Work the ruins. Recover the rewards.
Scan, interact and carry the right tools through a surface expedition.
Your route
Check off steps as you play. This checklist is local to your browser.
Scan the area
Use V to locate surface signals and right mouse to select the visible object. Its clean card shows the current action.
Work the right objective
Minerals, ruins, sealed caches, outposts and settlements have different requirements. Follow the site card and equip the needed tool.
Manage risk and supplies
Maintain suit resources, free backpack capacity and a route to shelter or the ship. Creature hostility and weather can interrupt the outing.
Recover after a loss
Follow the visible death-cache recovery marker and interact with E when in range. Do not assume storage elsewhere has moved to the cache.
Bring the haul home
Return to the ship and station, sort cargo versus personal and station storage, then refine, sell or manufacture with the recovered materials.
Reference and coverage
Experimental 0.41.0-experimental.1; compiled game catalog and current gameplay source
Shared control and industry guidance covers the approved parity/fabrication update. Platform menu keys and launch/save integration remain different.