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Helios-MSC 6-Bay

@lowww Hmm...shaving 4 size classes off this ship may be tricky without gutting it. I did a quick look through the workshop to see if anyone had a lower SC variant but didn't find anything. But it seems like someone would have done this already. Did you ask on the official Discord if anyone has an existing blueprint they've used?

Thanks for interesting concept. Could be Helios-MSC smaller to match official Eleon Games Studios Vanilla EU server spawn max size 10 limitation please? By the server rule the ship could be updated to build max size 30 by manual building.

Wow - just spawned this today in my son and I's first world and we are loving it! As we are sharing the ship we wanted to go with your amazing rework so we each could have 3 full bays. Thank you so much!

Garaman - yes, the door is low. But I'd rather make my tank lower.

@vigo.martov Hmm...not sure which boxes you are referring to, but if so it would be an issue from the original Helios design. The hangar doors all allow a full 4-blocks of clearance, and it doesn't look like any ceiling inside the ship is lower than that, so I'm guessing you can't fit your tank through the door?

Everything is very good, but the inner boxes are low. A tall hovering vessel - a tank - does not fit.

To clarify, there is no limit to the amount of ships that can be docked to the Helios though. You can dock the 6 modules, a dropship module in the back, however many HVs and SVs fit in the Helios' hangar bay and hallway, and whatever ships you want to stick to the top. But every docked ship or module can't have another ship docked inside or on top of it.

Empyrion does not allow what's called "chain docking". This means that if you have an HV or SV docked to a CV, that CV can't dock to another ship. So in the case of the Janus, if you have any ships in the hangar bay they have to be removed from the Janus before it can be docked to the Helios.

The JANUS was my base in a solo, I am new, I spawned them in without creative, by gathering in survival. All the turrets are on it and it simply wont dock. I am solo so no factions besides me and the pve folks. I am confused about the ships docked to what? the carrier can only have one ship at a time? or the Janus should have any sv or hv attached?

@vyctordraco2003 I just tried in creative and it works, though it's finicky. First thing is if it's just not latching make sure that both ships are the same faction and that the Janus doesn't have any other ships docked to it. I was having trouble positioning it though, so it helped to power down all but one thruster in each direction and to install turrets or blocks on the back of the roof so that it could cleanly push up against the top of the Helios bay without tipping (by default only the front hump hits the roof and this can make it difficult to align).