Shipyard

A Shipyard is a Station subtype that produces capital ships (XL and L class). Each major faction has one or more shipyards as economic anchors.

This page documents Shipyard-specific behavior. For general station behavior (properties, ownership, modules, etc.), see the parent Station page.

Identification

<do_if value="$station.isplannedshipyard">
    <!-- this station is a shipyard -->
</do_if>

Property	Type	Description
.isplannedshipyard	bool	This station is/was a shipyard
.wasshipyard	bool	Sticky flag — was ever a shipyard (V-003 history)

Vanilla shipyards (initial galaxy)

Each faction has a fixed shipyard at game start. The list below comes from libraries/god.xml:

Faction	Shipyard sector
Argon	Argon Prime
Paranid	Trinity Sanctum
Teladi	Profit Center Alpha
Split	Family Tkr
Terran	Mars
Boron	Kingdom End
Xenon	Various Xenon sectors

Verification pending

The exact god.xml entry IDs for each faction’s shipyard need to be sample-grep verified against vanilla source before this table is published as final.

Construction

Shipyards are constructed using:

• Group: shipyard_<faction_3-letter-code> (e.g., shipyard_arg) in stationgroups.xml.
• Plan: e.g., arg_shipyard in constructionplans.xml.

For the full construction pipeline see the parent Station page (Actions → Create section).

Common gotchas

• ⚠ Don’t confuse .isplannedshipyard with .isfactionheadquarters. A shipyard is often (but not always) also a faction HQ.

Related

• Station — parent abstraction (all general properties/actions live there).
• Wharf — sibling subtype, builds smaller (M/S) ships.
• Faction — owner.
• Macro — for ship recipes.

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Pattern

This page demonstrates how a subtype page is structured — only the type-specific information. General Station behavior is not repeated; it lives on the parent Station page.