Beta 3

Quick start guide

Your first hour in Silicon Pirates. You start with $5,000 in Lab Credits, a 12U rack and four crates on the rug in the main room: a PDU, a router, a server and a terminal server.

Before you start

Open sp.silicon-pirates.com and register with an operator handle and a passphrase. Your lab is saved on the server against that account.

Played Beta 2? Sign in with your Beta 2 email or username and the same password. You start a fresh lab like everyone else.

Your first hour

1. Unpack the crates. They are on the rug in the main room. Unpacked devices go to your inventory.
2. Rack the PDU first, then the router, the server and the terminal server.
3. Wire the power. Cable the PDU's IN to a wall outlet, then each PDU OUT to a device's PSU.
4. Switch on the PDU, then the devices. Every device has a power button on its face.
5. Check the terminal server is running. Configuring any device needs a live one.
6. Get online. Open the router's CONNECT tab and cable its WAN1 jack to LINE 1 on the ISP box on the back wall. Then cable a router LAN port to your server.
7. Take a job. Read the Daily Brief, then take a work order from CONTRACTS.

A red NO-POWER light means a device is switched on but not fed. Follow its PSU cord back to a live PDU. A device that is powered but offline has no network path to the router, or the router has no line.

Getting around

• The rack. Tap it to focus it. Tap a device for its inspector: status and the power and OPEN CHASSIS buttons at the top, then tabs for OVERVIEW, HARDWARE, CONNECT, its job and STYLE.
• The terminal. Tap the desk monitor to drop into the shell. help lists every command.
• The bookshelf. The manuals, with a search. The small question marks on every panel explain what you are looking at.
• The paper. The paper on the rug and the Daily Brief say what happened in the lab. ALERTS lists what needs you, and each line takes you to it.
• Text size. A− and A+ sit at the top of the manuals, the paper and the Daily Brief.

After the first hour

• More power. The starter PDU feeds 100 W. A PDU 500 or a second chained PDU gives you room for more.
• A network. A switch gives you more ports. A firewall keeps the heat down once the lab earns.
• Storage and mining. A NAS gives rigs and servers somewhere to write. Then a crypto rig, or an application stack on the server.
• Contracts. Clients read your rack every second. Keep what they ask for and your standing rises.
• The internet bill. The first month on the line is free. After that an invoice comes every 24 hours of play, and you have 10 minutes to pay it.
• More room. Finish 10 work orders and the Back Room opens. At 30 the Basement is yours to buy. ROOM INFO shows your lab tier and what the next one gives.

New to Beta 3?

If you played Beta 2, read what's new in Beta 3. The biggest changes: the lab is a set of 3D rooms, every machine is a chassis of parts you open at the workbench, and the internet comes from an ISP you pay.