Minecraft · Java & Bedrock · In development
The crown is broken. The throne is empty.
A player-run medieval kingdom where every rank is handed out by another player, every chunk of land comes with a bill, and your vassals can turn on you if you push them too hard.
Announced at launch
Solaria is really two games sharing one map. They need each other, and that's the whole point.
Go where the lords won't. The ruins of the old kingdom are full of monsters, loot and things nobody has explained yet.
Get land from a Duke, then try to hold onto it. Rule well and your vassals stay loyal. Rule badly and they'll form a League.
Lords need heroes to carry dungeon keys, pay taxes and win wars. Heroes need somewhere to live, contracts to take and a ruler worth fighting for.
No rank above Freeman comes from playtime. Someone has to trust you with it, and they can regret it.
There's no /claim for strangers. A new Duke starts with a 7 by 7 chunk charter, and everyone below them gets land from their lord. After that you grow one chunk at a time with Expansion Writs, next to land you already hold.
Land also costs money to keep: 50 copper per chunk, every week. Leave it unpaid for three weeks and your liege gets it back.
How land worksLords set the terms: a tax between 5% and 25% of your weekly income, War Hours you owe when they go to war, whether you can build castles, start your own wars or sell your land.
Once you've sworn, your lord can't quietly change your terms. New terms need your consent.
Read about contractsSworn vassals keep their old terms until they accept these.
Every vassal has a loyalty score from 0 to 100, worked out from their contract, how long they've served and how you've treated them. Restless vassals pay their taxes two days late. Unhappy ones start talking to each other.
Nothing is hidden. Hit Why? and you get the full breakdown, on both sides.
How loyalty is calculated68 Content
Three unhappy vassals can form a League with a single demand: better terms, independence, a new liege, or someone else on your seat. You don't find out until the third one joins.
Once the League is as strong as you are, it sends an ultimatum. You get two days to answer.
How Leagues workAt 100% the League may send its ultimatum.
Dukes rule with five seats: Steward, Marshal, Spymaster, Chancellor and Chaplain. Seats earn Influence by turning up and doing their job each week.
A powerful council can veto big tax changes. You can overrule it once a week, but every vassal at the table loses 10 loyalty when you do.
How the Council worksMotion: raise the Earls' tax from 10% to 18%
Vetoed · Council strength 61%, Powerful
If your contract allows it, you can sell your land and your title on the Land Exchange, at a fixed price or by auction. The buyer gets everything: land, plots, treasury and vassals.
Your liege gets 48 hours of first refusal and has to approve the buyer. Every sale pays a 5% duty that leaves the economy for good.
Buying and selling landBarony of Ashford
18 chunks · Development 2 · 4 plots let · Duchy of Wrenmoor
42g44g 10sThe last High King died without naming an heir. His two eldest children both claimed the throne, and the nobles picked sides. After five years of war, the losing side smashed the Ashen Crown rather than let the other wear it.
The magic it held went wild and the kingdom fell apart. A century later, Solaria is a patchwork of Duchies that don't trust each other, the old ruins are crawling with monsters, and somewhere out there are five shards of the crown.
Read the full historyThe kingdom fell to a succession crisis, and every Duchy in play faces the same danger.
The design rule behind every system
Every region is open from your first minute. The game tells you what lives there, then lets you go anyway.
Rolling shires, manors and market towns. The gentlest country in the realm. Mostly.
Chalk cliffs, harbours and smugglers. Something is still ringing the bells of the Drowned Abbey.
Ancient oak forest. Outlaws, charcoal burners and a black market nobody admits to using.
Mist, peat and broken causeways. If you see a light in the marsh, don't follow it.
Highland moors, snow and standing stones. The wolves up here are bigger than the ones at home.
Chalk and sand along the old salt roads. Sandstorms, caravans and vaults that should have stayed buried.
A volcanic plain of ash and fire, with a world boss at the top of the Embercrown Spire.
The fallen halls of the old kingdom, scattered everywhere. Some are a nice afternoon. Some aren't.
There's no floating balance in Solaria. Coins are items: copper, silver and gold, minted in Aldermere. Carry too much and it slows you down. Die with it and it's somebody else's.
Anything you don't want to carry goes in your Bank Vault, which you can only reach by visiting a Banker.
Coins and the BankPhone, console or PC, you're in the same world, under the same lords, paying the same taxes. Every screen is built twice, properly, for each edition.
Chest menus, dialogs, and long records that open as books.
Native forms with buttons, sliders and toggles. Works with touch and controllers.
No clickable chat links, no typing into anvils, no editing signs to make something work. Every button also has a command.
Playing on BedrockSearch, link previews, sortable tables, and an article for every system you can play in testing.
Vassals now have a loyalty score you can see the math behind, and they can band together when you push them too far.
Lords can rent out plots, sell their land at auction, and pour gold into developing their holdings.
Solaria is still being built. Join the Discord to follow along, get into testing, and hear when Duchy applications open.