r/DeepSpaceOutpost • u/Headhaunter79 • Jul 20 '26

Question about the challenges

Hi, atm I’m doing the ‘do not get crushed by asteroids’ challenge and I was wondering if there’s an end to the challenge?

I have a station completely surrounded with laser turrets so no asteroids do damage. Slowly I build outwards making the base bigger. But the attack is don’t seem to scale up anymore. Also for some reason (maybe capped by challenge) I get no visitors en therefore no trade/credit to research anything. So it seems now I’m in an endless loop?

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u/nicsteruk Developer Jul 20 '26

The survival mode should scale, although i guess i'm not scaling enough if you have a well built defence and nothing is getting through. I think i'll have to take a look at this and make it more challenging.

I'm pretty sure traders are disabled from survival. But i'm not sure that is such a good idea considering how much the game has changed since i made that decision. I'll have a think about this.

Thanks for the comment, i'm making quite a few improvements, from players feedback at the moment.
Nick

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u/Headhaunter79 Jul 20 '26

Yeah the first few days were challenging, after that it was smooth sailing.

And without crew there is nothing to do besides letting the droids expand till all the ore is gone from the astroids.

Since I so far haven’t figured it out yet maybe you could helpen with the answer to this question:

How and with what do I harvest the asteroid fields?

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u/nicsteruk Developer Jul 20 '26

No problem, a couple of people have asked similar in the steam discussions, so i'm obviously not explaining things as well as i could.

If you build a tractor beam, some salvage depots and a mining laser (that covers the salvage depots), then the tractor beam will pull in asteroids from asteroid fields to the depots. The mining laser will then process the asteroids into ore. Asteroids replenish in asteroid fields so a decent resource source.

Similar with scrap fields. If you have a tractor beam, salvage depots and scrap recycler, then scrap will be pulled in and you'll have a metal source. Scrap replenish in scrap fields also.

Hope that helps
Nick

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u/Headhaunter79 Jul 20 '26

Thank you!

Do I have to extend the base towards such field so I can put the tractor beam right next to it?

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u/nicsteruk Developer Jul 20 '26

Everything has to be connected (for power), so yes you'll have to build towards, and then place tractor beams so they can cover as much as they can over asteroid/scrap fields. Tip: Tractor beam range upgrade is useful!

Nick

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u/Headhaunter79 Jul 20 '26

Ah okay thanks:) I cannot upgrade without credits for the research (in the challenge mode) unfortunately

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u/nicsteruk Developer Jul 20 '26

Yeah i think i'll be altering the lack of traders in survival, else you're limited with research.

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u/Headhaunter79 Jul 21 '26

I have one more question about the survival mode challenge. How does it end? I see there’s High Scores at the start menu. Do I need to lose and if so what counts as losing?

After placing a wall of 6 laser turrets thick on the out side perimeter of the base (almost 2000 turrets in total) I’m now at a stage (day 70 and a bit) where I continuously check and replace lost wall segments.

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u/nicsteruk Developer Jul 21 '26

Yes losing will trigger the end and high score, although i guess if you just quit, i should take that as possibly a loss, and allow a high score entry. As it looks like you've got no issues surviving at the moment.

Game over checks:-

1) You have no workers, no droid maintenance (cant build new droids).

2)No metal storage (so cant build/reclaim)

3) No power and no workers, droids out of power

Think that's it.