Star Guide

The in-game progression guide — a pedestal, a book, and a live quest tree.

Overview#

The Star Guide is Nerospace's built-in tutorial and progression tracker: an interactive tree of 10 chapters and 45 steps, from your first nerosium ore to an automated interplanetary supply line. Completion is tracked per player through the mod's advancement tree, so the guide is always live — finish something anywhere and the tree lights up.

Obtaining#

Star Guide Book (shapeless): Book + Raw Nerosium — available minutes into a playthrough. A Nerosium Ore or Deepslate Nerosium Ore block also works in place of the Raw Nerosium.

Star Guide pedestal (shaped):

. R .
. P .
S S S

R = Raw Nerosium (or a Nerosium Ore block) · P = any Planks · S = Cobblestone

How it works#

• Read anywhere: right-click with the Star Guide Book in hand to open the guide GUI.

• Pedestal: right-click the empty pedestal with the book to install it (lectern-style; breaking

  the pedestal or sneak-right-clicking pops the book back out). An installed pedestal projects a rotating hologram of your next goal, and right-clicking it opens the same GUI.

• The tree: chapters cover **Nerosium → Machines → Power Grid → Rocketry → New Worlds →

  Mining → Surviving Vacuum → Terraforming → Meteor Events → Freight**. Completed steps pulse; each step carries guide text telling you exactly what to do next.

• Mining chapter: the quarry automation track — Quarry Landmark →

  Frame Casing → Quarry Controller → Upgrade Modules. Gated behind nerosteel (Greenxertz), since the frame is built from it.

• Comparator: the pedestal emits a signal when a book is installed.

Details#

• IDs: nerospace:star_guide (block) · nerospace:star_guide_book (item)

Worlds chapters (2.0)#

Each world has its own chapter after Freight: Worlds: Luna, Mars, Cindara, Glacira, Greenxertz and Nyxara. Every one has five steps: land there, mine its ore, build with a block only that world gives you, weather its storm (on the Moon, its night) for two minutes under open sky, and root your first terraformed ground. Your progress in the older chapters is untouched.

With NeroQuests installed, the Worlds Apart quest chapter follows the same journey with a four-quest line for each world.