Sandrock

"Sandrock is a resource rich city, it's located on top of an ancient megatropolis. But due to a lack of water, their population is low. Portia supplies much of their water."

- Lucy, teacher at Portia's school

 is a city in the middle of the Alliance of Free Cities, connected to Atara and Highwind by train. It is also neighbours with Portia, who along with Atara supply most of the city's water. The second game in the My Time series,, will feature the city, though it is still in early development and not much is known about the game yet.

The city is built on top of an ancient metropolis, now explorable ruins, and the surrounding area is extraordinarily hot and dry. The large swaths of warm orange sand punctuated with reddish rocks earned the city its name. There are patches of yellow grass as well as more hilly areas with low shrubs and small trees. The people of make and export Fire Stone, Eye of the Tiger, Sand Tea, and earthenware like Ceramic Jugs.

==History ==

"Like a pure sapphire in the desert, the beauty of Martle’s Oasis is truly a sight to behold."

- The Travels of Mayet Bee

Sandrock was founded 71 years ago (Year 27) by a woman named Martle when a caravan crossing the Eufala Desert from Atara to Highwind stopped at an Oasis. She built a rest station named Hotel Sandrock, from which the city state took its name, so that everyone could enjoy the Oasis so long as they also respected it.

In Year 32 during the first Duvos war, a mining company discovered the Old World metropolis underneath the settlement, which triggered a 'gold rush' where people flocked to the area to mine for power stones and relics.

Over the next five years the landscape of Sandrock was altered as the population reached its peak. Water from the oasis was used to cool machines, the forest was cut down to build houses, and the local wildlife population was hunted down for ranches and food.

In Year 42, Atara and Highwind built the trans-desert railroad so the resorces of Sandrock could be delivered around the Free Cities quicker.

Sandrock's population decreased as more ruins were found and railways built around the Alliance.

Politics
Little is yet known about the government of except that its mayor is a tough woman named Trudy.

Connections to Portia

 * Portia exports water to Sandrock as a part of their trading relationship.
 * During the, the player has the opportunity to help develop a new bus route that brings tourists to and from Portia. The player can then see and interact with the tourists as they wander around town.
 * Mint has been there a few times.
 * Siwa once considered moving there.
 * Albert visits Sandrock often. He comes back from a business trip there as a part of.
 * Paulie has clients from there.
 * Mei picked up her hat in Sandrock.

News Reports
Sandrock's local newspaper is The Tumbleweed Standard. Mei has written a single guest article on it about four of the eligible romance candidates, which can be read on this Kickstarter update.

The Portia Times publishes a few articles about over the course of the main story.

Road to Sandrock Announced
After the fireside meeting that introduces Mint and Gale's road to Sandrock project:

Portia Bridge Completed
After completing and waiting until the Portia Bridge opening ceremony:

Buses to Sandrock Now Road-worthy
After completing :

Trivia

 * A Sandrock DLC for was one of the Kickstarter goals, though it was not reached.
 * Despite the Kickstarter goal not being reached, a multiplayer Sandrock DLC had been mentioned since early 2018 in various developer and player comments on Steam.  No official news about it was announced, however, and few details were given.
 * In October 2019, the purported Sandrock DLC was confirmed to not be a DLC at all, but rather a new game. It was not specified if the new game would be limited to Sandrock, if any characters might return, or if any content from a My Time at Portia player's game files might be included in the new game. For more information, see the My Time at Sandrock page.

Version history

 * Three news articles added to Portia Times about.