Navigate the initial hours of The Alters with our comprehensive walkthrough. Learn resource gathering, base building, and survival essentials for the Sanctuary prologue.
Walkthrough:
- Day 1: Make It To The Base
- Follow red Emergency Flares to find your crashed ship and the base.
- Avoid radiation by reaching the base quickly.
- Interact with the elevator to enter the base.
- Head to the Communication Room to contact Earth.
- Visit the Captain's Cabin to learn basic mechanics from old logs.
- End the day by interacting with the bed in the Captain's Cabin.
- Day 2: Collecting Resources to Survive
- Exit the base through the Airlock.
- Gather nearby glowing orange rocks (Metals).
- Locate blue smoke indicating Organics deposits (glowing blue rocks).
- Return to the base and use the Base Building Console in the Command Center.
- Build a Workshop module.
- In the Workshop, craft a Scanner using the panel on the left and the conveyor belt on the right.
- Exit the base and head towards the parachute on the cliffside to find cargo. Loot all items.
- Loot another crashed cargo pod in the opposite direction for a Multitool.
- Head towards the blue smoke, go left of the cliff, and enter the cave.
- Find and extract Rapidium from the glowing spire.
- Locate the Organics deposit path to the left of the spire.
- Place Scanners at the Organics deposit to find the best mining spot.
- Place a Mining Outpost at the indicated spot and connect it to the base using Pylons.
- Return to the Communication Room and contact Earth.
- Build a
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