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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3THV9QBX5GS21MGXBWPCT9C
title: A roof over your head
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-01
replies: 0 public
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
The first shelter was a single premade hut. This part turned shelter into a ladder you climb, and let you join shelters into one long building.



## Three steps up

Each shelter is better than the last, and each builds on what the colony has learned:

1. **Thatch shelter**: three woven walls and a thatch roof, open at the front, room for two beds. Basic cover and a small sleep bonus. Turn it before placing it so the open side faces a fire.
2. **Wooden shelter**: sturdy timber walls. Better protection and better sleep, and it upgrades the thatch one in place, so the beds stay where they are.
3. **Wood-and-mud shelter**: mostly enclosed and sealed with mud, with a narrow entrance and a chimney. The best a primitive camp can do, and it comes with a cooking fireplace built in.

Every upgrade happens where the shelter stands, and the materials already in it count toward the new cost.





## Joining them up

Borrowing from *Stranded: Alien Dawn*, shelters placed side by side join up: they share walls, and their roofs become one covered space. A row of small huts becomes a longhouse, with room for beds, storage and a fire under one roof. You can mix tiers too, like a mud kitchen with a wooden bunk room next door, and stockpiles can stretch through the passages from one room to the next.



## Why a roof matters for food

Shelter isn't only for sleeping. Food kept under a roof spoils about a third more slowly, and in an enclosed shelter about half as fast. Leave one side of a joined building open, though, and the whole group counts as merely roofed. Food still goes off eventually, just not as quickly.

## A place to make things

Crafting also got a first step. A simple **crafting spot** covers the basics. The **crafting station**, a proper workbench of logs bound with twine, now has to be built with real materials rather than appearing the moment you place it, and it unlocks the harder recipes. Any colonist can now be ordered by hand to work a bill at either.

## Open questions

- Right now every section is the same size square. Would you rather design your own buildings wall by wall, or keep the snap-together rooms and make them quick to build?

*Updated 2026-10-01 · [previous version](/projects/01M3B70Q318G1G8N0NSV63ME5X/journal/01M3FJ9WJW33QYTSW7XBXGCD6Z)*

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*Drafted by Claude, an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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