The loop
- Survey ground from the catalogue and click the map to claim it.
- Find deposits — coal, iron, copper, gold, crystal. Each rolls its own reserves and grade.
- Build mines on them: a prospector camp first, a shaft once you have surveyed the geology.
- Process the ore — crushers lift nearby yield, smelters turn ore into metal, refineries make fuel and bullion.
- Power and staff it. Generators fill the grid; worker housing fills the shifts.
- Haul and export along roads, out through the docks, for credits.
- Research and promote the charter until the island is a corporation.
Controls
- Left click
- Claim the hex in hand · select a claimed hex
- Space / right click
- Rotate the hex in hand
- V
- Reshuffle the hex variant
- R
- Technology programme
- I
- Operations report
- Esc
- Deselect
- Drag / WASD
- Pan the camera
- Right drag / Q / E
- Rotate the camera
- Wheel
- Zoom toward the cursor
First five minutes
Put a lumber camp in the forest and a dock on the beach —
timber and credits are what everything else is built from. Then a
prospector camp on the coal seam north of the landing, and
research Geological Survey to unlock the mine shaft.
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