Space · Item
Central dock
The dearest item of the game: right-clicked in orbit, it becomes your starter ship, the heart of a space station.
In the game
How to get it
At the grid: 32 titanium sheets, 4 circuit boards, 96 aluminium sheets, 4 small pipes, 32 padding (or 16 dust felt) and 8 springs. At the controls of your rocket in a stable orbit, engine off, right-click with it in hand.
What it is for
A starter ship appears around your rocket: engineering, a hub with chests, a bunk, a kitchen and a bridge under a glass dome; rockets dock nose-in.
Why it exists
A home among the stars, built from your own rocket.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
How to make it
32 titanium sheets, 4 circuit boards, 96 aluminium sheets, 4 small pipes (life support), 32 padding (lunar: 16 dust felt), 8 springs.
Creating your ship
At the controls, rocket in a stable orbit, engine off: right-click with the dock in hand. Refusals say why: "Cut the engine first", "Get into a stable orbit first", "Leave the dock first", "Too many ships here" (8 within 5 km, never closer than 200 m).
The starter ship
A round plated hull with wings: engineering (the gravity generator's plinth), the hub (hatches, 4 chests), a bunk, a kitchen, the bridge under a glass dome looking at the planet. Room to extend.
Its screen
Right-click the dock: the name, its rockets (up to 10), the orientation ("Facing the planet", "Still in the stars", flip), and Dismantle the ship (everything aboard is lost, docked rockets float free, the central dock comes back).
On the progress path
ST1Space stationMain path
- This stepST1 · Central dock: starter ship
- NextST2 · Gravity generator
Sub-actions (counted in your progress)