Space
Travel to space and other planets!
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Setting Up Your Ship
Getting into space takes a lot of work. But it can be well worth it! Below is a checklist of things you need to do collect and do before sending your first rocket into space and how to make your spaceship safe.
Be prepared for space
If you just launch into space with your new ship, you will just die to either the cold or a lack of oxygen. You need to be ready to get the basics setup in space so you can work on building your ship. The most important thing to do at first is to establish some sort of way to and from your ship. This guide assumes you do not have further technology and its your first time going into space.
Wearing a Space Suit (Crafted at the Basic Assembler)
Wearing an Oxygen Mask (Crafted at the Basic Assembler)
Have 10+ filled oxygen tanks in the TOP row of your inventory. You can fill these with a Gas Extractor and you can craft them at a Basic Assembler.
Have a guaranteed way to make power in space. A Combustion Generator is great to start.
Bring a Human Teleporter with you and a battery. Place a human teleporter in your factory somewhere, make sure to give it a name so you know which one it is.
Have a few stacks of build blocks with you.
Before going into space sneak next to a campfire to get a heat bonus, this will last for 3 minutes. So do it right before taking off. It takes about 2 minutes to freeze to death in space, so this should give you about 5 minutes of time before you die in space to the cold.
Launch your rocket with a redstone WIRE facing right into the rocket silo. This cannot be a repeater, observer or any other redstone block, it must be a straight redstone wire, NOT a cross redstone wire. Make sure your standing close to the rocket silo and power the redstone wire somehow, this will send you into space with your new space ship. Which will be a tiny 3x3 platform.
Establish a way to and from your ship
Your first goal in space should be to setup a way to and from your ship. You have a time limit of about 5 minutes before you die to the cold. So you need to quickly place your combustion generator, battery and human teleporter. Fuel up the generator and use the link the human teleporter you just placed on your ship to your one at your factory. Now you should be able to teleport back to your factory at anytime. You'll need to leave the ship before you freeze to death. But at least you can avoid death by coming back to your factory. Just make sure there is power at both your spaceship and your factory. That's why bringing the battery to space is important. Once at your factory link the Human Teleporter on the ground to the one you have in your spaceship!
Making the ship safe
Research the Environmental Stability technology. This will give you access to the Atmospheric Controller device. With this device you can stabilize both the temperature and oxygen in an enclosed space. Which means you wouldn't need to worry about the cold or oxygen within this space.
Make an enclosed space on your spaceship. Place your Atmospheric Controller device there. As long as the device is powered you will now get heat within that space.
To get oxygen in that enclosed space youll need to bring up Gas Canisters filled with oxygen, these are obtained from a Gas Extractor. Oxygen will last a lot longer in this enclosed space then the oxygen tanks you have been using.
You will want to add a few Sam Sites to your ship, a few on the top. If you have the Rail Gun unlocked its a good idea to place a few at the front of the ship. Same Sites can protect you from asteroids and from space bats. While the Rail Guns are great at blowing up incoming asteroids.
Your ships safe for travel and and for inhabitants on it now.
Better Transportation
Unlock the Phase Relay Technology.
Place a phase relay in your ship somewhere. This device can trickle charge without power.
Make a Phase Beacon for yourself. If you lose it don't worry you can craft another.
Now with the phase beacon you right click it and teleport to your ship from anywhere at any time. This is much better then using a human teleporter because as your ship gets further away the teleport cost becomes to high to teleport back and fourth. Even if you could teleport using the human teleporter, you are going to want to do this anyways as its way cheaper to teleport and you can teleport from anywhere.
Travelling Through Space
Moving through space isn't a hard process to start. Here are the steps to travel to another planet.
Place an Atlas
This device is how you select a planet to travel towards. You can only have one of these per ship though. The Atlas has 3 physical buttons on it, unlike most devices it has actual buttons on the device itself. A left and right arrow which cycle between planets. And a green button, used to set the current selected planet as the destination. Select the Moon or another planet that isn't very far as your first target.
Thrusters
You ship won't budge yet, that's because it doesn't have any forward thrust. You will need to provide your ship with Thrusters. These use Hydrogen Gas Canisters, so you are going to need to stock up on these in order to travel around in space. Keep in you can obtain Hydrogen in two ways, one from a Gas Extractor and the second is from a Advanced Assembler recipe that uses blue ice and empty gas canisters. Once you place at least one thruster on your ship, and supply it with hydrogen your ship will begin to travel to your selected target!
Make sure your thrusters have nothing facing behind it! It will break those blocks once you begin moving through space!
Planetary Movement
Once your ship is orbiting a planet you can then open the Atlas and enter the target coordinates you would like the ship to travel to on the planet. You will notice that your ship already had coordinates set, these are the coordinates of the rocket silo that launched your ship core into space. If you were to jump of your ship now, you would actually fall into the planets sky and likely fall to your death. But if you know there is a body of water at those specific coordinates you could land in water and be fine.
There is a much safer way to drop to the planets surface though. The Phase Relay can teleport you to the surface of the planet. It again will teleport you directly below the ship. So if the ships coordinates are X 100 and Z 125, you will be dropped at the highest point at that position. Don't forget to bring a Phase Beacon with you! Or else you will be stranded on the planet!
It is possible to do this without a phase relay. But it complicates the process abit so for this guide it wont be covered here.
Important Planet Note
Planets are not land-able by default. Admins have to make sure they have an actual world assigned to them, or else you can't land on it. Admins could have planets that are not land-able on purpose so just make sure you figure out if where your going is actually one that can be landed on.
Space Dangers
There is a few dangers in space outside of the cold and lack of oxygen!
Space Bats, these pesky things don't like humans. They use phantoms as their base entity so they try to attack the player if possible. This isn't a problem if your inside your ship of course. However. They poop in space, this poop can land on top of your ship, and their poop happens to be highly explosive. If to much of it collects on the top of your ship, it will eventually explode and it can harden on the top part of the ship. This can be bad, as one wrong explosion near your ship core, and your ship is lost for good. You can set up sam sites to defend from these, and just make sure to go on a space walk every once in awhile and clean the poop off your ship. Sam Sites can be set to only target space bats so you can ensure they are getting targeted.
Asteroids, these very in size, the larger the more dangerous they are. These can be blown up with Sam Sites as well, but its easier to deal with these with Rail Guns, these can one shot asteroids. So for the largest asteroid it will only take 5 shots to break it apart fully. Where as with a Sam Site its close to half a stack of ammo. Asteroids splinter in half when broken, until they are small enough to not cause damage to the ship. These are asteroid chunks. These asteroid chunks can actually have Mineable resources in them!
Space Harvesting
There's a few things to gather from space itself!
Asteroids! As mentioned earlier you can unlock the Asteroid Miner device to gather resources from asteroids directly. Admins have full control over what resources spawn in these asteroids, and there is different types of asteroid fields to encounter that may have different resources.
Nebula! You will notice colored particle formations around your ship, this indicates your in a nebula. You can farm the Nebula for trace materials using a particle collector. Eventually the collector will produce the material after harvesting enough of it.
Space Science Packs, with an Observatory you can gather way more space science packs in space then on a planets surface.
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