FULL Station Build Guide - X4 Foundations Guides - How to build a station from A to Z

Theres one thing i wanna know since ive dabbled in station building myself a bit. It seems that for a lot of produced goods in my galaxy the price for them is lower than the total price for the raw materials used, is that normal? Is it because I dont have a workforce yet?

I have a weird situation, my builder started the build stockpile too far from station for build drones to travel, how to reset the stockyard closer to the station?

Still useful 3 years later!

How do you get the builder to do his fucking job and build my got damn station i paid him to build? This game is stupid as fuck!

The builder has been stuck for days, why wont they finish any of my stations

Subscribed, you are awesome, you need to make some clones to teach us other games!

My station takes literally days of game time to build. It says "Not enough hull parts" Now the station has much more funds than it needs, and I can go and buy hull parts myself - but I can;t transfer them from me - to station build. I can sell them, or I can "warehouse" them at the station, but not contribute towards the build. I went into Hull parts and set the limit I allow the builder to buy them at the maximum possible. He just sat there. For (real time) days my station 72% complete. missing hull parts, when stations all over the place were selling them.

Fab guide as always. What do I do is there's no builders available in my sector?
Just build my own or discover more to find them?

Awesome video, and I appreciate you making these for new players.

My question is how place my plot on a different y axis

What a great guide! Thanks so much

I just had a root canal done. I enjoyed it more than building stations in this game. At least until I've found this video.

I am seriously thinking of buying this game thanks to your vids.

Something you should add in your guide. You can rotate in any direction, but you first have to move the camera view to a different angle. So you can rotate a part any way you like (even diagonally), depending on your view orientation.

love your guides. they helped me so much. thank you!

Why the fuck is he wearing a plate carrier?

Cheers Cap

They should put your tutorial in the game itself

2.00 minutes in and nothing.
To much dribble for me.

Very clear and helpful

I cant get mine to rotate the same direction as you. I tried, watched the same part 5 times. Not sure what I am doing differently. I can only spin a module on one axis.

Thanks for the great tutorial. When I'm first building a station and it doesn't have the resources needed to complete the changes, can I manually deliver the resources? Or do you just accept the estimate? And that gets the resources from the builder?

great informative content. thank you CC

Bought the game recently, spent some time having fun, then decided to do the first main mission "The experiment". I have the station, and I worked out how to place a docking bay, but can't find a builder anywhere. They are not on the map. I clicked "assign builder" and can't see one. Any help would be appreciated! BTW, I used your video(s) to work out how to place the docking bay, thanks.

I find rolling the dice useful if you have an issue fitting your station in the box.

Apparently I did everything right, just wasn’t patient enough to let the freighter get to the builder ship

What ship are you flying ?

Good vid ... Thanks for the info.

whats with the vest?

Thanks great help. Collins..Irish decent ? Micheal Collins was one of our great heros.

dont waist time and money building conections they are not needed. just build everything freefloating it works just fine.

So, building my first station and I tried getting some informations on how to upgrade a station after it's been built and I can't find anything. I do hope you can in fact upgrade any station you've already build because otherwise that would be a major kick in the balls (current station has no shields and turrets) and depending on how well it sells (hull part complex in Second Contact) two docks might not be enough, especially considering at least to of the available M docks will be in use by my own miners to resupply the station I had hoped to be able to add other docks/piers to the station as adequate and perhaps expand the production line too (currently 2x hull part factories, 1x graphene, 1x refined metals and 1x energy cells production, plus necessary storage and 2x 3m6s docks) ...

Yet as I said, when searching for how to upgrade stations aI find absolutely nothing.

Really, REALLY hope I didn't jump ahead of myself with expectations. It's a complex that will work as initially designed but if it turns out that your initially built station is the last of it and can't be changed after it's done that's something I'll have to note for the future.

Would be nice if anyone in here can give a definitive answer!

Is there any reason for making multiple small stations instead of a huge one? Something like a module limit?

Game got a steep learning curve and can be frustrating. Thanks to you, I'm having more of a blast and spending less trying to decipher everything.

Bought the game, spent two hours trying to get it to "see" my nVidia card in my laptop, found that this problem has existed for over three years, refunded the game.

When you are building a station for a faction as a mission (or a stage of a mission), do you have to use that very faction's modules or can you build a station with Argon modules for, say, the Paranid? I am asking because recently I have had some problems with finishing such missions for various factions. I thought maybe it was so because I mostly used Argon modules.

i have a problem with some resources just no being available. like Hull parts. is there a way to simply buy the parts somewhere and add the parts i need to the construction pool?

Hi There, Been watching for a few weeks now ( since i got X4 ver 3.3 ) should waited for ver 4 to come. Anyway could i ask some advise on Station Missile Turrets. I have three stations plus HQ but only one station in Black Hole Sun IV has a tab for Ammuunition to stock the Missile Turrets ?? any idears what could be stop the tab come up in Logical station overview. Looked at most of your videos for the answer.

Great video, just found your channel, very interesting

Not sure if this was patched in the last update, but if you don't have room for a module, move the entire construct to a side, top or bottom, snap it, and then center the construct moving the dock. The limit of the cube will only be applied to the dock, so the annoying module will stay outside but be operational. This is useful for placing those pesky x3 piers. I always build dock-container-habitat first, because population takes a time to gather. This way when your factory is operational, you'll already have workers to make it more efficient.

Wait didn`t that station need a pier? Your selected builder is a big ship can it build that station without a pier?

Your videos have been a blessing, thanks!

well i built a station in a plot, assigned a builder, gave the station plenty of money and literally zero is happening. I have large and small docks. Everything looks fine, I have accepted the estimate, confirmed the price, made sure there are no limits on buying resources, and I got nothing

Another fun option to do with building is place the dock, storage, and production module(s) anywhere in the build area and then press the randomise button (dice). It will randomise a design and will utilise any connecting modules you've unlocked to complete the plan.

21 min ... rly !!!?! soo ...

Good tutorial. I did most right but forgot about turrets and shields. I accepted a mission from the Paranid for 6.8m to build a high quality metal, which I assumed will be the same base you built - ore refinery. Do I need shielding , turrets and a habitat to complete the mission?