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Gameplay Tips

Solarpunk gameplay tips reference translated into direct advice for farming, water, storms, building, cables, inventory, animals, airship colors, and co-op pings.

The in-game tips are worth reading because they answer common early confusion: why plants stall, where clean water comes from, how storms damage crops, and how energy networks behave.

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In-game tips 28 Numeric backing values for words like random, larger, longer, and more hits.
Tip systems 11 Per-system tuning values behind the advice.
Topic System Advice
Raspberries Farming Growing raspberries early on is essential for securing a steady food supply. They also satisfy thirst a little bit.
Tilling Farming You can obtain random seeds and saplings by tilling a field with a hoe. Once discovered, new plants can also appear while tilling.
Watering Farming Plants only grow when they are watered. Rain automatically waters fields.
Storm protection Weather A house protects you from thunderstorms. Fully grown plants can be damaged by a thunderstorm if they are not sheltered from the wind direction.
Thirst Survival You can satisfy thirst by eating food like berries or drinking fresh water from a rain collector.
Stairs Building Stairs help overcome heights, can be built with the Build Hammer, and can be stacked.
Building wheel Building Main building parts are selected in the center. Special and alternative parts can be found in the outer ring.
Bridges Building Upper floors can be attached to foundations to construct bridges.
Pickaxe Tools Very large rocks and very small stones can be destroyed with a pickaxe; large stones need more hits than small ones.
Dismantling Building Built structures can be dismantled with an axe or pickaxe.
Clean water Survival Only rainwater is clean enough to drink directly. Some foods, such as raspberries, also help satisfy thirst a bit.
Burning Crafting Almost everything made of wood can be burned. Larger items burn significantly longer.
Crashed airship Airship Crashed airship components can be obtained from a crashed airship.
Foundation height Building Foundations can be extended with floors when the distance to the ground becomes too high, and foundation height can be adjusted.
Bushes Tools Bushes can be chopped down with an axe.
Cables Energy You can pull cables from any cable connector and attach them to other cable connectors.
Stack splitting Inventory Split item stacks by right-clicking, and hold Shift while clicking to transfer items between inventories.
Network display Energy Power networks work without a network display, but the display helps maintain an overview.
Hammer travel Building With a hammer, you can build houses and navigate terrain more easily using stairs and bridges.
Key items Inventory Important key items such as crashed airship components are shown in the inventory under Show Key Items.
Recipe alternatives Crafting Some crafting recipes have alternative versions in the crafting table.
Furnace Crafting Glass and other useful resources can be crafted in the furnace.
Animal transport Animals Use an animal transporter by placing the destination base, then using the transporter to move the animal to that base.
Logic block Energy A logic block can turn lights or sprinklers on and off by time or weather, and can invert the input signal.
Bed Survival A bed can skip the night or set a spawn point. Sleeping has no other effects.
Animal output Animals Happy animals produce resources that can be collected in the basket at the shelter.
Airship colors Airship New airship colors unlocked in the vending machine can be selected at the dock.
Ping Multiplayer Players can ping locations for other players to see.

Beginner Guide, Farming Water And Weather, Energy And Logic, Building, Controls And UI