Planet Crafter 1.0 - Top 25 Tips and Starter Guide After 600 Hours 

By far the best, clearest and most complete guide available anywhere for Planet Crafter. Thank you so much for your hard work.

"The tier 1s will only give the basic resources." That applies to the superalloy cave, but not to the aluminum flats, the sulfur fields, or iridium caves.

Bookmarking this guide. It was all so well explained and demonstrated that I am not so overwhelmed anymore. Looking forward to the next time I get into the game as I now have some well-defined goals. Thank you for the time you have put into this. New sub!

Just an additional tip for drone and mining management. You should have a shredder that demands all the mining items. Set the priority to a negative value such as -5. This way when your storage fills up the drone will fill the shtedder. Set the shredder to auto shred. This way your auto miner will not back up and quit working. The storage containers should have a positive priority so the drones will fill the storage first then go to the shredder.

Good guide! Some tips (possible spoilers) for early-mid game: CTRL + rotate do 90 degrees. CTRL + L-Click inventory/storage item moves all of that type. Always carry an O2 bottle when exploring caves and such. Look all around, some loot and POIs are not that easy to see. Place pods at strategic places, like by caves and wrecks. Then have a landmark and safe haven. Basic materials are all over so pick on the spot. Also build a constructor and some storage. Then can use it to collect resources in the area for later transport. When have food production, then take some extra and place in the pods. Water collector (just carry Super Alloy and Aluminum) close to corner biomes then don't need to carry around H2O bottles, ice will melt when hot enough. Meteor materials de-spawn rather quickly, so if want as much as possible then run out and collect. Also will aim roughly at your position when it starts, so move if outdoors, else high chance you die. If place a ladder and remove the pod below, then it stays and free up ground space. Can even remove the upper pod to have a ladder on its own. Early on start exploring and learn the areas and resources there, particularly finding blue chests and food. Some areas will fill with water, so preferable do those before need to dive, with less mobility and sight. Try collect resources after a plan, where keep adding power and whatever terraforming devices. Lower tier devices often have some materials for higher ones, so consider dismantle and also save space if needed. Basic materials can always be used to make Super Alloy (rods) to also save storage. Later on then easy to get the materials by auto-miners. Jetpack can be used to "climb" mountains for shortcuts and terrain glitching. If want a more compact base, then there are some placement glitching where can get a lot into those larger pods. I use to place storage cabinets outside on foundations as a floor, then access from top, at level of rocket launcher base floor (where upper stairs close to main fabricators).

Absolutely brilliant video, every detail was to the point and so informative. Been stuck at home with covid for the last 6 days, watched your video before I bought planet crafter. Back to work tomorrow sadly. But managed to squeeze in 70 hours of play. 😂

I want to thank you for making a clear guide in which you don't distract us by acting like an unfunny clown the way some other channels do.

Wow! I started the game 3 days ago, and wish I had found your wonderful series of videos sooner :) I never knew I could get water from the rain collector - you've got amazing tips and info! I'm looking forward to seeing and learning from each. Thank you, Surtr

Thanks ever so much for such a detailed and clearly explained tute for this gem of a game!

What I do when wreckdiving is putting a small base outside with a blueprint screen. That helps a bit so you don't always have to drag them all to your main base.

One thing about harder difficulties and Hardcore especially, is food becomes the earliest 'hard cap' that can make you lose inevitably. In Hardcore you should always immediatly go to unlock a food grower. This takes 12000 oxygen (12 ppt). To get there effectively you'll need the T2 vegetube (500 heat). So your first setup in Hardcore should focus on vegetubes and T1 heaters (only to 500). Once you've 2-3 food growers, you can survive indefinately.

this was a very informative video so I thank you for it, a lot. Well done! However, and this goes for virtually every game video I've watched....so not aimed at you personally really, but there's no central way to contact game video producers haha. I find myself feeling physically sick after a while this is because every video seems to constantly move, spinning and turning without stopping, like all your watchers would vanish if heaven forbid you stayed still for more than 1/16th of a second haha. Eventually I had to close my eyes and just listen to what you were saying rather than watching the screen, otherwise it would have been a rush to the bathroom for me.....

Once you get drones you can just make drop boxes anywhere while exploring. when your inventory full. create a platform and a storage box. set box to supply all. dump your items and drones will take them and sort them into your base.

This video was very informative and so well put together. I love the look of your base. I would love to see how you put it together. Thank you for sharing. 😊😊💜💜😊😊

Thanks for the video. They have sure added a lot of stuff since I last played it.

Just startet my first game and it is always inspiring to se others games and camps. Great tips thanks!!

i'm totally redesigning my home base after the build in this video. that was gorgeous.

I have been waiting for the full release for a while now. Wish I didn't have work today so I could be home playing PC. Got this for my steam deck and I just can't wait.

Great job. Thank you.

Excellent guide

I started a new game a couple months ago, and I struggled a little getting food growing in time. The early game is really a race to food growers ( 12.00 ppt O2 ) and some seeds for them. I also waited to do the teleporters until after I had the Tier 3 miners working on Osmium. I was saving the osmium for power and miners, The Osmium rods needed for teleporters are rough to make until you have Tier 3 miners.

the best guide , i wish i knew those guids

And here i am, watching eng guids cause in my country nobody knows about this game:( great vdeo

Great video, regarding chests if you can wait a bit till you progressed through the game the chests will have higher value items. Just one possible strat to consider

Allot of help thank you 🙏🏻

Do building material like Osmium respawn in there caves over time or how do u get more of that overtime? I´m currently close to the moss phase and find that i´m in constant need of Osmium to scale up the tech tree and i find it hard to find atm.

Do the golden chests still give super alloy when deconstructed? It's a free couple of alloy if you dont have an extractor in the cave yet

OMG can't wait, does anyone know the release time today for this? Looking forward to my new save and have some ideas I've been testing out in my custom save

men your videos are great, thank you. One question where is the location of the thumbnail/layer of your video?

Question about Optimizers: I never 'got' the production optimizers. I tried putting them with crafters, incubators and DNA manipulators, but didn't notice any difference. Does it work there, or is it just for Ore Extractors?

why do I want to play every version I install after saving, or the screen goes black or it throws me from a height and I can't do anything else?? Please guide me

actually cobalt is considered a rare material

I had my huge base built in the far north where there was a large area of totally flat earth. I logged in this morning with 1.0 and half of my base is either half underground or floating.

is that palm tree position gauranteed? iirc, the only way to get trees is a tree spreader but they put trees in random locs in a certain radius

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🤣 my first base is now underwater 😭

My Game DOES NOT even show that Option to Change the Game Mode? Why is that????

Please tell me this is coming to consoles! I want to play this so bad.

600 hours...nice...