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
748 official, the rest invented by players
170 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.
Fishing · a game of its own
Cast, wait for the bite, then play the fish: reel while it tires, give it line when it runs, or the line snaps. Real species across the realms, rare fish that move to a new realm every week, and record boards for every catch. Free with the HUD, and no roleplay needed.
Rare fish this week
in Ama 'Thalas · fresh water, temperate · until Monday 9 November
in Brigadoon · fresh water, temperate · until Monday 9 November
in Darkwatch Stables and Kennels · salt water, temperate · until Monday 9 November
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.
33 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 12,525 placed, last 30 days
Of 15,877 placed, last 30 days
105 being made right now
With objects worked in the last 30 days
Written by 12 community authors
Levelled through use
Of 117 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.
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.
Care for a vegetable field well enough and it may grow a prize, one in all of SL Colonies at a time, that lifts every field in its realm for as long as it stands.
The auction block in the hub, made better: a bidding sign the whole crowd can watch, bidding that stays open for the whole sale, and a late bid that buys more time, so nobody wins by sniping.
The six Trainers move into their Trial rooms: earn each stat point by passing a trial of Might, Balance, Endurance, Study, Insight or Presence, on the road to Mastery.
A real fight on every cast, bait made from what you grow and catch, a live catch used to hook a better one, and rare fish that move to a new realm every week.
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.
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.
Two changes this week, both from things you asked for. Move many items at once Moving items between your chests and your characters used to mean one item at a time. Now you can tick several, or all of them, and move…
Read on the forum
Until now, every vineyard in the colonies grew the same three grapes. Not any more. The Grafting Table lets you cross vines, raise seedlings with brand-new genes, and found varieties of your own : named by the game for…
Read on the forum
There’s a new place to stop in SL Colonies. The Campfire is a fire you can light almost anywhere in the game: pull up a chair, cook the fish you just caught, get your energy back, and keep fishing without ever leaving…
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.
