Hi everyone. While I may be late to the party for a game that came out in 2015, I enjoy playing this game and wanted to give something back. I decided on making this overview of sandbox maps because the in-game sandbox selection screen doesn't give you much information besides the map dimensions and I haven't seen other guides or wikis talk much about the differences between the sandboxes. While veteran players will likely already be familiar with most of the ins and outs of each sandbox map, I felt a brief overview of the geography of each sandbox would be useful to newer players picking their first sandbox, while the summary of map resources I included could be a useful reference for the more experienced players.

There are 11 Sandboxes in Lethis and each will have a section dedicated to them with a screenshot, a description, and a resource summary table. At the end there will be a collected table of all the sandbox resources for comparison purposes. Difficulty doesn't change the starting amount of Floriens or other map resources.

Changes:
02/04/2021 - Added sections for Trading and for Monument Building and Related Achievements
02/02/2021 - First Published

A decent first sandbox, there is plenty of open grassland while still having access to all the resources in the game.

While all the farmland is in one spot separated by a river, requiring you to use bridges, the rest of the map is fairly open.

The crater lake in the north has the only fishing water but most of the edges are fortunately straight. There is a broad band of swampy marshland going across the middle of the map which separates you from the southern corner of farmland (not visible in the screenshot above).

As the largest sandbox map, one screenshot wasn't able to show everything but there is plenty of space and resources. If you just want as much building space as possible, this is the one to choose. Resources are high on this map, as it has the second highest steam geysers, copper, gold, and iron vein counts.

This sandbox reminded me of a high mountain pass with lakes. It has the highest total amount of metal veins for copper, gold, and iron while also maintaining a balance across all three. Only one other map has more gold, at two more veins, but it had significantly less copper and iron in comparison to this sandbox. It also has the most steam geysers at 20, with sandbox 4 coming in at a close second with 19.

The swampy lake in the center resembles a skull. It is bridgeable but you'll be building most of your buildings along the sides of the map. Lowest starting budget, no sand, and no fishing. Compared to the other sandboxes it has below average metal veins and the lowest steam geyser count. A challenge map for sure, it does have enough room for all four monuments if you trade for the sand and glass you'll need. You may also need to trade for utensils if you have a large worker population.

Plenty of open space but you'll need to split up your food production across the five oases, each of which has enough straight shorelines to support at least a couple fisheries. There is no sand, however, and while you have the most gold veins of all the sandboxes, you only have two each of copper and iron veins, so you may need to trade for them as well.

A more challenging sandbox. While you have narrow farmlands on either riverbank surrounded by the open spaces of the desert, you also have no metal veins or sand deposits, requiring you to trade for all of your metal and utensil needs.

This sandbox has the highest count of available sand mine locations, though the full 60 is probably far too many for most setups. There should be plenty of room for fisheries across the six river inlets, though any coastline broken up diagonally won't be usable. All the farmland is out in the river delta, some of which is narrow, but they should all be bridgeable to each other or the mainland. There are also no Fae Mushrooms at all, so you'll need to trade for it or brew beer instead.

A fairly balanced sandbox with the exception of not having any sand. The river should support fishing, though the actual number of them may be low because of how much the river curves.

This sandbox has a lot of non-removable trees, which can make placing housing loops more challenging. The small lake has room for 5 fisheries and the sandbank has room for 6 sand mines. While there aren't that many metal veins (all located in the four corners), 3 copper should be enough to support a working population of 4-6 thousand and with careful zoning there is enough room for all four monuments if you are willing to build over half of the farmland.

The Trade Center, a storage building, opens up the ability to trade with other cities in the empire.

Blue import balloons will arrive on the map on the 10th day of the first month of each season by the door your immigrants come through. They will then travel to your trade center and descend into one of the silos. Orange export balloons will spawn on the 5th day (?) of the last month of the season before rising out of the silo and making their way towards the side of the map with the immigrant door. If you want to cut down on their air travel time, build your trade center as close to the immigrant door as you can.

My current hypothesis is that all production buildings work on a 30 day/1 month cycle. A cycle of production will only begin once the walker has delivered all the required resources. Each production building can hold a certain amount of products before it stops making more. Once emptied by a walker, production will resume. It would also appear that the trade center prefers to grab from a warehouse instead of directly from a production building.

The maximum of one resource you can export is always 2000 at a rate of four times per year, so any excess you are not using for your own purposes will just sit in your warehouses and take up space.

Monuments finish when their workshop item is installed. Oddly, however, this takes place not during the last listed step but during the second to last step. If you are going for the seasonal monument completion achievements and are in the incorrect month, then you must pause the construction no later than during the workshop item installation step, as this last step after the workshop item installation has no requirements and finishes immediately afterward.

Completing each of the seasonal monument achievements (in any order or play thru) will earn you the Monumental Year achievement. Building all four in one map earns you the Master Architect achievement.

At this point I would like to thank and give shout outs to Sokar and Skirlasvoud, whose guides on how to play Lethis helped me a lot in figuring out how this game worked. I would also like to thank hydro-guppy[JP] for sharing their discoveries on the in-game calendar and time system.

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