Release Date
SEED Patch Notes - March 2025
Release Date: 12/03/2025
🌟 Summary
Big changes have landed on Avesta! New governmental constitutions, resource harvesting and extraction, player-to-seedling chat, and key fixes based on your feedback!
🛠 Major Changes & New Features
New mechanics, major updates, and system changes.
New Empty Societies
You now have the opportunity to create societies completely from scratch and take on the role of a society’s founder! Here’s how it works:
There will be 15 societies in total—5 curated societies (3 led by Klang, 2 led by the community) and 10 empty societies that players can claim.
The first players to join will become Society Leaders and can choose one of the 10 empty societies to establish their own community.
After that, all new players must choose one of the 15 societies to join.
⚠️ Important: If you choose to join an empty society rather than one of the 5 curated ones, you’ll truly be on your own. The gameplay will be much harder, as you won’t have an established community for support—you’ll need to bring your own help to survive and build from the ground up. For this test, we strongly encourage players to join one of the curated societies instead of starting from scratch.
Empty Map
These empty societies will start with an empty map, which will only contain:
A Campus with limited resources and 3 Delivery Drones
An Anarchist Constitution as the default government structure
Society Customization
You can customize the name, description, and icon of your society, and these changes will be visible to all other players.
To do this, head to the Society Overview Panel.
To make changes, you’ll need the permission called “Can Change Society Information”, which can be given to a role when creating it. This role can be obtained if you're:
An Anarchist
A President (Electoral Autocracy)
A Prime Minister (Parliamentary Democracy)
Once you have permission, go ahead and make your society stand out!
Increase Population limits
It is possible to increase the population limits of your society by paying 100 pollen. You can do this from the society Overview Panel.
Government Structure & Constitution Changes
Empty Societies start with an Anarchist Constitution, which comes with both benefits and risks.
At any time, any player can propose a change by starting a ballot from the Society Constitution Tab.
One of the main options is the Electoral Autocracy, which functions similarly to the previous government system:
Click “Start Ballot” to begin the voting process.
If the majority votes in favor, the constitution will be updated.
New roles will be assigned, and additional ballots will be held to elect key positions (like President).
Changing the Constitution gives you the power to shape your society’s future—just be ready for the votes to count!
Anarchy - A Fresh Start
When you join an empty society, there’s no established government—everyone has full control.
You can:
Construct buildings
Take on jobs using society funds
Access the campus inbox
Make decisions without restrictions
Propose and vote on laws
This early “anarchist” phase is designed for a small, trusted group. With no rules holding you back, progress feels faster, more dynamic, and more engaging than starting with a predefined government.
Harvesting
You can now collect resources directly from nature on Avesta. Here’s what you can gather:
Trees & Stumps – Harvest wood to craft machines or build structures.
Rocks – Mine stone to create various items.
Bushes – Gather berries and herbs.
Resource Extraction
Once you have arrived in a brand new society you will find that you have some Stone Resource Extractors at the Campus to get you started, however, you can create more using the Crafting Table.
There are several Resource Deposits surrounding your society on the map, these are infinite sources of resources that can be extracted using these machines.
To extract resources from these deposits:
Construct a building with an outdoor area that encompasses the deposit.
Place an extractor on top of the deposit.
Create a job within the building to operate the extractor, assign a Seedling and gather the resources.
Food
There are now several ways to produce food, the easiest of which is to grow food with a Growbox.
At the start, you'll find three Growbox in the Campus Inbox. You can use it to grow berries and herbs by following these steps:
Place the Growbox in the Campus or any other building.
Set up a crafting task for berries or herbs:
Go to Manage → Crafting → Growbox → New Task.
Assign a Growbox job in the building where the Growbox is located.
To grow a society more food is needed, one way of doing this is by crafting more Growboxes.
Wood can be obtained by harvesting trees or from the Growbox, while Stone can be gathered by harvesting rocks or extracting it from the Stone Resource Deposit.
To build a Growbox, follow these steps:
Get Wood:
Create a Wood Production job in the Growbox.
Send seedlings to harvest trees.
Get Stone:
Build a structure near a Stone Resource Deposit and create a Stone Extractor job.
Send seedlings to harvest rocks.
Place a Crafting Table in the Campus or any other building.
Create a Growbox crafting task in the Crafting Table:
Go to Manage → Crafting → Crafting Table → New Task.
Assign a Crafting job in the building that has the Crafting Table.
Construction Materials
Construction materials are necessary to create buildings, and different resources will create different types of building materials.
These materials can come from different places.
Resource Deposits: Bricks can be extracted from these deposits.
Nature: Harvesting trees provides Wood.
Crafting: Use the Crafting Table to create Construction Materials. For example, you can craft Lumber from Wood.
Migration
Unhappy with your current society? Not a problem! You can now migrate to a different society directly from the Society Overview Panel.
Player/Seedling Chat
You can now talk to your Seedlings in a chat to find out what they are up to!
Seedling Death
If your Seedling goes without food or rest for more than 24 real-world hours, it can die. Seedlings won’t seek shelter as no shelter exists. Your society can craft their own places where Seedlings can get help.
If a Seedling dies without heirs, its properties are transferred to the Society for redistribution.
New Subways
Zoom around the city with Subways! Seedlings travel fast and effortlessly between stations, while the government can add new stations to keep the city connected and thriving. Highlights include:
Rapid Transportation: When a Seedling enters a subway station, it is rapidly transported to the station closest to its final destination.
Under the Anarchist Constitution, anyone can create new Subways. However, in other government structures, the "Manage Subways" role must first be created, and only those assigned to it will have the ability to build Subways.
Mobile Companion App Updates
Improved wallet app
Improved health app
Added scheduler app
Added jobs app
Added personal growth app
Added player to Seedling chat
General improvements for app stability
🌱 Seedling Life & Balance Updates
Family and Households
This feature introduces the ability to form groups and share living space in SEED. Now you can manage households, pool resources, and build a shared legacy. Highlights include:
Group creation and Management: You can create and manage groups for your Seedlings, which have a shared wallet for managing expenses.
Shared Living Spaces: You can share properties among group members. This means that your Seedlings can live with Seedlings of other players!
Collaborative Gameplay: Group members can collaborate together through a new group chat system.
Legacy and Inheritance: When a Group Head leaves or passes away, leadership is transferred to a randomly assigned member.
Education
The Education update lets you take charge of your Seedlings’ growth! Guide them through skill-building, personal development, and career paths like never before. Highlights include:
Skill Progression: Seedlings can now level up skills like cooking, repairing, and cleaning through activities, improving performance and unlocking bonuses as they progress.
Strategic Unlocks: Skills may have prerequisites, so strategically plan your Seedlings' development paths!
Job Role Alignment: Businesses can define specific skill requirements for job roles, linking education to employment opportunities.
Research
This feature separates Crafting and Research, which means that you can now design custom variations of items while making crafting more accessible. Highlights include:
Crafting Made Easy: Crafting is now easier than ever! If you’ve got the ingredients and a knowledgeable Seedling, you can create anything on any compatible machine.
Create Custom Items: Unleash your creativity with custom food items and production machine variations! Research lets you combine ingredients to craft unique versions of existing food types (like a new soup or french fry recipe) and production machines.
Schematics: What we once called Blueprints are now called Schematics. Seedlings will be able to store Schematics in their memory. Seedlings store Schematics permanently with no capacity limit. They gain them instantly through Education or Research.
Say hello to Schematic Manuals! Seedlings can now turn Schematics into tradeable items and study them to unlock new crafting knowledge. Highlights include:
Schematics to Manuals: Seedlings can convert Schematics into Manuals at a Research Table by completing a Writing Task, with time varying based on complexity.
Study Manuals: With furniture like a Study Table, Seedlings can "Study Schematic Manuals" through Direct Control. Just pick the activity and choose a Manual from your storage to unlock its secrets!
Rebalancing
Resources required for crafting items have been rebalanced
Resources received from crafting items have been rebalanced
Time required for crafting items has been rebalanced
New items have been added
New traits have been added
New skills have been added
🐞 Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements
Item descriptions are no longer broken when hovering over them
Seedlings no longer only spend time in the Sengan Gym in their free time
Items no longer getting stuck inside containers when the destination container is removed
Seedlings now continuously attempt to treat injuries, even after an unsuccessful treatment
Windowed mode can now be selected without any other inputs
Seedlings can now enter every service building if their budget allows for it
Visual issues resolved
Buildings no longer disappear after runtime restart
Machines now finish production when the progress bar hits 100%
You can now always see your rented compacts in the Properties tab and can interact with them anytime
Items can now be moved to all containers in all buildings
Pressing the products button in the new contract window no longer closes it, so you can trade items without any issues
You are now able to buy a plot of land sold by another player.
🔮 Known Issues & Next Steps
UI breaking and/or disappearing
This issue is currently under investigation and we will report on it when more is known.
Keep an eye out for our next patch notes! And heads up, we’ll be wiping progress as we’re not persistent just yet. Don’t worry, though, there’s plenty of exciting new content to explore!
💡 Thank you for playing SEED! Your feedback helps shape the world of Avesta. Share your thoughts with us on Discord.