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Build a vertical farm in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, protect crops from extreme weather, explore ruins, fish, ranch, modify crop genes, automate production, and befriend townsfolk.
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Everything you need to farm, craft, explore, and thrive in Doloc Town
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Doloc Town Small Battery: Crafting & Power Setup Guide
Learn how to craft, find, and use small batteries in Doloc Town. Discover power generation setups and automation tips for your homestead.
Doloc Town Fish Locations: Best Spots & Catch Guide
Find every fishing spot in Doloc Town. Learn fish locations, bait tips, rod upgrades, weather conditions, and rare catches in this 1.0 fishing guide.
Doloc Town Seaweed: Fishing Spots & Kelp Farming Tips
Discover how to catch seaweed and kelp in Doloc Town. Learn the best fishing spots, profit margins, and early-game money-making strategies.
Doloc Town Recipes: Cooking Station Setup & Dish Guide
Master Doloc Town recipes with our cooking station breakdown, ingredient combinations, and dish unlock guide.
Plastic Mulch: Crop Weather Protection Guide
Learn how to craft and use plastic mulch in Doloc Town to protect vulnerable crops from acid rain, thunderstorms, and harsh weather conditions.
Doloc Town Crops: Farming Tips & Yield Rankings
Master crop farming in Doloc Town with our tier rankings, seasonal strategies, and profit maximization guide.
Doloc Town Coal: Farming Routes & Crafting Tips
Learn how to efficiently find, farm, and craft coal in Doloc Town. Discover the best mining spots, merchant locations, and charcoal kiln strategies.
Doloc Town Feather: Locations, Uses & Farming Tips
Discover how to find feathers in Doloc Town, their best uses in crafting, and efficient farming routes for this rare exploration resource.
Doloc Town Cooking: Recipes, Stations & Ingredient Guide
Master Doloc Town cooking with our station breakdown, recipe combinations, and ingredient farming tips for maximum gold and stamina recovery.
Doloc Town Mods: Customization & Enhancement Guide
Explore the current state of Doloc Town mods, customization options, and alternative ways to enhance your post-apocalyptic farming experience.
Doloc Town Guide: Tips & Tricks for Early Access
Master Doloc Town with essential tips for inventory management, combat, farming, and survival in this post-apocalyptic cozy sim.
Doloc Town Switch: Platform Availability & Setup Guide
Is Doloc Town on Nintendo Switch? Explore platform availability, PC requirements, and the best ways to play RedSaw Games' post-apocalyptic farming sim.
Doloc Town Beginner Guide
Your first days in Doloc Town are about turning limited resources into a stable farm and a dependable exploration routine. Gather materials, plant useful crops, build essential facilities, complete local requests, and gradually push farther into the wasteland once your supplies and equipment can support longer trips.
Gather Basic Materials First
Very HighSearch the nearby environment for common resources before committing to major construction. Early materials are needed for crafting, farm improvements, repairs, and the tools that unlock more efficient gathering.
Pick up accessible resources during normal travel instead of making repeated empty trips later.
Establish a Steady Crop Cycle
Very HighPlant your available seeds early and keep the farm maintained so crops can become a steady source of food, ingredients, and progression materials. Farming becomes increasingly important as more crop varieties and systems unlock.
Avoid expanding the field faster than you can comfortably maintain and protect it.
Doloc Town's post-apocalyptic environment can expose crops and the player to hazardous weather. Use available protection and farm-building upgrades rather than leaving valuable production exposed.
Weather protection is a progression upgrade, not just decoration.
Convert gathered materials into tools, facilities, and production upgrades that reduce repetitive work. Improvements that increase gathering efficiency or strengthen your farming setup usually provide more value than cosmetic spending early on.
Prioritize upgrades that save time every in-game day.
Explore Beyond the Farm
MediumOnce basic production is stable, explore surrounding zones for resources, ruins, quests, and progression opportunities. Exploration feeds materials and discoveries back into farming and crafting.
Leave with enough inventory space and avoid wasting a long trip on items you can collect beside town.
Talk to Town Residents Regularly
MediumResidents provide conversations, shops, requests, side stories, and other useful interactions. Checking in with NPCs helps reveal new objectives and gives the town-progression side of the game equal attention alongside farming.
Revisit residents after story progress because their available interactions can change.
Build a Daily Routine
HighA strong early routine combines crop maintenance, nearby gathering, crafting, NPC interactions, and one focused exploration objective. This keeps several progression systems moving without wasting large portions of the day.
Finish essential farm work first, then use the remaining day for exploration or quests.
Doloc Town 1.0 Update and New Content
The full release expands Doloc Town with a major new exploration region, additional progression systems, automation, enemies, NPCs, resources, quests, and the conclusion of the main storyline.
Old City Ruins
The Old City Ruins expand late-game exploration with a new environment to investigate beyond the established town and farming areas.
Creates a new destination for advanced exploration and resource gathering.
Farming Automation
Version 1.0 introduces additional automation options that reduce repetitive farm maintenance as the player's agricultural operation becomes larger.
Allows more time to be spent on exploration, quests, and resource collection.
New Enemies
Additional hostile encounters appear alongside the expanded exploration content, giving later areas more hazards than the safer farming zones.
Makes preparation and equipment more important during deeper expeditions.
New NPCs
New residents and characters expand the social and quest content available around Doloc Town and its newly accessible areas.
Adds more conversations, interactions, and story content.
New Resources
Additional resources support the expanded crafting, farming, and exploration systems introduced with the full release.
Provides new materials for progression and higher-level production.
Additional Side Quests
Version 1.0 adds further side quests connected to residents, exploration, and the expanded world.
Provides more optional objectives alongside the main storyline.
Main Story Conclusion
The full release completes the main narrative, giving players a final progression objective beyond building their farm and exploring the surrounding wasteland.
Provides a complete story path from early settlement to end-game progression.
Doloc Town Farming and Crops Guide
Build a farm that can survive Doloc Town's harsh environment and grow into an efficient production system. Players gradually gain better seeds, improve crop quality through gene-related progression, protect production from hazardous weather, expand farm infrastructure, and eventually automate parts of the daily workload.
Seeds and Crops
Early GamePurpose
Establishes the basic grow-and-harvest production loop.
Recommendation
Keep a manageable number of plots active and use early harvests to support food, quests, and further farm development.
Weather Protection
Early to Mid GamePurpose
Protects valuable farming production from the hazardous post-apocalyptic climate.
Recommendation
Invest in protection before committing large amounts of seeds and time to an expanded field.
Farm Buildings
Early to Late GamePurpose
Supports larger and more efficient agricultural production.
Recommendation
Prioritize functional structures that improve farming efficiency before spending resources on optional expansion.
Seed Progression
Mid GamePurpose
Expands the range of crops available as the player advances.
Recommendation
Continue exploring, completing objectives, and interacting with town systems to broaden your farming options.
Crop Genes
Mid to Late GamePurpose
Adds another layer of crop improvement beyond simply planting standard seeds.
Recommendation
Use the gene system once basic production is stable instead of treating it as an early-game priority.
Production Organization
Mid GamePurpose
Reduces wasted movement and makes harvesting, storage, and crafting easier to manage.
Recommendation
Group related farming and production facilities so daily chores require less travel.
Farming Automation
Late GamePurpose
Reduces repetitive manual work across a larger farm.
Recommendation
Use automation to free up more of each day for quests, ruins, resource gathering, and end-game exploration.
Doloc Town Characters and Friendship Guide
Doloc Town's residents provide much of the game's story, shopping, side-quest, and social progression. Regular conversations and completed requests help reveal more about the people rebuilding their lives in the post-apocalyptic town.
Town Residents
Residents have their own conversations and storylines that develop as the player spends more time in town and advances through the game.
Provides character stories, social progression, and additional context for the world.
Shopkeepers
Merchant interactions connect the player with supplies and other resources that support farming, crafting, and general progression.
Useful for maintaining production and obtaining items without relying entirely on gathering.
Residents can provide optional objectives tied to their personal stories, local problems, exploration, and town development.
Adds extra objectives and rewards while progressing through the main game.
Characters connected to exploration help link the populated town with the larger ruined world surrounding it.
Supports progression into new locations and story content.
1.0 Characters
The 1.0 release introduces additional NPC content alongside the Old City Ruins, new resources, enemies, and side quests.
Expands the social and narrative content available in the full release.
Regular interaction with residents develops the social side of Doloc Town and reveals more of their individual stories.
Encourages players to revisit NPCs instead of focusing exclusively on farming and resource gathering.
Doloc Town Map and Exploration Guide
Doloc Town's world mixes farmland, wetlands, ruined settlements, and dangerous old-world zones. Each region offers different resources, encounters, quests, and reasons to return later with better equipment.
Doloc Town Crafting, Cooking and Building Guide
Doloc Town combines farming with a broader crafting and construction loop. Players gather natural and salvaged materials, build useful facilities, process resources, prepare food, increase storage, and gradually turn a basic shelter into a productive wasteland homestead.
Basic Crafting
Very HighTurn gathered resources and salvage into useful tools, equipment, and progression materials.
Inputs:Wood, stone, gathered resources, and salvaged materials
Outputs:Tools, equipment, building components, and utility items
Cooking
HighConvert crops and gathered food into meals that support everyday work and exploration.
Inputs:Farm crops, forage, fish, and other food ingredients
Outputs:Prepared meals and usable food
Construction
Very HighExpand the farm with functional structures and improve how efficiently the homestead operates.
Inputs:Construction materials and processed resources
Outputs:Work areas, production facilities, storage, and farm improvements
Storage
HighKeep crops, salvage, ingredients, and crafting materials organized as resource variety increases.
Inputs:Building materials
Outputs:Additional item storage and easier inventory management
Processing
HighRefine basic resources into materials or products needed for more advanced crafting and farm development.
Inputs:Raw farm products and gathered materials
Outputs:Processed goods and crafting components
Homestead Upgrades
Very HighImprove long-term farming, crafting, storage, and production capacity.
Inputs:Resources collected from farming, gathering, and exploration
Outputs:A larger and more efficient production base
Decorations
OptionalCustomize the homestead after essential production and storage needs are under control.
Inputs:Crafting resources and decorative materials
Outputs:Visual customization and personalized farm spaces
Doloc Town Combat, Drones and Enemies Guide
The wasteland is not limited to peaceful farming. Hostile creatures, dangerous ruins, harsh weather, and combat encounters make preparation an important part of exploration in Doloc Town.
Combat Drones
Drones provide additional support during dangerous exploration and help players deal with threats beyond the farm.
- Bring combat support when entering hostile areas
- Treat drone preparation as part of expedition planning
- Upgrade exploration readiness before pushing into harder regions
Equipment
Exploration equipment is an important part of surviving encounters and collecting resources in dangerous locations.
- Improve equipment before entering later regions
- Carry enough inventory space for salvage and resources
- Return home to upgrade rather than repeatedly forcing difficult areas
Hostile Creatures
Wild and mutated creatures can turn gathering routes into combat encounters, especially away from safer farming areas.
- Watch enemy movement before committing to a route
- Avoid unnecessary fights when carrying valuable resources
- Use safer gathering zones until your equipment improves
Ruins and Dangerous Zones
Abandoned structures and deeper wasteland regions provide valuable salvage but expose players to stronger threats.
- Enter with food and useful supplies
- Prioritize valuable salvage instead of filling inventory with common materials
- Plan a clear return route before exploring deeply
Weather Hazards
Weather is part of Doloc Town's survival layer and can make ordinary exploration or farm work more dangerous.
- Check conditions before long expeditions
- Keep appropriate supplies available
- Use poor-weather days for indoor crafting or shorter trips when necessary
Expedition Preparation
A successful expedition starts before leaving the farm: organize inventory, prepare food, and decide which resources or objectives matter most.
- Leave unnecessary materials at home
- Carry food and combat-ready equipment
- Set one main objective for each dangerous trip
Doloc Town Mods and Steam Workshop Guide
Steam Workshop support lets the community expand and customize parts of Doloc Town. Players can subscribe to compatible creations through Steam and manage their installed Workshop content alongside the game.
Open the Doloc Town Community Hub
Open Doloc Town in Steam and enter its Community Hub to access community features associated with the game.
Browse Workshop Content
Open the Steam Workshop section and browse available community creations by category, popularity, or recent updates.
Subscribe to a Mod
Choose a Workshop item you want to use and select Subscribe. Steam handles the associated Workshop download.
Launch Doloc Town
Start the game after subscribed Workshop files finish downloading so the installed community content can be loaded.
Manage Installed Content
Review your Steam Workshop subscriptions when you want to remove, replace, or update community-created additions.
Check Mods After Game Updates
After major game updates, review Workshop items and their update status before continuing an important save.
Explore Supported Mod Content
Community additions can cover textures, items, decorations, crops, recipes, fish, resources, and other content supported by Doloc Town's modding system.