World Map

🌍Terrain Types

The map is generated using layered Perlin noise, producing organic terrain patterns. Each terrain type has distinct visual sprites and gameplay implications.

Terrain	Coverage	Passable	Notes
Wasteland	~70%	Yes	Default terrain. Cracked earth, scattered debris.
Ruins	~7%	Yes	Urban areas. Higher raider camp density. Lore hotspots.
Dead Forest	~10%	Yes	Skeletal trees. Visual variety, no gameplay effect.
Radiation Zone	~5%	No	Impassable barriers. Glowing green on map.
Mountains	~4%	No	Impassable. Form natural borders and chokepoints.
Craters	~2%	No	Impact zones. Scattered impassable pockets.
River	~1.6%	No	2-4 rivers snake across the map. Impassable except at bridges.
Bridge	<0.1%	Yes	3-6 bridges per river. Strategic chokepoints.

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Impassable terrain doesn't block marches. Troop movement uses straight-line Euclidean distance, not pathfinding. Mountains and radiation zones are visual and settlement-placement barriers, but armies travel through them abstractly. This keeps the march system simple and predictable.

⏱Travel Time

Travel Time Formula

time = distance / (slowest_unit_speed × world_speed)

Distance is Euclidean: sqrt((x₂-x₁)² + (y₂-y₁)²). The march travels at the speed of its slowest unit. Time is in hours, converted to seconds for the countdown timer.

Distance (tiles)	Scavenger (20)	Militia (12)	War Rig (6)	Enforcer (4)
5	15 min	25 min	50 min	1h 15m
10	30 min	50 min	1h 40m	2h 30m
25	1h 15m	2h 5m	4h 10m	6h 15m
50	2h 30m	4h 10m	8h 20m	12h 30m
100	5h	8h 20m	16h 40m	25h

Times shown at 1x world speed. Higher speed worlds reduce travel proportionally. The maximum possible distance on a 500×500 map is ~707 tiles (corner to corner).

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Slow units drag the entire march. If you send 100 Scavengers (speed 20) with 1 War Rig (speed 6), the entire army travels at speed 6. For fast raids, leave slow units behind. For conquest operations with Enforcers (speed 4), expect very long travel times — plan accordingly.

🏁Control Points

260 control points are placed across the map at strategic locations — near ruins, at river crossings, and in defensible terrain. They're the key to the domination win condition.

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Outpost

1 pt

200 on map · 100 garrison cap

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Stronghold

3 pts

50 on map · 500 garrison cap

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Fortress

10 pts

10 on map · 2,000 garrison cap

Type	Count	Points Each	Total Points	% of Victory
Outpost	200	1	200	44%
Stronghold	50	3	150	33%
Fortress	10	10	100	22%
Total	260	—	450	100%

Win condition: first alliance to hold 225 points (50% of 450) wins the world. Control points are captured by attacking them (single battle, no loyalty system). Multiple alliance members can garrison the same point. Garrisoned troops consume food from their home settlement.

🏠Spawn Zones

New players spawn in the outer 50-tile band around the map edges, with a minimum of 10 tiles between starting settlements. This ensures new players have room to grow without immediately neighboring veteran players. The center of the map — where Fortresses and high-value control points cluster — is contested endgame territory.

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Map hotspots are procedurally generated: Ruined Cities, Military Bases, Supply Depots, and Lone Fortresses. These areas have higher raider camp density and control point concentration. They're worth fighting over — but they're also where the most active players gravitate.