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To place floor tiles for your ship, the area in which you place them must already be covered in hull.

=== What can I do if I run out of FTL charges or fuel and am stuck? ===

If you are stuck in a system without access to the Trade menu and don't have enough fuel for power or FTL charges to make it to another system, you can cheat by editing your save file. Instructions for this are provided in the [[save file]] article.

You can have one of your other ships deliver the necessary resources to your ship. Or, if your 'rescue' ship has an FTL drive, it can simply initiate the jump itself and 'tow' the 'stalled' ship with it (simply initiate the jump with your functional ship and make sure the ship to be towed is also checked in the FTL menu. Only one ship in your fleet needs a working FTL Drive. All other ships selected will jump with it regardless of the presence of an FTL drive or fuel. If you do not have another FTL capable ship, but have a non-ftl ship (or 'station') in another system with a Trade menu, you can buy, build, or modify an existing ship into a 'rescue' ship by adding an FTL drive and a few charges. These can then be uninstalled and re-sold after the rescue (at some monetary loss).

If you are stuck in a system without access to the Trade menu and don't have enough fuel for power or FTL charges to make it to another system and don't have any other ships to perform a 'rescue tow' with, you can cheat by editing your save file. Instructions for this are provided in the [[save file]] article.

~~'''Note:''' Only one ship in your fleet needs a working FTL Drive. All other ships will jump with it.~~

=== Why can't I accept a Passenger Transport contract, despite having enough habitation space? ===

This usually indicates that part of your [[Habitation Deck]] is unreachable. The habitation deck is affected by obstacles on the Engineering Deck, so walls and doors will keep passengers from reaching blocked off areas of the Habitation Deck, leading to overcrowding near the ladders. You can get around this by using the "Open Doors" command when accepting/turning in contracts.

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 To place floor tiles for your ship, the area in which you place them must already be covered in hull.
 === What can I do if I run out of FTL charges or fuel and am stuck? ===
-If you are stuck in a system without access to the Trade menu and don't have enough fuel for power or FTL charges to make it to another system, you can cheat by editing your save file. Instructions for this are provided in the [[save file]] article.
+You can have one of your other ships deliver the necessary resources to your ship. Or, if your 'rescue' ship has an FTL drive, it can simply initiate the jump itself and 'tow' the 'stalled' ship with it (simply initiate the jump with your functional ship and make sure the ship to be towed is also checked in the FTL menu. Only one ship in your fleet needs a working FTL Drive. All other ships selected will jump with it regardless of the presence of an FTL drive or fuel. If you do not have another FTL capable ship, but have a non-ftl ship (or 'station') in another system with a Trade menu, you can buy, build, or modify an existing ship into a 'rescue' ship by adding an FTL drive and a few charges. These can then be uninstalled and re-sold after the rescue (at some monetary loss).
+If you are stuck in a system without access to the Trade menu and don't have enough fuel for power or FTL charges to make it to another system and don't have any other ships to perform a 'rescue tow' with, you can cheat by editing your save file. Instructions for this are provided in the [[save file]] article.
-'''Note:''' Only one ship in your fleet needs a working FTL Drive. All other ships will jump with it.
 === Why can't I accept a Passenger Transport contract, despite having enough habitation space? ===
 This usually indicates that part of your [[Habitation Deck]] is unreachable. The habitation deck is affected by obstacles on the Engineering Deck, so walls and doors will keep passengers from reaching blocked off areas of the Habitation Deck, leading to overcrowding near the ladders. You can get around this by using the "Open Doors" command when accepting/turning in contracts.