Territory & Map

Your territory is the area of land that you have control over and you can only construct buildings, mine Natural resources, chop trees, or plant trees that are within your territory.

Map

The map can be accessed by the button in the top left of the screen or by the hotkey [M]. It shows you a top-down view of the land that is visible to you along with the amounts of locations of natural resources available to you. You can zoom in and out using the mouse wheel or the slider on the left. Natural Resource outside your fog of war are marked as unknown and may be any natural resource type, but their location can give you a hint about which direction to expand in. Clicking on the "eyes" can help highlight various resources. The infinity symbol highlights shaft resources, while resources with counts represent surface resources. Want to know where fish are? Click on the fish tab. Some Frontiers may also add a tab. The example to the right shows the fog of war (black), your controlled territory (brighter) and the visible territory (lighter). A Boat, as seen here in the north-west corner, can expand the visible territory during an expedition.

Expanding Your Territory

Your Colony Ship gives you a small area of territory to begin with. To expand your territory you need to construct Watchtower L1. Once a guardbot occupies a constructed watchtower you will gain new territory. It's usually best to build watchtowers right on the border to gain the most territory. Also higher level watchtowers (Watchtower L2, Watchtower L3) have a larger radius and will grant you more territory. The territory ownership and which overlaps with ownership of other watchtowers is shown by selecting the "i" panel on each watchtower. In the example...

Watchtower Territory Stats

Icon	Name	Territory Range
	Watchtower L1	11 Tiles
	Watchtower L2	14 Tiles
	Watchtower L3	17 Tiles

Watchtowers expand territory in 9 increments of 18 gameticks each after occupation according to the following schedule

GameTick	Watchtower L1	Watchtower L2	Watchtower L3
0	1	1	2
18	2	3	3
36	3	4	5
54	4	6	7
72	6	7	8
90	7	8	10
108	8	10	12
126	9	11	14
144	10	13	15
162	11	14	17

Expeditions

On some maps resources might only be accessible over water. To set up new colonies on different islands you'll need to set up an expedition at a Harbour and explore the high seas. Once you hit land on your new island, your new Harbour will grant you a small amount of territory to work with. For more information check out the Expeditions section of the Boats page.

Combat

On some maps you will come across unfriendly robot colonies and eventually your territory borders will meet and the only way to gain more territory will be to capture the enemy watchtowers. Full information on this in the Combat section.