Stationeers throws you onto a hostile world with a space suit and not much else. It’s famously deep, but your first hour comes down to a few priorities. Here’s the order to do them in.
1. Watch your suit
Your suit keeps you alive — track your oxygen filter, waste filter and battery. Refill air from a tank and swap filters before they clog. Most early deaths are simply running out of suit air while distracted.
2. Build a sealed starter room
Place a small sealed room with frames, walls and a door (ideally an airlock). This becomes your safe space to take your helmet off — once it has breathable air. Don’t go big yet; a 2×2 is plenty to start.
3. Get power online
Set up a couple of solar panels and a battery, wired with cable. Even basic power lets you run a light, an air conditioner and the machines you’ll need next. See the power guide.
4. Make breathable air
Use a tank or an atmospherics setup to fill your sealed room with a survivable oxygen mix at a comfortable temperature, then check it with a Gas Sensor before removing your helmet. The atmospherics guide walks through this.
5. Then expand
With air, power and a safe room, you can branch into mining, smelting, farming and automation at your own pace. The depth is the point — take it one system at a time.
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