📘 Basics

Short guides: where to start and how the main rules of the world work.

• 🚀 Getting startedThe colony’s first days: forest, houses, bread and jobs.
• 🧭 Top of the screenWhat is where at the top: day and speed, the event bar, supplies and windows.
• 📦 Storage and suppliesWhere supplies are kept, how much room storage has, what spoils and how to sell the surplus.
• 🔔 Device notificationsWhat notifications the game can send and how to turn them on.
• 🍃 News on the windA small gift for the colony once a day: a letter, a find, a riddle or a trader.
• 🎯 Daily and weekly tasksTasks for the day, the week and the game season — with rewards.
• 🏘 Building neighborsWhat to place nearby: a workshop next to its supplier is faster, noise near houses bothers people.
• 📮 Colony postcardA picture of your colony with its chronicle — to share with friends.
• 🔢 How many you can buildWhich buildings are limited in number and how to unlock room for one more.
• 🍞 Food and sleepWhat settlers eat, how to avoid hunger, sleep and tiredness.
• ❄ Seasons and winterThe change of seasons, winter heating with firewood, snow on roads, and the harvest.
• 🌲 Forest, trails and bridgesNobody walks through forest: clearings, trails, roads and bridges over rivers.
• 🏛 Ruins, caches and digsHow to search the ruins of the ancients, dig deeper and find caches in the mountains.

This guide is built from the data of the game “Oskolki” — a browser colony simulator on a floating shard among the ruins of the ancients. Play for free in the browser.