
You're climbing the tech tree branch by branch on your way to the top. Power plants are costly, but provide the energy for advanced buildings like pollution-clearing environmental stations, fallout-proof greenhouses and efficient bore wells. By now you've grown accustomed to various catastrophes and disasters and know how to cope with them. Specialists haul valuable goods back to base and combat occasional bandits for their loot. You'll transition from wood to metal, and your colony should be growing in size, too. These highly valuable parts are the backbone of energy production, which in turn will create more efficient and secure ways to produce food, materials and so on. While exploring the map, you're sure to come across components.

These locations still hold resources valuable to your colony, including building materials, medicine, science points and more. The map's divided into sectors you must scout first to uncover the abandoned locations within. This colorful group of scouts, fighters and scientists is responsible for taking advantage of the world map. With survivor groups come specialists - your wasteland survival and exploration experts. These survivor groups will be the main source of new colonists for you, so be prepared to welcome them if you can support them.

It acts not only as a defense against aggressors but as a beacon of sorts, signaling protection, salvation and security to other survivors of the wasteland. Once you've satisfied the basic needs of your people, it's time to peer onward beyond the confines of your Colony. All have their pros and cons, so take your time checking each one out to decide what to do first and keep expanding the production as the colony grows. There are several different options to gather edibles ranging from picking nearby berries to fishing and trapping. Once that's done, it's time to top up that food storage. Different shelters have different costs and benefits, so spend your initial resources wisely. Next, provide them with a sufficient amount of houses to live in. First, make sure you have enough water for everyone, as dehydration is a deadly condition.

Once the game starts, you're tasked with taking care of the very basic needs of the colonists.

you will still get defeated as things get out of control and you acquire experience. Suggestions of setting everything to low difficulty for your first game. You can also enable or disable the tutorial, which explains the game's basic concepts from building to scavenging and exploring. Pregame setup allows you to alter the amount of initial resources, tweak the challenge level and customize your colony's name and flag. The first steps in the game are about tailoring the experience to your liking.
