Overview
- Base construction unlocks only after you scan two Habitat Builder devices at colony ruins like the Welcome Center, then craft the tool and use common parts such as titanium, quartz, and copper.
- Early power comes from roof‑mounted solar panels, but guides recommend placing a base near natural currents so a Hydroelectric Turbine can later provide steady energy.
- Silver, needed for the first air tank and electronics, is abundant in hand‑collectable nodes inside caves near the Old Habitat north of the Lifepod, and a processor turns chunks into ingots once your base is online.
- Salt is easy to grab at Chap’s Blackbox about 220 meters southeast of the Lifepod for early recipes and Tadpole power cells, while larger crystals in hot vent zones require Heat Tolerance and a sonic resonator to break.
- Lead clusters near the Lander Garage/Cicada Wreck roughly 400 meters northeast supply the Sonic Resonator, which mines big veins and clears viral growths for adaptations, though currents and a roaming Marrowbreach make the run risky; lithium shows first at The Great Jaw and later in hotter caves near the Tadpole Pens for plasteel and bigger air tanks.