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Quick Start Guide

Overview

This is a guide for new players of Evospace to introduce them to the game, and guide them in learning the basics. It will cover what the various menu screen do and how to access them, and walk the player through building their first simple production lines.

Welcome to the world

Welcome to Evospace. Presuming that you just entered your first world, you will find yourself standing on a small platform, with a device in one corner. (If you have not moved yet, look down - you are standing on it.) That device marks your current "Home Location", and can be moved later should you want to. For now, this is going to be your first mini-factory, and this guide will walk you through the basics of how to build a simple production line.

To begin, let's take a quick tour through the game's menus. At the bottom center of the screen is a Hotbar, and will have two items on it. The first is your Multitool. This is used to pick up manufactured items, harvest plants, or mine into the ground. The second hotbar item are Basic Platform blocks, and you start out with 999 of them. Try using your Multitool [Press the 1 key and Left Mouse] to remove one of the blocks from your starting planform, and then replace it [Press 2 and Left Mouse] with a Basic Block.

To access your inventory, press E. The center window is your inventory, and the right window is Parts Catalog. The catalog has four tabs you can select : Unlocked (things you know how to make), Favorites, All items in the game, and Search results. You can drag items from your inventory to your hotbar for quick access. To clear a hotbar slot, right-click on it.

In the lower left of the screen are a number of icons. The top five can be used to set the time of day. The two underneath those are for research, and the last two are for toggling flight mode (once you have a jetpack) and highlighting inputs and outputs of machines. Don't worry about any of these for now.

Collecting resources manually

Now it's time to gather some resources. You will need to go out and find some Copper Ore and some Fuel. Activate your Multitool and walk away from your starting platform. There is an indicator in the upper right of the screen telling you what your Multitool is pointing at. Don't worry about getting lost - you can always return Home by pressing Escape and using the Teleport to Home option.

Copper is smelted from an ore called Chalcopyrite, which you will find in reddish patches of ground. Once you find some, use your tool to gather about 30 ore.

For fuel, you can either find some Coal in greyish patches of ground, or harvest some wood from trees. Again, get about 30 units of fuel.

Once you have your resources, return home. It's smelting time.

Making Copper

You start out with 99 Stone, which you can use as an initial building material until you have Copper. (If you need more stone, mine the rocks that are scattered about in the world.)

Now to smelt the Chalcopyrite ore into copper, we will need to make two machines. Open your inventory, and look at your Unlocked catalog. In the Stone section, click on the Stone Furnace and the Stone Smelter to make one of each of them. As you are making items, you can see the progress in the lower-left of your screen.

From your inventory, click on the Stone Furnace and close the inventory. You will see a ghostly furnace in front of you. You can rotate it using the R key if you like, but it's orientation will not matter. Pick a spot on your platform, and use the Left mouse key to put it down. Notice that on the top of the furnace, there is a dashed red circle. As it's a dashed line, it is an Output, and as it's Red it's for Heat. Left click on the furnace to access it's interface.

In the middle of the interface is a progress bar. Above that to the left is the Input area, currently empty. Drag the fuel you collect into that empty box. The furnace is now creating heat, but as it's not being used, it's in a paused state, so no fuel is being lost.

Now open up your inventory again, and select the Smelter. On the bottom of the smelter is a solid red circle. That tells you that it's the input side for heat. Put the smelter on top of the furnace, so the red circles touch each other. Then the heat from the furnace will flow into the smelter.

Finally, open up the smelter (left click) and put in the Chalcopyrite ore. You will see Copper Plates being created in the output area of the smelter, under the progress bar.