Make an Exploring Rover from Scratch

Exploring Rovers were the first rovers remotely controlled on Mars. Following their extensive usage during the Ad Astra Landings, the little rovers became famous. They held several important jobs on the initial landings such as exploration, research, small-scale mining, and construction. They were so important and influential that they had statues constructed in central locations all across the Ad Astra Development Zone.

The Duskwork's Exploring Rovers are based off of the original designs except instead of being manually remote controlled, more advanced AI has been implemented to allow it to go on its own expeditionary missions with plausible deniability.

As a self-reliant Martian, you will have a chance to learn how to produce all the necessary materials and parts to make your rovers. At the moment, you can create two types of rovers: Hauling and Exploring.

On this page, we will look at how to get from nothing to a Exploring Rover in a couple of days. We'll overview the process and then show you the details of each step in the process.

Here is a list of all the buildings and the recipes you'll need to use to create the Exploring Rover.

Smelter:

Machine Shop

3D Print Shop

Sabatier Reactor

Water Filter

Mining Rig

C.A.D.

And of course, you'll need a RoverWorks, to complete the build and send your Rover out on missions!

For our first step in the make a explorer rover process, we'll need to dig up some regolith off of the Mars surface. You'll need to head on over to your Mining Rig.

Down in the Tasks section, you'll want to mining some Regolith. For Regolith Mining I, you'll need:

• 1 Task Capacity

• 2 Stamina

• 20 Power

Now that we've set up our Mining Rig, we'll go locate our Sabatier Reactor and open it up.

Just like in the previous step, we go down to the Tasks section and we're going to do the task: Split Water I, this will split the water and give us some Hydrogen for making PVC and Oxygen. You will need:

• 1 Task Capacity

• 1 Stamina

• 1 Water

• 10 power

In order to make the extremely important, yet smelly gas of Methane for later production of PVC, you'll need to use the Produce Methane task and have the following:

• 1 Task Capacity

• 2 Stamina

• 1 Carbon Dioxide

• 4 Hydrogen

• 10 Power

The Sabatier Reactor creates a bit of water, but we'll need more later on to create the PVC plastic for our more advanced recipes. You can head over to your Water Filter to produce more water.

The filtering process will take the ice that you recovered off of the Mars surface or purchased from any of your fellow settlers and filter it into pure Water. You do this process by choosing the task: Filter Water. You will need:

• 1 Task Capacity

• 1 Stamina

• 40 Ice

• 10 Power

Next, let have our C.A.D. produce carbon dioxide, you'll need this to smelt steel later on:

The Cryogenic Atmospheric Distiller, will pull air out of the atmosphere, freeze it and then further distill it into its individual parts. For this step we'll be pulling Carbon Dioxide out of it. Use the Capture Carbon Dioxide task, you'll need:

• 1 Task Capacity

• 1 Stamina

• 40 Power

Next, we're going to use the Smelter to smelt out various ores from the Regolith, as such you'll want a decent amount of Regolith before these next steps.

The following ores will be necessary for the production of a Rover.

• Aluminum Ore

• Titanium Ore

• Steel

• Iron Ore

• Copper Ore

Let's make some Aluminum Ore first, you want to click on "SMELT ALUMINUM" and make sure you have the following resources. Aluminum will be used for various parts of the Rover, including Machined Parts.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 5 Stamina

• 1,000 Regolith

• 40 Power

Next, let's make some Titanium Ore. You want to click on "SMELT TITANIUM" and make sure you have the following resources. Titanium plates will be used to create Structural Parts.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 4 Stamina

• 2500 Regolith

• 40 Power

Next, we want to make iron. Click on "SMELT IRON" and make sure you have the following resources. The Iron will mostly be used to make Steel.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 500 Regolith

• 2 Stamina

• 40 Power

Next, we want to make some steel. Click on "SMELT STEEL" and make sure you have the following resources. Steel, like Titanium will be used to create Structural Parts.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 3 Stamina

• 10 Carbon Dioxide

• 15 Iron Ore

• 40 Power

Finally, we want to make copper. Click on "SMELT COPPER" and make sure you have the following resources. These are going to be used in electrical components of the Rover, specifically the Electrical Parts.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 1500 Regolith

• 3 Stamina

• 40 Power

Next on our list is to make some PVC. We can do this in the Chem Lab.

Click on the "MAKE PVC" button and make sure you have the following resources. PVC will be used in the construction of Electrical Parts.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 1 Stamina

• 10 Methane

• 10 Hydrogen

• 10 Water

• 40 Power

Next, we need our Machine shop where we will create all of these:

• Aluminum Plate

• Titanium Plate

• Machined Parts

First let's click on the "MAKE ALUMINUM PLATE" button and make sure you have the following resources.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 3 Stamina

• 5 Aluminum Ore

• 40 Power

Next, Click on the "MAKE TITANIUM PLATE" button, and make sure you have the following resources.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 3 Stamina

• 5 Titanium Ore

• 40 Power

Next, Click "MAKE MACHINED PARTS" and make sure you have the following resources

• 1 Task Capacity

• 5 Stamina

• 5 Steel

• 5 Aluminum Plate

• 40 Power

Now that we have the required metal plates and PVCs, let's use our 3D Print Shop to make the structural and electronics parts.

First let's click on "MAKE STRUCTURAL PARTS" and make sure you have the following resources

• 1 Task Capacity

• 4 Stamina

• 10 Steel

• 3 Titanium Plates

• 5 Aluminum Plates

• 40 Power

Next, Let's click on the "MAKE ELECTRONICS PARTS" button, and make sure you have the following resources.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 5 Stamina

• 10 Copper Ore

• 2 PVC

• 500 Regolith

• 40 Power

After making those items, head back to the Machine Shop I. We're going to make:

• Rover Chassis

• Rover Wheels

Now, click on the "WELD ROVER CHASSIS" button, and make sure you have the following resources.

• 1 Task Capacity

• 8 Stamina

• 4 Structural Parts

• 5 Machined Parts

• 120 Power

Following that, let's click on the "MAKE ROVER WHEELS" button and make sure you have the following resources

• 1 Task Capacity

• 4 Stamina

• 2 Aluminum Plate

• 2 Titanium Plate

• 40 Power

And finally, to RoverWorks! Here we will assemble our Exploring Rover.

Click on "ASSEMBLE EXPLORER ROVER" and make sure you have the following resources:

• 1 Task Capacity

• 8 Stamina

• 3 Machined Parts

• 8 Electronics Parts

• 1 Rover Chassis

• 4 Rover Wheels

After finishing the "ASSEMBLE EXPLORER ROVER" task, you are rewarded with a sparkling new Exploring Rover.