Screeps First Room: Find the Editor and Console
Find your first Screeps Room, code editor, and Console, then use read-only commands to identify visible Rooms, Spawns, Creeps, Sources, and the Controller.
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Browse 64 published guides by system, difficulty, content type, or topic. Start with What Is Screeps? A Programming Strategy Game or follow the beginner sequence through How to Combine Your First Screeps Room Loop.
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Screeps Ticks and Game Loop: Why Your Code Runs Repeatedly
Understand a Screeps tick, Game.time, and module.exports.loop, then run safe observations that show why actions and state changes appear across later ticks.
Screeps Harvest Energy: Your First Creep Script
Make one named Screeps Creep find a Source, move into range, and harvest Energy with a small script you can verify across later ticks.
Screeps Energy Delivery: Creep to Spawn
Make one Creep transfer Energy to a named Spawn, preserve delivery mode across ticks, and complete its first Source-to-Spawn round trip.
Screeps Creep Body Parts: WORK, CARRY, and MOVE
Inspect one Creep's active WORK, CARRY, and MOVE parts, then use its action result, Store, fatigue, and damage to diagnose missing abilities.
Screeps spawnCreep(): Create Your First Creep
Use dryRun to validate a WORK-CARRY-MOVE body, submit one safe spawnCreep() request, read its return code, and verify the new Creep across later ticks.
Screeps Creep Roles: Harvester, Upgrader, and Builder
Learn why Harvester, Upgrader, and Builder are player-defined responsibilities, how roles differ from body parts, and why a Creep name does not create behavior.
Screeps upgradeController(): Build Your First Upgrader Loop
Build one Upgrader1 loop that harvests from an active Source, moves within Controller range 3, spends Energy with upgradeController(), and switches state across ticks.
What Is Screeps? A Programming Strategy Game
Learn what Screeps is, how JavaScript controls its persistent world, and how Rooms, Creeps, Sources, Spawns, and Controllers work together for new players.
How to Build Your First Screeps Extension
Confirm RCL 2, place one Extension Construction Site, make Builder1 harvest and build it, and understand progress, capacity, and common failure states.
How to Make a Screeps Creep Build and Repair Automatically
Give Builder1 a clear priority: build owned sites, repair selected damaged structures, and upgrade the Controller when no higher task exists.
How to Combine Your First Screeps Room Loop
Combine fixed-name Harvester1, Upgrader1, and Builder1 logic with spawning, safe target checks, state switches, return-code logging, and explicit beginner limits.
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English articles are published only after source review, official API checks where applicable, JavaScript syntax review where code is present, duplicate-intent checks, and a final score of at least 96.