Titangard is set on the one world in the solar system with rain, rivers, seas and dunes that are not made of water — and a sky that has held the same planet in the same place for four billion years. Everything below is either a fact about Titan or a decision about the game, and it is labelled which.
Everything outside the named circles is wilderness. 460 km × 460 km of shared ground, drawn from the same heightfield the client renders.
Domed hub built around the probe that got here first. Depot, bank, algae vats. Heat refills here.
Nine pressure-frames and a heat exchanger, dropped in a ring around the 2005 Huygens lander because it was the only known-flat ground with a transmitter still ticking. Inside the dome you gain heat instead of losing it, and your suit seals repair slowly. Everything a colonist owns starts here.
Zones are not difficulty tiers. They are heat budgets, and the wilderness has no budget at all.
Nine pressure-frames and a heat exchanger, dropped in a ring around the 2005 Huygens lander because it was the only known-flat ground with a transmitter still ticking. Inside the dome you gain heat instead of losing it, and your suit seals repair slowly. Everything a colonist owns starts here.
Tholin is what sunlight makes of methane over four billion years: a fine orange organic dust that covers most of Titan and blows into dunes taller than a house. It is the first thing you ever cut and the last thing you ever run out of. Every new colonist starts a career on their knees out here.
An eighty-kilometre impact scar that punched through the organic blanket to the water-ice bedrock underneath. At 94 kelvin that ice is harder than granite, which is why you need a real tool. Crack it, run it through a melt tank, and it splits into the only oxygen on this moon.
Xanadu is the brightest thing radar ever found on Titan: a continent-sized highland of fractured ice bedrock that does not drift, does not flood, and does not swallow foundations. It is the only place the game lets you place a Hearth, which is why the whole endgame points north-west.
Belet is a dune sea the size of a country, and it is where the game actually happens. Nothing refills, nothing repairs, the rain finds you, and the crawlers that surveyed this place forty years ago still hunt the warmest thing in sight. Die here and your cargo freezes into a cache at the spot you fell.
Everything outside the five circles is wilderness that nobody has bothered to name. It drains like Belet, it rains like Belet, and nothing out there is on anyone's compass. Colonists cross it, they do not work it.
≈ 78% of the region
Titan keeps one face toward its planet, so Saturn hangs at a fixed bearing and works through its phases instead. That makes the sky a clock you can read from anywhere on the map. One turn is one Titan day, which is one orbit around Saturn. In game it lasts ten real minutes.
Saturn goes half-lit over Xanadu. The haze thins from brown to amber. Station exchangers run at full output.
The first methane-rain window of the turn. Scheduled per turn, announced on the compass ninety seconds out.
Ramp 25 s, hold 60 s, fade 25 s. Drops fall slow and fat and take your heat with them. Drain +50% in the open.
Titan crosses Saturn's shadow. Full dark, no ring-shine, the coldest ninety seconds of the turn. Crawlers hunt by heat.
The haze reddens and thickens. Sightlines drop to forty metres. Ring-shine returns as a thin bright line.
Dailies reset, the free pod spin is restored, ice re-freezes, algae vats reseed, wrecks are cleared.
Every mechanic in Titangard started as something Cassini or Huygens actually measured. Where we changed something, we say so.
Realms are added, never replaced. Everything you own on Xanadu stays where you put it.
The largest known sea of liquid methane. Boats, sailing under ring-shine, and salvage dredged off a sea floor nobody has mapped.
LockedThe best cryovolcano candidate on the moon. Ammonia-water slurry, warm ground, and the only place heat is free outside a dome.
LockedA dark dune sea west of Xanadu, where the Huygens probe actually came down. Deep salvage, deeper crawlers.
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