hippieshopper

You could just try playing in creative mode.

For the first thing, you can hit R and it will show a few little circles that represent the different axes and you can rotate the block with that. For the second thing, when you set them up in the P menu. Try setting the weapons to one number and mining lasers to another. Once you have done that you can see a few little icons on the bottom of the screen, by pressing those numbers you can turn that set on or off.

Thank you sir! That made things a lot better.

All in all it's just another brick in the wall of questions... So I see these a lot and I don't know how popular they are to answer but I don't want to go bothering someone who knows. I figure I would just ask them and hope someone's gnarly enough to answer. Some of these are pretty silly I suppose. 1. Does cargo in a cargohold have weight? Or rather, does it affect the handling of your ship if you have more stuff? 2. Is there any way to have your turrets automatically fire at a target? I would like to set up my ship so that I can mine in peace and have my armed turrets automatically fire at targets harassing me. 3. I guess this is an off-shoot of #2 but what is independent targeting? I see this attribute on a few turrets and I wondered what it meant. 4. When building my ship, near where it lists the amount of turrets I can have it lists "Arbitrary turrets". What are those thingies? Thank you guys for whatever help you can provide. I am really liking this game and I am trying to improve my ships efficiency.

I've found that you get those little upgrade chips from killing stuff and from Engineering Docks, I think. I have managed to buy a few there. I also think that you can get more upgrade slots on your ship by making it bigger.

Just thought I should say something. I was actually introduced to this game from one of Kane Hart's videos. I was playing the crap out of Space Engineers and Empyrion and I liked the look of this game. It was like a beefy version of starmade. It's pretty neat!