HOPE 01 Useful Tools Hub

Guides teach systems. Tier lists argue about guns. This hub is for pages you keep open while the hideout menu is open: a door checklist before you raid, and a spec sheet before you argue with Steam. HOPE 01 is a small install with a dense UI. The Cluster kills people who skip prep, not people who skipped a 70 GB shader cache.

Child pages:

• Loadout Checklist — fabrics, food, mags, light, extract plan.
• Troubleshooting — FPS caps, Linux render notes, dodge fix, black screen, demo vs EA.
• System Requirements — Windows and Linux numbers copied from Steam, including the 16 MB RAM line.

Use Early Loadouts to choose a kit, then tick it here. Use Getting Started if you do not yet know why any of these boxes exist. If input feels late or the window will not paint, open Troubleshooting before another wipe.

Why a wiki needs tools in a pixel-art RPG

HOPE 01 mixes extraction stakes with inventory tetris, drag-to-load magazines, and a fabricator that wants you to scan before you print. That is a lot of verbs at the hideout door. A checklist is not flavour; it is how you stop leaving without food for the third time.

The same is true of specs. Steam lists a Ryzen 3 3100 / Core i3-10100F minimum, “most GFX cards,” 70 MB Windows storage, 400 MB Linux storage, and 16 MB RAM. That last number is almost certainly a store-page typo, but we report what Steam reports and then tell you what players actually do. If you are on Steam Deck or a handheld, that conversation lives on the requirements page, not in a gun tier list.

Loadout checklist, in brief

Before every raid:

1. Named extract and a backup in mind (How to Extract, Hab Cluster Map).
2. Primary gun scanned, mag seated, spare mag loaded.
3. Utility light you know how to hold (Controls, Gadgets).
4. Food and water printed. Converter only if calories exist (Fabricator).
5. Grid hole for bricks and one blue item.
6. Nothing in the bag you would refuse to die with — or everything unique is already scanned.

The full tick list, including medical versus military fabric reminders, is on Loadout Checklist.

Specs, in brief

• Platforms: Windows 64-bit and SteamOS / Linux. Native Linux, not a Windows-only promise.
• Size: about 70 MB on Windows; Linux storage listing is 400 MB.
• CPU min: AMD Ryzen 3 3100, Ryzen 5 2600, or Intel Core i3-10100F.
• CPU rec: Ryzen 5 5600X / 7600 or Intel Core i5-12400 / 13400.
• GPU: Steam says most cards. This is 2D pixel art.
• RAM listing: 16 MB. Treat that as a store error; 16 GB is how people actually spec machines in 2026, but we will not pretend Steam wrote 16 GB.
• Language: English interface, audio, and subtitles only in-game.
• Mode: single-player, 21 achievements, family sharing listed on the store.

Full table and Deck notes: System Requirements.

How to use these pages during a session

• At install: System Requirements, then Troubleshooting if the client misbehaves (a Steam thread already described absurd FPS making input feel late — cap the frame rate). Discord via Links Hub for leftover bugs.
• At hideout: checklist page on a second monitor or in your head.
• After a wipe: checklist first, Weapons second. Most wipes are missing light, mag, or timer, not missing an S-tier rifle.
• After a patch: Updates Hub for fabric and boss changes, then re-tick the checklist if print costs moved.

What these tools are not

They are not a damage calculator. HOPE 01 does not publish a public API of gun formulas, and we will not fake one. They are not a map editor. Landmark the Cluster yourself with the Hab Cluster Map habits.

They are also not official Bending Boy Games utilities. The developer collects feedback on Discord and Steam forums; send bugs there, not into a fan checklist.

Suggested pairing

New player: Beginner Walkthrough + Loadout Checklist.

Returning player after a patch: Roadmap + checklist + Fabricator if brick costs changed.

Deck / Linux installer: System Requirements + Links Hub for the store page.

When the checklist is boring, you are ready to care about penetration values. Until then, tick boxes, extract, stash, scan.