Salvage and Scrap Recovery
Tearing apart everyday objects from before the collapse: dismantle items on the spot, recover their components, and watch your hands-on skills sharpen with every wrench turn.
Building & Crafting
20Strip and Reclaim Any Building
Tearing apart the furniture, clutter, and debris left inside any pre-collapse house or apartment, then refitting the cleared interior with your own crafting stations, storage, and defenses.
Workbench Tiers and Guides
Leveling up workbenches with tier progression, salvage, repair, and exclusive blueprint guides — every craft a co-op partner runs contributes to the shared workshop level.
Electricity and Power Grid
Standing up the electricity layer: player-built circuits balance power between generators and appliances, while the ruined city keeps its own dormant grid waiting to be brought back to life, district by district.
Tier 1 - Box Planter
Rectangular planting box
Complete Item System Rebuild
Rebuilt the whole item stack from scratch: data-driven item definitions, server-authoritative inventory and equipment, loot pools, and world loot scatter, all backed by an extensive automated test suite.
Construction System Rebuild
Rebuilt base building as its own dedicated system: structural stability that reacts as pieces are placed or destroyed, snap placement, and full save persistence, validated by an extensive automated test suite.
Barrel Planter
Planting barrel
Composter
Composting station
Irrigation System
Automatic irrigation system
Tier 1 Greenhouse
Tier 1 Greenhouse
Tier 1 - Monitoring System
Crop monitoring system
Blueprint Discovery System
Blueprint discovery system
Procedural Wall Generator
Procedural wall generator
Rain Collector
Rainwater collector
Procedural Fence Generator
Procedural fence generator
Foundation Build System
Basic modular construction system
Mechanical Workbench
Advanced mechanical workbench
Salvaging System
Recovery and dismantling system
Natural Resource Farming System
Natural resource farming system
Character & Animation
8Smart Adaptive Camera
Building a smart camera that reads its surroundings — pulling in close as you step indoors, tightening over the shoulder while you aim, and easing back out in the open so the view always frames the action.
Modular and Character Customization
Modular character customization system
Female Characters Integration
Integration of playable female characters
Character Locomotion Overhaul
Locomotion system overhaul
Locomotion System Rework
Complete overhaul of the movement system
1st Motion Capture Recording Session
First motion capture session
2nd Motion Capture Recording Session
Second motion capture session
Throw Items
Throw objects
Clothing & Equipment
7Modular Backpacks and Patches
Bringing in swappable backpacks with their own capacity, weapon socket layouts, and cosmetic patches — drop one to switch loadouts, loot it off downed players in coop.
Weapon Holstering and Stowage
Adding visible weapon holstering — rifles ride your pack, sidearms and melee sit on your body, and a quick toggle draws or stows each one so your loadout reads at a glance.
Jacket
Protective jacket
Character's Flashlight
Character's flashlight
Character's Head Accessories
Head accessories
Flare
Illuminating flare
Military Medikit
Military medical kit
Exploration & Travel
10Drone Modular Components
Adding swappable hull, rotor, optics, and battery modules under the drone system so each player tailors their drone for recon, combat, or transport, with wear and tear tracked per component.
Unified Vehicle Framework
Standing up a single tuning surface for every vehicle in the game — boats, ground transport, and future aircraft all share damage, fuel, and handling models, ready for new vehicle types as the world grows.
Ziplines
Ziplines for rapid traversal
Pilotable Drones
Remote-controlled pilotable drones
Drone Landpads
Landing platforms for drones
Signal Beacons with Detector
Signal beacons with detector
Alpha Car
5-seat ground vehicle
Rowboat for Lake Travel
Rowboat for lake navigation
Climbing System
Climbing system
Swimming and Diving
Swimming and diving
Hunting & Fishing
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Hostile Animals with Attack Behavior
Hostile animals with attack behavior
Wildlife Behavior Foundation
Standing up the core wildlife layer that hunting, fishing, and skinning all ride on — perception, awareness states, and reactive behaviors scaled per-player so the world stays lively at any range.
Hunting Traps System
Hunting traps system
First Hunting Firearm
First hunting firearm
Fishing Rod Mechanics
Fishing rod mechanics
Animal Skinning and Butchering
Animal skinning and butchering
Passive Animal with Fear Behavior
Passive animals with fear mechanics
Combat & Weapons
8Shoulder Swap and Body Mirroring
Bringing in shoulder swapping that shifts the camera across and mirrors the upper body with it, sliding the support hand to the other side so peeking left or right always feels natural.
Enemy Factions and AI
Standing up the hostile NPC layer — corporate enforcers, antidote-bound infected, and rival survivors, each with its own group behavior and threat response, filling the ruins with reasons to fight or flee.
Firearm System Development
Development of the firearm system
Bolt Action Rifle with Scopes
Bolt action rifle with scopes
Adaptive Reticle
Standing up an adaptive reticle that morphs across every situation — bare hands, melee, firearm spread, build snap, drone optics — appearing exactly when it's useful and stepping aside the rest of the time.
M4A1 Weapon Integration
M4A1 Integration
Melee Combat System
Hand-to-hand combat system
Scope x4 & x8
x4 and x8 rifle scopes
Survival Mechanics
10Sleep and Rest System
Adding sleep and rest — bed down on the ground, in a vehicle, a tent, or a bed to skip the night, beat back fatigue, and set where the group respawns, with everyone agreeing before time skips in co-op.
Player Skills and Progression
Standing up the player skill layer: practicing a craft sharpens the matching skill, and skill tiers gate what each survivor can craft, repair, and salvage across the group's shared stations.
Character Rest/Sleep System
Rest and sleep system
Health and Vitals System
A full health layer covering vitals, wounds, diseases, poisoning, drowning, encumbrance and sanity, wired into combat, medical treatments, the HUD, and co-op replication.
Campfire with Cooking
Campfire with cooking system
Clothing Temperature Protection
Thermal protection of clothing
Flora Sustenance System
Flora-based sustenance system
Body Temperature Regulation
Body temperature regulation
Disease and Illness System
Disease system
Campfire Cooking Grill
Cooking grill for campfire
Multiplayer & Communication
5Broadcast Network
Wiring up a world-spanning radio layer where speakers carry the dead civilization's voice — tune frequencies to catch looping propaganda and automated alerts, or hijack the airwaves for private co-op comms.
Proximity Voice and Radios
Designing the voice layer: positional proximity chat that carries naturally through the world, plus handheld radios to keep the group coordinated at long range.
Steam & Epic Online Services connection overhaul
Full rework of the platform sign-in flow, session handling, and account linking across Steam and Epic Online Services.
Trade System
Trading system
Core Multiplayer System - Steam
Basic Steam multiplayer architecture
Technical & Optimization
8First-Class Mod Support
Layering in first-class mod support across the whole codebase rather than treating it as a bolted-on afterthought, so when the doors open at Early Access the foundation is already there for ambitious community projects.
One-click in-game bug reports
Bug reporting flow fully reworked: one click submits screenshot, log and context straight to our triage dashboard. Ready for Early Access feedback at scale.
Automatic crash reporting
Anonymized crash reports are sent automatically when the game closes unexpectedly, so we can fix issues before you even relaunch.
Lighting and Post-Processing
Lighting and post-processing
FSR 4 Integration
AMD FSR 4 Integration
World Partition Optimization Pass
World Partition optimization
Optimized Consumable Scattering System
Optimized consumable scattering system
Vegetation Rendering Optimization with PCG
Vegetation rendering optimization with PCG
World, POIs & Assets
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Starter Island - Survivor House
Survivor house (starter island)
Procedural Building Generator
Standing up a procedural generator that scatters varied cabins, farmhouses, hangars, and outposts across the world - every structure uniquely shaped yet authored to feel hand-placed and worth approaching.
Biome-Driven Open World
Standing up the biome framework that anchors every region of the open world, giving each zone its own resource mix, weather behavior, and enemy presence — the foundation for biome-specific content.
Ultra Dynamic Sky Conversion
Porting Ultra Dynamic Sky to full C++ so the engine drives clouds, storms, and sunsets straight from the world clock — wildlife, ambient sound, and survival mechanics all read from one authoritative weather layer.
Procedural City Streets
Laying down the road network that gives the ruined city its shape — generating streets, intersections, and the blocks between them procedurally, the groundwork the buildings and districts will fill in next.
Monastery POI
Point of Interest: Monastery
Military Modular Props
Modular military props
Modular Luxury Forest Cabin Pack
Luxury forest cabin pack
Military Hospital
Military hospital
Church Blocking
Church blockout
Military Tents
Military tents
Modular Rustic Haven Pack
Rustic shelter pack
Starter Island - Outdoor Environment
Outdoor environment of the starting island
Mechanic Room Props
Mechanic workshop props
Church Props
Church props
Communication Tower
Communication tower
Starter Island - Yoga Studio Garden
Yoga studio garden (starting island)
Catacombs Blockout
Catacombs blockout
Flyers Generator
Flyer generator
Generic Materials
Reusable generic materials
Starter Island
Starting island
Catacombs Props
Catacombs props
Lakes of Various Sizes
Lakes of different sizes with ecosystems
Monastery's Kitchen
Monastery kitchen
Aggressive Storm Events
Violent storm events
Library Props
Library props
Underground Bunker
Underground bunker
Monastery Secondary Rooms
Secondary rooms of the monastery
Dynamic Weather and Day/Night Cycle
Day/night cycle and dynamic weather
Lakeside Cabin
Cabin by the lake
Monastery Post Apocalyptic Layer
Post-apocalyptic layer of the monastery
Communication Tower Exterior
Communication tower exterior
Enviro. Design - Monastery Exterior
Environmental Design - Monastery Exterior
Communication Tower Interiors
Communication tower interiors
Military Hospital Structure
Military hospital structure
Design and Modeling of Tiers 1 A
Design and modeling of Tiers 1 A
Military Hospital Laboratory Props
Military hospital laboratory props
Tier 1.B Construction Creation
Creation of Tier 1.B constructions
The Mansion
The Mansion
Modular Gas Station Pack
Modular gas station pack
Audio & Music
3Living Soundscape System
Deepening the ambient audio into a living, reactive layer — silence ripples after gunshots, bird chorus dawns at sunrise, low health dulls the high frequencies, and every biome breathes its own sound.
Footstep Sounds
Dynamic footstep sounds
Ambient Sound
Ambient sounds
UI/UX
12Roadmap rework
Ongoing rework of the public roadmap to live natively on rootedthegame.com — clickable cards, in-page vote modal, and polished layout aligned with the rest of the site.
Inventory and Medical Journal
Bringing two focused player screens — inventory for gear and weight, medical journal for wounds, diseases, and afflictions — kept separate so each one stays clean instead of becoming a god menu.
Compass HUD
Bringing in a clean compass band on the HUD with smooth headings and marker tracking, rendered natively for crisp readability in any light.
Main Menu Rebuild
Rebuilding the entire main menu as a native, code-driven frontend: session hosting and joining, options, and cloud-backed saves all in one cohesive flow, with a full visual design pass still to come.
Public roadmap on rootedthegame.com
A dedicated roadmap page is now part of the official site, giving full visibility on what's shipped, in progress, and planned for Early Access.
In-game patch notes browser
Patch notes UI fully reworked — readable history of what changed in each build, browsable inside the game and ready for the Early Access cadence.
In-game news feed
News feed inside the main menu reworked for the Early Access window so studio updates reach players without leaving the game.
In-game credits screen
Credits screen rebuilt from the ground up — full team credits browsable in-game, ready for the Early Access release.
Streamlined alpha NDA sign-in
NDA sign-in is now fully in-game — read, accept, and get into the Early Access build without leaving the title screen.
Quick-Use Wheel
A radial quick-use wheel for consumables and tools: hold to open, flick to pick, with gamepad-friendly selection and stack counts at a glance.
Notifications System
Notifications system
Full Controller Support
Complete controller support