🔴 The base on Mars in Rocket Crew: deuterium, thin air and the trip from the Moon
Mars is the third stop of the route. You fly there from your base on the Moon, with everything there at its maximum, as you flew from the Earth to the Moon: taking off costs 15,000 coins and 5,000 helium-3, and the trip lasts 2 days, twice the Moon's: a scene every twelve hours.
Deuterium, the currency of Mars
- Its deuterium extractor drills for the ice under the dust and gives deuterium 💧 every 6 hours, 4 times what the Earth's oil well gives in coins.
- On Mars, 40 % of every price is paid in deuterium; the pad and the extractor, in coins only. Taking off from Mars to the next stop costs a third more in deuterium.
- The helium-3 of the Moon does not pay for what is built on Mars, nor the deuterium for the Moon's. You see it in your wallet from the day you land there.
What changes
| Thing | On Mars |
|---|---|
| Prices of parts and buildings | 6.25 times the Earth's, 40 % of it in deuterium |
| Time of the works | 2.25 times as long |
| What is produced | 4 times as much: its workers, its harvests, its visits and its hangar |
| Sky and light | Caramel by day and blue round the sun at dawn and dusk, with a day and a night by your clock; Phobos and Deimos at night |
| Air and gravity | A thin air: suits for everybody, dust in the air and whirls of dust; a gravity of 0.38, so lower hops than on the Moon |
Its buildings
The same buildings, with the same rules, but made for Mars: sintered red brick, vaults buried under the rust and white habitats with orange bands. The tower is held by guy wires against the wind, the stands are a lookout under a glass vault, the laboratory a row of greenhouse tunnels, and on its drone pad a little helicopter flies, which the thin air allows.
Your level and what you find there
The rocket of Mars takes your levels from 51 to 75. Its laboratory finds what only Mars has: five ecosystems (from Utopia Planitia to the legendary dust storm), five colours, four icons and five decorations, and reaching it gives the trophy Martian pioneer (trophies).
💡 Save helium-3 on the Moon before the trip: the take-off asks for it, and on Mars you will start again from the pad, without any deuterium until its extractor works.