Building

The Tools Facility

The tools facility is extremely important to build as a first facility, as it provides the necessary tools for crew members to be able to build any facility. The tools facility produces building tools for the construction guns crew members use to 3D print facilities.

Building for Life Support

Certain modules are needed to establish a safe environment for the crew. These include:

• Oxygen Generator Module - Provides Oxygen.
• Gas scrubber - Purifies hazardous gases from the air.
• Thermal regulator - Keeps the temperature at optimal levels.
• Power nodes - Expands the power grid and helps provide power to all facilities.

How many to build

This depends on things like the amount of crew members, how walls might stop gases from spreading and so on, but a small area (15x15 tiles) generally only requires one of each. Use the view modes and the notifications crew members give. After this, continue using view modes to check temperature, various gas levels and how the power grid is extended.

Building for Comfort

Crew members love comfort, they are humans after all! Better comfort can be achieved through:

• Surrounding uncomfortable facilities with walls, or enclosing many of them in a room - This will prevent the discomfort from "spreading". You cannot make an industry facility comfortable to be around, but you can limit how wide of an area it affects.
• Building lights - Light increases comfort, as it is not fun to be in the dark all the time.
• Building facilities, which increase comfort - These include:
  • Beds
  • Kitchen
  • Arcade Machine
  • Jukebox

Use the comfort view mode to check comfort values on your ship.

Building for Production

Food production

When building for food production it's important to realize that it is best to have a separate room for these. Crops will grow faster and have less risk of failing when they have access to light, CO2 and a steady temperature. Create a new room and place your grow beds in there, along with a light, a thermal regulator and a CO2 producer.

A botanist will take care of the plants and speed up the growing process based on their botanist skill.

Industry area for resources

Industry facilities, such as assemblers and refineries are also best placed in their own separate area, enclosed with walls. This will keep the discomfort from spreading inside the ship from all the noisy facilities.

Having the industry area close to the hangar area is usually a good idea, this will help keep the path distances when hauling resources to the industry facilities shorter.

Building for Hyperspace Capability

To make a ship capable of jumping into hyperspace it will need:

• A navigations console
• A hyperdrive

One of both is enough to make any ship hyperspace capable, but when mass increases more hyperdrives are needed.