The Stocker is a 232 ore crate capacity mining ship. It is designed as a direct upgrade for those who have outgrown the Rigger.

The Stocker is also available to buy in game at Scenery Showroom of Rando 4 Ship Shop at stations with Rando ship shops.

Usage

To enter the ship, there is a button on top of the center of the ship that will open a Hatch. Once inside you can also open and close the cockpit glass Canopy. The pilot Chair can be rotated around for easy access. Buttons for these are available in the pilot side consoles and also on the ceiling above the pilot seat.

Flying the Ship

See Flight Systems on how to fly the ship and use its flight systems.

Using the Waypoint System

Viewing and Selecting Waypoints

This uses the NavGrid system. Use the Down and Up waypoints selectors to select waypoint. The selected waypoint information is shown on NavP and NavC panels.

On the pilot center console, NavGrid will show the compass towards the selected waypoint while Attitude will show the ship's pitch, heading and roll directions. NavGrid is best used while not moving.

Editing and Saving Waypoints

Use Set to save waypoint of current location to the current selected waypoint position.

To edit currently selected waypoint, use your U tool to add name, X, Y and Z values to nName, nX, nY and nZ respectively. Then use the Save button to save.

Crash Avoidance

Avoidance will activate Guides. If the guides detect objects it will cut thrust and strafe up or down (will flash either the top or bottom Blue warning lights on the pilot center console according to the direction) while sounding an alarm (check game settings if you do not hear the alarm). It will also flash Red warning lights on the pilot center console according to the position of obstacle detected.

Avoids will show the counters for number of avoidances. The Trip counter can be reset by holding down the Avoids Reset Trips button.

Resetting Navigation

If ISAN or NavGrid is not working, it can be reset using the Reset ISAN button. Press once to take ISAN offline, then press again to reset.

For v1.0.2 and below, do this by using your universal tool on the ISAN panel on the pilot console and clearing the value of the _ field. The first time will show ISAN as offline, repeat clearing the value again to reset ISAN and NavGrid.

Mining

To approach an asteroid, point the center range finder at an asteroid and activate Approach. Once in range (optimum range is 10 to 14m on Distance), activate Mining Lasers to turn on the mining lasers.

The lasers have three modes.

• Fixed mode will keep all lasers converged to the asteroid detected by the center range finder.
• Manual mode allows manual control of the lasers using the pitch and yaw controls (including mouse control, default button C) of the ship. This mode disables flight controls of the ship
• Auto mode will activate laser sweeping. Laser Sweep Height and Laser Sweep Depth can be adjusted in this mode to change sweeping distances of the lasers.

Eco mode will only use the top two lasers to conserve power if needed.

Mine is a button which will activate automated mining. Point the center range finder at an asteroid and activate. It will activate Material Scanner and Approach, and once in range it will automatically activate Lasers.

Collect turns on the two ore collectors. Ore collectors automatically adjust to point towards objects detected by the center range finder.

If batteries start running out of charge while mining, turn on Min Gen. Continous use of the lasers and collectors at the same time requires a Min Generator Rate of around 90%.

Ore Scanner

Activate using the Material Scanner button. The laser will try to adjust to point at the objects detected by the center range finder. Scan results will show on the Materials panel in number of stacks. It has a maximum range of 100m.

Managing Power, Fuel and Propellant

Managing Power and Fuel

See Power and Fuel Systems on how to manage ship power and refuel.

Refilling Propellant

See Propellant Systems on how to refill propellant.

The two red propellant tanks behind the generators can also be used to refill the ship. Connect the Red resource bridge to the Green resource bridge to transfer propellant. You can then unbolt the red tanks and craft refills for the tanks using ice and then bolt the tank back to the support. Rinse and repeat until full. The Red and Green buttons toggles the respective resource bridges.