I recommend that you get familiar with the UI and where everything is first on the bottom toolbar before you read this, and if you think you know all the controls you can skip a big long section!

Opening the first level we are greeted by two bars and a block, all controls can be found in-game via this button:
And here is every single game control you will need:


If you happen to hate your keyboard then you can use the lovely buttons on your top toolbar:


Starting from the leftmost button we have:

Play button - This starts the game, you can also use the space bar to start and stop the simulation.

Timescale Slider - Now everyone can be a time lord! Just use this slider to speed up, stop, and make time run normally.

Save - Well what did you think it would do?

Open - I'm just not going to write for the obvious ones.

Undo

Redo

Translation Tool - Lets you move the green block of your machine.

Rotation Tool - Lets you rotate the green block of your machine. (click and drag)

Put Machine on Ground

Erase Tool - Lets you erase blocks when you click on them.

Settings Tool - Lets you change key mappings and parts specific settings (ex. speed of piston extionsion). (It's very handy)

Delete Machine

Key Mappings - Lets you see all machine key mappings at once.

Machine Info - Lets you see how many blocks are on your machine, and your macine's center of mass


Free Build Mode - Hate buiding in a confined space? Well get rid of those boundaries with this button! (prevents level progression)

Controls List

Reset Camrea

Settings - I'm giving it it's own section, but here's the ingame settings. The number is how many FPS (How fast Beseige is running, the higher the better) you have, the speech bubble toggles tooltips, the video camrea toggles smooth camrea, pyro lets you burn things on click (no level progression), and the camrea at the bottom opens your screenshots folder.


Pause

A machine always needs a frame (including flying ones) or it will get all crazy and be eaisly destroyed. Below I have an example frame that I always use because it's easy to make, and steerable.


In this frame a steering block corntrols your left and right, and the powered wheels go forward and backward. By defualt the keys to control this are the arrow keys, these can be changed via the wrench in the top toolbar. After that, it's pretty much yours to build and modify.


Your machince's center of mass (COM) is VERY important. The COM is your machine's balance, if you have too much weight on one side the whole thing could fall over or be harder to drive.

You can check this by going to:
then a blue ball should appear on your machine, you want this centered.
Examples:


If you have a flying machine this is especially important, it will make it fly to one side when going up and make it very hard to control.

SSAO - No it's not SAO, it darkens objects around where they meet.

FXAA - This tries to smooth edges on objects, it blurs details slightly.

DOF - Depth of Field, it causes blur mainly on objects farther away from you and is a preformance hog.

Bloom - This makes bright objects brighter.

Vignette - This darkens the edges of the screen.

Thanks for reading my first guide on steam, feel free to correct me on anything and suggest things!