The Environmental Puzzles — The Alters Walkthrough

Navigate The Alters' Environmental Puzzles with our comprehensive walkthrough. Learn resource gathering, base building, and survival tips to escape the planet.

Walkthrough:

1. Day 1: Make It To The Base
   • Follow red Emergency Flares to the base.
   • Interact with the elevator to enter the ship.
   • Head to the Communication Room to speak with an unknown person.
   • Visit the Captain's Cabin to learn basic mechanics from logs.
   • End the day by interacting with the bed (E key).
2. Day 2: Collecting Resources to Survive
   • Exit the base through the Airlock.
   • Gather Metals from bright orange glowing rocks.
   • Locate Blue Smoke indicating Organics deposits (left of the ship, toward a cave, look up and right).
   • Return to the base and build a Workshop using the Base Building Console in the Command Center.
   • In the Workshop, craft a Scanner using the left panel and conveyor belt.
   • Exit the base and go to the area with blue smoke.
   • Find a parachute cargo pod to the right of the cliffside; collect items.
   • (Optional) Find another cargo pod in the opposite direction for a Multitool.
   • Go left of the cliff, through a cave, to find a colorful Spire. Extract Rapidium manually.
   • Find the Organics deposits to the left of the Spire.
   • Place Scanners to find the best mining spot, then place a Mining Outpost.
   • Connect the Mining Outpost to the base using Pylons.
   • Return to the Communication Room and contact Earth.
   • Build a