🪵🔥 The charcoal pile is used to turn wood in to charcoal by your workers.

This can be used by the artisan in the forge to smelt iron ore intro ignots.

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While digging there is a change to stumble upon tombs or ruins of ancient civilisations.

🔍 You can make your units explore them to find out what lies inside.

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If your units encounter natural obstructions like ponds, they need to take the long way around.

🛠️ Fortunately, it is now possible to build bridges!

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Working on environments and caves.

When expanding your colony you can stumble on natural caves. You can integrate them in your colony, or build around them.

Caves will also be a great place for your units to forage or catch fish.

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Some early footage of setting op de fundaments of a new colony. Dig rooms, build and decorate chambers and set your units to work.

Please note this is pre-alpha footage, so missing animations, the UI and additional polish are coming soon. 🛠️

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The farmer is no longer idle and hard at work with watering and harvesting crops for the colony. 🥕🌽

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Here are some miners, digging out new rooms for the colony. ⛏️

Working on the digging animations, they will be added next.

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Dump in a bunch of units and see how the job system handles it.

I did a small stress test of the job system and it holds up pretty well, but I did found room for some improvement 💡

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You can’t test early enough, so I brought in the heavyweights for some early pre-alpha testing. 🪲

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All units pick a job appropriate for their tier. For example:

➡️ An artisan smelts iron ore to ingots.
➡️ Miners dig out and build new rooms.
➡️ And the farmer... doesn’t have a job yet, so hangs out in the dormitory all day 😅

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New year, time to gather resources and start working again.

A lot of exciting updates are coming this year, make sure to follow ❤️

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Entering the end of the year, I got a lot of the systems done for my underground colony builder 🎉

Next year the focus is on content; more units, room types, and a lot of stuff to explore. And finally a Steam page of course.

Hopefully see you then🎆

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Your miners will now dig the chambers, lay floors and reinforce the walls, ready for you to build new rooms.

Still in need for some visual polish, but the logic for are the construction jobs is ready 😊

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Currently finetuning the job system. With multiple jobs available, a unit needs to pick the most logical job. The player can influence this by setting the priority of a job type higher or lower.

I’m using a utility system to achieve this, which works great.

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Currently working on the job system and doing some testing. Guess this guy doesn't need a hammer 😅

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