Lab Craft Survival

Lab Craft Survival is about surviving in a confined laboratory where an unknown “Creator” releases artificially propagated creatures into an environment modeled on Earth. You play as Object 20, an “Extra” competing to become the lab’s Dominant species. You can experiment, build, farm and investigate the lab’s mysteries as you adapt to its dangers, with the possibility of escaping the complex.

The laboratory

The lab recreates an environment like that of Earth, though the Creator’s understanding of the planet has been distorted over time. Its walls limit your habitat and make resources scarce, so you need to think carefully about how to use, save or restore what you find. You can turn your space into a testing ground or a farm, and furnish it as you choose; stronger construction helps keep problems out.

The lab has an ecosystem in which creatures and plants affect one another. Ants carry useful objects and fertilize soil, hares eat harmful vegetation, bees collect pollen for honey made in tree hives, beavers destroy trees, and wild boars eat insects living on them. The environment changes as Extra and other species develop: some become stronger, some multiply, and some disappear through competition.

Develop Object 20

Object 20 can reproduce artificial objects from units obtained by digesting food. Food also supplies the elements used in its continuing physical development. Health, Energy, Strength, Speed and Inventory can all grow without fixed limits, though development is not easy. You can study stats and other elements, observe their effects on your body, and learn to extract and organize information to share with other players offline.

You can catch illnesses and suffer conditions such as colds, poisoning, dirt and wounds. Treat them with the help of your surroundings, food and skills. Laboratory herbs vary: some help with particular diseases, some provide food, some are poisonous, and some are carnivorous, so you have to discover their uses.

If Object 20 dies, a portion of the accumulated Evolution Points from failures and unsuccessful experiences carries over permanently, giving the next survival attempt an advantage.

Experiment and survive

You can investigate creatures, objects, stats and plants, and decide whether to destroy, build, farm or gather information. Farming lets you grow crops rich in essential nutrients, fertilize them, improve your cultivation skills and protect your harvest. Sleep can bring dreams of crafting ideas, but recipes appear only in part, leaving you to work out the rest.

The lab’s flexible mechanics allow for different solutions and ways to obtain items. For example, you can craft a campfire or arrange logs with dry grass, or use a broken frame. You can ignite it by striking stones together, crafting a flint or setting off explosives nearby. Many interactions and discoveries are left for you to work out.