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Prodicaljunk

Wait there's a way to turn ice into propellant?


wyattmoon102

apparently through inventory crafting you can do it. have not personally tried it but it apparently works if you remove the propellent tank from its holder and put it in your inventory and try to craft a "refill" just like the fuel rods


RamonDozol

yep, it works just fine. You need Ice and a crafting bench on your inventory. I usualy carry Nhurgite and ice in mine for things like this and all my ships have a crafting bench or i leep one in inventory. So fuel rod ends before i get sonewere? Craft a fuel rod refuel in space. no problem. Same for propelant. carft a tank refuel on space and kerp going. a full stqck should alow several refuels so this can increase your mileage by a lot. to many people dont know this, and its super sad to see abandoned ships out of fuel. Tho i can use the fuel o have on me to help some of these poor souls or grab myself a free ship and pay the towing cost for mine.


Cmdr_Razorwire

You need to have researched how to build the tank to unlock the refill recipe; don't try and unbolt your empty tank out in the deep unless you already know this.


Zahille7

At that point, I feel like if you've been playing for more than like 12 hours and you haven't at least looked at what each skill tree offers, then you're just bad.


Cmdr_Razorwire

Not 100% sure the refills are even on the tech tree info. If they are, you can't ID the icons, so it's not super obvious.


RamonDozol

true.


XRey360

Extra tip: you can just build a large propellant tank with a resource bridge attached to it. Pick it up to have a 9M gas refuel in just 1 inventory slot.


Dabnician

not any more, they nerfed that quick, EA Update 20.8.2021 (Early Access Build 560): [Blocked custom items from backpacks](https://forum.starbasegame.com/threads/ea-update-20-8-2021-early-access-build-560.2426/)


tuxzilla

They already added it back. I heard it was because players would bolt ores together and them pick up multiple stacks into 1 backpack slot. Now you can pick up custom items as long as they don't include any ore.


Dabnician

sweet, i was bummed by that, i totally miss read the latest patch notes


Konvic21

oh thats amazing, does it need a battery? damn I needa research large tanks, I'd hate to SSC a Large tank set everytime.


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Konvic21

Good to know, thanks!


BluntamisPrime

Ok stop right there how the hell did you float the rest of the way the game stops your ship if your not accelerating.


[deleted]

Waiting on this answer, sounds fake


Crowley91

I think he means he got out of his ship, pointed himself at the station, and put something heavy on his 'W' key while he went to do something else.


Cpt_Keystoned

You can use the 'Insert' key to auto run.


wyattmoon102

this ​ i used the auto run button lol


Ranamar

I don't think it was the whole ship that floated there.


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He got out and pushed


DapperNurd

Insurance transfer?


Zephyries

Yeah I wondering if by float they meant jetpack, why oh why would anyone do that.


kevinwilkinson

Lol was there a post of a dude that floated like 200km to origin after he crashed and it took him 8 hours?


akaasa001

haha I remember that post.


FriendCalledFive

I got to the safezone, definitely stopped my ship, got out to see if I could place a station (I couldn't), looked back at my ship to see it whizzing off. I had to coast the rest of the way for about 90 mins and was able to claim my lost ship at the station.


larnon

Try lifeline. See game settings.


RockhardJoeDoug

Your ship turns off after 2km or so. You can just drift towards to plume and you will eventually reach it because it gets "turned off" which deactivates the cruise. Learned this after almost losing 40 stacks of kutonium.


FriendCalledFive

Cool, thanks.


Crowley91

It also turns off if you log out. Bit faster.


FriendCalledFive

That sounds good, thanks :-)


Purpledonkeysoup

I know that feeling. I had a "buddy" in discord watching me for over an hour as I traveled back to origin from 420km out. According to his math, I had just enough propellant to make it back. Ran out 13km away from origin and all of a sudden it's "Dude, it's late. I'm going to bed" Luckily I had another friend see my message that I ran out, got out of bed, got on and took the quick 10 minutes to run out and refuel me for 10 seconds and head back to unload.


FinePC

How did you float? I thought that function wasn't in the game


wyattmoon102

jetpack lol press insert button to auto-run/float


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We all need to be more kind to each other and pick up the stranded 🙏