Researching any technology will make a new technology within its field available for research. Standard technologies are divided in five fields with different themes. New technologies will unlock new buildings, upgrades, colonist perks and other benefits for the colony. Tech Anomaly (key)- These anomalies enable specific techs to be researched, no matter their place on the tech tree.Breakthrough Anomaly (magnifying glass) - These anomalies reveal a tech on the Breakthrough tree in the Research Screen.Research Anomaly (flask) - These anomalies instantly generate Research Points, which then contribute to any ongoing research.Event Anomaly (eye) - These anomalies trigger events, which can be associated with Mysteries or not.An anomaly can be one of the following sorts: Sending a RC Explorer to analyze them will trigger their effects.

Late game deep scanning can reveal deep underground Metals, Rare Metals and Water deposits which require specific techs before they can be extracted.Īnomalies appear all over the map in scanned sectors. If said facilities are full, the Extractor will stop working until Drones move the Waste Rock to a Waste Rock Dump. Resources are stockpiled in Extractors until Drones come to take the extracted resources away where they're needed or move them to a Depot.Įxtractors also generate Waste Rock and have limited space to store it. Surface deposits are mined directly by Drones, while underground and terrain deposits require Extractors to be built above them. A deposit with an average grade will produce the base value of extractor, a higher grade produces more, and lower grade produces less.Įxample: Base production of a Water Extractor is 5, however, when built on a deposit with a 'Very Low' grade, it will produce only 3. Resources are either gathered from deposits or are produced in Extractors, Factories or Farms.ĭeposits may be surface ( Metal and Polymers), underground ( Metal, Rare Metals, and Water) or terrain (Concrete).ĭeposits have grades (very low, low, average, high, very high) that impact the base production of an extractor. IMPORTANT: Said resources also need to be within the Drone's Service Range, either in Storages or in raw, surface deposit form.

If a new construction site is placed within the Service Range of a Drone control point (Drone Hub, RC Rover, or Rocket), the Drones assigned to that hub will begin stockpiling the resources needed for construction. Deploy a Probe with LMB after selecting the option or X.Ĭonstruction of Buildings is the main use of resources on Mars. Probes will instantly scan a Sector of the map, revealing resource deposits and Anomalies in the area. Sensor towers drastically increase the scanning speed of sectors near them and provide a smaller overall bonus to sector scanning.Ī fast and expensive way to explore the map is to buy Orbital Probes from Earth which instantly scans a chosen sector.īuilding in unexplored Sectors carries the risk of building directly on top of undiscovered resource deposits. Sectors can be queued for scanning from the Map Overview. The map is divided in Sectors which need to be scanned to reveal what resources and Anomalies they hold - if any. Recharge Stations clean drones during the charging process. Martian dust and disasters contribute to the deterioration of buildings outside of Domes.Įxtractors, Martian dust geysers, rocket landings and launches spread dust in the area around them causing increased maintenance to nearby buildings.ĭrones are also susceptible to dust which may result in a breakdown. If the resource is not supplied within a Sol the building will stop operating until the maintenance resource is delivered and the building serviced. When a building's maintenance bar is filled a drone is dispatched to bring the required maintenance resource and service the building. However, the player can take direct control of a Drone if needed.Ĭhange your preferred controls and mappings using the Options menu.Īll buildings deteriorate over time. They can either be given orders to go to a map location or to interact with a contextually specific map object - such as Anomalies or Surface Deposits.ĭrones are semi-autonomous and will queue up tasks that are flagged only if these tasks are within the Service Area set for each drone. Use the controls on the HUD or the following shortcuts to control the game speed:Īll Rovers are manually controlled via the commands available in their Infopanels. Tilt or rotate - hold MMB or Alt and move the mouse.

Surviving mars build order