Embark – (Minecraft Inspired Colony Builder)

Hello and welcome today we’re gonna check out embark which is hitting steam early access today April 18th we of course have seen this one in the past back during its failed Kickstarter days a little over a year ago but overly complicated games the dev has stuck with

It and we now have a steam version so I thought it was time we took another look at this one see what all this one is all about and what has changed so those of you have seen it before basically it’s a colony builder called a builder with a

With a Minecraft II voxel kind of feel to it we’ll have our villagers out chopping trees mining stone and building houses and whatever else and trying to survive so let’s pick up a new game here this this is our world that we’re building on so we can pick somewhere on

This map to put our settlement I don’t know somewhere about that will generate the map here and we’ll see what we’ve got we here on the coasts I mean it seems like a good spot there’s of course mountains and deserts and all that in here like a big peak right there what is

That let’s take with us means by the coast yeah sure normal difficulties fine new world can’t think of a better name myself alright so we got five people here we have to choose to go on this journey Issac Naomi and they you can see their couples a couple couples in there we’ve

Got Ashton is all by himself or herself and we can select different things if you want to go in and min/max this with different amount of points we have we’ll even how it is though you can see some people are good other things and bad other things whatever what just go in

Park as this thing’s loaded up you’ll certainly see white you can see here very very minecraft II voxel feel it almost has a are muck vision those of you have played to a fortress kind of look and feel to the game but anyway here we are out in appears to be the

Flatlands I’m gonna pause this real quick and get a look around so we’ve got our five folks having a seat doing nothing but we’ve got so you see wheat out there there’s trees around we can go of course change Z levels by going up and down but let’s go and see what we

Could find here first thing the most important thing I guess to start off with on this giant map is there’s there’s me fresh water spots there’s gonna be like angry monkey folks that want to come and kill us there’s other just wild animals around here it’s a

Very very large map and the kind of the cool thing I suppose with with this style with this whole voxel thing is you could like I mean if we want to build out like in the caves we could do that build a villa village we do that too and it’s kind of

A cool look to it what is it so these monkey people monkey people okay where I can build over here stay with monkey people let’s go and look Isaac here and find some water so there is fresh water somewhere down here a way down there oh there’s a big hole in the ground

Can I get gonna access that somehow yeah over this way so has a sort of a Minecraft e cave system thing which is just kind of a cool idea we can like we could use that water right there yeah why not let’s do it there’s all kinds of

Stuff out here we could go way out there if you wanted to but we’re gonna stick with this this little spot here maybe build our village up on top who could build it in the side of the cave which is which is a very cool might be cat

That likes flat we build in the side of that thing kind of like you know Petra style it could be very cool it might be kind of time-consuming but but I want to do it so we’re going to do it all right so let’s go see what we can do so let’s

Go in mark go normal mode here and set up a stockpile I’m gonna throw some food we’ll put our prepared food and just set it like right over here just for now toss the food over there we’re gonna put in maybe our raw food next to it just

For now we’ll get some wood set up and put a wood stock pile over here as well and we’ll get let’s see where seeds put those next to the farm spot well farm up here I guess throw some seeds over there and then get some farming set up here

Some forest mushrooms yeah sounds delicious let’s do some like that okay now unpause game I’m looking go do the thing now just like rimworld they all have this style of door therapist kind of thing Ashton make small talk Isaac is annoyed Isaac yeah Ashton’s the worst okay so Isaac apparently is our farmer

Going to go and make him the farmer primary farmer Julianne likes the mines we’ll go ahead and let her do that let’s see we have a woodcutter’s and we need to buy well – can do that actually seems to be pretty good at it you can see the

Level of the green bar there Jack craft actually Jackson beam I know what’s Jack gonna do Weaver Bowyer yeah just craft things Jack who wasn’t a brewer I guess Ashton’s gonna do that well if that’s the case you can’t do that so we’ll let Naomi would cut Ashton brews and Naomi would

Cut and when she’s not wood cutting she’s gonna go and cook that seems like a thing to do farmer farmer was Isaac okay I said with two S’s there we go they’re hauling things over here no ma’am Naomi’s getting good at running excellent some sheep over here too

Let’s go and make sure that we’re harvesting some trees we got a birch there’s no trees around here really so we’ll get all this taken care of it may be more of a stone based kind of thing we can harvest some wheat here as well

Go ahead and grab that out of the ground and there’s lots of blueberries around we’ll go ahead and pick those anyone else got some things also Tomatoes over heels go grab some of those okay I’ll be running all over but it’s fine it’s good for their heart yes Ashton wants a tool

To work he wants a shoddy hatchet to go chop trees there you go Ashton have have at it we can also dig things down if we want what you’re gonna do that somehow we’re gonna go and let’s see here I want it to be canceled that I want depth one

And we’re going to go and mine this out and sort of make like a bit of a staircase down here well you want Julian wants a pick a go so she can get some pickin going on here and we can get a we can actually make things obviously we

Can make some walls oh just do a level one wall make it out of natural rocks is fine we can take that if we want I guess we have some rocks around can I go down yeah at water level I think I can so we can build like right here and then put

Everything in the wall let’s do that and then we’ll start digging in here so rather than having to go and build like houses and things well have like a cave Society I’m sure with this black thing is let’s go zoom down here I go way down

Is anything no it’s just ok so there’s been development for quite some time I think it’s a couple years before actually hit Kickstarter and now here we are a few years later well I guess one like one and a half years after the Kickstarter and that steam early access now wasn’t one

Fat just like you know in the side of the wall something like that one and we can we can build like none of the things off of here eventually put some walls in here I just I you know I make so many colony billers I don’t do something different

Alright so forgive me for not making that’s the easy way let’s crank it up here and let people get some things done though now the idea here with this water the important part is you can see we got food and water up here we’re gonna need

To get a still set up we’ll need to get a carpenter’s bench and all kinds of other things so let’s go ahead and start those I suppose we want to make the workshops we can make carpenter shop yeah we’re in set that went up just sit

Out here for now that was research lab that works do carpenter shops in to go right next to it and the crafters workshop words just for now just toss them out here we’ll get them moved in time for now get all those things set up we can just

Adjust priorities if we want you know kitchen making more carpenter a little more if we want there is a giant research menu which is over this way somewhere there it is which teaches us how to make everything there’s a lots of thing than you making a steel it’s an

Important thing to have we want be able Billy make beds as well something we have to learn this way so everyone at the moment is out charging around doing all kinds of jobs yelling at each other you know that kind of stuff you don’t mushrooms oh the wheat has turned into

Mushrooms okay I understand okay so the whole in supplies over here get some stuff mate we do have this stuff take Doug down did you actually go into no we’re not quite there yet it’s not dug into that yet we’ve built that wall either actually need stone or dirt to do

That what are you you are silt I think we need proper dirt build it dig that out we could go find some stone or just like you know dig a spot now what are you you’re what diamonds what diamonds on the surface we’re rich okay let’s dig all that out

So whenever somebody gets sometimes I’ll go dig and hopefully we have some things we can dig that and make it a little fancier let’s see kitchen is getting worked on we need we need some trees looks like look it there he’s hauling it over there we got wood getting putting a stock pile

With brush and put it over here but whatever I’m slowly get there everyone doing their doing their work you can see what they’re doing hauling hauling idle mining now now is this stuff it is still silt something in my stockpile I’m not entirely sure actually factors yeah we don’t meet

Anybody yet but there’s other folks out there we can see relationships folks have you know things they are attracted to or not Ashton Schroeder make small talk Isaac Zimmerman is a toy and Isaac and and Jack are good buds how great is Naomi yeah she’s great she’s a seven

Apparently Isaac and small talk yeah all that obviously seven meets how he feels about it yeah there we go so there is some mediocre salt which I think we can use to make that let’s go over here there we go soil so I won’t actually switch this out cue and we can remove

All that like that and put in a yeah like well sure two layers of it you have a dirt wall there which will allow her to something’s made here we go now she’ll use either rocks or dirt either one now she’s digging in there to get our our

Little rooms mate we’ll do like a bedroom one and we’ll do a I don’t know hopefully built like all around this thing and in this little cave it may not be the may not be the easiest to look at on YouTube but thing it’ll be neat okay

So now we has been brought in we should be able to farm that stuff so we’re gonna harvest I went to farm yeah a tomato farm sure put that up up here and a wheat farm I want you do only wheat there there you go he’s uh are you doing

You are an AoE Naomi’s planting crops Oh everyone’s fighting crops excellent yeah get out that I get this stuff are we more wood can be anything other than wouldn’t have to be wood alright well there’s not a lot of wood around here of course you can pick like forested maps

And all that would be a lot easier for the beginning anyway I would like to chop some trees all of these a mushroom tree Oh underground of course it is Naomi make small talk Julianne is annoyed what’s in this cave down here I wanna see this mushroom tree oh look at

This thing and we keep on going even further it’s very dark down here is this more cavers this is graphics I don’t know okay so lots of crop planting happening which is great we got to get that food under control we are a little bit low on water also so we get research

Done in the still made research lab probably high priority and we get those trees done you get those logs yeah yeah there we go those logs hauled over there get some stuff mate stop talking get some work done I’m gonna make us some top priority

So we can get us still made because we got eight drinks left once we have a still we can well we can pump water out and drink it I think also eventually stop making like things like tea and juice from the blueberries we got a few little rooms there I’m

Gonna do I’ll keep you guys busy I’m gonna have this as main main room it’ll come out let’s do like a grand hallway and then and then grand room very big well have a little bedrooms off the side here maybe this will just kind of come

In and come around that way and then we’ll have little bedrooms off of here there something like that for one bedroom we fit a bed now we have all kind of things in there with a smaller bedroom over here little one over this way you might as well do something right

Get to work everybody oh there’s some bedrooms we can have main crafty land we can have like kitchens and all that got here also and then right out they can step outside they can get a drink oh we can put our still in here

Have we made it if I made it yet I think we have it on the research yet you built it yet no you need trees get to work now isn’t actually a job people just do that so I was known as a carpenter oh right let’s make that’s actually a good point

No one’s a carpenter maybe that’s the problem I get to work on that we’re gonna low on drinks here I think they can drink the water but they don’t like it I believe throw a wall down yeah like right here there we go step out and get a drink if

You need it or whatever there we go resource pensions getting under control now we get someone at research which is going to be mining probably important but when you’re you know when you’re done mining go do some research you’re not skilled at it at all but yeah just get it done

There you go so that will get some research done so we can learn to make it still which is very important once that’s made we’re gonna get probably the carpenter shop needs to be made first then we can take these logs turn them into planks those are all over

Here part should be moved this way remove all these stations though later you know there’s diamonds just laying over here is that is that diamonds too decent silk silt no I guess we didn’t mind that and one’s having a chat we now have a carpenter shop set up

Let’s go ahead and order an item I would like slow this thing down I would like some sticks please can be I don’t know give me like eight sticks and I also like a permanent order of of ten planks please always have planks around and and chopped trees wherever there are more

There’s some way out here there’s monkey man around your son right though watch out for them chopping that tree good harvest these birch just all in here but avoid the monkey man there’s wolves out there very scary my test game I was getting eaten by a bunny a bunny came up and

Started chewing on my guy while he was sleeping okay kitchen I would like you to give me some simple meals just maintain a stalk of blueberries and tomatoes simple meals fine that’s perfect how’s the research looking eyes are still we’ve got two out of five someone was there while Emma’s gone berserk

We’re just guy has he is gonna come eat us is he anywhere near us oh yeah he’s chasing my guy hey buddy buddy I don’t fight he’s under attack I want you to fight no boy I forgot how to do this uh this is hunt bunny yes parity hi okay

You go punch him yeah get him that’s a giant bunny can you hit him there you go Jack are you feeling bunny is healthy and wounded Jack bleeding um he’s a long way away don’t die oh yeah we got him take that bunny that’s what I thought

It’s not gonna die Jackie you’d be all right um let’s see you’ve got some damage there I think I can fix you up if I have if I have like the ability to I don’t have bandages though you are bleeding will die a total blood reaches

Zero which is a lot he’s losing 10 per day we gotta get him patched up otherwise no more jack but we can’t do that yet what are you crafters worship can I can i order clubs I suppose we want some clubs give me just give me three clubs please Jack has

Made it back to have stills now okay decent sticks there you go use those sticks make me some clubs let me slow this thing down okay so we have a steel now so or we can have the ability to make it still now I’m gonna put one that

Will see if this works I would like to make and not an item I went to craft a building workshop a still but still we can put like I think we can stick it in here so this red maybe doesn’t want to be up maybe doesn’t want to be in here I

Might want to be outside so because it’s red it doesn’t to be there yeah so we have to go it can go up here like on the edge be cool we just set up here for now we go is moving you see the pipe this means it’s getting access to water so

Yeah put it what am I missing thought we put it there it’s not quite close enough the water that that’ll work right there okay that works yeah make that now what’s it need it needs wood okay we have zero water right now so it’s important that we get

That made we have enough wood laying around we do have plenty of wood okay so top priority on that get that made and we’ll get some drinks cranked out of here and then I guess bandages is the next thing he’s still bleeding over here I don’t know what we need for that let’s

Look at the research okay so we have a still we can learn to make juice later which turns blueberries into juice manages basic tools loom bag mittens cap cloak I just you just done for Jack I think we’re gonna make we’re gonna go with the juice I guess no no what’s go

With a basic Roger okay so the still is not working is nothing it drinks I would like you to order an item I want you to make me some tea I’ll just have let’s just keep like eight things a tea on hand at all times

I believe what to make an OT I think it’s I’m guessing it’s the blueberries and those are some giant mushrooms okay so we got farming coming in we have the research labs doing its thing excellent carpenter shop yeah yeah we get some bids carpenter shop is doing nothing at

The moment and the kitchen is making us a bit of food we have our food stockpile over here that is our seeds food is over this way raw food cooked food which is only two things so Naomi what’s wrong with you you’re fine you are you upset about something no bedroom lonely bad

Conversation hungry thirsty all kinds of problems aren’t you well you know what I got it on control now so it’s alright so down here we can get our cave system going which I think it is apparently apparently I dug down to levels there so let’s find go in and go

Down and have a nice giant room there perfect a giant bedroom here too yeah I like it no it’s still a bull above okay looking good farming’s going doing a thing having a chat yeah yeah good chat I mean once the research is done we’ll get some beds in

Here which is at zero of five so research please keep working on it she just slow I can upgrade resource I’m not trying to do that though right there is no migrants in this game to get new people we have to go and and make them the old-fashioned way what’s this oh

Yeah go away please Julianne is now a not a researcher basically too now a recruit researcher so she has now gained some skill where is she yeah he’s he’s a little bit of green in there so she kind of she did when she’s a little sad though you know it’s a

Rough life being a scientist will give me that give me those bed so I can make that because I can’t make anything else right at the beginning of the game we basically do nothing I do that I do that all we did not with two layers we have

Loads and loads of silt which I guess we can stockpile and toss it somewhere let’s go ahead and and get a spot here for it I would like it’s gonna be stone soil just throw some soil over here just get it out of the way kind of looking at

Okay we have one food zero drinks we need to have a make sure we have a cook going crook or a brewer so we actually you brew things Aston’s should be over here brewing things all the time I don’t know to do about about our bleeding guy

Kitchen we’re making meals we have one yes trying to see our jobs over or make items over here to Brewer tea please research is done excellent maintain that stock of tea I need oh no raw material has been found suitable raw material first made from mushrooms or herbs produce for quality

Drinks okay so we can find some mushrooms of course there’s some right there are you in sure let’s go get its Harvison plants what do we have around here there’s a lot of tomatoes around yeah go grab those and that’s a wheat I care about wheat right now where’s

Blueberries at there are some blueberries there’s a lot of blueberries okay yeah go grab all those ok that’ll solve that food problem ok and we now have beds so we can come down here and make ourselves a bit cuz beds means more people and I’m thinking this back here

Is basically done for the most part so let’s go ahead and throw a bed in there let’s go and build a see I forget how to make a bed it’s gonna be in furniture there it is double bed yeah yeah one of those actually the doubles go have to go

In here because this one’s not gonna be able to fit you see if they have to get in this from the sides so we can do it just a single right there so we can sleep in there ok I don’t get at least something going so someone can sleep at

Least you guys pick up some dirt good job it even says dirt this will be our main land once we get this up and running we’ll move all our crafting stuff back this way uh how’s Jack feelin Jack you doing all right buddy you still bleeding oh you know bleeding anymore

With Jack right before yeah he’s all good ok hey just walk it off yeah just rub a little dirt on it he’s all better okay so we’ve got version a my rope nothing’s going on I mean they get let me get I gotta find don’t need medical stuff meeting room improving trading they’re

Pulling us with our other factions windows a loom creation of bags and clothing from plant fibers cotton or animal skins Spears knives juice we can use for those blueberries were to pick it up it’s ten points though let’s just get let’s get a loom we can use it for

Anything it’s 15 points all right so I’m crafting it is five points we’ll get some stone going in and make some things we go and then it’s been mined out yet who’s my mind there yeah there you go there you go well done Julian Julian’s busy she does all kinds of things she

Minds she she researches busy she has a mouse do the research but she’s so good at mining she’s a competent miner she fell asleep on the job right there look at our dedication I would like to have a big bed please one of those big ones and

I want it to go right there Julian’s gonna be your bed you and and and Jack Jack has finished the research what just happened do we just have a cave-in we did part of the wall just fell through how that happened pass that up I just just stick some dirt

In there be alright just just slap it in there yeah okay okay alright so now we have a bed which means it means yeah you know what it means we need four planks for that and a carpenter now you know you do we have any about you carpenter

That we go I want you to maintain stock of 10 planks we don’t have those because we don’t have any trees that’s not enough trees around can I plant trees I cannot hmm it’s gone a tree kill admission get all those trees please we desperately need them and we have still

No food and water we’ve got 47 crops however lots and lots of crops which hopefully will get we’re just slowly growing we’re working on it we’re getting there once we go grab those other things we’ll be in good shape how’s everyone feeling about that Jan how do you feel she’s

Tired she Drake from a stream this is a bit of a problem I should have a bedroom she’ll get one she doesn’t lot like Ashton Ashton is just the worst and Jack’s your partner and you hate the guy like ice better than him who set you up you do have a club in

Your hand or you have a pic in your hand I can give you a club if I want and we do all our skills over here of course he’s in good health she very cowardly apparently can i I’m curious can I just move these things can i I

Have to demolish it okay we’ll get it moved and put them downstairs there so we can start getting our colony moved underneath but I think I said good time to call today here during our nice rainstorm food is slowly coming in it’s it’s getting there but people are least

Getting drinks from the stream and we’ll get those tomatoes all hauled over here which did we do it yet all these blueberries bring him over there’s cotton over there too I do want I want all that there’s all the angry monkeys in there in that little society over

There this we probably casually can’t get water from because this is salt water and I don’t know if there’s a Fisher anything in it I’m sure fishing is a thing oh yeah salty water doesn’t work doesn’t work for us there’s birds up there as well we

Can course we can do hunting lots and lots of logs anyway we’re in call today thanks me for watching again this is embark it’s available on Steam early access today thanks you for watching and I will see you next time