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🔬 Tech Tree
📋 Research Order Overview (Standard Start)
For Crashlanded starts. Priority is already sorted for you — just follow the order:
| Tech | Order | Why Research It First |
|---|---|---|
| Batteries | 1st | Without batteries, power cuts out at night. Solar panels are useless during the day if you can't store the energy. |
| Solar Panels | 2nd | Reliable self-generated power. Frees you from depending on steam geyser locations. |
| Air Conditioning | 3rd | Freezer = food storage. No freezer means your food won't last the first winter. |
| Stonecutting | 4th | Wooden buildings burn down in one spark. Stone walls are a permanent home. |
| Microelectronics | 5th | Unlocks the advanced research bench and comms console — call traders and request reinforcements. |
| Precision Machining | 6th | You can craft components. Repair and build without waiting for a passing trade caravan. |
| Advanced Research | 7th | Unlocks bionics and shipbuilding tech — you're officially in the late game. |
| Geothermal Power | 8th | 24/7 stable 3600W. One geothermal generator powers most of your base. |
💡 Core Logic: Secure power first → then food → upgrade materials → finally rush high tech. Don't skip steps in this chain or you'll have to redo everything.
🔄 Research Differences by Start Type
Each start type has a completely different rhythm. Don't force the Crashlanded roadmap onto a Tribal run:
| Start Type | Recommended Research Strategy | Key Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Crashlanded | Power → Freezer → Stonecutting → Microelectronics → Precision Machining | Three colonists with basic tech. Follow the standard route safely. |
| Tribal | Complex Clothing → Complex Furniture → Psychoid Brewing → Rush Electricity | Research is painfully slow. Don't chase electricity early. Get cold-weather clothing and furniture for survival first. Brew psychoid tea (beer substitute) for mood. Only then touch electricity. |
| Rich Explorer | Microelectronics → Advanced Research → Precision Machining | Comes with some tech and resources already unlocked. Skip the basics and rush late-game for rapid equipment advantage. |
🎯 Key Tech Milestones
These techs are real game-changers. Researching them is a qualitative leap forward:
| Tech | Unlocks | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| Air Conditioning | Freezer construction | Food preservation goes from days to years. No freezer? Enjoy eating rats in winter. |
| Stonecutting | Stone block crafting | Stone walls are fireproof. No more losing your base to a single lightning strike. |
| Microelectronics | Comms console + Advanced research bench | The comms console can call traders and ally reinforcements — basically a lifeline. |
| Precision Machining | Component crafting | Make your own components. No more begging trade caravans. Freedom in repairs and construction. |
| Geothermal Power | Geothermal generator | 24/7 stable 3600W. Never depend on wind or solar again. |
| Hydroponics | Indoor farming | Mass-produce food in ice sheets and deserts. Full self-sufficiency. |
| Bionics | Bionic part crafting | Replace pawn body parts. Movement speed and combat power jump dramatically. |
| Fabrication | Advanced component crafting | Build high-end gear = gear freedom. No more relying on loot drops and traders. |
| Starship | Ship construction | Building the ship = winning condition. This is the ultimate goal. |
🗺️ Tech Tree Roadmap (Overview)
Recommended research path in four stages, read from bottom to top. Bionics stands apart as the ultimate goal:
⚡ Research Speed Tips
Same playtime, double the research output — it all comes down to the details:
- Place the research bench on sterile tile. A clean environment boosts research speed; dirt and mess slow it down.
- Connect a Multi-analyzer to the research bench for +10% research speed. Well worth building one.
- Crucial Assign a dedicated researcher. Don't make them split time with construction or mining — focus is the real speed boost.
- Pawns with Intellectual ≥ 8 research significantly faster. Anyone below 5 shouldn't touch a research bench — it's a waste of time.
- If researching at night, place a lamp by the bench. Darkness gives -20% research speed — don't skip a simple lamp.
- Late-game, build multiple research benches with multiple researchers for parallel progress — tech tree takes off.
- Use Research Accelerator packets when you have them. No point saving them forever.
- Before researching critical techs, reassign your highest-Intellectual pawn to full-time research for maximum efficiency.