Build mode: Clay Wall palette and placement ghost on the chicken-legged cottage

About this game

Developer: Emberstorm Entertainment · Publisher: Fireshine Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

REKA's house is a walking chicken-legged cottage, and its 1.0 build mode is a full construction palette rather than a decoration afterthought. The piece picker is a two-column rail at the right, wall, floor, roof and beam pieces, each stamped with how many the player holds (237 clay, 836 wood) and the current pick ringed in orange under a CLAY WALL header, while a translucent green ghost stands in the open wall to show the exact landing spot before anything is committed. A category hotbar sits at bottom centre, and the prompt row along the bottom gives the mode's full grammar in one line: pick, rotate, store, place, a free-camera toggle, and undo/redo, the controls of a builder, presented in the game's thin folk-serif UI. Frame at about 0:30 in the 1.0 Out Now Trailer (Steam), pipeline candidate candidates/v0_0003.png at 30.1s.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel hud-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Toolbar Action bar Button prompts Toggle

Screen inventory

• 'CLAY WALL' and its stock count '237/1' at top right, over a two-column palette of building pieces, wall, floor slab, roof pieces, beams, each tile stamped with its stock (237, 836), the wall piece ringed in orange as the current pick, and a hammer-and-saw demolish tile at the palette's foot
• a translucent green placement ghost standing in the cottage's open wall, showing exactly where the next piece will land
• a category hotbar along the bottom centre with the house-shaped build tab selected
• a full prompt row along the bottom: X PICK, HOLD ROTATE, C STORE, E PLACE, HOLD V TOGGLE FREE CAM, Z+Y UNDO / REDO, Z UNDO, ESC EXIT
• the cottage itself from outside at dusk: clay walls half-built around a stove and ladder, standing on the feathered, chicken-legged base the house walks on

Top 3 colors

#324c6e 35%#142943 18%#687489 13%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Emberstorm Entertainment / Fireshine Games, REKA screenshot: 1.0 Out Now Trailer / Ashes & Ancestors Update Trailer videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Fireshine Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-26. verified 2026-10-26: pipeline candidate frame inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); CLAY WALL header and count, full piece palette with stock stamps, placement ghost, category hotbar and the complete prompt row confirmed legible; no trailer caption or overlay text in the frame

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