Project Lazarus Life

Life roadmap.

Life is closed while we rebuild it. This page shows what we are building, in the order we are building it, and how far each piece has come. A card reaches Bug Testing only when a playable version exists on our test server, and Live only after it is on the real server.

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Build order

What comes when.

The phases below are shown in the order they are being tackled.

  1. Phase A · 9 roadmap items

    Now: fixes and easy wins

    Confirmed bug fixes, content Life should already have, and the small systems that make the first days better.

    8 of 12 pieces testing or built 67%
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  2. Phase B · 5 roadmap items

    Next: built for long seasons

    The season model and the money rules that make a two-month season safe and worth playing to the end.

    0 of 3 pieces testing or built 0%
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  3. Phase C · 6 roadmap items

    Then: new ways to play

    Crime, civic response, careers and property slices, each one playable on its own.

  4. Phase D · 3 roadmap items

    Later: deep systems

    The big builds: takeovers, prison, a living city that creates its own incidents, and smarter police, each behind its own prototype.

The work

Roadmap items.

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Bug Testing Phase Crime Empire
Phase A · Now: fixes and easy wins

Gang hideouts each offer their own mission

Capturing different hideouts gives a gang different work: weapon-part runs at one, a drug convoy at another, a laundering desk that shows its fee up front, and smuggling runs that pay bank cash plus a common schematic. Capture, passive income and the gang perk shop stay as they are.

1 of 1 pieces testing or built 100%
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Bug Testing Phase Living City Events
Phase A · Now: fixes and easy wins

More events when the server is quiet

Convoys, plane crashes and the patrol helicopter start with fewer players online, so a small crew can still reach a fight worth having. Every event keeps its rules, loot and map markers.

1 of 1 pieces testing or built 100%
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Bug Testing Phase Crime Empire
Phase A · Now: fixes and easy wins

Crime pays schematics and cases

Finishing a hideout weapon convoy earns a common schematic, taking down the police convoy earns each rebel an uncommon one, and an officer who makes an arrest earns a Daily Schematic Case. The rare tiers stay a roll inside the case.

1 of 1 pieces testing or built 100%
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Bug Testing Phase Guides and Teaching
Phase A · Now: fixes and easy wins

Item help you can read again

Item facts that today flash once as a pickup notice become a readable Items section in the laptop, and every custom recipe gets a one-line description with an info button.

1 of 1 pieces testing or built 100%
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Bug Testing Phase Lazarus Pass and Daily Play
Phase A · Now: fixes and easy wins

A reason to come back on day two

Every daily quest category has a task a new player can finish in one sitting, the day-two login streak pays a schematic piece you keep, and property owners get a heads-up before their rent runs out.

1 of 1 pieces testing or built 100%
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In Development Guides and Teaching
Phase A · Now: fixes and easy wins

First Shift: the city teaches you as you go

New players are pointed at the Jobs Department the moment they wake up, earn a first payout within minutes, then meet the ATM, phone and property lessons in order. A guided four-step first session in the laptop pays bank cash and a starter schematic for each step.

1 of 2 pieces testing or built 50%
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Bug Testing Phase Career and Business
Phase A · Now: fixes and easy wins

One mission list on the Outpost contract board

Jobs, gang work and city events can all count toward the same Outpost contracts you already see on the shop board, and claiming a contract also earns Lazarus Pass XP.

1 of 1 pieces testing or built 100%
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Planning Police and Civic Response
Phase A · Now: fixes and easy wins

Police get a live call feed

Every on-duty officer sees a map marker and a notice the moment a crime happens, can open a Calls tab sorted by distance, earns a first-on-scene bonus, and gets police tasks that count real arrests instead of standing in a patrol zone.

0 of 1 pieces testing or built 0%
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In Development Fixes
Phase A · Now: fixes and easy wins

Bug fixes and catching Life up with Original

A batch of confirmed bugs gets fixed, and the systems the two gamemodes share are brought up to the newer Original versions so Life gets the same improvements.

1 of 3 pieces testing or built 33%
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Planning Seasons
Phase B · Next: built for long seasons

Long seasons: what you build survives the monthly map reset

A season runs about two months. The monthly map reset, the Cleanout, clears stockpiles and deployables, but your bank, home and paid rent, garage, gang, Lazarus Pass, perks and job levels survive. Every season opens with a fresh map and a land rush for every home.

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Planning Economy and Dirty Cash
Phase B · Next: built for long seasons

Season money that has somewhere to go

Prepay up to a week of rent, dealers whose prices recover over time, a City Broker that turns season cash into schematics you keep, a daily case for redemption points, and a 72-hour catch-up for every new arrival.

0 of 1 pieces testing or built 0%
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Planning Seasons
Phase B · Next: built for long seasons

Every Thursday is a beat

A fresh login streak and new weekly quests every Thursday, a wipe countdown that is actually right, home-buyer guides that explain the season rules, and a season finale with prizes that survive the wipe.

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Planning Economy and Dirty Cash
Phase B · Next: built for long seasons

Dirty Cash and laundering

Money from crime becomes a distinct Dirty Cash that has to be laundered through businesses, dealers or a gang desk before it is safe to bank, with fees and heat along the way.

Planning Career and Business
Phase B · Next: built for long seasons

Schematics that unlock recipes

Learning a schematic can unlock what you are able to craft instead of only handing out items, so the schematic ladder becomes the way to grow what you can build.

Planning Crime Empire
Phase C · Then: new ways to play

Crime Empire operations

New crime built from what the city already has: a chop shop for stolen vehicles, drug production that counts as a crime, smuggling routes and lockpicking that can go wrong. Later come bank heists, labs and hideout operations.

Planning Police and Civic Response
Phase C · Then: new ways to play

Civic response even with no police online

A minimal response when no officer is on duty: wanted players can still be intervened on and arrested, medics get paid work and a reusable defibrillator, and police rank tools become real equipment. Smarter police squads follow later.

Planning Career and Business
Phase C · Then: new ways to play

Career and business progression

Master a profession, improve your tools, take work orders and grow a business into an operation you can delegate to workers.

Planning Property
Phase C · Then: new ways to play

Property progression

Homes and businesses gain upgrades, modules and operations worth defending. Business takeovers with a contested hold arrive first.

Planning Vehicles
Phase C · Then: new ways to play

Vehicles as your first big purchase

A vehicle you can afford in your first hour, with a garage that keeps it for the whole season.

Planning Guides and Teaching
Phase C · Then: new ways to play

Guides, item help and custom audio

Every new mechanic ships with its own guide, a first-pickup description and voiced lines, and the older guides are brought up to date.

Planning Living City Events
Phase D · Later: deep systems

A living city that creates its own incidents

Missions and incidents that appear from what the city needs, with demand that changes and consequences you can see, plus headline events that open and close each season.

Planning Property
Phase D · Later: deep systems

Property takeovers and the city endgame

Every home can only be bought once per season. After that it must be won through a declared takeover with a defender window, contested control and a fair settlement for both sides.

Planning Prison
Phase D · Later: deep systems

Prison overhaul

Prison gets its own life: sentences that feel fair to serve, activities, contraband, escapes and riots.

Planning cards describe direction, not promises. Details change as we test what feels fair and fun, and nothing here has a release date unless it says so.