Empyrion is a space survival adventure, looks like Space Engineers, plays like Starmade but has tons of interesting places to visit, aliens to see and a few planets in the mix with asteroids, space station to conquer and all that.
The game plays pretty much as every other mining/crafting space, at least at the beginning.
you are stranded after crashing from space, oxygen is scarce, material is scarce, but the planet has plenty resources and you one emergency survival kit, which includes a constructor.
You have some ammo, but fauna while menacing is hardly dangerous. Beware of the Otyugh tho!
The first priority for surviving is to locate a fuel deposit. In this game everything is powered mainly by Promethium. Some stuff accept hydrogen fuel, but you can produce that only later. You'll see in the first video me mostly running, in search of this Promethium. Other resources are more mundane:
Silicon, Iron, Copper, the usual stuff. You do get some of each at the beginning, so you can build your starting base without issue.
Placing your base far from resources is annoying in the long run, so usually when you crash land you scout around for a better spot. All of them are useful and you need a ton of iron for building a vessel, however in a planet where you need to live without oxygen, energy production is the very first priority. Akua, the other starting planet, is simpler primarily because you can breath in it's atmosphere.
Here's typical Omicron, the dry planet:
From the map there are deposits shown, point of interest shown (that's a crashed capital vessel), and the other things you might discover or will build.
But first! One needs to survive being crash landed and craft it's way to survival first and a decent spaceship next.
Game starts gently on new players and the real fighting will happen once one reaches space. For now, I'm just wandering in the deserts shooting drones and looking for more fuel to get by:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBTuO5mcMEIAlso, I'm running an open, PVE server on this desert plane, come check it out if you wish, it's on the server browser called PVE Omicron Server
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