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There are many components in the game. Each component or block belongs to a category.

Categories

Blocks

Main article: Block

The core building blocks, beams, slopes and corners.

The "full set" of shapes includes the basic block, 2m, 3m, and 4m beams, 1-4m slopes, diagonal 4m slope, 1-4m left and right square and triangle corners, 1-4m inverted triangle corners, 1-4m wedges, 1-4m poles, and 1-4m front and back wedge slopes.

Block	Health	Armour	Weight	Cost	Shapes	Notes
Wood	180	3	10	1	Full set, and aesthetic versions of the normal block	Paper on its own, but useful combined with other materials Very cheap, relatively buoyant, and offering some protection against EMP, wood is nonetheless lacking both in hitpoints and armour class, though it can provide useful protection when backed by high-AC materials, or as a spall liner
Stone	300	7	40	3	Full set	Damage Sponge. Far tougher than wood, and fairly cheap, but also heavier, stone is best suited as an ablative outer layer built on top of something with higher Armour Class.
Metal	350	15	40	5	Full set + structural and non-structural variations in the "Decorative" section	General-purpose armour. High hitpoints and armour class makes this block useful both as stand-alone armour and as a reinforcing layer behind stone or wood. The "porthole" decorative block does not obstruct Visual detectors
Light-Weight Alloy	260	13	5	5	Full set + structural and non-structural variations in the "Decorative" section	Light-weight armour. Lightest structural block, and with about 2/3 the toughness of metal, alloy is very useful for aircraft and other weight-sensitive vehicles. Reduced sonar-, and radar-signature, compared to most other materials.
Glass	60	1	10	1	Full set, window block aesthetic variant	Eye protection. Nearly useless as armour, glass slopes nonetheless remain widely used as a way of preventing visual detectors causing drag, and as see-through anti-fragmentation protection for the player character when manually controlling a vehicle from its bridge or cockpit. Tip: glass blocks become invisible when looked at through other glass blocks. This allows the player to turn a two-block thick wall of glass into a one-way tinted window.
Lead	300	4	200	3	Full set	Ballast Incredibly dense, lead is best used as a simple means of changing a vehicle's centre of mass, most commonly as a keel for boats. Tip: For very small or light vehicles, including aircraft, Stone might be a better choice of ballasting material
Heavy Armour	1000	40	200	25	Full set	High-cost, High-density protection. While its hitpoints and Armour Class are second to none, this high-tech armour costs four times more than metal, is as dense as lead, and is vulnerable to EMP jolts. For most purposes, using several layers of metal will provide more protection at a lower cost and weight. HA is thus best used either in small amounts to protect important parts of a vehicle, or as a backing plate to boost the AC of other, cheaper armour blocks.
Surge Protector	250	5	10	20	Block	Absorbs EMP damage at 90% resistance.
Rubber	100	3	20	3	Full Set	Stealthy shock-absorber. This block neither deals nor receives collision damage. It also has the lowest radar-, and sonar-signature in-game.
Light block	50	3	1	20	Block	Does not collide with other blocks. Cannot be hit by projectiles. Explodes when destroyed.
ERA Armour	100	3	40	5	Block, 1m slope	Detonates when below half health or touched by a HEAT stream. Stops HEAT streams, destroys non-CRAM projectiles in front of it and nearby it^{[citation needed]}, and reduces explosion damage and radius to 20%.

Water

Main article: Water

Components specific to ships and submarines.

Block	Health	Armor	Weight (t)	Material	Additional Stats	Notes
Propeller	300	10	0.3	30	Force: 150 Power use: 5	Needs 8 blocks of clear space in front of it to function at full efficiency. Provides force when in water.
Huge Propeller	2700	10	2.7	270	Force: 3000 Power use: 75	Needs 8 blocks of clear space in front of it to function at full efficiency. Provides force when in water.
Rudder	85	1	0.15	10	Force per mass: 1	Needs 8 blocks of clear space in front of it to function at full efficiency. Provides turning force when in water. Amount of force increases with vehicle mass.
Air Pump	85	4	0.1	10	Buoyancy per volume: 3	Pumps water from an enclosed or non-flooded space and provides buoyancy. Amount of buoyancy provided is adjustable.
Paddle	75	3	0.01	3	Force per velocity: 2.5	Provides force when moving through water.
Hydrofoil	85	1	0.05	3	Force per velocity: 10	Provides force proportional to the speed and angle at which is is moving through water.
Sail Main Block/Sail Main Block(Square Rig)	85	1	0.05	15		Main block of a sail. Sails create force based on both the strength and direction of the wind and the size of the sail. Normal block creates a rounded/triangular sail. Square rig creates a square sail.
Sail Attachment	85	1	0.05	1		Attaches to the main block to expand the sail.
Sail Winch	85	1	0.05	1.5		Attaches to the end of the sail to allow the adjustment of sail size using a controller.
Weather Vane	25	1	0.01	1		Points in the direction of the wind.

Air

Main article: Air

Components specific to planes, hot air balloons and space ships.

Control

Main article: Control

All of the components required to control your vehicles, spin blocks and sky fortresses as well as other components such as chairs and fire control computers.

Resource

Main article: Resource

Resource gathering, processing and storage components.

Engines

Main article: Engine

Engine components as well as electric engines and generators.

Misc

Main article: Misc

Various things that allow for repairing, spawning and re-spawning amongst other things.

Simple Weapons

Main article: Simple Weapons

A variety of one-component weapons.

Missiles

Main article: Missile

Everything you need to make missiles, torpedoes, mines and depths charges.

Decorations

Main article: Decorations

Doors, stairs, lights, etc.

CRAM Cannons

Main article: CRAM Cannon

Ballistic projectile weapons.

Advanced Cannons

Main article: Advanced Cannon

Laser

Main article: Laser

Laser and anti-missile projection systems.

AI

Main article: AI

AI components used to make autonomous vessels

Collections

Subobject

Main article: Subobject

Subobjects are attached to spin blocks or turrets. Entire subobjects may be saved, and then later loaded in a single step.

Prefabs

Allows loading and saving of large chunks of a vehicle.

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-Nearly useless as armour, glass slopes nonetheless remains widely used as a way of preventing [[AI#Detection|visual]] detectors causing drag, and as see-through anti-fragmentation protection for the player character when manually controlling a vehicle from its bridge or cockpit.
+Nearly useless as armour, glass slopes nonetheless remain widely used as a way of preventing [[AI#Detection|visual]] detectors causing drag, and as see-through anti-fragmentation protection for the player character when manually controlling a vehicle from its bridge or cockpit.
 Tip: glass blocks become invisible when looked at through other glass blocks. This allows the player to turn a two-block thick wall of glass into a one-way tinted window.
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+|High-cost, High-density protection.
-|Volume-efficient, but cost-, and weight-inefficient armour.
-Incredibly tough, ludicrously expensive (it costs 5 times more materials than metal), as dense as lead, and vulnerable to [[Damage#EMP Damage|EMP]]. Worse protection compared to same-cost, or same-weight metal setups, but requires much less volume, often useful for reinforcing weak-spots.
+While its hitpoints and Armour Class are second to none, this high-tech armour costs four times more than metal, is as dense as lead, and is vulnerable to [[Damage#EMP Damage|EMP jolts]].
+For most purposes, using several layers of metal will provide more protection at a lower cost and weight.
+HA is thus best used either in small amounts to protect important parts of a vehicle, or as a backing plate to boost the AC of other, cheaper armour blocks.
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