Stonehearth is a fantasy survival RTS with RPG influences where you must gather resources, build a fortified settlement, train an army and fight world's greatest challenges. The game is designed for the player to play how they want, with an A.I. "dungeon master" overseeing everything and adapting the game to your playstyle.
General
The world at the beginning is randomly generated.You will start with a small group of survivors and must establish a food supply, establish your defense, expand and defeat the enemies coming in your way.
Characters
As you navigate through your new world, many characters will demand your attention. You will interact and decide on starting political relationships with factions, encounter different races and selecting a class.
Factions
In Stonehearth, you will face either friends or foes. Friendly factions will cooperate with you as hostile factions will constantly try to eliminate your city. Of course you have to stop them and do everything possible to keep your settlers safe.
- Friendly Factions: Rabbit Clan
- Hostile Factions: Elementals
Classes
Characters differ by classes - recollections of available abilities. Each settler can pick one of the in-game classes. These are also refereed to as jobs and each citizen will gather experience by working, level up and advance through the skill tree, gaining access to more advanced classes as follows:
| Carpenter ↓ | ||||
| Trapper ↓ | Mason ↓ | Farmer ↓ | ||
| Hunter ↓ | Shepherd ↓ | Blacksmith | Herbalist ↓ | Brewer ↓ |
| Big Game H. ↓ | Rancher ↓ | Alchemist ↓ | Brewmaster ↓ | |
| Beastmaster | Physician | |||
In addition to this basic skill tree, the developers also announced the following classes:
- Animal Trainer: tame and train animals to fight and work for you;
- Magma Smith: use the earth to crush your enemies;
- Geomancer: manipulate the earth to boost your city construction;
- Enginner: plant traps, create tools and craft weaponry;
Modding the Game
The developers are creating the game in a way that will be extremely friendly to the modding community. In addition to creating mods yourself, you will also be able to share them with the rest of the community. The following are just a few of the things that will be possible to mod:
- User Interface
- New classes, weapons and monsters
- New scripted adventures
- Rewrite the AI for units and/or monsters
- Even change the way the sun sets
