nms-corvette-discussion

[lunar eagle]

I think so, yes. There are so many awesome builds. People think of innovative ways to use parts. Steal the best bits, and make something unique to you.

I look at ships/art from other games, from other people's ships, whatever.

I mean, there are SO MANY Millennium Falcon and Star Destroyer corvettes out there. I don't want to copy something 100%, and I want to make my ships using the normal parts, not just 1000 wall panels to form shapes.

But if I see a ship with a nice shape, or just a combination of a few parts to make a wing, or dome, that is better than wheat I have done before, I'll try to duplicate it, or at least use it as a basis for trying somehting new

I think that is how you develop as a builder, tbh

[lost moss]

Anyway, to follow up on it, I think it's good for a first corvette
And yeah look for inspiration and what you like

What kind of spaceships do you like? And then try to emulate those while making it your own

[lost moss]

Also, if I may suggest one of my biases lol
Try making a small corvette, too!

Small corvettes can be tough to get looking good without 1/2 stepping

[fallow jasper]

@scarlet condor in order we have the milano, valkyrie, night wave, luna, and falcon

[chrome tangle]

Wow, those look great!

[fallow jasper]

I have a knack for building things

I think it comes from both autism and being exposed to legos at a young age

[glass surge]

Yeah if you've ever been into LEGO it will help you with corvette's IMO especially if you can reverse engineer the LEGO designs on the back of the box / instructions that didn't have instructions

[granite umbra]

Since they patched the old base part glitch, I just added it on the base builder app

Feel like I unlocked a power I shouldn't have

[ebon wraith]

That teleporter is the perfect size to pick up a soda from your base in another galaxy

[granite umbra]

LOL

[fallow jasper]

Frrr

[fallow jasper]

Is that inside a corvette

[granite umbra]

Yes

[fallow jasper]

How

[granite umbra]

I used the base builder app to put it

[fallow jasper]

I cant use that worth shit lol

[granite umbra]

I was gonna do the whole glitching the base parts thing but it got patched sooooo

I mean

All I used it for so far is add the teleporter

[fallow jasper]

Nglnim thinking bout building the hall mary after I watch project hail mary

[granite umbra]

Oh and the planetary probe

[fallow jasper]

How did you add the other stuff

[granite umbra]

Same thing

[fallow jasper]

Shit

[upper chasm]

woah why does urs have so much detail?

[granite umbra]

Detail?

[upper chasm]

is it resolution?

idk gamer terms lol

[granite umbra]

Ohhhhh

NVIDIA filters

I play at 2K resolution so that helps too

[upper chasm]

ahh ok thx!

[golden bridge]

Lemme see your Corvette

[granite umbra]

See you there and don’t forget to bring coffee for the ride!

[grizzled stream]

Is this corvette good?

[slow fulcrum]

Hi, I need some help. I created a corvette, then went off in my regular ship to farm some resources, and when I returned to the space station, it wasn't there, and it told me there were no corvettes docked there lol
So I saved it and stuff, and now I'm on the mission, and it tells me to decorate the inside, but I can't because I don't have it lol

[dark juniper]

Summon it via the quick menu

like any other starship

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[naive sorrel]

have you saved the blueprint? If you did, you can reopen it in the corvette garage

[timid otter]

noahs arc atp

[lunar eagle]

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[lunar eagle]

Oh crap, I absolutely MUST make a Corvette with that. I absolutey HATE having to call in my freighter, swap to starship if I wanna land on any planets, jump, call it in again, land, etc.

[stable yoke]

Yeah planetary scanner is a must on a Corvette I'm on Xbox I had someone on PC mod mine

[lunar eagle]

How well do the freighter rooms fit on a corvette? I assume it makes a big cube.

or does it just plunk down the scanner table

well, guess I'll find out

[stable yoke]

I don't have that the guy shrunk it down and hid it behind a base decoration

[lunar eagle]

GAME CHANGER

[lunar eagle]

I just did that, put it in a room way at the front that my Ceto Reactors were clipping into

[lunar eagle]

It just looks liek a big storage box

[stable yoke]

Mine is as soon as get out my chair I can instantly click planetary scanner without moving or turning

[lunar eagle]

That would be even better

mine could ony get so small. I am sure I could shrink it more with the basebuilding app tho

maybe I will

[stark widget]

how do i get more starship storage on my corvette

[lunar eagle]

upgrade it at the station like any other ship

[stark widget]

hu ive never done that

[lunar eagle]

same for tech slots and class upgrades

[stark widget]

ive done tech slots

[lunar eagle]

walk to the back of the station, bottom floor. the left-most terminal is for salvaging and upgrading starships

[stark widget]

found it ty

[granite umbra]

Definitely a lifesaver for when I want to go on exploring without my freighter

[stark widget]

first s class one

what u guys think?

[lunar eagle]

I mostly just started warping in the freighter, doing the scan. But if there is a planet i want to visit, it's the same work.

[granite umbra]

Looks solid man!

[stark widget]

tyy

[lunar eagle]

That is pretty much the basic first corvette we all make. 😄 Funny how everyone thinks the same way

[stark widget]

lol

this is my first corvette and is also the first thing i made s class

[lunar eagle]

Also, you can always go back and completely rebuild it -- it stays upgraded to S class and storages, even if you tear it down to nothing and rebuild

[stark widget]

ohnice

so what did making it s class actually do 😮

[lunar eagle]

You can have 60 tech slots instead of 30. 4 of them supercharged instead of one

[stark widget]

oh ok

[lunar eagle]

you need to buy them, but it raised the cap

[golden bridge]

That luk gud

[lunar eagle]

Thank you. I worked really hard on it, went through a bunch of revisions, 4 rebuilds from scratch. It's 99% of where I want it to be now, but still room for improvement.

[drowsy plover]

Hi, im new to the game, i see people using 3 reactors and more than 3 thrusters. is it only cosmetic, or is there a way to unlock more?
i can only use 3 thrusters and 2 reactors

[raven rover]

3 is the max stats wise

adding more is just decorations

[drowsy plover]

when i add a 3rd reactor, its telling me its cosmetic only. am i doing something wrong..?

(in any cases, ty for the response)

[raven rover]

medusa?

the cockpit is the medusa

But you could just remove the cockpit, place the 3rd medusa and then place the cockpit back

So you get 3 medusas

you can have 3 medusas 3 zeniths 3 cetos etc etc

Each type is maxed at 3

[drowsy plover]

so the cockpit counts as a reactor? and i can bypass it by placing the reactor first? awesome

[raven rover]

but you can have multiple types of reactors

[raven rover]

Only counts as the medusa one

[drowsy plover]

thank you !

[raven rover]

Goodluck man

[drowsy plover]

i will come back here to ask more questions as they come. thats the price of being so helpful 😛

[raven rover]

[lunar eagle]

You can use 3 of each reactor type for stats. Medusas share stats with at least one of the Cockpits (Titan for sure), so that's your three. Anything above that is aesthetic

BTW, the Cockpit has higher Maneuver stat than the Medusa, so it's probably the better option.

[drowsy plover]

im glad i asked. theres a lot of things to figure out...

[lunar eagle]

I just finished the tech on my new Corvette, and did a final visual tweak. Super proud of this one. I think I am gonna take it to the Corvettes and Coffee this week.

[lyric jackal]

Has anyone got any spare aeron parts? Plz

[nimble stirrup]

You could try asking around in #nms-lfg-or-trades

[fallow jasper]

You have been trying to look, but I cannot find it.I wanna coffee and paste one of my ships so I can edit it to make sure it'll work.How do I do that with like a save editor or something?Because i'm trying it and it's just not working.I'm getting half baked instructions off of reddit, and I genuinely don't wanna do that

[glass surge]

Cockpit's are ok for maneuverability and boost as medusa reactors still have better stats; even if you put the cockpit in a super charged slot medusa reactors still beat it in supercharged slots

If people want maneuverability bonuses besides all the pulse engine mods, then they want to put down three Medusa Reactors before they place a cockpit as doing so will make three medusa reactors in your tech slots instead of two and a cockpit

A Cockpit being higher then a medusa reactor isn't possible from what i've seen when rolling for ship supercharged slots even with using supercharged slots and or putting it on different grid locations when building a corvette

[buoyant imp]

the most beautiful corvette ever constructed

[bleak aurora]

who here build a crustacean "living" (lol) corvette ship?

[bleak aurora]

medusa over xenith reactors?

[glass surge]

Zenith are for Warp efficiency and distance, Medusa help with maneuverability and boost, Ceto help with shield boosting, and Azimuth help with launch efficiency, recharging etc; the stats work with a max of 3

So you want to use the ones right for your build; I usually go for Medusa,zenith, and Azmiuth all together

[bleak aurora]

ah gotcha

[lost moss]

My big corvette currently has 3x Zenith, 2x Medusa, 1x Azimuth

[lunar eagle]

You can use both. You can have 3 of each of the 4 reactor types, and they all give stats

My build uses 3 each Medusa, Zenith, and Ceto. Azimuth relatively useless so I'd rather not take the tech slot

[lost moss]

Small corvette builds will often have less ofc

The smaller you get, the harder it is to incorporate multiple reactors in a satisfying way, without using Blender

[lost moss]

Azimuth is better than the auto charge upgrade, but you can also just never land your corvette on planetary surfaces

Also, Ceto reactor is sorta redundant IMO if you use Phase Beams

[glass surge]

that's the thing you have to balance the reactors VS upgrades you can install in tech slots to optimize you usage; so you what works for your build etc

[lunar eagle]

You can fit 9 reactors in a 2x2x1 area with half-step offsets.

[lost moss]

Yeah that I am aware of, I mean super small corvettes like single hab designs

[lunar eagle]

Yeah, I don;t really liek to use a Corvette if I am planning Combat, so I should probably just remove them. And Azimuth works better than the auto-charger you say?

[lunar eagle]

I just don;t see the point in those. They are ugly AF and useless. Fly a Starship at that point.

[lost moss]

Yeah, it also reduces launch cost. So it is basically the auto charge plus efficient thrusters in one slot

[lost moss]

I love corvettes for combat actually, but mostly because phase beam is omega strong

[lunar eagle]

That is not bad looking, but I still stick with the "useless" comment. It won't have space for useful internals like storages, refiners, radar, etc. so I'd rather just fly a Sentinel Interceptor

[glass surge]

azmiuth has auto-recharge along with 2 other bonuses

[lunar eagle]

I should swap out my third Medusa for one then

it's not doing anything anyway

[lost moss]

For combat I use a phase beam gunboat type of deal with 6 pairs of beams in the animation

2HKO any non capital ship

Easily over 20k per damage tick

Who needs to maneuver when you can just blow through shields in one hit, and hulls in another hit

Positron ejector apparently also works this way

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[lost moss]

Tho I haven't tried myself

[lost moss]

The usefulness is definitely debatable I agree lol

I made this one more for vibes than functionality

Still has a bit of storage, a mission radar, and a refiner

[lost moss]

Or better yet you can cheese enemies as they spawn in, before their shields come up lol

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[scenic arrow]

Are reactors like engines, and there are different tiers?

[glass surge]

There are 4 reactors, you can use each one 3 time for a total of 12 if you want, and they all do something different.

They're not really tiered since you can use all 4 types.

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[scenic arrow]

Thank you

[wheat laurel]

They need to fix the phasing with the anomaly. Getting tired of not being able to go to my cockpit because of an invisible wall from someone else's corvette

[sterile owl]

ye

[daring aspen]

I cant get the propeller the snap in the middle of the 2 walkways like this on the other side of my ship, anyone know a way around this or how to get it to do it?

ive tried deleting it, reloading the game and only this side does it

[tired bloom]

try rotating the peice ur connecting to on the other side

[daring aspen]

its still wont, tried duplicating it as well...its not a huge issue i dont think im trying to follow a guide that is having me do that to muve the walkway back half a space so idk if its gonna screw up the whole build later or if i can get by without it..

bruh im stupid. had i watched the next 15 seconds of the video. i need to go to bed im too tired lol

got it to work...had to do somthing different to make it work on that side..

[tired bloom]

lol

[daring aspen]

they deleted a piece and attached it from a different side n yeah. i wanna get this ship done before bed lol

[sweet solstice]

Y’all is my Corvette peak

[smoky flax]

Use the larger propeller? It looks better too:

[daring aspen]

the propeller is just to make the parts move half a space they arent stayin, ill post pics when done with the ship : )

[smoky flax]

Ah...if you're trying to glitch build parts in certain positions I have no idea. Never done or cared to do any of that.

[glass surge]

Rockhoppers only do that on the right side of the hab but you might want to put one half walkway attach the rock hopper and then move the rock hopper or the walkway and then attach the other hab walkway to where you want it

[daring aspen]

Prolly gonna change the color

[sweet solstice]

I wana make another corvette bc I’m bored but idk what type it should be.

[daring aspen]

i might tweak the back too add more thrusters for looks

[daring aspen]

me rn lol

i made a super destroyer from hell divers and i made a pirate ship lookin thin now this hammer head ship

[opaque rock]

I’ll have to get a screenshot later but I made my first corvette today! I dropped 6 million on missing parts and Frankenstein’d bits I dug out of the ground.

That being said I’m still early ish game but I wanna dive hard into corvette making. How do you all do it without spending tons of credits?

[hollow island]

For a brick, it flies pretty good.

[opaque rock]

Looks really cool

[lost moss]

Pretty basic build, I was inspired by EC Henry's S-580 Medium Hauler and the haulers in this game. Wanted to give it a sort of boxy, trucklike appearance and a bunch of big cargo pods

lmk what y'all think and what I can improve, industrial haulers are uncharted territory for me

[lost moss]

might help to see it from some more angles

[lost moss]

funny coincidence, I was thinking earlier about how to make a hammerhead from those speedbird nacelles

great execution, I love the overall shape

[daring aspen]

if youed like i can DM you the build video i used! i made a couple tweaks from the build but overall its cool im really liking this ship a lot, now to farm nanites to lvl it up from c class

[lost moss]

I'm good, thanks! I can more or less see how it went together from the angles in the pic

[grizzled stream]

Lol, I just took a few things I liked from other corvettes I found in the space anomaly and mashed them all together

[hallow fiber]

how did you pull off those wings

[timid otter]

glitch building or mods probably

[lunar eagle]

Half-steps only work on the right-facing sides of habs. What you need to do is place the hab/walkway where you want it. place a Rockhopper on the right. Shift the hab a half-step forward or back. Now you can place the left Rockhopper where you want. Then, shift it back. Learning how to do this, placing temporary habs/walkways as "scaffolding for placing parts, and shifting them 1/2 steps with the Rockhopper or Small Vent will help your bulds a lot.

[lunar eagle]

Looks pretty nice.

[halcyon sky]

I know (and use) 90 degree rotations and half-offsetting. Temporary blocks are used, most often with relay joint pieces.

[golden bridge]

Manually adding them manually creating them

[hallow fiber]

dam keeping a magicians secret close

[untold zenith]

Does anyone here know Corvette builders that take on commissions?

[timid otter]

js use No Mans Sky service bot

idk

[lunar eagle]

OK, which looks better, this new design, or the old one here: #nms-corvette-discussion message

Changes to the back part of the front section, behind the front hump and before the cockpit

[prime sky]

I personally prefer the second one, the middle look more harmonious with the front and the rear

[sweet solstice]

Made another corvette. Idk what it kinda looks like but I fondly have a feeling it’s similar to a star wars hauler. Things about the one I made, it’s moderate at speed, not versatile for combat against sentinels and it’s good for sitting back and chilling w friends

One of the many lounges I made. Cant get more angles since I’m on autopilot rn

[restive jungle]

Is there any way to place more than 100 base parts, i saw a few people do it

[dark juniper]

Only on PC via a mod or save editing

[buoyant imp]

after 100💯 k thousand 👷 🧑‍🏭 hours ⏰ 🔄 of work 🫃 my corvette ship🛳️ ⚓ is finally completed‼️ ❤️ !!!! thisa is the most beautiful👄 🌹 😎 and effective🤙 ✅ design yet👍 ! it combines hab units with more hab units to create an elegant💃 🕺 bowl-of-spaghetti 🍝 look👀 . everyone please tell me how 👍 awesome👍 it looks (trollers 🙄 who hate 💅 🥱 on my design will be reported directly to sean murray for execution via firing squad🔫 🤯 )

[nimble stirrup]

[topaz token]

Looks like you made it in Minecraft 😂

[glass surge]

This channel really has gone down in quality

[uncut bramble]

My corvette

[buoyant imp]

now, I KNOW you aren't referring to my corvette, right?

[delicate prairie]

Does anyone know how i can free move this? like make it face up

[lunar eagle]

R flips it upside down

[delicate prairie]

No i mean

Backwards

Facing up

[lunar eagle]

But you need to attach it to something. Build a walkway as a piece of "scaffolding" to attach it to

And yeah, the R key flips it. E flips it horizontally, R flips if vertically. It should say so at the bottom of the screen

[delicate prairie]

i mean

facing up

like

to the sky

a slope

[lunar eagle]

Oh, you want to rotate it 90 degrees to make it vertical

[delicate prairie]

yes

[lunar eagle]

You need to make a vertical hab. to attach it to

[delicate prairie]

a vertical hab?

[delicate prairie]

How do i make that

[lunar eagle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dAKezoLXpg

[buoyant imp]

I have plans to expand the interior to have display rooms, like a real ikea. Just not sure how to do that, but I'll figure something out

and I really need to work on those block letters lol

it would be nice if there was a way to remove the interior walls from all hab units, so the inside of the ship looks like one giant warehouse

[wheat laurel]

I think my Corvette turned out pretty good

Did see a funny Corvette earlier on the anomaly.

[marble quiver]

aw hell yeah the gains BROTHERRRR

[radiant fractal]

Not mine but wanted to discuss...ive seen a lot of creative corvettes but how in the heck did someone manage this? I've have so many questions but I dont even know where to start. Bravo...this is modern day art.

[gusty forge]

Looking closer it actually looks pretty simple habitation module stacks separated by windowed layers probably completely vanilla too as for as for how they made it probably just inspiration and time tbh

[lost moss]

yeah, I'm seeing mostly habs stacked on top of each other

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[young tapir]

this is beautiful

[young tapir]

beautiful build, awful message, 4.7/10

[lost moss]

> begins new corvette
Oops I hit the 100 part limit so the front looks half decent but the back sucks, time to redo everything I guess

[tacit cairn]

there is a mod for pc that disables the part limit by increasing it to 99999

i think its called buildable99999

[lunar eagle]

I was getting close on my last build. First two versions of it I was in the 90s. Took a brief break to look at other builds for inspiration, saw a creative use of a part that could replace like 10 parts I used, and my current version of the ship uses fewer than 80 now.

You will get there in the end, and your corvette will be even better for it

[opaque rock]

Question about finding parts quickly: good to get a speedy exosuit an rove around until I find a yellow cache? Or is there a better way?

[wheat laurel]

I made a small Corvette with parts you can buy and flew around in that, periodically stopping to scan for the parts

[smoky acorn]

ALL RANGE MODE

[dark juniper]

You could make a very barebones corvette, then use that to shoot at Salvage Containers to get corvette modules. You can get out of the seat in mid-air via the quick menu, then use your analysis visor to mark Salvage Containers, then get back in the seat to go shoot them. The Cyclotron Ballista weapon is most ideal for this due to it's blast radius, but the default Photon Cannon can still get most containers by default through the terrain

or heck, maybe the Rocket Launcher is an option

[drowsy plover]

i did exactly that, it went pretty fast. but i did face some issue when not touching ground. sometimes it would not update to the next target, even when it was destroyed.

[wheat laurel]

I have seen a few on occasion that looked like they spawned under the terrain you can't mine.

[dark juniper]

Yes, that can rarely occur

[jaunty mural]

do barrel rol

[smoky acorn]

this why I want an animal race in no man's sky

[amber fiber]

I present to you Methuselah

3 decks

[half sparrow]

Rate this

[lost moss]

Nah, working within the limit is more interesting to me

[lost moss]

Yeah, took a break and came back to it
Thought about it for a bit and figured out a solution

[lunar eagle]

Working on a Crab Tank MEcha build now

Had to set up a lot of angled scaffolding parts, ignore most ot he habs

And unfortunately, I think I placed it backwards. I put the higher-angle legs in the front, but now I think I want them in the rear

Also debating 4 legs vs 6

[west elk]

Can u guys gimme an idee for a normal corvette withput bugs or mods?

[lunar eagle]

Do you want long and narrow, fighter jet, chubby shuttle, scavenger theme, what?

[west elk]

Smth like an arrow but still a little wide

[lunar eagle]

Here are some earlier posts in the chat that might help #nms-corvette-discussion message
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[west elk]

Ty <3

[lunar eagle]

Also browse the showcase channel here: https://discord.com/channels/146101654981312513/1410859645433811055

Now, some of those links use some moderate or advance techniques, but you should learn 1/2 step building at the bare minimum

It's very easy to do, not really a glitch, just a way to position parts more precisely

[west elk]

Oh oki

This is my corvette rn but i wanted sum ideas for my next

[lunar eagle]

It uses the small vent or radiator cover to move things a half step in any 2 directions, and the Rockhopper Module that lets you move it back and forth in one. With it you can overlap parts and pack them more densely for new synergistic effects

[west elk]

Is it posible to build moving wings?

[lunar eagle]

Looks a LOT liek the next to last one I linked.

[lunar eagle]

No

[west elk]

Ye its the space ship from helldivers

Do u think its posible to build the thunderhawk from space marines?

[lost moss]

Looks good so far

[lunar eagle]

I wich Cargo balls and stuff stayed put, instead of needing to have habs to attach to

[lost moss]

Don't love the overall shaping, and the nose is still kind of inefficient so I'm still pushing against the part limit. I'll definitely come back and do a major overhaul, but it is presentable now I guess

Consider this to be still in alpha

[lost moss]

Right? So annoying lol

[lunar eagle]

Gonna take a little break. Gotta decide if I want to go with the low or high angle legs, and I gotta set up sideways scaffolding for the angles once I decide. Just don;t feel it atm

Would be a lot easier choice if landing gear did not need to be on the absolute floor

[silver widget]

I saw those round “balloon” like shields and wanted to make a corvette that would look like a hot air balloon but it turns out they’re super small and now I’m sad

[lunar eagle]

DCrab tank legs version 1 done. Ignore the yellow parts, they are there for scaffolding purposes

Looks better sitting on flat ground 😛

[lost moss]

Crab.

Looks good so far

[lost moss]

Alpha 2, now it's starting to come together

I may want to slim the rear a little. I think it'll help the overall shaping, and potentially free up some much needed parts as well

I wasn't sure about this design at first, but I'll keep working on it

[opaque rock]

I’ll gice that a try, thanks!

[tired gale]

trying to build a helldivers super destroyer and.... pain

[lunar eagle]

Starting to figure out a shape (ignore the gold habs)

[nimble stirrup]

wowzers

[lunar eagle]

OK, it turned out pretty good for version one. 😄 two of the robotic arms are animated. Still need to finish the turret and do the interios, after any revisions

[velvet ruin]

Im scared

And also amazed

[lunar eagle]

I am really pleased with how it turned out.

[twilit cargo]

what should I add to my corvette's cargo bay?

[lunar eagle]

Added the gun, side missile pods, recolored, and better lighting

[lost moss]

crab is getting bigger and scarier

[lost moss]

Cargo crates?

[autumn panther]

It’s been a while since I played have the added anything that makes corvette building any better? It’s great already just wondering if they have larger rooms etc

[lost moss]

it's possible to glitch/save edit base habs onto corvettes if you want bigger rooms

[coarse mason]

Is there any way I can get one of each of the aeron corvette parts? I was unable to play the expedition

[lost moss]

ask in #nms-lfg-or-trades

Think I'm going to continue fleshing out the wings, and some other detailing

but what do y'all think so far

[young mason]

yoo im new i have found a ship should i scrap it and sell it or take its parts to build a ship or build a corvette

[lost moss]

depends on what the ship is and its stats and such

[young mason]

c class fight ship

fighter ship c class

[young mason]

so what should i do

[lost moss]

There's not really a right or wrong answer
Though, you can't use the parts from a fighter to build a corvette

My two cents are - if you like how the ship looks, you might as well keep it, but otherwise scrap it for units probably

[young mason]

ok

thanks

[twilit dragon]

Hey everyone! I missed the Breach Expedition and I'm looking for someone to gift me a set of Aeron Corvette parts so I can build my ship. I have free crafting turned on, so I just need to hold them in my inventory to unlock the menu! My NMS Friend Code is BCQR-RHZR-TK5M2. Let me know if you can join me at the Anomaly. Thanks!

Someone please

[lost moss]

#nms-lfg-or-trades

[twilit dragon]

Okay I’ll ask in there thank you

[west elk]

Can u trade corvetts?

[lost moss]

no

[gusty forge]

That things looking amazing will you be publishing it to the service bot once it’s done? I’d love to have a weaponized crab for a ship lol

[raven rover]

no

But you can make large rooms

by just making hollow spaces

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[lunar eagle]

Think I finally found a contender for my new main gun on the Spider Tank. Just need a better design for the emitter/barrel section. Cool bonus -- if I power it with a biofuel reactor, it animates. Need to build a turret around if afte I position it of course. I just did not want to tear apart the old one before I came up with something

[zenith lantern]

Finished my treasure planet inspired ship

[lyric oyster]

Yo chat, did i cook? I call it "El Tren Dos", its a lot longer than the previous model "El Tren" (30 hearts and i will showcase El Tren)

[terse lagoon]

this might be a lil late but on pc you can download the .json file for the expedition, then go offline on steam, put the file in the nms folder and play any past expeditions anytime you want

[lunar eagle]

OK, almost final version. There is a REALLY TEDIOUS bit I still need to do, but posting these for now. The little arms in the front and the main turret gun are animated. 100% station built with only the Beyond Base Building mod, and normal (1/4, 1/2, rotation) glitch techniques. Looking at the back end I need to make it a little smoother / less busy. Plus, I forgot a part at the bottom that I took out earlier.

The tedious bit is placing missiles in the side missile pods. Each one needs about 20 or so, and to get them how I want them is like a multi-step process. End result will look killer tho.

[velvet ruin]

That is mad cool
If only we could animate parts of corvettes so the legs could like fold up on takeoff

[median marten]

Perhaps, Hello Games will add it in the future.

[north jetty]

Guys I am a new player and like i wanna start a build but like have no idea how to build like i have made a corvette for my survival but i wanna build a fighter type ship any tips?

[mellow mist]

that looks sick

[forest gate]

How do people make these look so good I can't understand how to do the basics

[tired bloom]

follow a youtube guide for ur first build it will show u the basics of half and quarter steps and other techniques which u can incorporate into your next build

[idle dragon]

are all corvette modules you find on scrap planets random or is there a strategy for finding better modules without buying them?

[humble moss]

The deadlier the planet, the better the modules. Stuff with storms and extreme environments is where you get the best parts. Even better if there’s leviathan worms or a brood infestation.

[lunar eagle]

Practice. And watching YT tutorials on how to do the more advanced build techniques like 1/2 step shifts, setting up a 1/4 step grid, rotation, etc. And the very coolest ones mostly used Blender or an external editor to scale parts, move them precisely, etc.

[forest gate]

Thank you

[lunar eagle]

I started out by just building this ship, following the tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7eYgpXt48

This guy has a bunch of different ship builds in the low/mid difficulty

[forest gate]

So what's the recommended way to get parts

[lost moss]

Also, once you learn 1/2 stepping, the world is your oyster!

Things really take off from there.

you can overlap parts, and position things slightly differently to get a better effect

extremely powerful building tech

[lunar eagle]

Most people just farm parts on a calm scrap planet, often by flying a basic corvette and gettign up from the seat and scanning for parts. hen you can just shoot them to collect. I preferred dearching on the ground.

But now that I farmed a few hundred parts, but I want to try a bunch of different designs, I just enable free crafting in the difficulty settings and go to town.

[lunar eagle]

The video I posted includes a HOWTO on half-stepping. Great video, nice build. I still love that cockpit design and keep using it in my builds

These for example

I need to find something new, but have not had much luck yet. I usually fly first person, so I need an external cockpit with a mostly unobstructed view. The ship there is not the greatest view angle unfortunately, but doable.

[forest gate]

How does this one look I did it earlier with the parts I had

[lost moss]

that's a good beginner's effort

can we see some other angles? :>

[lost moss]

I mean like from the front

these are all back angles

[nimble stirrup]

nice

[lost moss]

yeah das p good for a beginner

and with no 1/2 stepping

[forest gate]

Thanks I was just throwing stuff together

[lost moss]

that's a good way to learn tbh

just experimenting and seeing what works and what doesn't

[lost moss]

Follow up edits, I'm definitely getting happier with the shaping now. Will still probably continue fleshing it out some more

[lost moss]

Think it's a bit too thin for how long it is now, maybe bulk up either the rear and/or the midsection a little

[lunar eagle]

It's a good first ship. If you learn half-stepping you can make parts fit closer together in interesting ways and make something even better.

[lyric oyster]

Its supposed to be a sort of train car

[lost moss]

There are some good parts like the engines, but I think it's a bit "off" somewhere. Maybe moving the Arcadia foils in the middle down by 1/2 might help? Not sure

Ultimately though, corvettes are super subjective and this is just my own personal opinion/taste

[lyric oyster]

Yeah it does feel a little off, but those foils are like shields for the reactors

[lunar eagle]

Build what you like, that is the most important thing.

If you are going for a Train look, maybe try build it in 2-3 sections and leave a narrow gap in between? Then it looks more line an Engine and some cars.

Like [cockpit hab hab] gap [hab walkway] gap [hab walkway]

or w/e fits in the station

[lost moss]

There's still some aspects I'm not entirely happy with, like how the nose blends into the cockpit (or rather, does not - I sorta half-assed it)

And the engine housing I think is still a bit too wide

but I think it progressed from an alpha to a beta at this point

[lyric oyster]

Alright, ill figure something out, thanks for the advice 🙏🏻

[lunar eagle]

Of course you can't leave a true gap, but you can put something to act like couplers to make all the parts connect

Then you could do 2-3 themes, like an Engine, Passenger Car, Dining Car, or Engine Freight, Tanker Car, etc.

[lost moss]

For couplers you could perhaps use small vents and/or the scaffolding hull connector

some combination thereof with 1/2 stepping

[lunar eagle]

YEah half step would let you make the gap narrow (could even do 1/4 if you're ambitious) and center it int he middle of the habs

[lost moss]

Could even have another, symmetrical engine at the back. For a passenger train, maybe streamline both front and back engines

[lunar eagle]

I think the length limit is too short to waste on a second "engine". I think multiple cars would be cooler.

[lost moss]

ah yeah, length limit 🤔

[lunar eagle]

Unless you do it outside a station and ignore that. 😛

I wish I saved this crab mech build in the builder app before I tore down all my scaffolding pieces so I could make a variant easier

I was thinking of adding some decoration pieces to make it more "army like" such as sandbags piled, or tires and supplies.

Then I thought I should make a Turtle variant -- 4 legs instead of 6, domed back, more cargo / APC build

But I need to rotate it 180° to make the tall legs in the front, or use 4 tall legs

I wonder if the 0,0,0 coordinate is the center of the build area...

then I could just change the sign on the X and Y coordinate and rotate them 180 degrees to flip them to the opposite direction...

[slender python]

Ok I have beef with whichever dev put a complexity limit 🤓🤓🤓🤓 like let me.build my corvette how I want

Cant upgrade my corvette without rebuilding it again stupid ass dev

[lost moss]

Learned part reversal for the nose blending

the nose no longer feels half-assed so that's good

[slender python]

That's a nice ship I'm building a similar one

[lost moss]

:>

[slender python]

The hardest part is putting my storage in a place Wich doesn't make my ship ugly

I'll post it here when I'm done

[lost moss]

There's a mod for that, but personally I like working within the bounds of the complexity limit
Adds more of a challenge that I kinda like. Efficient use of parts and whatnot

[slender python]

To bad I'm on switch 2

[slender python]

I hate it I absolutely despise it

Basicly if I wanna add 1 gun Im probably gonna need to redo my ship

[lost moss]

They could probably afford to up the limit a bit, but there are good reasons to have some kind of limit - namely, not lagging the game (or other peoples' game in multiplayer)

[slender python]

No limit

Let me have freedom

[lost moss]

worst is when some jerk shows up in the Anomaly with like a 5000 part modded monster and crashes peoples' games

[slender python]

Well good for him

The anomaly has no one when I go on it

You can have 100 parts max I think

[lost moss]

100 is the vanilla build limit yeah

[slender python]

Exacly

It sucks

[lost moss]

I pushed close to that with my build repeatedly, had to get creative with some parts usage

[slender python]

It ruins Corvette building

I have 101 and I swear if I have 1 gun that incan mount Im fucked

My Corvette is beautiful I don't wanna have an ugly one

[lost moss]

I think there are still a few inefficient parts of my build, I could probably shape the wings nicely while cutting out a couple parts. TBD ofc

there were definitely some low hanging fruit deep in the frame as I built it out

like putting two walkways instead of a single larger hab lol

whoops!

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[lost moss]

the nose is also extremely dense

[slender python]

Rhe only parts I can remove is the shield parts

[lost moss]

Oh I don't have any shield parts on my ship, who needs shield parts anyway

[slender python]

What

So you just don't take damage

Huh

[lost moss]

You naturally have a good enough shield imo even without shield parts

and I run Phase Beam to recharge shields in dogfights

[slender python]

Ah ok

[lost moss]

Phase Beam is omega broken on corvettes so I kill stuff quickly regardless

[slender python]

Well tbh I'll remove them anyways I failed to hide some of my shield parts so It will make my Corvette nicer

[lost moss]

Phase Beam, and Positron Ejector
But Phase Beam is slightly more broken imo due to the shield recharge

lets you fight the infinite Sentinel waves that happen if you attack a space station

and just keep fighting until bored

The reason these weapons are broken is because the gun mounts all fire at once, unlike the other weapons

so the damage scales in weird ways

#nms-corvette-discussion message

this is what happens lol

if you miss the kill on the Sentinels as they warp in, no big deal since you can still 2HKO them through shields

[slender python]

I also bought a gun so I can trade it with another part but apparently that's impossible so iwasted a few millions on that ugh

[lost moss]

Oh yeah, you can't trade the basic parts

only "advanced" parts can be traded

[slender python]

Yeah

It sucks

So bad

[lost moss]

One day, I'll build a big corvette that isn't just a big pointy triangle

[lost moss]

Industrial hauler WIP

should probably make it weathered instead of glossy

[slender python]

The hell is that

[lost moss]

industrial hauler with forward carrying prongs to push cargo crates

or something like that

[slender python]

Why

[lost moss]

why not

[slender python]

Like why do you need that setup

[lost moss]

I feel like this is the wrong question to be asking, corvette designs are almost entirely for vibes to begin with

[slender python]

Yesh

[north jetty]

first ever build (which i tried to make look good) front looks a bit weird but idk how to fix it

[slender python]

Pls move the cockpit

It looks cursed

[lost moss]

learning some 1/2 stepping would probably help

[slender python]

Whats that

[north jetty]

i know that but idk where to apply it

[north jetty]

where to make it to thats the point

[lost moss]

building tech that lets you move things in half of the standard building grid increments, and also allows you to do clipping and overlapping and other fun stuff

[slender python]

Dang

I need that so bad to cover up my reactors and storage th8ngs

[lost moss]

I think the overall shaping is not bad, my two cents would be to try and make the overall curvature a bit smoother

I think the cockpit position can work, but the section immediately above the cockpit feels a bit bare

maybe make it transition more smoothly into the wider/taller back section maybe

also I said maybe twice

[lost moss]

Like, haulers in this game can already look like a cockpit bolted to a bunch of crates. Basically I'm evoking a bit of that aesthetic while adding some of my own ideas

a big hauler if you will

[slender python]

I hate how my starship is better then my corvette in every way but I never use it cuz I prefer my big bulky corvette

[lost moss]

Well, you can at least make DPS not-one-of-those-things, if you optimize for Phase Beam or Positron Ejector
Since they scale with the number of weapons participating in the firing animation, just put three of each and then watch enemy ships melt to pieces

[slender python]

My issue is that my corvette is very bulky it'd way harder to move then my starship and I spend like 3h rebuilding my corvette I'm not redoing that bro

And I also hate how I canr make a small starship otherwise i sacrifice basicly everything especially weapons

This is my corvette btw

[north jetty]

i tried to curve it and ended up here

[slender python]

That looks good

Also where are your weapns

[north jetty]

left and right side of the seat 1 block below

[hallow karma]

Started trying to make a beetle-lookin Corvette.

[dim ravine]

Do you guys know why tthis is glitched? 🥲

I've got that in a few places...

[slender python]

So like you have only 2 weapons?

[north jetty]

yeah ig

[slender python]

Idk the game is filled with glitches it's normal that something glitches

[north jetty]

i built this in another world which is ceative

[slender python]

Ah ok

Explains the weak firepower

[north jetty]

idk how many weapons is good tbh

i thought 2 is enough

[slender python]

Idk man max ig

[slender python]

Nahhh

Unless you don't fight

I have like 10 weapons

[north jetty]

well i just added 8 more weapons some are hidden other obvious

finished build

[lunar eagle]

This is why I like to use different hab types. My first ship, I used all one type, and had stacks and stacks of crates everywhere. Then I started mixing Tbird and Titan habs so I have some tanks, some crates. Add in an Ambassador and put one or two in those, and the storage containers look less repetitive.

[lunar eagle]

I like the idea of different colored "containers". I'd probably remove the discs on the tops and the balls on the side, and make some kind of thin arms/scaffolding "holding" the containers. Could go two tall maybe too?

[raven rover]

hell yea that looks siick

[north jetty]

thank you its only like my second build.

[raven rover]

niicee

the engine setup is so nice

[worthy rapids]

lol i cant even get the first piece to turn green more or less build a whole ship

every piece i try to start with is red no matter where i put it

[verbal kite]

Did you put landing gear first?

[bleak aurora]

I need inspiration, show me ya crab ships

[bleak aurora]

How did you attach those legs to the orbs???

[lunar eagle]

The orbs are attached to walkways on the main body

they are just somewhat well hidden, and angled

[lunar eagle]

I thought this one was cool #nms-corvette-discussion message

[bleak aurora]

I kinda like that one actually

[lunar eagle]

That led me down a brief rabbit hole where I made a salvager build in a similar vein. Mine is nowhere near as good tho. #nms-corvette-discussion message

I based mine heavily off the Vulture in Star Citizen

He must have used Blender or the Base Building App to pick a non-corvette color palette. I don;t know how you get that super rusted look otherwise.

[bleak aurora]

Mine will attempt to look more like a lobster. Our LORB (leviathan lobster god) build

I already seemed to have been collecting exotics and interceptors thst are red so we'll be on theme

[bleak aurora]

Windows glitching?

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[raven rover]

Yes

[bleak aurora]

See when I tried to use those wings only one of them worked on my build

[raven rover]

the rockhoppers?

[bleak aurora]

I wanted it to look like a reactor in the middle of my ship

[raven rover]

they have a weird ass effect cap

[north jetty]

how the hell do you even come up with something like this

[raven rover]

seems to be shared with the other stuff in their category

[bleak aurora]

I only used two and they overlapped

[raven rover]

which has 0 effects

[raven rover]

Yeah theyre weird

[bleak aurora]

But shrug

[raven rover]

i uh just placed random shit and it actually looked decent

[bleak aurora]

This will be good inspiration for making a lobster ship so I can do angled parts

[raven rover]

it looked like this at the start

[north jetty]

it somewhat looks like a gundam chest

[raven rover]

then i added more and more to it

[bleak aurora]

Either solar sail Corvette a la treasure planet or lobster

[north jetty]

how did u make those cover for the rocket booster

[raven rover]

bro, that particular ship is a fricken shape shifter or smth

i swear some say it looked like a bug, a whale, a dragon

now a gundam chest

😭

[north jetty]

i kinda see a bug but no way in hell a whale or a dragon

[north jetty]

this looks like a lady bug but way sharper in shape

[bleak aurora]

The frog be starin

[raven rover]

side angle at least

[raven rover]

LMAO

[north jetty]

lowkenunly the characther from the song "crazy frog"

[raven rover]

its just those slim speedbird nacelles

[bleak aurora]

Yeah like

I can't unsee it

[north jetty]

but like how u connected them cuz the dont connect for me or i think so

[raven rover]

Offsetting

[north jetty]

how u do that?

[raven rover]

there are some guides there

[lunar eagle]

OMFG I just literally spent the last hour going through a search of your posts looking for more shots of this ship and here you are posting them in the channel XD

[north jetty]

this looks like if the Su-47 and the f-24 had a baby

[raven rover]

was pretty proud of these thrusters

[lunar eagle]

43 pages of user + has image filters...

So, quick question. I see you have parts extending way below the "floor" where the landing thrusters sit. Do you have to add those later in an external app? I assume you can;t add them in the station

[raven rover]

theyre just barely under the space station

[lunar eagle]

I prefer to use the station builder to snap parts together, unless there's an external app that manages to do that well too.

[raven rover]

i didnt use any external app for this

but i cant really delete em tho 😂

[feral siren]

How do you do the aerofoils like that

[north jetty]

legit downloaded this game 40 hours ago and have 21hours played

[lunar eagle]

I see you using an app in some of the build screenshots, or is that just to save designs and free up slots?

[raven rover]

that particular ship i made before i used blender

[lunar eagle]

Is this Blender or some other app?

[raven rover]

i did use mods tho, to bypass the build limit

[raven rover]

yes blender

[lunar eagle]

Oh, must be a special plug in I assume

[dark juniper]

Yes, https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/984

[raven rover]

you can see when i started using blender here 😂

right after the black 4 wing ship

[lunar eagle]

The Bowie and this still look amazing

[raven rover]

Thaanks man

but i do miss building ingame

i just hate the tediousness of setting up the angles

[lunar eagle]

Blender builds are cleaner, but I do like the satisfaction of making a good looking glitch build without it.

[raven rover]

i honestly love the part scaling

lets me build big ships while having way less part count

[lunar eagle]

OMG yes, I had to so SO MUCH scaffolding setup for my latest build, a Crab Tank mecha build. 1/4 step start, habs in multiple 45 degree rotations (which I figured out I don't need more than one), and angled habs at different angles for all 6 legs

I am pleased how it turned out, though I am probably gonna do a complete rebuild and see if I can clean up the core a bit.

[raven rover]

i havent tried the 1/4 glitch yet

moved on to blender before that was discovered

😭

[feral siren]

I didn't know you could rotate habs in game tbh

[lunar eagle]

You just set it up in the beginning and keep a 1/4 hab off to the side. it takes maybe a minute at the start of a build to set up\

[raven rover]

was still doing 1/2 offsets

[feral siren]

Do they still work and connect to normal ones tho?

[raven rover]

nop

[feral siren]

Damn

[lunar eagle]

The 180º flipped ones do.

[raven rover]

you can still enter em

But they wont connect to normal ones, the angled ones at least

[feral siren]

So if I made like a T shape I could still walk through em

[raven rover]

No

[feral siren]

Oh

Rip

[raven rover]

I honestly dont like habs

I like open plan ships more

too cramped for my tastes

[lunar eagle]

I am only using angled habs in this build because I am using the ball-shaped Cargo Pods and they only attach to them

[raven rover]

yeah some stuff only attaching to habs in a certain way is so ass

I hate it

like some stuff can be placed in front of the habs

But cant on other blocks?

like the radar dome thingy

and the vents

[feral siren]

It kinda bugs me how you can't put gun platforms on the sides of anything but habs

Without them like going back to the default position

[raven rover]

yeah that too

[feral siren]

I'm just hoping we get more stuff to do with corvette building in the future tbh

Having like a drone bay hab piece that deploys little fighters in combat would be fun

[raven rover]

bigger parts pleeaasee

a 2x3

or 1x3

omagad

Only 1x1 and 1x2 is not it

[feral siren]

I'd really like a 3x3 hab piece

Or ones that are taller too

Or even just being able to delete floors out of them optionally to connect habs without spamming ladders would be real nice

[raven rover]

Yupyup

[feral siren]

Wider landing ramps also

[raven rover]

3 wide?

[feral siren]

I'd take that

Prob the biggest issue I run into is kinda cramped interiors if I want to keep detail on the outside honestly

More space for less build cost would be nice

[raven rover]

you could try the open space thing

[feral siren]

I might mess with that at some point

[raven rover]

i only do open space now tbh

[feral siren]

The most I've done really is exterior spaces on top of the ship a couple times

[raven rover]

i like the openness

[feral siren]

I do like the look and feel of the regular corvette interiors tho honestly

[raven rover]

yeah i do still keep em sometimes

Mainly just for lower floors

[feral siren]

I haven't taken many pics of interiors but this is from my main ship

[raven rover]

like a generator room or sumtin

[raven rover]

ooooh thats nice

[feral siren]

I already hit 100 build limit with this one so it's kinda tight on space tho

[feral siren]

Damn that's really nice

[raven rover]

mega clutter

the top floor has no habs 😂

thats technically the roof of the bottom hab

[feral siren]

I kinda did an exterior cargo bay thing for my junk ship and tried to fill it with scrap stuff

[raven rover]

gimme pics

[feral siren]

I don't have any on my phone rip

Here's the ship tho

[raven rover]

Oooh siick

i like the diff colors

[feral siren]

My first time really building something asymmetrical

[raven rover]

asymmetrical stuff is hard

😭

[feral siren]

It originally wasn't gonna be but I thought the tower looked kinda dumb right in the center and then went from there with it lol

I have a lot of builds with lookout towers on em

[raven rover]

I see

[verbal kite]

I love the vibe

[raven rover]

the only "asymmetrical" ship that i have

😭

and its only the front part

[feral siren]

This is sick

[verbal kite]

That’s pretty great actually

[raven rover]

it got a big ahh hole

ah now i want to revisit that

since now i know i can place actual working side doors

[feral siren]

Makes me wish we had exocraft bays and stuff for corvettes tbh

[raven rover]

fr

[feral siren]

I might go back to this one at some point with a more asymmetrical look

[feral siren]

This is really good

[raven rover]

thaaanks man!

[raven rover]

very bulky, i like it

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[feral siren]

Thanks

It's an older one, I've been going back and revamping em

[prime sky]

Love that style, awsome corvette

[raven rover]

Thaanks man

[north jetty]

randomly placed sum blocks

[bleak aurora]

I really like this interior

[lunar eagle]

I just found out the cargo balls attach themselves to the bottom parts of cowlings in addition to habs, so I just reworked the bottom part of my corvette, Looks way better and fewer parts, too

[hoary agate]

The back view looks good 👍 nothing worse than nice corvette with ugly rear that u will have to stare on for hours.

[north jetty]

thx

[lyric oyster]

I tried that but it feels akward to fly it, its like a giant stick flying through space and not an actual train as each car doesnt swing back and forth when i turn

[lunar eagle]

It’s not really a practical build tho, I figured you were aiming for aesthetics. My crab tank does not exactly feel normal flying either but I built it to look cool sitting on the ground.

[lyric oyster]

I wish there were moving parts

I think if HG ever adds that then ill go back and try the multiple section idea

But for now ill stick to just the engine with some cargo space

[bleak aurora]

People would go nuts if we had hydraulics

[fallow jasper]

Baking some minor upgrades to the Milano model. This one is called luna, it is purple 'n yellow in color, i added some more thrusters, some new wing parts.I'm taking her back to the space station right now.So I can do some more updates

[buoyant imp]

ok, that's legit really good looking. Everyone always builds these sleek symmetrical corvettes, so it's nice to see something so different

Guys please show me your asymmetrical / unconventional corvettes!

[feral siren]

I'm a big fan of corvettes with the scrap ship kinda look yea

[lyric oyster]

Any ideas what to use to cover the sides of the zenith reactor?

[lost moss]

Yeah maybe! There also is a thin scaffolding but I didn't really get a good angle

[lost moss]

Stealing this since I need something for the back of my ship
Though with a simplified design since part limit

[lost moss]

Tbh IDK if it even needs to be covered up. Try applying the inverted gloss paint to it maybe

Inverted finish works for me! Maybe it's a Switch issue

[lyric oyster]

No i found the issue

The paint color makes it look like its uncolored

[heady chasm]

did you use the "freeplacing glitch at all?

[lost moss]

Free placement? No, just 1/2 stepping

and a couple uses of reversed habs to get reversed parts

[heady chasm]

thats new for me

[lost moss]

here in particular, that's a reversed Arcadia Wing Module

[lost moss]

It's pretty easy to set up, so I recommend learning it

https://youtu.be/y6Jdh3MhETw

[true rain]

How can I change the front to look less like I glued a cockpit on?

While keeping the same size

[lost moss]

half-stepping can help with that, also maybe consider using Titan cockpit

I also usually put cockpits on an upper deck so that I can put a nose in front, but this is a stylistic choice

here's a similarly sized corvette I made that coincidentally has some similar qualities

I swapped the accessway from a Titan to an Ambassador one after I took the screenshots, but the overall look changes very little

[true rain]

I like the inside of the thunderbird stuff

Does the 180° flips work with the Medusa reactor? I’d like to put it under the cockpit but I can’t get it to flip

[lost moss]

At this small scale of corvette, I consider 1/2 stepping really valuable for getting good shaping

[true rain]

I’ll have to look up half stepping too

[lost moss]

180 flip so that the bottom of it is facing up? Unfortunately the flipping I used only flips front-to-back, not top-to-bottom

[true rain]

Yeah I’d want the reactor upside down

Cause I have an atlas part that would look really nice there

[lost moss]

This is what's going on with mine

Once you learn the tech, all kinds of options open up for you

[lost moss]

As a substitute, you could use two fuel pod covers with half-stepping

this piece.

Without half-stepping they can't be aligned exactly right

[true rain]

I just wanted to move the reactor somewhere else and under the cockpit was the only other available spot really

[lost moss]

Half-stepping can also let you bury the reactor in some other pieces and hide it, though at this small size of corvette that becomes more challenging

[true rain]

I think I have some of these?

[true rain]

Yeah not many options for spots. I buried shield modules in the thrusters

[lost moss]

You could also consider using a different reactor type that better fits aesthetically

not sure

small corvettes are tough

[lyric oyster]

I decided to use a ducting vent to add some color

[lost moss]

yeah that works

[true rain]

The Medusa one was the most aesthetically pleasing imo

[lost moss]

Mine uses both a Zenith and a Medusa

but it also doesn't have as much interior space overall lol

it's a single-hab build

[true rain]

I got two habs offset one “square” from eachother

[lost moss]

yeah, so one "full step"

[true rain]

If I shrink that any more I’d lose my viewing area to storage panels

Yeah full step, wasn’t sure what the term would be

[lost moss]

I don't know the term either, I'm just basing it on "half step"

If half step and quarter step are a thing, then the normal step is a full/whole step

[true rain]

If I could move the reactor up half a step I think it’d integrate better

[lost moss]

https://youtu.be/EPaRqiMmETE

[true rain]

But the habs being a full step staggered lets the back window mesh well with the landing bay. Makes a nice shape

[lost moss]

and https://youtu.be/CzQPQZl8dMU

[true rain]

Side profile for shape reference

[lost moss]

https://youtu.be/ErdKVfdLJXM

Rockhopping is the most basic half-stepping tech, but not very powerful by itself. It's only when combined with ducting/small vent/etc. offsets that the full power is realized :>

[true rain]

Hate watching YouTube video tutorials but I guess I’ll have to lol

[lost moss]

it helps in this case for the visuals

imo

but I agree, normally I dislike video tutorials

[true rain]

I just end up repeating parts like 5 times cause I forget instantly what was said

But that’s my own issue

[lost moss]

nah I gotcha

[lost moss]

another option would be to use half-stepping to cover it with some overlapping pieces

[lyric oyster]

Btw what do you guys think about the interior of my corvette?

[lost moss]

comfy

[lunar eagle]

I just found out the cargo balls attach themselves to the bottom parts of cowlings in addition to habs, so I just reworked the bottom part of my corvette, Looks way better and fewer parts, too. Redid the turret. Repainted and started working on the interior as well, going for a Military crewed APC vibe.

[lost moss]

oh no he crawlin

look out

aaaaa

[lost moss]

Chonky

It's like a puffin

[lyric oyster]

Like this?

[true rain]

I was thinking more like space mini-van lmao

[lost moss]

smth like that yeah

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[serene oyster]

Bruh how yall be making these really good corvettes I tried making one and it was a giant box with guns everywhere🥹

Had to make one for the tutorial tho so

[lost moss]

• Look at other peoples' ships for inspiration, maybe follow a tutorial or two to get a sense of the building techniques
• Learn half-stepping building tech (rockhopper and small vent offsets) and it opens up countless possibilities
• Lots and lots of practice and experimentation

[serene oyster]

Bettt Ty

[true rain]

5. YOLO

[bleak aurora]

gonna updating this baby

[lost moss]

twin-hull design!

I've been wanting to try building one at some point

[lunar eagle]

Finally broke down and finished the missile pods.

They were fiddly AF to do. If I attached the "missiles" (pipes) directly to those casings, they glitched inside half the time, so I had to place flat panels to fill the space on the front, free place 19 pipes per side, then remove half the casings and attach pipes straight behind the others, put the casings back and repeat for the other half of each pod, then put THOSE back, remove the front pipes that stuck out, then remove the flat panels.

Now all that's left to do is the rest of the interior. I will probably forgo most of my usual stuff (full tech and refiner setup plus mission radar) for a full on-theme interior. I already did the bottom level as a platoon carrier, gonna to a tactical room with the topographic table, some command screens and chairs, and a gunner station.

[lost moss]

it looks great, props to you for having the patience to build that lol

[lunar eagle]

I have no life lol

changing my server name to match my ingame name

[gusty forge]

That is an amazing combat crab

[lunar eagle]

Thank You! It was built 100% in a station, though I do use the Beyond Base Building mod, that lets you rotate base items on any axis (needed for the legs).

[gusty forge]

Is there any way I could get access to that thing once it’s done?

[lunar eagle]

I am considering uploading it to the delivery bot later, but I have not decided yet. I want to take it to the Corvettes and Coffee meet this week (is why I built it).

[gusty forge]

Ahh nice

[lunar eagle]

I still have a lot of interior work to do on it. I need to make a gunner station for the turret, an ammo/reloader station for the main gun, a tactical station with the topographic map, etc.

[gusty forge]

Sounds awesome

[lunar eagle]

I might download one or two of the additional parts mods that add other game elements to the basebuilding list, so I have more items to use. Running out of appropriate bits to decorate with.

[frigid wave]

Turns out lots of the new decorations are hollow allowing you to build in them

[lost moss]

looks like something you'd encounter with an Anomaly Detector

[lost moss]

Me: "Smaller corvettes have more maneuverability, and corvettes can also have the highest starship DPS by stacking multiple layers of Phase Beams. I wonder..."

and so I made an atrocity

it looks so bad lol

I used lots of 1/2 stepping to cram 6 gun mounts onto a 1x1x1 hab

I'll probably try to hide some of those gun mounts in the engines instead

Cool, the engines are big enough that I can hide all of the guns in there

that makes things easier

micro-corvettes are fun

[lost moss]

Looks: Passable (to me at least)
Damage output (Phase Beam): 1 hit takes out shields, 1 hit takes out hull
Maneuverability: Great, feels almost like a small starship
Usefulness as a corvette: Highly dubious, but at least it fits a mission radar and a single storage container? lol

Basically I made a gunboat, not a corvette. This will probably be my combat vessel design from now on

[lost moss]

and here's a fighter for scale

[true rain]

I ended up shoving the guns away and adding ducting vents in the front and it looks better imo

[lost moss]

ducting vents make a lot of things better*

*this is the subjective opinion of 7GE4 and is not necessarily objectively true

[zealous quail]

My attempt at a pirate ship lol... "The Revenge" any tips are welcome it was my first go with this style

[lost moss]

I like it. I think the sail rigging could stand to be a bit more complex

[zealous quail]

I struggled so hard with that haha. I know a few glitch building techniques but if anyone has any good ones for sails I would love the advice

I imagined more grand sails yknow?

[true rain]

I think decorating the inside is more fun

The decorating system for the outside is difficult

[misty gate]

i love both but yes inside decor is better

[north jetty]

X

[heady chasm]

if i wanna make edits to my corvette design do the interior items i bult get refunded or are they just lost?

[north jetty]

refunded 50%

[heady chasm]

does deleting them all manually give 100%?

ok apparently it does

[little yacht]

is there a part thats like opposite to winglet?

if you get what i mean

[urban ingot]

Nop

There isn't unfortunately

There is however a glitch you can do to angle a side wedge

[lunar eagle]

There is a 2x1 version of that. Also 1xhalf and 2xhalf.

[little yacht]

no something like this

we got black but i want red

[lunar eagle]

We do not. But what you can do instead is place another of those argonauts where the winglet is, and do a half-step one 90º where the other one is

it would look liek this

works a little better with the albatross parts though

here's a smaller option if you can hide the half casing behind something else

So, you can mostly get the effect, but it's not perfect.

[north jetty]

tried making the X wing opened was too hard so made the closed X wing but ran out of complexity so couldnt detail it further

any idea on how to increase complexity'

[north jetty]

also any tips on how to make the end bits actually look round and like not weird?

[lunar eagle]

There a mod that removes the complexity cap. As for opened wings, try the supercruise cowling facing left, then right then left then right, stepping up or down as needed. should be able to do it with 4-6 per wing

[north jetty]

like how do i add the complexity mod

[lunar eagle]

Here's what that looks like

then just do the opposite for the bottom

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3701 install in your mods folder

But IMHO you should try to work within it

it helps you build more efficiently

I mean, I built this in under 100 corvette parts. You can manage an X-wing. 😄

[north jetty]

i legit started 3 days ago brah

btw how to make like the gun parts for the ends of the wings?

[lunar eagle]

That;s fine. Try to work within the limits of 100 parts though -- it will help you down the road, trust me.

[north jetty]

i have been trying to figure that out and this is the best i have figured out

[terse lagoon]

btw for things like the windows and such do that from the build menu while physically inside the corvette so it doesnt add to complexity limit. idk if you have been doing that but things added from the menu while inside the corvette like windows and such wont use up comlexity limit

[lunar eagle]

Did you see the thing I posted? Uses 5 parts per open wing, and you can use a few more to make them longer if you want

[north jetty]

no like the end pointy bits not the actual wing but thx that pic helped

[lunar eagle]

For the x-wing end guns, I usually see people use the pipe base parts. Does not look the greatest, but there is no long, thin part in the corvette parts. That would require the Beyond Base Building mod (which I also use)

[north jetty]

pipe base parts..?

[lunar eagle]

parts for a base, not a corvette. The part is called "Pipe".

Anyway, here are some X-wing corvettes. First one does wings like I mentioned. Third uses HArdframe Cowlings, which look even better

Point is, you can get there with creative use of the parts available.

I think the second one looks really good, tbh

[north jetty]

i see.. Thx

[lunar eagle]

Steal the bits you like, add some ideas of your own. This is how we learn and improve. No one starts out building AAA Corvettes, it takes practice, learning the more advanced techniques, etc.

[north jetty]

damn i might be cooked tho cuz the bottom wings are too close to the ground...

[neon knoll]

does my first attempt at a corvette look ok?

[lost moss]

Good first effort yeah

[neon knoll]

ty

[lost moss]

If you want to get deep in the weeds with corvette building and flesh out your designs more thoroughly, I highly recommend learning 1/2 stepping building techniques

[north jetty]

i only removed the front peices and added the x wing and why does it look exactly like the second X wing

[drowsy plover]

i like that build ! well done.

we all seem to agree about which cockpit looks the best, but i play in FPS, so i like to use the rounded one instead... makes my corvette looks like a caterpillar : P
its kind of ugly, but the visibility is much better

[drowsy plover]

wow..!

[lost moss]

did you see my gunboat :>

[drowsy plover]

i didnt

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[drowsy plover]

this one looks amazing, i bet theres good fov too, but that cockpit has visual clutter

[lost moss]

it is visually a bit cluttered in first person yeah

not too bad tho

I definitely don't have issues flying it

[drowsy plover]

i thought it was fine, until i got into some dogfights

i mean.. it is fine. but the 'caterpillar one' is by far the less cluttered

[lost moss]

visual clutter also isn't too bad for my gunboat since it maneuvers well and things die so fast

with 6 pairs of lasers in the Phase Beam animation, enemies just evaporate

[lost moss]

I should make a challenge build with that

I made micro corvettes for the Thunderbird and Titan cockpits

[drowsy plover]

im going to be late, gtg ! ttyl!

[lost moss]

so I should try making a micro with the Ambassador cockpit

cya!

[jaunty mural]

the ambassdor cockpit looks like a pustule to me i can't find a way to make it look good

[neon knoll]

Same

[true rain]

Thunderbird cockpit definitely looks the best

[lost moss]

Tbird > Titan > Ass

but that won't stop me from trying

[drowsy plover]

let me know what design you can come up with. whenever i look at my ship, the cockpit stands out.. in a bad way.
I thought about covering it up with plating, but then id lose the visibility im looking for... so that makes no sense.

[lost moss]

yeah, I experimented with covering it up but remembered that it defeats the purpose

right now I'm kind of going for an animalistic vibe

like a perched bird or dragon

[drowsy plover]

the ambassador cockpit makes me think of a caterpillar head... maybe i could try to make some kind of butterfly ship... idk. just an idea

[lost moss]

yeah, a buglike ship could work

[elder iron]

If only I remembered to take screenshots

I made a small corvette based on the ambassador cockpit and thrusters

That said, ambassador cockpit is my favorite one, and i try to make it fit whenever I can

Wow I have only one saved example on my phone

[lost moss]

oh it's like a barge or something
party barge

I like it

but it might not have the FOV that Voodoo is looking for

[elder iron]

You'd be surprised

The deck takes up less space in first-person than most cockpit interior views do

[lost moss]

I see

[elder iron]

Imma check my steam to see if I actually took a screenshot of my ambassador style small corvette

Nope. Im not even sure if ive taken any screenshots of it

[lost moss]

Definitely would love to see more cockpit designs

[elder iron]

Im sure we will get more eventually, but its also likely theyll come with their own interior themes as well

[lost moss]

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/17788457799413474436/67844E0F45456A46615F9FB10C985FF53FC1C9E8/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/11290088988256822114/F5FE324855F8E80C59CC6A097B6982A38B160134/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Well. I don't love it, but I also don't hate it @drowsy plover

it's definitely the ugly duckling of the three micros I've built so far

Replacing the landing gear with mag-field one would probably help in flight

but I like how the hydraulic legs look like, well... legs when it's landed

decisions, decisions.

[drowsy plover]

i like that, the 2 rounded windows make it look a lot better

[lost moss]

thanks, I went that route because I wanted to lean harder into the "ambassador" theme

"This is a shuttle for VIPs or something, and they'll want a wide view of space"

Anyway, still WIP

The interior layout is extremely bad lol
An issue that often plagues micro-corvettes

[drowsy plover]

i unlocked the freigthers teleporter, so i guess i dont have to worry about placing all my storage anymore

[lost moss]

Oh nice, yeah the freighter item teleporter is super impactful

a must-have for any person intending to stick with this game

[drowsy plover]

thats what i was told here on the discord. great advice.

[lost moss]

my other two micros are easy to manage because they're single-deckers
but I thought the Ambassador cockpit looked better higher up, like a head slightly angled down

so I made this a double-decker and well

accessway directly into ladder lmaooooo

[drowsy plover]

i think ships look better with a cockpit on 2nd floor, but i get annoyed by those stairs

[lost moss]

yeah I feel that

one thing I sometimes do is put aesthetic crates next to the stairs as "guides"

so I crash into the crate and that pushes me onto the stairs

[nimble stirrup]

oh neat idea

[lost moss]

I'll be happy if you find that tidbit useful! I'm probably not the only one who's thought of it

[lost moss]

Brainstorming this some more, will come back to it later

[neon knoll]

updaded version

[lost moss]

@drowsy plover small adjustments and it's very slowly coming together...
Ignore the black door on the forward entrance, that's a lighting error. Should be the same color as the rest of the entrance

[neon knoll]

✅

[lost moss]

I don't think I can deal with this tiny double-decker style though, the internal layout is seriously bothering me lmao

I'll see what I can do with a straight-through design

[drowsy plover]

this is very nice..!

i dont want to post my corvette design, ill lose all my credibility : P

[elder iron]

Hmm, the layout you have looks like the sort I tend to favor, but idk if im thinking of a different access hatch or not

Or maybe a different cockpit

[lost moss]

it just feels extremely cramped to me when there's an access hatch leading into a 1x1x1 hab with a ladder to the second deck

kinda hate it lol

[elder iron]

Oh when I stagger them its usually at least 2 habs rather than a hab over a walkway

[lost moss]

yeah makes sense

[elder iron]

Thats why I wasnt calling mine "mini" or "micro" lol

[lost moss]

the smallest I have is built around a single walkway

which is tolerable because there's no ladder :P

[lost moss]

is this one

[elder iron]

I know I can build small, but if I wanna make one that I'd actually use, I dont like going under 2 habs

[lost moss]

the single walkway corvette is a pure combat focused build with 6 gun mounts 1/2 step hidden inside the engines

[elder iron]

Ooh, it definitely gets points from me for being cool looking without sacrificing interior usage

As in, you can still use the interior, lol

[lost moss]

yeah, it's still just usable

I put in a mission radar and a single storage container

[elder iron]

I think my preferred minimum space is actually 3 habs worth, lol

[lost moss]

I've seen corvettes that are smaller, but I didn't want to have a "dead" hab

[elder iron]

Yeah I dont like those

[lost moss]

I tried to balance small+maneuverable with "I actually like how this looks"