Home Island
Overview
The Home Island is the island where you build on. It is the only location on the World Map where you can build things.
At the start of a new game, the player has 7+ maps to choose from; each with it's own difficulty level, starting resources, land area and terrain types.
Additionally, the player can choose various difficulty options, or just select a default difficulty (Sailor/Captain/Admiral).
Maps
Currently there are 8 island maps. They have multiple start points, with varying difficulty:
New Haven
This is the easiest map, recommended for new players. (Difficulty level: Easy/Medium/Hard)
A mostly flat map, with an wide open starting area and all necessary starting resources close nearby.
Dragontail Isle
A map meant to show of the utility of the new train system. (Difficulty level: Easy/Hard/Insane)
You're going to be using trains. A lot.
Armageddon
A map with a distinctive crater in the middle. (Difficulty level: Easy/Medium/Hard/Insane)
If you can get down the crater, you can get plenty of uranium and titanium.
Beach
This map is for advanced players. (Difficulty level: Easy/Medium/Hard)
A fairly flat map, but with starting area in a desert and most of the island's shores blocked by mountains. Has a second, smaller island.
Curland
This map is for advanced players. (Difficulty level: Easy/Hard/Insane)
A fairly flat map, but shaped as a C-shaped atoll.
The Golden Peak
This map is for advanced players looking for additional challenges. (Difficulty level: Medium/Hard/Insane)
A mountainous map, with a steep mountain at it's center.
You Shall Not Pass
This map is for expert players. (Difficulty level: Hard)
A map which is mostly a plateau, with the exception of the starting area. Starting area has limited resources.
Crater
Supporter Edition only. (Difficulty level: $10 USD)
It's a big crater I guess? With most of the map underwater, messing up means starting over. Or just loading a save.
Insula Mortis
This map was for advanced players looking for additional challenges. (Difficulty level: Time Travel)
A Jolly Roger-shaped map, with multiple separated landmasses. It's no longer in the game.
Community Maps
You can use a custom map. (Difficulty level: Varies)
Island reserves
Each Home Island contains varying amounts of natural resources. The amount of resources mined by Excavators is modified by the ore mining yield modifier on the Game Difficulty screen. On the other hand, the amount of Crude Oil (and maybe Water?) is modified by the Extra Starting Materials modifier on the Game Difficulty screen. Any modifier cannot be changed once the island has been founded.
All maps have been updated for U3/0.7 (larger, with added Bauxite, 
Titanium Ore and Uranium Ore deposits), with the addition of Dragontail Isle, and removal of Insula Mortis. Armageddon was also added in an earlier update.
| Map | Iron Ore | Copper Ore | Coal | Limestone | Sand | Quartz | Gold Ore | Uranium Ore | Bauxite | Titanium Ore |
Crude Oil | Groundwater | Wood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 New Haven
|
1.4 | 0.88 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 1.7 | 0.83 | 0.21 | 0.79 | 0.33 | 0.69 | 0.14 | 0.22 |
 Dragontail Isle
|
1.7 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.27 | 1.7 | 0.59 | 0.43 | 0.19 | 0.4 |
 Armageddon
|
2.3 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 3 | 1 | 0.67 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.19 | 0.32 |
 Beach
|
0.9 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.71 | 13 | 1.3 | 0.47 | 0.29 | 1.7 | 0.057 | 0.82 | 0.15 | 0.16 |
 Curland
|
1.7 | 2.2 | 1 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 0.32 | 0.37 | 1.9 | 0.56 | 0.79 | 0.14 | 0.24 |
 Golden Peak
|
1.3 | 1.5 | 0.96 | 1.5 | 3 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.73 | 1 | 0.1 | 0.41 | 0.18 | 0.27 |
 You Shall Not Pass
|
0.97 | 1 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 0.97 | 0.48 | 0.79 | 1.2 | 0.32 | 1 | 0.16 | 0.17 |
 The Crater*
|
3.7 | 2.3 | 5.8 | 1.8 | 0.7 | - | 0.67 | - | - | - | 0.7 | 0.48 | 0.87 |
| Map | Iron Ore | Copper Ore | Coal | Limestone | Sand | Quartz | Gold Ore | Uranium Ore | Bauxite | Titanium Ore |
Crude Oil | Groundwater | Wood |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Haven
|
9.3 | 9.1 | 12 | 8.2 | 5.2 | 11 | 5.1 | 2.3 | 5.3 | 0.35 | 0.69 | 0.14 | 0.22 |
| Dragontail Isle
|
13 | 11 | 13 | 9.4 | 4.5 | 11 | 6.6 | 4 | 7.5 | 4 | 0.93 | 0.19 | 0.4 |
| Armageddon
|
13 | 8.7 | 15 | 7.9 | 4.4 | 7 | 5.6 | 7.5 | 12 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.19 | 0.32 |
| Beach
|
9.8 | 8.6 | 10 | 6.1 | 16 | 7.4 | 3.3 | 5 | 8.5 | 0.46 | 0.82 | 0.15 | 0.16 |
| Curland
|
12 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 5.4 | 7.5 | 3.4 | 6.8 | 7.6 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.14 | 0.24 |
| Golden Peak
|
10 | 11 | 9.6 | 6.9 | 3.5 | 9.8 | 130 | 6.4 | 9.5 | 0.28 | 0.41 | 0.18 | 0.27 |
| You Shall Not Pass
|
11 | 12 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7.7 | 2.7 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 10 | 1 | 0.16 | 0.17 |
| The Crater*
|
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
The Crater map is Supporter Edition only. Ask someone who has it to update+fill in the data and update the map image.
All numbers in the table are in units of millions (1=1,000,000). Note that only Dragontail Isle and Curland have ocean oil deposits.
It should be noted that most of the above natural resources are non-renewable. But there are alternative ways to get unlimited resources.
- Dirt can be created by dumping
Compost onto the ground or mixing Compost and Gravel. - Wood is infinite, since Trees can be planted with Tree Planters.
- This also means Coal is as well, since it can be made from Wood with a Coal Maker.
- Water can be indefinitely collected by 3 different ways:
- Rain can also be collected directly with the use of a Rainwater Harvester.
- Rain replenishes the Natural Groundwater reservoir (which can be pumped with a Groundwater Pump).
- Seawater can be pumped limitlessly from the sea with a Seawater Pump(Tall) and turned into Water through desalination.
- Crude Oil consumption can potentially be avoided in the mid-game using the Biodiesel technology for Diesel and Naphtha Reforming for Naphtha.
- Additionally, the player can switch over to Hydrogen usage for vehicles.
- Quartz is effectively crystallized Sand, and can be turned into it by processing it in a Crusher twice, prolonging the time to run out, while potentially saving your nice looking beaches.
Manufactured Sand, made from Rock via Gravel, can substitute for sand in Concrete Slab and Filter Media production, also saving sand.
- All other resources can be imported infinitely from Outposts or by Contracts, or dropping an endgame asteroid.
See also
- World Map
- Old versions of some of the maps:
-
New Haven -
The Beach -
Curland -
Golden Peak -
You Shall Not Pass -
The Crater
