BUILD A CIVILIZATION.

Build a place worth staying.

1. Found your Hall. The central clearing has nearby woodland, rock and fertile land.
2. Build a garden, forester and cottages. Connect each building to the Hall with roads. Only connected homes and workplaces contribute.
3. Give people jobs. Open People to find available residents. Select one to highlight reachable workplaces, then Send to a job. Manual assignments stay in place; Auto Jobs releases them. Couriers remain protected.
4. Connect roads. Roads cost one timber per tile. Select a disconnected building for an amber route preview and Connect Road. Foresters need woodland within three tiles; Stoneworks need exposed rock. Workers produce locally and couriers bring supplies to the Hall.
5. Watch people work. Residents commute; couriers deliver local stockpiles to your shared store. Leave room for roads.
6. Build an Academy. Research Masonry, then Civic Charter. Upgrade finished buildings for extra capacity and visible growth. Masonry lets the Hall house six more settlers; existing services stay open during renovation.
7. Explore a neighboring site. When you have 12 residents, a Civic Charter and supplies, found an outpost. Your town becomes a region.

Drag the map to pan; pinch, wheel or +/− to zoom; ↻ rotates. Tap a build card, then a tile. R builds roads, X salvages, Esc selects, Space pauses. On phones, drag to pan and use the panel below the map. Close View gives a sharper city view. Walk Town (C) lets you explore with WASD/arrows or the touch pad. P opens People; gold rings mark available residents and red rings show job destinations. The local steward can help build and research within your reserve policy.

This chapter includes Town → Region → Country, with overseas port cities. Research Rivercraft to claim the waterfront, Navigation for boatwrights, and City Charters after surveying an island. Use World Chart for ships and remote cities, Town Map to see your home roads, Close View to inspect work, and Walk Town to visit people. Charter two mainland outposts, found one overseas port and complete a return trade shipment. Existing settlements and trade count. Research National Charter, then open Region to Found Country and choose one permanent National Council project. World unification and space colonization are future chapters. Progress stays in this browser; export a backup from the Steward panel.

In your Country, research National Planning and open Operations to visit each settlement, build on its plots and hire local workers. Civic Works leads to factories, electricity, road transport and aviation. Later research needs both knowledge and work time; pause research from its card while your economy continues. Goods stay in local stores until a staffed vehicle returns them to the capital. Build and staff the matching Depot, Airfield or Helipad at both ends, then commission a service. Upgrade its facilities for faster trips and hire operators for more simultaneous departures. Train the Steward and explicitly allow national works when you want help. Dashboard screens advance with research; choose an earlier unlocked display in Operations.

Found a new world?

This replaces the Foundry town in this browser. Export a backup first if you want to keep it. Your separate Riftstorm survival save is unaffected.