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Cave Oasis at Shylake is a cozy farming and small-town life sim set in a solarpunk-inspired town inside a cave on Copaceta Moon. You arrive from Earth after taking a greenhouse job in Shylake Town, a cooperative community, and use your hydroponic skills to help prepare for dust storms that threaten the sunlight reaching the town’s solar field and cave biomes. Through farming, foraging, crafting, cooking, environmental care and community support, you help the town survive the storms and thrive.

Grow food in the caves

Grow crops from Earth and learn to cultivate plants from other inhabited worlds with help from experts in the community. Make use of the limited growing space by stacking planters vertically and connecting them to hydroponic reservoirs or fish tanks for aquaponics. Place sun-seeking crops above and mushrooms in the shade below, using platforms and ladders to work across the full 3D growing space.

Craft with biomass

Use shared maker spaces in town while developing your skills and acquiring machines and tools for a home workspace. Most crafting uses biomass grown in your greenhouse or in the town’s wild biomes. You can disassemble items to reuse their materials or compost them into nutrients for new growth.

Combine furniture parts and use different machines and techniques to make things. You can 3D-print items from wood, plant fiber, seaweed or chitin; spin and weave those materials into fabric for upholstery and clothes; work with wood; make cardboard furniture; or grow creations by applying fungal mycelium to a frame and placing it in an incubator.

Cook and make a home

Settle into an apartment beneath your greenhouse and customize it, including its semi-automated kitchen. Use cookware for steaming, sautéing, baking, blending and juicing, and combine ingredients to create new dishes and discover what your neighbors like.

Arrange the kitchen with cabinets, counters and refrigerators, choosing from different designs and colors. Add light fixtures, furniture and dividers made through your crafting experiments to organize and decorate your living space.

Care for the ecosystem

Shylake’s connected caves include a large forest and an underwater lake biome. Forage in the town’s food forest and lake bed with tools designed for sustainable harvesting, learn how organisms contribute to the local ecosystem, and help wildlife centers maintain its balance.

The caves depend on sunlight directed underground through mirrored light shafts, and the coming dust storms put the ecosystem at risk. Work with neighbors to build life-support infrastructure, monitor biodiversity, diagnose environmental problems, research solutions, and grow or craft supplies for wildlife and the community.

Reuse and share resources

The caves are a closed ecosystem with the basic ingredients to sustain the town and the wild biomes it depends on and is responsible for. The game models life forms and the resources they rely on: used resources are never entirely discarded, and new ones do not appear from nothing.

Its systems favor balance over accumulation. Many items can be borrowed or given as gifts, while crafted items can be taken apart for reuse or composted into nutrients. The town’s community land trust uses economic policies and technology to support creative work, account for shared costs and maintain a healthy environment and community.

Meet the community

Spend social hours at places such as the community center, library and wildlife centers. Eat at local eateries, play a collaborative card game in the lounge, visit the salon or boutique, change your playlist at the music shop, or get a new ride from the cycle shop.

Befriend NPCs from different extraterrestrial species and distant worlds who have made Shylake Town their home. Learn their backstories and what brought them there, and hear what they know about the town and its ecology. Team up with them to solve problems and support the community.