zBest Freighter v6.42

zBest Freighter v6. 42

zBest Freighter is a redesign of the Bridge, expands the Freighter Hangar to 12 Pads and moved Corvette teleporters.

My Thanks to those of you who voted this Mod of the Month for July 2025.

This is a quick fix for NMS 6. 2 compatibility. A few custom parts are missing, but this mod is fully functional. I need to recreate the custom parts once the tools I use have been updated. 

zBest Freighter replaces the freighter bridge with an open-plan design and improved ergonomics. It expands the freighter hangar from 9 to 12 fully functional landing pads. The number of your starships that can be in the hangar is increased from 6 to 9. NPC ships and your friends (also using this mod) can use any/all of the unoccupied landing pads. The Corvette teleporters have been moved to a much more convenient location. There is also a Starship Outfitting terminal in the hanger.

A key aspect of this mod is the ability for you to build any object that can be built in your freighter base on your new bridge! You can now take full control of what YOUR fighter bridge looks like. Need more light? Add one. Want a conference table with chairs? Add them. You are limited only by your available blueprints and imagination. Since you can't remove things added by this mod, only a minimal set of items come pre-installed and they retain the flavor of the original bridge design elements.

Details:

zBest Freighter combines and extends my 3 Freighter mods (zBridge, zBridge Terminal, and zHangar) This combination was required to enable increasing the landing pads in the hangar from 9 to 12. If you want to efficiently add lights to your new bridge add my zLights mod and use the completely new Lab Light. All of my mods now work on all freighters: capital, system, and pirate! You may wish to read the documentation for these individual mods as each goes into more detail.

Special Note to Pirate Dreadnought Captains:

There are a few cosmetic issues with the Hangar interior on dreadnoughts. To save 50-100 hours of additional work, I decided to reuse the regular hanger interior on dreadnoughts.  And while it is fully functional, there are some issues in 3 of the 4 corners (fit and intrusions) that do not meet my standards. If there is enough interest in this mod, I do intend to completely redo the pirate hangar interior using the original pirate hangar 3D model parts. Frankly I'm a bit burned out with working on this right now and it may very well be August before I release a new version with that fix. Between now and then, I am open to suggestions on what items to add or remove on Dreadnoughts. Just leave a post.