How to play guide for Memories of Mars

**Memories of Mars** is a PvE-with-PvP survival game.

This is only a basic guide for beginners. If you don't find answers in this MoM Official wiki, ask your questions on the MoM Official Discord.

# Gameplay

In Memories of Mars you will have a lot of things to do:

* Gather resources
* Build one or more bases
* Craft tools, weapons, ammos, armors, medics, food, explosives...
* Fight against the robot AIs and Boss
* Fight against players (in PvP areas)
* Do missions
* Build your Skilltree
* Create an Alliance with your friends
* Treasure hunt with supply trackers
* Collect Lore for the Memory Capsule
* Explore

# Controls

While playing in First-Person mode (there is no 3rd-Person mode), default controls are :

# Interface

## HUD

There is 5 bars to look out for on your screen :

* **Health** : Your life capacity. If zero, you will fall unconscious and will have some time before being revived by a friend. If not, you die and you are sent to the respawn map. Healed by using medic items (like First Aid Sprays, Adrenaline Shots or MedPacks) or by Food (rations or lemonades).
* **Oxygen** : replenished by interacting with an Oxygen Outlet or consume Oxygen cans. If zero, you will suffocate until death.
* **Nutrition** : consume rations, dried food or drinks to increase your nutrition level. If zero, you will starve until death.
* **Capacity** : the weight you can carry in your Inventory. When it turns red (after the weight marker), you will walk slower than normal. If the bar is 100% red, you will be stucked, imposible to move at all.
* **Thrust** : only available when Vanguard's Jetpack is equipped. Shows the flying time before jetpack is depleted.

## Status Icons

The status icons appear on the bottom right of the screen.

# Starting

When you start, you will do a quick tutorial to learn the basic gameplay. Then you will have to choose between 3 spawn locations (West, Center and East). West is very easy, East is less easy.

## What you should do first

* **First things first, follow the Protocols. These are missions that will learn you the game and give you rewards.**
* Gather resources on ground by hand such as Iron Ore and Nitrate.
* Use your 3D Mobile Printer in your inventory and deploy it on the ground to refine the Iron Ore into Iron.
* Other materials like Copper, Aluminium, Magnesium can be found in containers and devices through out Mars. Sometimes additional weapons, armors, foods, schematics and FLOPs can also be found inside them.
* When you have enough Iron, craft a pistol and ammos. This is for killing the AI robots to gather FLOPs off their corpses.
* Spend FLOPs on basic tools such as the Pulse Excavator Mk.1 for mining and Welding Torch Mk.1 for constructing structures.
* Invest FLOPs into platforms, walls, doors, ceilings, storage containers. A Cloning Chamber acts as a respawn point upon death.
* To secure your structure from other players, an Administration Terminal should be built to prevent them from getting access.
* Ideally a 1x2 or 2x2 structure should be easy to construct and start out.
* To gather advanced material like Carbon Fiber, Acid, Silicon, get a Cutting Torch Mk.1 for better results.
* Often check your Administration Terminal for the protected duration and refresh the base to reset the timer.
* By spending FLOPs in your Skilltree, you gain Survivalist points which gives great bonuses to increase your survival. 10 FLOPs spent give 1 Survivalist point.

## Combat Tips

* Listen to the sound of the mobs that are walking around. This help to determine the type of opponent you may face within vicinity.
* Often have more ammunition than you think you could handle, you never know how 600+ pistol ammo might get you out of a tight situation.
* Be careful with your gear durability during combat (blue to red). A spare weapon will be helpful to have just in case.
* Attachments can improve your use of weapon in terms of ammo capacity or accuracy improvements. Some rifles & shotgun are able to attach Bayonet. You can break windows with the Melee attack.
* Various enemies has specific strategies to deal with. Scuttlers (spider-looking robots) tends to hop around but they like to latch onto rocks/walls to be still for a moment. Mantis (4-legged robots) are often cloaked and will appear itself if exposed by shooting at its shimmer or attacking you. Serpentes (worm-like robots) will only expose itself out of the ground once aggravated and will pop out of the ground for a brief moment.

## See also

* Release date
* System requirements

* (\*) Acknowledgments: @DewRadley#9978.