❄ Seasons and winter

• A year is four seasons. In autumn the harvest is richer — time to store bread and firewood.
• In winter fields and the apiary don’t work, and houses are heated with firewood — 1 per settler a day. Without firewood the colony freezes: settlers get hungry faster, sleep worse and feel sad.
• Snow covers trails and roads — walking through snow is slower. Trails stay under snow until spring; roads and bridges are cleared by the “Cleaning” job (jobs): in winter a paved way is much faster.
• Cut forest grows back from its edges — over several years. Bare ground where rock used to be gets covered with grass in eight days if nobody walks on it.

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.