Ext cam · MinerV3, a player design Designer test flight · playtest footage, work in progress

Vermillion Online · PvP space MMO with block-built ships Fire your radar.
Everyone hears it.

A player-driven PvP space MMO. Ships you build block by block. Ore that gets better where the law ends. Full loot.

The playtest is live. Early pilots set the first prices. Playtest: progress may be wiped. · Read the playtest bulletin →

Pulse radar · basic Armed

Same key as in game. Lights up what's out there, and tells everyone where you are.

Contacts: None
Signature: Low

Recorded feed · playtest trailer

Mine. Build. Fight pirates.
Explore lawless space.

Playtest footage with the current in-game HUD. Mining and builds sped up.

02Hangar · ship schematicDocked

A badly built ship flies badly.
That's the point.

Every engine, gun and fuel tank is a block you placed, and every one can be shot off. Thrust comes from where you put the thrusters. Assemblies are built from parts: bigger means more performance, more mass and more heat. Power, fuel, heat and ammo are all simulated.

2ARender + X-ray · side

In-engine render · stock design · side

2BAssemblies Insides matter

Engine

This ship, refitted · Starter Miner → MinerV3 (a player design)

Mass: ~~22.3 t~~27.7 t
Cargo holds: 414
Laser base rate: ~~4.5/s~~12/s

Feed · Ship Designer Six minutes of building, timelapse x48. Test-fly any design before you spend a credit.

Armour shapes: 68
Materials: 5
Functional blocks: ~140
Cannon gauge: 12–300mm

03Route · Haven → Black Verge19 sectors · ~200 km

Secure space keeps you alive.
Lawless space makes you rich.

Playtest footage · live world near Haven

Secure · Haven

Nobody can hurt you here.

No damage, by anyone. Learn to fly, mine and build in peace. The ore here pays the least.

Damage: Off
Police: Not needed
Rare ore: None

The Starter Miner: an open truss frame, cargo blocks and an orange cockpit nose with thrusters — In-engine render · Starter Miner

High security · 6 sectors

Attacks land. The law follows.

Fire on someone and you're flagged Criminal; invisible police destroy you 20 seconds later. Some pilots decide your cargo is worth it.

Damage: On
Police: 20 s
Suicide ganks: Possible

A block-built fighter taking a cannon hit, sparks flying, while its tool beam fires — In-engine render · VFX look-dev

Low security · 9 sectors

No police. Station guns only.

Criminals are fair game. Titanite is mined only out here, so this is where the money starts.

Damage: On
Police: None
Rare ore: Titanite

A block-built fighter in red pirate livery above a planet, two more liveried ships behind it — In-engine render · pirate livery

Lawless · 3 sectors

No law. Nothing is a crime.

Iridium is mined only here. Pirate bounties pay ×1.5. Black Verge Outpost runs a black-market fence for whatever you brought back.

Damage: On
Rules: None
Rare ore: Iridium

Contact · ore field

Mining lasers dig real craters. Ore sits in coloured veins; plain rock gives you nothing. Fields deplete, expire and respawn elsewhere, and jackpot fields are announced to the whole server, to draw a fight.

Designer test flight, offline: ore not kept. Some clips recorded with sped-up mining.

04Bounty board · pirate contactsHostile

Pirates pay.
Lawless pirates pay more.

A camouflage-painted block ship head-on, two cannon impacts sparking on its hull — In-engine render · cannon impacts

4ABounties · credits

Pirate bounties by archetype
Archetype	Bounty
Pirate Skiff	18,000 cr
Pirate Raider	30,000 cr
Pirate Gunboat	70,000 cr
Pirate Captain	250,000 cr

Patrols, solo hideouts (three waves and a boss), group strongholds, and raids on mining fields. Plus loot caches of rare metals. Shells are simulated projectiles that chew through blocks until they stop.

05Damage controlCritical

Full loot.
Real loss.

When your ship dies, half the cargo is destroyed and the rest spills into the wreck for anyone to take. Others can salvage the hulk. Everyone aboard dies with the ship. A free Rookie Ship means you're never locked out.

A block-built fighter with battle wear and scorch marks above a planet — In-engine render · battle wear

5ACargo manifest · 14 holds Secured

Yours: 14
Destroyed: 0
In the wreck: 0

06Comms · inboundDocked · Black Verge Outpost

The economy is the players.
Early pilots set the prices.

Market
Every station runs its own order book: buy and sell orders, escrow, price history. Early pilots set the first prices on every one of them.
Logistics
No global inventory. What you mine sits where you left it until you haul it. Heavy cargo cruises slower and stays exposed longer.
Killboard
The killboard and leaderboards are fresh. The first names on them could be yours.
Dev
Every playtest round so far was followed by a patch built from the players' reports.

07Black Verge Outpost · traffic control Approved

Undock request approved.

Pilot, you're cleared.

[Undock] Play free · Mac & Windows

Free download on itch.io · EU server Playtest: progress may be wiped. · Read the playtest bulletin →

First launch · Mac: The build is unsigned: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
First launch · Windows: SmartScreen may warn you: More info → Run anyway.

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Vermillion Online · PvP space MMO with block-built ships Fire your radar.Everyone hears it.

Mine. Build. Fight pirates.Explore lawless space.