Player guide
- Catacomb Snatch is a 2D top-down shooter/RTS. Your job is to collect 50 batches of treasure from the Treasure Trove located at the center of the map before your opponent.
- Gather money by destroying enemies and collecting the coins that drop out
- Buy automatic turrets, harvesters and bombs from your Base Camp to help you defend and expand your territory, earn money and destroy obstacles
- Build a railway to the Treasure Trove and create Carts to gather batches 50 Treasure
- Move: Arrows / WASD
- Shoot(lock firing angle): Space / C / Shift / Alt / Ctrl
- Buy/Pick Up: E / Z
- Lay/Remove Track: R / X (10/15 Coins to add/remove railway sections)
- Create a Cart: R / X while standing on the first rail in your base (50 coins)
The player starts with 10/10 HP, which regenerates over time if you take damage.
When enemies or Tombs are destroyed, coins appear. Grab them before they disappear so you can buy the following items at your Base Camp! (use E or Z while standing in front of an item)
- Turret (150 coins): Shoots baddies in general vicinity once placed. Can be picked up and moved.
- Collector (300 coins): Sucks up coins within a large radius. Pick up the collector to receive the coins. They can also be destroyed by enemies, so protect them!
- Bomb (500 coins): Used to destroy purple gemmed walls. Shoot the bomb or have turrets shoot it to detonate it once placed.
- Cart (50 coins): Rail carts can be bought by standing on the first section of track at your Base Camp. These will travel along rails that you lay down and will collect treasure from the Treasure Trove at the center of the map.
- Bats
- Cobras
- Mummies: Take a lot of damage, drop a lot of coins!
- Tombs: These spawn enemies
- The other player!
- Catacomb Snatch can be played with your Ex-Friends! One of you will Host the game while the other will join.
- If you're hosting behind a firewall/router, you'll have to forward Port 3000 to your computer's IP
- If you don't have access to your firewall/router, you might consider using Hamachi
Q: How do I win the game?
A: Get to the center of the map by blowing up walls, and collect the treasure with Rail-Droids (Carts).
Q: Will Mojang continue developing the game?
A: Hopefully, but they released the source code so that others can as well.
Q: How do we get the source code?
A: By clicking the "Download source code" link in the download page sent to you after you donated.
Q: How do I compile the source-code?
A: See "How to use the Catacomb Snatch source code" by Jeb.