Circulation, Scale & UI improvements
Pathways documentation, extracellular circulation, game scale experiments and interactive tooltip work.
Survive in the primordial broth.
Start in a primordial broth as a single cell and make your way into life by creating the production chains needed to build, expand and evolve your initial organism.
Survival, sandbox, automation
Create the production chains needed for life.
Lifecraft is about surviving: you begin in a primordial broth as a single cell and create the production chains needed to make your way into life.
The long vision is to evolve from a simple cell to a creature with organs: circulatory, respiratory, digestive and nervous systems, built by expanding and evolving the organism.
Genre
Simulation / Strategy
Mode
Single-player
Steam
33 achievements
Status
Early Access
Production
Ribosomes / Assemblers
Routing
Microtubules / Pickers
Energy
ATP / ADP loop
Threats
Temperature / Bacteria
Core systems
Production, routing, resources, energy and evolution.
The in-game guide frames Lifecraft around production, routing, resources, energy, evolution, expansion, temperature, bacteria and specialized tissues.
Burn
Energy is generated by burning ATP into ADP; suppliers burn ATP and distribute energy to nearby buildings.
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Evolve
Evolvers consume nucleobases to discover new technologies, from production buildings to organelles.
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Grow
Expansion creates space for buildings and scavenging resources, using dispatchers and the chunk planner.
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Supply
Route items with microtubules and pickers, then use vessels and capillaries for extracellular flow.
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Defend
Bacteria live in the broth, grow in colonies and can be answered with launchers, defensins and hemocytes.
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Survive
Temperature, infection and nearby necrosis can reduce chunk health, so survival means preventing collapse.
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Heal
Diffusers can deliver materials locally, replace oxidized buildings and heal infected tiles by supplying tissues.
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Breathe
Oxygen accepts electrons inside mitochondria; carbon dioxide is a waste product of energy reactions.
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Digest
Stomas, tanks, ducts, enzymes and ileum vessels turn complex resources into absorbable nutrients.
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Dispose
Disposers throw unwanted items outside the cell; lysosomes dismantle items into raw materials.
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Think
The pathways view shows interactions between structures, helping you read and automate the organism.
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Automate
Assemblers, pickers, microtubules and logic structures turn repeated reactions into stable production chains.
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Screenshots
Watch the organism at work.
Browse cellular factories, routing lines, evolution screens, energy networks and the structures that make the organism work.
Gallery
Structures, routes and tissues.
Changelog
Follow the Lifecraft journey.
Development posts and patch notes from the official Lifecraft channels, following the work on circulation, digestion, blueprints, UI and modding.
UI, Interactions & lipids
Pinnable tooltips, interface clarity improvements and new warm-up work around lipids.
Blueprints & modding prep
A major update focused on blueprints, logic refactors, modding preparation and development fixes.
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Continue the journey in the nearest cell.
Lifecraft is an Early Access project by Pixbits. The development posts invite players to share feedback while the organism keeps gaining new systems and mechanics.
About Pixbits
Pixbits is an indie game developer duo.
Pixbits is the duo behind Lifecraft and Junk Jack. Jack works on code and game design; XsX works on graphics, music and SFX.
