Scavland Factions and Reputation System Explained

What are Scavland’s ten factions?

Scavland’s Early Access ships with ten factions, each with what the developers call unique identities and characters. They are the power structure of the Zalesye wasteland — the parties fighting for control of the region — and the game’s story plays out between them across three planned acts.

The faction list below is read directly from the Relations tab shown in official gameplay footage — ten entries, each with its own reputation bar. The still below captures that same tab in an early journal, before any entry is filled in:

• Gunners
• Renegades
• Scientists
• Commonfolk
• Settlers
• Church of Resurrection
• Falanges
• Anarchists
• Thieves
• Army

The full ten-group directory — one card per faction, with everything confirmed so far — lives in All 10 Scavland Factions. What each bar measures, and where the thresholds sit, is unverified — jobs list reputation alongside money in their rewards (see the jobs and contracts guide), absolute numbers are still unpublished — though Update 0.6.0 did put the first relative tuning on record, and made every trader rank cheaper to climb.

How does the reputation system work?

Reputation in Scavland is officially confirmed as two layers: a faction reputation system alongside a separate trader reputation system. In practice this means:

1. Two independent tracks — standing with factions and with traders is measured separately, so your trading relationships are not just a copy of your faction alignment.
2. Work moves your standing — completing jobs and contracts is the confirmed engine of reputation change, and since Update 0.8.0 (October 17, 2026) the rule is official and numeric: every completed Job raises that faction’s relationship by +5 (Gunners and Bandits excluded).
3. Kills need witnesses now — since 0.8.0, harming a faction only matters when someone sees it: witnessed kills and hits lower your relationship, and that memory resets when you die. What reputation further unlocks is still unverified and will be documented here once confirmed in the live game.

What is the Life system?

The Life system is Scavland’s living-world layer: NPCs, factions, and creatures move and interact with the world independently. Patrols travel their routes, creatures wander, factions encounter each other — and fights can break out without you. You might hear gunfire in the distance, investigate, and arrive after everything is already over. Since Update 0.8.0 the factions go on the offensive, too: they launch campaigns to attack and capture each other’s outposts — so a camp that was friendly last week may fly different colors when you return.

For reputation’s economic consequences, see the jobs and contracts guide; for the people you’ll trade with, the items and crafting guide; for surviving the encounters in between, the combat and stealth guide.