invites players to protect and guide a small band of settlers to forge a town at the edge of the known world.

From harvesting raw materials to hunting, fishing and farming to survive, building a thriving homestead will be fraught with challenge. Players will need to produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight as you battle for survival against the elements and outside threats.

With a vast array of materials and crops to harvest, dozens of unique buildings to expand your town with and a deep farming system - right down to soil fertility and seasonal rotations - the depth of Farthest Frontier is vast. Whether you choose to play on pacifist and avoid combat altogether or engage with varying levels of raider difficulty to raise the stakes for your town’s survival, enemies you'll face aren't always from raiders and foreign armies seeking plunder.

Ensuring your villagers have clean water to stop outbreaks of dysentery and cholera while making sure they are properly clothed to reduce chances of contracting tetanus, rabies or frostbite is key to survival. Failure to manage their needs and secure food properly will see disease creep into your settlement.

Offering beautiful fully customizable maps with randomized terrain generation and resource distribution, players are free to control the amount of water or mountains they desire for extreme maps, leading to unique challenges.

Crate Entertainment is revealing what’s on the horizon for Farthest Frontier, along with what players can expect to see on the road ahead for their homesteads in the in-depth medieval city builder. Since its Early Access launch, Farthest Frontier has welcomed nearly one million players to protect and guide their band of settlers. With the latest update, players can fulfill their settler’s spiritual needs with the religion system, build guild halls, introduce new industry, defend their settlements against new raider types, and much more.

Players will get to shape their own faith and provide the spiritual fulfillment their people need through the use of relics with the introduction of the religion system. Ancient objects that inspire reverence, each relic features its own set of perks that will bolster towns. Whether sending their villagers out to brave the wilderness and excavate ruins or by purchasing from traveling merchants, players will have different sources for obtaining relics and bringing religion to their town.

New industry is also coming to Farthest Frontier, with the introduction of paper. Turn flax into paper at the paper mill, send it off to bookbinders to turn the pages into books and create a new luxury item for tier 4 homes. In addition, libraries can be constructed in settlements to provide a new source of entertainment; just make sure to keep it stocked with reading materials. Paper will also be useful for bureaucracy, and Guild Halls is where it’ll be put to use. Construct a Guild Hall to boost one industry in your settlement, but with a limit of only one Guild Hall, the choice will be consequential for the future of your settlement.

Crate Entertainment has plenty more in store for the settlements of Farthest Frontier as they look forward to the game’s 1.0 launch. Some of the future changes and features coming to the game include:

• Combat: Expect to defend your settlement against new raider types equipped with catapults that can quickly put an end to passive defenses (like those beefy triple wall stacks you thought would keep raiders out). With new threats come new ways to defend your settlement, recruit soldiers, including ranged-only archers, and construct new towers to take out turrets. With all of this also comes new controls for deploying your troops and managing your army with the Town Center, including the ability to recruit soldiers before you build your barracks.
• New Animals: Cows are great and all, but a thriving frontier deserves more. New animals will be added throughout Early Access, including chickens, horses, and goats.
• Achievements: Achievement hunters can look forward to Farthest Frontier shipping with an array of achievements along with Steam Trading Cards arriving in the future as well.
• Mod Support: Full mod support will be implemented in the future via Steam Workshop.
• Quality of Life: Lots of quality of life changes will be arriving in the coming months, including changes to storage transfers/limits, raider info, crop summaries, notifications and immigration quest history, and more.

Farthest Frontier’s next update will be heading for settlements in August and will include the religion system, paper industry, Guild Hall, crypts, and more.

Key Features

• Harvest, Grow, Craft - Harvest 14 different raw materials from wood, stone and clay, to metal ores, wild herbs, and honey. Grow 17 types of food, including forage items, fish and game, plus 10 food crops, each with different characteristics. Produce 32 crafted items and materials in a multi—tiered economy.
• Build and Advance - Construct 50 different types of buildings as you grow your town from a fledgling settlement to a bustling city. Your town center and housing will advance through multiple building tiers as the prosperity and desirability of your town increases. Upgrade production buildings to increase efficiency and enable production of more advanced items.
• Most Detailed Farming System Ever - Strategically select from 10 crops with unique growing characteristics and configure crop rotations to maintain soil fertility, avoid heat and frost damage, and prevent the accumulation of diseases. Cultivate your fields over time, removing weeds and rocks, raising fertility and adjusting soil mixture to achieve maximum crop production to keep your growing population fed.
• Advanced Town Simulation - Villagers actively live their lives and perform their jobs in real time. Watch as villagers carry goods across town from remote work-sites to be processed into materials and crafted into items. See foods and goods delivered to homes, the trade post or stored for later use. Develop roads, transport wagons and improve storage methods to facilitate the efficient movement of goods through your town and prevent spoilage.
• Randomly Generated Maps - Farthest Frontier is highly replayable and no game is ever quite the same with beautiful, completely randomized terrain generation and resource distribution. Controls allow players to specify the amount of water or mountains they desire, with extreme maps leading to unique challenges.
• Idyllic to Brutal - Customizable difficulty options allow players to turn off features like invaders and disease, for a more tranquil experience or max out difficulty to truly test their town-builder prowess.
• Environmental Interaction - Develop your economy based on which resources are locally abundant and produce items for trade to acquire that which you lack. Erect fencing to keep deer away from crop fields and stop bears from raiding food storage. Manage tree cover to prevent underground water supplies from drying up. Balance the need to clear land for agriculture around vital natural resources like wild growing medicinal plants and forage items.
• All Them Old-Timey Diseases! - Ensure your villagers have clean water to stop outbreaks of dysentery and cholera. Collect berries and plant greens to avoid scurvy and ensure a healthy diet. Make sure villagers are properly shoed and clothed to reduce chances of contracting tetanus, rabies or frostbite. Build a healer’s house to quarantine the infected and provide herbs and medicine for treatment. Manage rodent populations by collecting waste, securely storing food and employing rat catchers to ward off the feared bubonic plague.
• Fend Off Would-Be Invaders - Choose to play on pacifist and avoid combat altogether or engage with varying levels of raider difficulty to raise the stakes for your town’s survival. Progress from wood palisades to stone walls, build towers and barracks, recruit and equip soldiers in the defense of your town as rising prosperity attracts the attention of raiders and foreign armies seeking plunder.

Farthest Frontier is in development for PC (Steam), scheduled for 2023.