Because of the vast scope of the game, the entire game will come in stages, broken up into several planned DLCs. The different stages of the game will be broken out as follows:

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Base Game ($59.99)

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• Core survival components: hunger, thirst, temperature / weather, stamina, wet / dry effects, health, breath (swimming / drowning)

• Combat system: hand-to-hand combat, basic melee weapons, basic ranged weapons, spells

• Multiplayer support: local LAN; public vanilla & community servers to join; at least 50 players but shooting for up to 120+ players per server at release

• Full inventory system: multiple hotbar support; manage inventory of self, containers, and pets; role-based permissions systems in place for multiplayer group play

• Character progression system: lots of trainable abilities which unlock based on character progression & research; humanoid NPCs have same trainable traits; animals & creatures have trainable traits

• Tech & magic research trees covering up to medieval level of technology

• Resource mining / harvesting: trees; herbs & food; minerals; water; mana

• Farming: ability to fish; ability to plant, water, fertilize, harvest crops of various sorts

• Base building: custom buildings using components; pre-designed buildings with specific functions & roles based on tech unlock; ingredient-free building layout planning; stretch goal: blueprints

• Taming: ability to tame many animals / creatures, use as pets, and breed them with genetic-based traits; riding system in place

• Pet control: whistle commands; intelligent following behaviors

• AI: numerous land animals, sea creatures, and flying creatures to fight & tame; NPCs to interact with & recruit

• Group based play: ability to form barbarian hordes; ability to form civilizations

• Civilizations: NPCs should be able to be assigned to different roles based on unlocked tech and constructed buildings; zoning; NPCs can harvest resources and construct things and tend to their own needs; can raise an army of NPCs; NPCs can train skills; NPCs can be commanded to attack / defend / patrol; NPCs can research; can assign other players to roles in the civilization

• Magic: basic magic system in place with spells covering a range of capabilities which would commonly be dreamed up by people up to a medieval level of technology

• Misc: can build some pre-designed utility vehicles like a cart or small boat; swimming; climbing; chat; audio / video controls; at least one cave and one dungeon; basic loot system

• Quests: basic functioning quest & dialogue system with an assortment of quests to complete

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Expansioin DLC: Pirates & the High Seas ($39.99)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game

• This expansion is focused on conquering the high seas. It covers all the basics of everything related to navel warfare and piracy. It is a core expansion which is planned into the overall game design and future expansion ordering.

• Gear: all sorts of pirate themed tech & dress

• Boats: docks & dock-based boat construction; gun ports; cannons; sails & sail mechanics; better wind system; typhoons; whirlpools; spells useful on the high seas

• Technology: tech tree update to include all things related to early naval exploration, cannons, and flint locks

• Skills: skill tree update to include all things related to sailing the high seas and piracy

• Stretch goal / wish list: custom design your own dock-based build-able boats of varying shapes, sizes, and styles, including styles not conceived of until modern times

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Expansion DLC: The Underground ($29.99)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game

• This expansion will add many new caves and dungeons to the game, including creatures which only spawn in caves and dungeons, various additional quests related to the caves and dungeons, and additional story line content. This is a side expansion which is not particularly intertwined with other expansions.

• Gear: additional bows, armor, swords, knives, shields and magical items & loot to find; potentially some modern guns and explosives in higher tier areas

• Magic & Skills: dungeon crawling related skills, abilities, and spells

• Quests: a relatively large assortment of quests

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Expansion DLC: The Lost World (Free / Stretch Funding Goal #1)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game

• This expansion is a secondary side expansion building on the content added in The Underground, but without any of that content being a pre-requisite. This expansion is likely to get silently rolled into one or more of the other expansions in the background (as opposed to being a separate stand-alone DLC expansion) without a word from the devs, for free (as a bonus if the stretch funding goal #1 is met), and with no explanation or info to go on about its content or how it ties into the game in any way.

• Content: Ssshhh! It's a secret... But you will know it when you find it.

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Expansion DLC: Steampunk ($39.99)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game; Pirates & the High Seas 

• This expansion will add pre-industrial content covering everything from the great naval expansion up to and including the Steam Engine and related technologies.

• Gear: adds Steampunk styled gear and content

• Tech: all important technological advancements up to the start of the industrial revolution, including steam-powered vehicles, rifled barrels, dynamite, hot air balloons, etc

• Skills: skills and abilities related to the new technological advancements

• Magic: additional magic spells which could conceivably be dreamed up by a society on the brink of the industrial revolution

• Quests: various quests related to the Steampunk theme, additional back story content

• Stretch goal / wish list: custom design vehicles from components

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Expansion DLC: Industrial Revolution ($39.99)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game; Pirates & the High Seas; Steampunk

• This expansion will add industrial era capabilities, including factories and all sorts of automation of physical labor.

• Tech: electricity and related electrical (but not electronic) technologies, various pre-designed automation buildings, industrial farming enhancements, armored vehicles, internal combustion engine, early planes & gliders, parachutes, early submarines

• Skills: skills and abilities related to the new technological advancements

• Magic: additional magic spells which could conceivably be dreamed up by a society in the throws of the industrial revolution

• Quests: start of the Nature of Magic saga

• Stretch goal / wish list: custom design intricate factory complexes from components and NPC labor

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Expansion DLC: Electronic Revolution ($39.99)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game; Pirates & the High Seas; Steampunk; Industrial Revolution

• This expansion adds modern-era electronic technologies to the game. 

• Tech: electronics / computers; full wireless remote control tech; robotics & further automation improvements; advanced flight systems; pharmaceutical medicines

• Skills: skills and abilities related to the new technological advancements

• Magic: additional magic spells which could conceivably be contrived with a solid but basic understanding of modern day theoretical physics

• Quests: continuation of the Nature of Magic saga

• Stretch goal / wish list: custom design airplanes & jets from components & build extremely complex robotic automated processing and manufacturing facilities with sensors and logic components

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Expansion DLC: The Final Frontier ($39.99)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game; Pirates & the High Seas; Steampunk; Industrial Revolution; Electronic Revolution

• This expansion adds the ability to construct basic under water bases and to enter orbit to construct space stations. It also will prominently feature custom design & building for all vehicles / methods of transport from boats to cars to jets & space ships.

• Tech: under water base construction components; all necessary components for building boats, wheeled vehicles, and flying vehicles from parts; rocket components; space station modules; satellites; basic directed energy weapons

• Skills: skills and abilities related to the new technological advancements

• Magic: additional magic spells which could conceivably be contrived with a solid but basic understanding of modern day theoretical physics; ability to perform limited genetic manipulation of pets and plants

• Quests: the Monolith saga begins; continuation of the Nature of Magic saga

• Stretch goal / wish list: pervasive multiplayer environment encompassing thousands of square kilometers of land and ocean, massive space environments, and tens of thousands of simultaneous players in a single "server instance" hosted across a vertically and horizontally scalable, fault tolerant hardware architecture

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Expansion DLC: The Quantum Nano Revolution ($39.99)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game; Pirates & the High Seas; Steampunk; Industrial Revolution; Electronic Revolution; The Final Frontier

• This expansion adds advanced under water base building, advanced space building, space colonization, and space warfare.

• Tech: advanced underwater base components; advanced submersible vehicles; high thrust, high efficiency electric ion propulsion; advanced battery tech; second generation directed energy weapons; advanced space combat options; space resource harvesting; and more

• Skills: skills and abilities related to the new technological advancements

• Quests: finalization of the Nature of Magic saga; continuation of the Monolith saga

• Magic: finalization of the magic tree

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Expansion DLC: The Tenth Dimension ($39.99)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game; Pirates & the High Seas; Steampunk; Industrial Revolution; Electronic Revolution; The Final Frontier; The Quantum Nano Revolution

• This expansion further expands space exploration and technological supremacy.

• Tech: dimensional technologies; advanced space and personal travel technologies; bigger on the inside technologies; advanced inventory tech

• Skills: skills and abilities related to the new technological advancements

• Quests: finalization of the Monolith saga; start of the Singularity saga

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Expansion DLC: The Incursion (Free / Stretch Funding Goal #2)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game; Pirates & the High Seas; Steampunk; Industrial Revolution; Electronic Revolution; The Final Frontier; The Quantum Nano Revolution; The Tenth Dimension

• This expansion builds on the Monolith saga. It adds some additional planned core game play content to accompany The Tenth Dimension expansion. 

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Expansion DLC: The Singularity ($39.99)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game; Pirates & the High Seas; Steampunk; Industrial Revolution; Electronic Revolution; The Final Frontier; The Quantum Nano Revolution; The Tenth Dimension

• This expansion concludes the primary story line of the game.

• Tech: various technologies related to ascension

• Skills: skills and abilities related to the new technological advancements

• Quests: finalization of the Singularity saga

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Expansion DLC: Capitalist Economy (Free / Stretch Funding Goal #3)

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• Pre-reqs: Base Game

• This expansion adds corporate entities to the game. Corporate entities must seek the permission of a civilization to operate within its borders and must abide by the laws of those civilizations within their borders, and possibly even outside those borders. Unlike citizens, they can own land and resources within the confines of any civilization which grants them permission, as well as outside the territory of civilizations. They pay taxes for all business activity within a civilization's borders, and possibly also to their incorporating civilization (based on civilization tax policy). They can conduct trade, buy, build, and rent out properties, run merchant ships, hire workers, hire, operate, and even rent out merchant armies, etc. What happens when a successful corporation buys all the farm land, housing, and shops owned by a civilization? I guess we will find out...

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I have several additional concepts for future expansion packs if the game continues to have a wide following and player base upon the conclusion of the above expansions. Somewhere along the line, I plan to add mod support to the game with full documentation and examples of how to make various different mods. The mod support will also include support for campaigns. The campaigns will provide a more story-driven approach to game play, but will be capable of incorporating the full content and capabilities of everything released through the base game and expansions at any given point in time. Ultimately, I would love for this to also include a full in-game campaign builder and in-game map making system, as well as in-game tools for building out new technologies, items, magic skills, and other game content. 

All of these extra plans will, of course, depend on sufficient sales to hire the staff needed to build these capabilities into the game. My final vision for the game is for it to be more akin to a "survival gaming engine" than a simple, single gaming experience. I'd like to provide something for the global community to use to easily build entirely new gaming experiences which can be shared as mods / campaigns / pre-packaged experiences and which could conceivably even be sold by the authors in a marketplace to help support their work. It will obviously require a lot of support from the community in terms of backing this campaign to bring the base game to market, as well as a lot of additional ongoing support over the years to bring all my plans to fruition.