Maintenance

Overview

Taking ship actions such as navigating and extracting have a chance of a negative event occurring which degrades the condition of the frame, reactor, or engine on a ship. Better ships will degrade at a lower rate than cheap ships.

All of the values for event frequency, repair cost, and scrap earnings are currently ballparked, so things will be adjusted from player feedback.

Ship Condition vs Ship Integrity

Ship components, such as the frame, reactor, and engine, have a condition and an integrity value. The condition of a component can be repaired and is always restored to a value of 1. The integrity of the component is the long-term wear and cannot be repaired. The integrity of the component is reduced every time you repair your ship.

Negative Events

Ship actions such as navigating and extracting have a chance of a negative event occurring which degrades the condition of the frame, reactor, or engine on a ship. Better ships will degrade at a lower rate than cheap ships.

Ship Repair

Repairing your ship costs credits and the cost of this repair will factor in the type of component, the condition of the component (more damaged components are more expensive to repair), and the price of ship parts and plating at the market.

You can repair your ship by hitting the following endpoint at a shipyard:

curl --request POST \
 --url 'https://api.spacetraders.io/v2/my/ships/:shipSymbol/repair' \
 --header 'Authorization: Bearer INSERT_TOKEN_HERE'

All of the components of your ship will be repaired to a condition of 1, and the integrity of the components repaired will be slightly reduced.

If you want to get an estimate of the repair cost for your ship, you can send a GET request to the following endpoint:

curl 'https://api.spacetraders.io/v2/my/ships/:shipSymbol/repair' \
 --header 'Authorization: Bearer INSERT_TOKEN_HERE'

Scrapping

Scrapping your ship will provide your agent with credits relative to the cost of the ship, the condition of the components, the mounts and modules attached, and the current price of ship parts and plating at the shipyard. You won't get a great price for your mounts and modules, so you will likely want to remove anything valuable. Cargo will be destroyed and not factored into the credits given.

You can scrap your ship by hitting the following endpoint at a shipyard:

curl --request POST \
 --url 'https://api.spacetraders.io/v2/my/ships/:shipSymbol/scrap' \
 --header 'Authorization: Bearer INSERT_TOKEN_HERE'

If you want to get an estimate of the scrap earnings for your ship, you can send a GET request to the following endpoint:

curl 'https://api.spacetraders.io/v2/my/ships/:shipSymbol/scrap' \
 --header 'Authorization: Bearer INSERT_TOKEN_HERE'