But you can also play over the internet, which works mighty fine without especially much lag. You can play in splitscreen mode with up to 4 players on one PC, using a single keyboard, or you can plug in as many gamepads as you'd like. And to briefly cover one of Clonk's most important aspects: it is multiplayer. Especially the water in the game is pretty dynamic - making rain a lethal foe as it loves to flood your mine shafts. Probably most interesting, though, are the changeability of the terrain, which reminds one of Cortex Command, and the "fluid" physics. While it featured cute but crude hand-drawn 2D pixel art in the past, the game now features a 3D look that isn't any less charming. Technically, the game has come quite far. I hope this makes it at least remotely understandable why it's so hard just to define Clonk. This can range from mere maps for the content that's already there, to scripted adventures (for example, there is a neat Diablo-esque level including questing and leveling up), to completely new scenarios like a cool sci-fi pack consisting of armored troops with machine guns, hoverbikes and huge complexes full of alien scum).
For at least 10 years now there has been a huge community of people who create all sorts of addons to the game. And why is it impossible to mention all that? Because there's an innumerable quantity of more stuff thanks to Clonk's modability.
Other popular scenarios are the middle age where huge castles are built and knights fight hand to hand or on horseback, the wild west where small towns are built and cowboys duel each other, and several flavors of foreign worlds, like the arctic, deep sea, jungle, you name it. Actually, this is just a tiny fraction of what Clonk offers in terms of variety, but summing it all up is practically impossible. That at least is the most common scenario. Or more commonly, it takes a windmill to get the elevator running, which of course you build for mining a lot more efficiently. For instance, coal is used to fire up a furnace which in turn melts ore into metal. But you also need energy to operate your factories and other equipment.
While gold is the common currency in the game used for buying stuff, some of the "raw" natural resources like wood and stone are used directly for building. You can dig for coal, pump up oil, or blow up veins of ore and gold.
For building you need resources, which you can mostly get by digging into the ground. Usually you control a group of little characters called Clonks, using them to build up a settlement. Basically, Clonk is an extensive 2D action-adventure-strategy platformer. For those who have not heard of it yet I'll try to summarize the game a bit.
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