Colony build: placing a Refinery

About this game

Developer: Iceflake Studios · Publisher: Paradox Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

Placement as a negotiation with the ground: the Refinery panel states the deal (10 oil into 5 fuel, 30 energy, causes pollution) while the grid shows the cost of taking it, red arrows where objects block construction and green where the footprint fits. The alert stack and the injured-Joshua tooltip sit on the same frame, so building is never separated from the colony it serves. Frame at about 27.9s in the Surviving the Aftermath trailer (Steam). No trailer burn-in, caption, or logo on this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel grid-overlay cost-list top-bar resource-readout status-row bottom-dock

Components

Parts on screen.

Window Grid Resource bar Portrait List Toolbar Clock Tooltip Log

Screen inventory

• a top resource bar reading food 1534, water 216, energy 96, wood 380, planks 59, plastic 614, metal 57, parts 275, components 44, fuel 130, tools 22, medicine 96, and 90 colonists
• a left alert stack reading Colonists taking damage!, Colonist Joshua is injured, and Low on Clothes
• a specialist roster of 7 portraits plus slots 8-10
• a Joshua tooltip reading It hurts when I move.
• a Refinery side panel reading Creates Fuel from Oil. Fuel is a necessary resource for cars and their repair. Causes Pollution.
• an Energy Consumption row reading 30
• a Production row reading 10 oil into 5 fuel
• a warning reading Objects underneath are blocking construction
• a Construction Cost row reading 20 / 40 / 25 / 10
• a build grid with red and green placement arrows
• a hint reading HOLD SHIFT TO BUILD MULTIPLE [R] ROTATE
• a Day 43 readout with pause and speed controls and a bottom build toolbar
• a world-map globe button at bottom right

Top 3 colors

#3f3640 20%#19171e 20%#26222c 19%

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

Source and credit

© Iceflake Studios / Paradox Interactive, Surviving the Aftermath screenshot: Surviving the Aftermath trailers (Steam) — Iceflake Studios / Paradox Interactive, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Paradox Interactive.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: full-res 1920x1080 review; resource bar, all three alerts, specialist roster, Joshua tooltip, Refinery panel, production row, blocking warning, construction costs, and build hint legible; 5 fps strip 26.9-28.9s: cut into the screen at about 27.9s (dist 267), then dists 24, 6, 4, a settled hold 27.9-28.5s; dense frame 28s shows the same screen; aHash+dHash 192 vs nearest manifest item (citizen-sleeper-4); no Surviving the Aftermath entry in manifest (1318 items).

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