Beginner's Guide

Beginner Survival and Growth Guide

This guide is designed to help new players navigate the early stages of VoidVerse. Because the game is persistent and competitive, your success depends on efficiency and strategic resource management.

The Late Start Strategy: Rush Ship Production

If you are joining a universe that has been active for a while, you are at a disadvantage regarding raw resource production.

• Prioritize Shipyards: Instead of focusing purely on high-level mines, rush your planetary shipyard and Engine Engineering technology.
• Early Growth: Securing ships as soon as possible allows you to interact with the universe, participate in events, and collect resources that are not dependent on your own planetary production.

Expansion: The Government Network

Your ability to hold territory is tied to your administrative infrastructure.

• Colonization Path: You should prioritize research toward the Government Network as early as possible.
• Strategic Depth: This network is the prerequisite for colonizing new planets. A single-planet empire will eventually be out-produced; expansion is mandatory for long-term survival.

Look Before You Leap: Planet Surveys

Colonizing a planet is a major investment. Blind colonization is a common mistake that can lead to wasted resources.

• Perform Surveys: Always perform a Planet Survey before sending a Colony Ship.
• Field Counts: You are looking for planets with high field counts (building slots). A planet with low fields will eventually limit your infrastructure growth and become a liability.

To understand the planet and resource bonus locations, read: Planets

Resource Scavenging: Extractors and Debris

The universe contains significant wealth outside of standard planetary mines.

• Asteroid Fields: Utilize Extractors to harvest raw materials from asteroid belts. This provides additional income without consuming planetary building slots.
• Debris Fields: Large amounts of resources are left behind after combat. Early-game players can grow significantly faster by collecting these remains than by relying solely on mine production.

Fleet Saving: The Golden Rule

Your fleet is most vulnerable while you are offline. In a persistent universe, a stationary fleet is a liability.

• Risk 0 Excursions: Before going to sleep or leaving the game, send your entire fleet on an Excursion mission.
• Safety Mechanics: Set the mission to Risk 0. This ensures the fleet is safe from random exploration losses while remaining hidden from planetary attackers.
• Timing: Adjust the flight duration so the fleet returns to your planet exactly when you plan to be back online.

Power Management: Solar vs. Fusion

Energy is the primary bottleneck for all production and technology.

• Solar Farms: These provide steady energy for the early game but require significant building space at higher levels.
• Fusion Reactors: These are highly efficient power sources that produce significantly more energy than Solar Farms.
• The SEM Requirement: Fusion Reactors require SEM to operate. Ensure you have a stable supply of SEM before relying on Fusion power to avoid total production shutdowns.

The game processing will shut down all reactors, which are below 1000 SEM and have less production than consumption, so be careful!