Mark your calendars: The Crust hits 1.0 on September 10!

We're excited to announce that on September 10, The Crust leaves Early Access and **launches in full! **

For the past three months we've been polishing the 1.0 build non-stop. It brings the completed story campaign, a major optimization pass and new modules — plus one extra thing that genuinely changes the way you play: Planning Mode. It fits the game so naturally that we honestly don't know how we ever lived without it :)

Here's what's coming on September 10:

Story & events

• Completed story campaign with multiple endings

• Reworked prologue

• Global events: solar flares, meteor showers, epidemics and more

New mechanics

• Planning Mode for modules and conveyors

• Road construction for trucks

• Swap the input and output resources of any production module

• Training Center: send colonists on paid accelerated courses

• Fire colonists and set their salary levels

• Sell MDRs (mobile drilling units) and harvesters, remove outposts

• Improved auto-buy and auto-sell modes

Sandbox 2.0

• Pick your starting location on the Moon map

• Seeds for map generation and starting setups

• New terrain maps

• Additional mode settings

New content

• New modules: anti-meteorite cannon, shower & toilet

• Interior visual styles for your base

• Fully reworked visuals for excavated walls, basalt and regolith

• New music tracks from our composer

• New Steam achievements

Optimization & QoL

• Major optimization of logistics and many other systems: a noticeable FPS boost and lower RAM usage

• Improved colonist behavior and balance

• Online leaderboard with detailed player stats

• Lots of UI/UX improvements

• macOS port

Huge thanks to everyone who's been with us through Early Access — your feedback, bug reports and ideas shaped The Crust. If the game isn't on your wishlist yet, now's the time; drop by our Discord — and see you on the Moon on September 10!

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