How do you build a ship?

[HartfulFlash]

I know that you have to research all the parts first and I'm working on that, but once you place the structural beam what do you do next? Do I have to build around it with steel walls? I can't place the cryptosleep casket that's meant for space on the ground like the normal one so I assume it knows when it's on a ship, but how do I build one. 

(I don't care if it's not a fleshed out mechanic once you launch, I just want to try it)

[A Friend]

You attach the other ship parts to it. It should look like this basically.
http://i.imgur.com/dfVYGJG.png

No walls needed.

[HartfulFlash]

I think I understand what you mean. So does that mean I'll need probably more than one beam?

[A Friend]

Depends on how many caskets you're gonna add in.

[Shurp]

Each beam supports 4 caskets, assuming you use the normal broomstick design:


xxxxxxxxxxxx  D     D
xxx Stuff xxxx = = = =    <--- add more beams here
xxxxxxxxxxxx     D    D

Where the "=" is one beam and each "D" is a casket.

[asanbr]

You can actually have 8 caskets on a single beam and a fully functioning ship, if you connect the rest of the ship parts to the caskets. You don't have to connect all ship parts to the beam.


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[Tykero]

With a ship like that no wonder were always crash landing on new planets and starting over lol.

[A Friend]

Looks like something out of Kerbal Space Program

[Boston]

You know.....

I wonder just how bad life must be on these Rimworlds, where colonists would willingly get onto these slapped-together "Rocket sticks".

I mean..... many of my Rimworld colonies are downright pleasant. Plenty of good, hearty food, comfortable houses (solid log cabins, not some dank cave carved out of a mountain), friendly neighbors (except for those pirate assholes), even some luxuries, like beer, music, soft animal skin-rugs, and the views.

I usually play in Boreal Forests, so I imagine every sunrise looks like this:

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/CNEWA7/the-taiga-forest-and-tundra-of-colorful-dwarf-willow-and-birch-are-CNEWA7.jpg

Compared to the above, getting into one of those caskets doesn't seem very preferable.

[Grimandevil]

those comments are priceless.

[Shurp]

Pretty clever, I never thought to use a casket as a structural component of the ship.

(Technically this is probably something that should be fixed... ship design should require *every* component connected to a structural beam, not just the caskets.)