Beyond These Stars Guides
Choose the task you are working on. Each guide gets straight to the conditions, steps and checks that matter.
Getting started
Beyond These Stars: How to Play and Build Your First Settlement
Build a working first settlement with roads, housing, food, water and a production chain your Peeps can reach.
Beyond These Stars: Can You Continue a Demo Save in the Full Game?
Demo saves do not carry over into the full game. Start a new full-game save and keep your old demo data if you want it.
Beyond These Stars Farmhouse Unlock and the Bodytext Prerequisite
Unlock the Farmhouse through Metal Smelter progression and flooding dry tiles. Bodytext is an old demo placeholder.
Beyond These Stars: Can You See the Whole Whale?
Understand the difference between Kewa’s exterior scenes, the city camera and the System or Galaxy View.
Beyond These Stars Strange Transmitter: Where to Place It
Place the Strange Transmitter over the Mysterious Ruin footprint, then supply access and construction materials.
Power & buildings
Beyond These Stars: How to Connect Power to Buildings
Connect early powered buildings through direct adjacency, then check height, orientation, fuel and generator output.
Beyond These Stars Power Lines: Routing, Height and River Crossings
Route Power Lines around obstructions, use roads and check connections segment by segment across uneven terrain.
Beyond These Stars Adjacency Effects: Placement and Height Rules
Compare adjacency previews before building. Neighbours on different terrain levels do not give adjacency effects.
Troubleshooting
Beyond These Stars Cleaner Won’t Place: Unlock and Construction Checks
Separate a locked Cleaner, a rejected placement, unfinished construction and an idle cleaning task before changing your city.
Beyond These Stars Repairs: Recovering from an Iron or Tool Shortage
Check remaining supplies, demolition refunds and existing trade before dismantling a broken production chain.
Beyond These Stars Home Spaceship Not Producing Tools and Factory Breakdowns
Check Home Spaceship task inputs and workers separately from Toolsmith power and recurring factory damage.
Beyond These Stars Resource Flow Blank: Controls and Checks
Distinguish the Resource Flow network from Resources graphs and check the selector before diagnosing a blank panel.
Production
Beyond These Stars Woodcutter and Sawmill: Unlock and Plank Production
Unlock the Sawmill by making 10 Tools in a Toolsmith, then supply Wood and power and leave space for both outputs.
Beyond These Stars: Not Enough Soot? Check Continuous Power
Use continuous power to keep Soot production running and check fuel, consumers and output storage.
Beyond These Stars Waste Resources: Clear By-products and Restart Production
Full Soot, Slag or Wood Waste buffers can stop production. Give every output reachable storage or a consumer.
Beyond These Stars Sand Mine: Placement and Missing Sand Deposits
Place a Mine next to a Sand Deposit. If none is reachable, inspect deposits and the atmosphere before rebuilding.
Terrain & Peeps
Beyond These Stars: How to Expand the Atmosphere
Bring water to dry land, compost the ground and plant saplings to extend the habitable area.
Beyond These Stars Terraforming: Debris, Water Channels and Compost
Balance digging and filling, finish channel jobs to release water and keep composting on eligible dry land.
Beyond These Stars Landscapers Not Composting: Supply and Job Checks
Landscapers use Compost rather than make it. Check the Compost Heap, dry target tiles, staff and pending terrain work.
Beyond These Stars Population Limit: The 90-Peep Demo Cap and Schools
The 90-Peep cap belongs to the demo. In the full game, check empty housing slots and School coverage for growth.