Start-construction

Building is very important in Darkspace. If you build a planet well, you can defend it by yourself against a pretty impressive force. Also some shipyards are needed to spawn the large ship types.

The are many buildings, each with their own function. The basics for each planet is: workers, food to feed the workers, power for the structures and technology for better buildings and resources to build stuff.

Also you can build platforms, small bases that can either shoot (weapon platform), repair (supply platform) or scan the area (sensor platform). Nice thing about platforms is that you can place them anywhere you want, in the middle of nowhere even, by selecting a manual point in space (read earlier guides), then left click the desired platform type from bottom right (just above the HUD). Platforms also cost resources to build, just like structures on a planet.

End note

This was the guide to get you started. Construction is something only a handful of people actually do, and if you choose to engineer, you are a valuable member of the team. Again, use this guide to learn what all the buttons mean, dont be afraid to look around a bit more in the f3 menu. Oh and if you make the wrong building just scrap it using Ctrl + X. Keep in mind engineering is a bit slow, a big defensive base of operations can take a lot of time to be brought to it's expected potential.