Surviving Mars
80 Achievements
1,750
0-2h
Gagarin's Legacy
Played as Russia and extracted 10000 resource units from Deposits before Sol 100
25
18.64%
How to unlock the Gagarin's Legacy achievement in Surviving Mars - Definitive Guide
Find a place with a large amount of metal and water. Just extractor the water and build water tanks. Whenthe tank is full destroy it then remake it. I used most of my funds to drop in machine parts to keep the extractors working.
To speed it up a bit you can take the starting class that gives fueled extractors and take a fuel refinery prefab with you.
What I did was set up a couple concrete extractors to get concrete and then water extractors connected to fuel refineries. I did the fueled extractor upgrade (which is unlocked playing as Russia) so the water fed into the fuel refineries which fed fuel into rockets and the extractors to make a cycle of consuming water.
When I was able to I also built 30 water tanks to let the water extractors pump at full force which dramatically sped things up.
Pick Russia as your mission sponsor when starting a new game. After setting up your Colony and ensuring you’ve got all the essentials covered through production (metals, food, polymers), you’ll want to focus on aggressive expansion and sufficient power for extractors. One of the easiest resources to extract are Concrete and Water as they do not need Colonists to staff them, and you can build as many depots as you want to store the excess resources. Supplement that with your Colony’s expansion and secure Metals and Rare Metals to produce Machine Parts and Electronic for building maintenance or build Research Labs to unlock technologies that boost resource mining/production.