How to get started? Thread - TerraTech

Hey,
I downloaded the demo and started playing, but I didn't come very far. I built my little car-thingy with the parts I were given, and after a while I understood how to mine, but there it stopped. Those blocks came popping out, and I can't find out what do use them for and how to progress. Any tutorial/help please?

Hi Jorginator.

Don't worry too much about mining and crafting in this demo. That stuff works, but we haven't built a proper tutorial for it yet.

The best approach for this demo is to destroy the enemy vehicles that spawn in every few minutes. If you take their parts and add them to your own vehicle, you'll gradually get bigger, tougher and crazier! The enemies also get bigger the longer you survive in the demo, so the longer you survive, the more pieces you'll have to experiment with.

This isn't the structure of the final game, we'll get around to showing that off properly in a future demo, but playing the first demo this way will give you a good idea of the basic mechanics and controls.

After a few waves the timer starts to go down then starts going negative time. I have no idea why. Help?

That sometimes happens in this demo if you have defeated all of the waves and there is nothing left to spawn in. Can you remember how many waves you saw before that happened?

We have a new demo coming next week that will spawn enemies for much longer so that you can keep playing and experimenting with new vehicle creations.

@Jorginator btw we found a bug that can cause the tutorial sequence to break, that could have happened to you. It will be fixed in our next update, but for now you can always re-start

-Russ