Isn't that just the damaged mk0 Cat? You must of joined a host that hasn't unlocked or upgraded to the repaired mk1 version and also hasn't unlocked the rack in the story progression.
#If Cat artifact rack missing & no kitchen (not a bug)
dreamy shale
lucid flint
Thats the Mk0 Cat
glacial gulch
Yeah, just found that it's the same ship from the prologue.
storm falcon
when you start the storyline your ship is mk0 and it looks like that, eventually you get mission to upgrade the catamaran to mk1 and during the same time VosK installs the new artifact rack inside the ship (well it happens when you upgrade the ship but at least it is what Vosk says when talking to him after that).
but if you start playing with someone else hosting that already has the mk1 ship and you continue your storyline, you'll skip the steps and never know how your ship did look like at the beginning before it was upgrade to mk1. 😄
glacial gulch
Understood. Guess being used to a leveled-up ship was what threw me off when I joined a crew with lvl 6+ players but the ship was still busted. Obviously the host only played the first sector repeatably or ran with another crew and was a first time host. NOT A BUG - I AM JUST A IDIOT.