Starting Out Tips!

[MrPoundsign]

As Autoforge is pretty complex, I thought I would put out a few tips and tricks that aren't well described in the tutorial (yet, Jasson and team are working hard on improvements! Check the stream at https://www.twitch.tv/jmcmorris)

Key Bindings:

Note: Key bindings will come to the demo.

1. Check the tooltips at the bottom right to see how to open the different systems.
   
2. Cancel building with Q - basically "cancel building". e.g. when placing items (torches, scaffolding, etc) you can press Q to cancel.
   
3. R rotates things while placing. It will also rotate the output of a device (the little green🔻output arrow).

Other Tips

• DO NOT leave yourself unpaused if you AFK! Press esc to bring up the game menu to pause the game. Monsters will spawn and kill you!
  
• If you die at the Apotheos, you can't pick up your dropped inventory in an obvious way. You can mouse under it just under the ground to pick it up. I came back from being AFK and the previous line got me killed like 900+ times and I couldn't pick up the cubes. This is a bug they're aware of and will fix.
  
• If while placing an item and rotating with with R, it's not rotating the ghost image, that is likely because it's out of placement range. Being unable to place it also makes it unable to rotate.
  
• The research UI looks like the 1st node is researched. At least, it did to me. So make sure you're researching the first node. Or you're just smarter than me, and then you can just ignore this.
  
• Researching doesn't consume the materials when it is queued/started. They must remain in your inventory to continue researching. So if it seems stalled, that is likely what's happening.

Feel free to add more here and I will try to keep up with it.

[Jasson]

Great post! Thanks again for playing MrPoundsign!

[Tryyton]

- use the pipes to empty your forges and to transport ore from your drill to your forges
- at least forges can also output things to the bottom if you want to make a clean "underground" pipe system
- afaik there is no falling damage
- upgrade the emitter asap, so can walk further without dying
- if you have a research queue and need e.g. iron, when you shift-click iron in a forge it goes directly to the research and not in your inventory, so no worries it is NOT lost

now i will start a new world and stream the game, it is a lot of fun already.
gj, Jasson

edit: @Jasson you really need to update your Twitter bio (even though Twitter gets less important by the day...). you're welcome

[Shodan2072]

While in the air you can press down (S) to hover, S can also be used to drop through scaffolding.

While hovering you can build or shoot normally.

On the note of scaffolding, while holding it in your cursor you can replace blocks with it, even those below machines, chest, ETC without destroying them.

This can also be done with ladders.

You can place a bypass exit up to five blocks (four block gap) away from the entrance, but only in a straight line.