Migration and settlement
The places, neighbors, routes, and opportunities around the family change as the frontier moves.
Historical world · 1609–1900
History reaches the household.
The wider American frontier changes around one ordinary family, altering the risks, opportunities, resources, neighbors, and decisions that reach their table.
Wishlist on SteamA grounded setting for a generational campaign.
Salt and Soil spans 1609 to 1900. It approaches history from below: not as a parade of presidents and borders, but as outside pressures that ordinary people must absorb through work, movement, trade, cooperation, negotiation, and conflict.
Migration, shifting borders, new settlements, market swings, local conflicts, resource shortages, and new dangers can change the household’s available choices. The historical setting gives context to the simulation; the family’s specific chronicle emerges from play.
Salt and Soil
How the world enters play
Markets and materials
Access to food, wood, metal, tools, livestock, goods, and money is affected by conditions beyond the farm.
Borders and conflict
Changing authority and local danger can create new constraints, negotiations, or confrontation.
Generational perspective
A long campaign lets one family experience historical change as inheritance rather than a single isolated event.