Rustlight: Getting Started

Start with resources and crew

Open the CrazyGames game page. The published starting actions are Mine ore and Drill ice. Buy modules from the bottom bar, assign people to work in them, and choose a response when an event appears.

The listing says an unstaffed building runs at half speed and extra miners increase mine production. Treat staffing as part of resource management rather than assuming a new building operates at full capacity immediately.

Prepare for darkness

Solar panels go dark at night. The description points to batteries, a reactor and engineers for nighttime power, alongside growing food and drilling ice for water. Dust storms, meteor showers and greenhouse blight are among the listed events; their responses involve tradeoffs.

Keyboard reference

• M: mine ore.
• D: drill ice.
• P: pause.
• 1–5: open a tab.
• Esc: close a panel.

These are published controls, not controls tested by GameTio.

What follows the colony phase?

The page describes building a Terraforming beacon and starting another expedition. Relics carry over and can fund permanent upgrades; the colony starts over. It does not provide an opening build order, so this guide does not prescribe one.

This guide follows the saved source description checked on October 10, 2026. GameTio has not played this game.

Game overview