How to play guide for Evospace

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This page will serve as a basic **how to play guide for *Evospace***. While there is very little information available at this time, we urge you to check back often, as new information is being added all the time! Feel free to edit this guide with any tips, tricks, and suggestions.

# Gameplay Tutorial

The following is a game guide from Evospace Steam community. It includes visuals and detailed instructions on getting started with Evospace.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1668643106

The tutorial on Steam is rather outdated.

As of Dec 28, 2020, you'll start with a copper multitool, some stone, and some sand blocks in you inventory. Your multitool defaults to the first item in your toolbar. It's probably worthwhile to assign the blocks to your toolbar as well. Your inventory screen is also your crafting screen, and you will notice that your options are limited. You can build stone furnaces, stone smelters, copper stirling engines, small generators, and copper computers.

To start with, you probably want to find some copper and some wood. You can cut down trees and dig out the ground with your multitool. Once you have a stack or two of wood and copper ore, you'll want to build a furnace and a smelter. Place the furnace and the smelter on top of it, and you'll be read to smelt the ore. Right click on the smelter to open it. (The game will give you no hint that you need to do it, though it will tell you how to find out what a smelter can do.) After loading the copper ore into the smelter, right click on the furnace and put a stack of wood in. A little later, you should find a stack of copper in the smelter.

In order to unlock more items to build, you'll need to do research. You'll need a computer to do that, and you'll need a stirling engine and a generator to power the computer. To make a computer, you'll need glass, which you can get by smelting sand. You can get sand by making it from rocks, or by digging it from the bottom of the sea. (You don't need to worry about drowning. They haven't implimented that yet.) Once you have these things, you'll need to place the stirling engine on top of a furnace so that the red circles are together. Then you need to connect the generator against the stirling engine so that the yellow sockets connect, and finally connect the computer to the generator so that the blue sockes connect. Once this is done, you can go into the research screen, select an available research project that doesn't require circuitry, and then put some wood in the furnace. Your computer will slowly produce computations until the research is complete.

At this point, you're probably wondering if there's a way to avoid having to manually fead the furnace to do research. There is, but you'll need to research a few things first. On your research screen, a little below and to the right of your starting area, you'll find Simple Machines and Automation. Once you've unlocked those, you'll be able to research Automated Farm. You'll also need to research pumps.

Once you have all of these, you need to build a pump under water, build a farm next to it, and build a pipe to connect the farm to the pump. Then you'll need to right click on the farm to tell it to produce wood. Make sure the farm is getting water. At that point, you can make three robot arms and place them to take items out of the farm, and place three furnaces to receive it. One farm can keep three stone furnaces running, which should allow you to have three computers running automatically. With that, you can research everything that doesn't require adding microchips.

At this point, you're probably tired of mining copper by hand. You soon won't need to do that. Once you research automated mining, you can build a copper mining rig. You'll need to go somewhere that has a deep deposit of copper. You can build a platform to place the rig, since it doesn't need direct access to the ground. You'll need three stirling engines to power it and you'll need to right click on the mining rig and select copper as the resource. Then you'll need conveyor belts to get the copper ore out of the mine, and you'll need to automate four stone smelters to process it to ingots. You can power the smelters with just one farm if you use two copper furnaces instead of three stone ones. You'll need heat pipes to connect them, but you're likely to want them anyway becasuse it'll let you place both the furnaces and the smelters on the same level.

If you aren't satisfied with just one copper ingot every five seconds, you have some options. The simple way is to just build more mining rigs, since a deep deposit is around seventy meters across. You can also make the ore you get go twice as far by using automatic hammers to convert each ore into an average of one and a half gravel, and then using macerators to convert each gravel to an average of one and a half impure copper ore dust, and then smelt the dust.

At this point you should be in a reasonable position to work out how to automate production of the simplest kind of circuit and continue your research.

# See also

* Release date
* System requirements