How to Start Your Skylab

Your skylab has potential to make 6,000,000 credits a day, without ever leaving base. Before it can make you that much credits, you have to invest time, credits, and ore to build it.

Step 1
Your skylab starts with 100 prometium, 100 endurium, and 100 terbium. Your first step is to use those initial ore collections to build your endurium and terbium collectors. It is easier to start building those two first because prometium is easier to collect from NPCs or floating in space. You need to collect 50 of the ore that you did not build.


Step 2
Send 50 ore back to skylab. If you built your endurium and terbium collectors, then you need to send 50 prometium back to skylab. In your skylab, selct the transport module and replicate the image below before hitting send (not instant send).

Step 3
Build your third collector. Play dark orbit while you wait for your collectors or ship more of each ore to skylab to store 707 of each PET (prometium, endurium, terbium).


Step 4
Upgrade your basic module. Your basic module limits the level of your other modules, refineries, collectors. Try to maintain your basic module one more than your collectors.



Step 5
Upgrade your collectors. Upgrade solar module and storage as needed. Each module, collector, and refinery consumes energy from the solar module. You need a strong enough solar module to power everything. You can also turn off modules by clicking on the circle in the bottom left corner.

Step 6
Repeat steps 5 and 6 a couple times, until the collectors are level 3 or 4

Step 7
Build duranium and prometid refinery

Step 8
Upgrade basic module, collectors, and first two refineries. Build Promerium and Xeno module at the same time. Promerium will not be produced without an effective Xeno Module.

Step 9
Send promerium back to your ship. Sell promerium at base. Use the revenue to build more skylab!

Step 10
Build your Seprom refinery. Upgrade generators with seprom to give your ship a temporary advantage. You cannot sell seprom at your base.