Getting Started

Space Impossible is a huge, impossibly open game. Sometimes, it's difficult to know where to start. This guide will walk you through the basics of world creation, navigation, crafting, and warping.

### Making a New Universe

When you first launch Space Impossible, you'll need to make a new universe to play in. After you admire the title screen for a moment, click the Play button, enter Singleplayer, and hit Create. You'll be asked to name your universe, and you can customize the seed if you'd like as well. Once you're happy with the seed and name, click the Create button.

### Basic Navigation

When you first start playing, you'll be floating in intergalactic space. From where you are located, you should be able to see the Homestead Station. It's a relatively small space station and has flashing red and yellow lights. Navigate your way over.

*To propel yourself forwards, press [W]. Use [A] and [D] to orient your craft. Use [Q] and [E] to strafe.*

 Once you're close to the station, click it. This will open up the HQ's inventory screen. Since it is a friendly craft, feel free to take its contents, though at this point you probably won't need to. To do so, press [I] to pull up your own craft's inventory alongside it. From here, you can transfer items to and from your ship. Hit [ESC] twice to exit both menus, or X them out.

You may have noticed a few yellow Storage Containers out floating around. These contain goodies such as Tritanium Wreckage, Water Vapor, Tritanium Ore, and a few other materials. Gather these up and bring them to the station: you will probably need multiple trips.

### Mining

Our limited supply of Tritanium isn't very useful yet, but we should find a use. Coincidentally, we would do well to upgrade our laser and engine before we leave the safety of this area. To find some suitable asteroids to mine, examine the ring of arrows around your vessel. The type is noted on the arrow, as well as the distance. Fly around for a bit until you can find a Keloirit Asteroid, which are grey and pink.

Your Venture-model ship already has a basic Mk. 1 Laser mounted on the front. To use it, hold down the right-click button and aim towards the asteroid. Bits and pieces will start breaking off. Collect them by touching your spaceship to them.

During your search, you may have noticed a few other asteroids. Rock and Tritanium asteroids are the most common, followed by Icesteroids. Scattered around are yellowish Magnesite asteroids. Finally, the starting area also contains the two gem asteroids Plagistine and Keloirit, the latter of which you should have a few at this point.

While you're out there, locate some Magnesite and harvest a few Icesteroids. If you somehow found no Tritanium in your initial looting of the storage containers, make sure you harvest some.

### Crafting 101

Once you've had some fun mining, return to the Homestead Station and pull up its inventory, then your own inventory beside it. Then, press the small hammer icon next to the Homestead Station's inventory to launch the crafting screen.

We are going to craft a Basic Laser Mk. 2. First, click Select Recipe under the header titled Basic Lab Mk. 1. A search box at the top of the right crafting screen allows you to search for it, or you can scroll through the interface. We need two materials: 1x Tritanium Casing and 1x Cut Keloirit.

The crafting tool only recognizes materials inside the ship you're using the crafting lab of. In short, all your materials must be in the Homestead Station. Cut Keloirit requires one Uncut Keloirit, which you should have, and takes exactly one second. Click the icon to craft one.

*Tip: by shift-clicking, you can craft ten of an item at a time.*

If you look for the Tritanium Casing recipe, you'll find that it requires Silica and Tritanium Sheets. Sheets can be crafted from ore or wreckage of the corresponding type. Silica can be crafted from Rock, although you likely found some. Once you have one Tritanium Casing and one Cut Keloirit, find the Basic Laser Mk. 2 again and craft it.

Now, we also need some engines. The Ion Engine Mk. 2, the best you can craft at this point, requires 1x Magnesite Casing and 1x Hydrogen. Remember that you need two of them.

*Hint: Hydrogen is crafted from 4x Condensed Water, which is crafted from 4x Water Vapor. Magnesite Casing is crafted from 2x Magnesite Sheet and 1x Silica.*

### Equipment

To equip an item, open your inventory and zoom with the scroll wheel until you can see your ship's components clearly. Pick up your Laser from your inventory (you did remember to move the components to your inventory when you were done, right?) and swap it with the one currently mounted in your ship. Do the same with your Engines.

### Warping

Warping is much simplified from previous versions. To warp, click the small green Warp button next to your hotbar. After a short animation, you will be on a solar-system-like screen. Navigate as normal and to visit a planet collide with it.

### Infinity and Beyond

Space Impossible is a sandbox game by nature, and there is no correct way to play the game. You can:

* Make a mining ship.
* Defeat a Raider in hand-to-hand combat, or with torpedoes.
* Steal the engines of an Explorer Union ship to zip around at an incredible pace.
* Sling asteroids into enemy ships with a tractor beam.
* Leave the boundaries of your Solar System to visit new cultures.
* Upgrade your station with cutting-edge equipment.
* Make an ultimate melee ship.
* Mine all ten metals and gemstones.