A massive permanent tornado is moving toward your colony's position. You have 60 in-game days to build a mobile platform and evacuate before the tornado arrives.
Key Challenge
Time pressure is absolute — the tornado arrives on Day 60 regardless of your actions. Every building decision must be evaluated against the countdown. The evacuation platform requires specialized components that can only be obtained through Sailor exploration of the surrounding ocean.
Strategy
- 1.
Do not optimize for long-term colony efficiency. This scenario rewards rapid, 'good enough' decisions. Build basic Fishing Piers and housing, get your Workers to 60% happiness (not 80%), and redirect all available resources toward the evacuation platform components.
- 2.
The evacuation platform requires 4 Thruster Engines (Sailor exploration drop, not craftable), 20 steel, 40 concrete, and a Power Grid (research unlock). Send your Sailors exploring immediately on Day 1 — finding all 4 Thruster Engines typically takes 25-35 days depending on exploration RNG.
- 3.
Cross-brace everything. The pre-tornado weather on days 40-60 features progressively stronger wind events. A structure that survived early-game calm weather will collapse in Day 50 storms without cross-bracing. Retroactively adding cross-bracing to your entire colony on Day 35 is worth the cost.
- 4.
The Day 60 deadline is a hard fail if you haven't completed the platform. However, completing it on Day 58-59 is common — the game gives you a narrow window after platform completion to board all colonists before the tornado arrives.
Quick Tips
- ▶ Assign both Engineers to the Research Station from Day 1. The Power Grid research is on the critical path and must be completed by Day 40.
- ▶ Use the Undo system aggressively in this scenario — you cannot afford to waste materials on failed placements.
- ▶ The tornado approach from Day 50 onward creates real-time wind that visually affects your buildings. This is atmospheric only — wind damage doesn't increase until Day 58.