Valleygold Wheat
Hardy grain for flour, feed, and warm household meals.
The holding's clock
Day 1
Dawn
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Glimmerdeep
Farm a seam of rose quartz, four hundred fathoms down.
Watch the clock in the corner — a whole day below passes while you read this. Till blacksoil beds, work the galleries, and keep the ledger of a living deep holding.
From the blacksoil beds
The Harvest
Cultivars bred for the dark, drawn frame by frame for the graphite, mineral, and rose seam of Glimmerdeep.
Quickroot Radish
A sharp little root ready after only a few days.
Ember Pepper
Scarlet pods that regrow through the warmest weeks.
Moonwool Cotton
Soft pale fibre gathered from hardy field plants.
Hearthglow Tomato
Heavy vines that keep fruiting after the first harvest.
Tallshade Corn
Tall stalks grown for the kitchen and animal stores.
Duskskin Onion
Layered bulbs with a deep violet skin and hearty bite.
Nightbloom Coffee
Dark beans prized for a strong, fragrant drink.
Fieldwork
Tools of the Holding
Six dependable tools for soil, water, timber, stone, fishing, and construction.
Hoe
Till an empty patch of soil.
Watering Can
Water planted garden beds.
Axe
Chop trees and collect timber.
Pickaxe
Break stone and uncover ore.
Fishing Rod
Cast from the shore of a lake.
Builder’s Hammer
Move or remove placed decor.
Six who stayed
The Folk of the Deep Holding
Traders, anglers, wardens, and seers each carry their own work, quests, and stories.
Edmund Vane
Keeps rare goods moving and always knows the value of a careful trade.
Marlow Fen
Knows the still water, the changing weather, and every worthwhile catch.
Gideon Rusk
Knows the bright seams and trades fairly for useful ore and stone.
Rowan Ashcombe
Watches the coppice and teaches the patient work of restoring woodland.
Agnes Bellweather
Keeps the old hearth, the first lessons, and the valley’s warmest advice.
Lenora Veil
Reads the mineral glow and offers strange gifts to attentive neighbours.
Day by day
Life Below the Glow
Turning seasons, busy markets, and a world that continues to breathe while the holding grows.
Four Seasons
Crops, weather, and light change through spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
Mill & Kitchen
Refine harvests into flour, bread, cheese, and valuable meals.
The Market
Fill orders, trade goods, and invest the proceeds back into the holding.
Cloud Save
Use an account to sync the farm and continue on another device.
Quests & Goals
Follow personal quests, daily orders, and long-term achievements.
Many Plots
Expand beyond the first field into quarries, lakes, forests, and meadows.
Six galleries · one seam
The holding is bigger than the farm.
Every gallery keeps its own stock, its own keeper — and its own way of paying you back.
Blacksoil Farm
Open fields ready for cultivation.
Watered beds grow ×1.5 faster
Gloamwood
Dense woodland with plentiful timber.
Rowan Ashcombe watches the coppice
Deepstone Quarry
Rocky ground crossed by mineral seams.
Stone returns after a new day begins
Moonwater Lake
Quiet deep water edged by reeds.
Marlow Fen pays a better rate for the catch
Roseveil Meadow
A bright clearing filled with wild flowers.
Wild plants are gathered by hand
Valley Market
Edmund Vane’s travelling market.
Rare goods travel between the holdings
29 quests · 30 standing orders
The board never empties.
The folk pin what they need. You decide what it costs them. Real slips from the game's board:
Quest · the quarry
Heart of the Stone
Unearth 1 Emberheart Ruby.
Gideon Rusk450 g
Quest · the beds
First Blacksoil Harvest
Bring 10 Moonroot Parsnips.
Edmund Vane120 g
Quest · the lake
Lakekeeper’s Set
Bring one of every lake fish.
Marlow Fen380 g
Order · the hearth
Lantern Feast
Deliver 3 × Hollowlight Pumpkin.
Agnes Bellweather960 g
Quest · the gloamwood
Old Oak Request
Deliver 5 pieces of hardwood.
Rowan Ashcombe210 g
Quest · the veil
The Coldlight Seam
Unearth 1 Coldlight Sapphire.
Lenora Veil600 g
Quest · the hearth
Summer Moonwell
Grow 1 Moonwell Melon.
Agnes Bellweather260 g
Order · the market
Evening Basket
Deliver 2 × Valley Loaf.
Edmund Vane180 g
…and 51 more where these came from. Rewards in gold; trust paid separately.
Four hundred fathoms down, something is ripening
Descend into Glimmerdeep
- 1Press Playruns in your browser
- 2Till the soilsow your first crop
- 3Grow the holdingseason by season