The Evershine Settlement is the town the player founds and runs in My Time at Evershine. Despite the game's title, the settlement's official name is "Settlement 2", its designation under the Alliance of Free Cities' North Development Plan. When the player arrives as Governor, there is no existing community. The place gets built from the first tent up. As with everything in this pre-release wiki, details come from official material and may change before launch.
The name
Pathea addressed the name directly in an October 2024 development post. Evershine is not on the map and is not a City State; the word comes from local lore. Around a hundred years before the game, Peach and his band of friends traveled Ethea dissipating the cloud layers that had darkened the sky for centuries, and the cuesta ridge above the settlement was the southernmost place they reached. When the sun broke through, one of Peach's companions planted a peach seed at the top of the ridge in celebration and said, "I hope this tree will grow up in forever sunshine..." Peach pointed out that it still gets dark at night. Only the first sentence was remembered.
The developers add a wink: that story is the inception of the name, not the actual reason the game is called Evershine. The real reason, they say, is still under wraps.
A frontier crossroads
The settlement sits in Northern Eufaula, on the Alliance's northern frontier. Pathea's March 2026 development update describes the position as a pivotal crossroads: behind lie the peaceful heartlands of the Alliance, ahead stretch the untamed frontiers and the very edge of the line holding back the Duvos Empire. The town anchors a major supply route, and the update frames every settler welcomed, every building raised, and every resource shipped as sending ripples through the region's balance of power.
The North Development Plan
The settlement exists because of politics. The Duvos Empire occupied the Orzu Ruins, which the Principality of Ethea also claims, creating a tense standoff just north of the Alliance border. The Alliance responded with the North Development Plan, a program to move settlers into Northern Eufaula and eventually establish a new City State for a better defensive posture. The plan is run by its Director, Mr. Gaudi, who recruits the player, and it openly calls on anyone interested in new opportunities to move north.
That open call shapes who shows up. Pathea has noted that the people willing to travel to the fringes of the Alliance, next door to an antagonistic empire, tend to be those without better options, which gives the settlement's residents plenty of backstory to work through. See settlers and recruitment.
Growing the town
Growth is visible and staged. Buildings evolve through three material tiers, from simple tents to wooden structures to stone architecture, with each building carrying two to six upgrade levels. In the current design, the buildable area spans nearly half of the entire Area 1 map and includes more than 20 functional buildings. These are working facilities rather than scenery: meals at the restaurant grant combat boosts, and a soak in the hot spring restores stamina. Raising the right building can also attract the right resident; constructing a smithy, for example, brings a blacksmith into the community and opens access to their forge. The building system page covers the mechanics.
Pathea has also sketched where it all leads. In the planned endgame, the settlement competes with others at Alliance Meetings through a ranking system, with high level missions awarding rare rewards. This is announced, in-development content rather than a finished feature.
Neighbors and threats
The surrounding wilderness is not empty. An official in-world report identifies two sentient species in the region: the Gnawers, an organized, wood-trading society that prefers to be left alone, and the Apricrocs, an aggressive culture that values strength and occasionally imitates human technology. Bandit raids threaten the town and its supply lines, and driving them off is part of the Governor's job; see combat.
Building it together
In multiplayer, the settlement is shared. Up to four players can construct the town from scratch in one session, with money pooled among everyone and items shared unless they sit in a player's personal inventory.