Stars Reach: Your first missions after Haven

Missions are an easy first trip because they pay Klaatu and send you to a planet. After that, open any choice below for a short explanation and its full guide.

Make tools, building materials, components, and repair supplies.

Gather seeds, get a Trowel, plant a farm, and return to harvest it again.

Start with easier creatures, learn your weapon, and add support gear.

Prospect with the Terraformer, dig the deposit, and refine what you bring back.

Spend profession XP and Klaatu at a Skill Kiosk.

Save carried items, change your loadout, clear wounds, and set a closer Last Station.

Join one planet, help fund its next level, and unlock town services.

Learn Initial Homestead, buy a Homesteader, and claim a building area.

Use a Fabricator for crafted pieces or an Instaformer for blocks.

Follow a NewsNet alert to a timed boss fight, usually with a group.

Walk to the Mission Boards at TPL Starbase and press G. Choose View Missions to open the planet list.

The Starbase board can list several planets. Planet Mission Boards unlock at GovBot Level 2, but the town still has to buy and place one. A board on a planet only offers missions for that planet. If the names are new to you, pick one and treat the trip as a chance to look around.

You can accept one mission of each type at the same time, but you cannot hold two Survey missions or two Kill missions at once. Taking several types for one planet saves a return trip to the board.

Tools and weapons cannot be moved between your Backpack and toolbelt while you are out in the open. Make the change at a portal, camp, Homestead, or zoning lot before starting the trip.

Press L, select a mission on the left, and choose Make Active. You may have several accepted missions, but only one waypoint is tracked at a time.

Look around the Starbase until you see the yellow mission marker. Jump into open space and move toward it. If gravity catches you at the edge, press Space again to begin floating.

The gate may be a different color from the one pictured here. Fly through its center and it will bring you down to the planet.

Enter the Mission Area, follow the waypoint to the marked plant, and hold Left MB with the Harvester until the job completes.

The waypoint only gets you near the survey node. Search the nearby ground with the Pathfinder, and turn back toward the marker if you get more than about 30 meters away. A node you surveyed earlier is green, but clicking it with Left MB still completes the mission.

The waypoint follows the object, which is often buried a few meters down. Dig until it is exposed, press G on it, and choose Collect.

The creature appears when you enter the Mission Area, and the waypoint follows it. If you retreat beyond the area, it returns at full health.

Look for the injured creature named by the mission. The waypoint stays near the spawn point instead of following the creature, so check nearby creatures for the one at roughly half health.

After your last mission, the yellow marker points to the planet portal or whichever Mission Board was nearest when that mission completed. It does not switch later just because you walk closer to another board.

If a Find mission is buried in ground you cannot manage or a Kill mission is too difficult for the starter Pulsar, press L and abandon that job. You can take another mission later.

Missions are an early way to earn Klaatu and profession XP. Take them to a Skill Kiosk when you want to learn something new.

Pressing K lets you look through the skill trees anywhere, but learning a skill requires a Skill Kiosk. The Starbase kiosk is near the theater.

Press G at the Skill Kiosk and choose Learn Skills. This opens the version of the skill screen that lets you train.