Ship Components

Crafted Components​

While crafted components have their advantages and disadvantages, unlike other crafting Professions in the game shipwrights are in a unique situation. For the most part, crafted components are not really used in end-game Space combat. The Mark I-V ship components are great for leveling up to ace Pilot, but beyond that aren’t really used. Most of the components you can craft will have a looted or reverse engineered equivalent that will be on par or better in terms of stats. However like everything else there are exceptions to the rule. Exemptions may include crafted boosters, droid interfaces (always), Missile Launchers (only craftable), Collection capacitors, Amuunition and countermeasures.

Some of the crafted components that are very useful to any aspiring Pilot come in the form of a schematic which can be obtained in a variety of ways. We will cover this in the next section.

Collection, Looted, & Purchased Schematics​

There are a plethora of ship part schematics that you can acquire throughout your adventures in Space. Some of these are completely useless and have zero value, while others are coveted, invaluable treasures.

All of these schematics will have to be crafted by a Shipwright in order to be used. They vary in how, and where you acquire them. Some of these schematics include the Experimental Borstel Disruptor (GCW2 Vendor), Nova Engine (Vendor at Nova Orion), Kuat Boosters (Collection completion), and Deepwell Capacitors (Collection Completion).

You’ve probably come across collection pieces that look like ship components, but activate a collection for that part (e.g. A Flawed KSE Mark I Capacitor). On completion these collections award a schematic that can be crafted by a Shipwright.

There are more to list but the list is long, you will learn quickly which ones people will pay for or use.

Reverse Engineered Components​

Reverse engineered Space parts are a Pilot’s bread and butter. Every looted component will have a “Ship Equipment Certification” and “Reverse Engineer Level”. When it comes to a looted part the only part that matters for the two level types is the Reverse Engineer level. Reverse engineered parts are a culmination of multiple pieces of the same Reverse Engineer level, taking the best stats from each part. This allows pilots to create parts that are the best combination of stats from their looted parts. This process is simple once you understand how to do it.

Reverse Engineering these parts even gives a small boost to all the stats! Contact any Shipwright for Reverse Engineering your parts, and most of them will do it for almost nothing. It’s as simple as dragging and dropping the parts into a Reverse Engineering tool.

Here is an example of a common issue that you will encounter that will still catch even the most savvy spacer off guard once in a while. Say for instance that you loot a reactor. The stats on the item match that of a common reverse engineer level 6 part, however this part has a slight variance and the ship equipment certification level is 8. The part itself is a level 8 cert, however it is a level 6 part with level 6 stats. Meaning that you have to be certified (completed the box in pilot) for level 8 parts to use it. The Reverse Engineer level indicates its stat capabilities, and what it has to be matched with in order to complete a project.