Surviving the Aftermath: Beginner’s Guide

Surviving the Aftermath challenges players with surviving in a harsh post-apocalyptic setting. It’s exactly what it says on the title!

You’ll need to explore, gather resources, maintain a settlement, and even more! Properly management everything to keep your settlement of colonists alive despite the sorry state the world finds itself in.

If you’re eager to dive into this tough management game, you’ve come to the right place! Read on and we’ll give you some beginner tips to help you get past the initial hurdles.

Beginner’s Guide for Surviving the Aftermath

Understand Water & Energy Storage

Water and Energy are two unique and extremely important resources, but they work slightly differently from every other resource.

Water is vital to keep your colonists from dying of dehydration, as you might expect. Additionally, it’s also useful to refine certain materials and produce resources.

You can see your water and energy on the top left of the screen. However, this number doesn’t tell you how much water or energy you actually have! It’s only telling you how much surplus you have.

Energy won’t keep your colonists fed, on the other hand, but it will feed your settlement’s buildings! It’s absolutely necessary for production and to provide safe living conditions for your colonists.

The surplus is your production minus your consumption. Make sure that the surplus number is never negative or you will start going through your reserves, which can shut down your settlement!

You can build extra storage units for both water and energy, allowing you more leniency in production.

The batteries for energy are particularly useful, as they can be used to power up distant buildings without needing to put a generator close to the buildings!

Nonetheless, the basic concept will always be the same: make sure you produce more water and energy than you consume!

Pay Attention To Your Workforce

There are very few people in your settlement in Surviving the Aftermath, due to the game’s grim post-apocalyptic setting. Them’s the breaks in a post-apocalyptic world, after all!

What this means for you is that you will need to carefully cycle your workers around, ensuring that they’re producing what you need the most.

Make sure to pay good attention to which workstations are producing unnecessary surplus goods and remove workers from them.

You can then take those same workers and put them anywhere else you need them instead. It’s all about priority and the ever-shifting demands of your settlement!

It’s also important to note that you should keep some unassigned workers as well! Colonists that aren’t working at any given building will act as Carriers.

Carriers are a fundamental part of your work infrastructure, as they are the ones moving resources around your settlement. Basically, they’re the ones keeping your buildings supplied!

Simply put, you should make absolutely sure to never have 0 carriers in your settlement or your workstations’ production will collapse.

Exploring The World Of Surviving The Aftermath

You can’t survive the aftermath very well without resources, and you can’t get resources without exploring.

Sadly, most of the world is covered in a fog of war which prevents you from finding new resource nodes and expanding your settlement.

Thankfully, there’s a solution to that: Scout Towers! These useful structures can be built close to the fog of war, and will gradually uncover the map around them.

You should make sure to start building Scout Towers as soon as possible because they don’t instantly reveal the map around them. As said before, they uncover the fog of war gradually, so it takes time.

Speaking of time, you should also make good use of vehicles when you’re exploring the distant areas your Scout Towers reveal!

Vehicles allow your units to move larger distances in less time, just like in real life. It’s simplicity itself, really: less time traveling means more time gathering and exploring!

However, do take good care of your vehicles as they will require maintenance, which can be a drain on your resources. There’s always a catch, isn’t there?

Don’t Fight Alone

As is usually the case in post-apocalyptic scenarios, antisocial bandits are squatting over necessary resources and attacking others. Might makes right, they say, so they just take as they please!

It’s no surprise that you will eventually have to fight these bandits yourself, either to protect your own settlement or to take back resources that the bandits have stolen.

This is where your Specialists come in! These unique units are capable of taking the fight to the bandits, allowing you to take over bandit camps and defend your settlement.

However, sending a single specialist to deal with a bandit camp on their own is… ill-advised, to say the least. Bandits can be tough buggers, and your Specialists might die if they bite more than they can chew.

As such, you should make sure to send multiple Specialists to any bandit camps you attack. Having strenght in numbers will make bandit encounters much easier for your Specialists!

So, as the old saying goes, don’t go alone!

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