1.0 Tutorial Series

Start Location: Rocky Desert

Hours: In progress

Vanilla Rating: 100%

This website is way out of date, a lot of the content needs updating to reflect the 1.0 release. 

Hence this playthrough is designed to take you through learning all aspects of the game while also using it to overhaul the content on this website.

Guidelines / Rules

With this playthough I'm going to be adhering to some self-imposed guidelines and rules. 

 

No Manual Crafting

  • Using the craft bench to manually make anything is not allowed, everything must be crafted through a machine
    • Objects like the portable miner can be manually crafted until the recipe becomes available, at that point it must be automated
  • Manual feeding a machine is allowed
  • Visiting the crash sites to find parts will let you build most items if you have not unlocked those parts yet
  • Crafting equipment at the equipment bench is allowed to create anything that cannot be created using a machine
  • Unlocking a recipe that you don't have the machine for (like SAM Fluctuators) requires you to wait for the machine to be unlocked

 

Must build on (supported) foundations

  • Early game when foundations are not unlocked, building on the ground is allowed
    • Once foundations are unlocked then you will need to transfer that previous build to foundations
  • Unsupported floating platforms are not allowed
    • Using a temporary floating platform to transfer foundation alignment is allowed, just cannot build on it and needs to be dismantled ASAP

 

No floating objects

  • Things like splitters and mergers cannot be floating in the air
  • Being supported by a conveyor lift is allowed
  • Using conveyor poles either side serve a good purpose
  • On top of beams also works well
Unsupported Floating Splitter
Splitter Supported On Beam
Splitter Supported By Conveyor Poles
Splitter On Left Is Supported By The  Conveyor Lift | The Right Splitter Is Floating

 

Once a recipe is available, it must be automated before unlocking another milestone

  • When unlocking a milestone/tier in the hub, it provides multiple different recipes
  • These all must be automated in a production line before proceeding to unlock another milestone
  • Some recipes like packaged water do not apply here, they will be automated as recipes require

 

A recipe must be automated first before proceeding to use alternate recipes

  • For example you must automate Fuel before Diluted Packaged Fuel

 

No Clipping

  • For example conveyor belts cant clip into other belts/pipes etc
  • Splitters and mergers cannot be clipped into from above or below from other belts or splitters or mergers
    • The yellow arrow below shows the Concrete bags clipping into the bottom of the splitter/merger
    • The red arrow below shows the conveyor belt clipping into the top of the splitter/merger
Two Examples Of Clipping

 

Use modular blueprints as often as possible

  • Try to avoid lots of manual building and rely on thought out blueprint designs

 

No Splitters/Mergers On Main Bus

  • Any splitters or mergers cannot be placed on a main bus line, they must be located to the side of the bus
    • The yellow arrow shows the main bus line, there is about 7 belts stacked vertically here
    • The splitters and mergers are located off the main bus
A Main Bus With Splitter And Mergers Off To The Left

 

Main Bus Spacing

  • Main bus lines need to allow for conveyor poles to be spaced with room for a perpendicular pole either side\
    • You can see the blue pipes using the stackable pipeline supports leave space for the perpendicular purple pipes
Stackable Pipeline Supports Spaced Perpendicularly

Sink

  • Where possible, any excess product must go to to the sink, no belts should have idle product on them

 

Overall Goals / To-Do List

  • Focus on research
    • Aim to get technology as soon as it is possible
  • Each episode the pioneer needs to be holding a different object
    • Like nut, mushroom
  • Lots of exploring early on
  • Get Dimensional Depot unlocked ASAP
  • Get Production Amplification unlocked ASAP
  • Maximise coupon generation with Production Amplification
  • Setup Lizard Doggo Zoo
  • Colour pallet defined ASAP

 

Save File

  • I'm providing a save for the end of each episode so you can check out the progress over time, see below

 

Build Spreadsheet

  • Build Spreadsheet
    • All recipes on the RECIPE sheet at the end are 1.0 correct however the individual build sheets need updating

 

YouTube Episodes

This entire playthrough is re-published on YouTube using dedicated recordings with minimal editing (removing breaks). Please keep in mind it takes a short while for me to find the time to get them posted to YouTube, but they will make it there. 

The playlist for the series is here …insert playlist… and direct links for each episode are as follows:

  • Episode 1
    • xxxxx
    • Episode 1 Part 1
    • Episode 1 Part 2
    • Save File

 

 Image credit: Norbert Wiener

Release 1.0
Published on Feb 18, 2025