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Airships

Solarpunk airship guide covering crashed airship components, docks, upgrades, automatic flight, colors, storage, and island exploration.

Airships turn the game from a single-island base loop into exploration through dock progression, upgrades, colors, and crashed components.

What To Do With It

  • Get crashed airship components from a crashed airship.
  • Build the dock, repair or build the airship, then use trips to solve current material bottlenecks.
  • Upgrade paths include battery, engine, hull, resistance, and solar panel signals.
  • Airship colors are unlocked through the vending machine and selected at the dock.

Player Route

Treat the airship as a targeted resource tool. Before leaving, decide whether you need a material, a plant, a loot chest, or progress toward an airship upgrade. Bring inventory space and return to process everything before the next trip. The Advanced Dock and upgrade paths matter most once travel is frequent enough that manual flight becomes a bottleneck.

Game Behavior

  • Gameplay tips mention crashed airship components and airship colors.
  • Research text names Airship Dock and Advanced Dock.
  • Airship UI and icon names include battery, engine, hull, solar panel, chest, and HUD.

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.

Airships And Islands, Airship Repair And Exploration, Airship Upgrades, Merchant And Vending, Quests, Achievements, Multiplayer