One Way Tickets Camp Upgrades Guide and Priority Tree

One Way Tickets camp upgrades unlock permanent vehicle capacity, weapon slots, and crew automation at the Tianmu Astrolabe. Prioritizing core repairs and companion workstations lets your vehicle survive longer routes across each expedition.

Tianmu Astrolabe Spirit Core Progression

Expeditions conclude when your vehicle runs out of spirit energy, making the core repair tree the primary foundation for lasting progress. At the start of the game, your energy pool restricts travel distance. Investing early settlement loot directly into capacity fixes this bottleneck before you spend resources on offensive armaments.

The core progression follows a sequential chain:

1. Core Repair: Initiates baseline recovery for your spirit energy capacity.
2. Storage Repair: Continues restoring core energy reserves and acts as the gatekeeper for subsequent tiers.
3. Intact Spirit Core: Becomes visible at the Astrolabe after completing three full expeditions and purchasing Storage Repair. This upgrade fully restores your core to its standard operational capacity.
4. Core Maintenance: Expands capacity beyond standard baseline levels once you unlock the vehicle depot facility in camp.
5. Storage Expansion: Provides secondary capacity increases as the settlement expands over multiple runs.

Upgrades in this branch directly resolve early stoppage issues. For strategies on pacing your routes alongside these pool upgrades, reference the energy management breakdown.

Pre-Mount Equipment and Vehicle Info Paths

Mounting hardware dictates what equipment your vehicle can support. Rather than providing loose weapons, pre-mount nodes establish dedicated stations on the chassis. Certain pre-mounts replace prior slots instead of stacking additional firepower, requiring deliberate upgrade pathing.

The early equipment hierarchy unfolds across multiple return trips:

• Basic External Mounts: Installs foundational hardware, adding the forward-facing Bow Pre-Mount for ranged engagement and the rear-facing Dagger Pre-Mount for close defense.
• Machete and Pistol Pre-Mounts: Appear along their respective branches after your first expedition. These nodes replace the dagger and bow with higher-tier weapon baselines.
• Ram Pre-Mount: Appears after completing two expeditions. Unlocking this node requires purchasing External Mount, Machete Pre-Mount, and Pistol Pre-Mount. It installs a front spike spear that deals collision damage to road obstacles.
• Vehicle Info Level 1: Demands both the Ram Pre-Mount and the Intact Spirit Core. Completing this node opens advanced modification pathways for specialized devices.

Following this sequence prevents wasted spending on locked branches and equips your vehicle with balanced front, rear, and ramming capabilities.

Crew Workstations and Companion Support

Manual management becomes difficult when complex weapons enter your loadout. A standard Blunderbuss requires a single aimed station, whereas a Rotary MG demands three separate stations covering loading, turning, and firing. Unlocking companion facilities at camp transfers these operational duties to your passengers.

Purchasing Realm Companion unlocks the Device Operator node. Device Operator assigns passengers to active workstations, keeping firing cycles and weapon reloads active while you steer. Following this with Travel Together allows recruited companions to join your runs from the very start, trading an upfront resource deployment fee for immediate operational support.

Companion traits also interact directly with camp progression goals. Placing Gauss on a station grants a flat combat bonus, while Kevin adds precision improvements to aimed weapons. Chan features the Overload trait, adding 18 units to total loot carrying capacity to accelerate resource collection for camp construction.

Camp Upgrade Decision Priority

Evaluating which upgrade to purchase after returning to camp depends on your immediate survival obstacle.

Settlement Resources and Camp Facilities

Camp upgrades consume specific settlement materials brought back from the road. Copper coins serve strictly as active currency during expeditions at warding monolith merchants, whereas permanent camp buildings require converted drops:

• Materials: Converted from salvaged equipment components, such as collected weapon handles. These fund vehicle modifications and building structural work.
• Food: Processed from biological drops, including hopper hind legs, supporting settlement upkeep.
• Treasure and Arcane Energy: Gathered from elite encounters and specialized route events to unlock higher-tier Astrolabe nodes.

Investing early hauls into Cargo Hold expansions increases the volume of items converted at settlement. As your storage grows, plan upgrade routes specifically toward regional targets like Abyssal Fang at section six to unlock the Sand Marsh route, using the structured encounters in the bosses overview to time your defensive investments. Balancing core restoration, weapon pre-mounts, and station operators ensures steady settlement growth across every run.