#Advice for expanding/improving my ship further

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hollow patio
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I'm a couple days into expanding my starter ship, a Testudo Dream. My current goals are to:

  • get back out to scavenging and find the rest of the components for my reactor build
  • get the bedroom upgraded so the ship vendor lists it properly as a room
  • add a bathroom
  • more auto vents

But this is also the farthest I've gone so far, and pushing up against my own knowledge on what to do. I'm just been floating around OKLG, haven't tried a torch drive yet, and just get by from selling salvaged and repaired items from derelicts.

Looking for any advice on the build itself. Are thrusters okay to be all on one side like that? How to get rooms like bedroom and bathroom to register? I've had issues with that on a previous character already. The only other things I can think to do now would be adding more rooms for equipment I don't even own yet, like the fitness equipment. Thanks for any tips or build improvements for my very boxy starter.

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scenic nexus
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[[Rooms]] Below is the wiki guide on rooms, be aware that the minimum size is the minimum number of free floor tiles required for the room to register after everything else is installed. Thruster placement currently doesn't impact flight mechanics so you're fine there.

By the looks of the ship you've pretty much got enough space for any equipment you want to install. It really depends on what sort of ship you want to build? Want to take more scav - Maybe you'll need more floor space? Want to do trading - You'll want to add Cargo Pods. Maybe you want to go fast - Pare it down to the minimum and whack extras on that Reactor. Look at #1138056113888165918 or other ship build threads for other peoples builds for inspiration. There's also https://discord.com/channels/302515943945273347/1138058420143018025

ember fulcrumBOT
hollow patio
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Thanks Magpie, My issue was definitely the "Min Size" floor space, I hadn't realized there were minimum tiles without equipment on them. So in my last game it was definitely I had just made the room too small, and now for this bedroom it's that I'm missing a storage bin it seems. I appreciate the links as well. I've been enjoying the salvaging so far but I'll consider cargo pods so that way if I do get the torch drive up and running I can try and turn a profit that way too. I haven't even spotted one while salvaging though so I need to read into how the pods work.

scenic nexus
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sharp talon
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Is THAT what it means?! So a super-minimal 8-tile airplane lavatory of a toilet, a sink, and a 1x2 space between them, won’t count as a bathroom because it only has 2 unoccupied floor tiles when it needs 4?

scenic nexus
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I'm pretty sure yes. I haven't personally worried too much about the rooms for my own ship. There's a non-zero chance I'm misremembering an imagined conversation.