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Build an off-world homestead with a farming mech, grow alien crops, and explore a colorful frontier. Play solo or with up to three friends, then automate your farm.

Full Release · Nov 4, 2026Players · 1–4Progression · Milestone 14Total Players · 2M+

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Your Lightyear Frontier Journey

1

Beginner Guide

Learn the controls, establish your first farm, gather essential materials, and choose useful early upgrades.

2

Resources & Crafting

Find the materials your first deliveries need, organize storage, and turn raw resources into useful crafting components.

3

Farming & Crop Rotation

Master planting, watering, crop rotation, and fertilizer basics to build a more productive alien farm.

4

Mech Upgrades & Automation

Follow milestone unlocks, improve your mech, and connect storage to crafting stations with automation pipes.

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Master your Lightyear Frontier base design with proven layouts, roof efficiency tricks, silo storage hubs, animal pens, and location scouting tips.

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Discover the Lightyear Frontier best base location for early and late game. Compare flat land, water access, and mineral routes to build the perfect farm.

Lightyear Frontier House Building Guide: How to Build Your Homestead and Shelters

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Lightyear Frontier Mech Parts Guide: Upgrades, Crafting, and Stats

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Lightyear Frontier Milestones Guide: Complete Progression and Unlock List

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Lightyear Frontier Eggs Guide: How to Find, Incubate, and Hatch Them

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Lightyear Frontier Fertilizer Guide: How to Make, Use, and Boost Crop Yields

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What is Lightyear Frontier?

Lightyear Frontier is an open-world farming adventure where a customizable mech handles planting, harvesting, gathering, and construction. Play solo or team up with up to three friends to turn an alien landscape into a thriving homestead.

Grow unfamiliar crops, improve your tools, and complete deliveries to advance through the milestone system. Connect storage and crafting stations with automation pipes, explore new regions, and uncover the planet's history at your own pace.

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Developer

FRAME BREAK

Platform

PC / Xbox Series X|S

Genre

Open-World Mech Farming

Players

1–4

Progression

Milestone 14

Total Players

2M+

Full Release

Nov 4, 2026

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Explore farming, mech upgrades, resources, co-op, and the systems that carry your homestead through every milestone.

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Lightyear Frontier Beginner Guide

Start your first farm with a practical introduction to the version 1.0 systems. Follow the opening missions, find essential resources, and learn how deliveries unlock further progression.

1Choose Balanced, the preset recommended for new players; Relaxed offers longer days and disables damage.
2Follow the tutorial missions and use mission markers to identify required Constructs and crafting materials.
3Open the Map menu's Resource Scanner to locate supplies, then label useful gathering spots with text Stamps.
4Send supplies to the Colonies through the Delivery Cannon to advance Milestones and unlock more equipment.
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Lightyear Frontier Mech Upgrades

Plan your mech upgrades for farming, gathering, and travel using the version 1.0 progression system. Compare tool abilities, Mod Chips, and Transform Modes before investing resources.

Upgrade PathsTools, Body Parts, and Transform Modes have dedicated upgrade paths; upgrades improve their built-in stats.
Seed ShooterMk. 2 unlocks Lock-On, while Mk. 4 unlocks Seed Stacking to plant multiple seeds in one mound.
Mod ChipsTools, Parts, and Modes no longer consume Mech Power, leaving that power available for Mods.
SkyblazerSkyblazer enables sustained flight, and every unlocked Transform Mode is available through the transform wheel.
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Lightyear Frontier Map and Resources

Find resources with the in-game scanner and plan exploration across the version 1.0 map. Learn what to look for in the Sandswept Highlands and Hollow Marsh, and mark useful gathering spots for return trips.

Resource ScannerUse the Map menu's Resource Scanner to find resources such as Caroot.
Sandswept HighlandsExplore desert mesas and ancient ruins containing late-game crops and minerals.
Hollow MarshFind the Starfall Tree in the foggy wetland among the Sandswept Highlands' clifftops.
Map StampsAdd text labels to Stamps; Trailers and Farm Animals also have map markers.
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Lightyear Frontier Crops and Farming Guide

Learn how seeds, soil types, and crop rotation affect your harvests. Use the version 1.0 farming systems to increase yields and understand the different purposes of Mulch and Fertilizer.

Crop VarietiesVersion 1.0 adds Cloudbud, Coilvine, Papristalk, and Quartznip.
Crop RotationPlanting previews show expected results, and harvesting mutated crops provides both mutated and normal produce.
MulchMulch changes a mound's soil type to Phosphoric, Nitrogenic, or Potassic.
FertilizerFertilizer increases a mound's crop yield without changing its soil type.
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Lightyear Frontier Crafting and Automation Guide

Build production lines that move materials from storage into crafting stations. Learn when automation unlocks and how pipes, filters, and recipe queues keep your farm supplied.

1Reach Milestone 4 to begin unlocking automation in version 1.0.
2Connect compatible storage outputs and crafting inputs with Automation Pipes, and provide Energy for the pipes.
3Configure storage Resource Filters to direct discovered items into the appropriate storage.
4Queue up to 3 recipes per Crafting Construct; it cycles through them and skips recipes with missing ingredients.
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Lightyear Frontier Multiplayer and Crossplay

Set up a co-op farm across Steam and Xbox/Microsoft Store versions. Learn how invite codes, Shared Saves, and host-controlled world settings let your group play together.

Four-Player Co-opPlay with up to 3 friends, for a maximum of 4 players in one session.
CrossplaySteam and Xbox/Microsoft Store players can join the same multiplayer session using an invite code.
Shared SavesPlayers with access can host the shared world while its original host is offline; progress syncs through the cloud.
World SettingsThe host controls world settings such as day length and growth time.
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Lightyear Frontier Animals and Breeding

Find animal eggs, improve your farm animals' happiness, and collect their resources. Learn how Diane's quests unlock breeding and how animal care affects daily production.

Wild EggsFeeding a wild animal has a 5% chance to drop an egg of its species.
Animal NeedsMeet 2 needs for Content status and 4 for Happy status.
Daily ResourcesHappy farm animals produce 3 resources per day; Content animals produce 1, while Unhappy animals produce 0.
BreedingProgress through Diane's questline to unlock ranch animal breeding.
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Lightyear Frontier Deliveries and Milestones

Track the Delivery Cannon progression that unlocks equipment and advances the main story. Plan Colony deliveries, research rewards, and the version 1.0 endgame Milestones.

Delivery CannonQueue multiple deliveries, then launch them together from the Delivery Cannon menu.
Milestones 13 and 14These Milestones add crafting tiers, mech upgrades, Mods, and the Skyblazer Transform Mode.
Prometheus StationComplete Research Deliveries to earn blueprints for unique mech Mods without relying on community contributions.
Story EndingRaise every Colony to Thriving to unlock the ending missions; you can continue playing after the finale.
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Lightyear Frontier Frequently Asked Questions

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