List of natural spaceships

This is a list of natural spaceships in the Game of Life, specifically Catagolue's B3/S23/C1 census as of October 15, 2022, comprising slightly over 3 quadrillion object occurrences.

In addition, several objects that have appeared naturally or semi-naturally but are not in the Catagolue census are included in a separate table after the main natural objects table (pink).

This is not a list of common objects, as certainly only the first few rows occur frequently, and some would argue only glider truly fits the definition of common.

The relative frequency column gives an estimate of the fraction of all randomly-occurring spaceships. However, glider accounts for 99.8% of spaceship occurrences, and the patterns in this table beyond row 5 occur so infrequently that their order in the table should be viewed as approximate.

Truly natural spaceships

	Image	Pattern	Period	Heat	Speed	Minimum # of cells	Glider cost	Relative frequency	Frequency class	Apgcode
1		Glider	4	4	c/4 diagonal	5	2	1 in 1.0019127 (99.809%)	1.8	xq4_153
2		Lightweight spaceship	4	11	2c/4 orthogonal	9	3	1 in 685.81 (0.146%)	11.2	xq4_6frc
3		Middleweight spaceship	4	15	2c/4 orthogonal	11	3	1 in 2,603.1 (0.038%)	13.2	xq4_27dee6
4		Heavyweight spaceship	4	19	2c/4 orthogonal	13	3	1 in 14,979 (0.007%)	15.7	xq4_27deee6
5		MWSS on MWSS 1	4	29	2c/4 orthogonal	20	5	1 in 5.32 billion	34.1	xq4_27dee6z4eb776
6		HWSS on HWSS 1	4	36	2c/4 orthogonal	22	6	1 in 17.8 billion	35.9	xq4_27deee6z4eb7776
7		LWSS on MWSS 1	4	26.5	2c/4 orthogonal	20	7	1 in 45.1 billion	37.2	xq4_27de6z4eb776
8		LWSS on MWSS 2	4	26.5	2c/4 orthogonal	23	6	1 in 56.4 billion	37.5	xq4_0791h1az8smec
9		LWSS on HWSS 1	4	29	2c/4 orthogonal	20	7	1 in 62.2 billion	37.7	xq4_27de6z4eb7776
10		LWSS on MWSS 3	4	26	2c/4 orthogonal	23	7	1 in 117 billion	38.6	xq4_27du6ze98885
11		MWSS on MWSS 4	4	30	2c/4 orthogonal	26	7	1 in 180 billion	39.2	xq4_06eed72zaghgis
12		LWSS on HWSS 2	4	29	2c/4 orthogonal	20	7	1 in 346 billion	40.1	xq4_6ed72z6777be4
13		LWSS on HWSS 7	4	29.5	2c/4 orthogonal	25	7	1 in 362 billion	40.2	xq4_27dumze988885
14		LWSS on HWSS 3	4	30.5	2c/4 orthogonal	22	6	1 in 405 billion	40.4	xq4_27de6zw8smeeec
15		MWSS on MWSS 5	4	29.5	2c/4 orthogonal	26	7	1 in 449 billion	40.5	xq4_27due6ze98885
16		LWSS on HWSS 5	4	31	2c/4 orthogonal	22	7	1 in 450 billion	40.5	xq4_27de6z8smeeec
17		MWSS on MWSS 2	4	29	2c/4 orthogonal	20	7	1 in 467 billion	40.6	xq4_27dee6zw4eb776
18		LWSS on HWSS 4	4	31	2c/4 orthogonal	22	6	1 in 515 billion	40.7	xq4_027deee6z8smec
19		MWSS on HWSS 2	4	33.5	2c/4 orthogonal	22	7	1 in 536 billion	40.8	xq4_27dee6z4eb7776
20		MWSS on MWSS 3	4	30	2c/4 orthogonal	24	7	1 in 569 billion	40.9	xq4_677be4zx48889e
21		LWSS on HWSS 6	4	31	2c/4 orthogonal	22	7	1 in 648 billion	41.0	xq4_06eeed72zcems8
22		MWSS on HWSS 10	4	33.5	2c/4 orthogonal	27	7	1 in 994 billion	41.7	xq4_6eeed72zaghgis
23		MWSS on HWSS 6	4	35	2c/4 orthogonal	24	7	1 in 1.01 trillion	41.7	xq4_sighgazz791hh1a
24		MWSS on HWSS 12	4	34	2c/4 orthogonal	28	7	1 in 1.14 trillion	41.9	xq4_0791hh1az8smeec
25		MWSS on HWSS 14	4	34	2c/4 orthogonal	28	7	1 in 1.24 trillion	42.0	xq4_6eed72zaghhgis
26		MWSS on HWSS 3	4	33.5	2c/4 orthogonal	22	7	1 in 1.41 trillion	42.2	xq4_06eeed72z677be4
27		MWSS on HWSS 7	4	35	2c/4 orthogonal	24	7	1 in 1.57 trillion	42.3	xq4_aghgiszza1hh197
28		MWSS on HWSS 15	4	33	2c/4 orthogonal	28	7	1 in 1.64 trillion	42.4	xq4_27dee6zw4eb7776
29		MWSS on HWSS 5	4	34.5	2c/4 orthogonal	24	7	1 in 1.78 trillion	42.5	xq4_0sighhgazz791h1a
30		MWSS on HWSS 8	4	34.5	2c/4 orthogonal	24	7	1 in 1.84 trillion	42.5	xq4_0aghhgiszza1h197
31		MWSS on HWSS 11	4	33.5	2c/4 orthogonal	28	7	1 in 2.0 trillion	42.7	xq4_27duee6ze98885
32		MWSS on HWSS 1	4	33	2c/4 orthogonal	22	7	1 in 2.1 trillion	42.7	xq4_27dee6zw4eb7776
33		MWSS on HWSS 4	4	34.5	2c/4 orthogonal	24	7	1 in 2.1 trillion	42.7	xq4_27dee6zx8smeeec
34		MWSS on HWSS 9	4	32.5	2c/4 orthogonal	25	7	1 in 2.1 trillion	42.8	xq4_02111197zcssqe4
35		MWSS on HWSS 13	4	33.5	2c/4 orthogonal	28	7	1 in 2.4 trillion	43.0	xq4_27duu6ze988885
36		Coe ship	16	38	8c/16 orthogonal	28	7	1 in 3.6 trillion	43.5	xq16_gcbgzvgg826frc
37		HWSS on HWSS 8	4	37	2c/4 orthogonal	29	7	1 in 4.4 trillion	43.8	xq4_06eeed72zaghhgis
38		HWSS on HWSS 2	4	36	2c/4 orthogonal	22	7	1 in 5.8 trillion	44.2	xq4_27deee6zw4eb7776
39		HWSS on HWSS 5	4	39	2c/4 orthogonal	26	7	1 in 6.1 trillion	44.3	xq4_aghhgiszzwa1hh197
40		HWSS on HWSS 4	4	39	2c/4 orthogonal	26	6	1 in 6.6 trillion	44.4	xq4_0aghhgiszza1hh197
41		HWSS on HWSS 6	4	37	2c/4 orthogonal	29	7	1 in 9.4 trillion	44.9	xq4_027deee6zsighhga
42		HWSS on HWSS 10	4	37	2c/4 orthogonal	31	7	1 in 10 trillion	45.0	xq4_027deee6zsighhga
43		HWSS on HWSS 7	4	37	2c/4 orthogonal	29	7	1 in 11 trillion	45.1	xq4_27duue6ze988885
44		HWSS on HWSS 9	4	37	2c/4 orthogonal	30	7	1 in 13 trillion	45.4	xq4_a1hh197zx6777be4
45		Sidecar	4	33.5	2c/4 orthogonal	24	8	<1 in 50 trillion	47	xq4_027deee6z4eqscc6
46		Lightweight Schick engine	12	43.2	6c/12 orthogonal	39	9	<1 in 100 trillion	48	xq12_fh1i0i1hfzw8sms8zxfjf
47		Loafer	7	14.6	c/7 othogonal	20	8	<1 in 200 trillion	49	xq7_3nw17862z6952
48		MWSS and HWSS dragging block	4	38.5	2c/4 orthogonal	28	9			xq4_gfvuwogwggz131y2crf7

Semi-natural spaceships

There are also a handful of spaceships which have occurred in symmetric soups, but not asymmetric soups.

	Image	Pattern	Period	Heat	Speed	Minimum # of cells	Glider cost	Relative frequency	Frequency class	Apgcode
1		x66	4	31	2c/4 orthogonal	34	11			xq4_0oorxroozdjio404oijd
2		Copperhead	10	26.8	c/10 orthogonal	28	13			xq10_o5995ozes88sezw33
3		Big A	4	51	2c/4 orthogonal	32	18			xq4_7911azy0ehhvhzsigga
4		Dart	3	32	c/3 orthogonal	34	24			xq3_mhqkzarahh0heezdhb5
5		58P8H4V0	8	50	2c/4 orthogonal	58	25			xq8_ciire2272hm0mh2722eriiczw1x2c8960698c2x1
6		44P5H2V0	5	47.2	2c/5 orthogonal	44	23			xq5_0sg3pnxnp3gsz4s01tve0evt10s4
7		54P12H6V0	12	46.0	6c/12 orthogonal	54	22			xq12_cur6wgs2i6o0o6i2sgw6ruczy2nh011x110hn
8		43P4H2V0	4	44.0	2c/4 orthogonal	43				xq4_0ggokgs0274720sgkoggzcrf7y97frc