How do you build anything?

[SmokedHalibut]

I'm feeling like I'm missing something obvious. I've run out of ice to make oxygen, I've explored most of the stuff in range as far as I can tell. I've got all the initial backpack and jetpack Tier 1 items, and powered up that base and had a look around.

As far as I can tell, I can't build a base, a room, open the broken compartment you start in that has a dodgy door or use the repair pack for that. And I can't open a build menu that I can find to make new compartments or anything? I've got tonnes of ore and stuff on the floor of my sole room because I can't build crates.

I'm sure I've missed something obvious but as far as tutorials go it's left me in the dark. In principal it looks like a good start but either the demo is super limited, or I've missed something you think is obvious but might not be.

If anyone has a pointer that'd be appreciated as if there's more to this Prologue/demo I'd like to explore it to see if this is worth wishlisting.

[/dev/NULL>skydart]

You seem to have missed the same as I did - you need to move to the nearest signal. There you find what you need to proceed - the blueprints for the building tool and base modules You need to bring a power battery (the red one)...

[SmokedHalibut]

Literally just came to say I found out. Yeah, I thought I'd explored most of it, but missed it because I didn't have the torch to explore properly.

[SmokedHalibut]

Well, getting that bit sorted got me a fair way. Then I need fabric to make a Habitat Airlock. But couldn't find anymore. What I'd found had been used for Medkits. Whoops. Appears I've locked myself out of progress or there's a source of fabric somewhere I just can't find.

[/dev/NULL>skydart]

In the demo there was fabric in these big containers (that you need to shoot open with the laser), and in the first small "base" (with the nearest signal pointing to). It respawned (at least in the containers) but I don't know if that is still the case - not there yet again.

[SmokedHalibut]

Yeah I couldn't find gold bars or a blueprint to make them - plenty of gold, no bars, so couldn't build the laser.

[Maligner]

Originally posted by SmokedHalibut:

Yeah I couldn't find gold bars or a blueprint to make them - plenty of gold, no bars, so couldn't build the laser.

Use the smelter to make gold bars.

[N.A.T.]

Originally posted by SmokedHalibut:

Well, getting that bit sorted got me a fair way. Then I need fabric to make a Habitat Airlock. But couldn't find anymore. What I'd found had been used for Medkits. Whoops. Appears I've locked myself out of progress or there's a source of fabric somewhere I just can't find.

The first POI location you get a marker for has pillows on the bed (fabric). If you log out and back in, it respawns the 2 pillows. There are other locations for fabric, but this will get you unstuck early on if you used them all on med kits...

[Lyann]

how to use the repair tool kit, i cannot do anything with it to open the door

[SmokedHalibut]

Originally posted by N.A.T.:

Originally posted by SmokedHalibut:

Well, getting that bit sorted got me a fair way. Then I need fabric to make a Habitat Airlock. But couldn't find anymore. What I'd found had been used for Medkits. Whoops. Appears I've locked myself out of progress or there's a source of fabric somewhere I just can't find.

The first POI location you get a marker for has pillows on the bed (fabric). If you log out and back in, it respawns the 2 pillows. There are other locations for fabric, but this will get you unstuck early on if you used them all on med kits...

Ahhh that's excellent. :)

[SmokedHalibut]

Originally posted by N.A.T.:

Originally posted by SmokedHalibut:

Well, getting that bit sorted got me a fair way. Then I need fabric to make a Habitat Airlock. But couldn't find anymore. What I'd found had been used for Medkits. Whoops. Appears I've locked myself out of progress or there's a source of fabric somewhere I just can't find.

The first POI location you get a marker for has pillows on the bed (fabric). If you log out and back in, it respawns the 2 pillows. There are other locations for fabric, but this will get you unstuck early on if you used them all on med kits...

Originally posted by Maligner:

Originally posted by SmokedHalibut:

Yeah I couldn't find gold bars or a blueprint to make them - plenty of gold, no bars, so couldn't build the laser.

Use the smelter to make gold bars.

I don't think I can build it, because I can't build an airlock for a compartment, and I can't build stuff in the starting room or open that stuck door (yet?). But now someone told me where to get some fabric I'll give that a go.

[SmokedHalibut]

Once I had that source of fabric, I was able to build the airlock, build machines inside, and recycle things back and forth until I had got over some bottlenecks. Still struggling with silver but I can at least see where you get some stuff from now and that the progression exists, even though it's a bit random/easy to completely get stuck.

I honestly think there's too much to build early on, so it's really not clear what you should build first since you go from a handful of basic items to a couple of dozen in a few moments of exploration. I suspect it'd work better if you go out to do an early mission, then do the stuff from that then get offered the next section.

The point you need to reach is having oxygen, food and water at some point. So you have to make a lot of round trips.

As far as I can tell the random floating space junk that surrounds your starting base does respawn when you reboot the game even if you've cleared a lot. So those basics seem to come back.

Doesn't look like silver respawns anywhere so I assume there's some asteroids I haven't got to or can't reach that have enough. There's a few boundaries I've hit that I can't fly through as they're not in the prologue.

Really good start if it keeps going like this, and gets appropriate tweeks.

[Knottypine]

I would suggest watching some videos on YouTube to get an idea on the early part of the game.

[DocRabbit]

There's a silver node near the wrecks inside the first mission cave area. It will respawn.

[SmokedHalibut]

Originally posted by DocRabbit:

There's a silver node near the wrecks inside the first mission cave area. It will respawn.

Ok cool I'll have a look for that node if it's respawning I think I know the one you mean.

There's gold coming in from the only miner I have so far. Thanks for the heads up. This game is much more difficult to explore than Planet Crafter but also much earlier in development obviously.

There's probably somewhere you can build a base that will mine it for you, especially outside the prologue.

[SmokedHalibut]

Originally posted by Knottypine:

I would suggest watching some videos on YouTube to get an idea on the early part of the game.

And yes, that's a good way to deal with things. However, what devs need to know is what we're having problems with without looking at full on guides, so that they can decide if there's something they want to change so we also need to talk about things we don't understand, find confusing, or think are unbalanced.