Ship Drives


More ways to move your platforms, and a proper way to control the throttle.

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More ways to move your platforms, and a proper way to control the throttle.

  • Solar sail - an 8x2 energy mesh that is a thruster of its own. It runs on sunlight, needs no fuel or pipes, and its thrust shows up on the platform panel like any other engine. Roughly a fifth of a thruster near Nauvis, half near Vulcanus, more than a whole one at Helios Station. A ship with nothing but sails will fly, just slowly. Sails placed side by side join up like solar panels.
  • Afterburner - bolt it onto a thruster. On a circuit signal it gives that thruster +50% thrust for +50% fuel. The thruster overheats though: it glows, sparks and loses health. The hub's repair packs keep up with one afterburner, not with two.
  • Thrust controller - one module slot, works on the thrusters it touches. Speed modules give more thrust for more fuel, efficiency modules give some fuel back.
  • Captain's bridge - has to sit against the hub or a cargo bay. It has its own window with a throttle slider and cruise control. Connect a wire and you can pick which signals drive them instead. It also outputs the ship's speed, route progress and current throttle.

I made the bridge because pulsing fuel with a clock combinator got old fast.

Want to try it first? /ship-test on a test map builds two ships, one with every part and one with sails only, and sends them to Vulcanus.


Солнечный парус 8×2 сам по себе двигатель: летит на солнечном свете без топлива и труб, его тяга видна в панели платформы. Форсаж крепится к двигателю и по сигналу даёт ему +50% тяги, но двигатель раскаляется и изнашивается. Контроллер тяги ставит модуль на соседние двигатели. У капитанского мостика своё окно с ползунком газа и круизом, а с проводом можно выбрать сигналы. Команда /ship-test строит тестовые корабли.