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 reveals the most consequential addition in city-builder history: Pets.

On May 14th, Cats & Dogs arrives as Farthest Frontier’s first DLC, bringing both cherished animal companions and critter combatants to the celebrated medieval city-builder.

Can you pet that dog? Absolutely.

Players will be able to start settlements that include either a dog or cat that traveled across the wilderness with the aspiring settlers, in addition to being able to purchase kennels to breed multiple variations to add to the city. These new companions will add other layers to the experience as well. Cats will wander settlements like they own the place and keep rat populations in check, while dogs will take on jobs like protecting hunters or defending crops and livestock from the newly added foxes and groundhogs.

The Cats & Dogs DLC launches on May 14th to deliver fresh charm and make your settlement come alive with new activity, whether you are starting anew or you’re a seasoned explorer of the frontier:

• Breed Animal Companions — Purchase dogs and cats from the trading post to breed them in your kennels, with 18 different possible variations. Every new settlement starts with a dog or cat companion.
• New Buildings — Construct Cat and Dog Kennels to feed and care for your pets, and a Doghouse to have your animal companions best positioned near your crops and livestock.
• New Threats — Groundhogs can infest crop fields and devastate yields, while Foxes will hunt down helpless chickens.
• New Decorations — Embellish your settlement with the new unique Hedge Garden, Topiary Garden, and Trellis, with multiple variations of each.

"As they did in historical times, cats and dogs provide vital services, from pest control to protection,” shares Crate Entertainment CEO and Creative Director Arthur Bruno. “Cats help keep rats at bay while dogs battle the evil triumvirate of groundhogs, foxes and deer, hellbent on ravaging your crops and chicken coops. They also enrich your town with a new layer of life, providing companionship to villagers and entertainment with a range of cute animated interactions, including belly rubs, tricks, and, of course, pooping. While it may look like a small addition on paper, pets bring a new dimension of life and activity to towns that is a lot of fun to watch."

Key Features

• Update v1.1 Additions — Gridless build mode, Guided Journey with objectives for new settlers new to Farthest Frontier, new building management tool for managing multiple structures at once, and more
• Build, Enhance & Advance: Construct over 190 different 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 and advancements are made in a vast 140+ point Tech Tree. Upgrade production buildings to increase efficiency and enable the manufacturing of more advanced items. Construct a temple and customize your people’s faith with discoverable relics.
• The Most Detailed Farming System… Ever: Strategically select from 12 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 by 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 out their lives and perform their jobs in real-time. Develop roads, construct transport wagons, and set production and storage limits to reduce spoilage and facilitate the efficient movement of goods throughout your settlement.
• Randomly Generated Maps: No playthrough is ever quite the same with completely randomized terrain generation and resource distribution. Beautiful, unique biomes and map themes increase replayability, with more extreme maps leading to distinct challenges. Controls allow players to specify the amount of water or mountains they desire, even down to which resources can generate on the map.
• Idyllic to Brutal: Fully customizable difficulty options (including a Pacifist mode) allow you to turn off features like invaders, disease, and combat for a more tranquil experience… or to max out the difficulty to truly test your town-builder prowess. 
• All Them Old-Timey Diseases: Clean drinking water, proper waste disposal, healthy diets for your villagers, and even proper clothing will help combat the variety of diseases and ailments that plagued the medieval era.
• Fend Off Invaders: Progress from wood palisades to stone walls, build towers, barracks and stables, and recruit and equip soldiers in the defense of your town as your rising prosperity attracts the attention of raiders and foreign armies seeking plunder.
• Full Mod Support: Take advantage of free Unity development tools and Steam Workshop integration to transform the game to suit your playstyle. 

Farthest Frontier is available for PC (Steam) at $34.99.