Things we wish we knew when starting the game and tips.

[Raitor]

Add your owns.
-Hold right click to capture a creature. (Somehow I missed the tool-tip or it never appeared)
-You can buy the actual blueprint of items in the cash shop. (Buy the first shop in the space station). No need to buy the single use buildings first.
-Overclock items can be found in the space "mini-game" (You're gonna need a lot of money).
-You still get XP when building free buildings after you get the proper upgrade. Diminishing returns but worth it for at least a full level tho.
-Automate all farming as soon as you get the seed extractor. (This includes water production)
-Big rocks are worth it.

That's it for now. Anyone figured out the mysterious tower puzzle?

[Pack]

You have to put one item of each biome in the tower :

Order from bottom-left to bottom-right :
-Rock
-Berry
-Sand
-Water
-Cornilia

[hiromi_teija]

When on a spacewalk, you can use space to boost. I didn't realize this was a thing until i was near the end of getting all the emeralds i needed.

You can delete items in your inventory by holding an item and dragging it to the right of your inventory bar. There is a trashcan there

[BlackAura]

If you're like me, you thought the store was only really meant for items you were crafting too much of.

Tip: The store has some stuff that unlocks a whole new dynamic to the game.

I was....probably much further long than I should have been when I chose to unlock that.

[malogoss]

You can put items from your inventory directly into a machine (if they're an ingredient used by that machine) or into a stockpile. No need to start by opening it with E. Just click your items, hover the machine/stockpile where you want to drop them, click again.

[Prometheus0000]

You can hold ctrl to put 1 of something in an inventory slot. Also, you can dispose of stuff from your inventory using the trash can icon that appears when you pick up an item.

[Sneak]

Originally posted by hiromi_teija:

You can delete items in your inventory by holding an item and dragging it to the right of your inventory bar. There is a trashcan there

I love you.

[hiromi_teija]

Originally posted by Prometheus0000:

You can hold ctrl to put 1 of something in an inventory slot. Also, you can dispose of stuff from your inventory using the trash can icon that appears when you pick up an item.

This is a great one.

[Mr. Fibble]

I use the small single stack storage depots as drop off points for the drones, saves space and if a drone has multiple destinations stops it being delayed trying to fill a 2x2 or 3x3.

Twig trees cannot get hives one them so you can farm twigs on the bee island with that skill unlock.

If a hive is on a twig bush grown from a farm plot you can move it about once you have the relic that lets you shift buildings.

You can set up a honey farm on any island by collecting a queen bee and releasing them somewhere else with either natural twig bushes or farmed one.

Emilia sells seeds

If you're packaging goods for export, disable bots and do it manually to avoid having random crates left over. And set packagers to single item output to avoid overloading the logi bots

Logi bots can have tasks enabled or disabled.

One final silly one

The cloning machine can be used to make an army of creatures to drop into a boss arena

[Trollzy]

Get to space asap, buy and decorate house for speed buff. Do spacewalk for permanent speed buff crystals.

Feed blue jellyfish the red slime to make them into red jellyfish, kill and harvest with robots and make glue.

Bees will hit the big berry trees and feed themselves, so you can turn your farm off after the tree has grown.

Keep extra captured creatures in storage for cloning machine, speeds up farm expansion later. (Just the pig, lizard and crab)

You can click a robot in your inventory to have it follow you and help out.
Purple = Extract and deconstruct faster.
Blue = Shoots all hostiles. (Boss too)
As someone who just mashed spacebar at every pop up, I did not know until late game lmao.

[enderdritton1]

Put all of one resource and the things crafted from it on each island, leaving the main one for logistics and end game room

Get all of the 'exploration' skills and the 'overclocked legs' skill asap

Set up mega-farms for everything, including water and twigs

Bosses are kinda pointless except for boredom and achievements

Put a speed upgrade module on every bot

Never put the rocket on auto, will just drain resources

Don't bother with the large furnaces, just wait for mega

One more for fun ^^

If you get bored waiting, and/or need more red jelly, clone about 100 of the red squid things and release them all at the same time. Amazingly fun chaos :3

[Napalm]

The best way to get free infinite power is to spam solar panels with double bonus taken after making them free to build. Ofc not on the main island. Supplying NOVA with power without need to worry about batteries is real.

[Prometheus0000]

Originally posted by enderdritton1:

Don't bother with the large furnaces, just wait for mega

This is terrible advice. You do realize they have a better crafting ratio right? Like 3 twigs -> 1 charcoal becomes 2->1, and they do more at once, not to mention the incredible handiness of the internal storage.. And the huge ones take forever to get to from there. And if you buy the ones form the shop you're wasting kredits that could be spent to get the blueprint.

[-GFG- JOAT]

I would like to add one more that I religiously forget and inevitably get frustrated over.

The stupid biome scanners don't work like any other unit to deposit items. You can't deposit while in the actual screen for the scanner. You just have to drop it from your belt onto the building. It's always long enough between playthroughs that I forget this stupid inconsistency and inevitably convince myself the game is bugged.

Personal opinion: biofuel is the best setup. The last upgrade for energy is just too complex and too late in the game.

Red Jellies: I see lots of wikis saying jellies won't eat the juice fruit off a farm plot plant. They obviously do or I wouldn't be getting them on the purple water island (doesn't naturally have the juice plants).

[-GFG- JOAT]

Oh, another oddity.
After doing the dragon your overlay disappears during the cut scene and doesn't come back. Easiest fix I've found is if you go talk to Emilia (seed lady) when her purchase screen shows up the HUD will return. I usually click to open the one available tab and leave it open until I get out of Emilia's boxes.

[BTD 6 PRO]

Originally posted by Pack:

You have to put one item of each biome in the tower :

Order from bottom-left to bottom-right :
-Rock
-Berry
-Sand
-Water
-Cornilia

I used different materials and it still worked