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Courier 6 / 8 · Planned for version 1.1

Spool

Rail layer

More rail from the same reserve.

  • In development
  • Planned: solo expedition only
  • Ability being reworked

Ability

Reserve

For a few seconds, laying rail costs less.

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Concept art of Spool: a yellow A-frame robot carrying a large brass-rimmed spool of dark cable, on several legs, on an ivory pedestal.
Concept art

01 / Who

Character & silhouette

Spool is a cheerful worker. The cable spool on its back idles round while it waits and spins up when it’s pleased. The ability spins the spool fast and leaves a yellow thread along the fresh rail, with a whirr.

A compact, chamfered yellow body with a big cable spool on its back and wide skates. The concept draws a yellow A-frame chassis carrying a brass-rimmed spool of dark cable. The concept shows walking legs; in the game every courier rides magnetic skates.

02 / Ability

Reserve

In plain words

Every metre of rail costs resource. For a short window Spool pays less for each metre, which helps when a long route has to go down fast.

The idea: the same route drains less of the reserve — but grows no longer.usual costwith Reservelength limit unchanged
Diagram · not from the gameThe idea: the same route drains less of the reserve — but grows no longer.

  1. When to use it

    When the route is long and the reserve is short — for example in a sector that makes you go around a gap instead of across it.

  2. Limit

    It neither extends rails nor raises the length limit.

    From the 1.1 game data — may change.

  3. What it won’t do

    Cheaper is not longer: the limits on how much rail you can keep stay exactly where they are.

No numbers yet

This ability is still being reworked, so we publish the idea only — no durations, ranges or cooldowns. Details may change.

03 / Where it fits

Built for the solo expedition

In the planned expedition, sectors are built from hand-made layouts with gaps, terraces and loops, and the resource is meant to run short. Spool is the courier for the long way round.

Only where resource is tight

Spool matters only when rail resource is scarce. The expedition is designed to be tighter on resource than team matches, so that is where Spool is planned to live.

Concept art of Coil Gardens: bright floating islands with gardens, white towers wrapped in brass coils and a large turbine wheel above the clouds.
Concept art · planned for 1.1Coil Gardens, the biome the solo expedition is being built in first: bright islands with plants and tall coils. Not to be confused with the Coil Garden arena of version 1.0.

04 / Status

What is real, what is planned

Applies to version 1.1plans for a version in development — details may changeUpdated:
Version 1.0 (today)
Not in the game.
Version 1.1
In development. Nothing released, no date.
Team matches (3 vs 3)
Not planned for 1.1 — possibly after a later server update; no date.
Solo expedition
Planned.
Ability numbers
Not final — the ability is being reworked.
3D model
Not started — concept art only.
Unlocking and price
Not decided. Nothing on this site is for sale.

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