Metis Shield by the Brouhaha Company used to be entirely a product of the eccentric infamous-turned-famous Velma Patel. However, freelance chemists across the Duskworks were able to recreate the special Metis weave that comprised the massive domes. Further co-operation between these chemists and fabrication experts lead to the first developments of proto-shields. These shields were not as effective as the ones Brouhaha created, but without the specialized tools and knowledge the company holds, only extremely-well skilled fabricators could create comparable Metis Shields. These proto-shields became one of the only ways for independent settlers to make Metis Shields of their own.

The Metis Shield was an incredible piece of technology, capable of keeping the elements out with configurability and protection that a typical metal and glass dome could only dream of. On Earth, they came equipped with transparent modes, allowing cool breezes in while keeping any harmful elements out including radiation. On Mars, they do not have this feature, are a bit more heavy duty with metal struts and beams reaching from the tip of the Metis dome down to the bottom in a a cross shape. These Metis shields glowed a dim blue and had a slight marbling effect from the Metis material on the hexagon lattice.

The Metis Shield is a new type of building that instead of taking up space, frees up space in your plot. The amount of space that is freed up by the Metis Shield depends on the rarity of the shield.

The Polar Workshop is a special type of building, it isn't like most other factories on the Martian surface, as it is not entirely focused on the survival of a colony. This is actually a very good thing as it implies that the colony has risen to a point to be able to sustain non-survival based factorization. This building however, still holds the ability to drill for Ice and Water. Through complex processes it is able to pull out Ice or Water from within the ground and distill it. It is also able to create educational material as a sort of tourist item for people back on Earth.

Core Gallery Functions:

• Restoring Art - Players can use space in the gallery to restore an uncovered piece of art found from Scavenging the terrain.

• Preparing Art - Once restored, players can prepare pieces of Art based on Rarity.

• Hosting Art Collections - Players can display their high value pieces for others to see, in a hosted sale.. earning Dusk for a successful event!

• More in the near future!

Acquiring Art

There are 2 primary ways to Acquire Art:

• Deposit them! There are 60 templates that qualify from our original art collections on WAX. They're under the "art" Schema.

• Scavenge! Based on your scavenging skill you're more likely to find pieces of art that need some work restoring them to glory.

Restoring Art

Each piece of damaged art that is found can be restored inside The Gallery if the building level is high enough and the player possesses the required item. Restored art will give players a random piece of varied rarity and potential outcome that can be Prepared and Displayed in The Gallery.

Preparing Art

Every piece must be cleaned and prepared for gallery level specifications in order to be displayed during a hosted event.

Hosting Art Collections

Once you have a set of required pieces needed for an Art Collection, you can plan your event! The ideal hosting days are Weds, Sat, and Sunday (UTC Time)

Events require food, water, and of course Art!

Note: More event times and combinations of required pieces will also be changing over time as well.

The Training Hall

New essential building will be added to the Shop and Weekly sales: The Training Hall!

When players have earned enough XP in a given Profession, they will be able to increase their proficiency inside the Training Hall when spending the matching Research Papers and Dusk fee. Some Recipes may award players XP in more than 1 Profession.

Some Recipes will also require specific tool energy/power in addition to their stamina. If players are creating work orders, they are expected to provide the required tool energy/power, but the working player doing the work must still have the required level to perform the work.

Equipping Tools:

Some recipes before this will also require Novice Tools. Tools are equipped inside the Shop under the “Tools” section, which consumes a Sealed version of the tools, and gives the players an appropriate number of Tool Actions they can perform.

Recipes will consume a variable amount of Tool Actions based on the difficulty tier of the recipe. Sealed Tool Packs are also required components of Profession Training beyond specific progression points.

Professions

Players will now gain Experience Points (XP) when completing various work tasks and recipes in one of 8 different Professions. Each has a relative difficulty level to the amount of time and effort required for mastery:

• Scavenging (Easy) - Searches through refuse on the surface of the planet for useful items.

• Electrical (Easy) - For all things electrical, including Solar Panels.

• Life Science (Easy) - The study of living organisms such as plants, animals and humans.

• Chemistry (Medium) - The intermediate domain of science between physics and biology, providing a foundation for both basic and applied scientific disciplines.

• Mining (Medium) - The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the planet.

• Machining (Hard) - A process in which materials are cut to a desired final shape and size by a controlled material-removal process called subtractive manufacturing,

• Fabrication (Hard) - The manufacturing of metal structures by cutting, bending and assembling processes, and construction of three-dimensional objects through additive manufacturing.

• Robotics (Expert) - Design, construction, operation, and use of robots that can help and assist humans.

Professions are the first step towards specialized labor, giving players a long term path of progression that will unlock long term growth in what they can do inside Million on Mars.

Every Profession has 6 Tiers of progression that designate your level of mastery achieved:

What does leveling up do?

Leveling up unlocks a very large list of recipes depending on your level. These recipes can award higher rewards at higher levels.

You can check your skills and level within your inventory or profile.

Who doesn't enjoy a good strong cup of coffee. Especially when you know that it will give you up to 8 Stamina! Here is the process of getting to that tasty cup:

• Plant Coffee Seeds in your Greenhouse and harvest Coffee Cherries.

• Ferment Coffee Cherries in your Water Filter to produce Green Coffee Beans.

• Roast the Green Coffee Beans in your C.A.D. to produce Roasted Coffee Beans.

• Grind Roasted Coffee Beans in the Grind n'Brew to produce Ground Coffee.

• Brew Ground Coffee in the Grind n'Brew to produce Brewed Coffee.

Let's start with the first step at our greenhouse!

You want to click on "PLANT COFFEE" and make sure you have the following resources

• 2 Stamina

• 8 Water (In the Storage)

• 10 Power

• 1 Coffee Seed

• 4 Soil

Click on CONFIRM and give it some time. Go back and click HARVEST COFFEE CHERRIES button.

Now that we have produced coffee cherries, let's attend to them in our Water Filter!

Click FERMENT COFFEE BEANS button, and make sure you have the following resources

• 1 Stamina

• 26 Coffee Cherry

• 10 Power

We click CONFIRM, give the recipe a little time to process, and we got Roasted Coffee Beans!

Next, we will head over to our Grind n'Brew building.

Click GRIND COFFEE BEANS and make sure you have the following resources:

• 2 Stamina

• 14 Roasted Coffee Beans

• 20 Power

Click CONFIRM, give it some time and boom! We got some ground coffee.

As the last step, click BREW COFFEE on your Grind n'Brew. Of course, make sure you have the following resources

• 3 Stamina

• 4 Ground Coffee

• 12 Water (In the Storage)

• 40 Power

Click CONFIRM, give it some time et voila: our own Brewed Coffee is ready!

To drink coffee and get that sweet Stamina, open the ACTIONS overlay and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

The Trading Bazaar does not share as much of the morally gray history as the Cantina, instead operating as a sort of engineering meet n' greet for those across the Ad Astra Development Zone and the Duskworks Landing. This is where the Duskworks Landings received most of their schematics for the creation of their buildings, as mergers, improvements and variations of the Ad Astra Development Zone technology was shared.

Do you have 12 Mythic C.A.D. Shards and you do not know what to do with them? Is your inventory full of random Building Shards? The Trading Bazaar is the solution to both your desire for order in your inventory AND for a fun shard-hunting adventure: you may just find the shards that will drive your Solar Panel to level 5.

In the Shop, you will find a whole new section with many colored coins ranging from Common to Mythic. Here you turn in your excess shards and, in return, you get a Bazaar Coin that matches that rarity.

Then, you head over to your Bazaar and find the dealer for your coins by rarity. Note that the Level 1 Trading Bazaar only attracts the early-in-their-career engineers interested in Common and Uncommon Coins. You will need to upgrade your Bazaar to unlock the Rare, Epic Legendary and Mythic trades.

Here is the overview of the Bazaar trade levels:

• Level 1 - Use Bazaar Shard (C) - requires 1 Bazaar Coin C.

• Level 1 - Use Bazaar Shard (U) - requires 1 Bazaar Coin U.

• Level 2 - Use Bazaar Shard (R) - requires 1 Bazaar Coin R.

• Level 3 - Use Bazaar Shard (E) - requires 1 Bazaar Coin E.

• Level 4 - Use Bazaar Shard (L) - requires 1 Bazaar Coin L.

• Level 5 - Use Bazaar Shard (M) - requires 1 Bazaar Coin M.

Bazaar House Credits

Every time you spend an Uncommon or better Bazaar Coin and get a one-time Random Shard reward, you also earn one matching House Credit. These can be spent inside the shop when you have accumulated enough to redeem a free roll of a higher rarity tier, or even a FREE Epic, Legendary BLUEPRINT!

Glyphs & Vibes

Glyphs & Vibes or G&V is a minigame included within the Bazaar. To start the minigame, run the task "Play Glyphs & Vibes".

The Tea shop was constructed to increase the morale of many settlers on the red surface, as a sort of hub for socialization. Traditional music and decorations were common within the airlocks of the tea shop, with sustained aeroponic decorative plants being used as a way to fill the rooms with greenery. Endless water walls and paper wallpaper was used in order to give it a more cozy feeling.

Drinks:

The empty frequencies of the martian planet wasn't left unnoticed for long, soon the first radio station started broadcasting on Mars with music, dust storm alerts, weather forecasting and important events. However, one radio station wasn't enough for the settlers of the Red Planet and those among the greater Duskworks Landing have taken advantage of this and begun to setup their own Pirate Radio Stations.

Pirate Radio Stations are the blanket term for any unsanctioned operating radio station not currently under the watch of the Ad Astra Development Zone Media Publishing. The radio stations operate legally where they are placed, but their radio frequently intrudes in areas where they are not supposed to be. These stations can be commonly found around the greater Duskworks Landing zones and as small scale endeavors within the Ad Astra Development Zone itself.

Information about Pirate Radio Stations on Earth can also be detailed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio

Broadcast your music across the greater Duskworks Landing and send good vibes to the whole sister planet.

To start your own Pirate Radio Station, you'll need to purchase one from the store in-game or in NeftyBlocks.

The Library module was developed as the most advanced form of a laboratory on Mars. A sprawling enterprise of graduated flasks, bunsen burners, centrifuges, mass spectrometers, and many other scientific instruments. It also holds libraries of historical literature chronicling the AADZ Mars Settlement effort decades ago. It is the current bleeding edge in scientific research on Mars and is famous for its quiet coffee shop and bookstore atmosphere and motif. Leon Dusk is often spotted in one such module.

Library Overview

The Library building holds the first implementation of the Research system. Here you unlock the ability to create Research Papers, which you can either use to research a specific branch of science or perform dusk-rewarding research.

To start, you'll need to write some Research Papers. These Research papers will allow you to perform various tasks in the Library.

Bazaar Coins act as a token of knowledge used in the research and you can purchase Bazaar Coins from the shop using shards.

Research Papers

You can also read the chapter once a day in your library to gain 1 Research Paper.

Dusk-Rewarding Research

After acquiring research papers, you can either perform Dusk-rewarding researches or preform a specific kind of research to unlock high tier recipes. Here's a look at the Dusk-rewarding researches.

Branch Research

While obtaining Dusk for your research efforts is already great, the proper research system is what the Library is really all about.

You will be able to sell your duplicate researched recipes in the near future!

Life Science Research

Novice Life Science Research is used to develop synthetic seeds along with greenhouse shards. More uses for these researches will come as well!

Apprentice Life Science research is used by Expert Seed Study, and can be acquired by combining 3 Novice Life Science Research in the shop.

Where there is currency to be made, there are shadier figures looking to make currency in more morally gray ways. The Ad Astra Development Zone was the starting point for many of these shady domes, first operating out of the backdoor of industrial habitations. These original ones were documented to have traded in low-danger contraband like alcohol or other recreational activities that were controlled on Mars.

Now, these areas have become more sophisticated and less dangerous, with open cantinas offering jobs to those independent of the Ad Astra Development Zone, such as the Duskworks.

The Cantina has an array of different tasks available at different times, utilizing a schedule system.

Recipes

The recipes on the Cantina change every day.

Always Available Recipes

The Cantina can also make Apprentice Scavenging Tools and Repair Broken EVA Suit anytime.