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*Note. "attachment slot" refers to the top of a platform, vehicle, or a backpack slot. Avoid confusing this with power cables.*

## Interacting

* Quick Store - Press (PC:  + , Xbox:  + , PS4:  + , Switch:  + ) while moving a small item to snap it directly into your  Backpack or Terrain Tool if you have at least one open slot.
* In printers,  chemistry labs, or any device with a holographic blueprint shown for crafting items, if you have the required material for crafting in your  Backpack, you may  (on PC) or  (on XBOX), while your cursor is over the holographic blueprint and it will automatically place the material into the slot.

## Storage

* In your  Backpack, you have 14 spaces for items. 8 directly on the back, 2 on the top shoulders, 3 on your tool, and 1 in the crafting/printer slot at the bottom. Storing the one item in the personal printer requires selecting to print an item using the appropriate material. For example, using  Compound to craft tethers, while it is highlighted as the next item to be crafted you can store  Compound in that area.
* When you die, all the items you had in your  Backpack will stay in the  Backpack and you'll have to retrieve them. If you had items in the Terrain Tool's slots, they'll be dropped alongside the backpack and you may need to dig a small hole on the ground to retrieve them. Take note that if you die a second time, your first body will despawn and drop all its items.
* You can manually drag Platforms (*such as  Extra Large Platform B*) to transport multiple  research items and resource items in one trip; or, use them for space-saving storage of resources in your base. Just print a platform in its packaged state,  to carry to your destination, deploy the platform at your destination, attach any research and resource items, and click-drag the platform across the terrain from behind to in front of you, run beyond the platform and repeat the movement. It is not possible for your character to walk while carrying a deployed platform and so this method is best when you do not have space on your vehicle.
* It is also possible to package your  research items by using the  Packager.

## Resources

* You can use the  Trade Platform to obtain many common Resources needed and continue producing them from  Soil via the  Soil Centrifuge.
* Resource production can be done via the  Large Shredder and the  Trade Platform. Collect Debris for the  Large Shredder. Use the produced  Scrap in the  Trade Platform for needed/missing resources. You can use a  Rover with a  Winch to collect large items.
* Dragging back a large number of  Scrap platforms to your base from underground should be done by dragging each platform up to the surface individually. Moving the platforms together is much slower because running back and forth small distances is much more time-wasting.
* Rather than using the soil centrifuge to directly produce  Quartz,  Ammonium, or  Graphite, consider producing  Clay with it, smelting the clay into  Ceramic, crafting the Ceramic into  Drill Mod 1, then using a shredder to produce a scrap for every two drill mods. Trading this  Scrap will yield, on average, 1.5x as much  Quartz, and 3x as much  Graphite and  Ammonium. In addition, this method allows one to convert  Soil into other resources such as  Laterite or  Hematite.

## Power

* By using a  Small Battery, it is possible to recharge a vehicle along a  Tether line. Batteries in a player's inventory can be charged via a  Tether connection and will transfer their energy into a vehicle once they are put on an open slot in the vehicle's inventory.
* Putting small/medium solar panels/wind turbines in the attachment slots on your base/vehicles can provide energy instead of using the  Organic with the small/medium generator. (*Small batteries can also be used on  Backpack/Terrain Tool for power.*) The  Small Generator,  Small Wind Turbine, and  Small Solar Panel can be crafted though your  Backpack, while the larger items are crafted from the  Small Printer.
* Remember to try and create lots of Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, and Batteries for your Power grid. The more power you have in your grid, the faster that modules such as the printer will work.
* A battery may be connected to a vehicle for more power storage.
* A Medium Storage Silo full of small batteries on a Medium Platform A will store and produce more power than a Medium Battery.

## Organizing

* DO NOT put single items or Tier-2 (*paired slot*) equipment in slots designed for Tier-3 and Tier-4 equipment. You should not have empty Tier-3 or Tier-4 connection slots. These should be filled with many  Large Storage or some manufacturing tool. One of these:  **Large Storage**,  Smelting Furnace,  Research Chamber,  Large Printer,  Trade Platform,  Atmospheric Condenser,  Soil Centrifuge,  Chemistry Lab,  Large Shredder. Or maybe a  Large Rover Seat or  Crane. The  Large Storage requires 3  Ceramic so go find and smelt  Clay. The Tier-4  Extra Large Storage is not recommended.
* Build lots of  **Medium Storage**. Fill your  Large Storage with them. Built at  Small Printer with 2  Resin. You will need 100 to 200  Resin for these.
* Attachment quick reference:
	1. Tier-2 requires a pair of attachment slots joined by a red line.
	2. Tier-3 requires four attachment slots joined with red lines, in the shape of a capital letter H.
	3. Tier-4 is TWO Tier-3 attachments joined by an additional red line (*example:* T-T).

**Storage Comparison:**

1. Medium Storage - Tier-2 attachment. Carries 8 small items. Recommended to mass-produce.
2. Medium Storage Silo - Mid-game Tier-2 attachment. Can hold 24 small items.
3. Large Storage - Tier-3 attachment. Provides 4 Tier-2 attachment slots. 4  Medium Storage will provide storage for 32 small items. It takes 3 pieces of  Ceramic to make, nicely coinciding with how much  Clay you can get out of one full  Canister.
4. Large Storage Silo A - Mid-game Tier-3 attachment. Provides 8 Tier-2 attachment slots. 8  Medium Storages will give you 64 small slots. It costs 5000 Bytes, but once unlocked, getting  Aluminum is relatively easy, should you want to mass-produce these.
5. Large Storage Silo B - Late-game Tier-3 attachment. Provides 12 Tier-2 attachment slots. 12  Medium Storage will give you a whopping 96 small slots. If paired with 12   Medium Storage Silos, the capacity triples to 288 items.
6. Extra Large Storage - One of the only items in the game that requires/occupies a Tier-4 slot with 8 connectors. These are only useful for inefficient and expensive, but easy to navigate storage, a vanity project, or some completionist goals.

**Recommended Manufacturing Platforms:**

1. Large Platform B
	* One Tier-3 slot
	* Two Tier-2 slots
2. Large T-Platform
	* Two Tier-3 slots, effectively the same as  Large Platform B, but able to hold two Large Modules at the same time.
3. Extra Large Platform A - Octagonal shaped platform with the largest attachment slot.
	* One Tier-4 slot
4. Extra Large Platform C - Shaped like an oversized  Large Platform B, but every slot is one Tier higher.
	* One Tier-4 slot
	* Two Tier-3 slots

## Mobilizing

* Vehicles can be attached together to form rover trains. Click the power cable on one vehicle and connect it to another vehicle's cable slot. However, the speed and efficiency of the vehicle will lower depending on how many vehicles you have attached. A maximum of 4 rovers may be chained together in this way.
* Equip an  Extra Large Shredder with you in a train, instead of hauling each salvage item back to base. (You can also put unwanted items like  canisters, modules and platforms in the Shredder.) For additional supplies one can fill  canisters (via the Drills on the rover as long as empty  canisters are attached or via empty  canisters on the backpack with the extraction tool) with  Soil while removing salvage from the ground, and use the soil centrifuge for additional resource production.
* Do not operate the  Large Rover at a core due to gravity design. A  Medium Rover will perform better.
* Be aware that using rovers in cave systems is extremely difficult, because of the uneven terrain and stalagmites everywhere. If a smooth, clean road is built to descend and ascend on, rover usage can speed up work considerably.

## Off-World Travel

If you are travelling to other planets using the  Small Shuttle, these are the items to bring:

* 1x  Medium Storage
* Put the following on it:
	+ 1x Packaged  Medium Platform B,
	+ 1x  Beacon (can be substituted for a different item if a  Field Shelter is used because it has its own beacon),
	+ 1x Packaged  Medium Solar Panel,
	+ 1x Packaged  Medium Wind Turbine,
	+ 1x Packaged  Medium Printer,
	+ 2x  Compound,
	+ 1x  Aluminum.

Place filled Medium Storage in the side of the shuttle.

* In your backpack:
	+ 1x  Worklight,
	+ 1x  Tether Bundle,
	+ 2x  Small Canisters,
	+ 3x  Resin,
	+ 1x Compound
	+ 1x Packaged  Oxygenator or field shelter (you may also redeem it on the other world if you are going to get it from a mission and therefore substitute it for another item),
	+ 1x  Small Solar Panel,
	+ 1x  Small Wind Turbine,
	+ 1x Packaged  Tractor,
	+ 1x Packaged  Trailer.

* On the new world:
	+ Remove the medium storage from the Shuttle and, if you brought one, replace it with the oxygenator or put it on a platform.
	+ Deploy your medium platform B and place on it:
		- A medium printer
		- A small solar panel
		- A small wind turbine
	+ Print:
		- a  Large Platform B (costs 3x resin),
		- a  Soil Centrifuge (costs 1x aluminum, 2x compound),
	+ Place the soil centrifuge, medium solar panel and medium wind turbine on the large platform B to get a starter base.
	+ Remove the small solar panel and small wind turbine from the medium platform B
	+ Put the beacon in the base if you brought one.
* The canisters and soil centrifuge allow you to get most of the needed resources to build the base, just dig up some  Soil.

* Deploy the tractor and connect it to the trailer. Put the medium storage on the trailer and put the small solar panel and small wind turbine on it.