Walkthrough

Introduction

This page contains a complete walkthrough of the game, including tutorials for each major feature.

Main Storyline

This section contains a step-by-step guide to complete the game's storyline.

Act I

Complete all of the following steps within 3 in-game days (this is indicated via a progress bar in the top left corner of the screen).

1. When you start a new game, you will be presented with some cutscenes, read through them and continue until you are spawned in the game world.
2. You have a shovel in your inventory. Press 1 to select the shovel.
3. Walk over to ship debris, which are scattered around the starting area. Hover your mouse over the ship debris, and left click (or press the spacebar) to clear a piece of debris.
4. Clear all debris pieces in the starting area (there should be 15)
5. Walk to the right, you should eventually see an alien with an exclamation mark over their head (if you do not see the exclamation mark, you have not cleared all the debris yet, make sure all of the debris is cleared)
6. Walk up to the alien, and collect the reward for your first quest
   1. When you walk over to the alien, you can press the ‘E’ key, and a window should pop up
   2. Select Quests. You should see the layout change, and there should be 4 options running along the top of the window (New, Active, Expired, Completed)
   3. Click on the Completed option
   4. Click Collect Reward on the quest called Clearing Your Mess
7. Read the dialogue and click Continue when you are ready
8. Exit out of the quests display window by clicking the < Back and Close options
9. You have 2 new items in your inventory, a hoe and 6x cosmic cob seeds
10. Equip the hoe by pressing the number corresponding to the inventory slot of the hoe
11. Click on the ground nearby, and a patch of tilled soil should appear (these are called crop tiles). Create 6x crop tiles
12. Equip the seeds and plant them on the crop tiles by pressing left click or spacebar while hovering your mouse over crop tiles (this is the default way of using an item in your inventory, so assume this is the way to use any item requested in this walkthrough)
13. Return to the alien and collect the reward for the quest Sowing You First Seeds using the previously described method. Read the dialogue and continue when you are ready. Then, exit from the quest display (in future, this type of instruction will be shortened to “collect the reward for <quest reward>” unless otherwise notified)
14. You have 2 additional items in your inventory, a scythe and a watering can, the uses of which will be explained later. In the mean time, it might help to have a look at the status of your crops.
    1. Move over to where you planted your cosmic cob plants, and hover your mouse over the planted seeds
    2. The display in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen shows important information about the plants, most notably, the plant health, water level and growth stage
    3. You can use the watering can to increase the water level of crops. You should try and get the water level of your crops to match the number on the right as closely as possible, this will optimise the growth rate of your plants (when it is sufficiently close to this target water level, you should see ideal water level under water status). For example, if you see water level: 0.8/1, that means you should try and increase the water level to 1, to better match the crop’s ideal water level
15. Tend to your planted crops by watering them periodically. If your plants die due to in-game weather events or other factors, you can dig them up with your shovel (using your shovel on crop tiles with plants on them will dig up the plant, but using your shovel on empty crop tiles will remove the crop tile), and collect the seeds again
    • Note that if your watering can stops working, it is likely because there is no more water in it. Go over to some water source (they look purple), and use your watering can (as if you were watering a crop tile) on one of the water tiles. This should refill your watering can for later use
16. When your crops reach the ADULT growth stage, you can use your scythe to harvest them. Harvest all 6x cosmic cob, and collect the dropped items
    • You can have a look at your entire inventory by pressing the I key. In this view, you can drag and drop inventory items to replace your hotbar, and hover over items to see their names and descriptions
17. Return to the alien and collect the reward for Reaping Your Rewards
18. When you harvested the cosmic cob, you should have gotten 6x ear of cosmic cob. Equip these items, and walk around the map to find a cow
    • Note that you can eat these, and other harvested items by equipping them and pressing the R key, but do not eat more than 3x ear of cosmic cob before you complete the next quest, or you may have to replant some cosmic cob before being able to continue
19. Walk up to a cow, and feed them some ear of cosmic cob until a heart appears above them, and a green ring appears around them - you have tamed a cow. You can tame other animals by feeding them their preferred food items (you get these food items by harvesting certain crops). For more details on the preferred animal foods, please read the relevant wiki page (taming animals is no longer important for the completion of the story)
    • Note, if you would like to bring tamed animals back to the starting area, if you hold/equip their preferred food item, they will follow you
20. Return to the alien and collect the reward for Making Friends
21. Spend a few in-game hours on whatever task you would like (why not plant some more cosmic cob using the seeds you got when you harvested them)
22. After some time, you should notice that your tamed cow creature has dropped some faeces. You can walk up to it, to collect it. You can use cow faeces as fertiliser for your crops (by using them on crop tiles), which double any plant’s growth rate
23. Apply fertiliser to a crop tile of your choice (there doesn’t necessarily need to be any plant on it), then return to the alien and collect the reward for Fertilising Fiesta
24. When you exit from the dialogue screen, you should notice 5 entities which have appeared around you. You now have a sword in your inventory, so find it and equip it.
25. Walk up to these hostile creatures, and use your sword to defeat them (note that the bat creatures are very deadly, so be careful not to get too close for too long)
    • Note that you will also have gotten a new type of seed in your inventory after collecting the reward for the most recent quest - these are for the space snapper plant. When fully grown, space snappers will eat nearby creatures, both hostile and non-hostile. You can choose to grow these fully and defeat the hostile creatures this way, although this may take a while
26. Once you have defeated all of the 5x hostile creatures, return to the alien and collect the reward for Aliens Attack
27. You will notice, after collecting this reward, that there are no more Active quests. Go look at Completed quests, and collect the reward for An Agreement. This is the mandatory quest for act I of the story. Each act has 1 associated mandatory quest. Failure to complete a mandatory quest in time will return in losing the game.

By collecting the reward for An Agreement, you have successfully completed act I of the game. A dialogue screen should appear. After you click Continue, another dialogue screen will quickly appear, signalling the beginning of act II of the game.

Act II

Complete all of the following steps within 6 in-game days.

You should also note that this act introduces non-mandatory quests, which can be viewed and accepted by clicking New on the quests display. These quests can expire if you don’t complete them in time (although you will be able to reactivate them), but give you a variety of bonus rewards.

1. Your next goal, after reading the second dialogue screen, is to complete the Home Sick quest. You should receive 3x deadly nightshade seeds
2. Plant the deadly nightshade seeds on crop tiles, and tend to them until they reach the ADULT growth stage
   • Note that deadly nightshade have a damaging aura around them, which will damage you and other entities nearby. By having a fully-grown hammer plant nearby (the seeds for which you should have received after collecting the reward for Aliens Attack), you will be healed. It might be helpful to plant your deadly nightshade a little ways from your other crops
3. Harvest all 3x deadly nightshade plants. You should receive 9x nightshade berry. Have all of these items in your inventory, and collect the reward for Home Sick from the alien npc
4. You will have received the next story quest, Ship Repairs, along with 3x ship parts in your inventory
5. Equip the ship parts, walk over to the ship (near where you spawned) and use the ship parts on the ship. After using all 3, you should notice the ship change slightly to indicate your repairs. For more information on repairing the ship, see the relevant wiki page.
6. Return to the alien and collect the reward for Ship Repairs
7. Your next task is to collect and add 7x ship parts to your ship. Ship parts will need to be gathered by completing other random quests or activities. You will be given 1 Clue item for collecting the reward for Ship Repairs which will spawn a Ship Part Tile that when dug up, rewards a ship part. Accept non-mandatory quests and explore around the game to find more ship parts, and add them to your ship. For more information on repairing your ship (and the benefits you get from doing so), see here.
8. After adding 7x ship parts to your ship, return to the alien and collect the reward for Bringing It All Together
9. Finally, collect this act’s main quest’s reward - collect the reward for Making Contact

By collecting the reward for Making Contact, you have successfully completed act II of the game. A dialogue screen should appear. After you click Continue, another dialogue screen will quickly appear, signalling the beginning of act III of the game.

Act III

Complete all of the following steps within 9 in-game days.

1. Your next goal, after reading the second dialogue screen, is to complete the Air and Algae quest. You should receive 2x atmoic algae seeds
2. Plant the atomic algae seeds on crop tiles, then return to the alien and collect the reward for Air and Algae
3. Your next task is to increase the world’s oxygen level. This can be done by planting crops and defeating oxygen eaters (a type of floating hostile creature which shoots blue projectiles). atomic algae are particularly effective at increasing the oxygen level, os you should allocate some space to tending to these plants. To complete act III of the game, you need to first complete the Stratospheric Sentinel quest. This quest requires you to have an oxygen level >=95% after 8 in-game days, which is 24 hours before you fail the mandatory quest for this act.
   • 9 in-game days is approx. 1 hour and 48 minutes real-time (ignoring any sleeping you do by interacting with a repaired ship) so you have plenty of time to explore the world and do as you wish
4. After increasing world oxygen level to >=95% after 8 days, talk to the alien creature and collect the reward for Stratospheric Sentinel (failure to do this will result in you losing the game after the 9th day)
5. Finally, collect this act’s main quest’s reward - collect the reward for Weather the Storm

By collecting the reward for Weather the Storm, you have successfully completed act III of the game, and thus completed the entirety of Gardens of the Galaxy. Thank you for playing through the storyline to its completion. I hope you had fun!