Getting Started

The first day

1. Leave the pod. KORA walks you through the first objectives (top left). The pod recharges your suit tanks and revives you if you die.
2. Watch the bars: oxygen, water, food. Drink with G, eat with F. On breathable worlds the visor opens automatically and oxygen is free.
3. Dig and gather with the hand drill (LMB). Everything is real matter with real mass: your suit carries 600 kg. Drop excess with Shift+RMB on an inventory slot, or store it in a crate.
4. Build with B (machines) and the welder tool (blocks). Machines need their construction cost in your backpack.
5. Craft in the assembler menu C near the pod or a workshop: tools, medkits, components.

Heat, gas and fire are real

• Every 10 cm cell has temperature, pressure and contents. Heat spreads, gases mix and rise, liquids flow and boil.
• Burning and smelting produce CO₂. Outdoors it blows away; indoors it accumulates and will suffocate you. Ventilate (vents, air purifier) or capture exhaust with a gas pump next to the furnace chimney.
• Wood self-ignites around 300 °C. Lava ignites everything. Fire spreads with wind.

Research

Build a Science Lab and feed it materials to produce sample kits (higher tiers need plates, wire, pyrite, heavy ice, helium-3 regolith). Spend samples in the research panel to unlock machines and upgrades: see Research tree.

Automation basics

• Conveyors move solids; inserters (feeder arms) load and unload machines with filters.
• Pipes move fluids and gases; pumps push them; tanks store them.
• Cables carry power from solar panels, generators and turbines; batteries buffer it.
• Signals (levers, sensors, gates, timers) switch machines on and off automatically.

Conveyor beltPipePumpTankCableBatterySolar panelCrusherAssembler

Key resources at a glance

WoodCoalIronCopperSteelSteel plateWater

The goal

Refine metals, unlock Ships, build a block ship with a cockpit, tank hydrogen from your electrolyzers, reach orbit and travel the system. Wrecks of the ISV Kassandra hide the story: find the logs.