Sandbox Survival mode:
this is the mode i'm playing to learn about the game as it's already stressful to understand it all, so here we go:

when you first enter the world, you will spawn infrond of the main station, to the left on the entrance you will see: Mark Stanton if you talk to him. he will give you missions to do and, if you do the mission you will get $100 when it's done.
if you walk inside the station and make a right, you will find: Benjamin Carver he will give you $5000 to start off with.
now you can look around that base or go back out again, you will see a other guy standing ad a building where you can buy a car for $500.

now that you have a car press M and update your map, you will see 4 dot's pick one and drive over there.
you will see a airlock get out of the car and a msg will pop up, asking you if you want to claim this base say yes.
now that you got your base press Ctrl+B to open the base build menu:
this will show you the lay out and a list of modules you can buy,


before you start of building remember then you also need mining equipment!!!
so this way you will end up with $1000 or $1500 if you don't build it, the same way as you don't need to have the hub but i like to have the options for the rest.
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so the things you start of with are:

Kitchen $500
Power $500
Life Support $500
Ore Process $500
GreenHouse $500
Farm Hub $500
Hub $500 (optional)
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now start your power and life support and go back to your car, and drive back to the main base as your base will take some time to get oxygen and build up pressure.
now you can buy mining gear to start making some more money

Mine Equipment:

GPR Device $150
Core Drill $150
Mine Auger $500
Soil Sampler $100
Ore Box $50
Tote Box $50
GPR Shots $50
Porta Light $100


things to buy:

Mine Auger $500
GPR Device $150
Core Drill $150
Ore Box $50
Tote Box $50
Total $ 900


now find your self a spot and set down the GPR Device and hope you get a hit, if you do drive over there and put down the Core Drill.
take the sample and drop down the Mine Auger on the spot, start it up and drive home and scan the sample in your Ore Process module.
now you give it some time to collect, then with the Ore Box in hand stop the Auger and empty it into your Ore Box (this can hold 100 units). take this home and trow it into your processor and pick the ore's up using the Tote Box, drive the the main base and next to the mine Equipment store you can sell your ore's to make some money for new stuff.


i will ad more to this guide if you guy's think it help, as i have to restart it all do to a game crash.
leave your comments/questions/or own tips below, and i will see what i can do good luck and have fun

gr,
neo

farming is your main way to get food so if you followed the base steps, you will now have a Greenhouse & Farm Hub.
when you build the Farm Hub it will Already hold 5 seeds of everything, and 20 units of npk Fertilizer so no need to buy anything for now.
in your green house you will have 2 gardens, every one can hold up to 5 of the same seeds.
click on one and take a sample of the soil, this will show you the % of water and fertilizer that in it.
you need to keep both of them between 0.250%/0.750% every time you ad water it will add 0.250% so keep that in mind npk fertilizer will also give you 0.250% Organic Fertilizer will ad -.---%(still need to make it).
when this is on a good lvl and your base pressure is above 13% and the Temperature is above 10*c, you can pick 2 typ's of seed and take 5 of them and put them in the gardens.
you will now see your plants grow over time, but keep your eye on the water and Fertilizer lvls.
Harvest your plants between age 40/60 so age 50 is a nice one to harvest them.
now proses the food in the Farm Hub, if you harvested around 50 it will put 2 seeds into the seed storage and the food product in your hand ready to be cooked or sold