This page highlights some popular guides for Desynced. Guides gives basic information and pointers, not detailed instructions. Please visit Tutorials for step-by-step walk-throughs.
Tips and Tricks
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Use CTRL + numbers to group units or buildings. Press the number to highlight, press again to jump to that group. CTRL + Home to change your home location.
- Look at the minimap to see useful overlays (G - show a small grid around the mouse / P - to show the power grid / N - to follow a unit / M - see selected unit paths)
- Holding CTRL, SHIFT, or ALT can reveal extended tool tips while hovering the mouse over an item or component. This information can make it easier to plan production chains as it shows production ratios.
New Game
- Before deploying your base, check the immediate area for bumps with the grid overlay underneath the cursor (see above). Orange and Red squares means buildings cannot be placed there.
Building and Planning
- You can easily remove buildings or bots with the .
- Make sure you space your buildings so your bots have enough room to carry out orders. At least 2-3 squares between different production buildings.
- Try not to block your buildings on all sides. Your bots won't be able to reach them.
Production
- Keep an eye on the top bar to see resource and material flow. (e.g. You need more Metal Bars than Metal Plates)
- Double click an item to quickly select it for production.
- To quickly select an infinite number for production, mouse wheel down when hovering over the number slider.
Storage
- Right click the building icon to fix all storage slots to an item, or none.
- Lock your storage slots before adding a component.
Exploration
- "Exploration is king!" - (beatwho @ Dev Stream #12). Make sure you explore!
- While exploring, solving the 'lights out' style puzzle requires you to think and click symmetrically.
- To make the pipes puzzle easier, work from the outside, in.
- Don't forget to make use of your for exploration after you have built some dedicated power.
New Game Guides
For new players starting a fresh world or if you restart a game. Read these to help you playing a new game in Desynced
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| What to do before deploying your base | Some tips to know before your Mobile Command Center is deployed into a Command Center building. | |
| Hey, the Scouts mine! | An introduction to harvesting/collecting/mining resources, learn about miner bots, and some examples of 'mining teams.' Don't let the scouts mine! |
Community Guides
Please help us make more guides.
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This page shows some step-by-step walk-throughs to teach players certain parts of the game, like rules and controls, Behaviors and combat. Our Guides page has basic information and pointers, to help other players navigate through the game.
Game Tutorial
The game has a tutorial and is highly recommended for new players.
TODO - break down the game tutorial into segments on one page. We can break it down into descriptive segments with reference materials, but we don't have the same interactive element as in the game so keep that in mind. Imagery should be used as references only and not relied on as having to update those with the game in an early access state is workload that could be avoided.
| Write a new tutorial! | Breaking down the game tutorial into one massive wall of text! |
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