Vermillion Online
Haven ·Secure
Playtest live · EU Play free
Ext cam · MinerV3, a player design Designer test flight · playtest footage, work in progress

Fire your radar.
Everyone hears it.

A player-driven PvP space MMO. Ships you build block by block. Ore that gets better where the law ends. Full loot.

[Undock] Play free · Mac & Windows
The playtest is live. Early pilots set the first prices. Playtest: progress may be wiped. · Read the playtest bulletin →
Pulse radar · basic Armed

Same key as in game. Lights up what's out there, and tells everyone where you are.

Contacts
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Signature
Low

    Recorded feed · playtest trailer

    Mine. Build. Fight pirates.
    Explore lawless space.

    Playtest footage with the current in-game HUD. Mining and builds sped up.

    02Hangar · ship schematicDocked

    A badly built ship flies badly.
    That's the point.

    Every engine, gun and fuel tank is a block you placed, and every one can be shot off. Thrust comes from where you put the thrusters. Assemblies are built from parts: bigger means more performance, more mass and more heat. Power, fuel, heat and ammo are all simulated.

    2ARender + X-ray · side
    Side X-ray of a stock ship, one square per 1 m block. The highlighted blocks belong to the selected assembly.

    2BAssemblies Insides matter

    Engine

      This ship, refitted · Starter Miner → MinerV3 (a player design)

      Mass
      22.3 t27.7 t
      Cargo holds
      414
      Laser base rate
      4.5/s12/s
      Feed · Ship Designer Six minutes of building, timelapse x48. Test-fly any design before you spend a credit.
      Armour shapes
      68
      slopes, corners, tapers, plates, shells
      Materials
      5
      Steel, Aluminium, Titanium, Iridium composite, Glass
      Functional blocks
      ~140
      engines, guns, radar, lasers, tanks, seats
      Cannon gauge
      12–300mm
      chosen per gun

      03Route · Haven → Black Verge19 sectors · ~200 km

      Secure space keeps you alive.
      Lawless space makes you rich.

      Playtest footage · live world near Haven

      Secure · Haven

      Nobody can hurt you here.

      No damage, by anyone. Learn to fly, mine and build in peace. The ore here pays the least.

      Damage
      Off
      Police
      —
      Rare ore
      None
      The Starter Miner: an open truss frame, cargo blocks and an orange cockpit nose with thrusters
      In-engine render · Starter Miner

      High security · 6 sectors

      Attacks land. The law follows.

      Fire on someone and you're flagged Criminal; invisible police destroy you 20 seconds later. Some pilots decide your cargo is worth it.

      Damage
      On
      Police
      20 s
      Suicide ganks
      Possible
      A block-built fighter taking a cannon hit, sparks flying, while its tool beam fires
      In-engine render · VFX look-dev

      Low security · 9 sectors

      No police. Station guns only.

      Criminals are fair game. Titanite is mined only out here, so this is where the money starts.

      Damage
      On
      Police
      None
      Rare ore
      Titanite
      A block-built fighter in red pirate livery above a planet, two more liveried ships behind it
      In-engine render · pirate livery

      Lawless · 3 sectors

      No law. Nothing is a crime.

      Iridium is mined only here. Pirate bounties pay ×1.5. Black Verge Outpost runs a black-market fence for whatever you brought back.

      Damage
      On
      Rules
      None
      Rare ore
      Iridium
      Contact · ore field

      Mining lasers dig real craters. Ore sits in coloured veins; plain rock gives you nothing. Fields deplete, expire and respawn elsewhere, and jackpot fields are announced to the whole server, to draw a fight.

      Designer test flight, offline: ore not kept. Some clips recorded with sped-up mining.

      04Bounty board · pirate contactsHostile

      Pirates pay.
      Lawless pirates pay more.

      A camouflage-painted block ship head-on, two cannon impacts sparking on its hull
      In-engine render · cannon impacts
      4ABounties · credits
      Pirate bounties by archetype
      ArchetypeBounty
      Pirate Skiff18,000 cr
      Pirate Raider30,000 cr
      Pirate Gunboat70,000 cr
      Pirate Captain250,000 cr

      Patrols, solo hideouts (three waves and a boss), group strongholds, and raids on mining fields. Plus loot caches of rare metals. Shells are simulated projectiles that chew through blocks until they stop.

      05Damage controlCritical

      Full loot.
      Real loss.

      When your ship dies, half the cargo is destroyed and the rest spills into the wreck for anyone to take. Others can salvage the hulk. Everyone aboard dies with the ship. A free Rookie Ship means you're never locked out.

      A block-built fighter with battle wear and scorch marks above a planet
      In-engine render · battle wear
      5ACargo manifest · 14 holds Secured
        Yours
        14
        Destroyed
        0
        In the wreck
        0

        06Comms · inboundDocked · Black Verge Outpost

        The economy is the players.
        Early pilots set the prices.

        1. Market

          Every station runs its own order book: buy and sell orders, escrow, price history. Early pilots set the first prices on every one of them.

        2. Logistics

          No global inventory. What you mine sits where you left it until you haul it. Heavy cargo cruises slower and stays exposed longer.

        3. Killboard

          The killboard and leaderboards are fresh. The first names on them could be yours.

        4. Dev

          Every playtest round so far was followed by a patch built from the players' reports.

        07Black Verge Outpost · traffic control Approved

        Undock request approved.

        Pilot, you're cleared.

        [Undock] Play free · Mac & Windows
        Free download on itch.io · EU server Playtest: progress may be wiped. · Read the playtest bulletin →
        First launch · Mac
        The build is unsigned: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
        First launch · Windows
        SmartScreen may warn you: More info → Run anyway.
        TXPlaytest trailer · shows the current in-game HUD

        Contains footage recorded on a dev pacing profile: mining x50, ship builds and XP sped up.