HUD: deer needs, climate bars and the leaf-priced building palette

About this game

Developer: Free Lives, Clockwork Acorn · Publisher: Devolver Digital · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Everything Terra Nil asks you to manage is on this one screen, and none of it is a spreadsheet. Restoration progress is a dial, money is a pile of leaves, the climate is two bars (humidity 33%, temperature -3°C), and an animal's welfare is a pair of zoned sliders whose green band you are trying to move your herd into. The building palette keeps the same plainness: six machines drawn at button size, each wearing its leaf price, with undo given the biggest, brightest button on the bar, in a game about undoing damage, reversing your own move is a first-class verb. Frame at about 0:44 in the Vita Nova trailer (Steam; scene-change survivor v3_0012, the same Animals panel appears seconds earlier for a second deer, Poplar, at Territory 56/150).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

detail-panel data-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Toolbar Map Marker Gauge Badge

Screen inventory

• top left, the whole run state in one cluster: a circular dial reading 98% around a grass-tile icon, a leaf currency count of 10825, and three round buttons (layers, handbook, settings gear)
• the Animals panel names one animal, Blossom (Deer), under a header tally of three paw-icon counts (a green heart-paw 3, an orange paw 2, a red paw 0): her NEEDS are two segmented range bars, Space and Water, drawn as red / blue / green zones with a marker triangle showing where she currently sits, plus Territory 150/150 and an 'Ideal happiness bonus' row of two tile-transformation chips
• top right, the climate is two thin bars and nothing more: a droplet humidity bar at 33% and a thermometer bar at -3°C, with an orange chevron to collapse them
• along the bottom, the building palette: a phase tab marked 1 with a rain-cloud weather button, then six building buttons drawn as the buildings themselves, each priced in leaves on a dark badge (75 / 50 / 50 / 50 / 75 / 100), and one oversized orange undo button to close the row
• on the map itself the selected deer's territory is traced in a glowing green outline, the deer inside it rendered as flat green silhouettes, so the panel's Territory number and the land it counts are visible in the same frame

Top 3 colors

#172128 23%#549f4b 23%#4e7b4d 16%

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

Source and credit

© Free Lives, Clockwork Acorn / Devolver Digital, Terra Nil screenshot: Steam trailers (Vita Nova / A Beginner's Guide to Ecosystem Restoration / Heatwave), Devolver Digital, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Devolver Digital.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-27. verified 2026-10-27: scene-change survivor candidates/v3_0012.png @ 44.3s in the Vita Nova trailer, MD5 aeec2985097579301eb63c37cc3985c9, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (64287997 B, MD5 d117751ac3b439541a0e0d2277e5e7a9; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-1593030-Vita-Nova.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the 98% dial, 10825 leaf count, Blossom (Deer) needs bars, Territory 150/150, both climate bars and all six palette prices legible; no trailer text, caption or watermark in frame

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