The rules of the 2D game, now in the valley

Systems and talents

Stamina for work, breath for swimming, turning tides, a thirty-slot backpack and a web of talents that grows with what you do. The rules of the 2D game continue to find their own paths in the 3D valley.

Open the web of talents

37talents

10roots

30faith nodes

63items

43recipes

32builds

933written lines

154quest steps

112days in the year

K key · 37 nodes in 10 roots

The tree of effects that grows with the work

Tilling, planting, harvesting, fishing and talking give experience; each point opens a node. Click a node to see its effect.

Drag to pan · scroll to zoom

Experience per action: plow 3 · plant 2 · water 2 · harvest 6 · axe and pickaxe 5 · hardwood and hard stone 12 · pray 25 · strike a creature 4 · kill a creature 18 · build 30 · faith quest 40.

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One faith at a time, chosen with your feet

Catholic, Candomblé and Caboclo, each with its own web

Praying at your faith's shrine brings blessing and experience. Changing faith erases nothing: the previous web freezes where it stopped.

Drag to pan · scroll to zoom

Catholic · feast of Bom Jesus dos Navegantes, summer

Candomblé · feast of Cosme e Damião, spring

Caboclo · feast of Dois de Julho, winter

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Playable now · 24 systems

What is ready in the valley

A real geographic valley (Bom Jesus dos Pobres, 3.6 × 2.0 km at 1:4 scale) with village, beach, woods, rivers, cemetery, lookout and pier; walk, run, jump, swim, click-to-walk; camera with zoom, obstacle reaction and three modes (Free, Drag and Automatic).

Done

The sun follows the astronomical position for the place's latitude; sky, mist and moon (with eight phases) change with the hour; at dusk oil lanterns, lamps, the yard campfire and candles in the windows light up, with flickering flames. The passage of time has four speeds and a starting time.

Done

The sea follows the bathymetry of DHN nautical chart 1108, with clear water tinted by depth, swells in sets and foam. The 2.4 m tide rises and falls: at low tide mud, puddles and the reef slabs appear, and the canoes run aground.

Done

You can walk into the sea (the beach slopes down like a ramp), swim where the water rises past your chest and come back to the sand; on the shallow flat you can walk ~600 m out to sea. A shark prowls the deep part, chases anyone who swims too far and returns the player to solid ground. Pedro and the villagers are never targets.

Done

Pedro and 22 villagers who speak: 21 have a generated voice, and only mestre Quirino speaks in a bubble. Each has a home, a trade and a daily schedule; they work at their station, carry their objects and turn in at night. Villagers ask for favors, and four story arcs link several of them.

Done

He leads the 16 arrival steps, introduces the villagers, teaches the body's three reserves, then returns to his fishing routine, practicing capoeira when you are far away. He leads again when a quest, such as the bridge or the farm, calls for it; all of his lines have a generated voice.

Done

30 slots (10 for held items), what the body wears, and the Hands slot for gloves; 63 catalog items (tools, seeds, resources, food, equipment, materials, documents and ritual items). The rules match the 2D game, checked byte for byte.

Done

Working, running and jumping consume stamina. Swimming consumes breath; when it runs out, drowning drains health. Food and rest help the body recover, and the menu lets you adjust action costs.

Done

The red bar below the clock (moss green when poisoned). Falling means a night on the ground: the screen goes dark, the player wakes at the door of the wattle-and-daub house at 6 a.m. the next day, whole, with the dawn card and the words of whoever found him. The fall saves the game.

Done

With the rod in hand and water ahead (pier, beach, riverbank), E casts the line; when the bobber sinks and the "!" lights up, press E again, quickly, to hook the fish. The water decides the pool: trahira in the river, snook in the sea. Walking reels in the line.

Done

E at the campfire opens cooking. The tutorial teaches manioc flour, pirão and the first meal; known recipes stay in the almanac. The kitchen corner appears in the house after its building project.

Done

Buy and sell at the counter, with prices changing by season; it's where you buy the fishing rod and building plans.

Done

Each grave has collision on its slab and a headstone with a short story (12 headstones). Anyone who climbs onto a slab hears Damião, angrier each time; on the third he knocks the player into the aisle.

Done

37 nodes in ten roots; eleven actions give experience (tilling, planting, felling, fishing, praying…). Some talents are active and work once a day, with the B key. Icons borrowed from the 2D until there's art of its own.

Done

Catholicism, Candomblé and Caboclo have landmarks, rites, changes of faith, their own talents and quests. Festivals bring villagers to the landmark in the afternoon; progress in one faith is preserved when switching to another.

Done

The social web with a portrait of each of the 22 villagers, the friendship bar and the gifts drawn; each villager has a faith, likes and dislikes, and new topics at each level. Giving a gift asks for confirmation (Yes or No), the day's first conversation raises friendship, and friendship opens favors and support cards.

Done

Four seasons of 28 days; sleeping in the bed advances the day, and collapsing at two in the morning takes you to dawn. Trading and the saveiro's visits use the calendar.

Done

PLAY asks for the slot; a new game goes back to factory state; the save keeps where the player was, the hour, Pedro's step, the traveler's name, the places visited, land ownership, the creature brought down and all the shared systems. It saves on a fall, on returning to the menu and on closing the window; EXPLORE does not save.

Done

The map shows the valley, its markers and the land boundaries. The minimap uses a static photograph of the scenery, with the player and objective overlaid, and tucks away when another screen opens. The Map button in the menu also opens it: the game loads the valley with the painted map on the loading screen.

Done

Automatic locomotion (idle, walk, run, swim) with stride matched to speed, jump, eight gestures and footprints by terrain that fade over time; rigged characters use the Tripo clips and, in 21 of them, Mixamo gestures in their routine (reaping, digging, counting on fingers, waving, jumping).

Done

The field in front of the house allows tilling, planting manioc cuttings, watering and harvesting. Growth depends on days watered; raised rows and wet soil show the bed's state.

Done

Every house in the valley opens inside, furnished for those who live there: 27 interiors, including the church, the chapels, the store, the flour house and the farm manor. In the player's house, the bed and chest work; the door opens after the key that Dona Zefa hands over, and new furniture appears with the building projects.

Done

Dona Zefa's land (1,800 réis) and Seu Benedito's plateau (2,600 réis) can be bought, with the boundary shown in green on the map. In the yard there is an orchard, a chicken coop (the Corral talent) and a day of field work arranged with Cosme.

Done

The four seasons of 28 days change the face of the valley: the foliage of the trees, the sunlight and the volume of the birds and insects follow the calendar.

Done

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In progress · 8 systems

What is on its way

52 data chains and 154 steps: arrival, field, bridge, faith, weapons, capoeira, villagers' favors, saveiro, plateau, ridge, yard and the farm through the end of chapter 7. The whole 2D quest list is in the valley. The notebook keeps the progress and the deliveries; the campaign remains in development.

In progress

The peccary and two jaguars have Tripo models in the valley. Each jaguar occupies a crag with a rock shelter, warns before attacking and returns to its territory; the black jaguar roams from dusk until the early morning. The Matinta Pereira is the beast of chapter 7. The jararaca has a model, but its encounter has not yet been placed.

In progress

The wooden workbench is behind the house and opens with E. Firewood becomes planks and ropes; the building site lets you sketch on the drawing board and reduce building costs by 10%. The permanent workshop building remains in development.

In progress

The bridge, lookout, cemetery, well and furniture have building projects. A table and bench, home altar, shelf, kitchen and hammock appear inside as they are built; their state stays in the saved game.

In progress

Seven cards (pact, support and ritual). In the deep woods the Caipora leaves a sign; after you see it, her cards appear there. Picking up a pact card opens the conversation in the speech box — what she gives, what she asks in return — and the question Seal it?; the pact can also be sealed and undone in the panel. Support cards come through friendship with the villagers. Caveat: Iara's pact awaits the lagoon.

In progress

26 tree species with entries, ten cordels, three signs, creatures and recipes. Six cordels have been placed; four still await a place: the lagoon, the bank of the great river, the ruins of the mansion and the sugar mill.

In progress

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Planned · 2 systems

What comes in the next builds

Assigning villagers to each plot, managing production and multiplying it, as in the land work tab of the 2D. In the valley, for now, Cosme only does a day of field work, arranged with him.

Planned

Not implemented. Planned in the prototype decisions (an NPC with free conversation through an online service, with scripted lines when there's no internet); it was left out of the jam and its priority is yet to be confirmed.

Planned

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I key · 63 catalog items

Hoe, manioc flour, cordel and a jaguar-hide amulet

Tools, materials and food from the valley. The icons below are the pixel icons used in the game.

tool

tool · 600 réis

tool · 650 réis

tool · 1500 réis

tool · 1600 réis

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Kitchen and workshop · 11 recipes · 32 building projects

Recipes for the valley

Grated, pressed manioc in the clay oven. It's the basis of everything eaten here.

Kitchen · Makes 2

Manioc dough spread on the hot griddle and folded. It won't carry you through the day, but it gets you out of a pinch.

Kitchen · Makes 2

Sugarcane juice pressed on the spot. It doesn't fill you, but it picks you up right away.

Kitchen · Makes 1

Fish split open in salt and turned over the coals. Food for someone back from the sea hungry.

Kitchen · Makes 1

Peccary meat in coarse salt, turned over the coals. Eaten after a day in the forest.

Kitchen · Makes 1

Ridge herb boiled over a low fire. It doesn't fill the belly: it closes the wound.

Kitchen · Makes 1

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Building projects are divided into 8 shell projects (the outside of the house), 18 site projects (what you build on the land) and 6 furniture projects. Each improves a game attribute, such as maximum stamina.

Rules the player can feel

Clock, tide, stamina, breath and health

The day starts at 6 a.m. and runs into the small hours until 2 a.m.; the day counter only advances when the player sleeps or passes out. 4 seasons of 28 days: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

The bathymetry speaks in meters at high tide; the level drops to low tide and comes back along a cosine, with no sharp corner. The rising tide stirs up the bottom and clouds the water. 2.4 m between high and low tide; in fast mode, a full cycle takes 90 seconds.

Cost = action base × target toughness × character efficiency. A better tool doesn't make it cheaper: it unlocks a tougher target. Plowing costs 4, watering 2, a ritual 12 out of 100.

Separate from stamina: it runs out because something hit you. The night restores it fully; leaf tea restores a piece; food doesn't heal. Falling becomes a night on the ground, not death.

One key: E casts, the wait is random, and when a fish bites there's a short window to press E again. Success is reaction time, not pure luck.

4 moves, 7 weapons and 4 creatures: Collared peccary, Jaguar, Jararaca pit viper and The Matinta Pereira. The bush machete deals 4 per strike; the peccary has 12 health.

52 chains · 154 steps in the valley

The village starts asking for things

Each quest points to a named place. The 3D game’s own quest chains follow the journey through the valley.

A woodland machete · Face a peccary · The heavy strike

3 steps

Who is who in the village · The plumb bob and the handsaw · Mark before building · What nobody repaired · Planks, stone and rope · Standing, once more

6 steps

Tea for the cough

1 steps

Thirty years turned away · The oyster at the edge · Back to the sea

3 steps

Garapa in the square · Candinha's six canes

2 steps

The ginga · The body that vanishes · The meia-lua · The foot that finds the way · The sweep · The roda

6 steps

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Systems and talents

Third-person exploration

Third-person exploration

Day, night and the lights of 1887

Day, night and the lights of 1887

A real tide and a real sea

A real tide and a real sea

Swimming — and the shark

Swimming — and the shark

The village and its routines

The village and its routines

Pedro, the guide

Pedro, the guide

Backpack and equipment

Backpack and equipment

Stamina, breath and effort

Stamina, breath and effort

Health and the fall

Health and the fall

Fishing

Fishing

Cooking and the first meal

Cooking and the first meal

Venda do Bar

Venda do Bar

Cemetery and headstones

Cemetery and headstones

Web of talents

Web of talents

Faith, rites and festivals

Faith, rites and festivals

The village (affinity)

The village (affinity)

Calendar and rest

Calendar and rest

Three save slots

Three save slots

Map and minimap

Map and minimap

Gestures and animation

Gestures and animation

Planting and harvesting

Planting and harvesting

House interior, bed and chest

House interior, bed and chest

Land and yard

Land and yard

Visible seasons

Visible seasons

Quests and notebook

Quests and notebook

Peccary and woodland jaguars

Peccary and woodland jaguars

Workshop and building site

Workshop and building site

Building projects and a growing home

Building projects and a growing home

Letters and pacts

Letters and pacts

Almanac and collection

Almanac and collection

Languages of the valley

Languages of the valley

The farm: chapters 6 and 7

The farm: chapters 6 and 7

Villagers' work on the plots

Villagers' work on the plots

Free AI conversation with memory

Free AI conversation with memory

Hoe

Hoe

Bucket of water

Bucket of water

Axe

Axe

Pickaxe

Pickaxe

Steel axe

Steel axe

Steel pickaxe