Lessons are shown as needed by circumstance, or on a slow timer. Lessons are automatically marked as learned when the player does the necessary interaction, and can be marked as learned manually. If something happens relating to a concept the player hasn’t learned, that lesson will be activated and shown on the learning helper.

Tutorial locks out irrelevant controls and highlights relevant controls.Tutorial teaches the basics of setting up a game, building a small self-sustaining colony, and defeating the first raider.

You may wish to turn off Steam auto-updates if you really want to avoid this. Beware: If a mod author updates their existing mod to the new version, it’ll stop updating on the old version. However, most significant mods will need to be adjusted and recompiled. Some purely XML mods will be compatible between versions. Check it out here if you really want to try to continue that Alpha 14 colony. However, a user did put together a guide that allows you to manually update save files with some text editing. As usual, Alpha 15 will not load Alpha 14 save games by default.