Beyond These Stars Resources Guide: Rates and Chains

Wood, stone and iron arrive at 10 per minute from the Home Spaceship, water and potatoes at 3 per minute, and tools appear once wood and iron are stocked — that is the whole opening economy in Beyond These Stars, and you build none of it. This beyond these stars resources guide covers those panel numbers, the point where real buildings should take over, and the storage rules that keep a growing colony from stalling.

Timing matters more than the numbers themselves. The ship's output never scales, and the buildings that replace it also leave wood waste, soot and slag behind — materials later chains want. Hand off too early and you stall on wood; hand off too late and you have nothing to feed the chains that ask for residue.

Home Spaceship Output: The Full Panel

Open the ship's production tab in version 1.0 and it reads like a beginner's cheat sheet. Player notes at beyondthesestars.wiki list matching figures, which is a fair cross-check while you learn the layout.

Water and potatoes are the two lines that need no feeding, which is why thirst and hunger stay off your problem list early. Wood depends on trees standing inside the ship's working radius. Stone and iron both lean on the deposit that spawns beside the landing. Tools are the exception: no rate on the panel, only the condition that wood and iron must already be there.

Two properties of the ship are hard to replace later. It pollutes nothing, and it leaves nothing behind — no wood waste, no soot, no slag. Players who lean on that in the first hours often keep the toolsmith job running longest, because a clean toolsmith is otherwise expensive to match.

Spaceship or Real Buildings? What the Swap Costs

This is the comparison that matters most in any beyond these stars resources guide: the ship is free and clean, the real chain is quicker and dirty.

The three specialist buildings win on throughput, but they need inputs carried in and they leave residue behind. That residue is the reason to switch at all: when a later chain is hungry for slag, a ship producing only clean output cannot help you.

Player notes at beyondthesestars.wiki put a rough gate on the swap — all 30 of the starting crew housed across the first 15 huts, plus a School standing. Treat that as a player benchmark rather than a developer rule.

Deactivation works per job, not for the whole ship at once. If only one residue type is short, idle that single line and let the rest keep trickling.

Natural, Food and Synthesized Resources

Stone and iron deposits near the landing are always there; copper, shell and crystal turn up as you push outward. The Steam store page calls Kewa's environment "plentiful, but not without limits" and warns of a "dearth of essential resources and space", which is why outposts belong in your resource plan rather than on the side.

Potatoes carry the opening hours, and a better dish returns more energy each time a Peep eats. Once you are planet-side, the Pasture brings in milk and eggs from animals, the Orchard supplies fruit, and the Trawler harvests the sea; wheat goes to the livestock, and shells feed into cement production. The 2026-07-20 dev blog describes a planet "rich with fertile land, clean ocean water" where landing unlocks "the Trawler and Orchard alongside the Pasture". That same post notes Peeps detour through debris fields to eat and regain stamina, and that falling debris can break buildings until you repair them — one more argument for keeping food close to home.

Wood is the one input you grow rather than find. Steam's "Reach Far and Wide" section says to "Plant trees to maintain a steady flow of raw materials, and maintain entire forests to help spread the atmosphere", so planting is a resource decision, not decoration.

The synthesized tier is where the paper trail runs thin: the full list of goods built from simpler inputs is not published in the official pages, so treat outside lists with suspicion. Steam's "A Fragile Equilibrium" section frames the same curve — "Prepare to seek out additional resources as you research new technologies and gain access to advanced goods."

Storage, Roads and the 16-Tile Rule

This is the section of a beyond these stars resources guide that usually gets skipped, and it is exactly where colonies quietly break. Peeps haul materials by hand rather than teleporting them, and they pull food and drink out of nearby storage into their homes, ready for the next break.

Treat those +30% numbers as economy upgrades rather than cosmetics. Roads decide how long each haul takes, and the 16-tile work rule decides which homes can staff which jobs.

One patch note is easy to misread. Hotfix #1 on 2026-10-17 changed the range line on a selected Power Generator to show "its Power range rather than its Pollution range", so the circle you see is coverage, not filth. Do not read it as a pollution map when you place industry near housing.

Pollution still carries a cost the top bar never shows. The 2026-08-12 dev blog says planting trees, minimising pollution and cutting rivers around settlements keeps Kewa healthy; a healthy whale travels faster, while an unhealthy one spawns Thorny Stems that work against your Peeps.

Early Supply Checklist

Five habits cover most of the opening. Tick them off as you go — the page remembers.

• Watch the top bar: wood or stone dropping means the ship is no longer keeping pace.
• Start the Woodcutter → Ore Smelter → Toolsmith line before you actually need it.
• Switch off spaceship jobs only for residue, or to free crew for something else.
• Put food storage next to housing; eating happens at home, and a home that runs dry recovers happiness slowly.
• A stalled chain reads backwards: the idle building is normally starving for an input rather than overworked.

That last habit saves the most time. A stalled chain looks like a busy building doing nothing, and the culprit sits one step upstream; walk back from the end product and the missing input usually surfaces fast.

Exact storage capacities, hauling speeds and the full synthesized list are not published in the official material, so be sceptical of precise numbers you find elsewhere. Everything here describes version 1.0, which launched on October 16, 2026.

FAQ

How much wood per minute does the Home Spaceship give me?

10 per minute from tree trunks, and it needs trees inside the ship's working range. Stone and iron also run at 10 per minute, while water and potatoes sit at 3 per minute with no inputs. Tools have no listed rate — they appear once wood and iron are stocked.

Should I turn the spaceship's production off?

Only when you need a residue type the ship cannot make, or when you want the crew for something else. The ship pollutes nothing and leaves nothing behind, so keeping it active is usually cheaper than replacing it early.

Which resources are not on Kewa?

Copper, shell and crystal show up on Kewa as you expand, per player notes at beyondthesestars.wiki. Beyond that, the 2026-07-20 dev blog says other stars hold planets with "new resources that you are unable to find on Kewa" — the exact list is not published.

Does sandbox mode change any of this?

It can. The 2026-07-02 dev blog says sandbox lets you choose which resources are available on Kewa, including "Sheep and Cows, or resource deposits", plus planet and terrain options and the choice to unlock buildings from the start. Handy for testing a layout without the early ramp.