Follow our comprehensive walkthrough for The Hidden Cache in The Alters, covering resource gathering, base building, and progression through the early game.
Walkthrough:
- Day 1: Make It To The Base
- Follow red Emergency Flares to find the base.
- Avoid radiation by reaching the base quickly.
- Interact with the elevator to enter the base.
- Go to the Communication Room to contact Earth.
- Visit the Captain's Cabin to learn basic mechanics from old logs.
- End the day by interacting with the bed (E key).
- Day 2: Collecting Resources to Survive
- Exit the base through the Airlock.
- Gather Metals from bright orange glowing rocks.
- Locate Organics indicated by blue smoke (near a cave entrance).
- Return to the base and build a Workshop using the Base Building Console in the Command Center.
- Craft a Scanner in the Workshop.
- Exit the base and find a cargo pod near a parachute on a cliffside. Loot all items.
- Head towards the blue smoke for Organics deposits. If the path is blocked, find an alternative route through a cave.
- Locate a crashed cargo pod in the opposite direction of the main cargo for a Multitool.
- Inside the cave, find the glowing Spire to extract Rapidium.
- Find the Organics deposits to the left of the cliff.
- Place Scanners to find the best mining spot for Organics.
- Place a Mining Outpost and connect it to the base using Pylons.
- Return to the Communication Room and contact Earth to receive a task to build a
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