Honeycomb: The World Beyond Walkthrough: Early Quests

Spoiler-light: this covers the opening hours only. Order from DeepSpaceMatt’s launch video chapters (The Mission, The Lay of the Land, Tools of the Trade, Drone Builder, Building a Base, Creatures and Creature Comforts, Pathogens), the Gamescom 2025 build, and Steam forum answers. Quest names are as players reported them.

1. The mission (landing pod)

You start in the pod with a headache. Open the lockers, take everything, and use a painkiller from the inventory.
Read the note from EON Corp about Operation Honeycomb.
A mirror in the pod lets you change Hennessy’s hairstyle, and it gives an achievement.

2. The lay of the land

Follow the path from the door. Sprint first, which unlocks jump, then crouch and mantle up to the high ground.
One step needs the middle mouse button, which cannot be remapped yet.
Open the map: EON’s orbital scan already marks some resources.

3. First samples

Scan the Sunbeam Lumus trees and collect their fruit (the quest counts, for example 4 of 6).
Collect Sweet Tarax. It is ready on a timer; the Analyzer shows how long.
Pick up the loose titanium. It is a known resource and needs no scan.

4. Tools of the Trade

Go back to the landing pod and craft the basic tools: shears, trowel and chisel. They do not go on the hotbar; equip them in the inventory and they are used automatically.

5. Drone Builder and Building a Base

Craft the Drone Builder, then place the water pump, the wind turbine and a multi-purpose room at the marker. The Building Minion step asks you to pin a blueprint; Hotfix #1 fixed the Blueprints screen being locked at that moment. Once the next blueprints unlock you can move the base; see base building.

6. Creatures and Creature Comforts

Befriend your first animals with the wildlife cam and snacks (see taming), then furnish the base. The quest ends with resting in your own bed, and that starts pathogens: from then on Immunity drains outside. Delay the bed if you want more free time.

7. Field Sedation

This side line unlocks the dart gun and plant darts. Do it early; see tools and drones.

8. Mystery Beacon (the waterfall door)

You are sent to a signal behind a waterfall and find a door with no obvious way in. From the Steam forum:

Explore north until you find a cave, and go through it to the area with a giant skeleton.
Under the bones, among odd rock formations, pick up a purple statue.
Take it back to the altar by the door. You do not select it; walk up with it in your inventory and a prompt appears to place it.
Inside, grab Sour Tarax seeds. If you missed them, Sour Tarax also grows in later regions.

At Gamescom 2025 the product owner said the skeleton area is “the first point of contact” with the planet’s old civilisation.

Players still asking

“Find the gate”: a player translating from German could not find it; unanswered on 10 September 2026.
Getting back into the first story cave: the entrance closes behind you. Sour Tarax, the reason most people go back, grows elsewhere too.

For where the story goes from here, see story and lore.

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