Ok, so I just got this game today. The RTFM told me to read the manual, I did, didn't really understand it much, and I can't figure out what to do really. Has someone made a guide for newbies (who have no idea what they are doing)?
I would really appreciate that since this game looks really cool. I just don't understand it.
Hi Johnyknowhow,
Unfortunately, there isn't yet some guide for newbies. But it will come at some point !
Blackvoxel is an adventure game. Like Qon said, that's part of the goal to find what to do with what you found.
But, we understand it could be difficult for players who aren't familiar at all with this kind of game.
So, we'll think about creating some kind of tutorial for beginners in the future.
In the meantime, we can help you.
So, a quick tutorial :
At start, life is hard, you have nothing but
your base machine and a basic slow tool for digging in the ground. As you'll progress, your life in this hostile world will get easier as automation will make for you the hard tasks.
First, you should collect some minerals in the ground of the blue zone. With the collected materials, you'll start creating machines. With machines, you'll create other machines, robots, automation, vehicles.
Machines and vehicles will help you to explore the world, make tasks and resolve problems.
Use the left mouse button to dig. Dig a staircase going down. Collect all the minerals you found (all blocks that are different from the blue one). Dig down until you found
blackrock green and collected exactly 32 of them.
Next, you'll have to make a melting furnace :
Put your
Base Machine on the ground, then put the 32
blackrock Green next to the base machine. Put them one by one, the machine will "eat" them. Finish by putting one
Blackrock Blue. At this point, a new machine will get out :
a melting furnace.
With the melting furnace, you'll make allloys. Follow the tables in the
melting furnace page to get the right composition for the alloy you plan to make.
You'll notice some materials are too hard to be collected. For collecting these, you'll have to build first better and faster tools.
The first tool you'll have to build is the "
Constructor/Destructor 2". For building it, you'll have to make bronze alloy in the melting furnace and make your new tool with the base machine following the table indicated in it's page.
Once your tool is built, open your inventory and place it at the top left slot in the "tools" section. It will replace your old one, allowing you to collect new materials, dig deeper.
One of the first goal you'll have to reach is making an
Extraction Robot XR-1. Once done, it will dig and collect materials for you and your life will be much easier.
At the end of the tech tree, you'll build the
Airplane that will help you exploring the world.
The Blackvoxel Team
