The Colonists is a settlement building game inspired by classic titles like The Settlers and the Anno series.
You take control of a team of self-replicating robots who have escaped from Earth and are searching the galaxy for a new home where they can fulfil their dream: to be human.
You'll advance through three different Ages as you build infrastructure for your colony by constructing road, boat and train transport systems.
Harvest natural resources, set up farming and food production, create expeditions to discover new lands and research new technologies.
With two separate mission tracks, The Colonists lets either you create sprawling settlements in peace or race to compete against AI colonies in military winner-takes-all scenarios.
Explore, research, manage, tweak and refine to your heart's content!
Hi everyone,
That's right, it's the random map generator update!
Random Map Generator
You can now procedurally generate maps to play on! There's a core random game mode which includes optional victory conditions as well as the ability to create a map in sandbox mode. You also have the following customisation options when generating a map:
- Map Size: Small (160), Normal (200), Large (240) or Huge (300)
- Biome: Default, snow or desert
- Water: Little, some or lots
- Natural Resources: Few, some or lots
Please let me know how you get on - we have a dedicated #proc-gen-maps channel in our Discord server for feedback and further ideas.
Patch Notes
- Random Map Generator! Procedurally generate maps with various settings in either main random map mode or in sandbox mode
- New mission info panel - better contextual information about the mission or map you're playing, including an option to edit sandbox settings mid-game
- Fixed some instance of auto terrain adjustment not working correctly when placing road and paths over broken terrain
- Fixed placing harbours over existing roads causing issues
- Top left buttons now have a selected state
- Few more localisation fixes
Once again, huge thanks to everyone providing feedback, bug reports, suggestions and reviews, it's massively appreciated and really helps support continued development of the game.
Next month will be the first phase of testing for mod support for the game, so if that's your thing please join in on the #mod-support channel on Discord!
Discord: https://discord.gg/thecolonists
Help And Bug Reporting: http://codebyfire.com/colonists/help
Thanks!
Minimum Setup
- OS: 64bit operating system
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4690 or AMD Ryzen 7 2700UMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 7770
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended Setup
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