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Approximately Up Beginner Guide: Your First Flight Plan
OFFICIAL CORE
DIRECT ANSWER
Start with the tutorial, assemble a modular ship, launch in first person, land at a planet station to unlock that checkpoint and garage, then use missions to unlock more parts.
- Current build checked
- 1.0.006
- World
- 15 planets
- Core progression
- missions unlock parts
The screenshot identifies the flight fantasy. The written progression loop comes from the current official store description.
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Why this page exists: A new player wants the verified progression loop before building a first ship.
The verified loop
Approximately Up is built around construction, first-person flight, missions, and exploration. The store says station landings permanently unlock that planet as a checkpoint and garage, which makes a safe landing the meaningful end of each first trip.
Treat the first ship as a learning platform, not a final design. The official materials name frames, engines, cables, controllers, sensors, fuel, batteries, and solar panels, but they do not publish one universal starter layout.
- Finish the tutorial before copying community blueprints.
- Build for one reachable destination, then iterate at the unlocked garage.
- Use the Objectives Log; version 1.0.006 added completion percentages.
Where this guide stops
Exact keys, wiring ports, landing speeds, and component orientations need a current-build playtest. Those details remain on their own clearly limited pages instead of being smuggled into this beginner route as fact.