Here is a quick guide to help you along your way (not necessarily in this order).
Outerstellar Gameplay Basics
- The ocean plants are lethal so try and avoid them!
- Mine the carbon nodes to build your first base! The carbon nodes are black looking rocks with blue streaks.
- Harvest plants and put them in the recycler!
- Research better bladed weapons to harvest plants and canisters quicker.
- Knives can be used very early on to mine small amounts carbon but are best used for plants.
- Find enough carbon to build a small pickaxe as quick as you can.
- Use the builder tool to create your base.
- Create a builder controller to stop you base from decaying.
- Build a research bench to unlock the tech tree. The first thing to unlock is solar power.
- Build solar or wind power as soon as you can.
- Lock your door.
- Place a spawn pod
- You can find parts for items in canisters. Discover the loot in your area.
- Build a recycler to recycle plants and items.
- The large public T2 recyclers return more loot than your base recycler.
- Upgrade your base to T2 as quick as you can. T0 bases are vulnerable to fire.
- Crude Aura can be loaded into a flamethrower for early raiding.
- Crude Aura can also be refined into pure Aura for much stronger raiding tech in the later stages of the game.
- Research suits and weapons to make your PvP and survival chances greater
- Collect decoders, discover what is behind the coloured doors.
- Build a harvester because it’s simply awesome.
- Explore!
- Have fun.