I'm glad you guys are able to modify it so easily to work in RE2. We're fortunate that most starters convert fairly easily.

If anyone is interested in another take I have now posted a Pallas Mk2 which was rebuilt entirely for RE2.

Fantastic ship! Works in RE2 with minimal changes in fact you can drop the extender and make it even cheaper. I have a heavily modded version of this with grow plots and 2 320k harvester/storage (design borrowed from another BP modified by me) which is my starter CV now. And a souped up version with 30k shields and combat armor which is my daily driver/explorer. Not a fighter ship at all but mining/exploring its great.

@Xanoric Sure - but the changes are really minor. What I did was: remove the basic CPU extender (due to the rebalance it's not needed, and a bit cheaper to build that way). Remove eight blocks on the front and back of where the solar panels used to be, and fit the standard plasma turbines there. Add four basic plasma turbines in the middle.

Not the prettiest but it has worked well for me so far. Just make sure to stay away from warships and outposts, they really pack a punch in RE2.

Paramike can you share you changed design?

This works great as a RE2 starter CV! I replaced the solar panels with four basic plasma turbines and four standard plasma turbines, and it can now also double as a powerless constructor when idle. Excellent design.

@Narbenfresse Absolutely, modify it however you see fit!

Hello Masterbuilder. Do i have your permission to rework this ship? i want do copy it to a bigger version with xxl thrusters

thanks

Best ship man, thanks for it, incredible work

This ship is amazing. I'm new to Empyrion and i'm playing on a server and someone on server seen me and gave me this ship. I was overwhelmed at first but fell in love with it almost immediately then had to look it up and subscribe to it on the workshop. Mine doesn't appear to have been upgraded yet so I'm going to look into upgrading as i can. I just love that this has basically everything i can possibly need except for a farm but i plan on building as base soon once i find a system i want to settle in.

ok i didnt end up changing any of the weapons but what i did do was take out the small constructor , move fridge to where small constructor was , take out weapons and armor cargo box and add a large shield charger in place of the fridge and container box for weapons.

@Sicario2055: Glad you're enjoying the ship! I've actually struggled to upgrade it with any combat capability in my own use of it. Replacing the bottom two minigun turrets with flak turrets let me pound on some unshielded bandit ships around asteroid fields, but CPU gets a little tight now when you add a shield capacitor.

One thing I did in a previous playthrough was that when I removed the large drills I stuffed a full-sized advanced shield gen in the left side and capped it off with blocks, and placed all 8 laser drills in the right side. This let me remove the compact shield generator which made room for another CPU block and another large generator. At that point you can start adding more turrets on top of the solar panels if you want. But ultimately she's a digger, not a fighter. If you see something you want to shoot, best to go home and come back with a dedicated combat vessel.

This really is an amazing ship , i got all upgrades done except the 8 laser miners. this ship helped me build a amazing attack CV in 2 days of hard grinding . even though smaller , i love the fact everything is compact and i don't have to run around a huge cv to find stuff. what do you think about upgrading some the weapons as i can take a hit but can't dish out much? where would you put another cpu upgrade ? can you deck a version of this out and add it for creative mode to compare upgrades? thank you again for such a great ship.

@Sicario2055 Yes, the U mediums are the ones that point up. When upgraded the ship uses medium thrusters in the up direction and large in all the others.

CV solar panels in Reforged aren't real solar panels. They used to be, but were buggy and started deleting chunks of ships on servers. These new "mobile" panels are basically just plates with a negative power draw, so each panel passively reduces your power consumption. They can't charge capacitors, but they also don't need to be pointed at the sun. They basically give you just enough passive power generation to idle your ship to keep the fridge on while you're offline.

how do the solar panels work without a solar cap?

ty i got all steps done and am on the thrusters. are the U medium thrusters the enclosed 2 that point up? i am going to say yes and try all the other ones to large. will check back if i get stuck again. great ship

@Sicario2055 Nope, no video. If you go into the rear door below the radiation symbol and look up and to the left you will see a round "capacitor relay" deco block (the cylinder with the glowing blue stripes on it). Remove that block, and it will leave a 2x1 gap to place the shield capacitor in.

There is another capacitor relay next to the large constructor that can also be removed and used as an upgrade spot.

thank you , got the radar figured out but had trouble placing some stuff got the advanced constructer in though blocking a little bit , and went to put the shield cap in and couldnt fit no way in directed spot. tossed it on the floor. there's a video that shows upgrades?

@Sicario2055 You just place it on the back of the ship over the texture vents. One of the upgrade pictures in the scroll shows how it's installed. Thanks for the feedback!

I found this sittin on a dock and went to look it up here at the workshop and YESSSSSS!

Great ship, I loved the simple yet effective design :D

The ship has no RCS on it. Torque is provided by thruster placement, so you can increase it slightly by upgrading the thrusters. Or if you have spare CPU you can find a place to install an RCS (maybe replace a cargo box under one of the controllers?)

Where is the RCS on this ship?? im trying to upgrade it to a Advanced Rcs so i can turn better??

Glad you guys are enjoying the ship! Man, SpaceTonka is a great name, I love it.

Our group has been using this ship extensively on our latest restart, and it works quite well. Our fleet of five has been mostly pushed to the full upgrade and a bit beyond with extra engines, custom paint jobs and so forth. We called it the SpaceTonka at first, but now they are all just Tonka. Anyway, great ship. Very tough, agile, and once the laser miners are in place, it just eats asteroids. Thanks for this compact and neat design.

Garaman, I do not know what happened either. Now this ship functions fine in Creative and in game. Not sure if it was my Game buggin out or what.

a very well planned and thought out ship. Great Work

@Heffaklumpen Yes, it has a compact shield and warp drive pre-installed.

Is it coming with a shield installed?

Great work, this is a must have CV!

@MoonshineBandit Not sure what happened there. It's a bog-standard warp drive so shouldn't have needed replacing. Looks like it loaded fine for me in both RG and RE.

I removed warp in creative reforged and replaced it with regular warp and saved and now it does not show illegal block

Says illegal block. any idea what block?

Ah, that works! Glad you got it configured to your liking.

I have it fitting nicely where the large constructor was by removing a few additional extensions, and I put the CPU extender up where the medical tables were above the shower. If I add a generator it will go in where the smaller shield had been.. I may not have needed it but having that cushion when attacked while drilled makes me feel better.

Nope, can't make it reliably fit. If you want a full-sized shield, my recommendation is to remove the left drill and place the shield generator in there, then seal it in. That frees up the space where the compact shield was for an extra generator and CPU block if desired. You can then install all the laser drill upgrades on the right side. A little more dangerous to run at that point (drills chain like crazy) but it's workable. You'll still have 400k harvest capacity between the two containers.

Now that I think about it that's not enough room. Yeah, I'll have to dig in later.

@KidDynoMite Yeah I didn't intend for the shield to be upgradable. Tried to keep the hull light so you had more hauling capacity so I didn't leave the space for a full-sized shield. I'd have to dig through the build in creative to think of how to squeeze it in. My initial thought is to pull all devices and cargo extensions on the left side of the warp drive, remove the pentaxid tank from the top, then flip the warp drive so it stands 3-blocks tall. You might have enough room in the back corner then for a full-sized shield gen, but I can't really visualize it fully if there would be enough space, and if it's possible to then fit the components you removed back in. That warp drive is just a bulky thing on such a small ship.

I'll take a look tonight and see if I have any other suggestions.

Loving this ship as an inexpensive stepping stone to laser drills! Looking at initial upgrades being warp and shield, but I can't figure out how to upgrade the shield as it is in a tight space.

If space is needed I'd like to know how to best reduce the 2nd harvest controller from 200K as I can't see a use on a ship like this for a 2nd controller of 200k at this time.

Thanks filbertfarmer. I've been staring at your ships long enough I think some of the detailing focus is finally rubbing off. ^_^

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Nice miner! Great job on the fine detailing, its subtle and really adds a lot to the look.

Thanks Mr. L! Also, the other Mr. L.

Really cool mr G.

Yeah, it's for people like XCaliber who never read my wall-of-text upgrade guides. ;)

I didn't use visible letter and symbol upgrade markers on this build, so hopefully the pictures will make things clearer as to my recommended upgrade path. As always, though, she's your ship: do as you please.

Oh, you went extra mile and added upgrade path pics. Nice.