Outpost Engineering

The Outpost Engineering skill is an Expert Science Skill that improves your ability to build and maintain outposts. With this skill, you can build and maintain outposts that can serve as bases of operations, trading posts, or even homes.

Last Updated 06 Aug 2023 at 09:57 am GMT
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Outpost Engineering
  • Typescience
  • Tierexpert

What does Outpost Engineering do?

  • Allows you to research the most advanced Outpost Modules and cuts down the cost of building them.

What are the ranks for Outpost Engineering?

  1. You can construct improved outpost modules and research additional modules at a Research Lab.
  2. You can research and construct superior outpost modules.
  3. You can research and construct cutting-edge outpost modules.
  4. Outpost modules now cost 50% fewer resources to build.

Are there challenges to complete for this skill?

  • Challenge: Spend a total of 8 Skill Points in the Science tree.
  • Challenge: Build 5 different outpost modules.
  • Challenge: Build 25 different outpost modules.
  • Challenge: Build 50 different outpost modules.

How to level Outpost Engineering?

Note that the meter only seems to go up if you build Structure modules from the Outpost builder menu. You can find a cheap structure and repeatedly build and destroy it to quickly complete the challenges.

What build does Outpost Engineering work best with?

  • Colonist build: A Colonist build focuses on building and improving settlements. They are often skilled in engineering, construction, and management. This makes them well-suited for using Outpost Engineering to build and improve settlements, as well as to manage the resources and people of the settlement.
  • Trader build: A Trader build focuses on manufacturing lots of products from Outposts. They are often skilled in leadership, logistics, and economics. This makes them well-suited for using Outpost Engineering to manage the resources and people of an outpost, as well as to ensure that the outpost is running smoothly.
  • Explorer build: An explorer build focuses on exploring the game world and finding hidden treasures. Outpost Engineering can be used to build outposts in remote locations, which can be used as bases of operations for your explorations.


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