Guide to construction

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ENGINEERING

Department head:
Chief Engineer
Engineering roles
Guides

If you want to do a job, like Station Engineer, you need to know how to build and deconstruct stuff.

Basic Tools

Before you can begin any construction or deconstruction you need to gather a few useful tools.

These tools can be found in any blue Mechanical Toolbox on the station. They can also be made in an Autolathe or dispensed from a YouTool vending machine.

Materials

To build anything, you need materials. Keep in mind that most materials can be used to make walls, doors, floor tiles, chairs, tables and statues.


Metal

Metal
Metal
Description

Things you can make by having Metal in your hand and activating it:



Other things you can do with Metal:

  • Turn a scooter frame into a skateboard, a scooter without a handle. (5 sheets)
  • Metal tables when added to table frame. (1 sheet)
  • Finish wall girders into walls. (2 sheets)
  • Repair broken walls. (1 sheet)
  • Add armor to turret frames. (5 sheets)
  • Refill an Exosuit Fabricator, Autolathe or Protolathe/Techfab. (2000 material per sheet)


See Constructions.


How to produce Metal:

Smelt iron ore at the Mining furnace.

Glass and Reinforced Glass

Glass and Reinforced Glass
Glass and Reinforced Glass
Description

Glass:
Things you can make by having Glass or Plasmaglass in your hand and activating it:


Other things you can do with Glass:

  • Glass Tables when added to table frames (1 sheet)
  • Glass Lenses to grenade casings.
  • Refill a Circuit Imprinter, Autolathe or Protolathe/Techfab. (2000 material per sheet)


Reinforced Glass:
Things you can make by having Reinforced Glass in your hand and activating it:


Other things you can do with Reinforced Glass:

  • Part of AI Core assembling
  • Add windows into Airlocks
  • Refill a Circuit Imprinter, Autolathe or Protolathe/Techfab. (2000 glass and 1000 metal materials per sheet)


Reinforced Plasma Glass:
Things you can make by having Reinforced Plasma Glass in your hand and activating it:


How to produce Glass:

Smelt sand at the Ore Redemption Machine, or the Mining furnace, or smelt Glass shards with a Welding Tool to reform them into Glass sheets.


How to produce Reinforced Glass:

Use rods on glass.


How to produce Plasma Glass:

Print Plasma + Glass alloy from cargo, engineering or science protolathe/techfab.


How to produce Reinforced Plasma Glass:

Use rods on plasma glass.


Plasma

Plasma
Plasma
  • Found in: From mining and some other sources.
  • Used for: Making a few products, burning down the station, or used in a departmental Protolathe/Techfab
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having Plasma sheets in your hand and activating them:

  • Plasma door (10 plasma sheets)
  • 4x plasma tiles (1 plasma sheet)
  • Scientist Statue (5 plasma sheets)


Some other things you can do with Plasma:

  • Light it on fire with a lighter to turn it into burning gas.
  • Grind it for liquid plasma, useful for a large number of things, such as xenobiology.
  • Insert into a Protolathe/Techfab. Some products need this material.


How to produce Plasma: Smelt plasma ore in the Ore Redemption Machine or Mining furnace.

Plasteel

Plasteel
Plasteel
  • Found in: Deliver iron and plasma ores to the ORM. Print Plasma + Iron alloy from silo-linked cargo, engineering or science protolathe/techfab. Stacks may exists in Engineering, E.V.A. and Robotics.
    Cargo can order more, but they are very expensive.
  • Used for: Reinforcing walls, mechs, building an AI Core
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate to start building
Description

Plasteel is an alloy of plasma and iron.

Things you can make by having Plasteel in your hand and activating it:

  • AI core (4 sheets)
  • Bomb Assembly (10 sheets)
  • Airlock Assemblies
    • High security airlock assembly (4 plasteel sheets)
    • Vault door assembly (6 plasteel sheets)


Other things you can do with Plasteel:


See Constructions.


Rods

Rods
Rods
  • Found in: Stacks exist in Engineering, Auxiliary Tool Storage, E.V.A..
    More can be made from Metal sheets.
  • Used for: Constructing grilles and reinforcing
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and use it on things
Description

Things you can make by having rods in your hand and activating them:

  • Grille (by clicking in your hand)
  • Make a scooter frame


Other things you can do with rods:

  • Lattice (for floors, by clicking on a space tile)
  • Reinforcing plating (by clicking on the plating)
  • Reinforcing normal glass into reinforced glass (have rods in hand while clicking glass sheet)
  • Put a handle on a skateboard and turn it into a scooter
  • Can be turned back into metal sheets by being welded with a Welding Tool


See Constructions


How to produce Rods:

Use Metal and click "2x metal rods" (makes two sets of rods).


Floor Tiles

Floor Tiles
Floor Tiles

Found in: Can be made from metal or removed from the floor with a crowbar
Used for: Constructing Plating or Steel Floor

Description

Tiles used to construct floors.
Things you can do with Floor Tiles:

  • Use on lattice to build plating.
  • Use on plating to build steel floor.
  • Use on another type of already placed floor tile while holding a crowbar in other hand to replace existing floor.
  • Use on Metal Foam floor to convert it to plating.


See Constructions.


How to produce Floor Tiles:

Use metal or almost any other material and click "4x floor tiles" (makes 4 floor tiles).


Silver

Silver
Silver
  • Found in: Deliver silver ore to the ORM. Eject silver from ORM or any silo-linked protolathe/techfab.
  • Used for: Making a few products, or used in a departmental Protolathe/Techfab
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having silver bars in your hand and activating them:

  • Silver door (10 silver bars)
  • 4x silver tiles (1 silver bar)
  • Med Officer Statue (5 silver bars)
  • Janitor Statue (5 silver bars)
  • Sec Officer Statue (5 silver bars)
  • Sec Borg Statue (5 silver bars)
  • Med Borg Statue (5 silver bars)


Some other things you can do with Silver:

  • Insert into a Protolathe/Techfab. Some products need this material.
  • Operating table

Gold

Gold
Gold
  • Found in: Deliver gold ore to the ORM. Eject gold from ORM or any silo-linked protolathe/techfab.
  • Used for: Making a few products, or used in a departmental Protolathe/Techfab
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having Gold bars in your hand and activating them:

  • Golden door (10 gold bars)
  • 4x gold tiles (1 gold bar)
  • HoS Statue (5 gold bars)
  • HoP Statue (5 gold bars)
  • CE Statue (5 gold bars)
  • RD Statue (5 gold bars)
  • Simple Crown (5 gold bars)
  • CMO Statue (5 gold bars)


Some other things you can do with Gold:

  • Insert into a Protolathe/Techfab. Some products need this material.

Uranium

Uranium
Uranium
  • Found in: Deliver uranium ore to the ORM. Eject uranium from ORM or any silo-linked protolathe/techfab.
  • Used for: Making a few products, or used in a departmental Protolathe/Techfab
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having Uranium sheets in your hand and activating them:

  • Uranium door (10 uranium sheets)
  • 4x uranium tiles (1 uranium sheet)
  • Nuke Statue (5 uranium sheets)
  • Engineer Statue (5 uranium sheets)

May cause tiny amounts of radiation when constructing stuff with it.

Some other things you can do with Uranium:

  • Insert into a Protolathe/Techfab. Some products need this material.

Titanium

Titanium
Titanium
  • Found in: Deliver titanium ore to the ORM. Eject titanium from ORM or any silo-linked protolathe/techfab.
  • Used for: Used in a departmental Protolathe/Techfab and in Robotics
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having Titanium sheets in your hand and activating them:

  • 4x titanium tiles (1 titanium sheet)
  • Shuttle seat (2 titanium sheets)


Some other things you can do with Titanium:

  • Insert into a Protolathe/Techfab. Some products need this material.
  • Insert into an exosuit fabricator. Roboticists need this for mechs.

Titanium Glass

Titanium Glass
Titanium Glass
  • Found in: Deliver titanium ores and ash/sand/glass to the ORM. Print Titanium + Glass alloy from silo-linked cargo, engineering or science protolathe/techfab.
  • Used for: Construction
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having sheets in your hand and activating them:

  • Shuttle window (2 titanium glass sheets)


Plastitanium


Plastitanium
  • Found in: Deliver titanium and plasma ores to the ORM. Print Plasma + Titanium alloy from silo-linked cargo, engineering or science protolathe/techfab.
  • Used for: Construction
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having sheets in your hand and activating them:

  • 4x plastitanium tiles (1 plastitanium sheet)


Some other things you can do with Plastitanium:

  • Use on wall girders to build a durable wall.


Plastitanium Glass

Plastitanium Glass
Plastitanium Glass
  • Found in: Deliver ores for plasma, titanium and glass to the ORM. Print Plasma + Titanium + Glass alloy from silo-linked cargo, engineering or science protolathe/techfab.
  • Used for: Construction
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having sheets in your hand and activating them:

  • Plastitanium window (2 plastitanium glass sheets)


Diamond

Diamond
Diamond
  • Found in: Deliver diamond ore to the ORM. Eject diamond from ORM or any silo-linked protolathe/techfab.
  • Used for: Making a few products, or used in a departmental Protolathe/Techfab
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having Diamonds in your hand and activating them:

  • Diamond door (10 diamonds)
  • 4x diamond tiles (1 diamond)
  • Captain Statue (5 diamonds)
  • AI Hologram Statue (5 diamonds)
  • AI Core Statue (5 diamonds)


Some other things you can do with Diamond:

  • Insert into a Protolathe/Techfab. Some products need this material.

Bluespace Polycrystal

Bluespace Polycrystal
Bluespace Polycrystal
  • Found in: Deliver raw bluespace crystals to the ORM. Eject bluespace crystal from ORM or any silo-linked protolathe/techfab.
  • Used for: Used in a departmental Protolathe/Techfab or to make refined bluespace crystals.
  • Strategy: Use with other hand to make refined bluespace crystals.
Description

This is the crystal you get when ejecting "bluespace crystal" from the silo network. It can't be used for much except turning it back into what is essentially the same thing as a raw crystal, which can be used for a few things.

Some things you can do with Bluespace Polycrystal:

  • Insert into a Protolathe/Techfab. Some products need this material.
  • Hold in one hand and click it with other hand to break off a refined bluespace crystal .
  • Use "raw", artificial or refined bluespace bluespace crystals in hand to teleport.
  • "Raw", artificial and refined bluespace crystals all work when contructing teleporting machinery or teleprods.

Bananium

Bananium
Bananium
  • Found in: Ruins in space, on Lavaland or in Xenobio
  • Used for: Making a few clown related products, or used in a departmental Protolathe/Techfab
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having Bananium sheets in your hand and activating them:

  • 4x bananium tiles (1 bananium sheet)
  • Clown Statue (5 bananium sheets)


Some other things you can do with Bananium:

  • Insert into a Protolathe/Techfab. Some products need this material, such as the air horn.
  • Insert into an exosuit fabricator. Roboticists need this to make the H.O.N.K exosuit and the Clown Module.


How to produce Bananium: Find in certain space or lavaland ruins. There you can also find bananium ore which you can smelt in the Ore Redemption Machine or Mining furnace.


Runite


Runite
  • Found in: Ruin on Lavaland
  • Used for: Making things with Autolathe that let you use custom materials
  • Strategy: Insert into an autolathe. Print toolbox or knight armor.
Description

Rare material you may find. Can only be used to make things that let you use custom materials, such as the knight armor or toolbox from the Autolathe. The knight armor requires the Magic Disk of Smithing to be inserted into the Autolathe first.


Planks

Planks
Planks
  • Found in: Ready stacks can be found nowhere, can be made from deconstructing tables.
  • Used for: Constructing various wooden things and barricading doors and windows
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having Planks in your hand and activating them:


How to produce Planks:

Grow Tower Caps and cut them up with a sharp item, for example a Hatchet.

Leather

Leather
Leather
  • Found in: Ready stacks can be found nowhere, but can be produced.
  • Used for: Making leather products such as toolbelts and bandoliers
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and use it to craft things
Description

Things you can make by having Leather in your hand and activating it:

  • Wallet (1 piece)
  • Muzzle (2 pieces)
  • Botany gloves (3 pieces)
  • Toolbelt (4 pieces)
  • Leather satchel (5 pieces)
  • Bandolier (5 pieces)
  • Leather jacket (7 pieces)
  • Leather overcoat (10 pieces)


How to produce Leather:

Either use the Biogenerator inside Hydroponics or Garden,

or create leather through tanning:

  1. Slaughter/gib certain animals/creatures for their hides.
  2. Use a sharp weapon on a hide to turn it into hairless hide.
  3. Wash the hairless hide by using water on it, to turn it into wet leather.
  4. Dry the wet leather by using it on a drying rack, or by heating it above 500 Kelvin for some time. throwing it into the fucking microwave. Alternatively, add some metal rods to a bonfire to make a grill, and place the wet leather on top.


Cloth


Cloth
  • Found in: Ready stacks can be found nowhere, but can be produced.
  • Used for: Crafting certain textiles and repairing damaged clothes
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and use it to craft things.
Description

Use on clothes damaged by fire or acid to repair them.
Things you can make by having Cloth in your hand and activating it:

  • Grey jumpsuit (3 rolls)
  • Black shoes (2 rolls)
  • Backpack (4 rolls)
  • Duffel bag (6 rolls)
  • Plant bag (4 rolls)
  • Book bag (4 rolls)
  • Mining satchel (4 rolls)
  • Chemistry bag (4 rolls)
  • Bio bag (4 rolls)
  • Construction bag (4 rolls)
  • 2x improvised gauzes (1 roll)
  • Rag (1 roll)
  • Bedsheet (3 rolls)
  • Empty sandbag (4 rolls)
  • Fingerless gloves (1 roll)
  • Black gloves (3 rolls)
  • Blindfold (2 rolls)
  • 19x19 canvas (3 rolls)
  • 23x19 canvas (4 rolls)
  • 23x23 canvas (5 rolls)


How to produce Cloth:

Use the Biogenerator inside Hydroponics or Garden, or use Wirecutters on bedsheets.


Plastic

Plastic
Plastic
  • Found in: Ready stacks can be found nowhere, but can be produced.
  • Used for: Making a few plastic products, or used in a departmental Protolathe/Techfab
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and use it to craft things
Description

Things you can make by having Plastic in your hand and activating it:

  • 4x plastic floor tiles (1 plastic sheet)
  • Folding plastic chair (2 plastic sheets)
  • Plastic flaps (5 plastic sheets)
  • Water bottle (1 plastic sheet)
  • Large water bottle (3 plastic sheets)
  • Colo cups (1 plastic sheet)
  • Wet floor sign (2 plastic sheets)
  • Blank sign (1 plastic sheet)


Other things you can do with Plastic:

  • Insert into a Protolathe/Techfab. Some products need this material, such as XL beakers


How to produce Plastic:

Made in the Chemistry lab.


Cardboard

Cardboard
Cardboard
  • Found in: Can sometimes be found in Maintenance.
  • Used for: Making a few items
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and use it to craft things
Description

Things you can make by having Cardboard in your hand and activating it:

  • Box (1 cardboard sheet)
  • Light tubes (1 cardboard sheet)
  • Light bulbs (1 cardboard sheet)
  • Mouse traps (1 cardboard sheet)
  • Cardborg suit (3 cardboard sheets)
  • Cardborg helmet (1 cardboard sheet)
  • Pizza box (1 cardboard sheet)
  • Folder (1 cardboard sheet)
  • Large box (4 cardboard sheets)
  • Cardboard cutout (5 cardboard sheets)
  • Fancy boxes (many types) (1 cardboard sheet)


How to produce Cardboard:

Empty a box and activate it in your hand to turn it into cardboard. Most crewmembers start with a box in their backpack.
Can be produced with a biogenerator.


Sand

Sand and Volcanic ash
Sand and Volcanic ash
  • Found in: Crafted by using sand or volcanic ash in hand.
  • Used for: Turning into glass or sandstone.
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Sand and ash are both basically the same thing but with different sprites. Things you can make by having piles of Sand or Ash in your hand and activating them:

  • Sandstone (1 sand pile)
  • Aesthetic volcanic floor tile (2 sand piles)



Other things you can do with Sand and Ash:



How to produce Volcanic Ash: Mine volcanic ash from lavaland ground.


How to produce Sand: Mine volcanic ash from lavaland ground, and use it in hand to make Sandstone Bricks. Then use the Sandstone in hand to turn it into sand. Can be renewably obtained by using grown grass in your hand to make grass tiles, placing them, and using a shovel or spade on them. Don't ask how that works.

Sandstone

Sandstone
Sandstone
  • Found in: Crafted by using sand or volcanic ash in hand.
  • Used for: Making a few products, and ghetto hydroponics.
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Things you can make by having Sandstone bricks in your hand and activating them:

  • Pile of dirt (3 sandstone bricks)
  • Sandstone door (10 sandstone bricks)
  • Assistant Statue (5 sandstone bricks)
  • Breakdown into sand (1 sandstone brick)



How to produce Sandstone: Mine volcanic ash from lavaland ground, and use it in hand.


Blocks of Sand

Blocks of sand
Blocks of sand
  • Found in: Crafted by using sand or volcanic ash on a sink.
  • Used for: Construction material.
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing
Description

Lets you build some things made out of sand.


Meat

Meat
Meat
  • Found in: Insert raw slabs of meat into a Sheet-meister 2000.
  • Used for: Making a few products.
  • Strategy: Hold in active hand and activate it to start constructing.
Description

An edible material which also makes squishy sounds.

Things you can make by having Meat sheets in your hand and activating them:

  • Chair (1 meat sheet)
  • Toilet (1 meat sheet)
  • Sink (1 meat sheet)
  • 4x Floor tiles (1 meat sheet)
  • Carving Block (5 meat sheets)
  • Airlock Assembly (5 meat sheets)

Some other things you can do with meat sheets:

  • Meat walls
  • Meat tables
  • Meat Toolboxes

Constructions

Floors

Lattice

The basic base for all types of construction, this is placed directly in space.

Lattice
Lattice 		Requires to build How to build
Rodsx1

Use the rod on an empty space tile.