This guide is intended to orient new players to StarsOne and help them survive the initial stage of the game.

StarsOne has a basic and intuitive interface.

1. Player status information
   
2. Toolbar
   
3. The currently selected toolbar slot is highlighted with a blue border

Each slot in the toolbar may be selected using the number keys along the top of the keyboard, with 1 corresponding to the left-most slot and 0 corresponding to the right-most slot. The mouse wheel may also be used to move around the toolbar.

To use the selected item in the toolbar, simply left-click.

W, A, S and D handle your character's basic movement. Hold Left Shift to sprint, and use Space to jump.

Aside from becoming the victim of a deadly attack or falling to your death, your character can die as a result of dehydration or starvation. The character's overall health is shown in the lower left corner of the screen.



From top to bottom, the bars indicate hunger, thirst, and health. If any of the bars are fully depleted, the player dies. Fortunately, there is no penalty upon death - your character simply respawns at the starting location.

Players prevent natural deaths much as you might expect: eat when hungry and drink when thirsty. Food is found as fruits and vegetables around the landscape, and may be farmed. Many fruits, such as oranges, lemons, and watermelons reduce thirst as well as hunger when consumed.

Also, water may be bottled and cleaned to keep your character hydrated.

The inventory is opened by pressing tab.

• Items in inventory may be dragged to the toolbar for later use.
  
• Dragging and dropping an item to the world discards the item. The item may be picked up again. Note this is not the same as placing an item.
  
• Right-clicking on a stack of items splits the stack in half. You may continue clicking the right mouse button to further reduce the amount of items you've grabbed by half.
  
• To place an item, such as a workbench or campfire, add the item to the toolbar and then use the item by closing the inventory and left-clicking on the spot you wish to place the item.
  
• To remove a placed item, use a wrench. To remove placed blocks, such as walls, use a hammer. Both tools may be crafted at a workbench.

At the beginning of the game, your character has only a simple 'Ice Axe'. This axe is useful for chopping down trees, mining ore, and defending yourself from indiginous creatures.



With the axe in your toolbar and selected, left-click on trees to chop them down. Similarly, you may use the ice axe on rock outcrops to break them open. Expect to hit trees and rocks several times before you're able to loot them.



Shift + Left-click to quickly move a stack of items to your inventory.

Press C to open the Crafting Menu.



The pane on the left is your current inventory. The pane on the right lists the items you're currently able to create. Selecting an item in the list reveals which resources are needed to create the item. If you have the required raw material, click Craft to have the item added to your inventory.

A text box to the left of the Craft button allows you to specify how many items should be created (default: 1).


Open your crafting menu and create a campfire. Add the campfire to your toolbar, select it, and left click on the ground to place it. You may now interact with the campfire by pressing E.

1. Item to cook
   
2. Fuel
   
3. Finished product

The box on the left holds the item you wish to heat. To the right is an arrow that acts as a progress bar. The four boxes on the right are reserved for the finished product. Finally, beneath the progress arrow is a box to place fuel. Coal and wood both make good fuel sources.

The campfire is only hot enough to perform basic crafting, such as purifying water and melting resin to rubber. To craft higher tiered items, you will need enhanced versions of the campfire, such as the Stone Furnace or Melting Furnace.

Detailed information on crafting is available in the Crafting Guide.
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=664363587

Aside from starving to death or dying of dehydration, you may be killed by the occasional monster.

Fortunately, SpaceOne isn't a horror-survival game, and monsters are fairly rare. When you do encounter one, be sure to kite it by walking backwards as you hack it to death.

You start the game with full health and a little daylight. Search the area and pick as many of the fruits and vegetables as you can. Use the crafting menu to convert some of that food into seeds. Next, plant six or more fruit trees to ensure a steady supply of conveniently located food in the future.

Break out that trusty Ice Axe and collect wood and ore. Ore will not replenish, but you may plant the saplings you collect to renew your source of wood.

While not technically required for survival, it's easier to avoid monsters at night if you're locked safely inside your abode. You may also enjoy having a place to keep your belongings.

In order to build a basic structure with a door, you will need to create a handfull of crafting stations. Learning to craft a simple home is a great introduction to crafting in StarsOne.

1. Open your crafting menu and create a Wooden Work Bench.
   
2. Add the work bench to your toolbar, select it, and place the bench on the ground. Remember, dropping the bench on the ground won't make it useable - it needs to be placed by using it from your toolbar.
   
3. Use the wooden work bench and craft a Stone Furnace. This furnace is hot enough to smelt iron. As with the work bench, place the furnace where you can use it.
   
4. Use the furnace to smelt your iron ore into iron ingots.
   
5. Once you have five iron ingots, remove them from the furnace and craft an Anvil at your wooden work bench. If you need more iron ore to make enough ingots, go hunt down some rock outcrops. If you have extra ore on hand, leave it in the furnace to continue making ingots.
   
6. Place the anvil so you may use it later.
   
7. After smelting an additional seven iron ingots, use five ingots in the anvil to make Iron Plates, and hold onto the remaining two ingots.
   
8. Return to the wooden work bench with your five iron plates and two iron ingots. Use them to build a better version of your wooden work bench, the Workbench. Your new workbench is able to craft the Small Iron Parts needed to make a Wooden Door for your home. Your new workbench may also be used to craft a Wrench and Hammer, useful items for removing placed items.
   
9. The walls of your new home may be made of wood. Use a workbench to craft Planks of Wood, and then craft Wooden Blocks from the planks.
   
10. With several blocks of wood and new door, you can build your new home.

As of the time of this writing, items may not be deleted. Consider building a chest (available from your workbench) to store unwanted items. The hammer allows you to remove a placed block and return it to your inventory - useful for remodeling your home. Crafted items, such as doors and work benches, may be returned to your inventory by using the wrench.

While many fruits satisfy your thirst as well as hunger, you may find it useful to have bottles of water on hand. In order to craft clean drinking water, follow these steps:

1. Craft empty bottles at a work station.
   
2. Equip the empty bottles and use them while standing in a body of water to collect dirty water.
   
3. Use the dirty water at a campfire or other heat source to create clean drinking water. You'll need two bottles of dirty water to make one bottle of drinking water.

Continue to collect resources and improve your crafting tools in order to build high-end items, such as assault rifles and vehicles.







Kane31 has provided a helpful guide for things to do beyond the basics.
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=663706031