A real-time simulation game about building a colony on an exoplanet for terminal lovers.
Inspired by Dwarf Fortress: the build cursor and the camera are two different things.
cargo run --release --bin exocolony
cargo run --release --bin exocolony -- --seed foothold
exocolony --help
--seed / -s fixes world generation. Omit it, and a random 8-character seed
is chosen and shown in the console and map title.
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrows / WASD | Move the build cursor |
| Alt+Arrows / Alt+WASD | Pan the camera (turns follow off) |
| Alt+Shift+Arrows / Alt+Shift+WASD | Page-pan half a view (turns follow off) |
| F4 | Toggle camera-follow-cursor (edge slack) |
| F3 | Pin home at the cursor |
| Home | Return cursor and camera to the pinned home |
n / N |
Next / previous structure (camera follows jump) |
b / B |
Next / previous Base |
Tab / Shift+Tab, [ ], PageUp / PageDown |
Cycle build menu groups |
; ' (also Tab / [ ]) |
Cycle build menu groups |
- = / , . / End |
Cycle structure variants |
| PageUp / PageDown | Scroll the console log |
| Enter | Place structure (then it builds for a few ticks) |
| Delete | Remove structure on the cursor tile |
F1 / ? |
Missions and keys overlay (Esc closes it) |
| Esc | Close the overlay, or quit |
This game is currently in the alpha stage. We will move to beta once all game mechanics are implemented.
- ExoCoin wallet and running costs
- Spaceport structure group (export commodities, import rare goods)
- Construction that consumes stockpiled resources (tick delay still applies)
- Cancel construction / refund
- Persist seed and colony to a save file
- Building activity that drains local deposits (
availableon tiles) — mines (0.3.1) - Power / logistics radius so a 256² map has local grids
- Fog of exploration
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