Moonfrost shards and the second moon
A second moon appeared a hundred years ago and meteor storms dropped icy meteorites called Moonfrost. The people who learned to shape those shards became Frost Hunters, and their mission is to rebuild the world one shard at a time.
Moonfrost's world turned a hundred years before the game begins: a second moon appeared in the sky, and with it came constant meteor storms that rained icy meteorites onto the world. Those meteorites are what people call Moonfrost, and the whole game is built on what they are and what can be done with them.
The premise, plainly
- A second moon appeared a century ago. Nobody in the village explains it; working out what it is forms the story.
- The meteor storms that followed devastated the area you live in.
- The icy meteorites are Moonfrost — the substance the game is named after.
- Some people learned to harness Moonfrost, turning shards into structures and creating order out of the chaos.
- Those people are the Frost Hunters, and you become one. Their mission is to rebuild the world, one shard at a time.
What the shards are for
Shards are the game's connective material. They are what the Frost Hunters work with, they are part of the debris the storms left in the streets you are clearing, and the world's reconstruction is framed as putting them back to use rather than simply removing them. The village restoration system and the shard economy are two views of the same premise: the disaster is the resource.
The second moon and the story
Moonfrost is a story about a broken world and the broken people living in it. You help the villagers face their own fears and flaws while unravelling your own forgotten past, and the question of what the second moon is hangs over all of it. That is also why Early Access being "around 50% of the main story" matters — the moon question is a 1.0 answer, not a launch one.
The blockchain question, in one paragraph
Every wave of new players asks it, so here is the developers' own answer from their pinned FAQ: Moonfrost has no NFTs or blockchain features and never will. Early in development the game was planned as a free-to-play, live-service experience with optional blockchain elements, and an early access version was released on a Web3 platform to help fund that stage. The team later dropped the model, removed the live-service and blockchain elements, and refocused Moonfrost as a premium, offline, story-driven game. The full page on that history quotes the FAQ directly.
What to read next
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