Hello and welcome to this short but hopefully helpful guide to all ship levels in Dark Matter. I decided to make this guide because while the game is fairly easy to play, navigation can be confusing in places - especially where you have to back-track to an area you cannot progress from.

Bear in mind that while the game can be finished; it was not released in its envisioned completeness. Also note that the schematics below for each level may not be totally complete but, they should possess enough information to help you progress when and where you may lose orientation.

Each section corresponds to a level of the ship and while the first and last few levels will only require one visitation, the larger levels may require two or more vists to complete entirely.

Also to help out with 100% completion, included in each section are the achievements that can be attained in them or at least where I obtained them.







The Earth ship Endeavour consists of 15 compartments (levels) which can be seen in the following ship wide schematic:



Identification of where equipment, items and objectives can be found across the ship Endeavour can be seen in the following legend:



NOTE: Probably the weakest part of the guide is that it doesnt show where heavy crawlers are. These tougher opponents will stop you from progressing until you get the blueprint that does greater damage and/or the assault rifle. Just check which areas you havent quite explored on your own level maps against these ones to get some idea of where you havent travelled to yet.

Good luck!

Good Girl
Complete the training level all the way through to the exit portal.




Skipping School
Skip the training level by exiting through the very first portal.

* PLEASE NOTE: That all exits are colour coded to the area they will lead to.

So leaving Medbay will take you to the Security level. The exit text in this level (Medbay) is coloured red so go to the Security section of this guide and look for the red coloured text point to the Medbay level to see where you arrive.

First Ooze
Kill your first Scavenger.

Boomsticked
Collect the Shotgun.


Unfortunate survivor
Collect the full set of N. Fortunate logs.


Ensign CrawlerBane
Kill 50 crawlers, of any description.

[CREDIT: Used Ensign Crawlerbane Achievement Steam Guide By Steppenwolf, to verify]

* Counter seems bugged. Go to the corridor where the shotgun is located, left of the elevator. There is a crawler spawner on the wall which doesnt create heavy crawlers. I needed 40 kills here to trigger the achievement. Despite being at the very end of my playthrough.

Big Spaceship Lights
Enable power in the Process Control level.

* If like me you need to get the assault rifle to get past the heavy crawler blocking your way to ENG LVL 2 KEY, then you may end up only triggering this achievement once you activate Breaker 2. Whichever breaker you toggle last will get you this achievement.


Dance Little Flames, Dance
Spread fire to 5 enemies in under 20 seconds.

* I got this after getting the fire ammo blueprint and just after turning on the Breaker 2 switch at a crawler spawnwall/point where there were two or three patroling just before it. Save your game at the Omega 13 console just above so If you are not fast enough you can reload and try again. It should be quite easy though.

My little friend says hello
Collect the Assault Rifle.

Mad Engineer
Collect the full set of F. Magnusson logs.

[CREDIT: Used Journal Log Location's Steam Guide By Verify, to verify two missed logs]


Firestarter. twisted Firestarter
Collect the fire ammo blueprint.

* Turn on the Purge System to activate secondary objective. There are six hatches that need to be closed using the switches next to them. The map does not always list the objectives or show them on the mini-map.

** Once the Samurai scavenger has been dealt with in the Core Shaft level you can return to the train area and fast travel to Engineering Station (aka Bay (1))

**IMPORTANT NOTE: *Needs verifying.* There is a log at the start of this area called 'clean up'. (Credit: Zen (UK))




A Bigger, Better, Scarier rat
Kill the Samurai thats wrecking the maintenance power conduit.

* Killing the Samurai Scavenger will complete the Clear Core objective and allow fast travel from the Process Station.


Ensign Livingstone I Presume
Kill an Exploder, a Baby Crawler, a Crawler, a Big Cousin, a Seeker and a Samurai.

* Should unlock after you kill the Samurai scavenger.

The Bunny o' War
Collect the Grenade Launcher


Semper Fodder
Collect the full set of B. Kowicz logs.


Get off my Ship!
Kill the Scavenger Queen.

Its Time for Science
Reach the laboratories hub.

And thus in a somewhat anti-climatic manner the journey ends here. You should hopefully have enough details to complete the game and gain all the achievements BUT the guide doesnt hold your hand. It has been designed merely to show you where all important stuff can be found as you try to navigate the sometimes confusing labyrinth of the Endeavour.

Though it is mostly complete there may be a few omissions or errors contained within these maps. If you spot one please let me know in the comments below and Ill try to update any that need doing.



Thank you for reading this [my second Steam] guide, I hope it was of help to anyone who was stuck and was thinking about restarting the game like I did!

Cheerio.