Standard Armor is colored by running a colored Hull block and a Standard Hardener through a Standard Factory.Hull is colored by running Grey Hull and Paint of the desired color through a Basic Factory.Hull and Armor blocks can also be colored, though this is rather tedious to accomplish: Power Auxiliaries are also rather vulnerable and, given that they will explode dangerously, should be encased in armor, and often interspersed with armored plates to absorb internal damage (making sure that these do not break up the Power Auxiliary grouping). Weapon computers and other vital system controllers, being quite vulnerable and of significant importance to a ship's operation, are often kept in a separate cluster with significant armor plating, reducing the likelihood of a system outage due to computer damage. To increase the difficulty for intruders to access it, the Ship Core (and the room it is situated in) may be armored, usually including Blast Doors in the entrance to this room. An overall 'skin' of armor on a ship is also common, and is usually 1 or 2 meters thick, with thicker plating at points of high risk. Depending on ship size, this may exceed ten meters in thickness. The front of a ship is often most at risk, and so heavy armor plating on the front profile of a vessel is usually advised. The cost of manufacturing armor is proportional to its strength, and the recipes for all types of armor and door are listed below:Īlthough Hull and Armor blocks can serve decoratively, armor's primary use is to mitigate damage, and this purpose is best fulfilled through careful placement. This is because doors can become intangible (when opened), and could be exploited to make invulnerable (or much harder to kill) ships if they contributed SHP to a ship. Door blocks also have statistics similar to armor blocks of the same tier, but do not contribute any SHP. Hull and Armour is a major means of defending against incoming attacks, providing basic protection and increasing the overall survivability of a ship.

The same can be said for a ship with just a Ship Core, a single Reactor and a single Thruster Module: such entities are often referred to as 'pods' 'shuttles' or 'spacebikes', and are also used to quickly and easily travel over small distances (less than a sector, normally). While a ship can technically consist of just a Ship Core, this has mediocre thrust, no defense should it be attacked, and serves no functional purpose other than quick transport over small distances.

At least one Propulsion System (usually a thruster).

2.1.3 Advanced Armor, Crystal Armor and Blast Doorsįor a ship to be considered a ship, it must have the following components.

X, Y, Z Reactor - Best described as 3 pillars going in 3 different directions, this reactor can further shorten the effective size of a reactor assembly if the ship or station it is on has enough height.

L Reactor - Two Straight Line Reactors joined along different planes, L Reactors can take up a smaller effective portion of a vessel or station without sacrificing any power generation.

X Reactor - Consists of several Straight Line Reactors touching by the corners in order to save space.

Straight Line Reactors - A giant column that extends through the length, breadth, or height of the ship or station.

Complex Cube Reactors - Actually many smaller reactors crammed into a cube-shaped space, this design exploits the fact that reactor groupings do not consider parts touching only by corners and/or edges to be part of the same assembly.

It is also the least efficient in terms of power regeneration rate.

Solid Cube Reactors - One of the most simple designs, it is simply a solid cube of SD HCT xm3.4 blocks.

There are several types of reactor designs that may be followed: Starmade - Power Tutorial Types of Reactor

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