Game tips

Overview

This guide will help you to finish the game.

Some general questions

This is a 2d action-platformer game that combines exploration of different levels and action-filled bossfights together with resource gathering and gear upgrading system known from many other games.

If you are looking for a game similar to Minecraft, Asteria is probably not the game for you.

You can place blocks, yes, but only walls and background. There is no cooking stuff, no growing plants, nothing even close. The main focus of this game are the bossfights. Think Metroid + Terraria crossover.

Yes. If you finish the game, you will gain access to what Minecraft describes as “Creative” – you can place and remove everything. But until you unlock it, you are stuck with “Survival” – you get what you gather.

Game tips

The game is controlled by keyboard and mouse both at once. You move, jump, interact with stuff and select items on your hotbar with the keyboard while you aim and shoot/use items from the hotbar with your mouse.

The rightmost slot is bound to right mouse button, and ANY currently selected slot on your hotbar is bound to left mouse button by default. So you can always have two items ready at once.

• Through the game you will find these rotating cubes, these are equivalent to treasure chests and contain different stuff. Red ones are randomly spawned or strategically placed in the boss levels where you have to find them. They can contain useful loot, but during my playthrough most of them gave me useless crap. Looting them is not required.
• After you defeat a boss, usually a yellow cube will spawn. You must loot that yellow cube to be able to advance, because a Superconductor drops from it. And you need a Superconductor to craft a higher level mining tool to advance further in the game.

• Don’t craft any weapons other than the Blaster, it’s a waste of resources. Do it only if you want the achievements.
  – Discharger has good damage, but most bosses won’t be close enough for you to hit them
  – Laser is just bad.
  – Rocket is decent, but the auto-aiming on monsters is terrible.
  – Grenade Launcher has an explosion effect, which might damage platforms you create in the overworld.
• The main reason is however, Blaster has 0 cooldown, so if you press your mouse button fast enough, it will deal MORE damage than any other weapon.

• Lights. Placable item that makes you see where you’re going, duh.
• Batteries. Your instant HP potion. Save them for bosses.
• Platform. You can jump through, but monsters cannot. Some might still shoot through. Also blocks water – ideal for making a water tank to fall into.
• Bose Einstein Condenser. Arguably the most useful tool. It fires a blue shot that on contact with enemies, yourself or some surface creates small chunks of ice out of thin air. The reason it’s so great is that it works in boss levels where you normally can’t place anything, can be used to make water anywhere and can be used to create obsidian from lava.
• Mining Drone. It basically hovers around you and when you fire your mining tool, this thing will fire another mining tool of the same quality. It can get stuck on geometry tho, so drop down to the mine first, pop this boy and save yourself some time. Lasts only a limited time and becomes kinda obsolete with Darksteel mining tool.

The rest of the items are either useless or I forgot what else I used.

• When you walk through the tutorial and first appear in the overworld, you will stand on some indestructible platform. Make this your base. The reason is simple, you can easily return to this place by pressing ESC and selecting Return to overworld, so this way you get a free teleport home from ANYWHERE. And that is your fastest way to return from digging to craft items.
• I recommend you explore a bit to left and right from your base before you start digging, because some resources will be visible right from the surface. As you move farther away, the biome might change into a desert/grassland/snowy mountain/water or whatever. If you step into the Desert biome, you want to mine some Sand, you will need it for your helmets later.
• When you craft Bose Einstein Condenser, dig a straight hole down right next to your base. When you reach the bottom and cannot dig anymore, create a pool of water with the height of your character (or higher if the fall is too big) and connect this hole to your tunnel system. This way when you respawn in your base, you can simply jump in the hole, land in the water to prevent dying and continue digging at the deepest level where you stopped, instead of slowly walking through your previous tunnels. Platforms make great walls for the water tank – you can walk through it, but the water will stay.

Boss tips

There are several minibosses before the “final ones”, which I won’t bother describing, they are all very easy.

1. A static Turtle boss that shoots green auto-aiming plasma and spawns those crab-like monsters. Easy one, jump at the last moment and the plasma will fly below you and miss you as it tries to adjust aim. Shoot at the boss and kill crabs when there are too many to jump over. Repeat until boss dies.
2. A small robot that spawns bees and that weird shooting turd. It’s invulnerable when flying, but it periodically lands down. Also easy, kill it when it’s landed.
3. Sky boss, some flying machine shooting fireballs. Don’t stand in the fire if the boss hits a platform. Otherwise easy, keep jumping from left to right and back on the platforms until he dies. Alternatively, you can place land in this level to create more space or shield yourself from the fireball, but I didn’t need to do that. After Sky boss, before you enter the next boss level, make sure you have the Jump Boots, otherwise you cannot finish the level.
4. Gold boss is some kind of flying eye with tentacles, but he just flies around bouncing from the walls doing nothing. The stuff falling from the top is acid, it will slowly damage you. Super easy way is to jump to the right side, there’s only one platform touching the wall, that is a safespot where the boss won’t touch you. You just stand there and shoot the boss down.
5. Darksteel boss level is the most annoying level to beat, because it includes a super annoying pitfall, where you just have to maneuver through a corridor as you fall down into water. If you hit a wall, you’re dead. It took me at least 30 tries before I got through and it was really annoying. So, this annoying pitfall can be solved either by repeated dying, or slowly and steadily with Bose Einstein Condenser – shoot it against the walls and make yourself a staircase of Ice to step on.
   The final boss is a Dragon that goes after you, picks you up and keeps damaging you until he hits the ceiling, then he drops you down. The hard way is to use batteries and keep healing through his damage (and not dying from fall damage) until you kill him. The easy way is to shoot him with Bose Einstein Condenser in the face. He will get stuck in the block of Ice you created and you can easily shoot his visible parts while avoiding any damage completely. Re-freeze him when required, easy.
6. Adamantium boss is a disappointment. He’s hidden below the dirt on the sides and keeps adding more dirt as he goes. His only way of attacking is spawning the small dragons you know from the overworld + some beetles that also spawn dirt and move towards you. Nothing to say here, dig him up and shoot him in the face.
7. Obsidian boss, finally a decent challenge. It’s a dragon that shoots two types of missiles. The small ones can pass through dirt and will probably hit you sometime as you approach the boss room. The big fireballs cannot pass through, but deal high damage and remove your walls. Your job is to make yourself a wall of <insert your favorite junk block> and keep remaking the wall to defend against the Fireballs. He pauses between the shots and sometimes he will also charge into your dirt wall and take a part of it down instantly. Jump on your wall and shoot him while he charges or while he’s not firing, then hide again and keep replacing your walls while he’s spewing fire. Then you also have to keep your eye on your health due to the small missiles coming through, or you can try avoiding them (gl tho). Either way, this is the first fight where you have to focus. When you kill him, don’t leave yet! Go to the right side of the boss room and dig through the lava. You know the drill – place <your favorite junk block> to remove lava, dig it up again to create a tunnel, rinse and repeat. When you dig through a small hole in the lava, move up again and there will be a huge chunk of gold ore encased in obsidian and a container. Obviously, you want all the easy Obsidian.
8. Final boss is another challenge. If you haven’t, set your mining tool to one of your buttons. You jump down and go left to kill a machine, it is spewing fireballs and some smaller missles same as the Obsidian dragon, however this time everything passes through walls. This is the easy part. When you kill it, suddenly all blocks that were indestructible can now be mined. After a while, a creature emerges from the machine, which cannot be killed and it will start homing at you. Touching it means almost instant death, which is why you won’t wait for him to appear, you jump back up and go to the right where you have to dig your way through the Basalt walls and lava pools on the right. There’s one split where the road goes either down through just basalt or up through basalt and lava pool, this is where you go up the correct way. Wearing a belt that reduces gravity or wearing boots that make you immune to fall damage might help you a little. When you make it through, enter the blue portal to the final boss room.
9. This is where you fight the monster that was chasing you. Remember those green plasma shots used by the Turtle boss? Well this guy has them too, except these hit much harder and he shoots them faster. Also shoots fireballs. He also periodically makes himself invulnerable, during this time he summons three small dragons and later those alien guys that shoot. When you kill them, you can damage him again. The trick here is to avoid the green plasma. The green plasma disappears when it hits the ground, so I chose to just run from left to right, jumping on the sides to avoid being hit. Note that if you jump and touch the boss, you die almost instantly. Luckily he keeps floating above, so as long as you can avoid the green plasma, you’re good to go.