Posted on 17th Dec 2025
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ASTRONEER: Megatech is out now, or well, has been for a few weeks! It's all about building bigger, smarter bases. Instead of a small outpost on a single planet, you can push into proper late game setups that sprawl across a whole system, with new structures to anchor your factory chains and tie planets together.
The Orbital Platform is the big headline. It lets you create custom asteroids and park them in orbit around the planet of your choice. You pick the size and resource focus, drop it into position, then fold it into your logistics network with loaders, storage, and shuttles. It is basically a floating industrial park that you tune to whatever your current bottleneck is.
Once the platform is running, it turns into a proper hub instead of just another base. You can keep production going while you are surface side, swap in new asteroids as you move through the tech tree, and use it as a clean staging area. This means you no longer have to cover every planet in half-finished platforms and loose soil canisters!
The Biodome is the second major feature of the DLC. It gives you a dedicated place to grow and process plants, with expandable modules that turn one structure into a full farming hub. Seeds, produce, and new flora can all pass through here, so your main base can stay focused on power, storage, and automation while the Biodome handles the noisy green side of things.
This also makes the late game loop feel less bitty. Instead of small planters scattered around, you have one clear facility that feeds into your main lines. If you like tidying saves and building clean looking factories, Megatech leans into that nicely.
The Museum is there for long-running saves that already have more resources than they need. You can funnel spare bytes, power, resources, and seeds into it in exchange for rewards. As you donate, the structure visibly grows and fills out, so you get something to point at when a file has hundreds of hours on it instead of yet another silo of scrap.
Alongside the paid DLC, there is a free update for everyone that brings new structures, extra resources, and a set of quality of life tweaks. Even if not everyone in the group owns Megatech, the game itself feels fresher to play, especially if you start a new save and build around the new progression from day one.
If you enjoy ASTRONEER for its building and automation, Megatech slots straight into that loop. It gives late game players more to chase and makes it easier to centralise production in one impressive site rather than leaving factories scattered across multiple planets.
If you want a place for your Megatech builds that stays online for friends and community members, we have ASTRONEER server hosting ready to go. Our servers support Megatech from day one with instant setup, automated daily backups, and full config access so you can tune the experience to your group.
You can check out our ASTRONEER server hosting, and to find out some more information about this awesome expansion itself, visit the official ASTRONEER Steam page.
