Airships
Solarpunk airship reference for docks, crashed components, upgrades, repair kits, storage, colors, merchant parts, and island exploration.
Airships are the bridge between base-building and wider island progression. Use this page when you need the direct path: recover components, build or use a dock, upgrade range or safety, prepare inventory, and turn each flight into a specific resource or checklist goal.
| Need | Best Page | What To Do |
|---|---|---|
| First airship recovery | Airship Repair and Exploration | Follow the guide once food, water, storage, and basic research are stable enough that a trip will not interrupt survival. |
| Dock and upgrades | Airship Upgrades | Use Dock, Advanced Dock, battery, engine, hull, solar, chest, plan, and tech component entries to decide which travel limit to fix next. |
| Crashed parts | Crashed Airship Components | Check key items and route trips around crashed-airship recovery before spending airship tech parts elsewhere. |
| Repair | Repair Kit | Bring repair support before longer flights, especially when crashing into obstacles would waste the trip. |
| Colors and merchant parts | Merchant and Vending Machine | Use vending machine tickets and merchant rewards for airship colors and upgrade components, then apply relevant upgrades at the Dock. |
| Exploration targets | Biomes and Islands | Pick a route goal before takeoff: plants, ore, loot chests, winter islands, or materials for the next upgrade. |
| Completion goals | Achievements | Airship Builder, Maxed Airship, Fresh Paint, Winter Flight, and Treasure Hunter are easier when tracked alongside real exploration trips. |
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.
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Airships, Airship Repair And Exploration, Airship Upgrades, Merchant And Vending, Biomes And Islands, Loot Chests