BioEden Collective Requests

Collective Requests are the to-do list on the BioEden HUD, not a fail state. The Cosmic Collective asks Keepers to complete designated missions while you restore a wounded planet. Official copy still says you can take as long as you need. Recycling still returns materials. A request that wants four Orb Factories is not a countdown. It is a job you accept when the solar and water spine can afford it.

The Steam tutorial puts a picker on screen: “Select one of the Collective’s designated missions.” Three tracks appear as cards. Mystic Guild jobs in that picker have asked Keepers to raise Scrofteusk and Vinex to Shining Status. Exploration Guild jobs have asked for four Orb Factories. Technology Guild jobs have asked to stockpile 15,000 Dinitrogen. Each card shows a Trust Level reward. That picker is not the five Keeper affiliations you choose for the 3 September 2026 campaign. Do not treat an Exploration Guild request as proof you already main Orin. The guild picker still maps Euler, Orin, Darwin, Xylar, and Umbra as launch-day identities.

If you are new, finish Getting Started before you chase Trust Level. One living species and a tiny grid teach more than a stack of unfinished cards.

How a request actually works

A request sits on the HUD until you complete it or ignore it. The demo does not punish a parked card with a game over. What it does punish, softly, is overbuilding to finish a card. Every Orb Factory tooltip lists energy draw and a large pollution hit. If you stamp four of them because Exploration Guild said so, then watch the globe, you will understand why restore the planet treats recycle as the core skill.

Read the card before you open the build menu. A Mystic Guild job about Shining Status is an animal-care job. Scrofteusk and Vinex are named creatures. Until their Bestiary panels show temperature and humidity, treat those names as real and unranked. Hatch them with the same rules as Landowl: incubator, climate window, plants, diet. Details live in animal care and the animal rankings.

A Technology Guild stockpile is a resource job. Dinitrogen is a material you gather and hold, not a biome. Pair it with resources so you do not confuse a stockpile with a reason to ring the landing zone in extra miners. An Exploration Guild factory job is a building job. Pair it with power and water and the building rankings. Build what the card asks. Recycle what the globe cannot afford.

Trust Level is the reward stripe on those cards. The demo UI shows a Trust Level of 1 for early missions. This wiki will not invent a hidden skill tree behind that number. When Focus publishes concrete perks, they belong on the guild tier list. Until then, treat Trust Level as the Collective saying “we noticed you finished the job.”

Tracks versus the five guilds

The five guilds of the Cosmic Collective — Euler, Orin, Darwin, Xylar, Umbra — are how you approach the whole campaign. Collective Request tracks labeled Mystic, Exploration, and Technology are how the tutorial packages jobs. They can rhyme. Mystic jobs lean animal. Exploration jobs lean map and factories. Technology jobs lean stockpiles. They still are not a sixth secret guild you will miss on 3 September 2026.

The demo uses a training path. Demo saves do not transfer. Launch morning is a fresh planet, and you still pick one of the five affiliations. If a request card helped you decide you like animals more than pylons, take that habit to Darwin on the guild picker. Do not lock a save to “Mystic Guild” because a card used those two words.

Active Regulations and Crisis Alerts sit next to requests on some HUD states. Regulations can raise plant cost or shape sanctuary rules. A Crisis Alert such as a geomagnetic storm is weather pressure, not a fail state. Recycle, wait, or power down unused buildings. The outside and inside guide explains why a storm on the hex map should not make you panic-build inside the dome.

What to do when a request fights the globe

If pollution is already high and a card wants factories, recycle first. Official FAQ copy is blunt: each addition nudges pollution upward, and you are supposed to find a balance between exploration, creation, and restraint. The Collective can wait. The globe cannot if you bury it in idle machines.

Complete animal jobs inside a dome that already has climate tools. Complete stockpile jobs with the smallest extra extractor you can recycle afterward. Complete factory jobs by placing the building, finishing the count, then tearing extras down so materials return. That sequence is the entire request loop. Charles will not fail you out. He will keep talking while you overbuild. The recycle control is how you answer him.

For calendar facts, see Updates. For the Steam tutorial’s edges, see the demo guide. For storefronts, see Links. This wiki is unofficial. If a live card names a creature or a resource this page does not, trust the panel in front of you and send that name back to resources or the Bestiary.