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.
Verified Counts
| What | Verified Value | Needs Verification |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Related
Beginner Guide, Farming Water And Weather, Energy And Logic, Building, Controls And UI