Stage01
Build
Scavenge scrap. Fabricate a Scout from cabin, frame, wheels, and a mounted MG. Every part is a choice — and a target.
Working title · Open-world combat MMO
Carbon
Ashes
Build scrap-forged vehicles. Fight in first person. Leave a mark on a world that keeps the scar.
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Scroll the yard
01 — The loop
Three verbs.
One persistent fight.
v0.1 is not a lobby shooter and not a theme park. It is a scrap yard that remembers what you bolted down, what you blew apart, and who paid for it.
Stage02
Fight
On-foot rifle work and vehicle brawls in the same yard. Shoot the gun off a ride. Cripple the wheels. Finish the cabin.
Stage03
Scar
Barricades stay. Wrecks matter. The shared world is not a round timer — it is a place other players inherit.
02 — The yard
Soviet steel.
Post-collapse grit.
An original industrial ruin — brutalist shells, corrugated plate, oil-stained concrete, oxidized green and rusted brown. Not fantasy neon. Not clean sci-fi. A yard built from scrap logic and bad weather that never clears.
Visual direction is stylized low-poly with deliberate lighting: readable silhouettes at combat distance, chunky materials, one overcast particulate sky. Grimy, but never muddy when it counts.
Material samples // D-027
Rust plate
oxidized ferrous
Cold steel
mill scale gray
Oxide green
weathered cladding
Ember core
live fire accent
03 — Systems
What you actually do
The demo loop is intentionally tight: one material, five recipes, owner-driven vehicles, and a yard that does not reset when you die.
Tactical FPS core
Hitscan rifle work with reload pressure, hit direction, and readable feedback. Death is a setback, not a full-loot beach reset — but your carried scrap is still on the line.
- On-foot gunfights and vehicle-mounted MG fire in one space
- Per-part vehicle damage: mobility, weapons, and cabin are separate bets
- Short spawn protection, then you are fair game
Modular vehicles
Assemble a Scout from real parts with real costs. Destroyed components are gone — recraft or fight without them.
- Cabin · Frame · Wheels · Machine gun
- One active vehicle per player in v0.1
- Owner-only drive; anyone can try to scrap it
A world that keeps score
Barricades and durable state survive disconnects. Seasons wipe on a weekly cadence so the yard stays hungry. Between wipes, the place is shared, hostile, and remembered by the server — not your client’s imagination.
- Server-authoritative simulation on Linux; clients send intent only
- Scrap economy with salvage piles, corpse loot, and hard carry caps
- Native clients on macOS (Metal) and Windows (DX12); Linux via Proton
04 — Substrate
Built on Carbon.
Carbon Ashes runs on the Carbon engine — open-sourced by Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games) — with Jolt Physics under a game-owned simulation boundary. The differentiator is not another marketplace skin. It is a player-driven world on infrastructure almost nobody else is shipping.
Authoritative
Server owns the sim
Native
Metal · DX12 clients
Modular
Parts, not paint jobs