Voidtrain is a first-person survival crafting game developed and published by HypeTrain Digital, where you build, customize, and defend an interdimensional train navigating through zero-gravity space. Success in the Void requires balancing constant resource collection from floating debris, building specialized crafting benches, managing your train cars at waystation depots, and modifying firearms to handle hostile soldiers and indigenous creatures.
Early Void Survival and Movement Controls
When your journey begins on the starter trolley, gravity ceases outside the vehicle boundaries. Stepping off the edge allows you to swim freely through the Void to gather floating resources, but you must monitor your safety tether.
- Press F to reel yourself back to the train using the tether line.
- Swimming close to the train grants a movement speed boost, preventing the trolley from drifting out of reach while moving.
- Press J to access the Journal for quest milestones, notes, and recipes.
- Press V or T (or hold T) to alternate between the Scrapbook building interface and the demolition hammer.
Survival relies on keeping your vital meters stable. Eating raw organics and ice replenishes your combined food and water meter; maintaining a fuller meter allows your health to regenerate faster over time.Bandages provide direct health restoration. If your character dies in default game settings, you simply respawn on your train platform, though custom difficulty settings allow for inventory loss upon death.
Resource Gathering and Workstation Progression
Progression in Voidtrain is dictated by researching technologies at the Research Table. You must spend raw resources first to research a blueprint, then spend additional components to actually construct the station via the building book.
Early crafting prioritizes two core materials: scrap metal and wood. Wood powers your smelter furnaces and constructs platform floorings, while scrap metal refines into iron ingots required for almost every basic machine.
| Workstation / Material | Primary Recipe or Input | Common Output / Usage |
|---|---|---|
| Smelter | Wood (fuel) + 2 Scrap Metal | Iron Bar (Ingot) |
| Smelter | Wood (fuel) + Scrap Metal + Chemicals | Copper Bar (Ingot) |
| Workbench | Iron Bars / Copper Bars | Springs, Bolts, Copper Wire, Pipes |
| Laboratory | Fat + Chemicals | Grease (needed for Bearings) |
| Laboratory | Chemicals + Wood | Gunpowder / Unstable Chemicals |
| Kitchen | Raw Organics / Ice | Cooked Organics, Water Flasks |
Dismantling any workstation or structure returns only 50 percent of the original crafting materials, so position workstations carefully. However, train driving controls (such as the Sheffield trolley handle and brake levers) can be freely rearranged without penalty while docked at a depot.
How to Expand Your Train at Depots
You cannot add platforms or wagons while traveling along the tracks; train expansion is exclusively handled at Depot stations using the trackside building console.
To build your second wagon platform, ensure you craft and carry all required materials before arriving at the depot:
- Smelt 4 Iron Ingots in the Smelter.
- Craft 2 Springs and 2 Bolts at the Workbench.
- Produce Grease at the Laboratory using Fat obtained from wildlife (Void leeches or Void sharks), then assemble 2 Bearings at the Workbench.
- Keep at least 8 Wood in reserve to lay down floor tiles on the newly attached platform frame.
At the Depot console, interact with the platform upgrade icon to attach the new car. You can have up to 12 wagon platforms total on your train. After placing the chassis, switch to the building book to install wooden floor planks immediately. Structures cannot be placed on empty frames, and damaged floors can be repaired using the hammer at a rate of 50 percent durability per strike.
Combat, Weapon Assembly, and Durability
Your default weapon is a revolver found in an early depot. While it features infinite power ammunition and never exhausts reserves, its damage output is low and limited to two modification tiers. To fight higher-tier threats, you must loot modular rifle and machine gun parts from depot outposts, arena challenges, or fallen enemy soldiers.
Weapons are customized at the Armory workbench using six distinct component types:
- Receiver / Frame: Governs base fire rates, critical strike multipliers, and mobility buffs.
- Barrel: Dictates projectile behaviors, weapon range, and spreads.
- Magazine: Affects ammo capacity and reload times, with certain modifiers reducing incoming damage during reloads.
- Grip: Balances burst modes, accuracy bloom, and stability while firing.
- Stock: Modifies weapon handling and weapon sway.
- Core: Supplies special ammo effects, such as flamethrower jets or freezing ice shatter.
Weapon durability is critical in Voidtrain. As a weapon degrades, its damage output decreases significantly. Once durability drops to roughly 60 percent or lower, firearms will begin to jam repeatedly during combat encounters, forcing manual clearance animations. Regularly repair active weapons at the Armory using basic refined parts.
Rofleemo Crew Management
Rofleemo are friendly alien companions hatched from amber debris found inside depot laboratories. Insert the amber into the incubator machine at a depot to hatch a Rofleemo, then assign it to a bed on your train.
- Bed Restrictions: You can build a maximum of 12 beds across your train, capped at 1 bed per platform section. Large modules like the Gatherer Station occupy an entire platform, preventing a bed from being placed on that specific section.
- Crew Roles: Rofleemo spawn with roles such as Miners (deposit gathered resources into chests), Defenders (attack boarders within their car), or Engineers (repair damaged floors in their car). They can also be assigned directly to production benches or turrets.
- Upkeep: Every time your train departs a depot, each Rofleemo on board consumes 1 cooked food. If no cooked food is available, they will eat 2 raw organics instead.
- Blueprints: Feeding found mushrooms to happy Rofleemo rewards cosmetic decor items, wall patterns, and train exterior armor schematics.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
How do you repair weapons in Voidtrain?
Weapons are repaired at the Armory workbench. Place the weapon on the bench, verify the required component materials listed on the repair bar, and confirm the repair to restore full durability and eliminate weapon jamming.
What happens when you leave items on the train floor?
Items dropped loose on the train deck will remain in place while traveling through track segments, but they will be swept off and permanently lost when passing through gate barriers or portals. Store all loose materials in constructed storage containers before reaching gates.
How do you open puzzle island and arena chests?
Chests acquired from floating witch island rune puzzles or arena waves cannot be opened by hand in the field. Carry the chest back to your train, transport it to the next depot, and place it upon the anvil located at the end of the depot structure to crack it open.
