This is planned, bugs first though.

My hero

is it going to be if you decide to Deconstruct the whole ship or station that it can do it with out blocks floting around in space and also a selector feter where you can select deffring types of blocks.

We are deciding on how it works.

The tentative idea right now is that you will create a nanite beacon on the ship you want to deconstruct. Once there, the nanites will then target that ship and break it down. Being able to break down a ship so that it doesn't break apart into a billion pieces is easy (and already a solved problem).

I'm not going to implement selective grinding yet, at least until we get better terminal controls (a source mod that I created that will be merged into the game in the future).

So basically the process will be:
- Fly / tow ship or station you want to grind near a factory.
- Build a nanite beacon on the ship to give your nanites a target
- Unleash your nanite hordes to eat the ship
- Fill up giant cargo containers full of components from breaking down the ship, and jump into the piles like Scrooge Mcduck.

love it. make it happen.

Would it be possible to create a nanite beacon for construction as well? I would love the ability to throw a nanite beacon onto a parked ship or a small ship projector without having to physically connect it to the large ship / station where factory resides

Any ETA on the beacon and a construction beacon would be good to have as well.