About the Game
Your journey will start on an abandoned island with a small crew of loyal workers. In order to survive, you will need to mine raw materials from the earth, grow food, build factories, manufacture products, construct vehicles, research new technologies, explore your surroundings, and trade with other islands. If you do things right, you'll work your way up towards an industrial superpower and you can even start a space program! But this is no easy task and you will be put to the test to keep your settlement alive.
Mine raw resources on fully dynamic terrain
Dig out mountains, carve valleys, and terraform the terrain to create efficient mega-factories. Find the natural riches of your land and use them to expand your empire. Mine coal, iron, copper, gold, or pump underground oil and water! Make open-pit mines to extract valuable ores from underground, or just dump excess rocks into the ocean to create a new land to build on! Remember that no mountain is tall enough for your fleet of excavators!
Additionally, the dynamic terrain system allows you to create access to various levels of elevation throughout your island. Dig or dump terrain to create slopes between hard to reach places so that you can have the most efficient path for your vehicles.
Manufacture products and optimize massive factories
Start simple - smelt iron, mix concrete, create construction parts, and grow food. Soon you will be able to expand into crude oil processing, electronics, solar panels, data centers, and even rockets. There are over 200 unique products to explore and work with!
Build vehicles and transport products
Logistics systems ensure that trucks will automatically deliver products where they are most needed. You can configure the logistics to make it more efficient. Don’t forget to build enough trucks or upgrade existing ones to keep things moving!
Move cargo with trains
Build short trains, long trains, double-headed trains, even ones that run in reverse. Thanks to our unique signal-free rail system, creating complex networks is a breeze. And with continuous loading, train size is no longer limited by station size—make them as long as your infrastructure can handle.
Build conveyor belts and pipes
Use conveyor belts and pipes to route products efficiently and relieve stress on truck-based logistics. The transport system supports vertical stacking and auto-pathing for easy placement. Balancers and sorters also help organize your assembly lines by providing priority and sorting functionalities.
Farm your land
You need to feed your people by growing simple crops such as potatoes. Later, you will be able to grow more advanced crops such as wheat or soybeans and process them to make more kinds of food and products. You can also produce fertilizers and use greenhouses to keep up with the food demands.
Grow your settlement and provide for your people
To staff your factories, farms, and vehicles, you need people, and lots of them. Build housing and provide essentials to your citizens such as food, water, electricity, healthcare, and household goods. Population will grow on its own depending on their health and happiness, but you can also recruit and rescue populations on the world map to help aid your island.
Build complex oil and chemical refineries
Break crude oil down into different usable fractions using multiple refining stages. With the ability to stack pipes you can create compact and scalable plants that can make all the oil-based products you will need for your growing empire.
Research new technologies
Research is a must have! Unlock new buildings and materials and make your factory more efficient. New technologies will change the course of your future. Your factory will grow more efficient and advanced with over 140 technologies to unlock.
Import and export resources to and from your island
Establish shipping lanes with cargo ships to fill the gaps in your production by bringing in various products such as crude oil, wood, or quartz. While the resources on your island may be limited, the world is not! Later you will be also able to establish shipping contracts with other islands for periodic exchange of goods.
Explore the world, trade with allies, fight pirates
Repair and upgrade your ship with better engines, armor, and weapons. Explore your surroundings, find refugees, allied settlements to trade with, discover more resources, and be ready for naval battles with pesky pirates!
Get to space!
Research and develop your way to space flight. Launch a rocket as a true test of your settlement’s accomplishments.
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
* Modular ramps can now go up to height 4, being able to go above train tracks.
* Vehicles now approach ramps slightly faster.
* Trade dock cargo is now included in the global search.
* Increased the number of switchbacks allowed in a single train path from 16 to 32.
* Trains no longer plan switchbacks inside critical sections.
* Vehicles that cannot cross water no longer report "struggling to navigate" because of bridges.
* Improved job assignment so that regular trucks stop hogging cargo reservations that only amphibious trucks can deliver.
* Pasted blueprint strings are now limited to 64 levels of nested folders.
Performance
* Virtualized the save and load window lists, removing the lag caused by having too many save files.
* Optimized the train track inspector; checking whether tracks can be electrified is now spread over several frames to avoid a hitch when opening it on very long track sections.
Fixes
* Fixed dump trucks failing to path to mega-excavators placed in narrow areas.
* Fixed trains recovered in depots failing to find a path because their speed was not reset.
* Fixed minor train teleportation when changing track length or critical sections near a switchback point as the train was approaching it.
* Fixed train track support previews not being cleared correctly, which caused errors and allowed impossible changes when using Ctrl+Shift+wheel.
* Fixed the train station waypoint tool freezing the game when the selected track was removed.
* Fixed vehicle connectivity sometimes reporting incorrect disconnects.
* Fixed rockets that could end up stranded at the map origin.
* Fixed rounding losses in unity from decorations, which is now aggregated across all settlements at once.
* Fixed chart highlighting stopping to work after the chart refreshed its data.
* Corrupted save files now fail with a clear error instead of an out-of-memory error.
* Fixed a possible game freeze in highlight rendering and restored the tower highlight on area hover that was temporarily disabled because of it.
* Fixed transport highlights that could get stuck or attach to the wrong transport right after an upgrade.
* Fixed an error when splitting a transport that had a pending downgrade or replacement.
* Fixed transport previews not being removed after canceling a drag placement.
* Fixed a stranded pause icon when demolishing paused transports.
* Fixed aprons flattening nearby terrain that they should not affect.
* Ramp entrances no longer flatten terrain under their open areas.
* Auto-placed surfaces now override buried surfaces, so a building placed over a dumped-over surface gets its surface properly.
v0.8.6c
* Improved blueprint grid visuals for train tracks and conveyors.
* Fixed transports being destroyed whole by floods, asteroid impacts, and collapses near ramps; now only the affected stretch is removed.
* Fixed a possible hang when removing entities after an asteroid impact.
* Fixed that placing a transport right after canceling another placement could replace a wrong transport.
* Fixed a rendering error when downgrading a transport that was carrying products.
* Fixed trucks that would never reach their goal when their destination was another vehicle.
* Fixed an error when a vehicle's designation was completed while the vehicle was still on its way.
* Fixed all roads being shown as unpathable in the road pathability overlay.
* Fixed a stacker tower error that could permanently stop its operation.
* Fixed predictive sim speed being temporarily stuck at 1x on new maps.
* Fixed the truck inspector construction badge sometimes showing an incorrect state.
* Fixed an error in the settlement housing module inspector.
* Temporarily disabled the tower highlight when hovering its area to prevent a game freeze/crash.
* Fixed train station modules disappearing when zoomed out too far.
* Fixed train track overlays rendering incorrectly against blueprint stations and tracks.
* Fixed a minor shelf visual issue on the T2 universal wagon.
* Fixed vehicles jumping when entering or exiting roads in laggy games.
* Improved vehicle following detection to reduce potential vehicle deadlocks.
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* Increased the maximum camera distance by 50%.
* Added a new adaptive simulation speed mode that lowers the sim rate before frames start dropping, keeping the game smooth under heavy load. It is the new default and can be changed in the settings.
* Mine and forestry towers areas, and logistics zones, can now be edited together. Editing one area shows all of them at once so it is easy to switch between them.
* Added a configurable Ctrl+M shortcut to open tower area editing directly without going through an inspector.
* Hovering a tower area now highlights the tower it belongs to and shows a connecting line.
* Surface clearing now respects truck zone construction filters.
* Train station modules now distribute products evenly between both sides.
* Reworked linked storages:
- A storage can now only be linked to a single station.
- Logistics is automatically disabled on the linked side while the station is loading or unloading it, preventing trucks from "stealing" reserved cargo or space from trains.
- Port restriction sliders now reduce the storage amount and capacity available for train reservations.
* Improved train pathfinder heuristics to discourage routing through other stations and network waypoints when an alternative exists. Trains far from a busy station are now much less likely to try to squeeze through it.
* Removing a waypoint now replaces it with the matching base track (electrified waypoints leave electrified track, normal waypoints leave normal track).
* Mining designations now ignore bushes and stumps that sit below the designated mining level.
* Train UI improvements such as job information to the train status row or a new open inspector button to arrivals.
* Trucks will no longer deliver parts in small amounts when products are low and are trickling in to storages one by one.
* Recovery saves now preserves logistics zones.
* Console commands now reject undefined enum values instead of silently accepting them.
* Improved console command error messages and help formatting.
Performance
* Construction and deconstruction are now processed in chunks, greatly reducing the cost of dense construction sites (measured ~4x speedup in vehicle buffer balancing on a large save, with spikes reduced from 40ms to 10ms).
* Added a vehicle connectivity manager that detects unreachable destinations without running a full pathfinding search, drastically reducing pathfinding cost and stuck-vehicle behavior in disconnected areas (over 10x pathfinding savings on some saves).
Fixes
* Vehicles no longer show red "cannot reach" lines and notifications for targets they do not need to path to anymore.
* Fixed level crossings not closing when a track was under deconstruction.
* Fixed the new-content dot not clearing when a building was upgraded.
* Mod config dialog now allows typing negative numbers for parameters whose minimum bound permits it.
* Fixed pause button not working for trains parked at a depot while assigned to a network.
* Fixed train network product statistics ignoring the per-station train limit.
* Fixed stacker tower incorrectly reporting invalid rail segments.
* Fixed active settlement bonus UI indicator showing "" before the floater faded in, and the warning color not being applied to the right element.
* Fixed non-storable products being assignable to train station modules by feeding them in, bypassing the train compatibility check used by the UI pickers.
* Fixed pollution values shown in vehicle, locomotive, and train designer tooltips ignoring the fuel-consumption and pollution game difficulty multipliers.
* Fixed "stored quantity" being shown on the settlement internet provided building.
* Fixed visual flicker and notification toast spam caused by same-tick notification retriggers.
* Fixed stale arrival rules after replacing station modules with an incompatible type.
* Fixed train capacity changes through edicts leaving unrealistically high loading targets that could prevent the train from departing.
* Fixed waypoints being assignable as fuel stations in train networks.
* Fixed stacker tower keeping a stale target after a configuration change when no input was available.
* Fixed trucks swarming to a single excavator instead of distributing across multiple available ones.
* Fixed truck pickups stalling at storage buffers that never naturally fill up; partial loads are now allowed after 60 seconds without activity.
* Fixed hydrogen ship engine particles.
* Train dispatcher now tiebreaks between equally-good idle trains by picking the one closest to the supply station.
* Improved colliders for train tracks, stations, bridges, and roads.
* Improved fluid and loose train wagons 3D models to LOD popping.
* Fixed that two mods both using a config.json file would fail to register.
* Fixed that trains could align at the wrong module or fail to match departure conditions when the station was changed during alignment.
* Fixed that two trains needing the same fuel type at the same fuel station could interfere and neither would receive fuel.
* Fixed that train networks could ignore higher priority jobs in favor of lower priority ones.
* Reintroduced network train timeout based on transfer inactivity rather than total time at station, with a notification when a train is forced to depart.
* Terrain inspector tool no longer rounds tile sizes.
* Fixed terrain physics stopping on tiles touched by a recovery save load.
* Fixed terrain physics and disruption not fully recovering after loading a recovery save.
* Fixed config references becoming stale after save/load, which could cause difficulty changes or mod overrides to apply to outdated copies.
* Fixed stacker tower premature warnings.
* Fixed that ramps could be built perpendicular to start ports when port avoidance was enabled, preventing the port from being used.
* Fixed balancing between flipped train stations.
* Fixed unstable pipe start direction when the first segment would be vertical.
* Fixed terrain inspector not showing layers below intermediate bedrock.
* Fixed an error when trains pulled away from a station that required reserving critical sections at the nose.
* Fixed "cannot path" notification briefly appearing at turn-around stations.
* Fixed errors and incomplete loads caused by orphaned train track pillars/poles.
* Fixed tenders not functioning correctly when reversing.
* Fixed cancel job tooltip showing stale product from previous train.
* Fixed a memory leak that prevented the game from releasing memory after returning to the main menu.
* Added more zoom-to-cursor options with a new default (check settings if you prefer the previous behavior).
* Added a camera motion damping slider.
* Fixed blueprint rotation misaligning multi-tile surfaces relative to decals and other entities.
* Fixed errors and visual glitches on instanced entities after switching them between blueprint and placed state.
* Fixed error when drag-placing train tracks after a previous placement had been aborted mid-sequence.
* Fixed error after loading certain saves with ocean-adjacent entities.
* Fixed a rare issue where an unsupported conveyor or pipe could disappear when a connector was placed on it.
* Reduced memory consumed by bridge meshes by up to 80% through mesh deduplication and caching.
* Mod directory name must now match the mod's ID (from the manifest), misnamed directories are now rejected with a an error message.
* Moved pipes before molten metal channels in the entity list.
* Trains no longer slow down for waypoints when they can proceed directly to the next station.
* Non-amphibious trucks no longer attempt deliveries to entities fully in the ocean.
* Rocket assembly depot now displays its computing requirement in the building inspector.
Fixes
* Mine tower trucks with export routes now wait for their assigned tower's designations instead of dumping elsewhere.
* Mine tower trucks now respect the logistics zone mask when dumping to non-assigned towers.
* Fixed that the bridge lane inspector would not show the double-lane option for inner lane buttons.
* Fixed that the computing status bar would not show currently used capacity.
* Fixed train slope difficulty multiplier being applied twice, causing trains to climb hills too easily.
* Fixed train inspector showing stale water icon after locomotive replacement.
* Fixed that trains would not align correctly at waypoints.
* Fixed that non-amphibious trucks would dump to ocean designations at height 0.
* Fixed that vehicles could dump to mine tower designations outside their assigned logistics zone.
* Fixed issues with the upgrades of certain buildings.
* Fixed that the terrain disruption system could cause issues on load with corrupted queue entries caused by mods.
* Fixed various building layouts to better match their 3D models (ore sorting plant T1, large crusher, chemical plant, food mill, microchip machines, and others).
* Fixed missing translatable strings for various vehicle jobs, tutorial messages, and UI elements.
* Fixed that dumping near bridges could cause them to instantly collapse.
* Fixed animated building parts rendering with an offset when highlighted.
* Fixed tree harvester animations.
* Fixed that amphibious vehicles would not be considered parked at their destination.
* Fixed that train designer comparison would show stale speed values after slope difficulty changes.
* Fixed that the video settings tab could fail to initialize with an error.
Improvements
* Optimized bridges initialization resulting in ~40% faster content loading.
* Bridge segments whose pillars are entirely on land can now be built using unity build.
* Excluded pillars, poles, and other infrastructure entities from global search results.
* Re-ordering a ship to a new world location no longer sends it back to the dock first.
* Speed increase keybind no longer cycles into super speeds when they are not activated.
Fixes
* Fixed that FBR enrichment would skip a beat every now and then due to remaining fuel life amounts not being carried over to the next cycle.
* Fixed that train pathfinding underestimated the cost of routing through stations, causing trains to prefer pathing through stations unnecessarily.
* Fixed that boats would spin up to 359 degrees when leaving the dock.
* Fixed amphibious dump truck mixed material pile colors.
* Fixed a crash related to settlements.
New feature: pillar tool
* Added ability to add and remove pillars on transport belts and pipes, similar to train track pillars.
* Added 'remove_redundant_transport_pillars' console command to remove all redundant transport pillars. We recommend saving your game before using it. Removing redundant pillars can improve performance.
Improvements
* Stacker tower rails can now be placed on the ocean.
* Ocean area notifications now update when entities are moved.
* Optimized transport product rendering based on camera distance, reducing transport simulation update time by up to 50% (up to 10% of overall sim update).
* Optimized construction manager, up to 8x faster when many constructions are paused (up to 10% of overall sim update).
* Optimized ocean-related height change processing, saving about 1ms per simulation step on large saves (up to 3% of overall sim update).
Fixes
* Fixed amphibious hydrogen excavator having incorrect construction costs.
* Fixed a ship pathfinding bug that could lead to ships pathing through obstacles.
* Fixed cargo ships using incorrect crew size for different ship tiers.
* Fixed stacker tower throttling being applied at half the intended rate, also causing delayed construction of new segments.
* Fixed stacker tower max terrain height calculation for segment layouts.
* Fixed stacker tower area selection not considering its pivot correctly.
* Fixed issues when adding or removing train track pillars.
* Battleships now notify when they cannot reach the world.
* Battleships and cargo ships now show a more stable status when unable to reach the world instead of flickering between states.
* Optimized train track blueprint and paste placement, reducing large stuttering when moving many track previews.
* Optimized pole and pillar generation for train tracks (up to 4.5x faster for large placements).
* Fixed that amphibious vehicles would disrupt terrain on the ocean floor under the water.
* Fixed that ships could reverse after leaving docks.
* Fixed exhaust on all excavators not rotating correctly with the vehicle.
* Fixed ocean area recovery requiring incorrect depth threshold.
* Fixed billboard and gold furnace layouts.
* Fixed locomotive tooltip showing incorrect fuel consumption when vehicle fuel edicts were active.
* Fixed that the Everything toolbar tab would not work properly in the Buildings menu.
Current Release
Build 24602913
Uploaded Aug 21, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
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• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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