Star Trucker 100% guide

Complete the opening repair tutorial exactly as prompted. Put on the suit, cycle the airlock, and repair the two hull breaches.

From now on, always prefer a contract whose origin is your current sector. Empty repositioning is the biggest avoidable time loss in the completion.

Use the first few ranks to unlock Fragile Loads and then Just-In-Time Jobs, because those certifications open the first Red Eddie and Sour Candy missions. Take the Long Distance certification early as well; it is needed for Star Trekker and Cargo Cowboy anyway, After those story gates are covered, prioritize Multi-Trailer certification tiers for their strong XP bonuses, then build Heavy and Oversized to at least level II each. Planeto Metals, the rarest company, mostly ships heavy, oversized asteroids, so those certifications are what make its contracts appear.

Do the first-person freight achievement on a short one-sector local contract before the job pool becomes more complicated. The tutorial job does not count for it.

Before accepting any multi-trailer job, make a manual save. Some drop zones are reportedly too small for the set, and cancelling costs a penalty; reload instead.

Complete FRAGILE EGO for Red Eddie in Atlas Prime: accept his CB call, hitch the marked cargo, and deliver it to Edgeburgh. Cargo damage cannot fail this mission. Then complete PERFECT TIMING for Sour Candy from Atlas Prime to Emerald Junction. The drop point only appears once the arrival window opens; if you would arrive too early, rest in a parking bay or use the cab bed rather than wandering around. Either of these two can come first.

Next, start ARTISTIC PROCESS for Red Eddie in Emerald Junction. The mission waits until the truck's odometer reads 80,000 miles. On the suggested settings a new career starts just under that, so only about a hundred miles of normal freight driving is needed. When the milestone message appears, Red Eddie invites you to Diego's Paint & Ride in Atlas Prime. Stop in the highlighted area out front until it turns green, which opens the shop. The options are cosmetic: change something or nothing and back out, and Red Eddie checks in to finish the mission. Confirm in the Convoy tab that ARTISTIC PROCESS has closed. If it has not, buying one inexpensive item at Diego's is a cheap precaution, though no purchase is confirmed as required.

Complete STAR PRIZE for Sour Candy in Medusa Six. The quiz answers do not affect anything, so answer however you like. Dusty Bear then invites you to his first job.

Then complete Dusty Bear's JOB HUNT. JOB HUNT needs both ARTISTIC PROCESS and STAR PRIZE finished. Meet Dusty at the marked spot in Emerald Junction, then take the Luna Link job marked with Dusty's icon from the Tiger Rock Station job board there. Pick the cargo up in Edgeburgh; at Atlas Prime the story diverts the delivery to Three Kings, where you drop it at the marked point. Accept that Luna Link job itself and do not substitute another haul on the way. JOB HUNT does not unlock a new region.

This is the point where the first exploration and certification milestones normally land. Exact timing varies with how many freight jobs you work between Convoy missions.

Red Eddie's third mission is JUNK FOR THE TRUNK. The developer's 2026 patch notes call it Junk in the Trunk; it is the same mission, the third entry in Red Eddie's Convoy list. It starts in Purity, where Red Eddie tells you the rig needs an upgrade before it can join him.

While you are in Purity, take the first golden cone. On the route toward the Atlas Prime jump gate there is a parking area; beside it stands a structure with X-shaped rigging, and the golden cone sits in the center of the X. Park close to the parking area, suit up, EVA to it, and hold the interact prompt to dislodge it. You do not need to catch, keep, or sell the cone; dislodging is what counts. If you cannot spot it now, skip it and come back once you have the scanner from SENSORY OVERLOAD. Nothing is lost.

Continue to Moon Baby in Junk Fields. Talk to Moon Baby before touching any Shock Pods.

Before leaving Moon Baby's area, grab the Junk Fields cone. Moon Baby works at Killkirk's, her family's reclamation yard, which stands apart on the side of the sector away from the Emerald Junction gate. Directly below it is a parking bay holding a row of battered trailers; the cone sits in that scrap, reported on the second trailer from the left. If what you see does not match, take it later by pinging the scanner from the yard.

Moon Baby marks three possible Shock Pod sites. Go to the marker near the broken circular structure by the Tanktown jump gate; Moon Baby confirms the right spot. With the suit on, EVA out and bring the three Shock Pods inside one at a time (ignore the box item). Downstairs, the wall panel with the spanner icon by the shelving has three slots; install all three. Make a manual save before starting the recovery, collect and install all three in one visit without leaving Junk Fields, keep oxygen topped up while ferrying them, and never step outside without the suit.

If a pod's waypoint disappears, reload the save you made before the recovery. Stay in Junk Fields until the pods are installed and the conversation ends.

After STAR PRIZE, Sour Candy calls you to Tanktown for SHADY BUSINESS. Meet her, then let her repair the shutters at her workshop in Tanktown. The shutter lever is above you, to the right of the jump gate lever; close the shutters in solar-flare areas. The mission then continues: collect the load Barrow marks in Heaven's Rest and deliver it back to Tanktown.

The middle Convoy storylines can overlap. Use this order because it keeps Dusty Bear's line ahead of Moon Baby's, keeps destinations reasonably aligned, and opens the most useful systems before the late-game cleanup:

1. Complete Barrow's GREEN FOR GREEN: hitch the triple trailer at Barrow's marker in Atlas Prime and deliver it to Crossvale through Haze Way. Haze Way is full of debris, so go slowly and follow the pairs of white lights. In Crossvale, brake early and stop fully inside the bay until it turns green before unhitching, or the trailers swing out of the zone. Barrow's line needs the Mineral Colonies open, so do this after JUNK FOR THE TRUNK. It is a good filler while you wait for Dusty's call.
2. Complete Dusty Bear's DEAD WEIGHT as soon as it is offered, and before starting any Moon Baby mission. Meet Dusty at the marker in Three Kings and take the Luna Link job from the Three Kings board. When you hitch at Atlas Prime, Dusty reroutes you to Tanktown. While the conversation plays, drive into the Tanktown weigh station between Boss I and Boss II, then unhitch at the alternate drop G-Bee marks nearby.
3. Complete Moon Baby's GHOST GOLD: meet her in Darkside, then spacewalk to collect five pieces of pyrite from the marked field in Shatterstone and sell them at the marked shop nearby. Moon Baby's first call needs the Solar Provinces open; if it is slow to arrive, keep jumping around Atlas Prime and Darkside.
4. Complete Sour Candy's RED TAPE AND ROCKETS from Darkside: take the three trailers to the marked locations even though the objective text may not match, prime the last one by spacewalk at the marked spot, then drive to the marked safe distance.
5. Complete Moon Baby's RECLAMATIONS before Barrow's PARK AND RIDE, since both use Junk Fields and RECLAMATIONS returns you there. It starts at Killkirk's in Junk Fields: bring a trailer from Emerald Junction and then a beat-up trailer from Redsock back to Junk Fields.
6. Complete Barrow's PARK AND RIDE: a heavy oversized trailer from Junk Fields whose destination changes twice (Emerald Junction, then Haze Way) before it finally sticks at New Aspen.
7. Complete Red Eddie's PAINT THE TOWN RED in Spark City. At Tommy T's Bar and Star Grill, choose one of the top two password replies and keep trying others until one is accepted, then dock at the marker and talk to Red Eddie. Unhitch (the airlock cannot be used while attached), reverse back, clean the three marked graffiti spots, remove the two traffic cones from an antenna (these are ordinary red cones, not golden cones), then find Rosso nearby.

Doing Dusty's first two jobs before any Moon Baby mission guards against an old bug that could break Dusty's chain and lock you out of the ending. It has been patched, but the order costs nothing. If an expected CB call does not arrive, keep hauling and jumping between sectors.

Whenever one of these missions sends you to another sector without forcing a special story trailer, first take a normal freight job in the same direction.

Moon Baby's GHOST GOLD introduces the trading system. After collecting and selling the required pyrite, start the money achievements here rather than waiting until the very end.

Trading achievements count the sale value of goods sold to traders, not your profit. When you have enough cash, buy a shop's useful inventory and sell it back. Move on while that shop restocks.

For contraband, use black-market traders; they are reported at Shatterstone, Meteor Ridge, Haze Way and Dependency Loop, and not every one stocks much contraband. Meteor Ridge's Black Rock Market becomes a particularly convenient repeat stop later in Barrow's story. Contraband carries a yellow warning triangle in the item information. Sell it to a trader; merely carrying or buying it is not enough.

After PAINT THE TOWN RED, complete Moon Baby's SENSORY OVERLOAD in Darkside. It only needs GHOST GOLD and RECLAMATIONS. Make a manual save before starting it and keep that save. Dock at TechTrove Electronics and wait for the software update while docked. Then go below deck to the systems panel on the wall by the shelves, switch Core Systems off and back on, return to the seat, and use the horn (left of the jump lever) to scan.

The horn now activates the scanner. A scan marks nearby points of interest, including golden cones, within about a mile. The Sensor Tuning upgrade, which unlocks around now, roughly doubles that range. Use the scanner liberally in the Enigma Territories and when hunting the remaining cones. If you skipped the Purity or Junk Fields cone earlier, take it the next time you pass through the Core Systems.

Start Barrow's BEAR CONTINGENCY in Tanktown, where Sour Candy fits a secret compartment. Make a manual save first and keep it. Sour Candy may send an urgent-sounding message during this mission; ignore it, because her mission waits for you. Meet Barrow in New Aspen, then dock at Black Rock Market in Meteor Ridge and buy the mission item. Carry it from the airlock down to the lower deck, open the floor panel in the middle nearer the shelves, place the item inside with any contraband you are moving, and close it.

This is an excellent time to buy and immediately resell any contraband the market has for Rogue Trader.

Deliver the hidden mission item to the dock on the back of the central penitentiary building in Purgatory. The mission puts you right beside the Purgatory golden cone, although the cone is not locked to the mission. Near the penitentiary stand two smaller structures set apart from the main building. Pass over the first and ping the scanner: the cone is high on the second, farther structure, wedged beside a light near the top. EVA over and hold interact to dislodge it.

Return to Meteor Ridge to complete the mission with Barrow. Finish BEAR CONTINGENCY before starting MELTDOWN.

Finishing BEAR CONTINGENCY before MELTDOWN avoids a reported marker conflict between the two in New Aspen. After every CB call, check in the Convoy tab which mission is active.

Dusty Bear's THE RENDEZVOUS becomes available after SENSORY OVERLOAD plus Dusty's first two missions, once his CB call arrives. Take it as soon as it is offered, and do it before the Red Eddie / Sour Candy finale missions (MELTDOWN and FULL THROTTLE); it can come before or after BEAR CONTINGENCY. Dusty waits in Heaven's Rest. Then go to Shatterstone, line up with the FREETIDE REFINERY billboard, and flash the headlights three times (the headlight control is the leftmost button above the glove box). Follow the trail of markers to the old comm relay and reply to the informant.

The mission makes this the easiest time to find the Shatterstone golden cone, though the cone is not mission-locked. Coming in from Darkside, the informant's tower is off to the left, with a platform beside it. Scan near the tower: the cone is wedged in a vent on the side of that adjacent platform. Shatterstone is a solar-flare sector, so keep the shutters down and only EVA when no flare is active.

Then complete Sour Candy and Red Eddie's MELTDOWN from New Aspen. Enter the structure, avoiding the gas and passing the grey tanks, and use the hitch inside to take the reactor. The destination is Hell's Pocket, and the game routes you through Darkside because the alternative crosses the whole permanent solar storm. Drop the reactor near the Darkside gate in Hell's Pocket (the external view helps), then go to Redsock and meet Red Eddie at the marker to finish. Thermal insulation is useful here, but the completion does not require a particular upgrade level.

Before leaving Redsock, collect the Redsock golden cone. Drive to the top end of Sunburst Condo, the central station, and look at the mast above it; the cone is at the very top. Redsock is also a solar-flare sector: shutters down, and EVA only when no flare is active.

By this stage your required EVAs and normal travel should have built significant cumulative progress.

Complete Barrow's EXPRESS SLICE. Barrow's last two missions appear to be Enigma-tier jobs that wait for a CB call, so expect them only after SENSORY OVERLOAD. Start with Barrow in Three Kings and pick up the goods at Cosmic Crust in Solomon Station. They are heat- and cold-sensitive, but spoilage only changes the dialogue; keeping the cab around 25 degrees C helps. Deliver them to the marked docking bay at Sunburst Condo in Redsock, return to Three Kings, then deliver two more items: Spark City first, then the Medusa Six Business Hub by way of Three Kings and Atlas Prime. Use the delivery docks even if the on-screen instructions say otherwise.

If the Convoy tab shows Barrow's last two missions waiting for a CB call for a long time, keep jumping between sectors, including Crossvale, Redsock and Three Kings.

Then return to New Aspen for Red Eddie and Sour Candy's finale, FULL THROTTLE. Hitch to Taverstock Tower and accelerate when instructed. Hold the throttle until the mission counter reaches 100, then release and detach when told.

After THE RENDEZVOUS, Dusty calls again after more jumps. Start Dusty Bear's HIT AND RUN in Vexmont, where Dusty has been set up. You can pay the $25,000 impound charge over the CB at the Truck Impound near Vexmont and finish quickly, but the better completion route is to investigate, because it takes you straight past the Binary Point golden cone. Paying the impound does not lose the cone; it just skips this convenient window, and you can collect it on any later trip to Denton Spaceport in Binary Point.

To investigate, go to Denton Spaceport in Binary Point and check the three suspects: one parked in a bay, one near the Distribution Hub, and one toward the Bermuda Gap gate. Barrow gives you a lead. Near the bay suspect is a small cluster of low buildings with unmarked parking bays. Ping the scanner there: the cone is in a vent on one of those buildings, beside the parked suspect. Dislodge it, then follow the investigation to Enigma Belt to find the real culprit. He confesses either way. Either make him pay and use the cash for the impound, or hand him over and return to Dusty directly.

Next, complete Dusty Bear's CACHE GRAB. Meet Dusty in Reaper's Bluff, where he is hiding among invisible anomalies; the scanner reveals them. Then destroy the three Private Data Relays by driving into them: one near the arrival point on the left in Binary Point, one around the Binary Point jump gate, and one in Zeta's Arch.

Moon Baby's fourth job is DEEP SWEEP, which the TrueAchievements walkthrough calls Moon Sweep. Her call should arrive after HIT AND RUN; this route takes it after CACHE GRAB. Meet her in Zeta's Arch. On the way through Kingsweave toward Dustbrook, collect the Kingsweave golden cone.

Coming into Kingsweave from Zeta's Arch, the traffic lane runs past the Astroco Fuel stop near Stonetrail Services. As you pass the fuel stop, ping the scanner and look to the left: the cone is attached to a small sensor station, also described as a satellite or buoy, floating a little way out from the lane. Sources disagree on the distance, so rely on the landmark and the scan rather than any number. Watch for Enigma anomalies, which the scanner reveals for a short time.

Continue into Dustbrook and follow the binary beacons. Moon Baby's code is shown in the upper-left of the screen (0101). The code is a matching rule: follow beacons whose second and fourth digits are both 1. One example sequence that fits is 0111, then 1111, then 1101, but the exact beacons are not confirmed to be fixed, so check each against the rule. Go slowly, use the scanner for distant beacons, and get within roughly 30 meters of each one so it registers. Do not fly to Silver Titan's outpost until the beacons lead you there; reaching it early has been reported to stall the mission. Reach the outpost through the beacon trail and listen to the broadcast to finish. If the mission stalls, reload the save from before DEEP SWEEP.

Start Barrow's final job, CHARMED RELIEF, with Barrow in Crossvale. DEEP SWEEP and CHARMED RELIEF can be done in either order. Before leaving Crossvale, get the Crossvale golden cone. You may have passed it already during GREEN FOR GREEN; if you checked the dish then, it may already be done.

From the Enigma Belt jump gate in Crossvale, a rail line runs on past the gate to a lone asteroid at the end of the line carrying a radar dish. The cone is stuck on that dish. Ping the scanner as you approach. If the dish is empty, ping from a few spots around Crossvale before moving on.

Continue CHARMED RELIEF. Pick up the water cargo in Atlas Prime, then G-Bee updates the mission to Redsock. In Redsock the cargo can be hidden behind the Body Shop icon: approach it until the screen blacks out and you reappear with a double trailer. Re-hitch, go to Junk Fields, and approach the next cargo the same way to form the triple trailer. Deliver everything to the Meteor Ridge drop point.

After DEEP SWEEP, start SILVER LINING with Moon Baby in Zeta's Arch. Go to Bermuda Gap; Silver Titan's rig gains a hitching point as you get close. Hitch it and tow it to the Medusa Six Business Hub, a long drive with plenty of dialogue.

ONE LAST SIDE JOB cannot start until every other Convoy line is finished: Red Eddie and Sour Candy, Dusty Bear, Barrow, and Moon Baby. Check the Convoy tab to confirm all four lines are complete. Then keep working normal freight contracts and making jumps until G-Bee calls you to Edgeburgh.

Before meeting G-Bee, collect the Edgeburgh golden cone if you have not already taken it on an earlier visit. From the arrival point, go up over the main structures toward the far-left parking bay, in the back-left corner of the sector behind the Cloverleaf station. Beyond that bay is an asteroid; the cone is stuck on its front face. EVA over and dislodge it.

Meet G-Bee, hitch the wide story load, and take it to the huge delivery box in Three Kings. The nearby gate is then repaired and G-Bee unlocks the gate to Terminus Link. Fly through and finish the sequence through the credits, which can be skipped. Terminus Link is the 32nd sector and is only reachable through this finale, so it always completes the exploration set.

Check your 32-sector checklist (in the Cosmic Cartographer section below) for any sector you have not ticked. A story-focused route commonly leaves Solitude and sometimes Dependency Loop until cleanup, so favor freight contracts that send you there.

Visit Solitude for the last golden cone. You can take it earlier if a contract already sends you there. After entering the sector, look left toward the lighthouse. Slightly above and to its right is a structure with a cluster of four storage tanks. Scan it; the cone is stuck on the side of one tank. EVA over and dislodge it.

Keep selecting the best local XP contract at each station. Use the job board's estimated XP and filter options rather than assuming the longest drive is best.

By roughly Rank 34, normal Skill Point progression provides enough points to unlock the entire certification tree if you have been spending them normally.

Once money is no longer a concern, open the mid-session difficulty settings and raise Fines to Severe and Weight Checks to High. Continue normal freight jobs and deliberately skip weigh stations when they are called.

Job deductions count toward the same total. Raising Job Deductions temporarily, or accepting late or damaged deliveries, speeds this up. Contraband fines at security checkpoints also count.

This is safer than repeatedly sabotaging contracts because you continue earning XP, company completions, freight-type progress, contract money, and mileage at the same time.

Check your manual freight tally before accepting generic high-XP jobs. Finish whichever categories are still short while continuing to prioritize good XP.

The four five-job achievements are cumulative within the career. A job counts when the freight contract is successfully completed, not when it is accepted.

For all eight company achievements, inspect the company name on the left side of the contract information, under the origin sector. That is the sender whose five-job counter advances. A delivery whose recipient is the target company does not count, and the company painted on the trailer is not a reliable guide.

There is no in-game counter for these, so keep your own tally; the achievement pop is the only confirmation. A job counts when it is delivered, not when it is accepted, and clean, on-time deliveries are the safe choice. The board cannot filter by company, so read the sender on every listing. Listings expire, so accept a rare sender's contract when you first see it, even if the destination is awkward. Jumping between sectors shows you new boards.

Cloverleaf, Double Five, Planeto Metals and Everycrop are the slowest to finish. Start them early and take their contracts whenever you see them. Franks, Instagalactic, Q-Starr and West Coast Galaxy usually finish during normal hauling.

At this point, stop taking contracts just because they are long. Compare estimated XP first. Favor local contracts with strong XP and use any remaining company or freight counter only as a tiebreaker between similar-XP jobs; no company's jobs are known to pay better XP. Express gates are worth using when they shorten a route because Rank 50, not cash, is usually the final wall.

If trading, fines, certifications, cones, sectors, freight types, and company achievements are complete, the only remaining objective is efficient hauling.