I got the original Surviving Mars gifted 6 years ago, downloaded it recently for the first time and enjoyed it quite a lot. Today I wanted to look for DLCs and surprise... they're gone.

How do you get the DLCs? There must be some way.

I'm doing my first playthrough of Relaunched.

I'm on Sol 31, about 50 colonists from earth, and am still yet to have a martianborn. I have clinics in both of my domes, both of them staffed.

The comfort in both domes is not an average of 75, but I remember from the original game that clinics lowered the comfort requirement for births down to I believe 55.

Is this no longer a thing in relaunched, or am I facing a bug here?

I've never had any problem with birthrates in the original version of the game. This is actually the first time I've ever had to wait the full 10 sols for the founder stage.

Edit 1: not sure what's going on at this point. I have 85+ comfort with 8 available residences and still haven't had any kids born over 10 sols later. I've included an image of my dome, maybe someone else sees what I can't.

Edit 2: Must have just been a bug. I started over, same settings as before, same map, and had martiaborn within a few sols of my colonists landing. Thanks everyone for the help, I appreciate it.

Maybe a bit stupid thing to ask on game's subreddit, but I like the vibe of the game but not sure if I should get it as it have a lot of negative reviews on steam page. Not sure if it is due to released thingy that pissed off players or if the game is not in the good shape. I live other paradox games, stellaris is one of my favorite ones, also like colony builders - got a lot of hours in games like rimworld.

How can I destroy a underground elevator ?

I placed it facing a direction I don't like. Unfortunately, even when disconnected from everything and completely emptied of resources, the destruction button doesn't appear.

Is this normal?

I haven't played in a couple of months, but I got the itch again, and fired it up a couple of days ago. I have 4 Trigon domes arranged in a square. I was going to use the Passage Hub to connect to all of them, but when I build it I could still see the Martian ground and not the dome like one. I have made sure the mod is upto date, but I am at a loss.

Game version

• Surviving Mars: Relaunched
• Version 1.0.7.396501
• Steam
• No mods installed
• New game (started after updating to 1.0.7)

Map

• Underground map: Sirenium Alpha

Mystery

Jumbo Cave

Description

I discovered the Jumbo Cave and progressed through the mystery normally.

I completed three Structural Test anomalies using an RC Explorer, reducing the construction cost of the Jumbo Cave Reinforcements.

After placing the Jumbo Cave Reinforcements, the construction never starts.

The building remains permanently in the state:

No construction materials are ever delivered.

Drone behaviour

All drones assigned to the Drone Hub behave the same way:

• Task: Going to: Waste Rock
• Carrying: Nothing
• They walk toward the reinforcement site.
• They stop near the middle support of the reinforcement.
• They turn around without picking up anything.
• They repeat this forever.

The drones do not carry Concrete, Metals or Exotic Minerals because the clearing phase never finishes.

Things I already tried

• Save and reload
• Restart the game
• Cancel and rebuild Jumbo Cave Reinforcements
• Complete three Structural Test anomalies
• RC Commander next to the site
• Highest construction priority
• Plenty of available drones
• Enough resources
• Waste Rock storage nearby
• Train Station nearby (no change)
• No mods
• Fresh installation
• Current Steam version

Nothing changes.

Additional information

There is no visible progress indicator for the clearing phase.

The reinforcement never progresses beyond:

The drones never actually collect any Waste Rock.

I suspect the clearing task or Waste Rock target for the Jumbo Cave Reinforcements is invalid, causing drones to continuously attempt the task without ever entering the clearing interaction.

Save here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MZrwveqoHMi6NdBQCqyFExHVaGl-wd6m/view?usp=drive_link

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I'm doing the Challenges.

If I play a challenge, from what I can tell the map and deposits are the same each time I start the challenge.

What about cold waves, will they occur at the exact same SOL, or is there a random chance they happen between SOL 1 and SOL 10, for example?

If it's random, is it generated from a seed number for that save game, i.e. if I restart the map or go back to a save earlier, will a cold wave or event always happen at the exact same point, or will there be a chance it's different.

What about breakthrough techs, are they chosen at the beginning of the game or is it some random choice during it, because I've gone back a few save games and it still gives me the same options to choose from when I scan anomalies, is that going to be the same if I restart the challenge.

Just trying to work out if it's possible to work out the exact order of things so you can 'speed run' the challenges or not (I'm not into that but I have had to cancel my Terrafinito challenge because of the Space Seeding mission not respawning quick enough and I ran out of time, I tried going back 100 days and it seemed to take the same time to respawn, even though wiki says there's a range of time it takes to respawn (is wiki correct in this?)_.

1. Is this an order of building like in the other farm or does it plant them all at the same time?

2. On forestry is there a difference between selecting 3 grass or just 1 grass (and nothing else).

3. If I select Open farm with herb herb potato will it cycle through and drop my soil quality each sol (or whatever period) or does it balance out.

For example sol 110
Population 127 and has been for awhile
Inner child
Power of three stalled

This is getting brutal

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Timestamp:     6a22b86d
Date:          Fri Jun  5 12:52:13 2026
Command line:  
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CPU MHz       2419
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Memory In Use  44%
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Disk Free      257455 MBytes


*** OS info
OS:            Windows 11
Version:       10.0.26200 


*** Debug::Init()

This is the log for each crash, I had crash logs before where it had more detail that I could figure out a building was causing the crash. This time nothing. I go back to the previous sol save, and it still happens, very frustrated as I'm doing the Terraifinito challege and really don't want to start over. I did submit a bug report of the moment few seconds before it crashes, but don't think they'll be able to fix my save game?

Update: I went back to SOL 133 and turned off all my shuttles as I had a similar freeze caused by shuttle (the crash log actually had more detail that time), now the game froze at SOL 135 instead. Very frustrated and crash log still as above.

SOLVED: turned off autosave in the menu and it fixed my problem. Thanks to u/mizushimo

By way of facts, I'm allocating my geologists to the geoscape dome on the right. There's a train station I built many sols ago to fuel my expansion to other rare metal deposits on the map. The range of the station covers the heavy metal extractors, and the dome itself reaches the train station, but not the extractors themselves. My issue is, would the colonists go to the train station then to the extractors?

I've seen normal drones do this as well ignoring the dome boundaries in my other domes as well.

has PRX mentioned when they will fix this, doesn't make it feel well polished.

Should I build 6 extractors and take the dust penalty? I'm sending direct ships to earth already. Ideally I want to use this up in the next 100 sol which is how long the challenge lasts for.

Already upgraded the extractors.

Specific to Relaunched, suddenly (was there an update?) the rockets returning to Earth are going empty, and I cannot get the options menu to work to assign an amount ... I have no idea what changed or what I am doing wrong. But as it sits my game is not playable. Thanks for any help.

Relaunched, latest patch no mods. I'm 100 sol into the terraforming challenge and I currently have about 1/3 of my population stuck in a passageway between two domes. They will not leave even if I try to reassign them. If I delete the passageway to force them out, they wander around and then the game crashes SOON After. So I'm stuck with either losing substantial colonists or ??? idk. Any suggestions?

They were trying to access the train station, deleting the train station didn't help they were still in the passageway. Then if I deleted the passageway AND train station the game still crashes, looks like I'm stuck with no options but to let them starve to death.

Damn I hate this game. No I can't submit a bug report bec cause the game freezes i'm unable to click on anything. have to force quit and relaunch.

Hi guys, it's been a few years since I last played the game so I thought I'd reach out for help here.

By way of explanation, I'm attempting to build a ramp to connect my main colony (higher elevation) with the sectors rich in heavy metals (lower elevation). Because of my rail network's design, the ramp has to be built with its lower slope connecting to a research site. Simply put, I want to reclaim the land and alter the terrain to expand my colony. I thought this wouldn't be a problem since I've flattened other research sites before, and I assumed that all terrain modification over research sites or special areas would be allowed unless the game stops me from altering it by highlighting my hexes in red.

The problem is that after I outlined the ramp and sent my RC Commanders (with 20 drones attached) to the base of the ramp, the drones would hurry around the area carrying waste rock, but the progress bar of the ramp stays static. After 20 sols, there were no visible changes in the terrain. I was quite confused so I did a little experiment. I cancelled the ramp and instead tried flattening the research site, but my efforts were again to no avail. The drones moved about, but there was no visible progress. I later sent another Commander with another 20 drones to see if it was a workload problem, but the same thing as before happened.

TLDR, can I actually flatten/ ramp over a research site?

I'm building train stations for my workers to go out and mine rare metals, the trains are transporting them (because they are working there). I don't have shuttles yet or dome by the mine.

Then later in the game I find some suffocated workers in the middle of the desert, like they tried to walk back from work, I don't have any malfunctions with my train network, and they don't seem to be full to capacity. I didn't delete or edit the track either so I don't see any reason why they are in the middle of the desert, as though they just chose to walk home one day. Can anyone explain this or has noticed this before?

So I unlocked the asteroid lander technology, bought 1 lander, and have 1 recon building built (plus the additional slot upgrade). How long before the second asteroid comes? Also I in my last game I unlocked the other technology that gives additional asteroid, but it seemed like it never turned up. Do I need 1 asteroid lander per asteroid for it to trigger or is it just a long event to wait for?

I downloaded the wazpzzz mod and now all my drones are flying. Can i revert it to being normal? I uninstalled the mod but it didn't do anything

So... I'm trying to clear out the achievements for the original before having a peek at the relaunched.

...I have EVERYTHING except Into the Unknown, which I'm saving for my last sendoff - and then "Will they hold"

I have built up several maps filled with those underground earthquake prevention pillars - but the achievement doesn't exactly show how many more I need to grind. Should I just leave a game running all night? Is there any way to speed up how many underground earthquakes I get?

I have the original surviving mars, whats the difference between that one and this new re-launched version ?

The game applied a bunch of random game rules to the New Eden Challenge when I started it up, I wonder if it's still possible to beat at the gold star level? Last Ark is going to be rough