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Quarries and ore: material groups for custom 3D

Dated 27 Sep 2026
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Quarries and ore: material groups for custom 3D

Ways that stone, clay, copper, iron, quartz and thunderstone could be built as custom low-poly props: concept sheets and an edit of the Stonefield map for each, with a rough triangle budget. Round two adds a colour plan that avoids too many reds, new copper shapes, quartz in pieces and crater variants.

Round one's picks: the tor, stepped clay pits, iron columns, a quartz vein and a thunderstone crater. Round two recolours the set to avoid too many reds.

Edited for the Dev Log
  • Added the map credit

Dated 27 Sep 2026.

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9 September

  1. The first week, in screenshots

11 September

  1. Day one: two generated boards

13 September

  1. The player market

14 September

  1. Three checkpoints
  2. Startup, guest and account screens
  3. World navigation: strip or floating
  4. Visual identity: three brand directions

15 September

  1. Worker roster and cancel

16 September

  1. Working at home: Mill, Bakery and a Care Bench
  2. Hometown: a village above the world
  3. The Hometown grows
  4. The request board

18 September

  1. Wooden traps and biscuit bait
  2. Crafting and creature field guide

20 September

  1. Round one: four ways it could look
  2. Making the map's roads and borders read
  3. The map at night
  4. Round two: one world, three finishes, four hours
  5. Beamed down from Hometown
  6. Water: depth, fish and things that glow
  7. Where you are: the player marker and the ring

21 September

  1. Small life: fireflies, butterflies and birds
  2. Terrain references: shores, rocky Stonefield and roads

22 September

  1. Landmarks: the market, Energy and Water
  2. Capture ladder viewer

23 September

  1. The pin bounce when tapped
  2. Dance-Off capture scene
  3. Menus for the capture loop
  4. When the connection drops
  5. Icons, portraits and pins
  6. Market and Settings as windows

25 September

  1. Biome horizons: hiding the edge of the map
  2. Biome ground: how each biome's terrain could look

27 September

  1. Fewer taps to hire a worker
  2. Quarries and ore: material groups for custom 3D
  3. Single finds on the map

28 September

  1. From crafting menus to production lines
  2. A market that fits in one hand
  3. Production lines on the real screens
  4. Icons and buildings for production

29 September

  1. Choosing Hometown's camera
  2. Could Hometown be 3D?

30 September

  1. Relit billboards: one Kitchen, lit at runtime
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