Lightyear Frontier guides for 1.0

These guides follow the 1.0 release of 4 November 2026. Older pages on the web still teach the Automator. That machine is gone. Start with the automation guide if your save is from 0.8, then the pipe page if a mineral extractor is the thing that stalled.

Farming numbers live on the crop table. This hub only explains soil, fertilizer, and why a mutation is a soil choice rather than a dice roll. Animals that vanish are a separate question from the animal list. Building covers planning mode and the roof-bonus change. Mech upgrades explain why a 0.8 save that could equip only two parts is not stuck that way in 1.0.

Pick the question you actually have

• Automation in 1.0 and the Automator migration
• Water from a river to a field
• How mutations are chosen
• Runaway animals
• Where a flat base can sit
• Mech upgrade paths
• Co-op and shared saves
• A first-session order

Milestone names from the 0.8 wiki are still useful as a map of themes. The 1.0 notes moved automation to Milestone 4 and added Milestones 13 and 14, but they did not publish a full new delivery table.