Talk:Facilities/@comment-74.51.49.75-20151013132023/@comment-25199965-20151013160501

Hello unkown participant, well it's a pity you did not find the Mars Inc. pages, Forum Q&amp;A some useful information is listed there. Your statement is a little vague to me but let's see what I can make clear. Craters, Volcanoes and Mars Face currently do nothing and are just there. What Marc makes out of them in the future, who knows ;-).

To build on Mars basically follow the tutorial, meaning find and use the Viking Lander to get back to Moon, build a Mars Lander (shipyard on Moon), build a rocket on Moon to transport things to mars. This may be done with Gamma4 built in the Shipyard or Gamma4 Build/Launchpad or with the Orbital Ship Vasimr. After that first Rover landed on Mars the other facilities may follow, as far as I remember you have to research 1x1 and 2x2 lander technology first. Then build the facilities for Mars in the ship yard. You'll need Power (best is alien Powerplant for Mars), Habitats, Aeroponics (or Greenhouse), Water Borehole and Electrolytic, Incinerator to survive. To Terraform Harvester and Thermal vent. Science lab is a nice to have but overall expensive. It generates lychen from time to time which helps terraforming. Too much of it can deadlock your game because it spreads. I hope that gives you the direction..

As a hint: on one of my bases I have some shipyards (14), 4 Vasimr's, about 12 Gamma4 on 1x1 pads and 4 Gamma4 Build/Launch facilities but even with that it takes loooong to get Mars going. Building a Rocket or a Powerplant takes 3600 sec. and it costs a huge amount of money. Mars is literally a Money burner, don't start if you have less than 100M in cash.

so go ahead, play Mark Watney  ;-) and if You get stuck again, ask again, that's what this page is for