What's in, and what's coming

Voxel districts

Quarter-metre voxels, so a colonist stands on several. Hills, overhangs, caverns and tunnels from layered noise. Dig an area and colonists cut ramps so they can always walk out.

Water that flows

Sources, spreading, waterfalls and slopes. It washes away wild undergrowth (crops stay) and gently pushes colonists.

Lava

Hardens into obsidian, cobblestone or stone where it meets water, burns plants, and colonists path around it. Found only in lava districts, never near spawn.

A planet of districts

A geodesic globe of hex districts with climates and biomes. Press M to switch between planet and district; the district keeps simulating.

Many districts at once

Caravans out on two maps while home keeps running, can be raided, and still has animals living in it.

Structural integrity

Simple, readable support rules: pillars hold up what's around them, sand won't take a concrete wall.

The taskmaster

Colonists choose their own work from needs, moods, whims and the job board, thinking on a worker thread so the game stays smooth.

Typed orders

Write orders in plain English: names, verbs, sizes, depths, places, chains with "then". If the rules can't read it, a small language model running on your own PC does, and the game checks every detail.

Social bubble

Who is near whom, what they noticed, what they remember and what they think of each other.

Character designer

Body types, ages from baby to elder, face features with strength sliders, and our own sculpted hair, brows and beards with neon dye zones.

Names and identities

A required nickname, optional first and last names from 14,000 rows, a permanent ID that's never reused, and a xenotype.

Voices

Colonists will speak with blended, locally generated voices, each with their own pitch.

Stockpiles and zones

Rectangle, ellipse, diamond or line; corner or centre; filled or outline. Hauling, items with materials and quality.

Nemesis

The raider who killed someone's partner is remembered, protected, grows stronger to match, and comes back.

Genetics

Inheritable genes, mutations, hybrids and families. Aliens are humans with other genes.

Melee, first version

Melee moves, downed colonists who lie still until healed, and limbs that can be cut off.

Body parts

Every part has its own health; where a hit lands matters. Bleeding, scarring, prosthetics.

Medicine from the land

From herbs to nano surgical kits, all made from what you farm and craft.

New species every game

What a plant or animal does is fixed; what it looks like and is called comes from the world seed. Study them to find out what they are.

Wandering animals

Procedural animals with diets, sizes and temperaments, saved with permanent IDs.

Farming without fuss

Plot an area and colonists plant and harvest. Crops wither if you leave them.

Four player types

Tree, Miasma, Virus or Hero, each with its own camera, rules and endings, and a path between them: a single colonist can be charmed by a tree, swept into its miasma, corrupted, cured, and finally ascend.

Possession

Leave the top-down view and take control of a colonist yourself.

Data-driven

Terrains, plants, bodies, jobs, needs, social events, species and the planet are all data files a mod can extend or override. There's an in-game data editor and a mod kit for the Unreal Editor.

Read about modding →

Multiplayer-ready design

Every action goes through one core that can be replayed, so multiplayer can be added as a mod.