Guides

This page is a list of guides and tools that can help you in the game or with creating content.

## Official Guides

* Players Manual Useful for any new players to the game, check this out.

* Official FAQ The main developer of the game goes over many of the frequently asked questions.

* Contributing How To How to submit bugs and feature request using Github. You can also do this by posting in one of the places linked below in the community section.

## Player Guides

**Warning: many of these guides contain spoilers!**

* Continuous build and the ESLauncher2 How to access the continuous version of the game, which is not stable but provides immediate access the newest additions to the game.

* Complete Guide to All Things Alien by KATANA This guide is unfortunately several years old, and therefore does not include the more recent alien races. However, it is a very high quality guide and goes in depth on the aliens it does cover.

* Complete Mission Walkthrough by Jafdy This guide isn't actually complete, but it does have a great walkthrough of the Free Worlds campaign.

* Energy Guide by CarbonPhoenix This is an in depth guide going over energy and how to manage it, from early game to late game. Provides comparisons between all of the different options and what will work best.

* Save file help by Amazinite A guide about what your save file is, how to find it, and what you can do with it.

* Remnant Guide by Zitchas A guide about the Remnant and how to get started with their storyline. It does not include the more recent additions.

* Burst Weapons by Litrevan A full explanation of how burst weapons work.

## Mod/Content Creating

* Creating Ships
	+ Ship Builder: helps locate the gun port positions on a ship image
	+ Ship Builder2: Build ships with web GUI (placement of guns, engines, turrets, etc)
* Creating Outfits
* Creating Plugins
* Creating Missions
	+ Mission Builder by shitworlfymakes

Steam: The following is a shameless Copy+Paste from steam page: "Learning to Mod"

#### Guides and Learning Material

* Offical Wiki: The official wiki of the game on GitHub to learn about everything from mission creating to outfit making.
* How to: Save: A guide at Steam community on everything you need to know about the save file; entry level game modding kind of stuff.

#### Modding Tools

* Game assets[drive.google.com]: All the blender and gimp files used to create the many images in the game.
* Map Editor[github.com]: A tool that allows you to easily create and edit systems in the galaxy.
* World Forge[github.com]: A super sandbox mod which places every outfit and ship in the game on a single planet for testing purposes.
* Endless Sky Ship Builder[endless-sky.github.io]: If you have an image for a ship that you wish to add into the game, use this program to easily find the coordinates of things like the guns, turrets, and engines, as well as see how it looks like under the different government swizzles.
* ~~Ship (code) Builder by Legolas: Make ship creating easy by having everything you need set up in front of you. Just input the stats that you want and the program will output the ship's code for you perfectly, avoiding any human errors that might occur while ship coding.~~
* My Personal Spreadsheets[drive.google.com]: Spreadsheets containing all the ships, weapons, and many of the different types of outfits in the game. Includes all their statistics as well as some balancing columns to help you balance your own new ships and outfits.
* [WIP/Idea] Mission Builder by Legolas: Same thing as the Ship Builder, but for missions.

## Community

You can meet and get help from other Endless Sky players.

* Endless Sky Discord
	+ Lots of content here, with updates every day.
	+ The current game developers and content creators are on discord, as well as many other experienced players.
* Steam Page
* Reddit