八丈島 Hachijō-jima · Izu Islands · 33.11°N 139.79°E
Sandbox
Drive
A driving sandbox on a real volcanic island in the Pacific, at full scale. Cars, trucks, helicopters, planes, a couple of boats, and a lot of physics. This is the devlog: how it's going, including the parts that went wrong.
- Scale
- 1 : 1
- Land
- 73 km²
- Of road
- 233 km
- Vehicles
- 48
Sheet 1 of 1 · the island as the game models it
The island
Two volcanoes joined by a strip of towns, an airport and a harbour, 290 km south of Tokyo. Every port, town and planned work site on this sheet comes from the game's own data; the ringed ones are covered in a log. Switch the layers to see what's where. How the island is built.
- 底土港Sokodo PortPort · planned
- 八重根港Yaene PortPort · planned007Nobody writes the jobs →
- 神湊KaminatoPort · planned003Hachijō-jima at 1:1 →
- 八丈小島Kojima landingPort · planned
- Nakanogo geothermal stationWork site · power plant · planned
- Mihara scoria quarryWork site · quarry · planned
- Sokodo batching plantWork site · concrete plant · planned
- Kaminato fish marketWork site · fish market · planned
- Kaminato ice plantWork site · ice plant · planned
- 黄八丈Kihachijō weaving worksWork site · workshop · planned007Nobody writes the jobs →
- Kashitate ashitaba terracesWork site · farm · planned
- Nakanogo passionfruit housesWork site · greenhouse · planned
- Okago freesia fieldsWork site · farm · planned
- Sueyoshi stock farmWork site · farm · planned
- 八丈島空港Hachijōjima AirportLandmark · planned
- Sokodo fuel depotWork site · fuel depot · planned
- Fuji log landingWork site · log landing · planned
- Mihara south log landingWork site · log landing · planned
- Nakanogo sawmillWork site · sawmill · planned
- South cape weather radarWork site · station · planned
- Kojima seabird stationWork site · research · planned
- Kojima seasonal fish stationWork site · fish station · planned
- Island recovery depotWork site · recovery · planned
- みはらしの湯Miharashi-no-yuPlace to visit · onsen · planned
- Yaene Kojin-yuPlace to visit · onsen · planned
- Nangoku gardenPlace to visit · botanical garden · planned
- Sokodo beach campsitePlace to visit · campsite · planned
- Oosaka tunnel lookoutPlace to visit · viewpoint · planned
- Nago lookoutPlace to visit · viewpoint · planned
- Touryuu lookoutPlace to visit · viewpoint · planned
- Pot HolePlace to visit · viewpoint · planned
- 八丈富士Hachijō-Fuji crater rimPlace to visit · viewpoint · planned010September: rotors, a volcano and far too much grass →003Hachijō-jima at 1:1 →
- Sueyoshi turnoutPlace to visit · truck rest · planned
- Fuji rindo stagingPlace to visit · truck rest · planned
- 裏見ヶ滝Uramigataki fallsPlace to visit · waterfall · planned
- South cape lightPlace to visit · lighthouse · planned
- Mihara south forestry parkPlace to visit · offroad park · planned
- South coast campPlace to visit · campsite · planned
- Hachijō Royal ruinPlace to visit · ruin · planned
- Kojima landing hutPlace to visit · shelter · planned
- Taiheizan shoulderPlace to visit · viewpoint · planned
- 三根MitsuneTown
- 大賀郷OkagoTown
- 樫立KashitateTown
- 中之郷NakanogoTown
- 末吉SueyoshiTown
Latest routes
Every log →- September: rotors, a volcano and far too much grassThe helicopters got rebuilt, Hachijō-Fuji got a lava lake, the grass got a whole library of species, the engines finally sound like their layout, and the game moved back to an island it left in July.八丈富士Hachijō-Fuji crater rim · 2026-09-253min
- The bugs that didn't make a soundA rescue helicopter that fell 135 km, force feedback sent into the void, and a test suite that passed because it gave up halfway. The worst bugs in this project never crashed anything.2026-09-254min
- The car runs on the driver's computerIn multiplayer, a car's physics runs on the machine of whoever is behind the wheel. What that means when two players swap seats, what the cars going past are actually doing, and the six weeks when nobody could hear them.2026-09-254min
- Nobody writes the jobsThere's no job list in Sandbox Drive. Every haul exists because something on the island ran out of something. How that works, how pay is calculated, why fuel gets cheaper when it's delivered, and the sawmill that threw away its own planks.黄八丈Kihachijō weaving works · 2026-09-255min
- The helicopter got deletedThe old helicopter flew on fake forces and aimed at the mouse cursor. In one week in September it was replaced by 24 little wings, a turbine, a governor and blades that snap off. How it works, and the ways it tried to kill its pilot.2026-09-256min
- Six tyre models laterThe long version of how the tyres work, with the real numbers. A brush in the contact patch, a carcass that winds up, rain, heat and mud, and the parked cars that wouldn't stay parked.2026-09-256min
Under construction
as of 25 September
- 1
Trailers and cargo bodies
Half the goods on Hachijō need a tanker, a tipper or a flatbed, and none of those can carry anything yet. Until they can, the job board is mostly a menu you can read but not order from.
- 2
Native physics for the player car
AI traffic already runs on the C++ version. The player car is next, once handing a car from one player to another behaves exactly the same.
- 3
Clouds, attempt two
The first cloud system never made it into a scene. This one starts from the question of how two players get to see the same sky.
- 4
Making the work sites real
The plans exist on paper, traced from aerial photos. Now they need to become places you can reverse a truck into.