Survive the Storm is a large overhaul mod for Surviving Mars, in the spirit of Against the Storm. Every run is different, no single path wins, and the planet gets harder the longer you stay.

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One self-contained mod, no separate downloads. No DLC is required - it plays on the base game or any mix of add-ons.

What changed, at a glance

One page per category, each a complete list of what the mod touches:

• Sponsors - one shared starting profile, then each sponsor's unique perk, vehicle and building.
• Commander Profiles - every profile retuned, plus the new Prospector and the removed Politician.
• Prefabs - the re-priced import prefabs and the newly orderable Subsurface Heater.
• Buildings - every building whose cost, output, staffing or behaviour changes.
• Technologies - the research-system changes and the specific techs and breakthroughs altered.
• Mission Goals - the goal-chain redesign that replaces the fixed per-sponsor goals.
• Changed descriptions and tooltips - every vanilla description, tech text and tooltip the mod rewrites or annotates.

How a run plays out

• DLC - you need none; how each add-on is handled and how it tips the difficulty.
• Run setup - your sponsor is chosen up front; the map and commander are decided in-game.
• Map conditions - the fixed per-run conditions (logistics, weather, economy) each colony rolls.
• Goals and timer - five goal picks on a rising schedule, plus the Sol 1 survey and the Sol 50 Mystery pick.
• Story events - the Pre-Founder event: one of fifteen, and you choose how to answer it.
• First rocket loadout - your first cargo rocket opens pre-filled with an editable default loadout.

Economy and resources

• Resupply cost rebalance - retuned Earth import prices and weights, and the Supply Pod price.
• Trading - spend Rare Metals on a trade partner for its Trade Good instead of selling to your own sponsor.
• Special projects - every project you send a rocket to, and the launch-fuel rule.
• Food - colonists eat more during a Cold Wave, and Ranch animals draw double Water and Oxygen.
• Food spoilage - stored Food ages into Old Food each night, and Old Food rots away.
• Resource parity - every map gets the same resource totals regardless of Colony Site level.

Balance and buildings

• Building rebalances - the retuned buildings (Water Reclamation, Power Accumulator, MOXIE, small factories, maintenance and more).
• Small factories - the two small factories retuned relative to their large counterpart (output per worker, worker slots, Power).
• General Balance - the general vanilla-number rebalances built into the mod.
• Cold ground - cold ground gives +20% power and research and -20% dust.
• Earthsick - going Earthsick now depends on Morale, not Comfort.
• Applicant generation - how fast the recruit pool fills, and the reworked Live From Mars tech.

Difficulty over time

• Escalation - several systems get harder on a straight ramp to Sol 201 (inflation, research output).
• Disasters - disasters escalate over the game, and meteor storms scatter map-wide.
• Dust Devils - only domes stop a devil now; every other building it must wear down to dissipate.