The Alters Map - Alien Planet

Damaged Chips are collectible items found in small cargo containers you can find while exploring the planet's surface. These chips are crucial for upgrading the Quantum Computer, which unlocks additional Alter slots and new research options to enhance your base and gameplay.

Collectibles are personal items found in suitcases or cargo drops across all maps. They're used as gifts to boost specific Alters' mood, improving productivity and loyalty.

The Movies are collectible items foud in red suitcases scattered across the alien planet. Watching movies in the Social Room provides a significant morale boost for all Alters who participate, improving their mood and productivity.

Interal Veins are special environmental anomalies found on the alien planet, appearing as glowing green lights on the surface, often marked by a purple question mark on the map. They are critical for collecting Planetary Samples, a rare resource used to unlock advanced research projects in the Research Lab.

Planetary Samples are a rare and valuable resource used primarily for unlocking advanced research projects in the Research Lab. Planetary Samples are collected from special anomalies called Interal Veins, which appear as glowing green lights on the planet's surface, often marked by a purple question mark on the map.

Rapidium Deposits are rare resources in The Alters that appear as fuzzy, distorted areas. Rapidium is used for creating Alters, building Rapidium Arks, and minor Workshop crafting.

Metals Deposits are resource nodes used to gather Metals, a key resource for crafting items and building base modules.

Enriched Metals Deposits are a resource found in radiation-heavy deposits. They require a Mining Outpost and Pylons to extract from deep deposits, located by scanning for the deepest point with a Polygonal Scanner. Due to high radiation, mining increases radiation levels for Jan or assigned Alters, posing health risks. Enriched Metals are not directly usable but can be refined in the Refinery into equal parts Metals and Organics, making them valuable for crafting and base-building.

Organics Deposits are key resource nodes used to harvest Organics, a vital resource for crafting items, building specific base modules, and sustaining your Alters by producing food. Organics also serve as fuel to power the movement of your mobile base.

Minerals Deposits are critical resource nodes used to harvest Minerals, an essential resource for crafting advanced items, constructing key base modules, and upgrading equipment.

Various places or objects that are generally related to one of the tasks or other places of interest worth noting.

Tasks are objectives tracked in the Task Log within the game menu, split into Main Tasks and Side Tasks. Main Tasks are essential objectives that advance the core story and survival goals across the game's chapters, focusing on resource gathering, crafting, and base management to progress the narrative. Side Tasks are optional, often tied to specific Alters and their unique skills or needs, aimed at boosting morale or addressing personal requests to maintain team stability.

Climb Spots are specific locations on the game map where players can use the Climbing Hook to scale high walls or ledges. They require suit energy to climb. Upgrading the Climbing Hook reduces or eliminates energy costs for climbing.

Climb Spots are specific locations on the game map where players can use the Climbing Hook to scale high walls or ledges. They require suit energy to climb. Upgrading the Climbing Hook reduces or eliminates energy costs for climbing.

Rock Blockades are obstacles that block your path while exploring. To remove them, you need to craft a special tool - the Vertara Drill. For blockades located on top of the climbable ledges you must first find an alternate path to approach them from the correct side to use the drill effectively.

Energy Walls are significant environmental obstacles encountered during exploration, particularly from Act 2 onward. They are large, anomalous structures marked by clusters of small levitating stones. They completely drain your suit's battery when you pass through them in either direction, but they do not cause radiation damage. These barriers also block pylon connections, preventing pylons on opposite sides from detecting each other.

Static Anomalies are common, stationary, teardrop-shaped spheres that irradiate Jan upon contact. Easy to avoid but can form walls in groups.

Following Anomalies move slowly toward Jan, with fast-moving cores. They deal significant radiation damage if they reach you.

Pulsating Anomalies expand and contract rhythmically, with two cores. Cause heavy radiation damage if caught during expansion.

Time Anomalies are large areas with floating particles that speed up time, especially near the center. Not directly harmful but disrupt time-sensitive tasks.

Prism Anomalies distort vision with multiple cores (usually three), causing disorientation. Often contain other anomalies.