Several buildings might not be available at the start of this sandbox survival game, so you’ll need to tech up a bit. Here’s our guide to help you with technological research, research utensils, and Knowledge points in Endzone – A World Apart.
Note: This guide is based on Endzone – A World Apart‘s Early Access build just prior to the release of version 1.0. You may also check out our guides regarding buildings/production chains and expeditions.
Endzone – A World Apart guide — Knowledge points, researching techs, research utensils, and unlocking buildings
To be clear, it’s possible to unlock research techs and ignore Knowledge points in Endzone – A World Apart. All you need to do is enable the “unlock all” setting when you’re starting a sandbox survival run.
Of course, this does make the challenge a bit moot, so this guide assumes that you’re still playing with the default settings enabled.
To start acquiring Knowledge in Endzone – A World Apart, you’ll need to construct a Research Station. I actually consider this a mid-game building since it requires 64x wood, 24x scrap, 12x metal tools, 7x plastic, and 7x cloth. Once you’re ready though, you’ll want to staff it with several researchers (from the settlers tab).
The gist here is that researchers will continue to accumulate Knowledge as long as they’re not researching an actual tech. Once they’ve reached a particular Knowledge level, that’s the time when you’ll be able to unlock a particular tech (it also takes a few seasons before research can be completed).
Note 1: Another factor you need to consider would be the research utensils. These research utensils are required for particular tech tiers and they’re obtained via Expeditions in Endzone – A World Apart.
Note 2: If you wish to speed up the research process later, you can hook up the Research Station to a power source to gain electricity.
Unlocked techs/buildings
Endzone – A World Apart is available via Steam’s Early Access program. The game’s version 1.0 will release on March 18.
