50 Tips and Tricks in Astroneer!

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[eliwimmer]

Surprised you didn’t mention converting gasses. If you put a gas in the smelter it will convert it into the gas with next highest atomic mass 👍

[taiconan]

Can confirm, last tip *does* generate a noteworthy amount of scrap... and one of the fastest ways to return to spawn.

[Mark-hppf]

14:12 34.5 There’s actually a pretty good use to that thing. It’s just lore material, but it also has the affinity to roll to the closest point of the core. That means that you can use it as a level measure tool, by adjusting the floor so that the ball doesn’t roll on a flat surface you’ll be able to make a perfectly levelled floor anywhere you want!

[douggibson]

One of my favorite tips is: you don't need a full hydrazine in the chemistry lab, you can use a partial canister and it works just fine. Easy way to get partial canisters of it: put a few full hydrazine in a medium fluid canister, start to pump out a new canister and grab it quickly before it fills the entire thing. If you grab it fast enough, it will be less than 25% full.

[Justinperrine]

I've blown up 27 eco crates at once with 1 dynamite

[durf_gamz]

0:00: Intro
0:22: 1, glacio OP research
0:45: 2, True Flat location
1:09: 3, soil to scrap
1:28: 4, medium generator
1:50: 5, Research samples better lol
2:08: 6, Use a ton of small wind turbines
2:25 7, stay away from calidor, vesenia, and novus.
2:56 8, free dynamite.
3:09 9, trading platform currencies.
3:26 10, true flat on top of gateways is better
3:43 11, you can also build under gateways.
4:05 12, invisible extender cables with true flat.
4:28 13, bring aluminum to new planets.
4:47 14, bring a medium genator to new planets.
5:21 15, all things in game work out of render distance (like research!)
5:47 16, wide and boost mod together are OP.
6:21 17, you dont REALLY need the oxygenation for small shuttles.
6:52 18, make sure to have a normal soil centrifuge if you have one for scrap.
7:21 19, skip the medium shuttle bozo.
8:01 20, skip the 2nd drill mod and maybe the 1st.
8:18 21, drill and paver is great for roads and railways.
8:27 22, large rover is best for gathering soil, but have a designated area.
9:03 23, inhibator mod is good for organic gathering.
9:09 24, inhibator mod and terrain analyzer makes it so you can paint different colors.
9:24 25, theres a creative drill menu!!!
9:41 26, narrow mod for true flat.
9:53 27, boost mod alone is worse than wide mod alone. together is best though.
10:42 28, glacio cave research method.
11:02 29, wind small is best, solar medium is best. RTG the goat though.
11:49 30, medium generator can be automated with wind or solar.
12:41 31, you can find large wind turbines for free on glacio.
13:10 32, you can find copper in sylvas caves when it gets red.
13:21 33, you can walk slowly.
13:25 34, materials that are better to scrap vs get from centifuge.
14:03 34.5, Yeah i dont know either.
14:16 35, true flat sensor arcs look cool.
14:27 36, blow exos cache'd up in clusters.
15:08 37, get ingredients in bulk for nanocarbon alloy.
16:21 38, Steam forums to find friends!!
16:51 39, use splitter to cut power to atmospheric condenser.
17:22 40, skybase solar on the poles of the planet.
17:41 41, infinite bytes.
18:08 42, dont use auto arms to transport long distance.
18:24 43, you can make extenders multi directional.
18:40 44, medium platform A is better than splitters at times.
19:15 45, STOP USING GLOW STICKS.
19:17 46, Research from glacio can be repackaged.
19:42 47, sky limit base using landing pad.
20:05 48, creative save from a survival save.
20:44 49, fast pickup tethers.
21:02 50, wide mod with flat is great for cave drilling.
21:16 BONUS, Scrap dynamite gives you more

TIPS I FOUND IN COMMENTS:
1, sphalerite research from desolo is 6900 bytes but is faster than glacios.
2, atrox caves has 600 byte research samples.
3, you dont need a full hyrazine in the chemistry lab, a partial one works just as good (Holy crap this is useful)
TIPS FROM ME:
1, Hydrogen research from atrox has more bytes than desolo and glacio research.

HOPE THIS HELPED HAVE A GOOD DAY

[youknowwho]

"Don't go to Vesania in the early game"
Me going to Vesania 5 minutes after starting the game with a full inventory of cables to explore caves, and coming back 10 minutes latter with almost 40k bytes and saving hours of a boring grind to be able to research stuff.

[Kimberleyjanetoure]

Another item to bring on planets is packagers because if you use it on your thruster it regains it’s fuel but make sure the thruster doesn’t turn to scrap

[aaron_d_henderson]

the fault finder is something you unlock in the missions in late game where you go to the sun room, and do stuff in that questline... if you can select fault finders in your trade platform its probably already unlocked (since you probably did all the missions already).
the fault finders cost scrap+astronium to make, so kind of more expensive than the other two options in the trade platform.

[CrabVR]

I’m probably late to this video but bonus tip: if you don’t want to use your resources to make a nano carbon alloy just use the pet usagi on atrox because he can track crashed satellites or whatever they are called and the crashes satellites on atrox have a good chance of giving a nano carbon alloy


Bonus Bonus tip: it’s the same thing with glacio but it’s steel and titanium alloys😁

[chuckg]

I like how it goes from the 50th tip about going to caves, then switches to the un-numbered dynamite “tip.” Very subtle.
(Only the true astroneers will find out what scraping dynamite does.)

[droidean]

I watch a lot of guides/tips/tricks videos for various games throughout my gaming hobby and this is one of the best ones. Quick edits, good humor, no annoying music, useful tips. Nice job!

[tassie]

30 If you run the wind and solar through a battery then attach the Power Sensor to the battery it can be used to trigger the Generator when neither wind or sunshine is available (or even if their is insufficient power provided by wind or sun)

PS Use an Extender between the Battery and the Generator to stop the power going back to the Battery which will trigger the Generator on/off rapidly.

[colonelsanderkfc]

13:08 can confirm, i found a functioning extra large wind turbine on atrox and spend 20 mins trying to get it back to my base cause all I had was a tractor

[nickster.d]

45. do not craft glowsticks! i freaking died lmao

[xCausinChaosx]

I disagree, Vesania is often the first planet i visit for early lithium.. Getting medium batteries down so my base can still run with no wind/solar power makes life SOOO much easier

[BlixerButacat]

21:33 I remember trying that! Reloaded my save…the amount of scraps is too much! It was lagging…

[Natsukashii-Records]

30) When using Solar AND wind put a splitter that drives the power to a single node so as long as there is power either from solar or wind the button will be off, when power from both of them runs out, the generator(s) will turn on.

[tassie]

That last tip is a real killer 👍👍👍
Best tip of the lot

[eviticus]

Man, most of the world is missing out on Astroneer. It's literally the BEST video game, and nobody i know plays it (except my friends who i made buy it). Thanks for doing awesome content like this, and hopefully dragging people into the fanbase. :)