Thank you for this base guide! There is SO MUCH that I don't understand yet but your guides are helping enormously! I'd be utterly lost without these guides.
I know this is a few months old, still helpful. I like to view "Tutorials" for the games I play. This one is very good and helpful. A couple of things I hope you don't take offence at, you would help more beginners by also including things you seem to take for granted. For example. When you were first digging up ores with your drone, you suggested digging down a small tunnel and making an inlet for your avatar to hide in - great suggestion by the way - but you said that you would have to "jump up" the slope to get out of the tunnel. Perhaps add how you jump? Pressing the space bar repeatedly. When I was first playing this game it took me a bit to figure out the movement keys even though they are common for most games, because the game I came from used a different set for movement, no biggy, just a suggestion. With regard to how you choose to get your Blueprints in faster, for your new viewers, rather than using the command/debug tool you could just set the option for blueprints to be instant in the settings before you even start the game. It's right above the setting you did use to turn off weight/mass. Then you don't even have to think about "how did he get into that screen where he typed in FBP?" Again, I don't mean any offence about your tutorial, it's very good and quite useful for new players. Just some things might be more clear if you take the time to include what things seem simple after you've played for awhile. The "P" screen for example, where you find the info about your ship or base. I am guessing that you prefer to make your own categories for grouping items, I do the same thing, and it is helpful for new players to learn how to do that, but for starting out there is a faster and easier method for quickly grouping everything into predefined categories on the devices tab. Right above the list of items are several icons, including the '+', '-' options you used to create your own categories. There is also an icon that looks a bit like little boxes stacked in a pyramid formation. Clicking on that icon will do an automatic grouping into very useful categories for you. Then if you decide you want finer lists of groups you can just click the '+' icon and add as many as you want and simply move items from group to group in the same method you showed when moving items from the uncategorized group to the Turrets group you made and also the Cargo Box group that is actually an auto group the maker of the Blue Moon base used to put all his cargo boxes there. When you placed the solar panels you did well in showing that if you Right click when you have the solar panel selected you get several styles of solar panels to choose from. However when you placed the cargo boxes you choose to use the default ones - which is fine - but you might have also shown that you can also Right click for those items as well and select different styles of cargo boxes, some of which hold much more cargo then the little default one you used. Also, for those new players who might read through this comment, MOST items (building blocks, items like cargo boxes and such) have few or many different styles of their form found when you select the item in question and Right click it. Again, not meaning this as a criticism of your Tutorial, I get that you are attempting to make it simple on purpose, but little things like this may go a long ways to helping new players feel more confident in their choices (in that they have many such choices) in the beginning of their play through. I really like your very helpful tutorial, I have watched many other tutorials along the way as well and found that the most experienced players usually take many of the mundane things they've learned in the game for granted, as second nature really, and forget that even seemingly little things can be frustrating for new users whom have never played the game before and unfortunately didn't get that information from the otherwise great video tutorial they just watched. I would like to end with this though. Thank God for tutorials like yours! Because the game's built-in "Tutorial" is extremely lacking even the most basic usefulness, so truly - THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WITH THIS SERIES OF VIDEOS! Very Very helpful!
Thanks for the extensive feedback and absolutely no offence taken, all good, constructive stuff. It is indeed tricky trying to remember all the little things that one takes for granted - eg I sometimes go back to a game after a long layoff and have to watch my own videos to try remember stuff and sometimes think 'hang on, how did I do that ?' So I know exactly what you mean, its just a challenge trying to remember all those little things. Thanks again for the input.
@@kagang8959 To add to this, You placed plants into the Grow Block area but didn't explain how this mechanic works. Thankfully, with some playing around with the nutrient solution and the food processor/fridge in the base I was able to figure out that there is a 3rd tab that enables you to create plants of various types that can be planted into the grow blocks. However, this was entirely skipped over and left me just wondering how to do it. I've now gathered my first couple of tomatoes but I don't know how to repeat the grow cycle? Does this happen automatically? While you should encourage new players to experiment and learn as they go, do please give a pointer in the right direct of where to find things like this so that they can then explore these new game mechanics for themselves. Again! I would like to emphasis just how much these videos of yours are REALLY APPRECIATED! They are making the difference between giving up with the game because of the steep learning curve or having someone who can hold your hand to get you started!
@@SusannaSaunders Yup sorry, skipped that part. By now you will have figured out need to remove the blocks where you want to place the grow plots, place them in the empty spaces etc
@@kagang8959 No worries, I'm sure there are a lot of secondary game mechanics like this that would take whole episodes to cover (which, I'm sure, wouldn't be even remotely interesting for you to make). Even a pointer where to find these secondary mechanics though would be helpful please! In the Fridge/Food Processor tabs in this case.
Thank you for this base guide! There is SO MUCH that I don't understand yet but your guides are helping enormously! I'd be utterly lost without these guides.
Very happy to hear it, thanks again and appreciated.
I know this is a few months old, still helpful. I like to view "Tutorials" for the games I play. This one is very good and helpful. A couple of things I hope you don't take offence at, you would help more beginners by also including things you seem to take for granted. For example. When you were first digging up ores with your drone, you suggested digging down a small tunnel and making an inlet for your avatar to hide in - great suggestion by the way - but you said that you would have to "jump up" the slope to get out of the tunnel. Perhaps add how you jump? Pressing the space bar repeatedly. When I was first playing this game it took me a bit to figure out the movement keys even though they are common for most games, because the game I came from used a different set for movement, no biggy, just a suggestion.
With regard to how you choose to get your Blueprints in faster, for your new viewers, rather than using the command/debug tool you could just set the option for blueprints to be instant in the settings before you even start the game. It's right above the setting you did use to turn off weight/mass. Then you don't even have to think about "how did he get into that screen where he typed in FBP?" Again, I don't mean any offence about your tutorial, it's very good and quite useful for new players. Just some things might be more clear if you take the time to include what things seem simple after you've played for awhile. The "P" screen for example, where you find the info about your ship or base. I am guessing that you prefer to make your own categories for grouping items, I do the same thing, and it is helpful for new players to learn how to do that, but for starting out there is a faster and easier method for quickly grouping everything into predefined categories on the devices tab. Right above the list of items are several icons, including the '+', '-' options you used to create your own categories. There is also an icon that looks a bit like little boxes stacked in a pyramid formation. Clicking on that icon will do an automatic grouping into very useful categories for you. Then if you decide you want finer lists of groups you can just click the '+' icon and add as many as you want and simply move items from group to group in the same method you showed when moving items from the uncategorized group to the Turrets group you made and also the Cargo Box group that is actually an auto group the maker of the Blue Moon base used to put all his cargo boxes there.
When you placed the solar panels you did well in showing that if you Right click when you have the solar panel selected you get several styles of solar panels to choose from. However when you placed the cargo boxes you choose to use the default ones - which is fine - but you might have also shown that you can also Right click for those items as well and select different styles of cargo boxes, some of which hold much more cargo then the little default one you used. Also, for those new players who might read through this comment, MOST items (building blocks, items like cargo boxes and such) have few or many different styles of their form found when you select the item in question and Right click it. Again, not meaning this as a criticism of your Tutorial, I get that you are attempting to make it simple on purpose, but little things like this may go a long ways to helping new players feel more confident in their choices (in that they have many such choices) in the beginning of their play through.
I really like your very helpful tutorial, I have watched many other tutorials along the way as well and found that the most experienced players usually take many of the mundane things they've learned in the game for granted, as second nature really, and forget that even seemingly little things can be frustrating for new users whom have never played the game before and unfortunately didn't get that information from the otherwise great video tutorial they just watched.
I would like to end with this though. Thank God for tutorials like yours! Because the game's built-in "Tutorial" is extremely lacking even the most basic usefulness, so truly - THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WITH THIS SERIES OF VIDEOS! Very Very helpful!
Thanks for the extensive feedback and absolutely no offence taken, all good, constructive stuff. It is indeed tricky trying to remember all the little things that one takes for granted - eg I sometimes go back to a game after a long layoff and have to watch my own videos to try remember stuff and sometimes think 'hang on, how did I do that ?' So I know exactly what you mean, its just a challenge trying to remember all those little things. Thanks again for the input.
@@kagang8959 To add to this, You placed plants into the Grow Block area but didn't explain how this mechanic works. Thankfully, with some playing around with the nutrient solution and the food processor/fridge in the base I was able to figure out that there is a 3rd tab that enables you to create plants of various types that can be planted into the grow blocks. However, this was entirely skipped over and left me just wondering how to do it. I've now gathered my first couple of tomatoes but I don't know how to repeat the grow cycle? Does this happen automatically?
While you should encourage new players to experiment and learn as they go, do please give a pointer in the right direct of where to find things like this so that they can then explore these new game mechanics for themselves.
Again! I would like to emphasis just how much these videos of yours are REALLY APPRECIATED! They are making the difference between giving up with the game because of the steep learning curve or having someone who can hold your hand to get you started!
@@SusannaSaunders Yup sorry, skipped that part. By now you will have figured out need to remove the blocks where you want to place the grow plots, place them in the empty spaces etc
@@kagang8959 No worries, I'm sure there are a lot of secondary game mechanics like this that would take whole episodes to cover (which, I'm sure, wouldn't be even remotely interesting for you to make). Even a pointer where to find these secondary mechanics though would be helpful please! In the Fridge/Food Processor tabs in this case.
Thanks do you play online
Unfortunately not - too many frequent distractions make it difficult currently. Hopes to do so in the future though.