STARWASTE / Field guide
First steps
From the first piece of scrap to a working base.
01 — Recover the Basic machines near your lander.
Lander · Smelter (Basic) · Printer (Basic)
02 — Smelt iron into ingots. Better furnaces use less ore.
Iron · Iron ingot · Smelter MK2
03 — Print plates and circuits, then build your own equipment.
Plate · Circuit · Solar panel MK1
Production starts with an ordered batch. With storage supply enabled, MAX becomes ∞: the order waits for materials and resumes when restocked. Without storage, MAX orders a finite quantity. Drones return unused inputs and outputs; orders and returns survive saves and are not lost when storage is full.
