Research and Unlock Progression Guide

Master Astroneer's research and unlock system. This guide details missions, rewards, and progression paths to help you advance your base and explore the galaxy.

Missions are goals for players to work towards, helping to guide players along the path of the game, while offering rewards along the way. The Missions Panel offers various missions to do, such as collect resources, craft certain items, or interact.

Completing missions give rewards to the player, that can assist with progression in the game. Rewards range from a number of Bytes, free Schematics, and various Items, such as the very rare QT-RTG or EXO Chip.

The Mission Log is attached to any Landing Pad and all three Logistics Depots and can be interacted with to bring up the Mission Log panel. The player can use this to keep track of missions and collect rewards. It is also possible to check the Mission Log any time, using the key for the action wheel (PC: Hold R, Xbox: Hold D-Pad Right, PS4: Hold D-Pad Right, Switch: Hold Right) and selecting the missions option. A second possibility to bring it up, is to click on the right side of the Backpack. The Mission Log can be used to collect Byte rewards anywhere, but item rewards cannot be collected this way.

The log has five sections:

• Rewards is for completed missions that have rewards waiting to be claimed.
• Tracked is for missions that the player has decided to track. This allows for easier tracking when multiple missions are active. The player can untrack these missions, which moves them back to Active.
• Active is for all missions that are currently active. These missions can be tracked and moved to Tracked.
• Reclaimable is for recalling items that only have one instance to any landing pad.
• Complete is for all missions that have been completed and rewards have already been claimed.