Keyboard controls

• Use TAB, B, P, or ESC (except when in fullscreen web version) to open the shop and access menu options.
• Use WASD or arrow keys to pan the camera.
• Use +/-, Q/E, or X/Z to zoom in/out.
• Hold 1, 2, or 3 in the menu to load old save files if you messed something up. Loading will cycle backups, meaning spamming load backup 1 will toggle between the two most recent saves.
• Press ctrl+shift+period to reset your save data. There is no confirmation for this, but it does not clear your backups if you need to restore using the method above. There's a small bug with this, astroid purchase options stay visible in the shop, sorry!

Left mouse button

• Press menu buttons.
• Press buttons on nodes.
• Drag the name of a node to reposition it.
• Drag an output connector to link it to another node's input connector.
• Drag an input connector to link it to another node's output connector.
• Drag on the world to box-select multiple nodes. Hold shift to add to the current selection.
• Press on the world to be clear the current selection.
• Drag anywhere on a selected node to reposition the current selection. No other interactions can be made on selected nodes.

Right mouse button

• Press on a connector to clear its connection.
• Drag one node to another node to quick-connect the first's output connector to the first available input connector of the second. Anywhere on the node's body will work, you do not need to aim for the connectors or the title. (Similar to Blender's Node Wrangler add-on)
• Drag on the world to clear any connections you draw over. (Similar to Blender's Node Wrangler add-on)
• Hold shift and drag anywhere to pan the camera.

Middle mouse button

• Drag anywhere to pan the camera.
• Scroll to zoom in and out.

Cheats

• Hold ctrl+semicolon during game tick - Give 1.0ac of all resources and 1000 expansion tokens.
• Press ctrl+apostrophe - Expand a 33x33 square of chunks around the world origin.

The controls section includes many shortcuts to make handling your nodes & connections more painless, even when there's a lot to manage. It's worth reading.

This game uses AA notation for its big numbers. 1.0aa = 1 quadrillion (1e15), 1.0ab = 1 quintillion (1e18), 1.0ac = 1 sextillion (1e21) and so on.

More purchase options will unlock in the shop when you gain a resource for the first time. These nodes get more and more powerful, so it's good to focus on reaching at least 1 of a higher tier resource.

When possible, you should add first, then multiply, then use power functions in order to get the largest number you can out of a set of nodes. The power nodes (n^1.1, n^1.2, n^1.3) are EXTREMELY powerful the larger the input you give them, particularly n^1.3. Once money becomes no object, it's worth doing everything in astroids for n^1.3 and then converting back if necessary.

In the endgame, if you favor a more passive playstyle, you can use square generator nodes and simply focus on buying every power node you find. If you favor a more active playstyle, n*5^(Active Harvesters) will scale to massive numbers if you build an array of harvesters you can drag to new sections of the world.

Endgame accumulators offer a way to satisfy the victory node's conditions with a factory that only outputs one connection of resources. Simply fill it up, move the connection you used to fill it back into the victory node, hook its outputs to converters, and activate the accumulator. The victory node will remember that its conditions were met.

If you like, consider not using the endgame accumulator as an optional hard mode.

If you were just playing normally and it froze, there's probably a WebGL error in your console. Honestly, I have no idea what causes this, I assume it's some obscure Godot bug since there's none of my code in the stack trace. The game autosaves at the end of every cycle, so if you refresh the page and continue, you shouldn't be set back by more than 50 seconds.

If you let the victory animation play out for a while and the game saved, the world might be too big to load without running into the memory limit your browser set. If you can no longer enter the game, the contents of your save are printed in your browser's developer console on load as a failsafe. You should be able to copy the contents of this massive message into a file named "game_save.json" and resume playing your save in a non-web, desktop version. If you want to be able to access the web build again, you can either delete the site data from your browser, or hold ctrl+shift+period as the game starts up to clear your save.