50 Tips for Surviving Mars

A game Guide and Tutorial for both complete beginners and experienced players. With 50 tips and tricks to help you survive on Mars!

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Skyes PC Spec
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CPU: Intel i7-4790k @4 GHz
RAM: 16GB
GPU: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8GB GDDR5X

End Titles Music:
Tobu - Candyland

[TheMementoMori]

The most mind blowing tip for me was the solar panels in dome! Way less maintenance.

[Karagianis]

Important tip here, always disable fuel from universal depots. If a meteorite hits a fuel store it blows up destroying all the fuel in that depot. But if there's even one fuel in a universal depot and it gets hit you loose not only the fuel, but everything else on the depot with it.

[benwang]

Skye Storme: Don't play easy mode, that is too boring.

Me: Playing very easy and all colonists die because of

[kaiserslavaniaashur]

“Its over anakin! I gave my turbines the high ground!”

[Kulzar]

This video should be mandatory viewing for every new player of Surviving Mars!

Even after watching you play, and finishing a playthrough myself, there are things I didn't know you could do. For example, I didn't understand what a heavy workload was before you showed it, and I didn't know you could put solar panels in domes!

So thanks for all these tips!

[Hedning]

Tip: You don't have to micromanage workers. They will automatically seek out suitable jobs over time and the university will also train people for what is lacking. Make good use of the deny and preferred options, but don't sit and move workers individually. I see a lot of reviews complaining about how they spend hours moving individual workers only for it to not work, be incredibly tedious with high populations, and ultimately be undone when they die of old age. I think it would have been better if the ability to move individual people were simply removed from the game since it is confusing so many players.

[raidermaxx]

you should do a new one, covering all the DLC content, especially the terraforming of mars.. anyways thanks again.

[christopherdayringer]

Vaporator tip, you can have the outer borders overlap. You only lose efficiency if the borders overlap another vaporator itself.

[spamuel]

NOTE: The location Skye picks in this tutorial HAS BEEN CHANGED, so no easy resource locations for you, although the threat levels do stay the same.

[darkwizard_duke]

Can we have 2021 update???
Good tutorial btw

[Bicketybam]

That was awesome, cheers mate. Some fantastic tips there.

[Mstrmiyagi]

Wanted to say that on my first play through I did the easiest possible settings and I felt like I was on the edge of losing the entire time. That’s probably just me though.

[GlassDeviant]

You forgot that it's better to have one or two full shifts and shut down the other(s) than three partial shifts, as this will save energy by consuming none during the unused shift. Combining this with making the night shift the off one reduces your reliance on batteries through the night.

[waynegarrett]

the Sirenum Beta map has changed, that crater with water is gone

[ChristopherBurkholder]

Thanks Skye.... lots of stuff here that i learned from watching your playthrough. I will have to try the location and mission composition that you suggest. My first couple of attempts went badly wrong after about 100 sols. All of a sudden I was the proud owner of a ghost colony on Mars.

So off to Mars I go... again...

[czynx]

Great video and info! However I can't help but feel like it's a tutorial narrated by John Oliver!

[faytatreides]

I gave these settings on the EU ps4 version on this game. Its not the same. The difficult is at 230% and you get a different starting map. Thanks for the tips.

[pat]

Correction: You make about 11.5% more food per day with the corn\fruit combo than quinoa method. You make about than 1.13 more food per day this way. However you do save about than 40% more water with quinoa. And no one will see this comment....

[dpm]

man this was more in depth then the in game tutorial. good job

[GameOverAus]

another tip, you can restart the map at anytime so if you don't find what you want on the initial probes you can just restart and look elsewhere cause the initial resources will be in exactly the same spot, saving yourself probe time and you could find the perfect spot