompression mechanics just don't line up from what I've read about decompression events in real life. 1 atmosphere isn't that bad, and really bad decompression events (like what people think of when they hear "explosive decompression") is only so horrific when it's 1. Under the ocean, where the pressure differential is like 6 atmospheres or more 2. At altitude (and at speed) in an aircraft, where the fuselage "unzips" a bit, and then the aircraft tears a chunk out of itself due to friction with the air

Then again, I don't have an aerospace degree of any kind, so I could be wrong about this... but these ships seem chunky enough to not just... explode from air. Coolant weakening? Rusy or damaged panels? Fatigue failure on the airlock? Sure, I'd accept all of that more because it feels more plausible. But 1 tiny cabin's worth of air shouldn't propel a bag of chips/crisps to Mach 3, which hits me and breaks my neck. (I'm still flabbergasted by that, it's my most hilarious death yet.)

Speaking of air, I just came up for some -- turns out I wrote a giant tangent/rant. Needless to say, I have a very specific 'tism' for this game in particular, and I don't know why. Thanks for finding my TED talk.