Where to start: Adalia Prime or another asteroid?
Facts checked 31 Oct 2026
Your first big decision is where your crew begins. Most new players start on Adalia Prime, where a starter pack gives you the easiest first steps. But Adalia Prime has a serious limit: many of the resources you'll need as you progress simply aren't there. This guide explains the choice.
Adalia Prime is the largest asteroid in the belt, and by far the busiest. Most new players start here, but it's limited to just seven resources and receives no bonuses to extraction speed. Many of the game's more advanced products need resources it lacks, so on Adalia Prime they have to be hauled in from other asteroids.
Adalia Prime
- Type
- Carbonaceous
- Size
- 1,768,484 lots · 375.1 km radius
- Rarity
- Common
- Buildings
- HabitatsOpenMarketplacesOpenSpaceportsOpen
- Status
- Open to all; ideal for Influence Accounts
- Resources
- VolatilesWater 50%, Carbon DioxideCO2 9%, Carbon MonoxideCO 6%, Methane 2%
Hydrogen 0%, Ammonia 0%, Nitrogen 0%, Sulfur Dioxide 0%OrganicsApatite 15%, Calcite 11%, Bitumen 7%NoneRare earthsNoneFissilesNone - Bonuses
- None
- Lot leasing
- 96 SWAY per day – min period 7 days, max period 365 days
A starter pack includes 2, 3, or 5 free leases, each lasting about a month - Pros
- A starter pack's free lot leases, building materials, and food resupply only work on Adalia Prime, and its markets are the busiest in the belt.
- Cons
- Limited resources, and intense competition for the best lots and for buyers of your produce. It's also easy to get stuck there: its resources sell for very little, and moving a settled crew elsewhere is hard work.
Starting somewhere else
To start somewhere other than Adalia Prime, you have two options:
- Hire an Academy Tutor Crew: Hire a tutor crew on the Academy's Training Ground and learn some of the basics before recruiting your first crew. This may help you pick a crew composition that best suits your goals in Adalia, start on an asteroid that gives you the best opportunities, and learn the game's mechanics in the shortest possible time. This requires a browser wallet such as Ready X or Braavos.
- Recruit on Another Asteroid: Recruit your crew on another asteroid instead, wherever a Habitat accepts new recruits. You won't get the starter pack extras there, so you'll lease your own lots and buy your own food and building materials. In return, you may find resources Adalia Prime lacks, far less competition, and the chance to learn the game's longer production chains from the beginning. You can still follow the starter missions wherever you begin.
The Academy's main asteroid
Adalia Academy is the Academy's key facility, and where its tutor crews work. You can't recruit or settle there, but while you hire a tutor crew you'll be able to:
- Practise the Basics: Core sampling, extraction, refining, and selling, with a crew that knows the ropes.
- Lease Buildings: Use the Academy's extractors, refineries, and factories, leased by the day.
- Use the Marketplaces: Buy food and supplies, and sell what you make. Academy Market 2 is kept for tutor crews, with buy orders for raw and processed materials, so you can earn your first SWAY simply by practising, without needing to complete any starter missions yet.
Adalia Academy
- Type
- Carbonaceous-Silicate
- Size
- 5,066 lots · 20.1 km radius
- Rarity
- Rare
- Buildings
- HabitatPrivateMarketplaceOpenSpaceportOpenProduction buildingsLeasable
- Status
- Open to hired tutor crews
- Resources
- Volatiles +13%Water 32%, Carbon DioxideCO2 5%, Carbon MonoxideCO 4%, Methane 2%
Hydrogen 0%, Ammonia 0%, Nitrogen 0%, Sulfur Dioxide 0%Organics +3%Apatite 8%, Calcite 4%, Bitumen 3%Pyroxene 13%, Olivine 8%, Feldspar 8%
Rhabdite 0%, Graphite 0%, Taenite 0%, Troilite 0%Rare earths +3%Xenotime 3%, Merrillite 2%Fissiles +3%Coffinite 9%
Uraninite 0% - Bonuses
- Volatiles extract 13% faster; all other resources 3% faster
- Lot leasing
- Not available
The Academy's settler asteroids
Opening soon. The five asteroids below are owned by the Academy and are being opened to new players as an alternative to settling on Adalia Prime. Once they open, you'll be able to:
- Recruit There: Create your crew at the asteroid's Habitat.
- Lease Lots: Lease land and put up your own buildings.
- Buy Supplies: Buy food and building materials at the local marketplace.
- Dock Ships: Each has a Spaceport open to visiting ships.
All five contain metals, and have access to at least five more resources than Adalia Prime. We'll update this page when they open.
Code Major
- Type
- Carbonaceous-Metallic
- Size
- 4,340 lots · 18.6 km radius
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Buildings
- HabitatClosedMarketplaceClosedSpaceportClosed
- Status
- Opening soon
- Resources
- VolatilesWater 36%, Carbon DioxideCO2 3%, Carbon MonoxideCO 3%, Methane 3%
Hydrogen 0%, Ammonia 0%, Nitrogen 0%, Sulfur Dioxide 0%OrganicsApatite 6%, Calcite 5%, Bitumen 3%Taenite 26%, Troilite 7%, Rhabdite 2%, Graphite 2%
Feldspar 0%, Olivine 0%, Pyroxene 0%Rare earthsNoneFissilesUraninite 3%
Coffinite 0% - Bonuses
- Metals extract 10% faster
- Lot leasing
- Policy and price to be announced
New Paradigm
- Type
- Carbonaceous-Metallic-Silicate
- Size
- 2,426 lots · 13.9 km radius
- Rarity
- Rare
- Buildings
- HabitatClosedMarketplacePlannedSpaceportClosed
- Status
- Opening soon
- Resources
- Volatiles +10%Water 19%, Carbon DioxideCO2 4%, Methane 2%, Carbon MonoxideCO 2%
Hydrogen 0%, Ammonia 0%, Nitrogen 0%, Sulfur Dioxide 0%Organics +10%Apatite 4%, Calcite 3%, Bitumen 2%Taenite 19%, Pyroxene 12%, Feldspar 8%, Olivine 6%, Troilite 3%, Graphite 2%, Rhabdite 2%Rare earthsXenotime 4%, Merrillite 1%FissilesCoffinite 9%, Uraninite 2% - Bonuses
- Volatiles and Organics extract 10% faster
- Lot leasing
- Policy and price to be announced
Motherlode
- Type
- Carbonaceous-Metallic
- Size
- 1,496 lots · 10.9 km radius
- Rarity
- Exceptional
- Buildings
- HabitatClosedMarketplaceClosedSpaceportClosed
- Status
- Opening soon
- Resources
- VolatilesWater 32%, Carbon DioxideCO2 5%, Carbon MonoxideCO 2%, Methane 2%
Hydrogen 0%, Ammonia 0%, Nitrogen 0%, Sulfur Dioxide 0%OrganicsApatite 4%, Calcite 4%, Bitumen 2%Taenite 38%, Troilite 5%, Rhabdite 2%, Graphite 1%
Feldspar 0%, Olivine 0%, Pyroxene 0%Rare earthsNoneFissiles +30%Uraninite 2%
Coffinite 0% - Bonuses
- Fissiles extract 30% faster; Metals 10% faster
- Lot leasing
- Policy and price to be announced
Consider Phlebas
- Type
- Carbonaceous-Metallic-Silicate
- Size
- 904 lots · 8.5 km radius
- Rarity
- Rare
- Buildings
- HabitatClosedMarketplaceClosedSpaceportClosed
- Status
- Opening soon
- Resources
- Volatiles +3%Water 18%, Carbon DioxideCO2 2%, Carbon MonoxideCO 2%, Methane 2%
Hydrogen 0%, Ammonia 0%, Nitrogen 0%, Sulfur Dioxide 0%Organics +3%Apatite 4%, Calcite 2%, Bitumen 2%Taenite 22%, Pyroxene 11%, Olivine 8%, Feldspar 6%, Troilite 4%, Rhabdite 1%, Graphite 1%Rare earths +3%Xenotime 2%, Merrillite 2%Fissiles +3%Coffinite 8%, Uraninite 2% - Bonuses
- Metals extract 13% faster; all other resources 3% faster
- Lot leasing
- Policy and price to be announced
Kariba
- Type
- Carbonaceous-Silicate
- Size
- 7,530 lots · 24.5 km radius
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Buildings
- HabitatClosedMarketplacePlannedSpaceportClosed
- Status
- Opening soon
- Resources
- VolatilesWater 31%, Carbon DioxideCO2 3%, Carbon MonoxideCO 2%, Methane 2%
Hydrogen 0%, Ammonia 0%, Nitrogen 0%, Sulfur Dioxide 0%OrganicsCalcite 6%, Apatite 5%, Bitumen 3%Pyroxene 11%, Feldspar 11%, Olivine 10%
Rhabdite 0%, Graphite 0%, Taenite 0%, Troilite 0%Rare earthsXenotime 3%, Merrillite 2%FissilesCoffinite 11%
Uraninite 0% - Bonuses
- Metals extract 10% faster
- Lot leasing
- Policy and price to be announced
Which should you choose?
- Choose Adalia Prime: If you've bought a starter pack and want the easiest first weeks, with free leases, materials, and food.
- Choose Another Asteroid: If you'd rather start with a single crewmate, want room to grow away from the crowds, or want to learn the deeper production chains with the resources close at hand.
Whichever you choose, our next guide, Starter packs and your first crewmates, helps you choose your crew.
Going further: settling and trading between asteroids
An Influence Account and a starter pack are ideal for getting started on Adalia Prime. Settling other asteroids and trading between them is another matter, and for many players it is the most rewarding part of the game.
The game itself tells you little of what you need to plan it: which asteroids have the resources you want, what is for sale on other asteroids' marketplaces, or where to send your ships. Nor does it tell you what it takes to settle an asteroid: a small one might need only a few extractors, warehouses, and refineries, and perhaps one crew, while a medium one calls for more. That is why so many players stay on Adalia Prime longer than they mean to: once you have a few buildings there, moving your crew to another asteroid, and finding one whose marketplace has the building materials you need, takes a lot of guesswork.
Community tools fill those gaps, and most of them connect through a wallet app such as Ready X or Braavos, not an Influence Account. So if settling asteroids is where you're heading, set up a wallet of your own: see Creating a Starknet wallet.