The Riftbreaker

I found a much faster way to earn this achievement. Taking between 15 and 20 minutes

Start a survival game on custom difficulty using the settings below

Enemy damage factor 1%

Resource volume factor set this to 10%

(IMPORTANT) any lower and resource deposits Don't appear and any higher will add more time for completion)

Research cost 1%

Building cost 1%

Building time multiplier 1%

Items dropped after death 0

Wave Interval duration No waves

Game duration, infinite

Warmup duration, 02:00:00

Attacks per wave multiplier 1.0

Map size 3 X 3

Gravity Scale 100%

Time of day mode, Day only, I found this easier as it's constantly Day time making it a lot easier to see.

Enemy wave Strength Easy,


Start the game and as soon as you spawn in walk around until u find a carbonium deposit place and build a HQ building while holding doing so will build a HQ at lower cost than the 200 carbonium cost the game says.

Now build a few power structures, solar panels wind turbines and a carbonium mining building on the deposit near your HQ,

With your base set up run around the map which isn't that big if you have it set to 3×3 and find other mineral deposits there won't be alot and they will have low amounts of resources in them.

Each one you find build a couple of wind turbines and a mining building depending on the resource.

Once you have built on every resource deposit you can find build a communication hub and just start to research everything in the base and buildings tab. Then visit each mining outpost upgrading the resource buildings when you can.

If you run out of storage then just build solid material storage units to be able to keep mining.

Achievement should pop within 30 minutes of starting the game,

Any problems just drop me a message.

Tip, use the geo scanner just to be sure there are no hidden underground deposits. I didn't encounter any using the above game settings but you never know.

Also be careful if using the quick resume feature on Xbox series X, achievement's don't seem to pop until you quit and reload the game.

TO BE CLEAR: You must actually mine these resources, not just build extractors on them.

This was tedious and I would suggest a smaller and less resource intensive map than I picked, Desert might be ideal as you have an easy way to burn through Uranium with high level nuke plants. I picked Volcanic and there’s way too many resources there (plus those gravity rocks where you can’t build can cover deposits).

Your biggest problem is storage, I had enough storage for 150k stuff (big blocks of Solid Material Storage Level 3 buildings on multiple maps). I actually would build 2-3 Alien Research Facilities Level 5 whenever I filed up (turn the off so they don’t consume 5000 power). Sell them when you get full again and build new ones. They cost something like 50,000 Carbonium and Ironium each so they work better than anything for this. Also turn off any Carbonium and Ironiun Synthesizers you may have as they’ll quickly fill storage.

I would suggest on one map (probably jungle for easy water) you have a massive Cultivator and Harvester operation (you’ll also need Mud or Sludge and some Water plants to run the Cultivators). Biomass Powerplants Level 3 provide 200 power and can be built right next to any resource extractors for cheap and without running power lines or anything. You can use Biomass from any map, like any other resource, to power your operation.

If you don’t have the above buildings they’re (mostly) in the Alien Research tree and they’re worthwhile even outside this achievement, definitely research the best versions you can.

So just run around putting down 2-3 Biomass plants and 3-4 extractor (rare resource extractors cost more energy so more Biomass Plants at those locations) of the appropriate type. Since you want this to go fast, put extractors on only 2-6 tiles instead of all 9 tiles of a resource, and just build extras. They extract at a constant rate so the fewer tiles they have to clear the faster.

You’ll need to be able to murder waves of enemies since you mostly won’t want to build defenses (I built a radar and a teleporter at most locations) so you’ll need decent weapons for swarms. A Shotgun with extra spread and range and a high fire rate machine gun (piercing and homing) with something explosive for back up like Rocket Launcher, Nuke, or Swarm Missile (homing for all of them). Make sure your ammo storage buildings are maxed (any map, they’re all shared) and you have enough ammo factories (also any map) so you don’t run out.

Final Hint: on Desert you may be placing a lot of Quicksand tiles, hit RT a couple times to make the tile bigger, you can also hold A and scroll to mass build like with walls.