Dust Front RTS: как добывать Детали — руда, переработка, доход

Getting Parts in Dust Front RTS is less about memorising a build order and more about keeping four things true at the same time: minerals are being dug, refineries are converting, production is never idle, and your base is close enough to the work to make the trip worth taking. The loop below is assembled from the Steam store page, the developer's own gameplay tips, and the D-30 changelog, with the community-sourced parts marked as you go.

Step 1 — mining minerals with harvesters

Harvesters are the resource gathering vehicles, and they are the only confirmed way to turn the ground into income. They drive out to minerals, load, and haul back; everything downstream depends on them running without interruption.

The practical consequence is that harvester uptime is the first thing to protect. Update D-30 explicitly improved harvester behaviour in chaos and complex road situations, reporting fewer vehicles stuck in infinite loops, alongside a separate round of adjustments to tank and harvester behaviour. If your harvesters are pathing badly, the fault may be your road layout rather than the game.

The developer's own advice kicks in at this step, and it is not the advice most RTS players expect. When you are short on resources, he says to move your base rather than to add harvesters. A long haul from a worked-out mineral patch costs you more than relocating your operating base costs, and relocation is available to you because the base begins as an MCV deployment.

Step 2 — refining and storing the output

Refineries are the conversion step. The store page lists mineral refineries as one of the three building types you raise — alongside factories for vehicle production and barracks with storage facilities — and describes mining and refining minerals as the activity your operating base exists to perform.

The barracks-with-storage pairing is the part players overlook. Storage is named explicitly rather than assumed, which implies that holding capacity is a real constraint and that income you cannot store is income you must spend immediately. No capacity figure has been published, so do not plan around a number.

Two rules follow from this step. First, build enough conversion that harvesters never queue. Second, keep production running continuously — the developer's phrase — because a full store and an idle factory is the same failure as an empty one. Parts sitting unspent are not units on the field, and the developer's tips assume you are converting income into army at all times.

The D-30 changelog also fixed a bug where minerals were not received at the start of a battle. If an old guide tells you your opening income is missing, that was a real bug and it is fixed.

Step 3 — passive income and holding ground

Passive economy is the second half of how you get Parts, and it is the half the developer pushes hardest. His exact framing is that if you are short on resources you should move your base, develop a passive economy, and set production to run continuously.

Passive income only pays if you survive long enough to collect it, which is where the frontline rule binds. Holding too narrow a front lets the enemy strike you with their entire army at one point, and your resources can run out before the passive economy ever benefits you. Width is therefore an economic requirement, not just a tactical preference.

That in turn explains the third tip: this game is about battalions, not squads. Companies of tanks and massed artillery need a broad line to stand on, and a broad line is what gives passive income time to work. Whether you trade armies or keep elite veterans is left to you; the developer's only claim is about scale.

Step 4 — territory, merchants and mercenaries

On the global map, the economy stops being a per-battle loop. Mining and production inside your territories affects the economic situation in strategic mode, so the buildings you raise on the battlefield have consequences after the battle ends.

Captured regions add a second channel: events in captured regions can bring merchants with resources, and mercenaries with unique units. Both are events rather than a guaranteed per-turn payout, so a captured region is an opportunity to be exploited rather than an annuity.

This layer is where the developer's description of the game as a classic RTS with grand strategy elements becomes concrete. It also means the demo cannot show you the full picture — it is a single procedurally generated Siege of an Industrial City mission, with no global map attached.

Setting your starting Parts in the demo

The demo's pre-battle setup screen lets you configure a starting Parts value, so you are never starting the mission from zero unless you choose to. It also lets you set the enemy strength and base-size multiplier, which can make the enemy base up to four times larger.

The value most often recommended for a first run is 5,000 Parts, which is enough to raise a real economy and a serious strike force without trivialising the mission. That recommendation is player-reported: it comes from community play, not from the developer. The setting itself is real, and experimenting with it is the fastest way to find the level where the economy loop is under pressure but not broken.

Remember that the demo also pre-unlocks units and buildings from some high-tier doctrines so you can fight the hordes, and that your army deploys in two parts — a strike group immediately and the rest as reinforcements. Both affect what your starting Parts can actually buy.

Related pages

• Parts: the full resource economy
• How to reclaim Parts from wrecks
• Base building in Dust Front RTS
• Building outside your base
• Official Dust Front RTS Discord