Mud & Ivory

Mud & Ivory is a 2D dwarven tower-building and management game about turning a muddy underground outpost into a prestigious vertical city.

Your dwarves do not live in the tower. They dig, craft, haul, farm mushrooms, process materials, and keep the whole operation alive from the underground. Above them rises the tower itself: a growing structure of tenant rooms, shops, services, stairways, halls, and eventually luxury spaces for wealthier residents.

Every material matters. Fungal planks, unfired bricks, fired bricks, and stone blocks are not just visual upgrades — they affect comfort, construction limits, room quality, and the kind of tenants your tower can attract. Small homes can be built simply, but larger and taller towers require careful planning, load-bearing walls, support spans, and stronger foundations.

The game combines underground production with above-ground real estate. Mine clay and stone, grow mushrooms, craft early building materials, expand storage, improve access, and use your resources to build better spaces for paying tenants. As your tower becomes taller, stronger, and more comfortable, its prestige grows — unlocking better residents, better services, and more ambitious architecture.

Few words abot tower building mechanics:
Build your tower from Tower Cells, which provide floors and space for rooms. Small cell sections can support themselves, but wider or taller towers need continuous Load-Bearing Walls connected to solid ground. Each wall has limited capacity and support range, shown while building; stronger materials support larger spans and may carry weaker walls or light wooden upper floors. Rooms can only be placed inside completed cells of suitable material.

Mud & Ivory is currently in development.

Version 0.1 - playable concept, to test game mechanics, GUI, and tune early economy.

Graphics is AI generated placeholder, what needs to be replaced by properly drawn art (Artist wanted ^^)