Is it just too advanced to talk about in the workshop? What am I missing here? I did a search for collision, which should presumably return resulting discussions about how blocks react when they touch?? But besides my own use of the term, the dev uses it to refer to ID number errors.
(I don't use discord: mental health)

So, to fix the slowdown that happens when two ships/stations overlap permanently, a few things may be done.
The most simple desired fix would be to set *all* block overlap responses to what happens when they are enemies, eg, the blocks are selectively damaged until they are destroyed.
The second possibility is to have the two ships/stations move away from each other incrementally until they are no longer touching.
The third option is to create a timer that counts to a certain value, after which it is assumed that the two ships/stations are permanently stuck, and preferably destroys one of them. This could be done by making it an enemy, maybe?

For the first option, I looked through all of the modding docs, but I didn't notice any reference to defining how friendly overlapping blocks respond to each other. Did I miss it?

For the second and third options, you would presumably need a "collision detection" and a "move away from other" or a "direction to other" or even as simple as x and y ship positions, of which I didn't notice any of them in the docs??

I'm admittedly pretty bad at keyword searches, so if you know the correct terms that you guys like to use for this stuff, feel free to let me know. Feel free to necro comment if this gets no resolution, I am eternal. Thanks! :)