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First steps and your first night
Build your first steam chain, organize gathering and prepare a defensible route to the Core.
Building and decoration
Plan footprints, access and materials for a colony that is readable, functional and distinctly yours.
Ports, orientation and fluids
Understand real machine footprints and connect water, heat, steam and electricity to the correct sockets.
From steam to ether energy
Follow the energy network from a leaf-powered start to the Crystal Generator.
Production and logistics
Separate manual crafting, automatic lines and transport so materials keep reaching the right destination.
Work areas and panic mode
Assign reachable jobs, organize deliveries and recall workers when the colony is threatened.
Combat and colony defense
Protect the Core with planned routes, recalled workers and weapons supplied by the right energy network.
Controls, inventory and Scanner
Learn the default commands, distinguish your backpack from storage and inspect machines without dismantling them.
Sharing a colony in co-op
Prepare a Steam session, divide responsibilities and understand who controls the world, pause and save.
Completing the campaign: the Ethereal Steam Veil
Finish the active research tree, build the final megaproject and prepare reserves to suppress new invasions.