SpaceCraft FTL Travel & Planet Scanning Guide

Buy or craft FTL Coil MK1 (Quartz Crystal ×6 + Copper Wire ×8). Slot it on your ship's utility rail. MK1 supports up to S-class ships.

Open the Galaxy Map (M), click a destination star within range. The map shows charge cost in seconds and fuel cost in helium-3.

FTL charge time scales linearly with ship mass. Drop spare cargo, retract drones and disable shield generator to cut charge time by 30–50%.

Hold F to charge. Charge bar fills faster near a station's FTL relay. Stay still — being hit interrupts the charge.

On arrival, run the Scanner T1 (default Z) to ping the system. Anomalies, abandoned wrecks and rare asteroid fields will appear as blue blips.

Drop into orbit and engage the planetary scanner (X). A 3D heatmap of resource hot-spots appears — pin the densest cell for your base.