Planet Centauri

Planet Centauri is an open-ended adventure in which you explore biomes and hidden dungeons, capture and tame monsters, craft weapons and magic, and build a community for the native Chloridians. You can pursue the game’s possibilities in any order, provided you can survive. Protect the Chloridians from the Night Walkers and help establish Planet Centauri as the cradle of a new civilization.

Explore the world

The world contains ancient ruins, many with special challenges, as well as unexplored dungeons filled with traps. You can also follow a completion tree or consult tutorial pages to discover the game’s systems; mandatory tutorials, linear progression and a forced main quest are not part of the game.

Construction offers over 500 types of blocks and decorative items. You can shape blocks into different slopes, paint them, and combine shaped blocks with other blocks or double blocks. Creative mode provides developer tools, commands, terraformation and infinite items.

Capture and raise monsters

Captured monsters keep their individual features and gain experience by fighting alongside you, becoming stronger as they evolve. Some can have offspring with a partner. You can also seal captured monsters to transform into almost any monster in the game; some forms can fly or dig through the ground.

To breed monsters, place them in small houses containing pocket worlds that you can customize for their occupants. Happy monsters gain experience and may lay eggs when the right conditions are met. Their offspring inherit traits from their parents, letting you breed monsters with the traits you want.

Monsters have rarity levels: rarer ones are more powerful and dangerous than common ones, with reinforced stats and unique abilities. Their elemental weaknesses can also affect your choice of spells.

Fight and develop equipment

A wide range of mobile skills supports combat, and some can be chained into combos. Elemental swords work with skills, and you can unlock elemental skills for fire, ice, stone, electric, shadow and light.

Full armor sets unlock skills and abilities, with classes ranging from miner to shadow hunter. Equipment can be leveled so that every set remains useful throughout the game. Weapons and armor have seven rarity levels, with higher rarities offering stronger and more distinctive effects and characteristics. You can level equipment by killing monsters or using magical crystals, enchant it with runes, and use currencies to pursue particular traits.

Craft spells and potions

You create spells by combining effects in a live editor with an event system. You can shape the arc and pattern of fireballs, improve your survival abilities and combine multiple elements in one spell. Fire can damage enemies or the environment, ice can freeze and pierce multiple enemies, electric spells are fast and can electrify, stone can project or petrify monsters, light supports healing, and shadow spells can follow enemies and pass through them. Spells can be shared as base64 text.

Alchemy lets you extract essences from plants, flowers, vegetables and monster parts, then combine them into potions. Each essence has specific effects, used to make potions for life, magic, energy, regeneration, vitality, resistance, power and haste. Eating different foods also strengthens your character and develops their abilities.

Build a community

You can rescue the native Chloridians, build and fortify their villages, befriend them and assign jobs such as cook, guard, wizard or researcher.

Machines and circuits

Mechanical power can come from windmills, chicken wheels or hand-cranks, then travel through cogs and belts to run machines. You can use one-way and double cogs, switches, belts and pipe conveyors; build gear trains to increase torque or speed; and set up pressure plates, mechanized doors, circular saws on tracks and machines such as mills, crushers, table saws and block makers. You can recycle materials, craft resources and upgrade high-friction cogs from wood to steel.

The magitech circuit system transmits soul energy and signals of up to 9 bits through pipes. It includes generators that harvest environmental soul energy, crystalizers that condense energy, teleporters, batteries, lights, pixels, displays, sensors and other inputs. Logic and math components include NOT, AND and OR operators, full adders, modulo and division operators, comparators, ACD, DAC, encoders, decoders and multiplexers. Memories include flip-flops, latches, 8-bit registers and counters; the system also has ROMs that store memory in blocks placed in the world, and transistors. These components can be used to build systems ranging from automated house lighting to calculators and CPUs, including a Game of Life cellular automaton.

Create events and mods

The event system lets you create traps, spawn enemies and build complex mini-games without coding. It has more than 20 types of events and triggers: events perform actions, while triggers emit signals that can connect to other events and triggers. Options include zone triggers for entering, leaving or viewing areas; combat triggers for spawning, killing monsters, damage, challenges and opening; counters, switches, timers, dice and hour changes; and hub, filter, dispatch and timed-dispatch triggers. You can also detect block patterns for puzzles, create or destroy blocks and decorations, spawn ropes, trees, balls or lava, manage items and attributes, set portals and world locations, and change world spawn tables.

The game does not support Steam Workshop, but its contents can be extensively modified. Text-based configuration files let you edit any item and add blocks, decorations or other visual elements without programming. More complex systems, including monsters and entities, use Lua. Mods must be distributed manually, and the lack of a mod manager can cause conflicts between entries.