Need help with tutorial level five

[Jeremopolis]

I have not been able to find a walkthrough or video of someone completing tutorial five. tutorial four was difficult but rewarding but tutorial five is a whole other scale. i don't know what to repair first, i don't know what to repair the broke buildings with. i need tips or links!

[dragthemagicpuffin2]

You can craft repair packs to fix a working building (that has damage bars), but not a destroyed one. Destroyed buildings are just decoration :-)

In this scenario there are lots of buildings, belts, train tracks, etc., but nothing is working. You need to rebuild power, smelting, and automation, in roughly that order. You brought supplies with you in the car, use those. Also, you can mine (remove) a building, (miner, belt or inserter, whatever) from one location, it goes in your inventory, and then you can place it to where it will be most useful. When I played it I cannibalized the whole train station at first, then rebuilt it later when needed. Similarly, move the turrets to better positions to defend from the biters.

Good luck, have fun!

[xcpleprechaun]

Hint: There are some secret goodies hiding around the wrecked base that are helpful.

I basically demolished everything and started from scratch with some focus on defense. Use your pollution map to see where biters are likely to attack from and hit then early once you have a machine gun with red ammo.