Your journey begins here
A complete survival, farming, crafting and trading RPG inside Second Life. Bring your land in and run a colony of your own, or pick a profession and work your way across the regions.
Player-run lands reporting in this week
694 official, the rest invented by players
137 played in the last 30 days
Build
Drop a region server onto your parcel and it becomes part of a working economy — farms, stations, vendors and gatherables that other people have a reason to travel to. No scripting on your part.
Craft
Gather, smelt, brew, cook and forge. Skills rise through use, and the chain runs deep — starch to sugar, sugar to alcohol, alcohol to something worth aging and bottling.
Trade
Nothing is spawned by the system. Every item on every vendor was gathered and made by a player, and priced by what another player will pay for it.
Two ways in
Players need somewhere worth going. Builders need someone to turn up. SL Colonies Roleplay is the same system from both sides.
For players
Gather, craft, cook, brew, hunt and trade. Professions level through use, and the good stuff is always on somebody else’s parcel — so you travel, and you meet people doing the same.
For world builders
Drop in a region server and your parcel becomes part of a working economy — with a reason for players to keep coming back, and no scripting on your part.
35 regions live
Owners set the theme, the rules and the rhythm. The same economy runs underneath a pirate harbour and an irradiated wasteland.
By the numbers
Read live from the game database, so these move as the world does.
Of 11,516 placed, last 30 days
Of 14,567 placed, last 30 days
62 being made right now
With objects worked in the last 30 days
Written by 12 community authors
Levelled through use
Of 119 founded
And still shipping monthly
On the way
An identity that follows you — across the regions, the forum and Discord — and a reason for players to keep coming back to your land. Some of it is already here.
Take a cutting from a ripe vineyard, graft it at the Grafting Table and grow a grape nobody else has. Varieties change the wine itself, and the best only thrive in the soil they ask for.
Every field gets soil with a real pH. Mix fertilisers at the Compost Bin to push it acidic or alkaline and grow what wants it there — or leave it be, and it drifts back to its natural level and an ordinary harvest.
Fishing becomes a trade worth learning: bait made from what you grow and catch, a live catch used to hook a better one, and rare fish worth going after.
Bloodlines for the farm's animals: breed for coats, rarity and quality that carries through to the butcher and the kitchen, fed from your fields and your nets.
Charge your colony's stone with platinum and work its shared benches and fields from your phone — start crafts, plough, sow, water and harvest without walking the realm.
The market rebuilt from the ground up — every offer readable, priced in its own currency, with who is selling and where to go and get it.
Progress is written up as it happens — see the Herald for release notes and the monthly Chronicles.
The Herald
New systems, new recipes and release notes, posted straight from the community forum.
A fishing system is on its way to SL Colonies: over a hundred real species across the realms, a fight you play from your own HUD, rare fish that move from realm to realm each week, and record boards for the heaviest…
Read on the forum
Every field now remembers how it was looked after. While a crop grows, you can water it, feed it, test it and mulch it, and how well its soil was kept over the growing week decides the harvest: more of the crop, a Fine…
Read on the forum
The Chalk Pit is here: the first piece of the vineyard update, and the place the Farmer’s lime starts. Dig it with a small basket and you come away with chalk, which the Compost Bin turns into garden lime , the kind…
Read on the forum
Start your adventure today
Pick up the HUD and meter from the Emporium and you can be gathering your first resources within ten minutes — or drop a region server on your land and put it on the map.
