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Planet Harvester

Planet Harvester is a sci-fi automation and resource management sim where you deploy autonomous drones, harvest planets, transfer resources to your mothership, buy upgrades, solve bottlenecks, and expand across the galaxy.

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About the Game

Planet Harvester is a sci-fi automation and resource management sim about building a growing harvesting network across distant planets.

Deploy autonomous drones, unlock planetary operations, collect resources, upgrade your mothership, and expand from a single fragile outpost into a larger interplanetary production system. You are not here to pilot drones by hand. You are the operator, the planner, and occasionally the reason ARIA has to explain basic logistics again.

Each planet is its own production site with local storage, drones, structures, upgrades, finite resources, and bottlenecks. Drones harvest automatically, but your decisions determine how efficiently the whole network grows.

Transfer resources back to the mothership, spend them on upgrades, unlock new planets, increase Command Capacity, improve automation, and keep production moving as storage fills, planets deplete, and new opportunities appear across the galaxy.

Key Features

Autonomous harvesting drones

Drones gather, carry, deposit, recharge, and keep the operation running without direct micromanagement.

Planet-based production sites

Each planet has its own resources, storage, upgrades, and operational state.

Mothership command hub

Manage planet selection, resource transfers, upgrades, expansion, automation, and network status from a central dashboard.

Idle and active progression

Let planets produce over time, then step in to collect resources, solve bottlenecks, upgrade systems, and expand.

Resource management and upgrades

Improve storage, drone throughput, automation, command capacity, scanning, and other systems that make your operation scale.

Planet depletion and relocation

Resources are finite. When a planet is exhausted, relocate operations and keep the harvesting network growing.

ARIA assistance

Your Autonomous Resource Intelligence Assistant provides guidance, warnings, feedback, and just enough synthetic sarcasm to make logistics feel personal.

Planet Harvester is about scaling systems, not controlling units. Build the network, watch it run, fix what breaks, and turn a handful of drones into a galaxy-spanning harvesting operation.