Start in Story Mode and build a compact riverside town with homes, workplaces, food and drink close together. The pages below go from that first settlement to fixing stalled production, caring for Kewa and settling planets. Check housing range, workers and byproduct storage before adding more factories: a shortage can come from a stopped building rather than too little production. Keep pollution under control as you expand, because your city depends on the living space whale beneath it.
Guide: Stabilize Your Town and Make First Contact
- Beyond These Stars tips: Start a balanced riverside settlement, keep jobs within housing range and supply food and drink after every shift.
- Beyond These Stars Strange Transmitter: Build over the Mysterious Ruin, supply construction materials and choose communicator responses to speak with Kewa.
- Beyond These Stars Xbox, platforms and Steam: Check Windows PC purchase options, Steam demo access and the distinction between Xbox on PC and native console editions.
City Building: Restore Production and Grow Breathable Land
- Beyond These Stars resources: Follow materials through producers and byproduct consumers, including the route from Slag to Fuel.
- Beyond These Stars connect power: Link generators and consumers through touching buildings or Power Lines, then check fuel and Soot storage if power stops.
- Beyond These Stars no output space: Inspect both output and byproduct stores, allocate shed space and pause surplus production to clear a blockage.
- Beyond These Stars cleaners: Check road access and breathable air before placement, then enable the built Cleaner and supply its inputs.
- Beyond These Stars pollution: Use the Pollution Overlay to locate trouble, keep Cleaners supplied and clear Toxic Areas with Toxic Tile Scrapers.
- Beyond These Stars terraforming: Dig canals, compost bare ground and plant watered forests to create fertile, breathable room for expansion.
Exploration: Travel with Kewa and Supply Outposts
- Beyond These Stars Kewa: Open galaxy travel through first contact, support Kewa's health and happiness, and understand feeding detours and emergency travel.
- Beyond These Stars outposts: Scout habitable planets, upgrade the Home Spaceship for settlement and use Trade Ships to move supplies between Space Ports.
