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Beyond These Stars Beginner Guide: 12 Essential Tips for Life on Kewa the Space Whale

Beyond These Stars Colony Guide: How to Build a Thriving City on Kewa the Space Whale

Beyond These Stars Expanding the Biome: Terraforming, Compost & Tree Guide

Beyond These Stars Planets Guide: Outposts, Resources, Seeds & Exploration Tips

Beyond These Stars Sandbox Mode Guide: Settings, Instant Construction, and Creative Tips

Beyond These Stars Space Whale Guide: How to Build a City on Kewa and Keep Her Happy

Beyond These Stars Terraforming Guide: Tiles, Water Flow, Landscaper & Debris Explained

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Beginner Guide

Start your first settlement on Kewa with essential tips for housing, food, water, roads, jobs, and early colony survival.

Buildings & Layouts

Plan efficient neighborhoods, connect roads, manage building adjacency bonuses, and avoid costly placement mistakes.

Kewa Care Guide

Understand Kewa's health, happiness, energy, and temperature. Reduce pollution and build a sustainable relationship with your living home.

Resources & Production

Learn how production chains work, manage warehouses and by-products, fix resource bottlenecks, and expand into advanced industry.

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Beyond These Stars Beginner Guide: 12 Essential Tips for Life on Kewa the Space Whale

This Beyond These Stars beginner guide covers early priorities, waste recycling, canal planning, and mid-game logistics so your first settlement thrives.

Beyond These Stars Colony Guide: How to Build a Thriving City on Kewa the Space Whale

Learn how to build a thriving Beyond These Stars colony on Kewa the Space Whale with tips on terraforming, outposts, and resource management.

Beyond These Stars Expanding the Biome: Terraforming, Compost & Tree Guide

Learn how to expand the biome in Beyond These Stars with landscapers, compost heaps, and tree nurseries—plus pollution control tips to keep Kewa thriving.

Beyond These Stars Planets Guide: Outposts, Resources, Seeds & Exploration Tips

Learn how planets work in Beyond These Stars — outposts, debris fields, seeds, animals, and trading tips to keep Kewa healthy and your colony supplied.

Beyond These Stars Sandbox Mode Guide: Settings, Instant Construction, and Creative Tips

Learn how Beyond These Stars sandbox mode works, from unlock all buildings and instant construction to pollution settings and creative city-building tips.

Beyond These Stars Space Whale Guide: How to Build a City on Kewa and Keep Her Happy

A complete Beyond These Stars space whale guide: keep Kewa happy, terraform safely, plan outposts, and master your first hours on a living world.

Beyond These Stars Terraforming Guide: Tiles, Water Flow, Landscaper & Debris Explained

Learn how Beyond These Stars terraforming works: raise and lower tiles, master dynamic water flow, use the Landscaper building, and spend debris wisely.

Beyond These Stars Burner Generator Guide: Power, Fuel & Placement Tips

Learn how the Beyond These Stars Burner Generator works, how to keep it fueled, and where to place it so your space-whale city never loses power.

Beyond These Stars Dump Guide: Waste Buildings, Placement Tips, and the Science of Space Trash

Master the Beyond These Stars dump building with placement tips, waste-management strategies, and the real science behind garbage in space.

Beyond These Stars Electronics Plant Guide: Placement, Supply Chains & Keeping Kewa Happy

Learn how the Beyond These Stars electronics plant works, where to build it, and how to balance advanced production with Kewa's fragile ecosystem.

Beyond These Stars Gardens: Complete Building Guide for Greener Cities on Kewa

Learn how Beyond These Stars gardens work, where to place them, and how they support farming, forests, and Kewa's fragile ecosystem in this full guide.

Beyond These Stars Home Spaceship Guide: Building Your City on Kewa the Space Whale

Your Beyond These Stars home spaceship is a living Space Whale. Learn how to build, terraform, and expand on Kewa without wrecking her fragile ecosystem.

Beyond These Stars Beginner Guide: 12 Essential Tips for Life on Kewa the Space Whale

This Beyond These Stars beginner guide covers early priorities, waste recycling, canal planning, and mid-game logistics so your first settlement thrives.

Beyond These Stars Colony Guide: How to Build a Thriving City on Kewa the Space Whale

Learn how to build a thriving Beyond These Stars colony on Kewa the Space Whale with tips on terraforming, outposts, and resource management.

Beyond These Stars Expanding the Biome: Terraforming, Compost & Tree Guide

Learn how to expand the biome in Beyond These Stars with landscapers, compost heaps, and tree nurseries—plus pollution control tips to keep Kewa thriving.

Beyond These Stars Planets Guide: Outposts, Resources, Seeds & Exploration Tips

Learn how planets work in Beyond These Stars — outposts, debris fields, seeds, animals, and trading tips to keep Kewa healthy and your colony supplied.

Beyond These Stars Sandbox Mode Guide: Settings, Instant Construction, and Creative Tips

Learn how Beyond These Stars sandbox mode works, from unlock all buildings and instant construction to pollution settings and creative city-building tips.

Beyond These Stars Space Whale Guide: How to Build a City on Kewa and Keep Her Happy

A complete Beyond These Stars space whale guide: keep Kewa happy, terraform safely, plan outposts, and master your first hours on a living world.

Beyond These Stars Terraforming Guide: Tiles, Water Flow, Landscaper & Debris Explained

Learn how Beyond These Stars terraforming works: raise and lower tiles, master dynamic water flow, use the Landscaper building, and spend debris wisely.

Beyond These Stars Burner Generator Guide: Power, Fuel & Placement Tips

Learn how the Beyond These Stars Burner Generator works, how to keep it fueled, and where to place it so your space-whale city never loses power.

Beyond These Stars Dump Guide: Waste Buildings, Placement Tips, and the Science of Space Trash

Master the Beyond These Stars dump building with placement tips, waste-management strategies, and the real science behind garbage in space.

Beyond These Stars Electronics Plant Guide: Placement, Supply Chains & Keeping Kewa Happy

Learn how the Beyond These Stars electronics plant works, where to build it, and how to balance advanced production with Kewa's fragile ecosystem.

Beyond These Stars Gardens: Complete Building Guide for Greener Cities on Kewa

Learn how Beyond These Stars gardens work, where to place them, and how they support farming, forests, and Kewa's fragile ecosystem in this full guide.

Beyond These Stars Home Spaceship Guide: Building Your City on Kewa the Space Whale

Your Beyond These Stars home spaceship is a living Space Whale. Learn how to build, terraform, and expand on Kewa without wrecking her fragile ecosystem.

What is Beyond These Stars?

Beyond These Stars is a single-player city-building and colony management game developed by Balancing Monkey Games and published by Hooded Horse. Build your civilization on Kewa, a giant sentient space whale, while managing the needs of your people and exploring a mysterious galaxy.

Design efficient settlements, terraform fragile landscapes, research new technologies, and establish outposts on distant planets. Balance industrial expansion with environmental sustainability, maintain Kewa's wellbeing, and discover the secrets of the stars through exploration and encounters with alien civilizations.

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Developer

Balancing Monkey Games

Publisher

Hooded Horse

Platform

Windows PC

Genre

City Builder / Colony Sim

Release Date

Oct 16, 2026

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Single-player

Beyond These Stars Guide Modules

Jump straight to the eight core Beyond These Stars guide sections and scroll to the module you need.

Beyond These Stars Beginner Guide

Learn how to build your first successful colony on Kewa, the living space whale. Follow essential beginner steps covering housing, food, water, transportation, and early survival while avoiding common settlement mistakes.

1Start your settlement around the Home Spaceship, which provides an initial base for your Peeps and essential supplies.

2Build housing for your Peeps and keep their homes within walking distance of essential workplaces.

3Establish reliable food and water production to meet your growing population's basic needs.

4Connect buildings with accessible roads and organize your early resource production and storage.

5Monitor Peep happiness, Kewa's health, and pollution before expanding into more advanced industries.

Beyond These Stars Buildings Guide

Discover how building placement, terrain, adjacency bonuses, and transportation affect your city's efficiency. Learn to organize housing, production facilities, and infrastructure across the uneven landscape of Kewa.

HousingProvide homes for Peeps and position residential areas near accessible workplaces and essential services.

ProductionOrganize resource extraction and manufacturing buildings into efficient production chains.

AdjacencyUse building adjacency bonuses to improve settlement efficiency and reduce unnecessary travel.

RoadsPlan connected transportation routes that allow Peeps to move between homes, workplaces, and resource facilities.

TerrainAdapt building layouts to the natural contours of Kewa or reshape the terrain to create better construction sites.

Beyond These Stars Resources Guide

Master resource gathering, manufacturing, storage, and complex production chains in Beyond These Stars. Understand how to maintain a stable economy, manage industrial by-products, and transport essential supplies between settlements.

Basic ResourcesSecure essential supplies including wood, water, food, and construction materials for early settlement development.

Production ChainsTransform raw materials into manufactured products using interconnected production facilities.

StorageManage resource storage and the movement of materials between production buildings and settlements.

By-productsAccount for waste materials and secondary outputs generated by industrial production.

Interplanetary ShippingUse Trade Ships and Space Ports to move resources between Kewa and planetary colonies.

Beyond These Stars Kewa Guide

Learn how to care for Kewa, the sentient space whale that carries your civilization through the galaxy. Discover how environmental health, happiness, temperature, and dialogue choices influence Kewa's behavior and your journey.

Kewa HealthImprove Kewa's wellbeing by maintaining a healthy biome, planting trees, creating waterways, and reducing pollution.

Kewa HappinessMonitor Kewa's happiness meter and maintain a positive relationship through environmental care and conversations.

TemperatureAvoid prolonged exposure to excessively hot star systems, which can negatively affect Kewa's health and happiness.

Kewa Fruit TreesExtremely happy Kewa can produce special fruit trees that provide happiness benefits to Peeps.

Thorny StemsUnhealthy Kewa can generate Thorny Stems that negatively affect the Peeps living on their back.

Galaxy TravelHealthy Kewa travels through the galaxy faster, while severe unhappiness can trigger emergency travel to cooler regions.

Beyond These Stars Peep Happiness Guide

Keep your Peeps healthy, productive, and satisfied by understanding their daily needs and happiness system. Learn what causes strikes, how to resolve worker demands, and how celebrations reward successful colony management.

1Provide enough housing for your population and prevent Peeps from becoming homeless.

2Maintain reliable food supplies and manage pollution to prevent widespread unhappiness.

3Watch for strikes when a sufficiently large proportion of your Peeps becomes unhappy. Striking workers interrupt parts of your production network.

4Check the objective assigned at the start of a strike and complete it to end the strike early. The first strike normally lasts three shifts.

5Raise happiness sufficiently to trigger celebrations at the Fairground, providing bonuses to production, movement, and sickness resistance.

Beyond These Stars Pollution Guide

Discover how industrial pollution affects Kewa's environment and the health and happiness of your Peeps. Learn practical pollution-control strategies using forests, cleaner buildings, and sustainable city planning.

1Identify pollution generated by industrial activity and monitor its effects on your settlement and Kewa's biome.

2Preserve existing forests because trees gradually absorb pollution from surrounding areas.

3Use the Tree Nursery to support reforestation and expand the natural pollution-absorbing environment.

4Construct Cleaner buildings when available to remove pollution directly rather than relying entirely on forests.

5Balance industrial growth with environmental recovery to protect Peep wellbeing and prevent damage to Kewa's ecosystem.

Beyond These Stars Terraforming Guide

Transform Kewa's initially inhospitable landscape into a thriving environment for your growing civilization. Learn how to reshape terrain, create waterways, prepare farmland, and restore forests while improving habitability.

1Examine Kewa's natural terrain and identify areas where uneven ground limits construction.

2Reshape the landscape by raising or lowering terrain to create suitable spaces for buildings and infrastructure.

3Dig canals and create waterways to improve the landscape and support your settlement's environmental needs.

4Add fertile topsoil and use composting to prepare additional areas for agricultural development.

5Plant new trees and establish forests to support raw material production, absorb pollution, and expand breathable areas.

Beyond These Stars Planets and Outposts Guide

Explore the galaxy with Kewa and discover habitable planets containing valuable resources unavailable at home. Learn how to scout star systems, establish planetary colonies, and build interplanetary trade networks.

1Unlock galaxy travel with Kewa and use the Galaxy Map to discover additional star systems.

2Use Scout Ships to investigate celestial objects and identify planets suitable for settlement.

3Establish new colonies using Settlement Ships and develop infrastructure for planetary resource gathering.

4Discover planet-specific resources such as wheat, berries, shells, milk, and eggs. Habitable planets can also unlock buildings including the Pasture, Trawler, and Orchard.

5Construct Space Ports and Landing Pads to support ships traveling between Kewa and planetary settlements.

6Use manual or automated shipping to supply distant colonies and transport valuable resources back to Kewa.