Playing to Survive

Your first goal is quite simple. It is to avoid being killed by plague, famine, lack of oxygen, exposure — you get the idea. In order to survive, you must have the following: mined resources to build and operate your structures; CHAP facilities to provide air to your buildings; Agricultural Domes (AgriDomes) for food; energy; and protected underground residential areas. You must also connect all of these structures with tubes so that air, water, people, and recyclables can pass between them. Later in the game, you’ll play to thrive, but for right now, you’re doing great if you live through the next turn.

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There are a lot of buildings to choose from in Outpost. What does each one do? When it’s time to construct some buildings, use this handy guide showing your building options.

Title	Description	# People to operate	# Turns to build	Morale effect	Production result	Chance of breakdown
Agricultural Dome	Provides Food	1	5	+1	Food	20
CHAP Facility	Produces life-support gases and water	4	6	0	LSA, LSB, LSC	10
Command Center	Allows colony-building to commence	1	3	0		50
Communications Tower	Extends communications	1	2	0		5
DIRT Facility	Helps minimize damage from catastrophes	2	5	+1		0
Factory	Produces robots, road material, etc.	1	6	0	Robots, Parts, Roads, Fuel Cells	10
Hot Laboratory	Houses potentially dangerous experiments	2	5	-1	Research	20
Mass Driver	Launches payloads into orbit	4	9 per segment	0		20
Mine	Provides ore for building	1	7	0	Mined ore	30
Monorail	Carries ore, resources, or passengers	1	7 per segment	0		30
Monorail Intersection	Carries ore, resources, or passengers	1	12 per segment	0		30
Monorail Power	Powers the Monorail	0	6	0		30
Monorail Station	Acts as required terminal for Monorail line	1	6	0		30
Nanotechnology Facility	Eliminates reliance on resources	2	5	+1	No resources requirements	20
Police	Reduces crime level, improves morale	2	4 surface	+1 or -1		20
Road	Allows transportation of resources	0	2	0		0
Robot Command	Communicates with robots, orders repairs	1	3	0		30
Seed Factory	Produces robots and processes ore	0	2	0	Robots	0
Smelter/Ore Processor	Changes ore into processed resources	3	7	0	Processed resources	10
Solar Powersat Receiver Array	Solar Powersat Receiver Array	1	4	0	Power	20
Spaceport	Launches cargo and satellites into orbit	4	7	0		30
SPEW Facility	Recycles wastes	2	8	+1	MPG (Multi-Purpose Goo)	40
Storage Tanks	Acts as delivery points for processed resources	0	2	0		0
Terraforming Facility	Creates breathable atmosphere for planet	4	9	+5	Breathable air	20
Tokamak Fusion Reactor	Creates safe, reliable fusion energy	1	2 if brought, 9 if built	0	Power	5 if brought, 30 if built
Trade Mission	Allows trade–built by trade partner	1	2	0	Trade	0
Tube	Provides a supply line between buildings	0	1	0		0
Warehouse	Stores medicine, fuel cells, robots, etc.	1	2	0		5

Title	Description	# People to operate	# Turns to build	Morale effect	Production result	Chance of breakdown
Administration	Provides administration site	1	2	0	Increase in productivity	10
Commercial	Acts as a retail outlet for luxury items	2	3	+1		10
Geothermal Power Plant	Provides a clean source of energy	1	9	0	Power	20
Laboratory	Allows “safe” experiments to take place	2	4	0	Research	20
Light Industry	Produces luxuries, clothing, or medicine	2	4	0	Luxuries, Clothing, Medicine	20
Medical Facility	Reduces population attrition from disasters	2	4	0	Life extension	20
Mine Shaft	Provides mine access (built by robominer)	0	varies by terrain	0	Mined ore	0
Park/Reservoir	Provides safe environment to play in	0	3	+1 per turn	Entertainment	10
Police	Reduces crime level, improves morale	2	3 underground	+1 or -1		20
Recreational Facility	Provides colonists with entertainment	1	4	+1 per turn	Entertainment	20
Red Light District	Provides colonists with entertainment	2	4, or spontaneous	+2 per turn	Entertainment	0
Residential	Houses colonists	1	3	+1 or -1		10
Tokamak Containment	Contains reactor (built along with reactor)	0	varies by terrain	-1 to 0		0
University	Educates the rabble	2	4	+1 per turn	Education	20

Power source	Pros	Cons
Fuel Cells	Simple, immediately available	Limited to robots
Geothermal Energy	Cheap, clean	You may not find a fumarole
Seed Power	Immediately available	Extremely limited
Solar Power Satellite	Generates up to 2000	No more than two receiver arrays per satellite
Tokamak Fusion Reactor	1000 units of power per turn, efficient	Requires maintenance

Structures Details

Excerpt from the Outpost Manual

Playing to Survive

Construction

Surface Structures

Underground Structures

Power structures

See Also

Outpost Universe Wiki