Aphelium Land Management Guide:

Aphelium
4 min readDec 28, 2023

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Mastering Restoration Routines and Drones

Hello, Astronaughties! Managing your lands efficiently is crucial, and with our latest updates, you have two distinct methods to ensure your lands stay productive: manual restoration and drone automation. Let’s break down each method, focusing on the specific requirements, benefits and penalties.

Resource Depletion and Treatment: Understanding the Basics

Natural Depletion: Your land’s resources, such as fruits, crops, mushrooms, and fish, diminish over time. For example, a land with 40% fruitfulness can drop to 30% if not attended to.

Treatment Requirements: Resources deplete 10% weekly, once a resource is depleted it’s time for treatment. The more the depletion, the more treatments required (e.g., 20% depletion needs two treatments)

Current Penalty — Reduced Resource Production: Unmaintained lands already suffer from reduced resource output. Regular care is essential to keep your lands at peak productivity.

Manual Land Restoration: Weekly Commitment with Specific Treatments

Base Visits: If you have multiple lands, each requires an individual visit to its base.

Treatment Process: Every land has a ‘Treatment’ button for resource maintenance. This needs to be done weekly.

Resource-Specific Treatment Items: Different resources require specific treatment items. Soil might need minerals and nutrients, while fish populations require water enhancers.

Drone-Assisted Restoration: Efficiency and Automation

Staking Drones: By staking drones to your lands, they automatically take over maintenance tasks.

Monthly Maintenance Cycle: Unlike the weekly manual approach, drones follow a monthly schedule, reducing the frequency of care required.

Fueling with /fill Command: Drones need monthly refueling with oil crafted from fish. The /fill command lets you refuel all staked drones at once, once you have enough fuel on you.

Simplified Resource Management: With drones, you don’t need to worry about different treatment items for various resources. The drones handle it all, using just the oil as fuel.

Reputation and Friendship Penalties: Neglecting your land will result in a decrease in Reputation and Friendship points. The more your resources deplete, the greater the penalties.

Maximum Penalties: A 50% depletion will incur a maximum penalty of -5 Reputation and -5 Friendship, once a worker or an explorer is on your land.

Seasonal Events: Natural Resource Boosts

Meteor Showers: These rare events, occurring at the start of each season, can naturally boost your land’s resources.

Manual vs. Drone Maintenance

Manual Treatment:

Weekly visits and treatments.
Specific treatment items needed for each resource type.
More hands-on and time/resource consuming.
Resource-Specific Manual Restoration: Weekly Attention for Each Resource Type

For Fish (Mineral Satchel Requirements):

Weekly: 10 Bauxite, 15 Anatase, 5 Limonite, 5 Chrysocolla, and 1 Chromolite.

Monthly: 160 mixed resources and 4 Chromolites.

For Wood (Tree Growth Accelerator Requirements):

Weekly: 20 Bauxite, 10 Anatase, 5 Chrysocolla, 5 Galena, and 1 Chromolite.

Monthly: 160 mixed resources and 4 Chromolites.

For Stone and Other Minerals (Heat-induced Seismic Activities):

To craft: 20 Stones, 20 Wood, and 1 Chromolite.

Monthly: 160 mixed resources and 4 Chromolites.

For Crops, Mushrooms and Fruits:

To craft: 10 Bauxite, 10 Chrysocolla, 5 Galena, 5 Limonite and 1 Chromolite.

Monthly: 160 mixed resources and 4 Chromolites.

Drone Maintenance:

Monthly maintenance with less frequent attention needed.
Unified /fill command for all drones, using oil crafted from fish.
No need to manage different treatment items for each resource.

Fueling Your Drones:

Monthly: 30 fish are required to craft the fuel for the drones.

Mastering Alien Spawns and Choosing Your Defense

There’s a change on your lands — each plot now has a 30% chance daily of an alien spawn! Here’s what you need to know:

The Upside: Defeat these cosmic intruders and you’ll harvest a bounty of resources and AP, scaled to the alien’s difficulty and your land’s resource percentages and rarity.

The Downside: Aliens won’t wait around. Without traps or freezers on your land, you’ve got just one hour to respond. Unchallenged aliens reduce your land’s appeal by 10% for each invader. Lower appeal means fewer visits which will result less productivity. This setup favors the active and agile landowners, giving them a better shot at attracting visitors.

Restoring Appeal: Lost your land’s charm to uninvited guests? No worries! Simply /craft land appeal treatments and rejuvenate your plots using the button in your /bases. Each 10% loss in appeal requires one additional treatment.

Freezers: These are special, non-craftable NFTs available for purchase from NEFTY. Good news — you only need one per astronaut, regardless of how many lands you own.

Refueling is simple: craft one freezer charger per land each month and use the /refill command. With a freezer, you get an extended 8-hour window to engage the alien invaders and secure your rewards. Fail to fight within the timeframe? You’ll miss out on the prizes, but your lands won’t lose any appeal.

Traps: Prefer not to spend WAXP on NFTs? Opt for crafting traps instead! Place one trap per land for a defense. Unlike freezers, traps are single-use items, so you’ll need to restake them after each use. Like freezers, traps provide an 8-hour window to confront the alien threat without risking your land’s appeal.

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