Battle
Battle ship type tradeoffs:

• Higher Shield Recharge Rate, but lower Shields.
• Higher Armor, but lower Cargo capacity.
• Higher Thrust and Turn Rate, but higher Mass and engine Burn Rate.
• Higher Energy Capacity, but lower Energy Recharge Rate and Life Support.
• Higher maximum Scan Targets, but lower Scan Range and Scan Speed.
• Higher Impact Resistance and Explosive Resistance, but lower Energy Resistance.
• Higher and broad combat weapon module Bonuses, but no Extraction, Salvage, Drone or Ship Bonuses.
• Lower Drone support.
• Higher Price.
  

Excavation
Excavation ship type tradeoffs:

• Higher Shields, but lower Shield Recharge Rate.
• Higher Cargo capacity, but lower Armor.
• Lower Mass and engine Burn Rate, but lower Thrust and Turn Rate.
• Higher Energy Recharge Rate and Life Support, but lower Energy Capacity.
• Higher Scan Range and Scan Speed, but lower maximum Scan Targets.
• Higher Energy Resistance, but lower Impact Resistance and Explosive Resistance.
• Higher Extraction module and Drone Bonuses, but no combat weapon or ship Bonuses.
• Higher Drone support.
• Lower Price.

First, add the custom ship textures:
1) On your computer, browse to your Astrox Imperium game installation folder and enter into the following folder:
> "\Astrox Imperium_Data\MOD\ship_parts\textures"
2) In the download file, enter the "Textures" folder and copy the contained texture file(s) into the "textures" folder on your computer
Style A: "VCORE_a_main.png" and "VCORE_a_detail.png"
Style B: "VCORE_b_detail.png"
Style C: "VCORE_c_main.png" and "VCORE_c_detail.png"
Style C + Hextorn: "VCORE_c_main.png", "VCORE_c_detail.png" and "hextorn_glow.png"

Second, add the custom ship files:
1) On your computer, return to the "MOD" folder and enter into the "ships" folder
> "\Astrox Imperium_Data\MOD\ships"
2) In the download file, enter the folder of the desired ship type (Battle/Excavation)
3) In the download file, copy both the "icon_vcore.png" and "icon_vcorexl.png" files out to your "ships" folder on your computer
4) In the download file, copy both the image and txt files of the same name for each ship you want from this folder to your "ships" folder
5) Repeat for the other ship type folder in the download to add more ship variations to your game

After the ship files are installed, they can be made available at stations for purchase.

SANDBOX - NEW GAME
- Starting a new Sandbox game causes the generated stations to be populated automatically from the outset with the ships you added to your "ships" folder.

CAMPAIGN - NEW GAME
CAMPAIGN - EXISTING GAME
- Ships added to the "ships" folder will slowly become available at stations randomly over time in new Campaign games.
(check station Lounge News for notifications of new ships becoming available at stations)

SANDBOX - EXISTING GAME
- Ships require being manually added to one or more station shipyards in the save game files to make them available for purchase.
- To make any or all added ships available immediately at one or more stations, you can either manually alter any station file's <HANGAR> section to include the ship(s), or utilize the in-game Mod Tools > Station Editor and edit one or more stations in your save game to include the new ships.