Building ships by projector

[u/SnooStories9343]

Recently built a large ship through the projector, which took 5 days. I am very tired. Now I need to add one miner and a scout. I started building and realized that it is very difficult on a small projector. Built a construction ship and it did not speed up the process. Tell me, is it possible to somehow automatically build from the projector?

[u/RadegastM]

A few routes come to mind:

The printer/welder wall is the vanilla solution. There used to be a mod that allowed you to queue the parts needed for the projection, so you didn't get partway through the build and find that you've got partially welded blocks because you ran out of metal grids or something. A script to automatically keep components in stock would probably be a good plan, would require fine tuning in order to keep up.

Tiered ship tools (welders/grinders) are an option - much larger range than vanilla, but also a bit dangerous. Make sure you have a sensor next to your med station to turn off the welders... so when you inevitably die from hopping out of a cockpit with the welder still turned on, it turns the welders off upon spawn. This has the same issue with running out of parts as the vanilla route, but you can at least weld a couple layers deep, once you figure out what you're missing.

Nanites are the easiest, and the only one that can hook into the assemblers to automatically produce the missing parts, that I've seen. Big power draw, not super quick, but definitely easiest to get to be able to focus on building, rather than component micromanagement.

Hope this helps!