Research
Solarpunk research hub for Research Table routing, exact unlock costs, recipe unlocks, machine gates, animal care, energy, airship parts, and late comfort items.
Research is the main way the base turns scattered materials into new options. Use this hub when you need to decide what unlock should come next, which materials to save, or why a recipe is still missing.
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Research Unlock Order
Practical order for early survival, stations, farming, animals, energy, airship support, and comfort unlocks.
Machines and Materials
How research connects to crafting stations, furnace routes, recycled materials, and machine setup.
Crafting System
How crafted items, research gates, stations, and exact recipes fit together.
Exact Lookup
Research Unlocks
Exact extracted research costs, categories, and unlocked items.
Crafting Recipes
Recipes unlocked by research and the stations that make them.
Research Table
The station that spends materials to unlock new recipes and systems.
Research Materials
Raw and processed materials that often compete with tools, machines, buildings, and airship upgrades.
How To Choose The Next Unlock
- Unlock whatever removes the current bottleneck: water, food, storage, machine access, power, animals, or airship reach.
- Check exact costs in Research Unlocks before spending metals, crops, animal products, or electrical parts elsewhere.
- If an unlock grants a recipe, open Crafting Recipes to see the station and material chain before committing.
- Delay decoration and cosmetic unlocks until food, clean water, crafting, research, base routes, and airship trips are stable.
Common Research Gates
| Need | Check |
|---|---|
| More stations or production | Machines and Automation and Crafting, Machines, and Materials |
| Watering and farm scale | Sprinkler and Farming, Water, and Weather |
| Animal expansion | Animals and Animals and Products |
| Power network growth | Energy Network Parts and Energy and Logic |
| Airship progress | Airship Upgrades and Airship Repair and Exploration |
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Research Unlock Order, Research Unlocks, Crafting Recipes, Machines And Automation, Resources