But increased tether counts also seem to be one of the biggest causes of poor CPU performance. They’re cheap to produce - with a single compound unit yielding ten poles - and the glowing lines gives explorers the oxygen and power they need to continue forward unabated. Tethers are both the savior and bane of the Astroneer community. The first two solar arrays you build will be automatically added to your backpack but can be removed and place on other objects if you'd prefer to use them elsewhere. Once you've found your selection, click the glowing, lowercase “i” between the required resource and the item you're building. To craft new items, open your inventory and use the left/right arrows at the bottom of your backpack to choose the item you'd like to build. Just drag the unidentified items on your starter planet back to your base and place them in the lab. It’s functionality can also be expanded via the research lab. The research lab lets you discover new blueprints, when you find unidentified items, and the printer allows for the creation of improved power supplies, oxygen tanks and a variety of other items. Players will also find other vehicle blueprints during their travels. It’ll be easy to trade for the supplies you need to build a shuttle in your vehicle bay, enabling offworld travel, or to build a rover that will expedite exploration of your starter planet. Three resin (Two to complete an existing node)įrom this point, you should be able to do just about anything you want. Next we suggest collecting the materials to build and power a research lab and a vehicle bay.

Just remember to expand off your existing branch because once you’ve got four chains active, you can’t continue expanding the base (more on that later). It’s pretty easy to trade for any/everything else you need to expand your base from there. With the listed ingredients, you have everything needed to build and power a fuel condenser and a trade platform. Astroneer Photo: Photo: International Digital Times

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