Modern Era

What is the Modern Era?
The Modern Era, or known as the Modern Age starts after you exit the Medieval Era of the game. In this Age, you are able to invent machinery and have your Nuggets build powerful and useful power plants for production of certain needs like, Oil, Iron, Cement, Glass and along with the basic supplies like wood and stone. You would then be able to have your Nuggets research automation and vehicles such as cars, ships, and planes. Due to the huge cities that you would have to look after, you must build offices of law enforcement (once you have researched Government that is.) to keep crime levels down and buildings that can assign Nuggets to get rid of certain natural disasters that can happen such as wild fires. The Modern Era also allows you to build a special building known as the Nugget Customizer where you can customize certain Nuggets and dress them how ever you want them to look. You must also keep an eye on electricity consumption as it now especially will play a HUGE role in your Nugget's technological and cultural development as you progress so please make sure to build a good amount of electrical generators to keep up with the demand.

The Eventual Goal
The Modern Era is also when your Nuggets will begin to look upwards to the stars above unlike the previous ages. In this Era, You can now research technologies that will be specialized for studying certain star systems with planets away from your own homeworld and solar system. To do that, you may need to have your species research and build certain buildings such as the Telescope and soon even satellites. With these technologies, you can then have your species target and research other star systems with planets that may, or not sustain the conditions for life to exist in order for future preparation and further research in order for future exploration and potential colonization of these worlds. The End-Age goal is to research and build the very first spaceship capable of breaching the atmosphere of your home planet and eventually leave your planet entirely to explore the planet that you have targeted as a potential candidate for colonization. Thus ends the Modern Age and starts the beginning of the most exciting or pivotal era of your people's history - The Space Age.

Developmental Construction
As of now, the Modern Age is currently under construction by the Crytivo Crew. They are currently on the core game mechanics of the age and will be adding much more fun and engaging content soon as the Update comes out this February. You can currently only play the Stone and Medieval Age while there is only one building, the Fire Station that mostly comes from the Modern Age. You can follow the development of the Universim on the game's twitter page here. Here are some pictures of the Modern Age's development -