Stars End

Stars End

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The REAL Beginners Guide
By Yamadev
An enhancement to the in-game starter guide to at least get your base started.
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Once you exit your pod.....
Once you exit your pod, you will want to begin looking for these kind of plants.
Secondly, you will look for a couple of different types of bushes that provide sticks. . Third, you will want to look for metal ruins to find scrap metal.

*** BEFORE CRAFTING ANYTHING FOLLOW THE IN-GAME TUTORIAL VERY CLOSELY !!!!!!! If you choose to skip the tutorial, Follow this guide, it will get you set up to farm and grind for any and all planet side endeavors. ***

To make your first pick-axe (under Survival blueprints), you need to gather -
  • 6 - Wood Sticks
  • 1 - Scrap Cloth ( made from 4 plant fibers)
  • 2 - Scrap Metal
Next the best item you can make is a saddle (under survival blueprints).This gives you an early stage mode of transportation. Be warned, the "turning radius" of the horse definitely needs work.
To make your Saddle :
  • Hide - 2
  • Scrap Cloth - 10
This will make the travel times dramatically faster. For reference, Left Shift is "Mehh better than walking I guess" and Left Control is "Finally some movement". Stamina rates apply as well, and replenished fairly quickly.

Now your ready to begin the journey to the mining facility to mine some Tarphite Ore. Use the mouse wheel, double click, and a bunch of Icons should appear on screen. You will be looking for The Tarphite Mine, should be the larger purple diamond with a picture of a pickaxe, like this.
On the way to the mine, you will want to stop along the way to pick up items for your Backpack Shell. Next, you need to kill and animal for its hides. Multiple animals may be required. You will need the hides for the Makeshift Backpack. This will increase your carrying limit from 30 weight to 80 weight. This is a significant increase when in comes to farming wood for your first structures.
For the Backpack Shell :
  • 12 - Wood Sticks
  • 4 - Scrap Metal
  • 4 Hide
For the Makeshift Backpack :
  • 1 - Backpack Shell
  • 4 - Hide
  • 8 - Scrap Cloth
Once at the Tarphite mine area, you will see Iron and Tarphite nodes. Using your pickaxe, mine the Tarphite ore until you have at least 16 ores. These will convert into Tarphite. 4 ores for one Tarphite. Next, grab 16 rocks (if you dont have them already) and head to the Iron Refinery. Its marked by a light gray diamond with a factory logo. Head to the center of the building and Smelt the ores. Once the ores are done, you now need to make concrete from the stones. While in Eastwood, its is advisable to check ONLY dumpsters and rubbish piles for extra materials and water bottles. Upon rewriting this I found an Iron Bar in a dumpster =D !!


You are now able to craft your Makeshift claim.
Makeshift Claim
  • 12 - Scrap Metal
  • 4 - Concrete
  • 4 - Tarphite
Now that you have your Claim.........
Now that you have a makeshift claim, localize your basic needs. Food, Water, building materials (I.E. stone, iron, wood) and try and make sure you claim is within a decent proximity to all or most of these. Wood will be a powerful first resource you're going to farm to build up a base. This will require an Ax and Saw.

To make your Ax :
  • Wood Stick - 6
  • Scrap metal - 3
  • Scrap Cloth - 1
Next will be the Saw:
  • Wood Stick - 2
  • Scrap Metal - 4
  • Scrap Cloth - 2

Next, you need to build a workbench. This needs :
  • Wood Plank - 8
  • Scrap Metal - 18

Chopping down a tree will provide logs, cutting the large logs with the saw will provide 2 logs per cut, usually 5 cuts per large log will yield 10 logs in your inventory. Those 3 smaller logs and now be made into 2 planks.

I recommend bulding the concrete tiller (or dirt tiller) to place your basics on. it provides a great flat area to begin with, but is not required. The next item would be the Wood Shack. The Wood Shack will require :
  • Wood Plank - 16
  • Wood Log - 8
  • Scrap Metal - 12

Next build the Wood container, campfire, and sleeping bag. This should give you a fast and easy foundation to begin your base building and grinding to explore the Stars End.....
17 Comments
The_Parasite 6 May, 2023 @ 11:32pm 
A quick tip, BEFORE placing your claim, make sure you go the the CREW screen, and create or join a crew.
Otherwise you might not be able to access your claim.
Wrangler 10 Mar, 2023 @ 11:07pm 
Sleeping. I'm down to 5% just wandering around. I have a sleeping bag. How do I use it to sleep?
Yamadev  [author] 2 Feb, 2023 @ 1:37am 
Guide partially updated, still figuring out the new stuff. I'll keep updating as work permits.
Yamadev  [author] 13 Jan, 2023 @ 10:07pm 
I plan on trying to add to this in the future, but currently single player is down. Once its back up i can continue the guide further in details possibly
Drunken420 13 Jan, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
AS A SIDE TIP. When you are placing anything, I MEAN ANYTHING (claim, foundations, walls, ships a vehicles) BEFORE you open up you inventory LOOK DOWN then open inventory right click the item to be placed n click PLACE. That way when the item spawns into the world it is AT YOUR FEET. If looking straight the item will despawn as it spawns in and you have to tap ESCAPE to cancel place mode....
THEKLINGONGAMERYT 13 Jan, 2023 @ 3:05pm 
THANKS FOR THE GUIDE :) @YAMADEV
Yamadev  [author] 13 Jan, 2023 @ 9:58am 
@Theklingongameryt Yes from what i remember this game was very grindy. maybe ill redownload it and see if i need to update this guide again.
THEKLINGONGAMERYT 12 Jan, 2023 @ 5:18pm 
grind away lol
Yamadev  [author] 23 Sep, 2021 @ 8:33pm 
@Drunken420 Thanks!
Drunken420 22 Sep, 2021 @ 4:12pm 
Great Guide