Water Fuel (and Oxygen)

Going with the theme, water has replaced hydrogen as the main fuel. Jetpacks use it, drives use it, thrusters use it. It works much the same as hydrogen in vanilla.

For now, the only ways to obtain Water are:

• Build a H2O2 Generator on a grid with an Outpost or Installation Core (see Ship Cores) and make water and oxygen from ice

• Siphon it from NPC ship wrecks (be advised: connecting to another ship will re-power it)

Emergency refueling a Skiff (Core-less ship, e.g. the Rockhopper)

1. Mine some Ice

2. Add an Outpost Core to the skiff

3. Add a H2O2 Generator or two

4. Let it churn through the Ice to refill your tanks (1 unit of Ice → 1 ltr. of Water)

5. Remove the H2O2 Generator and the Outpost Core to turn the ship back into a Skiff

Power

Reactors

Reactors and their fuel are expensive early on, but very reliable and they can provide large amounts of power.

Main sources of Fusion Fuel Pellets:

• Assembling

• NPC Hunting

• Missions

• Voting

Reactor Comparison

Power extracted per 1 Fusion Fuel Pellet

Size	Civilian variant	Military variant
1x1	20 MWh	14.7 MWh
3x3	33.3 MWh	25 MWh
5x5	-	40 MWh

Batteries

Batteries waste power when charging and have a far lower recharge input compared to their output. Both output and overall capacity are greatly buffed compared to vanilla Space Engineers, leading to very long recharge times.

Solar Panels

Power harvested from Solar Panels is dependent on their distance from the sun. Stations placed in the inner Sol system can easily be powered by solar. Due to the actual light source being a little offset from the suns position, you should be aligning your Solar Panels going by the shadows cast from sunlight.

Solar Power overview

Rough numbers meant as an orientation

Distance from sun	Reference	Max power per Solar Panel
3.200 km	Venus	23 MW
5.000 km	Earth	9.5 MW
7.000 km	Mars	4.5 MW
8.500 km	The Belt	3.3 MW
15.000 km	Jupiter	1 MW
?	Pluto	?