From your first log to the Sun

Hit a tree trunk with your bare hand: it comes away one voxel (a 25 cm cube) at a time. An axe takes a whole 1 m cube at once.

• First steps — Inventory (E) and the 3×3 grid, Recipe book, An item's page (I), Drop (Q)
• Gather — Flint (gravel), Seeds (grass), Berries, Apples, Saplings (leaves), Small mushroom

Put a log in the grid: one cell of log (16 voxels) gives 32 voxels of planks of that tree's wood.

Two cells of planks one above the other in the grid: four sticks.

In the grid: 3 cells of planks along the top, 2 sticks down the middle.

Dig under the grass and dirt with a pickaxe: grey stone, granite, basalt, limestone, sandstone and other rocks are all "any rock".

Any rock for the heads, sticks for the handles: pickaxe = 3 rock across the top over 2 sticks; axe = 3 rock on one side of 2 sticks; shovel = 1 rock over 2 sticks; chisel = 1 rock over 1 stick.

3 sticks in a teepee over a row of 3 logs. Set it down, right click it, put raw food and fuel (wood, planks, sticks or coal): 12 s a piece.

A voxel of coal, a charcoal or a glowing creature part (glow jelly, ectoplasm, an angler lure or spores) on a stick: four torches.

Eight cells of wood or planks around an empty middle: a chest of that wood. A key in the middle makes a chest with a lock.

Doors: six cells of planks or metal plate in two columns (three doors). Trapdoors: two cells side by side (two trapdoors). A key in the middle of either recipe gives the locked version.

Small veins show in every cave wall within 48 m of the surface; bigger veins go down to 140 m; giant iron lodes lie 250 to 700 m from the start. Any pickaxe breaks it; stone or better is faster.

A ring of eight cells of rock around an empty middle. Set it down, give it fuel (or a powered cable), the ore in the input and coal or charcoal in the reducer slot.

Put logs (any wood) in the Furnace's input, nothing in the reducer: 16 voxels of logs give 16 charcoal in 4 s.

16 voxels of iron ore and 4 coal or charcoal in the Furnace: one iron ingot in 12 s.

Iron ingots for the heads, in the shapes of the stone tools: pickaxe 3 ingots and 2 sticks, axe 3 and 2, shovel 1 and 2, chisel 1 and 1; shears are two ingots crossed, no handle.

In the grid: planks, a stick, planks on the top row and three planks below -- five cells of one wood and a paddle. Right click the water with it.

Three fibres (wool, flax, cotton or string) and a binder (bone, gel or egg) in a 2×2 square. Right click a tamed or farm animal with it.

Horse: an apple or sugar (20 % a try). Kangaroo: wheat (25 %). Bear: honey (20 %). Behemoth: a hay bale (15 %). Then right click the tamed adult with a saddle, right click it empty-handed to mount, F to get off.

• Companions — Dog, Cat, Parrot, Dragonling, Whistle (L), Dog basket

A copper sheet rolled into a tube between two lenses.

• Map and markers — Map (M), Checkpoints, The HUD compass, Relief layer
• Telescope on a tripod

At the sewing machine: 6 silk fabrics, 2 fibres, 4 strings and 1 hide (20 s). Put it in the equipment slot of your bag.

At the sewing machine: 4 silk or cotton fabrics, 2 fibres and 2 strings (15 s). Wear it in the outfit slot.

• Camouflage (forest, desert, snow)

Break gravel: one 1 m block in ten gives a flint. Or knap a quarter block of flint nodules (found in the rock, 3 to 60 m down) in the grid: four flints.

• Survive — Health (100) and hunger (100), Air (20 s), Falls, Knocked out and waking up
• Monsters of the night — They appear in the dark, Noise draws them, Light protects

In the grid, a column: two heads of the material over a stick -- planks, any rock, flint, copper, iron, aluminium, gold, steel or titanium.

Spiders drop 1 or 2 strings when they die. They live in every cave, and come out at night in forests, jungles and swamps.

Three sticks in a curve and three strings in a straight line beside them (mirrored works too).

A column in the grid: a flint on top, a stick in the middle, a feather below -- four arrows. A stinger can take the flint's place.

Leather or fur, mixed as you like, in the armor shapes: helmet 5 cells, chestplate 8, leggings 7, boots 4.

• Cold and heat — Knitted sweater (+12 °C), Fur coat (+20 °C), A heated room

Wool for the pillow, two fabrics for the linen, three cells of planks or metal for the frame: a bed in that fabric. Two beds side by side make a double bed.

A 3×3 grid: planks, an iron ingot, planks on top; a string, a stick, a string in the middle; a cell of planks at the bottom.

Iron ingots in the armor shapes: helmet 5, chestplate 8, leggings 7, boots 4 (24 ingots the set).

• Copper armor
• Gold armor

Steel ingots in the armor shapes: helmet 5, chestplate 8, leggings 7, boots 4. A steel ingot is an iron ingot cemented with 2 coal in the Furnace.

Titanium ingots in the armor shapes: helmet 5, chestplate 8, leggings 7, boots 4. Titanium ore lies 90 to 200 m deep and needs 8 coal an ingot.

Break grass tufts, tall grass and ferns: wheat seeds 5 % of the time. Wild wheat gives its own seeds, and every ripe wheat crop gives 1 or 2 back.

• Tree saplings — Plant, 1 m³ of water beside it

Harvest a ripe field (1 to 3 wheat, 1 or 2 seeds and a straw per square metre), or break wild wheat in plains and savannas (one roll per 4 tufts).

Right click grass or bare soil with a shovel: the aligned square metre becomes farmland. Right click it with one seed to sow the whole square metre.

Three wheat in a row in the grid: a loaf of bread.

• Cooking — Meats, Fish, Mushroom stew, Fried egg, Milk

Flax grows wild in plains, cotton in savannas and deserts: break them for the fibre and its seeds, then sow fields. Sugar is a reed crushed in the grid.

Cows drop 1 or 2, horses 1 or 2, behemoths 3 to 6, goats and kangaroos 0 or 1. Fur (bears, rabbits, yetis, shadow cats) counts as a hide too.

• What animals give — Shear (wool), Milk, Eggs, Heal

Right click two adult animals of one species within 8 m with their breeding food: cows, sheep, goats, horses and behemoths wheat; hens seeds; tamed dogs meat; tamed cats and bears raw fish; tamed kangaroos berries.

Fill the grid with 9 wheat: a hay bale (a whole 1 m block). One bale in the grid gives the 9 wheat back.

• Bone meal, paper, tallow, thatch — Bone meal, Paper, Tallow, Thatch

Two rows of planks around three honeycombs taken from a wild bee nest (found under oak and birch crowns). Set it among flowers.

A honeycomb alone in the grid: wax. A honeycomb over 16 voxels of glass: a honey bottle (a beehive with glass makes bottles by itself).

Build a closed room with no light: zombies spawn there even by day. Kill them with a 16 m drop, water currents or drowning, and put a grid where they die to catch their loot.

• Monster parts — Epoxy, Glowing parts, Fire gland, Shell part, Bomb gland

Three iron ingots in a V. Left click a liquid to scoop it, right click to pour it; standing works on the aligned 1 m cube, crouching on one voxel.

Copper ore shows in cave walls within 48 m of the surface and in veins from 8 to 90 m (more under highlands); two giant copper lodes lie 250 to 700 m from the start. In the Furnace: 16 voxels and 4 coal give an ingot in 10 s.

• Explore — Caves (five levels), Giant lodes, Geodes (quartz), Oil and bitumen, Raisonite (35-110 m)

Gold ore lies 70 to 200 m down (and near the surface under canyons, to 60 m); one giant gold lode lies within 1.5 km of the start. 16 voxels and 4 coal in the Furnace: an ingot in 10 s.

Gem ore lies 100 to 200 m down (more under mountains) and lines some geodes; one giant gem lode lies within 1.5 km of the start. 16 voxels of gem ore in the grid: one diamond.

In the Furnace: one iron ingot in the input and 2 coal or charcoal in the reducer slot -- a steel ingot in 15 s.

Titanium ore lies 90 to 200 m down, more near volcanoes; one giant titanium lode lies within 1.5 km of the start, by the coast. 16 voxels and 8 coal in the Furnace: an ingot in 20 s.

Titanium ingots for the heads, in the shapes of the iron tools: pickaxe 3 ingots and 2 sticks, axe 3 and 2, shovel 1 and 2, chisel 1 and 1, shears 2 crossed.

Silicon: 16 voxels of sand and 8 coal in the Furnace (20 s), or fulgurite broken down in the grid. Lithium: lithium ore (20 to 120 m) and 4 coal in the Furnace (12 s).

Fill the grid with whole blocks (64 voxels a cell) of one material: 2×2 = 4 cubes, a row of 3 = 6 slabs, a column of 3 = 4 vertical slabs, a staircase of 6 = 6 stairs, 3×2 = 6 walls, block-stick-block = 8 fences.

• Materials — Brick, Tiles, Checkerboard, Terracotta, Stone bricks, Polished quartz, Asphalt, Thatch, Metal

In the Furnace: 16 voxels of sand alone in the input -- 16 voxels of glass in 8 s.

• Tableware and glass — Pots, Vases, Tableware, Glasses, Bottles, Goblet, Aquarium

Each piece is crafted at the grid in the material of its cells -- planks of any wood, stone, marble, granite, quartz, metal or glass, as the piece allows -- with fabric and wool for the upholstered ones.

• Sit, lie down, sleep — Sit, Lie down, Sleep
• Keys and locks — Blank key, Locked chest, door, trapdoor, Assign a key
• Engraved plaque

Brick: five bricks round the hearth, then rock, an iron ingot and rock below. Stone: seven cells of rock round the hearth and an iron ingot at the bottom. Feed it wood, planks, sticks, coal or charcoal.

An iron ingot over a torch in the grid: two lanterns.

• Candle, candlestick, chandelier — Candle, Candlestick, Chandelier

Planks, a cogwheel, sticks and a string. Put 2 fibres of one kind (wool, flax, cotton or string), choose a pattern, add dyes if you want colours.

Weave it at the loom: 2 fibres of one kind, a pattern, and up to two dyes.

Three iron ingots, a cogwheel, planks and a hide. Put fabric, fibre and the extras, choose what to sew on its screen.

• Textile — Wool block, Dye vat, Curtains, rugs, cushions

At the grid: paper, charcoal (the pencil) and paper across the top, 3 planks across the middle, a stick in each bottom corner. Place it and right-click: draw in the DESIGN tab, then make a blueprint and copies in the ASSEMBLY tab.

Craft a bed, a table, a fireplace (bricks or stone) and an armchair or a sofa, and furnish your home.

At the grid: 4 iron ingots round 2 cogwheels and a hide (its belt), on a bottom row of 3 rock. Place it, right-click it, pick a product and put the ingot in: it runs by itself, four times faster on a powered small power cable (3 kW).

Put an ingot in the metal mill: sheets for iron, copper, aluminium or titanium (2 per ingot; steel gives 1 plate), copper wire for copper (8 per ingot).

At the grid: 4 iron or steel ingots in a ring give 2 cogwheels; 1 steel ingot gives 8 bolts; 2 steel ingots in a column give 8 coil springs; 7 copper wires round an iron ingot with a string (or wax) give 2 copper coils.

• Rotation — Shafts (wood, steel), Gear wheel, Electric motor

Lay conveyors between chests, machines, grids and silos (outputs push, inputs take), then add a diverter, an item detector and a blower where a line must choose, count or climb.

Lay pipes from an output port to an input port; draw liquid from the ground with a field pump on a shaft, push it farther or higher with booster pumps, control it with valves and serve buckets with taps.

Tank: 6 iron sheets and bolts. Large tank: 32 steel plates and bolts. Fill them by pipe, or by right-clicking with a full bucket or cylinder; draw with an empty one.

• Gas cylinder

At the grid: 6 aluminium sheets, copper wire on top, an electric motor in the centre and a lithium battery below it. Right-click water to put it in, right-click to board; charge it with a battery in hand or moored beside a powered cable.

At the grid: 4 iron sheets in the corners, 2 copper coils (top and bottom middle), 2 cogwheels (sides) and 2 tallow in the centre. Place it, put fuel in its slot (or oil and kerosene in its tank) and plug a power cable.

At the metal mill: 4 copper wires and an insulation give 8 small cables; 8 copper wires and 2 plastic or tar give 4 large cables. Lay them like a trail from port to port.

Mine bauxite (cave veins, three times more under jungles and savannas), then melt 16 voxels in the Furnace powered by a cable (8 kW): 1 aluminium ingot in 15 s. On the Moon, anorthosite gives 2 ingots.

Place a wind rotor hub with its back against a shaft or an electric motor, high and in the open, facing the wind; right-click the hub with a set of blades. A motor at the end of the line turns the wind into electricity.

• Hub and blades — Hub, Blades

At the grid: 3 cells of glass across the top, 2 silicon and copper wire in the middle row, 2 iron sheets in the bottom corners. Place it under the open sky and plug a power cable.

At the grid: 4 iron sheets in the corners, copper wire on top, 3 lithium ingots across the middle, epoxy at the bottom. Place it on your network.

Build a transformer, plug small power cables on one side and large ones on the other, and set it Up or Down on its sheet.

• Transformer
• Electric home — Light bulb, Ceiling, wall and floor lamps, Desk lamp, street lamp, Light switch, Electric radiator

Find a bitumen puddle or stain, dig down along its conduit to the oil lens under its air pocket, then scoop it with a bucket (standing: a whole cubic metre) or pump it with a field pump driven by a shaft.

At the grid: 4 copper sheets round an empty centre with 2 small pipes on top, 2 steel plates and bolts in the bottom row. Place it, feed it fuel (or a powered small cable, 3 kW) and crude oil by pipe or bucket, and pick what it makes.

• Tar
• Kerosene, petrol, diesel, natural gas — Kerosene, Petrol, Diesel, Natural gas

Refinery, choice Plastic: 32 voxels of crude oil or 32 units of natural gas give 2 plastic in 10 s.

At the grid: 4 steel plates in the corners, 2 copper coils on top, padding (wool, feathers or fur) on the sides of a cogwheel, 2 small pipes at the bottom. Place it, power it with a small cable (6 to 9 kW) and pick what it makes.

Furnace: clay in the ore slot and 16 voxels of limestone (or chalk) in the reducer slot: 2 cement in 10 s.

• Gunpowder

At the grid: 4 iron sheets in the corners, 2 cogwheels on top, a bucket in the centre, a hide (the belt) at the bottom. Place it, fuel it (or a cable, 1.5 kW), fill its slots and pour water in with a bucket.

Fill an empty bucket at the concrete mixer and pour it (standing: a whole cubic metre; crouching: one voxel). It creeps 2 voxels, sets dark grey after 60 s and is hard and light grey 4 minutes later.

At the grid: 4 cells of glass in a ring give 4 lenses; a cell of glass over a gold ingot gives 2 mirrors.

At the grid: plastic in the top corners with epoxy between, copper wire on each side of a silicon in the middle row, a gold ingot at the bottom: 2 circuit boards.

Each one at the grid with iron sheets, a coil and a glowing dial (or a spring for buttons and relays); wire it with signal cables and, for sensors, a power cable.

• Signal cables — Signal cable (256 m), Optical fibre (10 km), Optical coupler

Omni antenna: copper wire radials, a coil and an iron mast. Dish: an aluminium dish round a mirror, a coil and an iron mast. Place it, choose its channel, mode and target on its sheet.

Each one at the grid from silicon in epoxy on plastic (gates, op-amps, memories), a spring escapement (delay) or silicon between power cables (transistor); wire them with signal cables and set their mode on their sheet.

Put a sensor (level, presence, item detector) on a signal cable, through a logic gate (or an op-amp) into a relay on the machine's power cable.

At the grid: 256 bytes = a silicon on a circuit board, sealed in epoxy between 2 signal cables; 512 bytes = 4 silicon, 2 boards and a glowing part; 1 024 bytes = 16 silicon, 4 boards and gold. Place it, power it, right-click it to program it.

• Large microcontroller
• Register bank and recorder — Register bank, Signal writer, Wall panel

At the grid: 3 cells of glass, copper wire on each side of a gold ingot, planks on each side of a glowing backlight: 12 tiles. Click to place a 4 x 3 screen, or drag to size it (2 to 16 x 1 to 12 voxels); wire a chip's output to its Serial in.

• Repeater

Right-click the ground with the engine (it stands on four legs), then right-click the rocket with each part in order: tanks, cargo modules, the satellite deployer if any, the cockpit, the fairing on top. Hold left click to take the top part back.

Make empty dewars, fill them at the gas plant (liquid oxygen, liquid methane, liquid hydrogen) or the refinery (RP-1), then pour them on the rocket screen or let a fueling tower do it.

At the grid: 32 steel plates, a circuit board, 8 small pipes, 4 cogwheels and 2 copper coils. Place it within 12 m of the pad and fill it with full dewars (by hand or by conveyor).

Space suit: titanium sheets, glass, fabric, padding, epoxy and a circuit board. Jetpack: shell parts, steel plates, titanium ingots, epoxy and a circuit board. Wear the suit in the wingsuit slot, the jetpack in the parachute slot.

Build the engine, a tank, the cockpit and the fairing (plastic, circuit boards and epoxy go into them), stack them, fill the tanks with dewars and board.

• Cargo module
• Flight plan — Landing point, Flight simulation, 4 seats: passengers and animals

Pick an orbit as the destination (Low, Medium, Geostationary, or your own altitude and inclination) and let the autopilot fly; the patch is given the first time you reach a closed orbit outside the air at the controls.

At the grid: 32 steel plates, 4 m³ of glass, 32 aluminium sheets, 2 fabrics, 4 circuit boards, 8 epoxy and 8 light bulbs. Right-click flat ground: a green ghost shows where it will stand.

• Survey sensor

Load the packed satellite in a rocket's deployer, press "Fly to its orbit", and once there with the engine off press R.

• Release the satellite — Deployer, Inertial unit, R key

On the clean room console, Ground stations: pick a model, "Choose its place", then right-click flat ground far from the laboratory. Put paper in its recorder and wait for a pass.

Place a ground station (or any dish), aim or track it, then open the dish's sheet while it hears a satellite or a ship.

A rocket with 3 or 4 full tanks; choose The Moon (or a landing point on it from the map); press P and Space, nothing else: the autopilot brakes into a low lunar orbit, then lands.

Dustbacks graze the dust (breed them with lunar moss, shear them); geode snails live in craters and halls (breed them with crystal); pearlwings soar over craters (tame with star ferns); dust maws hide under the regolith.

Furnace: ilmenite gives 2 titanium for 4 coal, meteoric iron 2 steel without coal, anorthosite (on a cable) 2 aluminium, regolith 32 glass. Gas plant: Moon ice gives liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. Mixer: regolith and water make concrete.

• Helium-3 (Furnace fuel)

Pale blue-silver veins 1 to 12 m inside the walls of the Moon's craters (the Craters biome, where the ground climbs: rims, terraces, ejecta slopes), with a faint blue gleam in their shadow. Cut it with a pickaxe. 16 voxels of lunite ore in the Furnace's ore slot and 4 coal beside them: 1 lunite ingot in 15 s.

Press it in the hyperbaric press: 2 lunite ingots and 1 titanium ingot, 60 kW, 90 s, one alloy. Then put the tool, the weapon or the piece of armor and the alloy in the crafting grid, nothing else: the same item comes out with the alloy. A plain item holds one alloy (forging again replaces it); a raisonite item holds three.

At the grid: 4 lunar feathers in the corners, 4 hides on the sides, a titanium ingot in the centre. Tame a pearlwing with star ferns (12 % a try), right-click it with the saddle, then right-click to mount.

• Homecoming

On the Moon: make lunar propellants from Moon ice, lunar aluminium from anorthosite, and maw plates or dust felt from its creatures.

Bring a tamed, saddled pearlwing home by rocket (Homecoming), then ride it on the Earth: Space twice to take off.

At the grid: 32 titanium sheets, 4 circuit boards, 96 aluminium sheets, 4 small pipes, 32 padding (or 16 dust felt) and 8 springs. At the controls of your rocket in a stable orbit, engine off, right-click with it in hand.

• Secondary dock, dismantle

At the grid: 8 copper coils, 4 circuit boards, 4 lithium ingots, a steel plate and 4 titanium ingots. Place it aboard and bring it a power cable; choose the level on its screen.

• Zero g — Jetpack, Stranded: respawn

Place a ship's engine against a dock (up to 4), fuel tanks anywhere aboard (up to 16), a pilot's console (up to 4); pour dewars of liquid oxygen and one fuel into them.

On the rocket screen (or N in flight), choose your ship; "Rejoin your ship" says the time; Space. Near the ship, pick a dock (J or K) and let it dock; "Depart" leaves.

Sit at the pilot's console, press Destination (N): an orbit of the Earth or the Moon, another ship, a satellite or a community asteroid; Go: the autopilot burns at the right times. Manual: W A S D, Space, Shift push, arrows and Q E turn.

• Voyage to a community asteroid

Come back to the ground softly (the autopilot does it), refuel from dewars or a fueling tower, and take off again.

At take-off, answer "Checkpoint + take-off": a checkpoint called Pad is placed. To come home, choose it as the destination (or "Land here" on it in the map): the autopilot lands within a few metres.

On the rocket screen, Landing point: click a far place on the map, check the verdict, board and take off.

Aboard your station place an interplanetary drive (anywhere, one a ship) and a navigation table, then pour dewars of liquid methane and of helium-3 into its tanks at any engine, tank or the drive itself.

Right-click the navigation table, click a planet on the strip or in the list: its lights say whether the tanks pay the way (green), almost (orange) or not from here (grey). Orange also means a one-way trip: the tanks pay the way there, not the way home, and GO asks a second click. Press GO.

• Shuttle: land, then back up

Wear a sealed suit before pressing Land: the space suit on the Moon and Mars, the thermal suit on Mercury and on the cold moons (Europa, Titan, Miranda), with glacite armour on Triton and Pluto, the brass pressure suit on Venus's ground.

Take your ship to Mars's orbit, then a rocket down to the ground. Wear a sealed suit before you open the hatch: the air of Mars cannot be breathed.

• Explore Mars — A colonists' base, Polar ice, Aresite in a canyon wall, A dust storm lived through, A colonist's logbook

At the abandoned colony of Mars, on its built ground; a few stray in the deserts. In Easy it guards nothing: it fights only whoever hits it.

• Reprogram a drone: an ally

Press it in the hyperbaric press: 2 aresite ingots and 1 titanium ingot, 60 kW, 90 s, one alloy. Then put the tool, the weapon or the piece of armor and the alloy in the crafting grid, nothing else: the same item comes out with the alloy. A plain item holds one alloy (forging again replaces it); a raisonite item holds three.

Craft it (bricks, a lens, copper sheets, a catalyst, steel plates, a circuit board), set it on Mars on a medium power cable; empty dewars, Mars ice and dry ice in.

In Mars's orbit, at your ship's navigation table, choose the landing place Volcano: the shuttle sets down at the foot of the giant volcano (18° N, 134° W). Climb its 55 m basal cliff and its long flanks of old lava flows, and stand inside the rim of its caldera.

Aboard your ship in orbit round the Earth or the Moon, choose an asteroid among its destinations (the console's Community asteroids tab, or its pin on the map) and Go there: the fuel is paid on leaving, the voyage takes 30 s to 2 min. The ship parks 220 m from the rock: step out in a space suit with a jetpack and fly over.

On a wild asteroid, dig under the regolith skin: the violet crystal lies in pockets of a few cubes. Break them with an iron pickaxe or better: 16 voxels of the ore in the crafting grid make one raisonite shard.

In Venus's orbit, at your ship's navigation table, choose the landing place Cloud city, then Land: the shuttle sets down on the plaza of the floating city nearest the day side, 405 to 425 m up, above the acid cloud deck (300 to 380 m). Most 36 km regions of Venus have one. Set foot on a deck.

In small drifts in the acid fog of Venus and the open sky above it, never down on the burning ground: most of them around the floating cities, the place to gather cytherite. Hold sulfur in your hand: within 16 m it drifts down to you.

Press it in the hyperbaric press: 2 cytherite ingots and 1 titanium ingot, 60 kW, 90 s, one alloy. Then put the tool, the weapon or the piece of armor and the alloy in the crafting grid, nothing else: the same item comes out with the alloy. A plain item holds one alloy (forging again replaces it); a raisonite item holds three.

Go down through the acid cloud deck (300 to 380 m) to the ground under 300 m, in the brass pressure suit: nothing else stands the weight and the heat there. Stand on the ground.

• Gear for Venus — Brass pressure suit, An acid squall lived through, A basalt golem's heart

In Mercury's orbit, at your ship's navigation table, choose the landing place Twilight line: the shuttle sets down far north where the Sun is setting (within 6 degrees of the horizon), where the line moves at a walk. The HUD tells how far the night or the dawn lies and which way.

• Gear for Mercury — Thermal suit, Molten metal

Set a thermal crucible on Mercury at the edge of a pool of molten metal (within 3 m), on the day side: the Sun heats it and it skims a bead every 30 s, nothing to put in. At night the pools freeze and it waits. The lead salamanders of the pools carry a few beads too. 4 hermesite beads in the Furnace: 1 hermesite ingot in 10 s.

Press it in the hyperbaric press: 2 hermesite ingots and 1 titanium ingot, 60 kW, 90 s, one alloy. Then put the tool, the weapon or the piece of armor and the alloy in the crafting grid, nothing else: the same item comes out with the alloy. A plain item holds one alloy (forging again replaces it); a raisonite item holds three.

Leave the twilight line toward the day, walk one kilometre where the Sun stands above 20 degrees, in its light, then reach the twilight band or a shadow alive. Wear the thermal suit; cytherite armour adds 40 °C a piece.

Fly to Jupiter or Europa once. Then at the navigation table the ways to Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and their moons offer By Jupiter (the strip draws the way through the giant).

Build a Submarine, fly to Europa and choose the landing place Melt hole at your ship's navigation table: the shuttle sets down beside open water through the ice (one hole every 2.5 km; the leads of a chaos region too). Put the submarine down on the water, sit at the helm: Shift dives, Space rises.

• Build a submarine
• A black smoker's glowing rock

Nobody lands on Jupiter: put a lightning probe aboard your ship and fly it into orbit round Jupiter. Each copper ingot in it is a dive into the storms: a storm jovite every 45 s. Under the ice of Europa, the leviathan sheds scales of jovite on the sea floor. 2 storm jovites or 4 leviathan scales in the Furnace: 1 jovite ingot in 12 s.

Press it in the hyperbaric press: 2 jovite ingots and 1 titanium ingot, 60 kW, 90 s, one alloy. Then put the tool, the weapon or the piece of armor and the alloy in the crafting grid, nothing else: the same item comes out with the alloy. A plain item holds one alloy (forging again replaces it); a raisonite item holds three.

Dive into the ocean under Europa's ice and find it in deep water; you meet it when you swim within 14 m of it.

On Titan, jump from any height in a Wingsuit: it spreads by itself; hold Space to beat the wings and climb, look where you want to go. A Paraglider works too, sinking half as fast as on the Earth.

On Titan, right-click a lake or a sea with an empty Bucket: a bucket of liquid methane. It runs and swims like water.

Put a ring collector aboard your ship and fly it into orbit round Saturn: its net sweeps the rings' dust as you fly, one ring dust every 20 s, nothing to put in. 8 ring dust in the Furnace: 1 kronite ingot in 12 s.

Press it in the hyperbaric press: 2 kronite ingots and 1 titanium ingot, 60 kW, 90 s, one alloy. Then put the tool, the weapon or the piece of armor and the alloy in the crafting grid, nothing else: the same item comes out with the alloy. A plain item holds one alloy (forging again replaces it); a raisonite item holds three.

Bring a Boat (or the Electric boat, or the Submarine) to Titan (the navigation table's landing place Methane sea sets you down on a shore), right-click a methane lake or sea with it, sit in it.

• The colonists' wrecked probe

In Miranda's orbit, choose the landing place Great cliff at your ship's navigation table: the shuttle sets down on the plateau of the Inverness corona (on the equator, 0° east), a short walk from the edge. The plateau at 470 m ends in the great cliff over its southern side, 17 km long; its ends ramp down, so you can also walk up.

• A glacite-hearted diamond from the rain

On Miranda, Uranus's moon, diamonds rain from the sky every quarter of an hour for over a minute: two in three have a cold heart of glacite. Take shelter (they fall hard), then pick them up. The crystal mammoths give crystal fleece when shorn, and drop some by themselves; the ice spectres carry a glacite diamond one time in four. 2 glacite diamonds or 4 crystal fleeces in the Furnace: 1 glacite ingot in 12 s.

Press it in the hyperbaric press: 2 glacite ingots and 1 titanium ingot, 60 kW, 90 s, one alloy. Then put the tool, the weapon or the piece of armor and the alloy in the crafting grid, nothing else: the same item comes out with the alloy. A plain item holds one alloy (forging again replaces it); a raisonite item holds three.

Stand on the plateau at the edge of the great cliff, run, jump. Spread a Wingsuit or open a Paraglider before the ground.

In Triton's orbit, choose the landing place Geysers at your ship's navigation table: the shuttle sets down 40 m from a vent of the southern cap. A vent is a dark mouth 3 to 5 m wide under a rim of vent rock, a dark streak running east of it. Wait near it: the Nitrogen seal dives where one is about to blow.

• A tritonite crystal thrown by a geyser

On Triton, Neptune's moon, nitrogen geysers erupt on their own time: each throws 1 to 3 pink tritonite crystals up round its vent. The nitrogen seals dive where one is about to blow: wait there, catch them as they fall. 2 tritonite crystals in the Furnace: 1 tritonite ingot in 12 s.

Press it in the hyperbaric press: 2 tritonite ingots and 1 titanium ingot, 60 kW, 90 s, one alloy. Then put the tool, the weapon or the piece of armor and the alloy in the crafting grid, nothing else: the same item comes out with the alloy. A plain item holds one alloy (forging again replaces it); a raisonite item holds three.

On Triton, jump from a height with a Wingsuit or a Paraglider and keep flying: hold your line through the gusts.

Land on Pluto with light: a Lantern in hand, torches to set down. The ruins' glyph stones glow too.

• A glyph stone of the ancient ruins

In the eternal night of Pluto, the ancient ruins of the heart-shaped glacier keep the hadesite: each is guarded by a ruin guardian, a mini-boss. Defeat it for 3 to 5 shards; twenty minutes later another stands at its post. Shades drop one now and then. Take a lantern. 2 hadesite shards in the Furnace: 1 hadesite ingot in 15 s.

Press it in the hyperbaric press: 2 hadesite ingots and 1 titanium ingot, 60 kW, 90 s, one alloy. Then put the tool, the weapon or the piece of armor and the alloy in the crafting grid, nothing else: the same item comes out with the alloy. A plain item holds one alloy (forging again replaces it); a raisonite item holds three.

In Pluto's orbit, choose the landing place Great ruin at your ship's navigation table: the shuttle sets down before it, at the centre of the ice heart (between its two lobes), where two pylons and a lintel stand on the ice. Take the stair down under the glacier, cross the hall, enter the chamber of glyph stone.

Craft it on the Earth: gold ingot, raisonite shard, gold ingot / raisonite shard, diamond, raisonite shard / three titanium ingots. Place it anywhere: it needs no fire and no power. Put one ingot of each body in its own cradle.

Each body's raw material melts into its ingot in the Furnace. The ways differ: mining (the Moon, Mars), creatures (Venus's jellyfish, Mars's drones, Europa's leviathan, Miranda's mammoths, Pluto's guardians), machines (Mercury's crucible, the probe at Jupiter, the collector at Saturn), events (Miranda's diamond rain, Triton's geysers).

Craft them on the grid with raisonite ingots in the titanium patterns: pickaxe 3, axe 3, shovel 1, chisel 1, shears 2, sword 2 on a stick, bow 3 and 3 strings, spear 1 on two sticks laid corner to corner, hammer 3 on an iron haft, helmet 5, chestplate 8, leggings 7, boots 4.

Put a raisonite tool, weapon or piece of armor and one alloy in the crafting grid: the alloy is added. Again with a second, a third. A fourth is refused, so is one it already holds.

At the crafting grid (Space): the thermal suit in the middle, a cytherite alloy and a glacite alloy on either side, a glass visor above, two gold ingots and a raisonite ingot below. Wear it in the outfit slot.

From any orbit choose the Sun at the navigation table: the dearest way of all (about 7.6 km/s from the Earth, 5.5 from Titan, 31 dewars of helium-3).

Bring your ship into the Sun's orbit and stand aboard: the point of no return opens by itself, then stays in the pause menu (Descend into the Sun). Read its checklist, wear the solar suit, bring what the altar needs and press Descend.

Keep moving on the crust plates (the dark regions have the fewest lava lanes); step out of a tornado's path; when a burning streak comes down, run from where it points.

• Break the solar crust

On the Sun, dig under the black crust plates, 1.5 to 6 m deep: the veins glow in the dark. Any pickaxe mines it. Mine it BEFORE you wake the Colossus.

At the crafting grid (Space): a raisonite ingot on top, two gold ingots, four blocks of solar matter. Set it on the Sun's surface and lay one ingot of each body in its nine bowls.

Build the solar altar on the Sun's surface: 1 ingot from each body and 1 raisonite. The Colossus rises out of the ground there (6 seconds, untouchable).

Defeat the Solar Colossus: every player within 400 m of its fall lives the end together, the same stars falling for all of them.

After the black hole. Meanwhile the game takes you to your spawn (never the Sun) and loads its ground.

At the credits, press Wake up (or Enter) whenever you like.

Dig deep, 35 to 110 m under the ground, for small violet pockets of raisonite ore (1 to 3 cubes) that glow faintly; cut it with an iron pickaxe or better; 16 voxels of ore in the grid give 1 shard.

Furnace: 2 gold ingots in the ore slot, 1 raisonite shard in the reducer slot, 10 s. Then forge it: the tool, weapon or armor and the alloy in the crafting grid.

Forge it: any axe and a Raisonite alloy in the crafting grid. Then strike the trunk of a tree that grew on its own.

Forge it: the pickaxe, the shears or the shovel and a Raisonite alloy in the crafting grid.

Forge it: a sword, a bow, a crossbow or a piece of armor and a Raisonite alloy in the crafting grid.

At the grid: 16 steel plates, 8 titanium sheets, 4 cogwheels, 8 copper coils and 2 circuit boards. Place the 2 x 2 x 2 m press, bring it a large power cable, put each ingredient in a slot of its own.

Hyperbaric press: 2 steel ingots, 1 titanium ingot and 16 voxels of coal, 40 kW, 60 s. Forge it onto the item in the crafting grid.

Hyperbaric press: 2 aluminium ingots, 1 lithium ingot and 1 silicon, 40 kW, 60 s. Forge it onto the item in the crafting grid.

Hyperbaric press: Brisite from 2 steel ingots and a diamond (60 kW, 90 s); Egidite from 2 titanium ingots and a gold ingot (60 kW, 90 s). Forge them onto a weapon or a piece of armor.

Hyperbaric press: Nivelite from 2 copper ingots, an iron ingot and 16 voxels of basalt; Lissite from 2 copper ingots, 16 voxels of crystal and 16 of coal (30 kW, 60 s each). Forge them onto a pickaxe, a shovel, an axe or a chisel.

Bring back a body's metal, melt it into ingots in the Furnace, press 2 ingots and a titanium ingot in the hyperbaric press, forge the alloy onto an item on the grid.

Put a raisonite tool, weapon or piece of armor and one alloy in the crafting grid: the alloy is added. Again with a second, a third. A fourth is refused, so is one it already holds.

Find a uranium field with a Geiger counter, then set an industrial drill on the ground over it: it bores down and brings the ore up. One field always lies within 1.5 km of the world's start, many more under the dry land.

• Deep uranium — A field found (Geiger counter)

Craft it in the grid: a light bulb on top (its tube), two copper wires and a copper coil across the middle, an iron sheet below.

Craft it in the grid (16 steel plates, 2 cogwheels, 2 copper coils, 12 steel ingots). Set it on the ground where the Geiger counter is loudest and connect a small power cable: it needs 8 kW.

Craft it in the grid (steel plates, cogwheels, copper coils and a circuit board), connect a small power cable (8 kW) and put uranium ore in its hopper.

• Enrichment — Enriched uranium

In the grid: three enriched uranium in a column between six steel ingots make two fuel rods.

Craft it in the grid (steel plates, cement, cogwheels and circuit boards) and place it. Fill it with water (buckets, or a pipe from a pump) and put a fuel rod in it.

Craft it in the grid (steel plates, cogwheels, copper coils and bolts). Link the reactor's Steam out to its Steam in with a pipe and connect a large power cable.

Find a uranium field with a Geiger counter, set an industrial drill over it, and enrich its ore in a centrifuge; three enriched uranium in a steel tube make two fuel rods. A fission reactor filled with water boils its rods' heat into steam; a pipe takes the steam to a steam turbine, whose large power cable carries up to 50 kW to your machines. A rod lasts as long as its power is used; put the spent rods in a waste cask, two give back one enriched uranium.

Craft a waste cask in the grid (steel plates, bolts and cement) and put the spent fuel rods the reactor gives back in it.

• Spent fuel — A spent rod kept

In the grid: five copper coils round a glacite ingot, three steel ingots below, make two magnets. Glacite comes from Miranda, Uranus's moon.

On the Sun, dig under the black crust plates, 1.5 to 6 m deep: the veins glow in the dark. Any pickaxe mines it. Mine it BEFORE you wake the Colossus.

Craft it in the grid (five superconducting magnets, circuit boards, steel plates and copper coils), connect a large power cable and put solar matter in it.