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Steam & Stones

Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.

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AnvilWorks
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AnvilWorks
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About the Game

Team up with your friends and build a thriving dwarven city. 

Use automation to unlock new technologies and harness the power of water, lava, and steam. Create an intricate network of minecarts and clever contraptions to power your industries. Craft the finest dwarven goods, including the best ales to keep your hardworking dwarves fueled and happy. Watch your dwarven city flourish as you amass a fortune, and build a city of stone and steam!

Steam & Stones is still in active development!

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Features

  • A full minecart system to haul quantity of ores and crystals from big distances

  • A torque-based power system to power machines and contraptions.

  • Water (and lava) physics

  • Automation working hand in hands with your residents

  • A bustling city-builder, where Dwarves have demands. Housing, beer, you name it!

  • Tech tree to unlock new machines, upgrades, and new processes.

  • Brewing your own beer, for export or local consumption.

  • Dwarves

  • Gold

  • More dwarves

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