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I literally just left there with a load of Limestone just before they posted this LOL!!!

You could... but it would limit what else you could take to help fill those 15mins gaps and it limits the amount if ore you can take.  So, swings and roundabouts. 

@FluxFaraday By default hover engines are "magicked" to produce thrust along gravity. This can be disabled by right-clicking the hover engine, selecting "Advanced" and "Disable Thrust Along Gravity".


 
Vertical booster behavior can be changed too. You can right-click them and enable thrust along gravity.

Vertical boosters
- Work without atmosphere (on moons)
- Have more thrust for their size
- Use space fuel
- Comes in 4 sizes (xs size)
 
Hovers
- Only work in atmo
- Uses atmo fuel which is cheaper, no need for space fuel tanks
- Weigh less compared to vertical boosters
- 3 sizes (no xs)

Please make it possible that smaller cores can be swapped with larger cores.  This should apply for ships, bases, and stations in space. Help us to avoid having to destroy a construct just for using a larger core. Thanks.

It could be done by clicking Tool 5 ("Place Construct") when aiming with the new core to an existing core that is smaller - in this case, it swaps, and the older smaller core is inside the inventory. Many players complain that they have to destroy their ships but don't have enough space inside their inventory to hold all the honeycomb material they have used.

By design.
 
Vertical engines used to be just as fuel efficient as horizontal engines but that got nerfed by about 50% way back when.

So this is your problem with your construct. I use more efficiency construct with less consumtion. Dont blame game from your wasting resources. It s like throwing nuke to kill little fly.
There is oportunity to use VTOL, but you will pay more fuel. It s up to you and your choice.