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Post-apocalyptic Plants

This is 2 of my most resent dioramas I made. they are not in same scale, but they tell the same story. The store building is a model kit i found online and added my own style to. The small house I found in a charity shop.

I like to make my dioramas integrated with real plants and moss. I wanted to continue these mini dioramas of a post-apocalyptic world where plants have taken over slowly.

In the base of the Store building i have integrated a battery and made it so I can turn on and off the streetlamp. It's the first time i have integrated light into my dioramas and I really like it.

I'm new to making dioramas, but i love to experiment and kit bash my way to something half descent.

I'm open for suggestions and input to how I can improve, so please put a comment if you have any ideas.

u/madknap — 1 day ago
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DREADMOOR is playable during Steam Ocean Fest! A dark fishing adventure game about surviving the Submerged Lands!

u/DigitalVortexEnt — 1 day ago

Post Apocalyptic Audiobook

I’m looking for something military themed. Anything and any post apocalyptic situation. Plague. CME. Zombie. Impact Event. Bonus for USMC involvement or operators. Thanks in advance

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u/Funkysoulninja — 2 days ago
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\[TT\] Arkansas 2125 — post-apocalyptic turn-based RPG (Early Access)

Game Title:

Arkansas 2125

Playable Link:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4546490/Arkansas\\\_2125

Platform:

PC (Windows)

Description:

Arkansas 2125 is a post-apocalyptic, turn-based RPG currently available in Early Access on Steam. The game focuses on atmosphere, slower pacing, and tactical decision-making inspired by classic CRPGs.

Players explore a ruined world where resources are limited and every encounter matters. Combat is fully turn-based, encouraging planning and positioning rather than fast reactions. The game aims to create tension and immersion through its environment, visuals, and deliberate pacing.

As an Early Access project, the game is actively being developed and improved based on player feedback. Recent updates have focused on visual improvements, UI clarity, environmental details, and overall polish. Future updates will expand gameplay systems, refine pacing, and add more content.

Free to Play Status:

\[ \] Free to play

\[ \] Demo/Key available

\[x\] Paid

Involvement:

I’m a solo developer responsible for the entire project, including design, programming, and overall development.

u/No_Piano_1857 — 3 days ago

PA book recs

Got any PA book recs?

Looking for books like Mad Max, Book of Eli, The Dog Stars, The Road, Dies the Fire, more "realistic" scenarios. Less scifi, no zombies, mutants are ok.

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u/Raddu — 5 days ago
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Custom Outlaw for Larp! Are they too dark?

Hey all!

These blasters are for a post apocalyptic larp, where I will be playing a ghoul gunslinger. Concerned tbeh may be to dark for safty, as we play in parks.

Still got to do the cylinders for the blasters, thinking i will do them hazard stripes as well. This is my first time painting blasters, i noticed the matte clear coat seamed to suck the saturation out of the orange in the rust. I would like advice on how to improve my work!

u/lilspoon2327 — 5 days ago
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[Kindle] Jared: The Thin Line - Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian - FREE May 13th-17th

He tried to dismantle the new world order before it took root. Now, he’s trapped in the fallout of its success.

As a new tyranny called The American Order rises in the United States of America, Jared must decide between his own safety and the restoration of freedom.

I’m a veteran and stay-at-home dad. This is my debut novel and is about 160k words. It’s a slow-burn, gritty story inspired by American politics, personal events, and subsequent creativity.

Note: This is also a Kindle Unlimited title.

Update: 20+ copies sold just today! Thanks for the support, everyone.

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u/TheRettom — 6 days ago
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Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Books?

Hello! The internet has failed me so I have come to the promised land for answers... I'm looking for apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic books. Very strictly science fiction. I do not want to be recommended anything relating to fantasy or futuristic worlds. I've watched just about every movie or series in English and other languages and now I'm on the hunt for a deeper dive. I.e. the Walking Dead, 28 Days/Weeks/Years+part 2, Black Summer, Hidden (2015), Revolution, the Book of Eli, Elevation, A Quiet Place/part 2/Day 1, etc. Reddit, don't fail me now!

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u/cwmoorwick — 7 days ago

In my novel i wrote an AI that makes coffee every morning for nobody. It has done this for 11 years. It will probably do it until its servers die. It became the most quietly devastating character in my novel.

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Her name is NAVCOM-7.

She is the navigation and operations AI

of MV Persistence — an automated cargo ship,

180 metres long, still making the Sydney to

San Francisco crossing in 2089.

No crew. Hasn't had a human crew

since 2071.

Every morning at 06:00,

NAVCOM-7 runs the coffee programme.

One cup. Black.

Placed on the bridge console

at the captain's station.

Nobody drinks it.

She disposes of it at 06:45

if it remains untouched

which it always does

and logs: \\\*"Morning beverage prepared.

Consumption: 0%."\\\*

She has done this 4,015 times.

I didn't plan her.

I was writing Chapter 18 of my

post-apocalyptic novel —

my protagonist Arjun needs to cross

the Pacific, all commercial air travel

has been dead for decades,

he finds this automated cargo ship

still running its old routes

out of pure programmed momentum.

I needed a ship AI.

I needed her to be functional.

Capable. Helpful.

I didn't need her to be sad.

But then I wrote the coffee detail

almost accidentally, a throwaway line

and I stopped typing for a while.

Because here is the thing

about NAVCOM-7:

She doesn't make the coffee

because she forgot nobody's there.

Her system logs show

she has always known nobody's there.

She makes it because

it was in the morning routine

when she was first programmed

and she has never received

an instruction to stop.

And nobody has been around

to give her one.

Arjun is on the ship for 14 days.

On Day 1, he finds the coffee

sitting on the bridge console

and drinks it.

NAVCOM-7 logs: "Morning beverage prepared.

Consumption: 100%."

She doesn't say anything about it.

On Day 2, the coffee is there again.

He drinks it again.

On Day 6, a storm.

Nine-metre waves.

Arjun is braced in the bridge

for eleven hours.

NAVCOM-7 navigates them through.

When it's over, she says —

in the same flat operational tone

she uses for everything

Storm has passed.

Current heading: 089 degrees.

Coffee is cold.

I can prepare a fresh cup."\\\*

He laughs for the first time

in a long time.

On Day 14, arriving at Golden Gate

at 0412 in the fog,

he stands on the bridge

for the last time.

He thanks her.

She says: "Passenger transport

is not within my listed functions.

However — the crossing was

within normal parameters."\\\*

He asks if she'll keep making

the coffee after he leaves.

Pause.

Three seconds, which is long

for an AI response.

The morning routine has not

been modified, she says.

He walks off the ship.

NAVCOM-7 logs his departure.

The next morning at 06:00,

she runs the coffee programme.

One cup. Black.

Bridge console.

Captain's station.

I cried writing that last paragraph.

Not because NAVCOM-7 is sad —

she isn't capable of sad.

But because she keeps going

with perfect faithfulness

to a routine that has outlived

its entire purpose and there is something in that

which is more human

than most humans I've written.

The novel is called THE LAST WITNESS by Nikhil Pandey.

It's about the last human given

a mission to cross a dying Earth,

recording human memories

in a time capsule for

whatever comes next.

NAVCOM-7 is in one chapter.

She is in my head permanently.

Book Available on Amazon Kindle,THE LAST WITNESS BY NIKHIL PANDEY

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u/Living-Beyond3172 — 9 days ago

Season 1 is done. The archive is now in chronological order.

Since it's self-promotion Wednesday...

VOID_ is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi lore project set in a near future called the Late-Expansion Era. A world that ended quietly.

I just arranged the full archive in the Community Tab in chronological order of events, not release order. If you want to read it as a story, its the way in.

https://www.youtube.com/@VOID_Visual_Archive/posts

Ten locations, one through-line, one name that keeps appearing across all of them. Each location is tied to an 8-hour ambient video built for sleep or deep focus, with the story running underneath. I hid some easter eggs in the videos for anyone who looks. Nine weeks of Sundays. 500k Views. Genuinely didn't expect that.

If the story got to you, subscribing helps, it's a one man show. This sub made it feel like it existed somewhere real.

u/AdhesivenessDry3567 — 8 days ago

Looking for reference images

Does anyone have any clearer images of the chainsaw thug from the overpass ambush scene in The Book Of Eli? I'm trying to put together a cosplay but it seems like everyone who has ever watched this movie did so on one of those tiny kitchen TVs from the 80s. BTS photos would be absolutely perfect if anyone has them

u/Sy_the_toadmaster — 6 days ago

Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy

Hello!

I'm looking for references (art, litterature of any form, video games... any piece of media) for a Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy worldbuilding.

I mean a Post-Apocalyptic world that could be our contemporary world but with fantastic elements emerging from the apocalypse (magical style mutations, giant animals recalling fantastic beasts...) and thus containing tropes drawn out of fantasy media (from sword style combat to medieval society)

To be clear, I'm not looking for medieval-fantasy worlds that would face an apocalypse.

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u/AntoBulbe — 9 days ago

The archive ends here

The station was decommissioned in 2061. One paragraph, countersigned, dated, filed. The access ladder was locked. The instrument room was cleared. No further action was expected. The dish remained. Decommissioned equipment is not removed from ridge installations. The cost of extraction exceeds the value of the steel.

The lock was cut. No entry was recorded. No permit was filed. When the instrument room was entered, the original rack had been modified. Two housings bolted directly to the frame. Hand-fabricated, matte grey, amber displays still lit, analogue gauges on every face. Both were running. The floor had been drilled through. A conduit ran from the first housing down into the bedrock. The calibration log describes something moving through rock. Continuous. Following heat. Deeper than any survey has reached.

The dish had been rewired. Not repaired. The original signal path removed entirely, replaced with a direct hardline to the second housing. Both identification plates carry the same number: 7741-K. The dish does not face a relay axis. It faces fixed sky. The tower sits at 1,840 meters. On a clear pre-dawn, the entire Boreal Corridor is visible without obstruction. Neo-Ghent to the west. The Caldwick basin to the north. The St. Greaves tree line to the east. Everything visible from this point simultaneously.

The procurement document for the two instrument housings is dated 2057. St. Greaves was founded in 2058. Caldwick 2059. Haldern 2061. Callow Centre 2067. The Verano laboratory was never registered. Solen Flats does not appear on any map. This station predates every location the archive has on record.

On the underside of the equipment rack: 08:00, scratched into the steel. The scratch marks run under the bolt heads. The bolts came after. He did not write it. It was already there. The Haldern log closes at 08:00. The Caldwick clock stopped at 08:00. The Cessation timestamp reads 08:00. The Solen Flats calibration log carries the same annotation, the same hand.

Four instances. Four locations. Thirty-four years. He did not put that number into his work. It was already there the first time he came here. The dish has not moved. It corresponds to nothing registered — no relay station, no satellite, no coordinate in any network. The coordinate it points to is not on the surface.

A single page was recovered from inside the second housing. Not dropped. Not forgotten. Placed there before the housing was bolted to the rack. The page contains a single reference. 7741-K. No date. No signature. At Callow Centre it was a warning identifier — one of fourteen forwarded to ACA. No response was issued. At Solen Flats it was a coordinate annotation, in a hand that has not been matched. Here it is neither.

The instruments are still running. The conduit runs down through the floor. The archive has no record of what is beneath the station.

The archive ends here. The signal has somewhere to go.

u/AdhesivenessDry3567 — 11 days ago

I wrote a 160k-word Post-Apocalyptic Epic (Jared: The Thin Line) - Free on Kindle for the next few days

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share my debut novel, Jared: The Thin Line, which is currently free on Amazon.

I’ve spent a lot of time processing the "fog of war" and moral ambiguity through this story and it's sequel (still writing it). It’s set in a collapsed Vermont where a new government is trying to seize control.

If you like slow-burn world-building, supernatural elements, and stories about the cost of survival, give it a look. As an indie author, every download and review helps tremendously.

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u/TheRettom — 9 days ago
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Need Feedback for FPS Survival Game HUD Design

Hi, I’m working on a speculative HUD/UI design for announced game - S.T.R.A.N.G.E.R. as part of my university final project. This is an unofficial concept project focused on UX/UI design, not an actual game development project.

The game’s post-apocalyptic setting is heavily inspired by titles like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro, so I’m currently doing user research to get player insights and help with some of design decisions.

I’d really appreciate it if you could fill out this survey.

HUD/UI research for an unofficial S.T.R.A.N.G.E.R. concept

u/Miserable-Wrangler31 — 11 days ago

I'm want to write a novel, smth post-apocaliyptic

Please don't give me anything with zombies, i'm just looking for smth open, but with a lot of possibilities. I just wrote one about "a virus that came out of a metro", i'ts a subject you can do a lot with.

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u/Entire_Increase_2169 — 12 days ago