Here i will show how you get a bigger grid to build a bigger Ship without using mods, easy in short time.

At first you need a new Save Game.
My advice, create a universe with a lot of resources because a larger ship and crew logically consumes more resources later on.

To enlarge the ship we need space in two directions (top left and top right), so build a ship or use the one that is available right at the beginning, depending on the start you chose and fly in a system that is as empty as possible, the systems at the jump points are best.

























Now name your ship, remember the name and save your game.

Now we have to go to the save game folder.

1. Make a right click on Space heaven in your Steam library and click Manage, then Local files and Browse.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Now you should be in the Space Heaven files folder. Next you go into the save game folder and there you go into the folder with the name of the savegame where you make the preparation.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. There you select the "save" folder
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. In there should be a file called "Game" .Now double click on the file and open it with the Editor
   

Now you have a file with a wall full of text in which we have to look for the ship Name.
Press SHIFT+F, a search field should open, enter the name of your ship there.
You should see the following line there...


















Now comes the important part, there are two parts, "sx=" and "sy=".
SY is the length of the ship, SX is the width


















Which numbers you now have to enter there? Well, a grid has 28x28 squares, which means that you have to add +28 for each grid, i.e. = 28 -> 56 -> 84 -> 112 -> 140 -> 168-> etc.......
Personally, I mostly use sx="84" sy="140", this size is perfect, big but not to big, you can of course also swap the numbers to sx="140" sy="84" then you have a wide ship
You can also make it bigger but this can bring maybe problems.



The next place you need to edit is your ship's "roof" area for systems. If dimensions in ship's hull and roof will mismatch, you may not be able to build subsystem in some parts of the ship.
A simple method to find the correct text line is to press SHIFT+F again, put "roof" in the search bar and click the search direction down, it will show the first best result and that is the line that still belongs to your ship.
it looks like this.....
Here you put exactly the same numbers in the "sx=" and "sy=" areas you puted in the line with the Ship name!

!Watch out! you need focus, don't scroll around to much after you edit the first text with your ships name or click on the arrow too often, in the whole text wall there are also the text fields of AI ships that look exactly like your ship text, it can easily happen that you land in the section of an AI ship!


That's all, now save the file and start the game, now you should have a bigger grid and you can build the ship of your dreams.