Decay: A World Soon Forgotten

Grounded voxel survival

The voxel foundation is there for destruction, repair, placement, harvesting, and persistence, not for a bright block-world toybox.

Fictional county

The world direction is rural and suburban: roads, town edges, farms, forests, utility spaces, and points of interest that feel placed for a reason.

Scavenge, repair, rebuild

The core loop leans toward finding materials, harvesting resources, repairing damage, upgrading shelter, and claiming practical outposts.

Persistence that matters

Generated places should stay put after discovery. Damage, claims, containers, vehicles, survivors, and weathering are being treated as save-facing concerns.

Places first

Roads, towns, farms, forests, and points of interest should feel connected by believable land use instead of dropped into empty terrain.

Memory over loot

The long-term goal is for players to remember people, events, consequences, and places, not only what they found in a container.

Capability, not hard locks

Better tools, knowledge, facilities, skill, and experience should make survival safer and more efficient without turning believable actions into menu gates.

Growth has cost

A larger shelter or settlement should become more capable, but also louder, harder to feed, harder to defend, and more demanding to maintain.

World and terrain

• Seeded world generation and persistent generated areas.
• Voxel terrain interaction, block damage, harvesting, repair, and upgrade paths.
• Road, town, farm, forest, field, and wilderness zoning for a more believable county layout.

Survival hooks

• Scavenging, crafting, loot-table, item, recipe, and resource foundations.
• Base and outpost claim support with facility/outpost summary data.
• Weathering, threat, noise, temperature, and environment-state hooks for later pressure systems.

Community and vehicles

• Survivor roster, survivor runtime state, and community save-data foundations.
• Saved vehicle data foundations for installed parts, tuning profile, towing profile, cargo weight, and odometer distance.
• Outpost assignment and community-resource paths planned around lightweight data contracts.

Presentation

• Darker survival HUD experiments for health, stamina, hunger, thirst, temperature, hotbar, and selected item readouts.
• Muted terrain, rural road, clutter, vegetation, and low-poly visual registry work to avoid a toy-like terrain read.
• Runtime environment systems for time, sky, clouds, fog, moon state, and save/load boundaries.