ℹ️ About

Contributions, page-by-page features, known bugs, and where this project is headed.

👤 Who made this

Endless Sky Nexus was created and developed by GIVEMEFOOD5: deciding what it does, designing and testing every feature, and directing its development. AI assistants supported that development, including helping to write code and text. It's a fan project, not affiliated with the Endless Sky developers.

👥 Contributions

Everyone who helped build this site — from Discord and (where requested) GitHub.

Tau
Tester/Moral Support
Basically the main tester for the data viewer suggesting things to add
Chimi
Idea Giver
They provided an amazing website that i was allowed to use ideas from :D (https://www.es-drydock.com/) please could you all check it out and send them some support :D
Kai
Tester/Moral Support
Gave alot of contributtions for ideas in what to add.
Ludmina
Moral Support
Provided moral support
Zuckung
Gave good data
They have a reliable multi-plugin repo that i built this entire thing off.
Kbean
Stylist/Moral Support
Helped with syling choices and gave moral support.
fellow_starmadian
Stylist
Suggested areas of styling where they think would look nicers.
Squiddy
Tester
Suggested features and provided some development suggestions

🧩 Page Features

What each page on the site currently does (and is planned to do).

📊 Data Viewer Live
  • Every ship, variant and outfit from the base game and your selected plugins, as a searchable card grid
  • Search by name or display name (search carries over between Ships and Variants)
  • Filters by category and by government (who flies or sells it), with Clear Filters
  • Multi-attribute sorter with computed stats (energy, heat, DPS …) and per-sort averages
  • Item pop-up with tabs for attributes, where to get it, thumbnail and sprite
  • Ships and outfits with a display name show it first, with the internal name dimmed — everywhere on the site
⚖️ Compare Live
  • Compare bar at the bottom of the Data Viewer, with a quantity for each item
  • Full-screen comparison in columns or as one table
  • Group comparisons — bundle several ships or outfits into one column
  • Best and worst values highlighted on every row
⚓ Ship Builder Live
  • Several fleets per pilot (new, rename, duplicate, delete), kept in your account when logged in
  • Start from a game ship (outfit or fully edit it), from scratch, or by pasting ship data — “＋ Add ship” shows every way
  • Outfit picker with type-ahead search, capacity bars, gun/turret hardpoints and expandable outfit stats
  • Live stats with energy, heat and fuel checks, and undo (↶ / Ctrl+Z)
  • Export to Endless Sky data format, share ships with other pilots, and put a ship straight into one of your saves (add or refit, with a before/after comparison and optional payment)
⚡ Auto-fit Live
  • Builds a fit for a goal: damage (primary, secondary or both), acceleration, top speed, tank, cargo, bunks, all-round, or just your own targets
  • 🎯 Beat an enemy: fits against a government or chosen ships — their missiles and tracking, damage types, range, speed and anti-missile
  • Targets on any stat or attribute (at least / at most / as close as possible / as much or as little as possible) with priorities
  • Only uses outfits you can get: your selected plugins, factions you have met, outfitters you have visited, licences you hold, what you own — and stealing, with its reputation cost and the story missions that repair it
  • Exclude list and a “no secondary weapons” switch, both remembered
  • All-round is judged against ships of the same class and weight
  • Every result is checked (fits, moves, turns, powers and cools itself, crew, fuel, ammo) and refitted if a check fails; “⚔ Test in Battle Simulator” fights it for real
⚔️ Battle Simulator Live
  • Any number of teams with custom names and colours, any ships and counts
  • Shields, hull, energy, heat, ion and other damage types, missiles and anti-missile
  • Pilots fly the fight: distance, kiting, aiming, dodging, turning and missile guidance
  • Choose which ships have skilled pilots — per ship, how many of a stack, per team (“Make all skilled”) or everyone
  • Report of how the fight was flown, HP-over-time chart, phase breakdown, and a win matrix with rankings for 3+ teams
🌌 Systems Map Live
  • Interactive galaxy map of your selected plugins: systems, planets, governments, jump links and wormholes
  • Search systems, click planets for details, toggle map layers
  • Timeline: preview any story event’s map changes; with a save, step through your pilot’s history and see what’s coming up
  • Trade runs between systems, and “as your pilot sees it” when a save is open
📜 Missions Live
  • Every mission from your selected plugins: where it starts, its requirements and rewards, and the raw definition
  • With a save open: each mission’s status for your pilot and whether you can get it now
  • Filters for status, availability and job-board missions; loads in batches so it stays quick on phones
💾 Saves & Account Live
  • Keep as many saves as you like (or choose “No save” to use the site without a pilot); saves sync to your account when logged in
  • Overview of your fleet, cargo, where items are stored, income and licences, plus a health check for missing plugins, ships and outfits
  • Save editor with search, pages and undo: pilot, credits, date, ships (add, refit, flagship, park), cargo, licences, reputation, missions, events and conditions
  • Complete a mission with its rewards, or schedule a story event
  • Link a save to its game file: re-scan after playing and save edits straight back into the game
  • Account: username, profile page with your shared ships, and downloading or deleting your data
🧩 Plugin Manager Live
  • Every plugin included on the site, and whether the parser is running
  • Add plugins by ZIP or link, edit their names or links, or remove them

🐞 Known Bugs

Issues we're aware of and working through.

⚠️ Not every plugin shows as found On Saves & Account a save may list plugins as not found. Either the plugin hasn’t been added to the site, or it has no ships, outfits or missions for the parser to read, so there’s nothing to show for it.
⚠️ Battle teams fly as one group In the Battle Simulator each team manoeuvres as a single group (averaged speed, turning and size); individual ships in a team don’t fly separately or in formation.
⚠️ Auto-fit is a strong estimate, not a proof Auto-fit builds fits step by step and checks them, but doesn’t try every possible combination, and its damage figures don’t model aim, homing or range exactly — use ⚔ Test in Battle Simulator to see a real fight.
⚠️ Some data appears only after the parser runs Government lists, reputation repairs and display names come from the data parser; after the site’s code changes they appear once the next parse has finished.

🛠️ Future Development Plans

What's on the roadmap.

🚧 Plugin Writer A screen to run my scripts against any plugins you choose, to help make them compatible with each other.
🚧 More auto-fit options A credits budget (defaulting to your pilot’s credits), outfits to always keep, sliders for what “all-round” means to you, and “why this outfit?” explanations.
🚧 Compare and save fits Keep several auto-fit results side by side and save the ones you like as designs.
🚧 Fit for a mission Pick a mission and make sure the ship has the cargo, bunks and jump range it needs.
🚧 Ships that fly separately in battles Let each ship in a team manoeuvre on its own instead of as one group.