Launch Gantry

The boarding tower that turns a 5×5 pad into the Heavy Launch Complex.

Overview#

The Launch Gantry is the heavy-launch module: place at least one next to a complete, aligned 5×5 Rocket Launch Pad (at pad level) and the cluster forms a Heavy Launch Complex — the departure point for the biggest rockets, and a comfortable boarding ramp for all of them.

Obtaining#

Craft (shaped):

N . N
N I N
N S N

N = Nerosteel Ingot · I = Iron Bars · S = Station Wall

How it works#

• Forming the complex: a full, aligned 5×5 pad plus ≥1 Launch Gantry adjacent at pad

  level = Heavy Launch Complex. Empty-hand right-click any pad block for a formation report (cluster size, largest square, gantry/fuel modules, and the next missing piece).

• Boarding: right-click the gantry to board the deployed rocket directly — no pixel-hunting the

  entity.

• Tier gating:

  • Tier 4 deploys and launches only on a Heavy Launch Complex.

  • Tier 3 accepts the Heavy complex or its classic 3×3 + Station Wall ring.

  • Tiers 1–2 are happy on a plain 3×3 (and on the Heavy complex, of course).

  • The checks re-run at launch — breaking the gantry (or pad blocks) under a deployed rocket

    grounds it.

• Fuelling: a Fuel Tank attached to a Heavy complex pumps at 480 mB/t (12× the

  base rate) — a Tier 4's 24,000 mB tank fills in under a minute.

Details#

• ID: nerospace:launch_gantry · Tool: pickaxe, iron tier · Drops: itself