ships.Function.getEngineeringGroup

@elite-dangerous-almanac/core / ships / getEngineeringGroup

Function: getEngineeringGroup()

getEngineeringGroup(symbol): EngineeringGroupId | null

Defined in: src/ships/engineering-options.ts:214

The group id a module is engineered as, or null when this catalogue does not group it.

null means "this stock module has no ordinary engineering menu". For 170 of the 173 ungrouped modules that is the same as "cannot be engineered" — the families and the individually denied modules listed in the module overview above. The fixed Mining Laser, fixed Abrasion Blaster and size-5 class-2 Module Reinforcement Package are the exceptions: their stock articles take nothing, but their grade-1 Mercenary articles can be upgraded through the bespoke recipes recorded in ships/pre-engineered. The build corpus also contains an unsupported declaration on the Mk II Plasma Shock Accelerator, which upstream denies every blueprint.

Parameters

symbol

string

A module symbol, e.g. "Hpt_BeamLaser_Fixed_Small".

Returns

EngineeringGroupId | null

The group id, or null when the module is not in the catalogue.

Throws

If symbol is present and not a string. A nullish symbol is a miss, answered the way an unrecognised one is.

Example

import { getEngineeringGroup } from '@elite-dangerous-almanac/core/ships/engineering-options';

getEngineeringGroup('Hpt_BeamLaser_Fixed_Small'); // -> 'beamLasers'
getEngineeringGroup('Int_CargoRack_Size2_Class1'); // -> 'cargoRacks'

// Not listed — no registry gives a fuel tank a blueprint.
getEngineeringGroup('Int_FuelTank_Size3_Class3'); // -> null