Beginner Guide
Learn how to survive your first hours on Mars. Understand your survival priorities, manage essential supplies, and establish a safe starting point before venturing into the wilderness.
Sol One
Independent Fan-Made Mars Survival Wiki
Stranded alone on Mars, you must mine resources, build a pressurized habitat, and keep your oxygen, water, food, and power systems running. Explore a vast Martian landscape, develop new technologies, and prepare for the ultimate journey home.
Early Access planned Nov 13, 202650,000 wishlists announced Nov 103 crafting tiersSingle-playerMars survival
Recent Guides
- building · 2026-11-12Sol One base layout and expansion guide: Habitats, Corridors, and Crates
- building · 2026-11-12Sol One how to deliver materials to building blueprints: Habitat Construction
- building · 2026-11-12Sol One how to place fabricator equipment crates: What Changed
- farming · 2026-11-12Sol One how to maintain food production: Water, Crops, and Replanting
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Your Sol One Survival Journey
Oxygen & Water Guide
Understand the life-support systems that keep you alive. Learn how oxygen generation, water production, and basic survival needs affect your ability to explore and expand.
Base Building & Power Guide
Discover how to construct pressurized habitats and organize a functional power grid. Learn the fundamentals of solar panels, equipment placement, and protecting your base during dust storms.
Mining, Crafting & Research
Learn how to collect raw materials, refine resources, fabricate equipment, and unlock technology. Follow the progression from basic extraction to advanced manufacturing and scientific research.
FROM THE WIKI
Survival, Construction and Exploration
building
Sol One base layout and expansion guide: Habitats, Corridors, and Crates
Plan a Sol One base around connected habitats, accessible equipment, power, and the later blueprint-and-crate construction changes.
Read guidebuildingSol One how to deliver materials to building blueprints: Habitat Construction
Use Sol One’s announced blueprint workflow: plan a habitat, haul materials, and deposit them. Learn why equipment crates follow a different process.
Read guidebuildingSol One how to place fabricator equipment crates: What Changed
Learn the announced Sol One equipment-crate process: fabricate smaller machines, carry the physical crates, and place them separately from blueprints.
Read guidefarmingSol One how to maintain food production: Water, Crops, and Replanting
Maintain Sol One’s announced food loop by supporting crop water needs and preserving planting stock instead of eating every crop you grow.
Read guidefarmingSol One should you eat or plant seeds: Balancing Food and Future Crops
Decide what to eat and what to replant in Sol One, where crops also serve as seeds and water production supports continued growing.
Read guideguideSol One beginner guide: Your First Mining, Power, and Habitat Steps
Start Sol One with a version-aware route through the June demo, power, mining, smelting, and the later habitat-building changes.
Read guideguideSol One demo guide: What the June Build Lets You Do Before Early Access
Understand Sol One’s June demo loop, unfinished systems, and later changes before treating an old playthrough as an Early Access guide.
Read guideguideSol One first day survival guide: A Demo-Based Starter Checklist
Plan your first Sol One session with a demo-based checklist for tools, wiring, smelting, and crafting, plus the announced survival changes.
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What is Sol One?
Sol One is a first-person, science-driven survival crafting game developed by yeetgench. Stranded on Mars after your crew leaves you behind, you must gather resources, maintain essential life-support systems, and build a functioning base in a hostile environment. Every expedition requires careful attention to oxygen, energy, and available supplies.
The game combines resource mining, three-stage crafting, farming, technology research, and open-world exploration. Build pressurized habitats, operate vehicles, investigate abandoned mission sites, and adapt to dangerous Martian dust storms. Early Access focuses on developing these survival systems, while the complete rocket escape remains a longer-term development goal.
- Developer
- yeetgench
- Publisher
- yeetgench
- Platform
- Steam PC
- Genre
- Open-World Survival Crafting
- Planned Early Access
- Nov 13, 2026
- Nov 10 milestone
- 50,000
- Crafting Tiers
- 3
- Game Mode
- Single-player
Explore the Sol One Wiki
Explore survival, crafting, habitats, research, food and the Martian surface. Demo observations and developer announcements retain their version context.
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Sol One Beginner Guide
Learn the essential survival systems in Sol One, from managing your spacesuit to establishing your first habitat on Mars. This beginner guide covers life support, resource collection, crafting, and the priorities that matter during your first hours.
1
Understand your spacesuit, helmet, oxygen tanks, and survival indicators, including health, hunger, thirst, and rest.
2
Collect essential raw materials such as iron, copper, silica, and ice from the Martian environment.
3
Use the game's extraction, processing, and fabrication systems to turn collected resources into useful components and equipment.
4
Establish a habitat and develop the oxygen supply, power infrastructure, and life-support systems needed for continued survival.
5
Begin researching technologies and prepare for longer expeditions beyond your starting base.
02
Sol One Oxygen and Water Guide
Oxygen and water are essential to surviving the harsh Martian environment. Learn how spacesuit oxygen, habitat life support, water production, and connected survival systems affect your ability to stay alive.
1
Monitor your oxygen supply while wearing your pressure suit and exploring outside your habitat.
2
Understand the role of oxygen generators in supplying breathable air to pressurized habitats.
3
Learn how habitat pressure and oxygen supply interact within the base life-support system.
4
Explore the water production system and its importance for survival and crop cultivation.
5
Maintain a dependable power supply because oxygen generation and other essential survival machines depend on electricity.
03
Sol One Base Building Guide
Build a functional Martian habitat using construction blueprints, fabricated equipment, and a connected power grid. Discover how pressurized interiors, deployable machines, and dust storms influence your base-building decisions.
1
Plan large structures such as habitats using the game's construction blueprint system.
2
Deliver the required construction materials to a blueprint to complete the planned structure.
3
Produce smaller deployable equipment, including smelters, solar panels, and power poles, through the Fabricator.
4
Carry and position fabricated equipment as physical objects rather than relying entirely on automatic placement.
5
Connect essential systems to the power grid and account for reduced solar generation during Martian dust storms.
04
Sol One Mining and Crafting Guide
Learn how to extract Martian minerals and transform raw resources into manufactured equipment. Sol One features three crafting stages that connect mining, material processing, and advanced fabrication.
Iron
One of the raw materials that players can mine from the Martian environment for the game's production systems.
Copper
A mineable resource used within the broader material processing and manufacturing progression.
Silica
A raw material available for extraction and subsequent processing through the crafting system.
Ice
A collectable Martian resource associated with the game's resource extraction and survival economy.
Uranium
A mineral explicitly listed among the resources players can extract from Mars.
Crafting Tiers
Three confirmed manufacturing stages: Extraction, Processing, and Fabrication.
05
Sol One Research and Tech Tree Guide
Discover how scientific research connects exploration, resource collection, and technological progression in Sol One. Learn about collecting samples, gathering research data, and unlocking technology through the game's developing tech tree.
1
Explore the Martian surface to find materials, environmental samples, and opportunities to collect scientific data.
2
Collect samples and research data that contribute to unlocking additional technologies.
3
Use the research system to study collected information and progress through the technology tree.
4
Develop the manufacturing capabilities needed to produce increasingly advanced components and equipment.
5
Follow the Early Access technology progression while accounting for future changes to research systems and available tech tree nodes.
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Sol One Farming and Food Guide
Food production is part of the interconnected survival system in Sol One. Learn how water availability, crop cultivation, and the decision to consume or replant harvested crops affect long-term survival on Mars.
Food
Food is one of the core survival requirements alongside oxygen and power.
Water Production
The planned Early Access water production system supports crop growth and the broader survival loop.
Crop Cultivation
Players can grow food as part of developing a sustainable Martian base.
Seed Management
The developer describes a system in which harvested crops can also serve as seeds, creating a choice between eating and replanting.
Connected Systems
Food production depends on the operation of supporting survival infrastructure, making reliable base systems important.
07
Sol One Vehicles and Mars Exploration Guide
Explore the Martian surface using vehicles and investigate locations beyond your starting habitat. Learn about the Crawler, autonomous rover functionality described by the developer, abandoned mission sites, and the survival risks associated with long-distance travel.
Crawler
The first terrain vehicle introduced by the developer, featuring a driving system developed for Martian surface exploration.
Autonomous Rover
The Steam description includes an autonomous rover intended for scouting and hauling resources while the player handles other tasks.
Crashed Spacecraft
Exploration locations where players can search for salvageable materials, components, and scientific discoveries.
Abandoned Bases
Former mission facilities and landing sites provide additional opportunities to investigate the history of Mars exploration.
Survival Planning
Long-distance exploration requires attention to remaining oxygen and power, including the resources needed to return safely.
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Sol One Dust Storms and Mars Survival Guide
Learn how the Martian environment changes your survival strategy through dust storms, variable solar power, and dangerous surface conditions. This guide covers the environmental systems confirmed by the developer and their impact on exploration and base operations.
Dust Storms
Dynamic Martian dust storms can reduce visibility and interfere with normal survival activities.
Solar Power
Solar panel output decreases during dust storms, potentially affecting powered equipment and connected life-support systems.
Day and Night
Sol One features a Martian day-and-night cycle with a physically based sky, including the characteristic blue Martian sunset.
Martian Terrain
The landscape includes canyons, craters, mountains, rocky fields, and procedurally generated terrain.
Life Support Risks
Oxygen, food, and power are interconnected survival systems, so equipment failures can create wider problems.
Exploration Hazards
Remote exploration requires planning around environmental conditions and the continued consumption of oxygen and energy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Demo and Early Access information checked November 12, 2026.
When is Sol One planned to enter Early Access?
Steam currently lists November 13, 2026. This page was checked on November 12, before the planned release; the date is not a confirmation that the game has launched.
Can you complete the rocket escape at the start of Early Access?
The Steam Early Access description says that getting off Mars is not in the initial version. The full rocket build and launch are planned for the full version.
Why do demo systems differ from the announced game?
The developer disabled some unfinished systems during the June demo. Later announcements describe added vitals, manual suit equipment, blueprint material delivery and physical equipment crates. Old demo behavior is not a complete guide to the launch version.
Are German, French and Russian game translations available?
Steam currently lists English. The November 10 announcement says the first game revenue is intended to fund professional German, Russian and French localization. This fan wiki’s translations are separate from the game’s language support.
Ready to Survive Mars in Sol One?
From managing your first oxygen supply to building a powered habitat and exploring abandoned Martian outposts, our independent Sol One Wiki helps you understand the systems that matter. Find practical survival guides, crafting information, research tips, and exploration strategies for your journey across Mars.
Read the Beginner Guide