Play Surviving Mars as The Church of The New Ark

This is my guide to play Surviving Mars as the Church of The New Ark

1. Land
2. Build Drone Hub
3. Build 5 large solar cells
4. Build moisture vaporator, water tank, MOXY, oxygen tank, sensor tower, fuel refinery, electricity accumulator, and concrete extractor
5. Start scanning surrounding sectors, and use your RC transport to collect the surface metals found while fueling your rocket. Keep on collecting the surface metals over and over. Soon you'll need 2 or 3 metal depots.
6. Launch your rocket, buy 2 moisture vaporators, and 10 of polymers, 10 of electronics, and 10 machine parts, and 20 food
7. Land your rocket, build the moisture vaporators and 3 water tanks and 3 oxygen tanks.
8. Start building your dome as close as possible to the initial buildings while still able to place a rare earth metal extractor near it.
9. Launch your rocket again, and buy the advanced resources and food again.
   10 . With your dome and rare earth metal extractor completed, make sure you have double the water, oxygen, and electricity needed to support the dome. Build wind turbine as required only.
10. Build living quarters, infirmary, diner, and research lab.
11. Land your rocket, refuel it, and launch again.
12. Get 4 medics, 4 geologists, and 3 scientists. Add 1 random person.
13. Land them, and enjoy your first colony. Should have martian born before the 10 sols period. If you somehow playing with chaos theory rule and discover martian patents or martian copyrights early, shut the rare earth metal extractors off and fill up the research labs to get easy money.
14. Launch the rocket, ensure to buy enough polymer for 3 hydroponics and 20 food.
15. Land the rocket, Build 3 hydroponics on the dome and a living quarter or an apartement on the dome. I prefer apartment.
16. Launch the rocket, get 9 botanists and 3 scientists
17. land them, and start food production. Make sure all botanists working in the hydroponics.
18. Should be able to survive from the hydroponics alone for now.

After that, see your surrounding sectors and plan accordingly. Just place a dome somewhere good and shut it off before drone actually building it as reminder where to prioritize development next. Metals should be plenty enough for first two or three domes.