Groundwork Simulator

Groundwork Simulator drops you on untouched land with a fleet of heavy equipment and one job: turn it into a site that produces gold. Excavators, wheel loaders and bulldozers move the earth and reshape the terrain, and the pay dirt goes to a washing setup you build yourself, where the gold is separated out.

The map is open, and you can work it alone or with friends in online co-op. Early Access updates have already added an optional mini-map showing gold deposits and terrain contours, a creative mode with a large starting balance, and a choice of currency. Controller players get full gamepad support, joystick setups and separate control profiles for each type of vehicle.

Patches have come quickly since launch. Hotfix 0.1.1 dealt with startup problems, crashes and joystick detection, and 0.1.2.1 brought creative mode, single-joystick support and better controller navigation.

The table was built for version 0.1.3.1, the update that delivered large FPS gains, the mini-map and a batch of multiplayer fixes. Later patches may break some entries.