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Spawn Terminals

Spawn Terminals is a mod that lets you you put terminals into your world that players can use to purchase blueprinted ships instantly with SC. It lets you turn any ordinary connector blocks into the docks and pads of your shipyard!

It requires the Decorative Pack 1 DLC due to its use of the projector table. Though once placed in a world anyone can use it.

NB. currently does not work with wheeled vehicles.

1. Walk up to a terminal
   
2. Click the Select Ship screen, or press F on it
   
3. The blueprint finder will open, choose your blueprint. Wait.
   
4. The ship blueprint / purchase screen will appear. Click Buy, or Cancel to select another ship.

The ship will appear on a connector pad, or an error message will be displayed. If the world is configured with a cost for grids, that cost will be deducted from your SC balance.


Here is an example station and world that has some small and large docks configured:
world : https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1958190506
blueprint: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1958191339


But setup is easy. To turn any connector into a dock, use the Make Spawn Zone button. This will turn the connector into a Spawn Zone and extra terminal controls will appear. Don't forget to give the connector a descriptive name, like DOCK A etc.



The most important setting is the orienation of the grids that will spawn in the zone. You can set this by clicking Edit Orientation, this will enter a mode where you can rotate this orientation marker using the block rotate controls (PGUP, PGN, HOME, END, INS, DEL). Press F when finished.



Spawn Terminal config

Terminals also have a configuration, see these options in the terminal:



More options will come in future.

World config

There is an xml file that defines several options, hopefully these speak for themselves. It lives in the save game storage, eg %AppData%\\SpaceEngineers\Saves\<SaveGameName>\Storage\1958161003.sbm_GridSpawnSystem\Settings.xml

It looks like this:



This will only spawn the same grid that a projector would project, the primary grid, and not any grids which are joined mechanically. This is a current limitation of the Mod API which will hopefully be able to be overcome in future.

Also, due to the above limitation, currently wheeled vehicles are not working and should not be purchasable.