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This is a resource gathering, crafting RPG, where you build your home from scratch and make whatever design you want. You start with a dead polluted land that you transform into a beautiful homestead by a river. Play single player or LAN Co-op.
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About Home By The River
Home By The River is an RPG where you gather resources and build your home. Cut down dead trees, plant new trees and crops, grow and harvest to earn money and resources. Enlist AI pioneers of various professions to help you clean up pollution, harvest your mature crops, or earn money. You can play single player or LAN co-op.
CLEAN POLLUTION
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Cut down dead trees.
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Remove trash.
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Plant new trees.
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Place solar panels.
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Establish wind farms.
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When you're filthy rich, build your clean reactor.
CREATE YOUR HOME
As you level up you'll gain more tiles that can be unlocked and placed in the world.
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Right click acts like a colour picker and can also swap to the Axe tool for quick harvesting.
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Alpha numeric keys allow you to quickly select a mode; delete, build, interact, inventory, foreground, props.
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You can left click drag build and delete for fast construction and deletion.
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Holding down left shift while constructing will immediately build a solid wall which is great for building faster.
FARM, HARVEST & COOK
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Plant corn, wheat, sugar, and trees.
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Sell the harvested crop or you can process them further for use in cooking.
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Let some trees grow to help reduce pollution and harvest some to sell their lumber. Do sustainable forestry.
YOUR STATS
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Hunger - you can't do anything if you're hungry so eat food.
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Energy - you can't do anything if you're tired, so get rest.
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Spirit - you can't do anything if you're depressed, so meditate.
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Hidden - your world will be demolished if you get found out so do keep away from the drones and destroy them.
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Experience - gain XP, level up so you get more tile types to build and more neat stuff to do.
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Virtue - defines how people react to you and your end game experience.
EARN INCOME
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Sell harvested crops to rivermen, or better, through a trading terminal when you're higher level.
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Collect sky nodes and get money, XP, and spirit.
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Make computer games, if you make a legendary one you will make tons of cash.
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Establish ventures in the background and let the passive income roll in.
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Build solar panels. Yes, you'll get income from your solar farm.
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Bail out businesses that are close to default. They'll take you on as a shareholder and give you dividends!
AND MUCH MORE
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Establish your underground lab, gain research points, unlock research cards and create clean reactor components that you'll donate to the world.
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Enlist pioneers who will help you achieve your objectives. Harvester pioneers will remove trash, cut down dead trees and harvest mature crops for you.
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Feed your super cat, change its colours, or give it a hat.
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Play single player or over LAN. Harvested resources are duplicated across the network so everyone benefits. Also you can place a chest in the world to share items or just store it in that world!
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Upgrade your hoverboard and fly!
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And more for you to experience.
Thanks for coming by!
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