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Start your first farm with a practical route through the current tutorial, planting, and deliveries. Learn which tools support everyday farming and how colony deliveries move progression forward.

1. 1

   Choose a playstyle preset; Balanced is the official recommendation for new players.

2. 2

   Follow the tutorial missions to learn your mech and establish a homestead.

3. 3

   Use the Seed Shooter to plant and the Irrigation Hose to water; maintain your mech with fuel and repairs.

4. 4

   Gather the requested goods and use the Delivery Cannon to advance colony deliveries and unlock milestones.

Find materials with the Resource Scanner and turn gathering trips into a reliable supply of crafting resources. Learn how mineral extraction and processing help you get more from deposits, logs, and rock chunks.

• Scanner

  Open the map and use the scanner to get directions toward resources, including crop patches such as Caroot.

• Minerals

  Place a Mineral Extractor beside a natural mineral deposit to generate additional minerals each day.

• Wood

  Carry logs home with your mech and process them in a Sawmill for more resources than breaking them with tools.

• Chunks

  Haul large chunks to a Mineral Crusher to process them into resources.

Plan mech upgrades around the jobs you need to finish, from gathering to planting large fields. Follow the version 1.0 upgrade paths and check when useful tool abilities become available.

• Upgrades

  Tools, body parts, and transform modes have dedicated upgrade paths; upgrades improve base stats and unlock tool secondary abilities.

• Seed Shooter

  Mk. 2 unlocks Lock-On for multiple mounds; Mk. 4 adds Seed Stacking for planting several seeds in one mound.

• Spike Saw

  Mk. 2 adds Sweep for hitting several targets; striking weak points gives a 25% damage bonus in version 1.0.

• Irrigation

  Mk. 2 unlocks Hydro Splash for watering larger areas.

Improve harvests by understanding crop rotation, mutated crops, and soil treatments. Use the planting preview to plan your fields and distinguish yield boosts from changes to mound type.

• Rotation

  The HUD previews planting results; harvesting a mutated crop now awards both mutated and normal produce.

• Mulch

  Mulch changes mound types to Phosphoric, Nitrogenic, or Potassic.

• Fertilizer

  Fertilizer increases mound yield while preserving its type; the Fertilizer Infuser replaces the former Compost Box.

• Crops

  Version 1.0 adds Cloudbud, Coilvine, Papristalk, and Quartznip.

Build version 1.0 production lines that move resources directly between storage and crafting constructs. Automation begins at Milestone 4 and expands as you progress, with filters and recipe queues helping manage larger farms.

1. 1

   Reach Milestone 4 to begin unlocking automation through the current progression system.

2. 2

   Check construct inputs and outputs in the Build Menu, then connect compatible storage and crafting constructs with Automation Pipes.

3. 3

   Set each storage construct's Resource Filters to control which items it accepts or denies.

4. 4

   Enable Auto Craft and queue up to three recipes per crafting construct; recipes without enough ingredients are skipped. Account for pipe Energy costs.

Understand how colony deliveries unlock the next stage of your farm and mech progression. Plan around the revised delivery system, the final two milestones, and research rewards from Prometheus Station.

• Cannon

  The version 1.0 delivery menu checks for all required goods together instead of asking you to contribute each resource separately.

• Queue

  Queue several deliveries and send them together without leaving the menu after every shipment.

• Milestones

  The final two milestones introduce advanced recipes, construct tiers, mech upgrades, and the Skyblazer flight mode.

• Research

  Complete Research Deliveries to unlock mod blueprints through personal progression, without waiting for community-wide contributions.

Explore the expanded world and identify destinations for late-game farming and resources. Version 1.0 adds Sandswept Highlands and Hollow Marsh, increasing the world size by roughly 40%.

• Highlands

  A desert region with mesas, ruins, new crops, minerals, and late-game story objectives.

• Marsh

  A swamp among the Highlands' clifftops with blue grass, red water, and the Starfall Tree.

• Access

  Both new areas are accessible from the start, although their resources and challenges are intended for late-game players.

• Markers

  Add text to map stamps and use the map's animal and trailer markers to keep track of your farm and transport.

Plan a cooperative farm for up to four players and keep the same world progressing between sessions. Learn how Shared Saves let another member of your group host while the original host is offline.

• Co-op

  Play solo or invite up to three friends to share farming, building, and resource gathering.

• Shared Saves

  Players with access to a Shared Save can host it, and progress synchronizes through the cloud.

• Host

  Only one player hosts a Shared Save at a time; other players join that session, with four players allowed simultaneously.

• Settings

  The host controls world playstyle settings, including day length and crop growth time.