Hardspace: Shipbreaker | Guide | Class-II Reactor Safe and Surgical Extraction | Gecko Commercial 

NEW 0.1.2 Guide is released! Here you go: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XoFRVAZH8R4.html Hey guys! I've updated the guide using your amazing feedback: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-puejBulSKeU.html It also includes Power Generator and ECU extraction. What other guides would you like to see? Lemme know!

The difficulty jump really surprised me between the grades of ship when I was playing

Fun fact. you can use your scanner to see whether or not a room is pressurized or not, it shows a short description of the room and a square that is either red or green Green = Pressurized Red = Depressuirzed

I love this game but this ship has been super intimidating and overwhelming thanks for making this to help me get back in there and figuring out this beast.

If you set your scanner to "Objects" the keys can be seen as purple/pink. They also usually spawn in the space between the main compartment and the hull for me.

Removing the fuses is acctualy very easy the pulses are on a 3 pulse timer pull on 4th pulse when it turns white click F to remove the fuse there are normaly 3 fuses 2 on side and 1 on top closer to reactor. Btw the pulses go slightly faster the more you remove.

Other key locations I've noticed is that some end up under the main compartment, or below one of the airlocks. I've come across one floating in the thruster room. They should show up as purple on the Scanner's objects mode (the one that also highlights consumables like oxygen tanks in purple) but they're that small that they can be easy to miss. As for the fuses - you have to time when you use the switch. Don't touch it until the moment all three lights on top are white. That'll pop the fuse safely and you can then grab it, no risk of electrocution whatsoever. If I think of anything else while I'm watching the rest of the video I'll edit them in here. EDIT: Not related to something you talked about but one little trick I've been using to move quickly between the ship and the hab is to use the grapple like a grappling hook - if you try and reel in an item that's much heavier than you (like say the entire ship) then it'll instead pull you towards it. And while you could injure yourself by running into it at such high speeds, your magnetic gloves actually seem to stop you entirely and safely no matter how fast you're going (provided the gloves are what contacts something first).

The only thing harder than this game was finding a solid guide. Thanks!

This is outdated now. The most recent patch has the reactor melt down as soon as the coolant is pulled.

Thanks so much. I would never have figured that out. Especially the bit where you pull off the giant V shaped section of nanoplate.

Also a fun thing to do that will save you some time is use your grapple tool and grab the ship and right click to reel yourself toward the ship or the base for oxygen you move much faster and will save a lot of time just start braking about 3/4 of the way.

Thanks man way better guide to doing the class 4s than any other youtuber so far.... with your method I have no issues with explosions and day 2 the outer shell is easy.

Hope to see more videos from you with Shipbreaker, all three videos has been awesome!

BEAUTIFUL! Cutting away these precious ships and steadily removing their fine components is an exercise in engineering BLISS.

Straight-forward guide with very little wasted time. Thank you for that.

Things I learned from this video: What the F'in key was for (I never knew you could use it to shut off the fuel, I always pulled the levers after removing the fuel tanks and then ran!), how to properly pull the ECU (I knew about the door but I always pulled it and then moved on so I never saw the coolant modules inside), what the Acoustics Upgrade I paid for was for (hearing the pipes and the other side of the door), and that I could pull the whole reactor housing instead of taking it apart. VERY educational, thanks!

Wow, thanks for the guide! I was really struggling with this one. I love your precision

Ah yes, this is the nuclear surgery Amos Burton talked about.

lol i couldn't figure out how to remove the reactor on that ship and kinda blew my self up lol thanks

Thanks for the tips!!! I just started playing this game recently, but defiantly ran into some problems that I just couldn't wrap my head around...

I was playing ship breaker as I watched this and our 5 minutes mark matched perfectly

Just a heads up. When you are grappled to an object you can hold down the right mouse button to pull it to you if the object is light. If its significantly heavier than you the grappler will pull you towards the object you are grappled to. Very useful when moving something like a coolant or fuel tank through a tight space. But it also is useful for making the trip between the ship and your hub much faster than with your thrusters. Great tutorial!

thank you, looking for a good guide, this was really useful

Man, I was cutting the glass in front of it in the reactor room, and trying to get it to clip through after taking off the doors. This is way easier,

You can safely grab the fuse when all 3 lights are white. The timing speeds up on the other fuses as you pull each one. Each fuse you pull stops you from doing one damage to the power control module thingy.

Wait, THAT'S how you defuse the ECU?

Not sure if you're aware, but if you shoot the ship or the habitat with the grappler, you can use the right mouse button to reel yourself in towards the item. Makes going for oxygen and back super fast. Just be sure to break.

I would note a couple things. The thrusters are not actually attached to the thruster cap. It's much faster to just salvage the rear side panels, with the thruster caps attached (they go to the same location) then pull the thrusters straight down into the barge (this also removes any fuel tanks from the area so you can manually vent the thrusters with no consequences other than a pretty light show). It's much faster to pull the reactor out the side, as you can just destroy the glass, the upper and lower plates below the glass, the 3 sections of reactor containment facing you, then you can just pull the reactor right out sideways and tether it into the barge naked, and you can do this with the fuel still in the lines. I have been doing this a bit and I am pretty consistently getting 1600 LT and 7.5-8 mil credits per day just ripping out the basics and getting all the nanocarbon. Which is a bit of a shame, the game really doesn't reward you for being thorough or not damaging the ship. It's all about just getting stuff off and into the processor and barge as fast as possible, and getting a new ship every day so you always have 50k components to be salvaging for most of every shift.

My approach, while similar in the end, is slightly different: Yank off the entire outer hull on day 1. Yes, the entire hull. You'll spend parts of days 2 and 3 ensuring the chunks make it to the processor, but the idea is to just get it ALL out of the way. Day 2 is reserved for ship's engineering systems. Engines, reactor, power generator, cooling system. Day 3 is carving the inner hull up into chunks that can be fed into the processor. I don't bother with furniture or internal consoles unless I'm spamming work orders.

I had a very different method, that did use the emergency lever. Difference being I first disconnected all the aft hull plating which I then pulled away from the thrusters. After removing the fuel canisters, I could safely pull the levers. Sometimes there would be fuel leaks for a few seconds, but seeing as nothing explosive was around to blow up, it was no biggie. I also pulled out the coolant last, just in case something were to go wrong, It helps to be able to open up a coolant pipe near the area that's heating up.

This game is already a masterpiece of design. When its complete....omfg its going to be unreal

A new one for 0.2.0 update ?

My first try removing a class II reactor didn't quite go to plan. In my ignorance, I started slicing up attachment points left, right and centre until I grazed a coolant pipe with the good 'ole splitsaw. In my desperation to figure out how to get the now very unhappy reactor out, I ended up getting lost between the hulls. It quickly descended into the "Grab the cat" scene from Lethal Weapon III. I ....... just......made it out in time. On the plus side, access to the inside of the ship was much less of a problem......

I just figured out the thrusters, fuel lines and reactor casing are all one part but not connected to anything other than the coolant line, so if you just take out the coolant line from the bottom reactor cap where it connects, you can pull the whole assembly out in one piece and get the reactor all the way into the barge without even triggering the meltdown in the first place. It only registers the bottom reactor cap as being in the barge at first, so you have to pop off the reactor casing and disconnect the reactor, triggering the meltdown sequence, but you just have to scoot it over like 2 meters and then the barge will accept it. Same with the thrusters, just flip the switch and give them a push and you're done.

You can use your scanner to locate the key in the ship. I forget what the mode is called but its the same one that shows you where the data pads are. Also you can easily remove the fuses. When looking at it, there's three red pulses then a fourth white one. Push f when it turns white and no zap zap

Nice guide, some good stuff in there

one key binding that they kinda skip on is using the grappler then right clicking to reel in. it makes pulling things out and pulling yourself to ship and heavy objects easier than slowly traveling. Just remember to break so you dont over shoot your desitination

Yeah I had no idea you could open up the ecu and pull out the little coolant tanks! i saw them in scan mode and had no idea, I just accepted being blasted with cold

The collection points in the barge are where two lines meet, not the area between the lines.

I was wondering, how are you grabbing on to the walls like that? Do you have to upgrade your suit to do it? Or am I just a noob?

Sliced the purple things in front of the thrusters.. Thrusters explode, reactor explodes, I died, and great times! 10/10 will attempt again.

Thanks alot! i didn't know about the block in fornt of the engines

I think I'm a bit late to this, but - Fuse's can be extracted safely without damage by listening to the sequence of red lights and beeps, and interacting with the switch when the lights are white. It just pops out safe and sound :D Also, get all 3 safely and you'll be able to extract the power generator without any damage to it

Chopping one of these up last night and I actually found the key at the rear next to the thrusters

Are those coolant pipes you’re melting away from the reactor? I’m still amazed you can melt the junction to the thrusters with fuel in the line

Hey, Akabane101, sticky this comment! There is a bug that if you remove the cooland canisters in the ECU by going up to them and pressing F to remove them directly, the coolant in the pipes will never go away. it took me about a dozen attempts and watching this video before i realized that!

What do you think about just cutting the connection point and pulling the reactor out the top and around the ship instead of melting the pipes

When ever I get rid of the purple cubes connecting the thrusters to the fuel line the reactor always activates.

The key always spawns, you use your visor to find it usually inside a exterior compartment. I've never had a Gecko class without a key to shut the reactor off

Key Location Report: I have located another key INSIDE the glass box containing the Class-II core. So keep an eye out for it there next time you break a Gecko Commercial Class ship! If you found the key in other places on the vessel, lemme know!

Thank you for the detailed guide! At 12:35 you say "disable the tether", is there a way to do that?

Me: *Attempts this* ok, now the reactor shouldn't blow up Reactor: how about I do anyway Fked up one step ;-;

great vid! I was struggling with this for a while!

I watched this thinking I already knew how to do it, but boy is your method a lot less risky. I didnt know you could disable the coolant by ripping out cells out of the ecu, I always just blew it up lol

How do you deal with getting the giant panels to the processor? My furnace keeps stealing them whenever one of them just slightly slides into it's gravity, super frustrating.

Ok, so, 2 things for anyone watching this vid: 1) The reactor will now immediately go into meltdown the second you pull the coolant after the latest patch. (pretty sure this is addressed in the v2 guide, not sure yet.) 2) I'm fairly certain the method of vaporizing the connectors isn't intended, so I'd try to find an alternate solution just in case. My method (thus far, still figuring it out for myself): 1. Detach and secure all nacelles. 2. Find and vaporize all cut points necessary to detach the 3 large hull sections that make up the back of the ship, use tethers to pull them away. This gives safe access to the fuel storage. 3. Carefully detach and secure all fuel storages. 4. Vent each thruster with the manual valve, then remove and secure each thruster. 5. Prep a path for the reactor as best you can. DO NOT CUT OR REMOVE THE COOLANT UNTIL YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY READY. 6. Make a path for yourself to quickly make your way from the coolant module back to the reactor. 7. Remove coolant and QUICKLY cut the pipes at the reactor end as necessary. 8. ??? 9. Profit

You don't need to pull the hubcaps - you can just cut the purple boxes in front of the thrusters, unzip the whole frame (cut all the frame cut points in "limbo") and pull the thrusters out that way, saves time because the hubcaps also go in the processor like the nanocarbon shells they are attached too.

You can remove the fuses without getting electrocuted. The trick is to pull the handle when all 3 lights are off, then the fuse ejects safely.

Oh man! This is so much easier than how I got it out the first time! I did everything wrong! Had a minor run in with the ECU (when you took the door off it I was like "Nooo! Really?!?!" lol), used one of the valves on a thruster and caused a slight explosion (only that 1 thruster and corner of the ship was affected - made it heaps easier to see wtf I was doing!), cleared away all of the pipes with the split cutter beneath the reactor, and it would not come out! Turns out it was jammed a little off-kilter as I hadn't been pulling it straight down (good tip with the square on the barge as a target!). Eventually after plucking the top and bottom and the sides off the reactor it came out, and went to the barge no problem. When I came back on day 3 (same play session), it exploded on the barge! Very entertaining - and I still got credit for it! :-) Thanks for the very helpful video Arkbane101! Subbed.

never seen this game before. this is awesome.

smooth! the reactor didn't even start ticking

7:50 I consider this a bug. But oh well. We'll see if they ever patch this. I absolutely think there must be an alternative way of safely removing those thrusters without blowing yourself up. And currently, that's the only safe way without a key I guess. I tried to melt the fuel lines with the stinger on my second try. Bad decision. I almost got the critical reactor to the barge tho. Almost... (1st try, I accidentally ruptured a coolant line in the "limbo" section... and all hell broke loose...)

so this is a great guide but id do it slightly different, even pulling everything out properly the reactor can still go critical. ive found the best way is to deal with the fuel, then pull the back of the ship off and then do the coolant so if it goes critical then u can do a quick hack job on the pipes and get the reactor into the barge b4 it blows

Usually in just 1 shift I can: pull some of the external panels (sell some of them), switch off reactor, disable ECU, salvage reactor, salvage ECU, salvage all 3 thrusters, salvage all fuel, salvage power generator and salvage all coolant. In just 1 shift.

This is amazing video man. Thank you!

Looks like the purple connections to the thruster Fuel pipe is what I was missing. Totally illogical but now I know.

Hi!) How you touch objects (pipes or doors) ?))) I can't find the button, for this move) Sorry for my english, if something's wrong..)

maybe it's been fixed, but i refuse to pickup fuses, they always slam into me at high speed and have even broken my helmet before

They should add a locking breaking thing for anything that needs a mechanical key. Press the tool onto the hole and it will force the thing to unlock as desired, breaking the lock in the process due to the tool using brute force rather than actual lock picking.

You can see if a room is pressurized with your scanner - green squares are pressurized / red squares are vacuum You can push things without grabbing them, so you don't launch yourself into a wall and die.

tried this but when i opened the panel to access the coolent pods, it was already leaking coolent everywhere. IT happens everytime so it might've been updated like that. The moment i take out the coolent pods the reactor melts down.

You can use the oxygen tanks inside the ship to replenish you oxygen and its usually faster than flying back to the hab.

You missed taking off the side panels of the reactor, they go to the processor. Then the end-caps and reactor can go to the barge.

Looks like today's update has made this guide obsolete. Everything I learned in this video now starts a reactor meltdown (pulling the parts from the ECU, removing the purple connectors).

Damn, you are WAY more careful on that than I am. Same steps, except I just bust inside and start zapping all the panels and hucking them in the processor as fast as possible. Usually have all hte panels off within 7min

I'm wondering if the devs have patched the fuel line 'bug' since you posted this video. I'm following your guide step by step, but as soon as I get rid of the third and final 'purple box' to cut all fuel to the reactor, it goes into meltdown. I have no idea how to get past this.

when i pulled out the cooling container things in the ecu it started the countdown, not sure what i did wrong.

Except taking coolant out of ECU starts reactor meltdown. You can eject thrusters using switches.

Interesting, last time i used the cutter to take out that purple block you mentioned, blew up the entire back side of the ship, and blasted the rest of the ship to where you refill oxygen and tethers On a side note, you can now buy utility keys for $50k, which is chump change to how much you get back for a safe reactor.

what is the key to disable the tether? i saw it on the hud but since this game doesnt really have keybindings i didnt know.

how are you holding the edge of the ship?

Yeah, this doesn't work anymore. As soon as you remove the coolant the whole thing starts going critical. I also was entirely unable to pull the melting down reactor out the bottom despite the pipes all being removed. Edit: After a second attempt I did manage to get it to work, but only by removing the coolant as the last step (aside from cutting the coolant pipes) It came out fine this time.. I think the first time I left a piece of pipe attached to the reactor, and even though it was just a tiny section that was itself detached.. it seemed to have locked the reactor in place anyway.

I hope this guide stays valid. It sure is getting a lot of traffic for you. Make more please.

As soon as I disconnected the third purple block the reactor started to melt down. Lost the ship.

Thanks for the video it was very helpful

you can just remove the reactor plating from the top and directly pull it up no need to cut the pipes or anything. You don´t have to pull out the Plating just let it float in that little compartment. Is definetly faster than the hassel you have with the pipes.

Just an FYI, I have found keys EVERYWHERE. Cockpit, main hold, reactor room, Maintenance areas and outer hull access ways. There is no real rhyme or reason to their spawns, it is really just "In the ship". Also also, if you grapple something and hit the right mouse button at the same time, you will reel either it to you or you to it, makes getting back to the hab and the ship VERY fast. Cheers :D

i remove the coolant nodes and the reactor went into meltdown :/ what did i do wrong?

How do you cancel a tether?

Good luck with that! The most recent patch made reactors start melting down as soon as you cut off the coolant flow! 😬☢

My cooling line stays full even after removing the cooling units like you did. Any idea how to flush it out?

I want to fly them and operate them!!! They are so detailed!!!!

i tried this. as i was dealin g with the collent. it set off the reacter

Idk why couldn't find this video a couple days ago when I kept destroying my class II reactors haha

Very important - New patch made it so reactor will start melting down once coolant is shut off. Best to leave to absolutely last.

when I cut off that purple box in front of the engine, it blows up. :-/

If you remove the power module on the top of the internal structure of the ship, all the fuses go dead and will not shock you. But then there will be no power inside the ship.

Is there any reason to remove fuses? Or to collect them?

Great video !

But is there a geico commercial, cuz i think im paying too much for car insurance.