Rum & Timber

**Rum & Timber** is an archipelago strategy game about building a trading colony and keeping it alive between pirates, a proud merchant republic and the open sea.

You start with one island, a few houses and a handful of gold. Cut timber, saw planks, feed and water your people so they pay taxes. Build a shipyard, explore the fog, settle new islands and connect them with trade routes. Grow cane and distil rum, weave cloth for sails, sell to passing merchants — and get ready, because the pirates are watching your harbour.

**What you do**

- Build production chains across several islands: timber → planks, cane → rum, cotton → cloth → sails.

- Run trade routes and sell to merchants and to the Silver Republic.

- Defend your ports with towers, forts and warships; scout and burn the pirate base.

- Deal with the Republic: trade and earn its trust, or go to war and fight over islands.

- Survive storms, droughts and pirate raids; profit from treasure wrecks and wandering merchants.

- Finish four stages of the governor's plan and break the fleet of the Pirate King.

**Modes**

- **Sandbox** — a generated archipelago, four stages and a final battle.

- **Campaign** — five short missions that teach the game step by step.

- **Play with a friend** — two players on one map over the internet, joined by a code.

**This is an alpha.** The game is playable from start to finish, but balance and onboarding are still being tuned. Your feedback shapes it: press **F8** in the game (or the "Feedback · F8" button) and write a sentence — the text, a screenshot and the game state go straight to the developer.

**Privacy.** The game sends anonymous play reports (time per stage, where you got stuck, frame rate, errors) — no names or personal data. You can turn this off in Settings → Game.

**Controls.** Mouse: left — select, right — order, drag — move the map, wheel — zoom. Keyboard: WASD — camera, Q/E — rotate, Space — to selected island, F/I/M — fleet/islands/map, T — routes, G — goals, P — pause, H — all controls.

**System requirements.** macOS 12 or newer (Apple Silicon or Intel with a Metal GPU) · Windows 10 (21H1) or 11 with a DirectX 11 GPU · 8 GB RAM · ~350 MB of disk space.

**First launch on Mac and Windows** — the game is not yet signed, so the system will warn you once:

- **Mac:** System Settings → Privacy & Security → scroll down → "Open Anyway". If macOS says the app is damaged, run in Terminal: `xattr -cr "/Applications/Rum & Timber.app"`

- **Windows:** in the blue "Windows protected your PC" window click "More info" → "Run anyway".