I want to know what you guys want to see next! Fast Fighter Ship Build? Heavy Cargo Hauler Build? Mission Guide for ship unlocks? Any other ideas, please feel free to drop them here and I’ll do my best to meet demand. Thank you all for your unexpected support!

If you arrange your ship with a Nova captain's quarters in the rear you can put a porthole on the back and the comfy chair in the sitting room will face the porthole.

Fun fact: The ratio of mass to maneuvering thrust is 1 to 12.35 in order to maintain a max mobility of 100.

I just wanted to say that please don't change anything with the way you create these videos. They're amazing! - Listened to all three of your videos yesterday and it's so relaxing and informative. Thank you, Wize Old Wizard!

2 months later. No one beats this ship design... I love the brig + living 2x2. And this is the only design that have both and no stressing ladders.

I was one of the people who commented on the SAL 6830 being left out and the lack of need of shielded cargo holds. Same goes for the jammer. Once you lose the shielded cargo, there is no need for a jammer any more. So to everyone who found this video even more informational than the original, you are welcome! Hands down one of the best designs I have seen in the game so far. It checks all the boxes as far as I'm concerned. Maneuverability, speed, reactor power, grav jumping, looks, and interior pathway design. Just don't ignore key ship skills under "science". Aneutronic Fusion give you more power from your reactor. And by level 60 you can pretty much forget about having to manage energy allocation to your systems. But you have to put some points into Science to unlock this skill. Another key one is "Astrodynamics". You can jump further. This is crucial in early game when your grav drives aren't the best or you run with a heavy ship. (You can tell your ship is heavy simply by the loss of speed. Class A engines for example should allow you 130 max speed. Less than that and you are "heavy" ship. And of course it goes without saying that under "tech" you have to fully unlock Piloting and Starship Design. Piloting is easy to level. Just do the simulator repeatedly once you unlock the Vanguard questline. Starship Design just goes with the territory. I've probably dumped close to a million credits into my design and the more I experiment, the more I lean towards a similar design to what he has done. Because unless you want to fly a flying brick, you need wings that are functional and can take some of the design demands off the main trunk of the ship. Just to be clear, to duplicate his results you really need to have come close to beating key questlines in the game and be a high level 60 to unlock all the pieces. Can you capture Class B and Class C ships in this game? Absolutely you can. But every ship (outside of UC military) I have captured has been poor at best. They might give you access to Class B and C ships early but what is on them isn't even worth keeping. In many cases they function worse than their Class A counter parts. Post edit: His cargo capacity is at 6880. That should be people's target by end game. If you are going to do any crafting and research you need access to resources and the one place you can always access when doing it is your home ship. So no matter what you intend to do with your ship, you need it to also play the role of freighter. Yes, you need a jack of all trades kind of ship. Which this ship design does very well.

Thank you so much for creating the Basilisk, I built the standard version last night and it SLAPS! I can not wait to make the optimizations on it tonight, you have created a truly unique and glorious ship. So much so that I have seen videos coming up on my feed of people making tweaks and their own optimizations. I think before Year end your ship will be as legendary as the Enterprise!

Also for anyone wondering, you need about 1 landing thrust (or whatever they label it) for about every 200 kg of mass. A ship of 800 mass would need at the very minimum 4 landing thrust spread between its landing gears.

AmazingA Fantastically amazing. I appreciate you taking the time to share your build (it deletes EVERYTHING) insights into ship building. Not only have I built your ship, but I've been inspired to start tinkering with my own designs. You've lit a fire as the saying goes. Thanks again and SUBSCRIBED!

Man those videos are so satisfying, the time stamps, the smooth voice, well explained. Perfect.

This is very professionally done, thank you for your time in putting this build together.

Your ship build tutorial is very detailed. Awesome job.

Just built this today and it is a beast Thank for the excellent build guide on this ship

Beast of a build! Keep it up.

Loved the history nugget! Excellent job!

Been using the Basilisk for a few days now. Sold everything else except the Frontier and the Razorleaf (nostalgia purposes...) Just last night did a ton of planet hops, boarded 11 ships and took on everything with not one death or even close call. (Serpentis system with difficulty set to very hard) I've built a dozen or so ships and this one has become my favorite. Thanks for taking the time to test the weight vs flight characteristics. Very helpful. I second the notion of a heavy hauler.

We are very impressed with all the mods you've done so far. Keep up the good work.

The video and the comments were very helpful. I knew there had to be some "mathing" involved but I was too lazy to work it out. This helped. I now understand why I have two characters both using identically modified Ghost IVs, except, one has more mass because I added Science Hab and Research Stations. The heavier one is actually much better in battle. Now I know what to be thinking about when I do my next build.

I love the Basilisk. Mine is optimized with only 2 habitable decks to cut down on ladders and hunting around for crew. This is a great ship, thanks for your awesome videos.

Watched the first video and came straight to this one. Immediately went about selling off all the ships in my stable to get the credits to build this! Excellent content, you've got a new sub.

I like it. Will definitely have to watch the first one build video.

Yoo Thanks my man the ship hold freaking ten crew .. it’s amazing thank you again I’m a new sub forsure

I finally finished my grind to level 60 today, built this ship, and I love it. Man what a difference compared to what I was using before. Thanks for the guide!

thank you very much this video mostly that UC-Pirate fight in the end was really great one (had to watch it over 4 times :D, thanks for that. This ship, with these upgrades, is now really Beast in the space. More these kind videos please!

Well changing items to improve mobility was my take away tip

Well, informative, relaxing and great fun too. Cheers Monsignor Wizard.

Updated and optimized basilisk!? IM BUILDING ONE! LETS ROCK!

Although focusing almost entierly on the estetics and looks of my ships, its always engaging watching someone with a stellar technical aspect, I learn a lot. Thanx Wizman!

Great job, downloaded both vids

Nice. Just finished your original full build guide. Im going to build the base tonight and will be making mods based on your tuning. Im building at levek 83 with everything unlocked so i should be in good shape.

Awesome video.

I enjoyed this content. Thank you.

Looks sick dude. Will def try this build when I’m done exploring on my NG +10 full story run. Will,def have to check if I got that engine unlocked. Cheers.

Thank you 🙏

Fair warning if you build this ship while using the Razorleaf as a base : there is apparently a bug with the Razorleaf where your shield skills bonuses as well as your crew skill bonuses are not taken into account. I had to rebuild this ship on another base to get rid of this issue.

Something I noticed from your previous version of this ship and now this current version is that you can modify the two VERY LARGE structural pieces to either side and right behind the cockpit on the top that are 3x1 structural pieces. You can remove these two pieces and replace them with either the curved or even the angular Cargo Hold pieces and add around 1000 cargo per 1x1 hold that you add. Additionally, go to the Red Mile, or the Key if you have it available, and get the upward angular shielded cargo and line the underbelly around the landing gear with them for an upward curving-ish form. You MAY have to replace the landing gear before you do this, but if you get the Nova Tech landing gear from the moon IO, they actually have the best lift and there's a variant that has top as well as left and right anchors for stuff. Finally, as for fuel, I find that two of the smaller fuel tanks provides more fuel than that great big monstrous one and you can plant it in the underbelly using the landing gear I suggested

Damn man, that ship is great!! I will try to make it, I wish you could upload templates for starfield to make it easier, but I will just watch your video. Looks awesome!!

Good stuff my boy

This is my favorite build.

Wow that is really really nice.

Great ship I have made the original and love it, thanks great build

Awesome 😎 build…👍🏻

I made this ship from your design and it is an amazing set up. Only thing I didn’t like was the second floor being split

Dude the battle footage is insane with this bad boy

Great vIdeo. It is now my primary ship and looking to optimise it using this vid. Thanks so much. Also, Bethesda should've made more effort for a tutorial sequence for the ship builder

Jesus....this thing DESTROYS. Love it!!

I like your build better than others I’ve seen, mostly because of the habs you used. You definitely made the interior feel like a ship one would actually have to live in. Being a Navy Sub veteran, that bugged me on most of the ships. That and the hamster 🐹 maze that some are as well.

That SAL 6830 is the best class C engine. Once venture to class C is not about speed anymore. It's about balancing cargo with mobility.

The Nova landing gear provides double the vertical thrust. I believe there is another that provides more as well.

Hey I wanted to thank you for your build guide. The Basilisk is amazing. My version is a bit different but it has the same basic shape but with some different hab elements and layout. I used a no ladder build and put the docker on the top.

"Accidentally" built the optimized version bc I cheaped out a bit on said reactor and gravdrive, slapped the boy full with galleon cargos (11k with crew bonus, 9k in builder) and swapped the least powerful guns for 4 turrets 👌🏻 Idk if the bridge lore part was kind of a spoiler I skipped over it quickly.. might want to add a little warning there? Anyway great video keep up the good work! See you at your next ship build

I have a similar build to this ship. I used the Star Eagle(the one you get from becoming a Ranger) as the base. I like the "Wings" layout. It's not 3 decks high like yours though. I'm going to have to look into those engines however. I've never used them.

Definitely going to do this build later today. I never used 3 slots of energy weapons.. Im stoked to rock that set up. I enjoy the visuals of missiles so I often use one slot for them.. but This def looks worth leaving them out.

I can't wait to level up and get some bucks . I wanna build this! I know I will spend some time on it. I'm not too creative but I'm pretty good at following the directions. Tim Allen was wrong! LOL Good videos!

Those are some fun modifications to the original build. When I get past all the level restrictions I am looking forward to try this out. I really want to see how the auto turrrets would fair on this for rear arc fights until you can bring the front guns to bear on the target.

This is insane. I'm only lvl 28 but here I was feeling cool with a modded Roanoke

Wow. This thing rocks. Nimbly pimbly at its best! 🤣 Made it and absoooolutely love the original!!! Did chuck a couple more tonnes on for fun 😁

congrats on being a yt legend on your 2nd video 😆

your Basilisk built i try works wonders O.P

Very nice build and tutorial. My Defiant is very similar though much more stripped down. For those who mentioned going to four SA 6830 engines, remember to do the math. The very first thing I was going to do when I got to level 60 was get these engines. To keep my ship from looking absolutely stupid, I would have to add a lot of structure (mass). I thought I could address this by only adding four of them. What I found was that in order to outperform the six SA-4330s I already had, I would need five of the 6830s. I decided not to make the change.

I used your build and converted the Star Eagle using the great video. I did make a landing bay change, I used that wide mouth landing bay you get from Taiyo. You can get around using the ladder inside the ship. Once you board the ship via the ladder in the bay, you can go right up the stairs into the cockpit.

I wanted to keep the og mantis which i had proposed as my ship snatcher. Used the kepler instead. Built it over time and saved some credits here and there along the way. I actually want the spacers to fight me and not run! Lol Damn good build though brother! I'm loving flying around in this thing! I made some adjustments but yours is the basis. Thanks!

It's actually insane how many views you've gotten on your very first uploads

really made my turret stiff! thanks!

27:00 there are also nova breaking engines on that first grav drive ship, and its huge engine looks like some of the supernova engines available in ship builder, except this one is bigger and doesn't have the stupid nostrils on the bottom there like the engines we can buy do. And nova radiators are present there as well.

I use the Cabot bridge and make a 2 story build but make the lay out so there are no ladders except for the loading dock ladder. Can be done using Hope Tech hab spines and Hope Tech cross passages (or Nova cross passages) ... took inspiration from your first ship to do so.

Once you understand that any player can WALK while carrying 2000kg, class c is all about the guns. At least it was for me. My ship might look like an orcish war ship from 40k, but it hits very hard.

I'm definitely gonna try to build this even though I'm level 39... I'll build it as best as i can then upgrade as i go. Only thing is my poor razorleaf is my first ship that i customized and i have an emotional attachment to it... 😅

The basilisk really should have been what stroud created if you got the best outcome. It should have ended in a joint venture and the use of diplomacy to work out a deal.

Beautiful ship mate!! Wish U could see the UC/MJOLNIR, my baby (yeah I'm all in with the United Colonies) some concepts of yours reminded me to my ship. Bridge to the front, side wings with engines... You should do videos with designs of your community! 😁 😁 😁

I just finished my version on this build tonight. I made it into a hunter killer.

29:03 CONFIRMED YOU CAN Redesign the original Mantis Ship and it keeps the Spacers /NPC's thinking your newly Redesigned ship is the OG Mantis Ship...but with a few upgrades 😂🍻 Guess i got a date with the ship builder tonight! 😘

“I’m gonna brake and we’ll see how close we get” *smashes through station* “About 100-ish on our speed” Boy I’m dead 😂

I like this version too but I like the original version better my mass is @ 3793 with 4650 cargo hull and shielded cargo of 800 I'm happy thanks again

I would pay Bethesda/Microsoft another $100 if it would give me ten more ships. But this ship is SO fantastic (great name choice as well - AND your using your Razorleaf spot was genius)... I think I am going to use one of my 9 spots and build. Thank you.

use the landing gear at new homestead (i think) they are the only gear with 4 thrust, so you only need half as many

So my math was off. I got to a max Jump range of 27LY but have 52k cargo instead of 55k. Could probably tweak some things to get to 55k cargo but I'm doing good for now. I can actually add 4 more Gallions and only drop down to 26LY jump range which handles most of the jumps in the game. For now I'm plenty happy with 52k cargo and my ship looking sick af.

Great build! I did similar but without wings )) where can you purchase these 6830 upgraded *special* engines? Thanks 👍🏻

"NG-20 Lander" with landing thrust 4 landing gear at Titan (Sol)- has 3 variants. Not the big-boy HopeTech gear. Not sure if you're just avoiding it for aesthetics.

Hey buddy, awesome build I plan on building something similar for my first boat. Just wondering if braking engines help with slowing the ship down or are they just for aesthetics

Wizard, can’t lie man, when I started watching your videos it killed me how monotone you were, but the content is golden. NOW, with the growth you’re making, the joy in your voice is evident and it’s a pleasure to see you growing more comfortable with your audience. Keep it up man. Proud of you.

My Ship like myself needs to shed some pounds. And will do so once I get home

Hello Wizard I love your ship I m still learning how to build and my limitations are the skill sets I m still need to work on getting funds and level up required to build this ship. I need advice I don't think I have access to class C ships

Also bring up scanner click planet to travel between planets. No need for meanus

Waiting for a mod that adds in civillian habs (complete with 3x3 accomodations, observation decks, a giant landing bay/reception area, and ground shuttle rovers for once) that way the Basilisk can be converted into what's basically a space cruise ship Put it another way, you're turning a light space destroyer into a Starfield-ized version of the Origin 890 Jump from Star Citizen or the Saud Beluga Liner from Elite Dangerous

theres a bottom mout landing gear linke the one your using with 4 landing thrust

my razor leaf is locked out, ramp always up and cant access the ship anymore. All other ships work, I'm pretty pissed since I upgraded it heavily and flew it around for 4 hours on missions... and now... cant get in it.

Did you have a parts list break down that we can view?

In my current play through I am stopped everything in order to focus to get perk lvls (C class ships) so I can build a Badassilisk for my self. Is it true that some ship parts are gated not just by ship building perk but character level?

This game is going to be insane when they finally make it an MMO! So, why did you name this vessel "Basilisk"

amazing build!!! admire the hard work!👍 I'd like to collab with your channel! thanks

The ship builder at Jemison does not have that SAL-6830 engine. Which ship builder are you using here? TIA

Hey is this still bug if you rebuild your ship using the mantis blue print having a companion with shield? Will not count? I saw one of the message here a guy saying about a bug

I'm slowing getting all the updated parts. I'm up to 70 mobility. I just need the credits to buy 4 more of the bigger engines... and that should solve the mobility issue. I painted it in my usual black and purple.

Just FYI the SAL 6830 engines are a level 60 unlock. You dont have to be diplomatic in Walters mission

Good sir you are missing aspects of the engine. Maneuvering thrust details. When youi ise thrusters ti go different detections and the regilar engine thrust is how much mass can be pulled, si regilar thrust and mass dictates mobility and top speed. Manuvering is how fast you turn, mass also affects acceleration based on regular thrust from engines.

Is the 28T unlocked with the 6830? I have been searching for hours in between playing and it has not appeared. I neglected the Main Story so I know what I have to do to upgrade the engines. It's a beautiful design and even with some personal changes I'm still running at 90 mobility which is about triple what I had been playing with.

Am I the only one who doesn't think mobility ends up mattering that much? Using thrusters, I can spin around to face a passing ship pretty easily. The only time I have an issue is when I'm severely outnumbered. So on my build, I use these engines, the 4 thrust per landing gears from New Homestead, and load up as much cargo as I can, almost 30k with my payloads skill.

I wound be interested a ship catcher version. Maybe with those em weapons Spark750.

Did you run into the structural module limit? If so, how did you deal with it?