Economy & Resource Management — The Alters Guide

Navigate The Alters' complex economy and resource management. Learn about base building, crafting, managing tiredness, and keeping your Alters happy for successful evacuation.

The Alters features a complex system of resource gathering, crafting, and time management. Success hinges on efficiently managing your base, your Alters' well-being, and the limited time before the sun rises.

Key aspects of Economy & Resource Management include:

• Base Building: Strategically place modules, manage base mass, and ensure sufficient storage and fuel capacity. Modules can be moved and deleted, but some are fixed.
• Base Mass & Fuel: Each module increases base weight, requiring more Fuel (Organics). Upgrade the Organics Tank and use the Scanner to find and connect resource deposits via Mining Outposts and Pylons.
• Tiredness & Exhaustion: All actions consume energy. Monitor your Energy Bar to avoid becoming tired, which slows tasks, and exhausted, which impacts subsequent days. Prioritize essential tasks to manage time effectively.
• Crafting: Schedule production in the Workshop Queue via the 'TAB' menu. Craft items like Mining Outposts, Suit Batteries, Repair Kits, and Radiation Filters at designated workbenches. Specific recipes are available for Workshops, Kitchens, Greenhouses, and Refineries.
• Alters Management: Keep your Alters happy by monitoring their mood, health, and event logs. Provide High-Quality Meals, build the Social Room, play Beerbong, and watch movies to prevent negative outcomes.