Plan on stepped ground
Survey a fixed grant on 1 m terraces. Housing districts, roads, quarries, and workshops snap to the same grid the simulation reads — so placement is planning, not painting.
About
Build a Roman colonia on ground that fights back.
Provincia is a Roman colony builder on a fixed terrace grid. You are the curator of a small colonia at the edge of the province — survey the land, route water, house families, and keep the haul board moving as refugees arrive from the road.
What Rome gave you is small. What you make of it is yours.
Your charter
The wagons leave. You stand above a strip of granted land with a curia, starter housing, ponds along the grant, and stone and timber in the hall. Families who came with the charter need work. More will arrive from the road when word spreads — if you keep beds and food ready. You are the curator, not a god. Rome gave you the outline. The rest is placement, water, and patience.
What you'll do
- 1Survey the grant — pan, orbit, read the terraces and ponds already on your land.
- 2Place paths, housing districts, and work buildings from a CSV-driven palette.
- 3Route water with wells, channels, and aqueducts; keep wet ground reachable.
- 4Balance stone, timber, and food as families arrive and expect beds.
- 5Form lines when raiders come — the aqueduct wall is yours to hold.
- 6Expand from a charter village into something that feels like a province.
Features at a glance
Living water & aqueducts
Ponds, wells, and stone runs use a real flow model. Cut a channel through a terrace and it drains somewhere. Route water before your colonists run dry.
Colonists carry the load
Timber, stone, and food move by haul jobs — not magic. Workshops stall when stockpiles run empty. Growth is logistics, not just placing buildings.
Defend the colonia
When word of your grant spreads, so does trouble. Form lines on the terrace, hold the aqueduct wall, and keep the settlement standing.
Under the hood
For players who want the technical picture — straight from the dev build.
Grid-first planning
Buildings come from CSV rows — footprint, cost, workers, scene path. Placement updates occupancy layers for paths, sewage underlays, and construction reserves. One coordinate system for tools, rendering, and simulation.
Cellular-automata water
Water moves downhill by hydraulic head (terrain height + depth). Building cells block flow. Wells push harder than springs. Aqueduct piers stay permeable so channels stay connected to the grid.
Housing on slopes
Drag a district zone and a solver packs hut clusters along paths, respecting flat-enough terrain and door heights. Large zones lean on a native BFS extension to stay under a one-second layout budget.
Jobs, hauls, needs
Town hall spawns workers and holds stockpiles. Foresters, quarries, and workshops pull from a shared haul board. Thirsty colonists path to wet cells. Happiness nudges walk speed between half and one-and-a-half.
Battles on the grant
Deterministic melee on the same terrace grid — form infantry, hold the aqueduct wall, and keep the colonia standing when raiders arrive.
Screenshots
Where we are
Provincia is in active pre-alpha. Core placement, water, housing layout, colonist logistics, and battles are playable in the Godot build. Download a build below — expect bugs. No Steam page yet.