Ships

Defaults

Respawn Ships

Respawn Ships are basic starting platforms players can choose to start from. They can only be spawned when the player dies, and is returned to the respawn menu. Respawn Ships all come with only the most basic of blocks, and supplies for the player to get started with. Some act as a mobile base with its own Medical Bay, and others are drillers or scavengers. Players can also choose to subscribe to mod packs containing new sets of Respawn Ships from the Steam Workshop. By default, these ships will only remain present till the player chooses to spawn another or logs out of the world. This can be changed in the world settings screen – |World Settings: Delete Respawn Ships. Settings that change the behavior of Respawn Ships can be found below.

• World Settings: Delete Respawn Ships
• World Settings: Disable Respawn Ships
• World Settings: Respawn Ship Cooldown

Encounters

Cargo Ships

Patch 01.023.000 added cargo ships that carry wares from “sector to sector” (no sector present in game). Those ships spawns between 10 to 15 km from the center of the map each 10-15 minutes at random location. They are not piloted and fly straight forward with initial speed ranged from 10 to 25 m/s with inertial dampener turned off. Some of the ships have turrets outside and inside which will fire upon moving objects in their vicinity.

Those vessels can be captured for personal use, loot or salvage. Most of the ships have puzzles that player have to solve before successful ship operation:

• Finding the cockpit
• No fuel problem
• Thrusters with warheads after them, so with reverse applied ship explodes (not working if thruster damage is off)

If “Cargo Ships” is enabled in the advanced options of World Settings, the game will from time to time spawn random hostile ships from a predefined list (that can be extended with mods). These ships will fly near random players after they spawn in, and will despawn after a time if left alone. They will travel at their predefined speed, but in a random direction. Those ships are usually equipped with a Beacon or Antenna that shows where they are if they spawn. These ships are worth capturing because they hold loot like ores, ingots, and components including the blocks the ship is made of, which can be grinded for more parts. But, they are well-defended with turrets of all kinds.

Ships

Cargo Ship	Category	Colors	Mass (kg)	Speed (m/s)	Booby Trapped	Exterior Defences	Interior Defences	Game Version
Private Sail	Private	blue & white	72 447	25	No	2x	–	01.045.000
Business Shipment			184 972	17	No	2x	–	01.045.000
Commercial Freighter			463 395	10	No	3x	1x	01.045.000
Mining Carriage	Mining	yellow & black	266 084	25	No	1x	–	01.030.000
Mining Transport			401 953	17	No	2x	1x	01.031.000
Mining Hauler			1 540 908	10	Yes	4x  2x	2x	01.030.000
Military Escort	Military	black & grey	350 048	25	No	2x  2x	–	01.030.000
Military Minelayer			1 637 990	17	Yes	5x  2x	–	01.030.000
Military Transporter			5 578 454	10	Yes	5x  3x	5x	01.030.000

Crashed Ships

Crashed Ship	Category	Exterior Defenses	Interior Defenses	Layout	location	Apparent cause of crash
Mercenary	military	2x  1x	2x	It is a heavily damaged Military Transporter with almost the same layout and some chunks missing.	Embedded in asteroids, floating in space.	power surge knocked it from building dock with the crew inside.
Section F	Mining	1x	1x	it is a yellow and black ship with a crew quarters named crew quarters F and a one service bay named service bay four. It has a hangar with a free floating escape pod in it.	Crashes on planets	Either was attacked, hit by a comet or had a meltdown.

Drones

While its behavior differs slightly from that of cargo ships, the recently-added Argentavis pirate carrier is another possible encounter. It is rather heavily armed and spawns drones but carries a substantial reward for any players who successfully defeat it.