13 guides to help you get moving: establish a first base, find missing materials, prepare a farm, or finish a build. Start with your current obstacle, then follow the linked recipes and tools to plan the next step.
Starting fresh? Follow the ship power, basic tools, and Mechanic Station checkpoints. Returning to a save? Check its version and mods before following a progression route.
Start here / 17 minEnter the crashed ship to start Getting Started, follow the path opposite its entrance to the pond, fill the Water Bucket, extinguish the three marked fires inside, recover the nearby Master Battery, restore ship power, reconnect the console with the Connect Tool, and take the Logbook before leaving for the Mechanic Station.
Open the first-hours route →For a missing ingredient, start with Resources. For a locked recipe, check the unlock route before gathering supplies. For a larger order, use the Crafting Planner to turn one recipe into a material list.
Oil, water, battery, and schematic routes with recipe-backed checkpoints.
Collect Oil with the correct bucket or pump route, convert Oil Buckets into Crude Oil, and turn that into Gasoline without chasing unsupported pond or vent rumors.
Use the starter Water Bucket, Craftbot bucket recipe, Vacuum Pump storage, and Water Cannon delivery for ship fires, crops, and farm builds.
Get the normal Battery item through verified loot, Craftbot recipes, and routing discipline while keeping Master Battery quest objects separate.
Get Schematic Boxes, scan them at Schematicbot, unlock recipes, and troubleshoot missing unlocks using verified station and drop data.
Crop-value decisions, raid recovery, ammunition budgets, and Warehouse combat.
Plan crop rows with exact 1.0 plant values, a protected seed reserve, one defended approach, and automation sized to an 8–12 plot test row.
Read all seven documented Scrap Mechanic raid levels, their crop-value thresholds, configured bot budgets, opening groups, eligible enemies, and multiplayer scaling.
A combat route with exact weapon damage, Farmbot key drops, Tapebot projectile pressure, Warehouse staging, and Trashbot phase rules.
One exact starter chassis and three automation systems with pass/fail tests.
Build the VEH-01 starter car with a 10 × 16 footprint, 48-block frame, six bearings, four wheels, and repeatable steering and load tests.
Use exact part bills and commissioning tests for an 8–12 plot watering gantry, an 8 × 14 Vacuum Pump harvester, and a 6 × 6 Piston elevator.
Garage blueprint production and a complete 34-achievement route.
Load a saved creation, calculate its exact material bill, fill the connected Garage Chest, and assemble it in Survival without guessing why the build button is blocked.
Plan every Steam achievement across quests, Challenges, combat, farming, Garage builds, Workshop sharing, outfits, schematics, Mining Hub tasks, and hidden interactions.
