Drive Engine (Upgrade)

Drive Engine

Lv1

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Unlocks:

Unlocks Mecha Flight

Research Consumption

150

50

Data Volume
10.8k Hashes

Double-press Space to lift off, and the mecha will increase the move speed by 150% in low-altitude flight mode, flying will consume a lot of energy.

Summary

The Drive Engine is a module on the Icarus that enables flight. Icarus has no flight capabilities (other than a very weak hover to avoid falling into water) out of the box, so they must be acquired by upgrading the Drive Engine. The first upgrade enables Icarus to fly around the starter planet's atmosphere, with further upgrades enabling spaceflight and eventually faster-than-light travel.

Although the warp drive (FTL speed) isn't unlocked until level 4, interstellar travel is made possible at level 2, should the player be okay with slow-boating it to another star (upgrade level 3, which doubles space travel speed, is ideal for this). The top speeds for drive engine levels 3 and 4 are 1.5 ly/hr and 3 ly/hr, respectively, while warp speed is on the order of 1 lightyear every 4 to 5 seconds.

Levels

Tier	Resource Consumption				Hashes	Unlocks	Total
1	150	50			10.8k	Unlocks mecha flying ability. It's faster than walking, but consumes energy faster.
2	200	200			36.0k	Unlocks mecha sail ability. Once a high enough altitude is reached, the mech can leave the atmosphere and travel to other planets. Consumes energy even faster than flying.	Maximum Sail Speed: 1000 m/s
3	1000	1000	1000		180k	+1000 m/s sail speed.	Maximum Sail Speed: 2000 m/s
4	2000	2000	2000		720k	Unlocks ability to warp across large distances using space warpers	Mecha Warp Speed: 12 AU/s or .2 LY/s
5	3000	3000	3000	3000	1.08M	+3 AU/s Mecha Warp Speed	+3 AU/s Mecha Warp Speed (15 AU/s or .25 LY/s)
6→100	1000 × `(LVL*(LVL-5))`				360 / 1	+3 AU/s Mecha Warp Speed	+`3(LVL-5)` AU/s Mecha Warp Speed (3LVL AU/s or .05*LVL LY/s) The maximum acheivable Warp Speed is 5 LY/s