Building Your Ship

Crafting the Ship Frame

Placing Components

Red : The component can't be placed here



: The component can't be placed here Blue : The component can be placed but it's not attached to anything.



: The component can be placed but it's not attached to anything. Green: The component can be placed here and will be attached to the ship.

Helm - Whether the Metal, Wood or Founders varient; your ship won't lift off dock without one.



Atlas Sky Core (& Extensions) - Keeps your ship floating in the air. More extensions will allow it to carry more weight.



Sail (or other method of propulsion) - Keeps you moving. If you use engines, make sure to attach a Power Generator.



Personal Reviver - See below.

Make sure to place a Personal Respawner on your ship. And to register to it!

It will reduce the salvage rate of your Shipyard when docked for other players.



It will stop other players from interacting with your ship when docked, including accessing chests and placing components.



It will significantly block other players from others gaining access to your ship in the sky. It will take them 10 seconds to gain access to any component.



It will significantly reduce the salvage speed of your attached ship parts.



Not to mention, it will mean that when EVERYONE who has a respawner logs off the ship will too shortly afterwards (It will come back in with the first crew member to log back on)

Tips and Tricks with Shipbuilding

Don't try to overlap parts (apart from panels) as it won't work, and glitches could destroy your ship without warning when logging in.



Be aware of your weight and maximum Atlas Core capacity, don't go over the limit without being able to craft an extension.



Engines need Power Generators to run, but they will automatically drain fuel from them, no connection is needed.



You can have more than 1 Power Generator to increase your fuel capacity



More wings will increase your turn speed and maximum roll/pitch



More engines will increase your speed, up to a point where they'll be diminishing returns with the weight vs. the power. Furthermore, engines with low overheat or cooling factor will cease to function after prolonged running.



Your choice of metal/wood has a profound difference on the stats of your components, chose carefully, see Resources section.



If you mess up the frame you can "Salvage Frame" to reclaim a portion of the frame and deck cost.

Here it is, the main event, shipbuilding. The most intricate aspect of the game; Advanced shipbuilding can require an acute knowledge of mechanics and your materials. But since you're likely new, here are the basics:To start ship building craft a Shipyard and an Assembly Station. Place the Shipyard down and interact (with 'E') to claim ownership.Now you can craft your ship frame. Currently there are 5 ship schematic slots each with a different example design. You can click "EDIT" on any schematic to see the model and modify it.To modify the design, click on a blue sphere and there should be several different coloured ovals. The red, green and blue ones will modify the spheres position and the wireframe will automatically adjust to the position. The purple ovals will adjust the curvature of the wireframe segment.To add a new deck section click on a red square and drag it out. Currently the limitations is 4 deck sections vertical, 1 wide and 6 long (Though the width can be extended, you can't add extra deck sections). The LexingtonOnce you are happy with the shape of your frame, be aware that if you make it too big it will be too heavy with its parts for the weight limit of your Atlas Sky Core, which is 1000kg to begin with. Click "SAVE" to finalise the design before crafting (You can come back to edit it later) and you can rename your ship by using the button named: "RENAME" above the schematic list.Now place the relevant resources into the crafting slot (for more information on that see the crafting section), click "CRAFT" and the frame will begin to materialise above you. The iconic blue bubble will extend around you and the frame and you can begin to place components on the frame.To place a component you have crafted with the Assembly Station you need to use the Gauntlet's Lift Tool (Default '3').You can rotate components by 90 degress with "Z", if you hold and move your mouse you can more precisely set the angle.Mousing over a component it should glow blue to indicate it can be manipulated, you can click to pick it up, and click again to place. When you "pick it up" you should see a coloured hologram of the component. The colour mean a specific state:Here's why:And you can have several Personal Respawners on a ship for all your crew. Just make sure they all hold "E" and register to one.