Tips & Tricks

An article containing tips and tricks which may help you while playing Waste of Space.

Be careful when using the hammer tool on vehicles
Be VERY careful when using the "drag tool", as most ships have a singular, big hull holding everything, and dragging it might unweld and shatter the whole ship. This can circumvented by assembling multiple, smaller hulls reducing or neglecting possible damage. It is recommended to put a VehicleSeat on your base and have a radar on your ship so you are less likely to forget where your base is. Please note that other people are more likely to find your base if they have a radar, but it is slightly safer than beacons.

Backup space stations
Having a space station with your CloningBay, a backup ship and materials and in the middle of nowhere near a star is a great way to not get yourself stuck on starter planets again.

Custom boilers
Using custom boilers is a great alternative to normal boilers, because some planets don't have coal to run a normal boiler. They can be much faster and can quickly turn ice into steam without use of a reactor or coal, just electricity. Some custom boilers can even be faster than a reactor!

Teaming
It is highly recommended to team up with other people because other people might have skills and knowledge that you don't have. Starter planets are the easiest places to find players to recruit since they are usually filled with players. It's always great to have another pair of eyes watching over the base while you are away! Note that this could increase resource consumption and larger factories might be needed to support building projects that group members might start. (idk how to fix this part) also be wary of some people when recruiting, because some people might leech off your base's resources and power, and they might sabotage your base, so be careful of who you are recruiting.

Use mining lasers
Replacing extractors for mining lasers might not be a bad idea. That's if your base can support it, and if you have the materials. This is because mining lasers don't need to be 50 studs away from each other, unlike extractors. They can increase the amount of resources generated which might help resource shortage problems. However, they will also increase the power required to run the factory.

Clicking on your Starmap
Clicking on a planet on the starmap allows you to quickly configure the coordinates to said planet.

 Batteries instead of powercells 

Batteries hold 4x the amount of power of a freshly crafted powercell and are 1/4 the size, therefore if a battery was 1x1x1 it would hold 200, but a powercell of that size only holds 50. Battery substitutes for powercells are good but can get annoying to manufacture. If you are going with a smaller ship design, then a battery substitute is the best alternative to a powercell. To make this design you would need 1 piece of wire, an instrument, and a sufficient amount of batteries. First you want, to make the wire around 5 height, 10 length, and 1 depth. Second, you want to place the batteries on the wire until both long faces are covered, however, this can be tedious and it is smart to use the model builder to create a ship with this. once you have the batteries covering both sides of the wire, you need to find both the sides that are tall but have no length, then you need to attach a wire connecting to the wire and both battery layers, then you need to completely cover one of the sides with another layer of wire. Finally, you need to attach an instrument to the long side completely covered in wire and set it to detect power.