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Utilize the full freedom of designing your own ships without having to worry about how to control them. The game's thrust balancing system automatically performs optimal thruster deployment to let you fly in any direction.

• If a ship has a way of flying in the direction of your input, the thrust deployment system will find it. This includes things like performing continuous rotational outputs with the side thrusters to balance out your rear thrust being off-centre.
• The flight continues to balance out, whether it's due to other ships docking and helping with their own thrust, or your own thrusters running out of fuel or being destroyed.
• Put a thruster on anything to make it fly. That includes pushing whole asteroids.
• Place all the machines, weapons, and storage you need on the ship. Keep in mind, though - the lighter the ship, the more nimble it is.

Battles of Attrition

Combat is a strategic battle of attrition. Ships trade volleys of projectiles, relying on sustained firepower, resource management, and smart ship design to exhaust the enemy's ammo, fuel, and energy.

• Exchange fire in prolonged engagements, with powerful defensive options allowing you to deflect anything thrown at you.
• Any projectile that can damage you has an active way of countering it.
• There is no such thing as shields - you cannot just sit back, if you want to survive.
• Allow automated aiming to defend and attack with surgical precision, or take over to guide your projectiles in ways that an automatic system never would.

Play with Friends

Multiplayer is a core feature of Stellar Shipyard, so expect anything you can do in your solo world to do in multiplayer as well.

• Join your friend's faction, or create your own.
• Battle until there is only one standing, or trade and cooperate to conquer the world together.

Play your way

Whether you want to have fun building unusual ship designs, build complex production chains, or want to conquer the universe, Stellar Shipyard is designed to allow you to chase your own goals.

Modding Support

Stellar Shipyard is designed with modding in mind.

• Easily modify or add new entity types, like technologies, recipes, items, buildings, NPCs, asteroids, and projectiles, without any scripting required. Just add the text description files and art assets, and you have your mod.
• Create more complex mods with the scripting system. Any language that can compile into WASM can be used to run safe, sandboxed mods.
• Mods are capable of interacting with any entity, allowing you to implement whole AI factions and introduce new rules and systems into the world. The sky is the limit.