Guide
Guides to the game's tools, materials, and systems.
In order
Start at the top if you're new to the game.
- Your first ten minutes: Move, dig, and mine.
- Lighting dark areas: Use light to stop creatures spawning nearby.
- Making fire: Start a fire and keep it under control.
- Digging: Choose a tool for the ground you need to clear.
- Crafting stations: Build the stations that unlock new recipes.
- Ore into bars: Match ore with a fuel that burns hot enough.
- Making coke: Heat fuel in a sealed retort to make coke.
- Going down: Prepare for the layers below the surface.
- Fighting back: Choose a ranged weapon and upgrade it.
- Bosses: Summon each boss, and what beating it opens.
- Gearing up: Equip armour, accessories, and tools.
- Farming and eating: Grow crops and make food.
- Bees and wax: Find a hive and collect beeswax.
- Circuits: Connect devices and use their signals.
- Item logistics: Move items between devices with pipes.
- Leaving: The end of the game. Spoilers.
More guides
- The pyramid: Explore the pyramid and face the Sun Warden.
- The frost temple: Climb the temple and face the Hoarfrost Wyrm.
- How heat behaves: Understand conduction, thermal mass, and temperature.
- Electric heat: Heat and boil water with a Clock and a wire.