How nice that there’s a complete manual for Aurora on GitHub. How unfortunate that it’s 1500 pages long. Even in my native language, I’d think twice before reading such a tome. How nice that modern neural networks can process such a file even without any tricks — like scripts to split the file into chunks. If only I’d known about this a couple of weeks ago… It’s a wonderful search engine that works even offline.
Don’t read it - it is mostly AI-generated nonsense. Below is a repost of my post on reddit regarding the ‘manual’ Instead try the documentation archive.
In recent days, someone has published an Aurora ‘manual’ on here and on Discord.
They state in the introduction that: “This manual was initially generated using AI assistance (Claude) and has undergone systematic verification against authoritative sources. All chapters and appendices have been verified, with numbered references added throughout and factual corrections applied where needed”
The person who created the ‘manual’ has minimal knowledge of Aurora and used an AI to generate a huge wall of text extending to over 1600 pages. Many experienced players of Aurora have pointed the extensive number of errors and misleading statements in this document. This is not surprising as an AI will not be able to make sense of the vast amount of text on forums and in tutorials, especially as Aurora is extremely complex and constantly evolving.
The ‘verification’ mentioned above seems to consist of asking a couple of dozen questions on Discord and then ignoring all attempts to warn about the impact on new players of publishing a document full of misinformation and claiming it is accurate, or ‘in progress’.
There are many excellent tutorials for Aurora, which have involved a great deal of research and hard work on the part of the creators. This manual is not one of them. If the necessary work was invested to update this manual to match the actual game I am sure it would be a great resource for everyone. However, the person publishing it refuses to acknowledge the problem with releasing it as it currently stands.
Therefore, I have reluctantly concluded it is better to warn existing and potential players about the pitfalls involved in relying on the information therein. Following a ‘manual’ that doesn’t reflect the game will only lead to confusion, frustration and disenchantment. Aurora is difficult enough to learn, even with accurate information.
I strongly recommend searching for existing tutorials and asking questions here, on the Discord and on the main forums once they are back online. Aurora has a great community who are only too willing to help.
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Thank you for the warning. But I need at least some offline source of information, since the internet is extremely unstable. Is there any way to download this documentation? I wouldn’t want to be stuck without a network with a question like ‘why is there no command to load shells when all conditions seem to be met.’ P.S. As I understand it, both the station and the supply ship need to have a shell loader, and if only one of them has it, the command won’t appear. … Oh no, I misunderstood. Having a shell loader is still not enough..
It’s probably a translation issue, but I don’t know what a ‘shell loader’ is? What is it in your native language? Just post the Cyrillic.
Вот характеристики станции и корабля снабжения. У корабля снабжения включен supply ship. Ракеты загружены в Magasine. И кораблю и станции назначены одинаковые виды ракет. Команда вроде “load ordnance” попросту не появляется при попытке перенести ракеты с корабля на станцию.
You need to click the ‘Collier’ flag in the Class window, not Supply Ship.
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How much can we hope about this?
The present site is shaping and evolving well, but information in the old forums would mostly still be useful and interesting.
I don’t see the old forums returning. However, a lot of the information is still available using the wayback machine.
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The documentation archive that was mentioned can be found here:
I haven’t looked to deeply into it but it might allow you to download it in some form
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Hey, I’ve created a release in the github Release All topic pages in mds · ZionLG/Aurora4x-Docs · GitHub for the topic pages
the zip file there contains all the pages in md file format.
you can also download them yourself directly from the website by adding a .md to the end of the url while browsing a specific topic.
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I believe that every Aurora manual should contain a warning on the first page: “Do not read manuals created using AI”. I think some people don’t even know about the existence of this forum, so it would help to save them from disappointment.
I also think it’s worth mentioning in the “Manual” thread (since most newbies will want to read it first) that you can ask any questions in the Player Questions category or see questions from other players in this category. This is one of the most reliable source of information.
Добро пожаловать в Аврору, товарищ. 
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