Solve the next bottleneck.
These pages focus on decisions players repeatedly need to make. Early Access may change exact pre-release values, so these guides focus on choices likely to remain useful.
Beginner Guide: A Safe First Settlement and First Expedition
A practical early-game route for building shelter, research, basic gear, and a four-person expedition using an approach that remains useful when systems change.
Food, Starvation & Mood Guide
How to keep settlers fed, avoid cascading hunger problems, and plan food before recruiting or entering the dungeon.
Research Guide: What to Unlock First
A decision-first research framework for food, crafting, housing and expedition power without relying on a fixed pre-release order.
Skills, Traits & Builds Guide
How weapon skills, sub-skills, stats, race, background and personality combine when choosing a recruit or building a four-person party.
Expedition Guide: Rations, Floors, Loot & When to Retreat
Plan safer dungeon runs: what to bring, how to use pause, why deeper floors are riskier, and when permanent death makes retreat the correct choice.
Combat Guide: Pause, Positioning, Status Effects & Survival
A practical tactical combat guide for position, survival and decisive use of pause.
Population & Recruitment Guide
When to recruit, what to inspect on each candidate, and why more settlers can make a weak colony worse.
Materials & Resources Hub
A practical resource hub for dungeon gathering, processing dependencies and what to verify when a material seems missing.