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still looks good today, despite probably having half the block options a new build would.

It was never using any mods.

is it still working without mods?

Yes, also turn on ion when above ~7km, since they start to provide noticeable thrust. Also note that this is quite an old ship, some things might be changed regarding the thrust balance and fuel

Which is the most efficient way to leave a planet? Guessing from engines configuration, I should go straight up horizontally until 4km, then turn on hydrogen and go up vertically?

I pasted it into the world too. I still can’t move it. I checked the storages. No fuel inside anything. Only the thrusters work. But the ship doesn’t move. If I paste it. It just falls in a sideways drift to the ground.

Maybe it's static as project is? If it's powered, it can fly, but who knows which bugs you could encounter...

What fuel does this use? i cant get it to move after i build it from a projector

Much appreciated. I got a similar number in my testing.

Lol, I guess I have different earth with 0.1 G?

Sinks as soon as it's pasted on earth. not powerful enough to sustain flight

So, I tried to count that mass and I got approx 100 tons of limit in x1 inventory, but you need to use your both up and forward thrusters to leave Earth with 100 ms limit in vanilla by a cost of ~35% of hydrogen tank. Don't forget to turn on hydrogen thrusters!

Does anybody have a number for maximum mass to break gravity on a 1g planet? So far, i'm not able to load much of anything on the ship and still accomplish gravity escape.

Oops. I was planning to mention that I figured the design just didn't allow for interior light. Its not a big deal really to use your suit lights. Its not like you are going to move around a lot in flight.

As for the Jumpdrive I'd recommend just trying to design a jump pack that can be used with a merge block.

My plan for dealing with getting into space involves a station just out of the gravity as a refuel/recharge point so it would be a good place to leave a jump pack to charge and just park it in orbit of Mars with a beacon or GPS coords saved. No reason to totally redesign the wheel when you already have a great design.

I'll admit I didn't actually try landing it. I just pasted it in to take a look and the lack of landing gear was something I happened to notice.

@anjasqurl, thanks :)
1) Well, not enough room for it - we still don't have "combined blocks" feature from ME =(
2) Yeah, my primary objective actally was to build ship on server for traveling between Mars and Europa, but jump drive will be very helpful as well, I'll try to add it somehow (I guess that will be another build)
3) It designed to land on it's bottom, actually, it works great in action, I already landed it safely on Mars and that was not even 100% flat surface :)

GREAT build! The things looks awesome and works like a charm.

The only things I see as issues are.
1. Little to no interior lighting. (Unless the beacon is supposed to full that role, because turning it on helped a lot)

2. No jumpdrive. I know it is interplanetary, but I second @pat's comments about adding one or giving it an upgrade module to add one.

3. I didn't see any landing gear so you would have to be VERY careful when landing so you don't tear up.


All that being said you have a great ship here and I intend to put it to use in my survival game once I'm established enough to build one.

I like what I'm seeing here!

@pat, in survival, I just changed collector block to the merge ;)
Collector + connector is actually trading adapter for future usin in Exploration Enhancement Mod. However, this ship is large enough to be respawnship, but it can be tier 1 ship, which can be bought on a shipyard.
@CW, yeah, jump drive is large enough to "promote" this shuttle from Tier 1 (1st ship after respawnsip) to Tier 2 :P
So, I guess it can be new, larger version, "Hornet XL", there I guess I can add more thrusters as well.

@LeonserGT: most of what i've done breaks up all the lines of this little ship, if anything i've made it ugly except for the reactor. i slipped in the reactor replacing one of the ellbow joints going to the rear facing hydros.

otherwise i put the battleship coil gun on top of the hydro tank (think i had to bump a couple ion thrusters a brick out to fit it.

then just put another converyer block in the same position of the gatlings. it has a gatling with a ring of small hydro burners on either side ....

like i said, i made it ugly.... was a few quick desperate changes in survival...

if you do go for an change i'd just slip in a reactor or two, maybe an extra ion or hydro forward facing in the winglets. the jump drive is farly bulky and would muck with all the pipeing. it is a sweet ship with great lines, don't mess with it too much :)

Have you considered adding a merge block? Pair that with the connector at the bottom, and you suddenly have a way to attach a jump pack, refuel at depots/hangars, automatically build, and build secondary packages.

So I tried slapping a jump drive to the top of the ship, over the hyrdogen tank. It acually works pretty well. You'll only get 2 or 3 jumps out of the batteries but that's enough to travel between the Earth and Mars planets. It doesn't look too terribly ugly either.

@Ewell, can't disagree with that. But adding is will cause significant changes in ship design, so I think it will better to upload it as new workshop item, "Hornet XL" maybe? :)
@CW, can you make some screens of your changes?

Needs a jump drive. It's not really interplanetary if it can't travel between planets on it's own power.

lol, good all round genral ship, will get you off planets (kick in hydro at 5 K or so, just before atmos give out)

does a decient job landing on a moon when overloaded (mine is pushing 3 mil kg, added a huge turret to take care of pirates)

only thing i changed other than turret was to extend out the gatlings with one more converyer block to add in more hydro thrusters & replaced an elbow converyer tube with a small reactor. found it would take a while to stop in space. (the all glass pilot area is way cool, don't want to bump into stuff :) )

@mochadisney, but please, make it in that way, so I will not facepalming when watching. I mean, make sure you got all the details and looked for toolbar options, like don't try to leave planet without enabling hydrogen thrusters, as this dude below. I mean, I really hope you have enough SE experience, because I just remembered some reviews of my creations, where authors did stupid things because of not knowing how things work in SE :D
No offence

@mochadisneym of course, why not :)
@President-Dante-Wallace, make sure you enabled hydrogen thrusters. I set them off by default for not wasting hydrogen, it's or 4 on toolbar, don't remember exactly... There's all groups of thrusters on 1st toolbar after turrets shooting.

cant leave the Earth with it ;/ i can fly 5-6k m high .. and then i fall back to the Ground ;(

May I make a youtube video reviewing this ship?

Lime green? I very much approve of this paintjob! ;) You'll know why if you take a look at my workshop page. Anyway, it's a very nice looking ship and I'll definitely try it out

I added Solar Panels to the top so no need to worry about running out of battery

Ugh, don't remember if it have some "emergency reactor", but it's main power source are batteries

Is there a reactor? I cant find it

Nice shuttle you have there!

sick ship:)

It's fine. You used the right colour ratio. Any more and it would of been overkill. They're called "highlights" for a reason

Hehe, thx, good thing I didn't listen to some friends, who said to change it's colour to dark grey-turquoise, like Shrike or Condor :P

You sucked me in with my favourite lime-green colour m8 haha