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SAINTS FORGE

✠ REIVER CLASS · TIER I ✠

Beginner's guide

Ten things a new rider needs in the first days, from the first undock to the first base. Everything here was learned in play on the current build. Found a mistake? Open an issue on GitHub.

The Crèche is one-way

Mine it before you leave. Once you warp out, there is no going back.

Once you warp out the Crèche is gone; the only way back is warping to a fleet member still inside.
Mine its Ingot / Flint rocks first. Layers: Crustal Anorthosite Crystals → Hydrated Gossan Matrix → Massive Ataxite Matrix core.
Take at least 50x Massive Ataxite Matrix for your Refuge. Riders wake up in different systems, and in some of them it is hard to find outside the Crèche.
Overloaded = no warp, no Leap. Get under max cargo before you go.
Most structures cannot be built near the Crèche.

Your starter ship

It mines, refines and prints the basics on its own. Leave a fight at about 1,000 health remaining.

2,100 HP hull · 6x Cargo Container (216 m³) · 4x Fuel Bay (2,000 fuel) · 2x Capacitor (200 GJ).
One Cutting Laser on a Weapon Receiver, a Gravity Sensor with a Directional Scanner, a Docking Clamp, a Leap, a Thrust Overdrive, an Emergency Printer and a Material Processor.
Leave a fight at about 1,000 health remaining.
Load it in The Forge to see every module and try changes before you build them.

III

Fuel

Unstable Fuel is free at a Dustline Waystation. Switch off what burns fuel before you log off.

Free Unstable Fuel at the Fueling Quays of a Dustline Waystation site: a powered Docking Clamp, within 80 m. Not every system has one.
Unstable Fuel is the weakest grade: EU-40 Fuel goes about 3x as far on the same tank.
D1 Fuel: 208x Water Ice → 75x D1 Fuel, or 21x Hydrocarbon Residue → 75x D1 Fuel. EU-40 Fuel: 10x Eupraxite → 600x EU-40 Fuel (Eupraxite comes from rift crude).
Burn depends on the fuel, not the engine: EU-40 Fuel goes 2.35x as far as D1 Fuel. The R10 engine is fine for it.
Before logoff: dock and switch off every module that shows a MW reading in the fitting window (most show 0.1 MW, the Transponder 1.0 MW): those burn fuel. Leave the Power Generator and the Capacitors on: they cost nothing, and a Capacitor switched off recharges from empty when it comes back, which burns far more fuel than it saved.
Big systems cost more fuel. Fill up before a trip; there may be no fuel on the route.

A safe spot and your first home

A spot nobody can warp to. Build your Refuge and Field Storage there, no Network Node needed.

You can only warp to known things: planets, sites, gates, fleet members and your own structures ([H]). A spot nobody can warp to is a safe spot.
Two pilots: fleet up. Pilot A warps between two planets that are far apart; while A is mid-warp, pilot B warps to A and lands in deep space. B builds right there: it shows under [H], B's private warp point.
A catapult: it drops you at a random spot in the other system, so it is safe by default. Jump a catapult to the next system and build there, or take it back and build where it drops you in your own system.
Refuge = 50x Massive Ataxite Matrix. Your respawn point; docked ships cannot be attacked while it stands.
Field Storage = 50x Crustal Anorthosite Crystals (30,000 m³).
Storage contents are public on the blockchain. Locations are hidden, so never press "Publish Location" on stuff with loot.

Mining and rocks

Rocks are layered: keep cutting the same spot. The rock family tells you what is inside.

Keep cutting the same spot; the layers change as you go in. F2 hides the asteroid so you can grab chunks stuck inside. Scoop range 2,500 m.
Crustal Anorthosite Crystals (→ Hydrocarbon Residue → Carbon Weave, Thermal Composites): most of Rind, Glaze, Marrow; under the crust of Bone, Flint, Spall, Char.
Massive Ataxite Matrix (→ Palladium): cores of Ingot, Spar, Slag; less under Flint & Spall crust.
Hydrated Gossan Matrix (→ Water Ice): rich under Murk's crust; Comet cores; less in Grist, Scale, Spar.
Primitive Rime Shards (→ Tholin Aggregates + Water Ice): deep in Pitch; outside of Ember, Soot, Glint, Dewdrop; under Mire & Char crust.
Primordial Anthraxolite Sludge (→ Kerogen Tar, best source): Ember cores; under the crust of Scale & Char; also Mire & Pitch.
Irradiated Anthraxolite Veins (→ Kerogen Tar + Aromatic Carbon Weave): richest under Soot; Glint cores; big veins in Pitch.
Irradiated Cryoconite Nodules (→ Aromatic Carbon Weave): Soot cores; Pitch, Char, Ember, Mire.
Native Reef Nodules: Ingot.
Salvage is minable too: wrecks and debris fields give Debris (→ Salvaged Materials).

Making things

Three machines make everything. Let the Mason's Lodge work out the recipes, the runs and the ore.

Material Processor (on your ship) and the Refinery (a structure, better) turn ore and salvage into materials.
Emergency Printer (on your ship) prints the basic parts one at a time. The Mini Printer (a structure) prints the same parts far cheaper in batches, plus Building Foam, Cargo Containers, weapons, engines, the Hull Repairer and ammo.
Don't learn the recipes by heart. Open The Mason's Lodge, say what you want to build, tick the machines you have, and it lists what to mine, refine and print, in order, with the least ore.
Lenses, not ammo, for lasers: the Recycled Mining Lens and the Synthetic Mining Lens are the everyday ones; the Needle Lens works but is expensive. Guns take Pyro Round or Slug Round.
A Transponder lets you see and use a tribe's catapults and gates. It costs Palladium, which comes from debris fields and from refining Massive Ataxite Matrix or Industrial Waste.

VII

Building your base, and moving on

Network Node first, then Refinery, Mini Printer, Relay; the rest in any order. Parts are bulky: plan the trips.

1. Network Node = 8x Printed Circuits + 8x Carbon Weave + 8x Thermal Composites. Build it at your safe spot on an unclaimed anchor; parts must be in your ship cargo. Fuel per hour: 12x D1 Fuel or 3x EU-40 Fuel (Unstable Fuel is rejected). Node offline = nothing prints, and you can't take items out. Nodes show on scans (high EM); dismantling gives the parts back, so move it if it's exposed.
2. Refinery = 15x Reinforced Alloys + 15x Thermal Composites (Build Mode): the structure is better than the ship module.
3. Mini Printer = 15x Printed Circuits + 15x Reinforced Alloys: Building Foam, Cargo Containers, weapons, engines, Hull Repairer, ammo. 10x Building Foam = 65x Reinforced Alloys + 65x Carbon Weave + 65x Thermal Composites.
4. Relay = 6x Printed Circuits + 6x Carbon Weave + 6x Thermal Composites: a trading post, for later. Sells the Lens 60X for 1,000 EVE, buys Feral Data for 25,000 LUX (100 LUX = 1 EVE).
5. The rest, in any order. Storage: Field Storage = 50x Crustal Anorthosite Crystals (anywhere) · Mini Storage = 250x Crustal Anorthosite Crystals + 250x Massive Ataxite Matrix (at a Node) · Storage = 20x Building Foam. Bigger factories (Heavy Refinery, Heavy Printer, Field Printer, Nursery, Berths) use the same recipes, just bigger jobs. Turrets and Field Sentries defend the base.
Moving to a new system: parts are bulky (Carbon Weave 15 m³, Reinforced Alloys & Thermal Composites 10 m³, Printed Circuits 4 m³, Building Foam 47 m³ each). Trip 1: 50x Massive Ataxite Matrix (Refuge first: you respawn there) + Node parts + D1 Fuel for the Node. Trip 2: Refinery parts. Trip 3: Mini Printer parts. Bring light materials (Nickel-Iron Veins, Silicon Dust, Water Ice: 0.1 m³ each) and print on site.
Gates and catapults: public gates run only on crude fuel, 50x EU-40 Fuel or 50x SOF-40 Fuel per jump; player-built gates and catapults draw power from their Network Node and need a Transponder online to show on your map. Read the popup before jumping: "Destination gate unfueled… jump anyway?" means no way back until someone fuels the far side. Never tick "don't ask again".

VIII

Fitting your ship

A few modules can never come off, a few have hard limits, and one module keeps you alive.

Command Pod, Power Generator, one Capacitor and one Cargo Container can be moved but never removed. Most modules draw 0.1 MW of 15.
Hard limits per ship: one Command Pod, one Power Generator, one engine (R10, R25 or R50), one Leap, one Autohelm, one Attitude Controller, and no more than two Weapon Receivers. The game refuses more.
Hull Repairer: ~25 HP/s, your best survival module. Structural Brace: +375 HP.
Capacitor / Blackstart Cell: +100 GJ and +1.2 GJ/s each; they stack. Fuel Bay +500 fuel (10 cells) · Fuel Blister +250 fuel (5 cells): same fuel per cell. Cargo Container: 36 m³ each.
Two Weapon Receivers = two lasers. Mining nonstop with both needs 8x Capacitor + 1x Blackstart Cell.
The Directional Scanner needs a Gravity Sensor. The Gravity Sensor scan (M1) names rocks 300+ km away.
R25 engine: on D1 Fuel or Unstable Fuel it loses a third of its thrust. Only build it once you have D2 Fuel or EU-40 Fuel.
Try all of it in The Forge: it shows hold, fuel hours, whether the capacitor holds up, and power before you build.

Staying alive

Shoot back at NPCs right away, leave at 1,000 health, and never let the capacitor run dry.

Shoot back at NPCs right away: waiting is how new players die. Gankers camp docks and spawning rocks; don't idle there.
Players: check before you return fire. A glitch makes a nearby miner's laser look like it is hitting you when it isn't. Return fire only once you see actual damage on your screen.
Warping needs capacitor charge. Run it empty and you can't warp out. 4x Capacitor + 1x Blackstart Cell: one laser + repairer lasts ~5 min of nonstop fighting. 8x + 1x: one laser + repairer never runs dry.
Weapons: Cutting Laser 12 km, ramps 2.3x over 16 s, resets on a target switch, mines too · Stuttergun 35 km, full damage from shot one, can't mine · Needle 25 km laser, ramps 2.5x over 20 s, mines worse.
Starter ferals: Ostler hits hardest → Luthier → Caird. A pack does ~14 HP/s: a repairer holds. Keep range on fast orbiters (Luthier): up close your laser misses almost every shot.
Grave ferals (threat 4 systems): the full pack does ~28 HP/s, more than a repairer. Kill the Grave Wright first or leave.
Player bases defend themselves. Turrets lock only 2 ships (bring 4+), their shields take 2 days to recharge, a Mini Turret hits for 400–600. Field Sentries: 4,800 HP, ~100 DPS each within 25 km, several can kill a full ship in 18 seconds; out-range them with a Stuttergun.
Fighting a base: fight from behind cover (behind a building, a Mini Turret missed 91 of 99 shots), lasers work on structures (215–260 per shot), and never go back alone to finish one.

Scanning and loot

Fly to 60 km of a marker, scan with the narrowest cone. Empty container = someone got there first.

Strength = range; range grows with the square root of strength. Resolution = blur; 1 mrad = 1 km off per 1,000 km away.
Gravity Sensor markers are fuzzy, about 8% of the distance: that's why a marker moves or vanishes as you fly in. The Directional Scanner is ~27x sharper. Sensors add range, not sharpness. The Ion Sensor is the EM channel: without it, EM range drops to a third.
Use the smallest cone: narrow 10 GJ, wide 50 GJ, omni 90 GJ, and a smaller cone blooms less EM signature, so others are less likely to find you.
Containers are faint (10 t, EM 25; a ship is 10,000 t, EM ~300). Fly to ~60 km of the marker, then scan with a narrow cone. Nothing? Move 20 km closer and scan again.
Empty container = looted, not a dud. Containers never despawn and refill on a timer: 20 min for the Reinforced Transport Container, Jackpot Cache, wrecks, Storage Silos and Derelict Freighter. Found it empty? Come back 20 min later.
Which sites: most loot at Ossuary Mill (also lots of Debris), Derelict Quarry, Respite Anchorage, Fringe Latticeway. No ferals placed: Graven Works, Dustline Waystation. Most guarded: Longwatch Redoubt. Natural sites (Stone/Ancient Cluster, Shale, Grove, Garden, Crossing) are rocks only.

Last reviewed: patch 0.7.2.0

Will this ship get you there and back? Load the starter Reiver or forge your own: every module in the palette, the hull drawn like the game's fitting window, and the numbers that matter before you undock: hold, fuel hours, whether the capacitor holds up, power. Forge for the role fills the spare cells for what you need. Made by The Saints; proposal links carry the whole fit. Source and feedback on GitHub.

Modules

Fitting window drag in from the palette · drag off to remove · R / E turn 90° · F 180° · Ctrl+Z undo

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fit + in the palette finds a spot, rearranging if it mustShow me around

The ship

Cells

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Hold m³

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Fuel

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Capacitor GJ

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Hull HP

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Damage

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Power

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Fuel grade

for the burn estimate

Checks: the game's own limits (the modules it never lets you remove, an engine, hardpoints, power) and the capacitor estimate.

Forge for the role

Modules you placed stay; hold, capacitor, fuel and armour modules may be rearranged or traded (never below the minimums below). The spare cells get filled by these priorities, top first; off = never add.

Hold

Capacitor

Fuel

Armour

Keep at least Cargo Containers Capacitors Fuel Bays Structural Braces

Runs several searches at once and stops by itself when nothing better has turned up for 30 seconds (3 minutes at most). Stop any time; the best fit found so far stays.

SAINTS FORGE

About us

The Mason's Lodge

What are we building?

Goals

Your facilities

Plan for

Salvage

The work

Beginner's guide

The Crèche is one-way

Your starter ship

Fuel

A safe spot and your first home

Mining and rocks

Making things

Building your base, and moving on

Fitting your ship

Staying alive

Scanning and loot

Modules

Fitting window drag in from the palette · drag off to remove · R / E turn 90° · F 180° · Ctrl+Z undo

The ship

Forge for the role