Beginner Guide
Learn the essential controls, ship systems, resource management, and survival priorities. Understand how to keep your ship moving while preparing for the first alien attacks.
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Build, expand, and defend a spaceship under the ruthless command of Despot AI. Manage production chains, construct your hull, and deploy turrets against relentless alien assaults. Explore practical strategies to survive the demo and prepare for the full game.
Start Here
Learn the essential controls, ship systems, resource management, and survival priorities. Understand how to keep your ship moving while preparing for the first alien attacks.
Discover how to expand your spaceship with hull blocks, create useful module slots, and shape enemy routes. Learn why turret placement, corridors, and the Airlock matter.
Understand Energy, Minerals, Microchips, Nanobots, and other production resources. Learn how interconnected modules and automation can support a growing ship.
Prepare defenses against alien waves using turrets, traps, and strategic firing positions. Explore how to protect the Airlock and survive the demo's 20-wave challenge.
BUILD YOUR SHIP
Choose a Hull Rupture ship layout around module space, adjacency bonuses, turret range, and longer enemy routes in the updated demo.
Read guideconstructionUse hull blocks, gaps, and the developer-noted Airlock spiral to lengthen enemy routes without confusing cosmetic hull details with real paths.
Read guideconstructionUnlock usable module slots in the Hull Rupture demo with Hull Construction, completed neighboring modules, and careful expansion planning.
Read guideconstructionLearn the demo's 15-block construction cycle, placement limits, module-slot access, resource costs, and how hull shape changes enemy routes.
Read guideexplorationCompare early-demo Hull Rupture artifact picks, the Head tradeoff, Microchip synergies, and why September changes matter for unit-focused builds.
Read guideexplorationUnderstand early-demo artifact unlocks after defeats, the September carryover rules, and why old unlocked artifacts do not unlock new additions.
Read guideexplorationPlan Hull Rupture routes around your ship’s resource needs, fog of war, markets, modifiers, travel speed, and the demo’s limits.
Read guideguideStart Hull Rupture with practical demo tips for production, hull construction, module kits, turret placement, and surviving 20 alien waves.
Read guideHull Rupture
Hull Rupture is a sci-fi base-management and tower-defense roguelite developed by Konfa Games and published by tinyBuild. Players manage a spaceship controlled by Despot AI, using resources, production modules, and human workers to keep the vessel operational while surviving alien attacks. Every run involves strategic decisions about construction, defense, and survival.
The game combines modular ship construction, interconnected production chains, tactical turret placement, and galaxy exploration. Players can expand their hull, shape enemy paths, improve defenses, and discover artifacts that change their strategies. The free demo features 20 attack waves and a final boss, while the full game is planned to offer multiple ships, modes, and difficulty settings.
Plan your ship, keep production running, and prepare your defenses.
Learn how to manage your spaceship, balance resources, expand production, and prepare for alien attacks in Hull Rupture. This beginner guide covers the essential mechanics of the free demo, including the tutorial, ship management, and the 20-wave survival objective.
Complete the tutorial to learn ship controls, resource management, module construction, and basic defensive systems.
Manage Energy, Fuel, and human workers to keep production modules operational and maintain the ship's movement.
Expand the ship with additional modules while balancing production capacity, power consumption, and increasing ship mass.
Construct turrets and defensive systems along alien approach routes to protect the Airlock from incoming attacks.
Survive 20 increasingly difficult attack waves and defeat the final boss to complete the standard demo challenge.
Master the Hull Construction system introduced in the updated demo and learn how different ship shapes influence alien movement. Discover the 15 available construction block types, module placement restrictions, and corridor layouts that can improve your defensive positions.
Enter Hull Construction mode during a run to pause flight and receive a randomly selected construction block.
Choose from 15 construction block types presented in a randomized sequence, with no repeats until the full set has been cycled through.
Place blocks without obstructing the Airlock or engine, and check whether the resulting layout provides suitable module slots.
Use external sections, gaps, and internal corridors to influence alien travel routes and create advantageous turret firing positions.
Plan expansion costs carefully: constructing hull blocks initially consumes Energy, while later construction requires Plasteel.
Understand how Hull Rupture's interconnected production chains generate the materials needed for ship expansion and stronger defenses. Learn the roles of Energy, Fuel, Minerals, Microchips, Nanobots, and human workers while exploring module adjacency and automation mechanics.
A core resource needed to operate ship systems and construct hull blocks during the earlier stages of a run.
Supports spaceship propulsion and galaxy exploration. Additional engines and heavier ship configurations increase the importance of Fuel production.
A production resource used within the ship's economy. The Mineral Generator can receive modifiers that change its output.
An advanced production resource whose availability was improved during the September 2026 demo rebalance.
An advanced resource connected to later production chains. The updated demo made reaching Nanobot production more manageable.
Improves neighboring module efficiency and can produce random module kits based on the number of humans assigned to it.
The Bioreactor-related converter automation can automatically assign humans through its experimental Auto function.
Explore Hull Rupture's turret mechanics, weapon effects, and defensive positioning strategies against alien invasions. Learn how different firing ranges, hull layouts, status effects, and the September demo changes influence ship defense.
Added in demo patch v0.10.12. Its special effect transforms an enemy hit by the turret into a rat.
Can apply the Fragility debuff when the Reproducer receives the Eyes modifier, according to the September demo update.
Work well with open firing positions and long, straight sections of the ship where their extended firing range can be used.
Can benefit from enclosed corridors and compact defensive layouts that force enemies through close-range firing positions.
Turrets can be moved without a direct resource cost, but relocation takes time and creates a temporary period of inactivity.
Units stationed in the Airlock serve as a final defensive layer against enemies that survive the ship's turret network.
Prepare for the final boss encounter in Hull Rupture's 20-wave demo campaign by understanding enemy approach routes and defensive preparation. This guide focuses on documented boss positioning, turret investment, resource production, and the relationship between hull construction and survival.
Progress through the standard demo's 20 attack waves while maintaining production and expanding the ship's defenses.
Build a production economy capable of supplying the materials required for stronger turrets and advanced defensive equipment.
Account for the documented boss landing position on the far upper-left portion of the hull, away from the Airlock.
Use ship construction and longer enemy routes to create more opportunities for defensive turrets to attack approaching threats.
Defeat the final boss after surviving the 20 attack waves to complete the demo's standard challenge.
Discover how the redesigned Post-Battle Shop works after the September 2026 demo update. Learn the differences between turret and module loot boxes, how module modifiers appear, and how Despot's Chamber provides additional kits for your ship.
The updated shop offers themed loot boxes containing turret kits, providing a way to obtain additional defensive equipment.
Module-themed loot boxes provide a selection of module kits for expanding production and improving ship systems.
Modules obtained from the updated shop can arrive with modifiers already installed.
Despot's Chamber produces random module kits over time, with production affected by the number of assigned humans.
Unwanted module kits produced by Despot's Chamber can be sold in the Post-Battle Shop to help fund other purchases.
Demo patch v0.10.12 adjusted kit selection to make previously unseen module kits more likely and recently obtained kits less likely to repeat.
Learn how galaxy exploration affects resources, ship development, and the strategic choices available during each run. Explore documented destinations, markets, special encounters, and the trade-offs between ship weight, engine power, and travel opportunities.
Provides different destinations between battles, allowing players to pursue resources, events, artifacts, and strategic opportunities.
Allow resource trading, including the developer's documented example of exchanging excess Fuel for needed Minerals.
An example of a galaxy destination associated with the possibility of obtaining a special artifact and collecting additional turrets.
A documented example of an encounter associated with a cursed modifier that can influence a run.
A resource mentioned by the developer as something players may seek when planning to construct more powerful turrets.
Depends on the number and level of engines and the ship's total mass. Expanding with more modules makes the ship heavier and can reduce travel speed.
Explore how artifacts and module modifiers change resource production, turret effects, and strategic decisions in Hull Rupture. Learn about officially documented modifier interactions, special event rewards, and the differences between shop upgrades and exploration discoveries.
When installed on the Reproducer, this modifier allows Beam turrets to apply the Fragility debuff to enemies.
A documented modifier adds mushrooms that significantly increase Mineral output while the player holds fewer than 10 units of Mystic Goo.
Modifiers can be obtained through Shops and installed in individual ship modules to change their behavior or capabilities.
Narrative encounters provide another source of modifiers, with many event-exclusive upgrades unavailable through ordinary shop purchases.
Certain artifacts and modifiers interact with neighboring modules, creating opportunities to improve production through careful placement.
The September demo update introduced and reworked artifact effects that interact with turrets, while reducing the effectiveness of some unit-focused strategies.
Get to know the demo and the planned full release.
This is an independent fan guide. Hull Rupture is developed by Konfa Games and published by tinyBuild.
The Steam store lists November 4, 2026. The free demo is available separately.
Survive 20 attack waves and defeat the final boss. The demo also includes a tutorial and a replayable standard mode.
It pauses flight and offers a hull block with empty module slots. Placement changes module space and the routes enemies can take.
From your first production modules to advanced hull layouts and difficult alien waves, our independent Hull Rupture Wiki helps you build smarter and survive longer. Explore beginner guides, resource strategies, turret defenses, and boss survival tips.
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