Follow our comprehensive walkthrough for The Alters to successfully navigate The Abandoned Workshop, gather essential resources like Metals and Organics, and progress through the early stages of the game.
Walkthrough:
- Day 1: Make It To The Base
- Follow red Emergency Flares to find your crashed ship.
- Locate your Captain's pod and follow the path towards the base.
- Enter the base via the elevator and 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 Metal deposits (glowing orange rocks).
- Locate Organics (glowing blue rocks indicated by blue smoke).
- Return to the base and use the Base Building Console in the Command Center to build a Workshop.
- In the Workshop, craft a Scanner using the panel on the left and the conveyor belt on the right.
- Exit the base again and head towards the blue smoke.
- Find a crashed cargo pod near a parachute on a cliffside and loot it.
- (Optional) Loot another crashed cargo pod in the opposite direction for a Multitool.
- Head left of the cliff, through a cave, towards a glowing Spire to find and extract Rapidium.
- Follow the path to the Organics deposits.
- Place Scanners to find the best mining spot, then build a Mining Outpost.
- Connect the Mining Outpost to the base using Pylons.
- Return to the Communication Room and contact Earth to receive the task to build a
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