General tips and tricks to efficiently find and harvest materials. I will update this guide as I have more free time and find out more.
How to Get Materials
Nutritious Eggs (Honey Eggs)
“Honey” Nutritious Eggs come from honey-covered twig bushes. Honey bushes produce bees.
BirBees will search the island for berry bushes. They will hit the bush, knocking off all the berries, and then take one back to their honey bush. It is the berries that they bring back that cause the honey bush to produce more eggs.
If you want to create more honey bushes, you must NOT harvest the eggs. Once four eggs appear on one bush, it will look like it is on fire. After a while, all the eggs will disappear, and a large Queen BirBee will appear. The queen will fly randomly around the island until it flies into an empty twig bush, transforming it into a honey bush.
Later, when you research the ‘Ranching II’ tech, you can capture Queens and bring them to other islands to transform their bushes into honey bushes.
On a later island, you will gain access to berry trees (much larger than the bushes). These trees produce many more berries, allowing your BirBees to harvest fruit much quicker.
Eventually, you will acquire a relic that allows you to move buildings. You can plant a twig bush on a farm plot, let a queen turn it into a honey bush, and then move the honey bush wherever you want on the island.
You can remove the honey from a bush by attacking the bush.
Red Jelly
Red Jelly comes from harvesting the dead corpses of JellyPink Enemies (Red Jellyfish Enemies).
JellyPinks DO NOT SPAWN naturally. When a JellyBlue spawns, if there is a WILD (not player-planted) juice plant (green spire plant with a red glob at the end found on the winter island), the JellyBlue will fire at the plant, dislodging the red juice ball. It will then eat the red juice, turning into a JellyPink.
There are TWO islands that have JellyBlue spawns: the winter and the water islands. You can force the Jellies to turn pink by placing juice balls in animal feeders (found under farming). I suggest spreading a bunch of feeders around their spawn area. Don’t forget that you will need one Fighter Bot set to ‘Hunting’ the JellyPink and another Collector Drone set to harvesting the corpse.
Titanium Ore
Titanium ore comes from titanium rocks. You can’t break those rocks without first getting a tech upgrade that requires titanium ingots.
To obtain your first batch of ore, simply kill and then harvest the corpses of the enemies that eat the rocks in that area. They will drop the ore. You can farm Titanium ore either by killing and harvesting the Arabeetle corpses near the titanium rocks or by harvesting the rocks after you get the ‘hard rocks’ tech upgrade.
Poop, Gold Nuggets & Animal Scale (Looks Like a Brown Leaf)
Animal Scale can be farmed from Scortixas (brown lizards in the desert).
Poop comes from Antorks (Boars).
Gold Nuggets come from Carancrabs.
Once you research Ranching II, you can use your harvesting tool to capture the appropriate enemy. Create a barn once you research that tech, walk inside, go to the back panel, and put three Captured Enemy Capsules in.
You will need to supply the barn with Nutritious Eggs (from the Honey Covered Trees) to keep the lizards producing leather, berries to keep the Antorks pooping, and rocks to keep the Carancrabs producing gold nuggets.
General Gameplay Tips
At the start of the game, focus on unlocking all the islands, defeating bosses, and completing quests. Don’t worry about making your production setup perfect, as you will be able to purchase blueprints that are major upgrades and will render your initial setups obsolete. Reaching this point only takes a few hours. Note: you can’t even see what these upgrades are until later in the game.
After a certain point in the game, you will gain access to new blueprints that are not in your tech tree.
Eventually, you will encounter an NPC with a broken ship. Finish their quest to open up a special shop that allows you to sell certain items for money by launching them into space. One item is a personal spacecraft that takes you to a space station. Pay to upgrade the space station, and you will unlock a shop with new blueprints. These blueprints significantly affect how you set up your production (see the above tip).
All three bosses have a secret way to defeat them with a puzzle instead of fighting them. This also awards you badges (the badges don’t do anything; they are just achievements).
- Boss 1: Moth: Place a Blood Flower on the altar, then go down.
- Boss 2: Fish: Switch all the enemy holograms to be the same (doesn’t matter which enemy), then pull the lever. Any enemies that were chosen correctly will sparkle and cannot be changed. Repeat this process two more times. On the fourth time, you have a 50/50 chance to correctly guess the position of the last two enemy holograms. Note that by the end, all the holograms will be different enemies. The combination changes each time. If you fail, the puzzle resets, and you can try again.
- Boss 3: Dragon: Put the following items on the five altars: Grey – Gold Nugget, Green – Nutritious Egg, Yellow – Cactus Flower, Purple – Mushroom, Pink – Sweet Cane (Purple Bamboo). Note: There are other items that will work as well.
If you find an NPC bird that keeps flying away from you, all you have to do is change your head to any bird skin. You must have the NPC that allows you to change your appearance unlocked. You also must have one of the bird head skins unlocked.
Eventually, you will gain access to a tiny shop kiosk that you can build. Only buy the free item, the saddle, and the Personal Spaceship from it. The other items are single-use. You will soon have access to permanent blueprint versions of these items, so save your money!
If you have access to multiple shops where you spend in-game money, read this tip:
- Once you reach the spaceship, I suggest spending your money in the following order of priority: Upgrade the space station to unlock the blueprint shop. Buy the blueprints. Buy the second space station upgrade, the space walk (allows you to get gems to speed up production speeds). Fully level and upgrade the space walk. Then, spend your money on whatever you prefer.
