Forever Skies: Beginner's guide - tips and tricks Forever Skies guide, tips
With our tips you will save a lot of raw materials of time and nerves. This page of the Forever Skies guide contains tricks and gameplay tips.
Last update: 22 November 2022
Our beginner's guide contains useful tips and tricks for newcomers to Forever Skies. You'll learn how to mark already visited places, increase your vehicle's speed or use cruise control.
- Don't waste time during a flight
- Mark visited places
- Maximum ship load
- Always have a fuel supply
- You can fly faster with two engines
- Engines compared to turbines
Don't waste time during a flight
Your ship comes equipped with "cruise control". Accelerate and press "R" once you've reached the desired speed. After choosing a direction - assuming there aren't any obstacles in the way - you can set an autopilot to keep flying for you at the chosen speed while you freely move around the ship. Use this time to craft items in the fabricator or acquire resources from the air with the extractor.
Mark visited places
Removing the batteries from the mast console will cause the light to no longer appear in this location - use this to mark places you have visited. This will also get you more solid state batteries.
Maximum ship load
You can use the building tool to check the ship's current and maximum load in the upper-right corner of the screen.
Load is increased by structural elements, like walls and floor, as well as by equipment and tools, like the extractor or the engine.
Always have a fuel supply
You need synthetic materials to craft fuel. You can get them even when your ship is hovering in the air with the extractor. Still, it's a good idea to have some fuel reserves, especially if you're using two engines. Your vehicle's speed will be halved if one of them runs out of fuel.
There are other better fuels in Forever Skies that are harder to come by, but they last longer than synthetic fuel. By exploring the world you will be able to find and then create: biomass fuel, helium fuel, energy crystal fuel.
You can fly faster with two engines
You can move twice as fast when using two engines (up to 32 km/h). The engines can be built anywhere on the vehicle's external platform. Your speed will be halved if one of them runs out of fuel. Note that you can also build engines on walls to save space.
Engines compared to turbines
Later in the game you'll discover turbines. They are very important, because they are used to increase the altitude - thanks to this you will get to higher locations.
- One turbine increases the flight altitude to 250 meters - installing it on the Airship is required to visit the Wind Farms.
- Two turbines allow you to climb up to a maximum of 270 meters, thanks to which you will get to the Gardens.
- You need three turbines to visit Underdust.