Beginner Guide
First-hour controls, loadout, and priorities.
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Choose the exact problem you need to solve without opening overlapping beginner pages or generic articles.
Plan → leave safety → solve one job → return → craft the next capability
Read the Journal and Encyclopedia, choose the required tool or material, and keep a safe oxygen margin for the return.
Guide hub
One canonical destination for each player intent
The hub separates beginner, survival, crafting, walkthrough, achievement, resource, and troubleshooting intent.
Survival Guide
Oxygen, temperature, healing, and safe return planning.
Open guideCrafting Guide
Recipes, stations, unlocks, material totals, and calculator.
Open guideWalkthrough
Chapter 1 objectives, locations, items, and rewards.
Open guideAchievement Guide
All 39 achievements with related objects and locations.
Open guideResource Guide
Sixteen resources and their recipe relationships.
Open guideProblem Solving
Markers, tools, old Demo footage, and stuck interactions.
Open guideFirst hour
Seven actions that prevent early stalls
- 01
Learn the controls at the train
Set quick slots and learn braking before a long EVA.
- 02
Restore the External Module
Find the battery and make the train a reliable route origin.
- 03
Craft the starter tools
Crowbar for force, Thumper for Aluminum, Cutter for cables and seals.
- 04
Protect the return trip
Turn back before the remaining oxygen depends on a perfect route.
- 05
Reserve scarce materials
Keep Aluminum and Wires for the next confirmed progression tool.
- 06
Read prompts literally
Check tool class, charge, durability, and interaction distance.
- 07
Update before debugging
Hotfix 0.8.6 corrected progression blockers, input-device issues, and several gameplay failures.
Survival planning
Protect the return trip before extending the route
Use these checks as planning rules rather than fixed drain-rate claims.
Oxygen
Choose a clear return point before leaving safety and turn back while the route still has margin.
Temperature
Treat cold protection and repaired heat sources as route requirements when an objective enters a frozen area.
Health
Carry healing only when the route or encounter justifies its inventory cost, and recover before extending the trip.
Inventory
Reserve space for the objective item and the materials named by the next confirmed recipe.
Problem solving
Jump to the blocker
Story route
Use structured objectives and required-item relationships.
Open walkthroughAluminum shortage
Identify the correct asteroid node and Thumper prompt.
Open Aluminum guideForeman test
Match the three verified answer texts.
View answersPlayer-tested survival impressions vary by difficulty. Universal drain rates remain excluded without controlled tests.