Airship Upgrades
Solarpunk airship reference for crashed components, docks, battery, engine, hull, resistance, solar panel, chest, colors, and exploration.
Airship upgrades should answer a current problem: longer trips, safer travel, storage, energy support, or automatic flight.
| Airship Entry | Use |
|---|---|
| Airship Tech Component | Needed to build, upgrade, and retrieve an airship. |
| Airship Plan | Needed to build a new airship. |
| Airship Level Plan | Airship upgrade plan used at docks. |
| Dock | Airship dock. |
| Advanced Dock | Improved airship dock for automatic flight. |
| Airship Battery | Airship upgrade path for longer and safer travel. |
| Airship Engine | Airship upgrade path for stronger travel performance. |
| Airship Hull | Airship upgrade path for travel durability. |
| Airship Solar Panel | Airship solar upgrade path for travel energy support. |
| Airship Chest | Airship storage/chest visual support. |
| Airship Color | Airship colors unlock through the vending machine and are selected at the dock. |
| Crashed Airship Components | Tips say crashed airship components come from a crashed airship. |
Mechanics Worth Knowing
- A powered dock lets you approach at higher speed.
- After unlocking new airship colors in the vending machine, select them at the dock.
- Airship technical components are needed to build, upgrade, and retrieve an airship.
- Airship upgrade components acquired from the merchant are added to your Key Items inventory. They can be used at a dock to increase the airship’s range.
- An airship plan is needed to build a new airship.
- Docking and precise flying are easier in first-person view.
- Hover near the ground to dock; the airship automatically descends.
- If you lost or crashed your airship, you can retrieve it at your dock.
- Important key items, such as Crashed Airship Components, can be found in your inventory under “Show Key Items.”
- Repair kits can repair a damaged airship.
- Repair kits fix airship damage from flying into obstacles and can be crafted at a crafting table.
- Visit a dock to upgrade your airship.
Record Details
Airship Tech Component
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Needed to build, upgrade, and retrieve an airship. |
| Best check | Reserve it for travel progress and airship recovery instead of mixing it into ordinary storage. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Airship Tech Component supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Reserve it for travel progress and airship recovery instead of mixing it into ordinary storage. |
| Game text | Airship technical components are needed to build, upgrade, and retrieve an airship. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands |
Airship Plan
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Needed to build a new airship. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Airship Plan supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| Game text | An airship plan is needed to build a new airship. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands |
Airship Level Plan
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Airship upgrade plan used at docks. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Airship Level Plan supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands |
Dock
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Airship dock. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Dock supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. Stack size: 1 Recycler value: 1 Crafted or processed by: [Dock](/reference/airship-upgrades/#record-dock) Recipe demand: 1 recipe; top checks: [Advanced Dock](/reference/airship-upgrades/#record-advanced-dock) |
| Game text | A powered dock lets you approach at higher speed. After unlocking new airship colors in the vending machine, select them at the dock. Airship upgrade components acquired from the merchant are added to your Key Items inventory. They can be used at a dock to increase the airship's range. Docking and precise flying are easier in first-person view. Hover near the ground to dock; the airship automatically descends. If you lost or crashed your airship, you can retrieve it at your dock. Visit a dock to upgrade your airship. |
| Gameplay stats | Max stack size: 1 Recycler value: 1 (Recycler return) Item type: Devices, Other Interaction: Buildable |
| Crafted or processed by | Dock option 1 at Crafting Table (Unlock recipe): 40 Log, 20 Iron, 3 Cloth -> 1 Dock |
| Used in recipes | Advanced Dock (1 Dock) |
| Unlocked by research | Airship Dock (5 Wood, 5 Iron, 5 Cloth) |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands |
Advanced Dock
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Improved airship dock for automatic flight. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Advanced Dock supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. Stack size: 1 Recycler value: 1 Crafted or processed by: [Advanced Dock](/reference/airship-upgrades/#record-advanced-dock) |
| Game text | A powered dock lets you approach at higher speed. After unlocking new airship colors in the vending machine, select them at the dock. Airship upgrade components acquired from the merchant are added to your Key Items inventory. They can be used at a dock to increase the airship's range. Docking and precise flying are easier in first-person view. Hover near the ground to dock; the airship automatically descends. If you lost or crashed your airship, you can retrieve it at your dock. Visit a dock to upgrade your airship. |
| Gameplay stats | Max stack size: 1 Recycler value: 1 (Recycler return) Item type: Electronics Interaction: Buildable |
| Crafted or processed by | Advanced Dock option 1 at Advanced Crafting Table (Unlock recipe): 1 Dock, 8 Silicon, 12 Copper -> 1 Advanced Dock |
| Unlocked by research | Advanced Dock (1 Electrical Component) |
| Research cost and unlocks | Progression and Travel: 1 Electrical Component -> Advanced Dock. Advanced Dock supports automatic airship flight. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands |
Airship Battery
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Airship upgrade path for longer and safer travel. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about batteries as soon as a powered device would hurt to lose. A single generator-to-device test is fine without storage; a real base with sprinklers, drones, energy furnace work, or wireless parts should add battery capacity before adding more consumers. |
| Direct use | Airship Battery supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| Game text | Battery capacity upgrade increases maximum storage from 2,200 to 3,500. Battery capacity upgrade increases maximum storage from 3,500 to 5,500. Battery capacity upgrade increases maximum storage from 5,500 to 8,000. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands, Energy System, Energy And Logic |
Airship Engine
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Airship upgrade path for stronger travel performance. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Airship Engine supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands |
Airship Hull
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Airship upgrade path for travel durability. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Airship Hull supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands |
Airship Solar Panel
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Airship solar upgrade path for travel energy support. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about power generation once a powered device actually improves the base. Add generation before adding more consumers, then stabilize the network with batteries. |
| Direct use | Airship Solar Panel supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands, Energy System, Energy And Logic |
Airship Chest
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Airship storage/chest visual support. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Airship Chest supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands |
Airship Color
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Airship colors unlock through the vending machine and are selected at the dock. |
| Best check | Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Airship Color supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Use it when the current travel range, safety, or storage limit is slowing exploration. |
| Game text | After unlocking new airship colors in the vending machine, select them at the dock. |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands, Merchant And Vending |
Crashed Airship Components
| Category | Airship Upgrades |
|---|---|
| Player use | Tips say crashed airship components come from a crashed airship. |
| Best check | Reserve it for travel progress and airship recovery instead of mixing it into ordinary storage. |
| When it matters | Care about airship parts after the first island base has food, water, storage, and crafting under control. Airship travel is strongest when each trip has a material, plant, chest, or upgrade goal. |
| Direct use | Crashed Airship Components supports exploration. Before investing, decide whether your next trips need range, recovery, repair, storage, color customization, or faster dock handling. That keeps airship upgrades tied to real travel goals. |
| Record summary | Use: Reserve it for travel progress and airship recovery instead of mixing it into ordinary storage. Stack size: 1 |
| Game text | Important key items, such as Crashed Airship Components, can be found in your inventory under "Show Key Items." You can obtain crashed airship components from a crashed airship. |
| Gameplay stats | Max stack size: 1 Item type: KeyItem |
| Related | Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Resources, Biomes And Islands |
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