What a Working Ship Is Made Of
We parsed every complete community ship part by part. Here is what the numbers say a real build looks like.
Computed from the blueprints in this library
Nothing below is an estimate: every number is computed from the blueprint files in this library. Medians, not averages — a couple of giant ships cannot skew them.
239 ships parsed
2,034 parts, median ship
56 distinct part types
8.5 cable cells per device
Three quarters of a ship is wiring
The median ship runs 1,496 cable cells for 161 equipment parts. The hull is the smaller job: building a ship is mostly routing.
What almost every ship carries
- Cockpit seat 96%
- Batteries 95%
- Logic circuits 92%
- Radar 79%
- Wireless links 71%
- Screens & cameras 70%
- Solar panels 50%
- Fuel tanks 15%
- Fuel plumbing 15%
Takeaway for your own build: a seat, batteries and logic are not "advanced" — nine ships in ten carry them. Fuel systems are the rarity: they only matter for interplanetary trips, and most of the library gets by without tanks entirely.
All of these numbers are browsable live: the filterable catalog.