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Survival update··5 min read

Added salvage and sandworm combat

The hero can tear a building down for half its cost, and a sandworm can be shot, enraged, and killed.

Project Sand / Field capture

Salvage is a hero order. Click an owned structure or a bare slab within reach and recover half the construction cost, limited by storage. Shooting your own building on purpose does not pay that refund.

Sandworms are no longer a cinematic swallow. Small, medium, and elder worms have health, take bullets and rockets on the exposed body, and come for whoever shot them. Buried worms stay hidden and cannot be targeted.

The worm became part of the battle when shooting it made it choose a target.

They spend most of their travel underground. Vibration from moving units draws them, stopping lets the trail fade, and rock or fresh concrete still blocks the body.

The expedition also waits behind a menu now. New and Resume are chosen before the desert loads, and the project took the name Sand the same night.