Exotic Starship Fabricator

Description

This mod enables players to synthesize an exotic starship using the space stations' fabricator machines added with Orbitals update. Players can use advanced crafting and trading goods and S class reactor core modules to assemble their favourite exotic combination... with some caveats.

A couple important disclaimers:

DISCLAIMER 1

Only Guppy / ball cockpit exotics are supported by this mod! There is no option to assemble a Squid-type exotic ship!

DISCLAIMER 2

This mod makes use of the shuttle assembly functionality which was originally prepared by HG and disabled from actual gameplay. This mod enables this functionality back and makes extensive changes to it in order to fit even simplified exotic starship synthesis. It's not perfect, there are still some issues that can not be addressed properly!

DISCLAIMER 3

This mod is not compatible with any other mod that adds new ship types to the starship fabricator - all of these mods are affecting the only free assembly functionality we have and there is no way to get these mods working together!

DISCLAIMER 4

This mod has been reworked from the ground up - the new version allows players to pick desired colour combination of exotic starship from the vanilla colour picker. It also introduces the option to apply the 5 vanilla textures (yellow, red, blue, grey, orange) and a brand new black texture. Version 5. 05 also supports customizing the colour of metallic bits / decals found on exotic ships.

Whereas previous version required the Royal Palette mod by lMonk to function, this new version ditches it completely. Moreover, it is not compatible with lMonk's mod anymore. Make sure to uninstall their mod when using the new version my exotic fabricator mod!

DISCLAIMER 5

For any question like "do other players see my custom ship colours?" or "does the exotic keep its appearance once the mod is removed?", assume the answer is NO.

Technical information

Files modified by this mod:

UI\SHIP_BUILDER_PAGE. MBIN

METADATA\GAMESTATE\PLAYERDATA\MODULARCUSTOMISATIONDATATABLE. MBIN

METADATA\GAMESTATE\PLAYERDATA\CHARACTERCUSTOMISATIONDESCRIPTORGROUPSDATA. MBIN

METADATA\GAMESTATE\PLAYERDATA\CHARACTERCUSTOMISATIONTEXTUREOPTIONDATA. MBIN

TEXTURES\COMMON\SPACECRAFT\S-CLASS\ROYALSCLASS_TRIM. TEXTURE. MBIN

TEXTURES\COMMON\SPACECRAFT\S-CLASS\DETAILS. TEXTURE. MBIN

TEXTURES\COMMON\SPACECRAFT\S-CLASS\ROYALSCLASS_TRIM. BASE. DDS

Mod specification:

✅ EXML patch mod +⚠️ Full MBIN replaceme