FAQ
About EVE Frontier
What is EVE frontier
EVE Frontier is an in-development space survival game for PC and Mac, from the creators of EVE Online. Set in the wider EVE Universe, the Frontier is a broken corner of space - hostile, cruel and unforgiving. EVE Frontier is designed at its core to empower players. Giving you the tools to create the ultimate living game world, in a galaxy that offers true freedom and real consequence. With third-person spaceship gameplay, awareness over your surroundings, as well as tactical mastery, is crucial: explore, mine, build and fight to survive the ever-constant dangers of the Frontier and reignite the spark of civilization.
What genre is it?
EVE Frontier is a space survival game.
When will it be released?
EVE Frontier is currently playable through Founder Access, allowing players to experience the game as it continues development. The launch date of EVE Frontier has not yet been announced.
What's the gameplay?
You will awake into the Frontier, a region of space trapped within the chaotic gravitational forces of three ever-shifting black holes: the Trinary. This is a broken, hostile corner of the universe littered with vast automated structures and crumbling ruins. You have one goal: survive. Everything in the Frontier requires fuel to operate. So to create shelter, defend yourself and navigate the 24,000 star systems, you must locate, mine and refine critical resources. You will build a base to protect yourself from hordes of Feral AI that roam the galaxy, remnants of the ancient civilizations that came before. As you expand your base, you’ll extend your access to technology, enabling the creation of more powerful ships. To power these vessels, you’ll need to find rifts and extract crude – a mysterious material and the most potent fuel source in the Frontier. You operate on the Frontier through Shells, clone bodies that allow you to pilot your ships. With every step forward, your active shell gains Memory. At your base this can be converted into permanent upgrades. Your goals on the Frontier will determine the upgrades you make – choosing the skills that best meet your designs. With a foothold established, attention will turn to re-civilizing the Frontier. Through Smart Assemblies, you can deploy programmable infrastructure like storages, turrets and stargates. These are completely customizable, allowing unprecedented creative freedom. Charge tolls for use of your infrastructure, set up automated trading posts or create defences that know the difference between friend and foe. Whether you choose to go it alone or join a Tribe, the Frontier will compel you into the dark. Explore the vast galaxy in search of ancient secrets, create your own currencies & markets within the expansive economy, or engage feral AI and other players in intense third-person spaceship combat. Each player’s path is a step towards the reignition of civilization.
How does Fuel work?
Fuel is a derivative product of Crude Matter, a strange substance that leaks through rifts in the universe. Fuel is exhausted as your ship uses energy - normal activity will consume fuel slowly, but more aggressive actions will see a higher rate of fuel use, forcing Riders to make snap decisions of whether to save their fuel and flee, or burn that fuel and fight. Higher quality crude matter results in higher quality fuels, and the manufacture and sale of fuel across the Frontier will be the backbone of many player economies.
How does EVE Frontier have modding?
Players are not limited to crafting objects and structures, they can also define how those objects behave. Using a system called Smart Assemblies, players can write logic that controls infrastructure in the game world, allowing systems, automation, and entirely new gameplay mechanics to emerge directly from player activity. Because parts of the game’s underlying data layer are publicly readable, players can build tools, applications, and systems that interact with the living universe in real time. This allows communities to create their own infrastructure, economies, and gameplay systems within the sandbox. Over time, CCP plans to open more of the game’s technology and tools, giving players even greater ability to build on top of the Frontier. Players do not need coding knowledge to participate. Just like in other moddable games, players can simply use and interact with systems created by others while exploring and surviving in the Frontier.
What kinds of things can players mod in EVE Frontier?
Smart Assemblies are an open-ended system that allow players to construct objects in the game world and configure how they behave. Players can program structures to perform specific functions, turning basic infrastructure into interactive systems within the universe. For example, a Smart Storage Unit can act as a simple storage container, or be configured to dispense rewards, run a bounty system, act as a quest-giver, or power custom player-made experiences. Through Smart Assemblies, players can create automation, infrastructure, economic systems, and other programmable gameplay elements that interact directly with the world around them. These systems are programmed using the Move language, allowing players who want to build deeper systems to write logic that defines how their structures operate. At the same time, other players can simply use and interact with these player-created systems without needing any coding knowledge.
Will EVE Frontier have server wipes?
Yes, until the launch of EVE Frontier, the server will receive wipes at the end of each Cycle, as we continue development.
Founder Access
What is Founder Access?
By acquiring Founder Access, players can play, give feedback and experience the future of EVE Frontier on a 24/7 basis with no restrictions until EVE Frontier launches. Founder Access holders receive additional benefits and rewards, such as name reservation, ship cosmetics, Discord Roles, access to developer streams and more. Once EVE Frontier launches, Founders will be able to use premium subscription time that is included in each Founder Access.
What does Founder Access cost?
Founder Access is available at different price points, normally starting at $39.99. From 11th March 2026 – 31 March 2026 there will be a limited time pack allowing players to start from $19.99. To view Founder Access details, visit EVE Frontier Founder Access
Is Founder Access under NDA?
No. As of 11 June 2025 the NDA has been removed, allowing players to share their experience and gameplay footage publicly.
Technology
What engine does EVE Frontier use?
EVE Frontier is developed on Carbon, CCP Games’ proprietary game engine. As the development of EVE Frontier continues, so will the open sourcing of Carbon; allowing players to build on top of, and within the game world with our own toolkit.
Does EVE Frontier use blockchain technology?
Yes, in EVE Frontier the technology exists to enable a new kind of open, moddable game world, not for its own sake, but for a new experience that hasn't been done before. In most games, the game database is private and controlled entirely by the developer. In EVE Frontier, the game’s underlying data layer exists on a public ledger. This allows players to read the state of the universe directly and build tools, systems, and gameplay on top of it. This creates a programmable layer across the game world. Players are not limited to constructing structures, they can also configure how those structures behave using Smart Assemblies. These player-built systems can automate infrastructure, define how territories operate, create new economic systems, or introduce entirely new functionality within the universe. EVE Frontier is built around an object-based architecture where ships, items, and structures exist as individual objects that can interact with these programmable systems in real time. This allows players to develop tools, infrastructure, and systems directly within the sandbox. The goal is to expand what survival means in a persistent universe: not just the survival of individual players, but of the societies, economies, and networks players build together over time. How players engage with these systems is entirely optional. Players can build and program systems themselves, interact with player-created infrastructure, or simply explore and survive in the Frontier using standard in-game mechanics.
Will blockchain be an optional part of EVE Frontier?
The technology is part of the underlying infrastructure that powers EVE Frontier’s shared, moddable universe. By placing the game’s data layer on a public ledger, EVE Frontier allows players to read the state of the world and build systems on top of it. This enables features like Smart Assemblies, where players can program structures and infrastructure that interact directly with the game universe. For most players, these systems operate seamlessly in the background. Gameplay comes first, and interacting with the underlying technology is not required to explore, survive, or participate in the Frontier. Players who want to build tools, infrastructure, or programmable systems within the universe can engage more deeply with these features, while others can simply play the game and interact with the world those systems help create.
How will EVE Frontier go open source?
In time, our aim is to eventually open source the game client itself and put it into the hands of the Frontier's inhabitants as an entirely player-controlled virtual world.