How to Play Astroneer - A Tutorial for Total Beginners - Astroneer Crafting Update

This video tutorial will get you up and running with Astroneer. It will show you how to create a new game, mine resources, craft components, and survive storms. Give it a watch!

Astroneer Store Page:

store.steampowered.com/app/361420/ASTRONEER/

About Astroneer:

Explore and reshape distant worlds! Astroneer is set during a 25th century gold rush where players must explore the frontiers of outer space, risking their lives in harsh environments for the chance of striking it rich.

On this adventure, a player’s most useful tool is their ability to shape their world, altering the terrain and extracting valuable resources from planets, and moons. Resources can be traded or crafted into new tools, vehicles, and modules to create everything from massive industrial bases to mobile rover bases.

* Reshape terrain as though it were made of Play-Doh.
Survive on and explore procedurally generated planets that can be entirely deformed and traversed.

* Build vehicles and travel to new planets and moons.

* Snap together components and objects to create custom vehicles and modules.

* 4 player online drop-in/drop-out co-op.

From astroneer.gamepedia.com/Astroneer:

Explore and exploit distant worlds in Astroneer – A game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration.

The sudden development of technology for rapid space travel enables fast and inexpensive journeys to the stars. Exo Dynamics, the dominant conglomerate in the new field, has opened flights to daring citizens of Earth. Like the Yukon gold rush of old, waves of adventurers sign up to launch themselves into a new frontier, risking everything to seek their fortune in the far reaches of the galaxy. These are the Astroneers.

As an Astroneer, you must find a way to dig out a life on one of a multitude of harsh new worlds. Blast through the terrain to uncover precious artifacts and materials you can use to fuel your quest to become a wealthy baron in the stars. Along the way, discover oddities, raise questions, and uncover mysteries. Perhaps not all is as it seems.

The Current Features of Astroneer

Unique Visuals - Astroneer specializes in diagetic UI, (means every object is a real physical object that interacts with the player)

Explore 6 different procedurally generated Planets, each with their own unique Biomes and Hazards

Shape your world using the Terrain Tool, and enhance it's capabilities using Augments

Collect Research Items, use it to discover Schematics by performing Researches and rare Resources.

Over 60 unique Items, including: Resources, Modules, and Vehicles.

Play with friends (or strangers you've recently added as friend ) via. Multiplayer mode.

Latest Patch Note

Stage 1: Gathering resources with your terrain tool Stage 2: Smelting and Refining resources. Stage 3: Extracting resources from soil Stage 4: Compositing two resources together Stage 5: Collecting Atmospheric Resources

New Resources and Recipes

New types of resource deposits have been added - Quartz, Clay, and Graphite.

Quartz can be smelted into Glass

Clay can be smelted into Ceramic

Organic can now be smelted into Carbon. Coal deposits have been removed from the game and any existing Coal nuggets have been migrated to Carbon nuggets.

The Medium Generator now uses Carbon!

The following new crafted resources can be created at the Chemistry Lab:

Rubber, Plastic, Aluminum Alloy, Tungsten Carbide, Graphene, Diamond, Hydrazine, Silicone, Explosive Powder, Steel, Titanium Alloy, Nanocarbon Alloy

The following new atmospheric resources can be gathered using the Atmospheric Condenser:

Hydrogen, Argon, Methane, Nitrogen, Helium, Sulfur