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Field Guide

Gameplay Tips

Hard-won advice to help you survive and thrive - from farming basics to energy automation.

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Growing raspberries early on is essential for securing a steady food supply. They also satisfy thirst a little bit.

BuildingEnergy

You can obtain random seeds and saplings by tilling a field with a hoe. Once you've discovered new plants, they can also appear while tilling.

Energy

Plants only grow when they are watered. Rain automatically waters the fields.

Energy

In your house, you are protected from thunderstorms. Fully grown plants can be damaged by a thunderstorm if they are not sheltered from the direction the wind is coming from. The best options are to harvest them in time before a storm or to build a greenhouse.

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You can satisfy your thirst by eating food like berries or drinking fresh water from a rain collector.

Building

Stairs can be helpful for overcoming heights. They can be built with a Build-Hammer. Stairs can also be stacked.

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Main building part can be selected in the center. Special and alternative parts can be found for some components in the outer ring.

Farming

Upper Floors can be attached to Foundations to construct bridges.

Farming

You can destroy very large Rocks and very small stones with a Pickaxe Large stones need more hits than small ones.

Building

You can dismantle built structures using an axe or pickaxe.

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Only rainwater is clean enough to be drunk. Some foods, such as raspberries, also help satisfy thirst a bit.

Tools

You heal automatically when you aren´t hungry and thirsty.

Tools

Almost everything made of wood can be burned. Larger items burn significantly longer.

Tools

You can obtain crashed airship components from a crashed airship.

Crafting

Use pickaxe on ore patches for loot, but it breaks fast - automatic drills don’t break and work better.

Tools

Foundations can be extended with floors when the distance to the ground becomes too high.

Farming

Bushes can be chopped down with an axe.

Tools

You can pull out cables from any cable connector and attach them to other cable connectors.

Animals

You can split item stacks by right-clicking on them. And you can quickly transfer items between inventories by holding Shift while clicking.

Research

Power networks work without a network display, but a network display helps to maintain an overview of the network.

Animals

With a hammer, you can not only build houses but also navigate the terrain more easily using stairs and bridges.

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Important key items, such as Crashed Airship Components, can be found in your inventory under "Show Key Items."

Research

Trees don´t need to be watered.

Energy

The foundation height can be adjusted.

Farming

For some crafting recipes, you will find alternative versions in your crafting table.

When you receive items, a more detailed overview of the obtained items will appear on the left side of the screen.

Building

Glass and other useful resources can be crafted in the furnace.

Different lakes offer different loot - try fishing in several spots.

Once you’ve placed and named a drone, you can go to drills and select the drone that should pick up the resources, and bring them to the drones base.

Animals

Animals automatically stay near their feeding trough as long as it’s filled.

Tools

Animals can be transported to other places using an animal transporter. Place the base where you want to bring them, then use the transporter to move the animal to that base.

Tools

For animals to reproduce, you need two of the same species with all needs fulfilled. Each animal requires its own shelter to fulfill its needs. Animals will only breed if there’s an available shelter nearby.

Tools

This device can, for example, turn lights or sprinklers on and off depending on time and weather. For example: Connect your lamps on one side and the power source on the other side. Then connect a day/night sensor in the middle that opens and closes the energy circuit when it turns on/off. If you want the lights on during the day instead of at night, use the button to invert the input signal.

Animals

With a bed, you can skip the night or set a new spawn point. Sleeping has no other effects.

Exploration

You can ping to locations for other players to see.

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Airship upgrade components acquired from the merchant are added to your Key Items inventory. They can be used at a dock to increase the airship’s range.

Exploration

Once unlocked new colors in the vending machine, they can be selected at the dock.

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Animals will follow you if you’re holding their favorite food.

Exploration

Happy animals produce ressources that can be collected in the basket at the shelter.

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By holding down shift when clicking, you can move items between the hotbar and inventory more quickly.

Research

If you’ve selected a stack of items, right-click on a free slot to only drop a single one.

Research