User talk:Senkii

Summary

Guide for Starbase Station building.

Introduction

A station of your own can be a great asset in your exploration of the Starbase universe. Whether you build one in the permanent safezone near the Origin stations, or far out into the belt; it can be a place for you to craft, store ore, and set up a living space of your own.

To begin making a station, you'll have to get a Station foundation, the "Inside Safe Zone" one if you plan to build inside the permanent safezone, and the "Outside Safe Zone" one if you want to build further out into the universe.

This guide assumes you are taking the route of crafting everything yourself, though if you bought a foundation and station parts on the auction house, you can skip ahead to Step 3.

Step 1: Research

To be able to craft a station foundation, you'll need to unlock the Station Foundation research in the tech tree

Step 2: Crafting

Crafting a station foundation takes a good bit of material, and the "Outside Safe Zone" foundation is significantly more expensive to make than the "Inside Safe Zone" foundation.

Step 3: Placing the foundation

Either foundation needs to be at least 30km away from the nearest Origin station, and 2km from the nearest player station (as opposed to the 1km the description of the item mentions). To place it down, you drag the foundation out of your inventory, and press the button on top. Keep in mind that the button will be the top side of the station; while you can walk on any side just fine, there are some parts that you can't rotate in every orientation with easy build mode right now, so keeping the "up" direction of the foundation in mind is advised.

If you want to rotate the foundation, you can do so before pressing the button by aligning your player how you want the foundation to be aligned, and grabbing it with E. (This is a bit of a weird way of aligning things, but just experiment with it until it is oriented like you want.)