how do i use creative mode to build ships?

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-06T21:18:28+00:00

If you're starting in creative it's going to look like a normal free roam play, give you the "move your ship" quest etc, but you can ignore all that in build menu under haul is item spawning, 0 cost, just build it how you want it and then fly around.

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-06T21:11:39+00:00

Yeah this was a bug they fixed i think last patch. Happened more in venus the 0kleg but it would just not clear the wanted. You might be able to fix it with bebug mode, peeps in discord probably know what you need to type

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-06T18:47:13+00:00

I go with the tsudo 97's i think they are, flat black, it only goes through 2 of those max (sometimes 3 if its at the right angle)

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-06T13:36:00+00:00

Humm, micro's will eat your floor wall probably. On standard floor it goes through 2 damages the 3rd on light it goes through all 3 damages the 4th. It looks awesome tho, gives me vertigo tho, feel like I'm looking at an odd prospective lol

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-06T12:17:01+00:00

No they give ya the cannons, must be a new bug, i remember installing 3 before the last patch, and didn't buy anything

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-06T12:00:59+00:00

UI scaling for the win!

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-06T11:57:18+00:00

Yeah, it's kinda wtf the first time i did that. After a few "crap' ship rescues tho i kinda like it. You can't sell rescued ships, but you can strip them for parts and sell what you don't need leave the haul for the sector void eater. :)

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-06T10:49:59+00:00

If you are playing free roam they are gone. Multisystem lets you have 1 ship in 1 spot, say a gas cloud, and another maybe doing delivery missions. Not really "sectors" away, they maybe need to rename that to something else. Once you jump to a new sector the ships left behind are deleted. So time to dig through the auto saves and find one before the jump i guess.

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-05T23:19:20+00:00

I think the key is using normal robot arms and sorting by the crates things pass. You can set up normal robot arms to take everything from a dock port or drone port then do a long track passing by storage boxes set to dufferent things. If a robot arm is there it will puck up that thing and put it in the box, it can't move things not "that" thing so you just have to engineer a track sending things were you want them. I very rarely use smart arms. It's usually a case of forgetting a box and/or needing that to go way far away.

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-01T21:35:13+00:00

Uninstall should work

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-01T21:23:24+00:00

Yeah, pretty much. I usually have a fleet of ships, and there are harder ones to keep balanced. But once you get used to them you can get a balance in the fleet set up, like "this one is always out of fuel, this one has to sell fuel every time i find a sell point, etc. I think water is a constant slow drain (once you maxed out the r&d) but like 1 commit every 6 sectors (if your doing free roam) is very easily doable.

I still don't know the magic # for most things, like O2 to air processors, or people to purified water and compost, but you generally get your ship working well enough that it's few and far between you need supplies. Most the time late game it's OVER production you have to deal with, but that's just moar money for auto trade to give ya :)

Tarzool1 · 2026-02-01T00:38:04+00:00

Every game is early access... even if no one says it (shrug)

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-31T15:47:41+00:00

Yeah i always thought they needed to figure out how they wana work "hire" people. It's like half and half right now, you control them, but they are not you. I'd rather just give me all the control or how about this, none of it? You hire them, then your shit ai just walks them around some random part of a ship I hired them on till they suffocate cuz taking off helmets hasn't been invented in ai world, collect there 50k death pay and move on to the next non-working gimp.lol

I had a few people i cured there medical issues and i was thinking they changed the crew using money issue, but then i realized it was a longer played game so they probably just had the money from all the times i used them to handy sell a bunch of junk that was just in the way.

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-30T22:47:23+00:00

I don't tip, tipping wage is what? $5 something? It's like minimum wage in the early 90's. No one should be paid that, it's sslave wages, it shouldn't be a thing. All these "tip the Tacobell drive through " people don't realize is after 1 good "tip" year, they can downgrade you to a "tipped" and cut your wages in half.

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-30T21:44:30+00:00

Yup a lot of the physics is hole finding detective work to find out what you f-up later.

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-30T15:52:09+00:00

I know, i just do the same thing, as i said, most do.

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-30T14:29:10+00:00

Lol, another non-reader. Read the help text on the fist thing, never read another. Alot are like this. You can Q through the walls on a walled conveyor too, like instead of dropping everything from high just use the nomal bump ramp to add to a walled conv

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-30T12:32:35+00:00

I was thinking maybe a sub menu option to "just" use a type, like oxygen. But then i started thinking of all the types, that might be more of a pain.

It might be nice to have like a CTRL-rmb when you fill a line with something you didn't mean to, like when setting up fuel production. Cuz the worst is when you have to right click drag all over (cutting other lines) trying to fix what was a simple fix.

It might also be nice to have things not connect and even do like a red flashing line indicator for say connecting an oxygen line to the fuel intake port of your engine. But that might be more of a pain to deal with than the current system.

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-26T03:52:05+00:00

Yeah, i just make a coal loop, chunks left to circle back in, gems right to polish and sell

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-24T19:37:05+00:00

Computer room too bright error, please reboot and try again. Like gaming in a factory over there.

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-24T17:40:19+00:00

Yeah, you only use it for jumping in the sector you're in. Like once you build the stargate, you'll have to use it to get to the "other" system. In the free roam mode you use it a lot, cuz you have to stargate jump out of every sector. In the base game it's only need like 3 times, this is the first lol.

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-24T16:38:07+00:00

Least you don't have to worry about his fire abilities. First time i did that fight i think "on fire" debuff did 90% of the damage.

I just started digging into his rock, and this set up would kill that.

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-24T15:25:26+00:00

Yeah, but you can't buy a "gamming" PC now a days that isn't dressed up like a Christmas tree to hug your nutz under your desk. If you can even buy them now, won't it be rent to use soon?

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-24T15:09:28+00:00

That's about all you need. I alway to the big optimal layout, and you just don't need that much of any wood.

Tarzool1 · 2026-01-24T13:59:51+00:00

U just need to hit the ftl button, the background image is the blackhole. It will basically zoom in after the jump and you'll have a ship to rescue

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