On main today
One human, one machine. Offline first. Online play isn’t available yet.
Powrush-MMO is in active development. The current build is offline and single-player. Online play is not live. There is no Steam page, and there is no release date. It is not a public launch candidate.
The default binary is the lived hour in the Powrush-MMO (opens in a new tab) repository. Hours one and two are code-complete. Hours 1–3 are on main. The paragraphs below follow the README and the docs for that default client. Each one cites a source file on main. The plugin list itself is client/src/lib.rs (opens in a new tab).
Play, Continue, and Settings. Continue shows the House name, or Unnamed House, and the yard remembers when a local save exists. House naming is skippable. The Online option on the title screen is switched off, because online play isn’t available yet.
WASD walk. Space jump. Shift sprint. E harvests or tends. I opens the satchel. H hides guidance. R allocates. One card teaches walk, tend, satchel, and allocate. One Use verb. Keyboard is the walked proof. Touch controls are in the same client.
You harvest with mercy. Wells speak Idle, Glowing, Tended, Resting, or Stressed. If you only take, the glow fades. The first well: E Contest, and dawn after a loss.
R opens the choice when it is eligible. 1 is flow: the take moves into shared climate repair. 2 is reserve: the take becomes repair-rights you can spend later. Neither verb is sell. The lesson is in the hands. It is a teaching, not a wage.
You walk a climate. Four places stay four: Sanctuary, Heartwood, Threshold, and Depths. Play boots in the Sanctuary yard. Depths is not the boot. Without the book, the other Places stay closed. There is no Heartwood mesh on Sanctuary. In the offline hour a well can be idle, glowing, tended, resting, or stressed.
Light generation is off by default. Settings Grove · light, or POWRUSH_GEN=light, turns on hex-seed scatter and climate fog behind the UI. The same path either way. It stays off the title, pause, Settings, and the L and Q plates.
Quit and rerun. The welcome slab says the yard remembers. That memory is data/powrush_hour_two.json. Local settings persist beside the house file. Mute silences the bed and the well sting.
Peace keeps W silent. Tab, G, L, and Q stay dead until Charter and Frontier. After a first-hour allocate, Tab steps Frontier. Q founds a House. L Bind settles. Quit and rerun: the yard remembers, and the line is Hour two held.
G Voice: E aye on the beacon card. The frontier yard can show an offline extractor with spill. After arrival, Q Proof Pack, then Embassy E seat: Hour three held, the book is yours. Q plants a fabricator. After the embassy seat, Crownstone: E Witness, path Unset. After the stone is seen, Sylvaris: E Offer a tend. After the tend, Hybrid: E Attune. Compass speaks at live W 20 and 60. Peace stays silent. Tab Chart: the week score is tons plus restored. Ledger 3: opt-in DeclaredLethal, and a hunter blood tariff. Bind stays the default. These steps are in the offline hour. They are not online play.
The default is Offline. No dedicated server is required. There is no “12 players online.” POWRUSH_NET defaults off, zero sockets. Settings LAN is off, or loopback. Loopback is 127.0.0.1 only. It never switches on the Online option on the title screen, and it never opens a public bind. Ra-Thor may read a lived tick. It does not drive the keys.
Not in the first hour: NFT or chain mint, k8s, payments, a second HUD, fake presence, switching on online play from the title screen, or a public bind. No Market. No Depths as boot.
Parked on disk, and not the default door: server/, simulation/, host/, game/, powrush-divine-module/, and powrush-shard/. The shard listen is a localhost dev recipe only. payments/ stays out of the first hour. Steam packaging stays parked. There is no Steam page.
The story of the five peoples and four places is on World. Play on this site is coming later.