Then don't run out not that hard not to. May I suggest you capture bigger ships and scrap them. I use one that about 280 iron to trade ship for a better mass one.

Sounds like a bug to me. Either that, or the game is missing a "game over, please load/start new game" screen.

Either way, there is a problem.

Already solved in the last couple of builds, you can mine crystals on your homebase for minerals.

How do you store ore you find?

Otherwise you can just boot up your safegame in dev mode and spawn one for free. Game is early access so its fine i guess ? :D

Mine some crystals in your HQ if you haven't mined all of them. Should have some in the west of your base if you didn't get them already.

Originally posted by Gavin McStine:

Mine some crystals in your HQ if you haven't mined all of them. Should have some in the west of your base if you didn't get them already.

This. Also basic crystals in HQ just spawn and grow randomly so after 10 minutes in the HQ you should have enough to build at least a shuttle.

LOL Load a game we have a single save state so you mess up you are done. From a few to several dozen hours or much more you are done. No fixing it. Bugs or your own F-(*&ry Done for good. I am not a fan of that.

Dude just load you game in dev mode and spawn a ship for free no one will judge your
Just hold shift in main menu and press continume and you are in dev mode

Originally posted by GamingArtist:

LOL Load a game we have a single save state so you mess up you are done. From a few to several dozen hours or much more you are done. No fixing it. Bugs or your own F-(*&ry Done for good. I am not a fan of that.

Except the post immediately above you, provided a solution. Leave your PC idle in your HQ for 10 minutes while you make a snack or go to the washroom, and come back to enough crystals to recover, seems pretty straight forward once it's been spelled out, is it not?

The game is supposed to have some penalty level for loosing/failure to plan/etc. The above could be better spelled out granted.