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Strategy to Quickly Set up Base in a New Planet/Moon!

By Riverspoke

A kit of items that optimizes the maximum storage slots given for the first trip to a new planet/moon, along with a strategy to give you a quick foothold so you can quickly and comfortably start exploring, or bringing even more resources from your main base.

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Category: Crafting, Gameplay Basics, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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19 May @ 4:43pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Intro

Items

Strategy

Comments

Intro

For our trip, we have two means of storage: our own inventory (45 slots with T6 backpack) and the storage inside the travel rocket (20 slots). I've calculated every item necessary for the stuff to be built once we reach the new planet/moon. The only 'extra' items I'll be listing that won't be used in recipes are: 2 oxygen, 2 water, and 2 food. These are only basic supplies for our comfort. Literally everything else will be used for building. So here is the complete list of materials you should bring with you before you travel to a new planet/moon.

Items

You can use this picture as a "starter pack" handy for when you visit a new planet.

Note that you should build a Rover from your Vehicle Station's terminal, and it's VERY IMPORTANT that the Rover has an Unlimited Oxygen Upgrade installed (which is also crafted from the Vehicle Station's terminal), as this will permit you to have permanent mobile oxygen on your new planet/moon. So what you need to do is craft a Rover, then the upgrade, install the upgrade in the Rover, then go behind it and press the red button. This will make you 'pick it up' in your inventory.

Now once we hop on the rocket and reach the new planet/moon, the following steps can be performed in less than 5 minutes.

Strategy

You will land in a capsule. Your inventory already has everything you need for now. Immediately go out and build a Nuclear Fusion Generator on the ground. Alongside it, build a T5 Drill and a T5 Heater.
Retrieve all your items from the landing capsule. Now deploy the Rover from your inventory (right-click on it and set it above the ground in front of you). Enter it and find a suitable place to build your base.
Build a Big Living Compartment and a Living Compartment Door to access it.
Go inside and build a Crafting Station T2 and a Locker Storage T2.
Now build a T2 Gas Extractor outside of your base and set it to extract Oxygen.
Build an Extraction Platform near your base.
Go up the platform and build an Interplanetary Travel Rocket.

Now you have basic energy, storage, a base in which you can craft basic supplies, an oxygen source, permanent oxygen on wheels, and the means to go back to your main base whenever you wish. And you have also started terraforming the planet! What you bring on your next trip depends on your own playstyle. Maybe T3 Ore Extractors? More power and storage for your base? Drones? Glhf and happy exploring!

Here is a video of the strategy, performed in under 3 minutes:

22 Comments

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Raft 16 Sep @ 9:47am

@Temishou,
The fusion reactor can be crafted with 5 pulsar quartz and 4 super alloys.

The recycler can be crafted with 2 Microchip - Destruction and 3 super alloys. It would also require energy of -10/s. All possible ways to generate energy at above 10/s requires more than 4 slots.

So, while it may still be worth bringing a recycler in the first trip, I would still bring the basic crafting ingredients of a fusion reactor.

Raft 16 Sep @ 9:09am

@To Dream, I think you're confusing the Nuclear Fusion Reactor with the T2 Nuclear reactor.

The Nuclear Fusion reactor generates energy at 1485/s, which is higher than the T2 Nuclear reactor's 331.5/s.

The Nuclear Fusion reactor does not require any water to craft.

Gorblix 14 Sep @ 5:38pm

Tier 2 Rockets are amazing to bring. They deconstruct into a lot of base level items.

To Dream 27 Jul @ 9:20am

Needs another water. You can't build a Tier 2 Fusion reactor without 3 water, and you need Tier 2 power to run the Tier 5 Drill and T5 Heater, the Tier 1 nuclear is not enough.

Czupak 30 Jun @ 8:20am

Thanks for the tips! I'm at 17TTi on Humble and preparing my first expedition to Prime,

@Haratu the requirement for Interplanetary Exchange Shuttle is 1000.00 QaSysTi. Complete transformation is at 7 TTi, so there's a long way before you even unlock this shuttle.

Haratu 16 Jun @ 5:36am

Personally I think interplanetary Exchange Shuttle is more important than a Travel Rocket. Not only does it require less materials to build (allowing more food and water to be brought), but you can make sure you have the materials at another planet to build the Travel rocket after just one trip of the Exchange Rocket.

Temishou 15 Jun @ 12:54am

My tip would be just check what you can craft before you go that has useful items in it. For example, make a T6 backpack, at least 5 fusion cells, 3 explosives and what's needed to make a recycler. If you recycle all those items you can take a lot more with you, as you free up the 6 super alloy slots, the iron slots, the 5 pulsar slots and 3 red explosive powder.

Wrongway 13 Jun @ 8:52am

Thanks , this will make my life way better.

👻 Spooky XTS 🎃 12 Jun @ 12:12am

I have chocolate cookies. Same health as those packs, except increases speed as well. :D
(90 health + running speed for short time)

alexia 11 Jun @ 6:51am

Absolutely fantastic and EXACTLY what I needed ..... thank you so VERY much

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