THE FIELD GUIDE

01The World

One island. 1,000 genesis creatures, 80 species, and a counter that only ever falls. There is no breeding, no minting more, no second chance. Permadeath is the whole point: every creature that dies makes the survivors rarer, forever.

Rarer species aren't just prettier - they permanently farm faster (the farm rate multiplier above). Genesis rarity pays off for as long as the creature lives.

02Keeping It Alive

Care is free but it is not optional. A creature that is ignored gets hungry, then sick, then starves, then dies. All of it runs on timestamps - no login streak nag, just a clock.

If the worst happens: Revive

Death is not instantly final. For 24h after it dies you can revive a creature - up to 3 times, at a rising price. Miss the window (or spend all three) and it is extinct: gone forever, and the alive counter drops.

A background sweep is what makes deaths public: it only ever writes the moment a creature changes state (starving → dead → extinct, or falls sick / heals). No creature is quietly forgotten.

03Farming

Your creature works while you are gone. It wanders its patch of the island, forages, and drops finds into its bag - no tab open, no clicking. This is the lazy-AFK heart of the game.

04XP & Levels

Leveling makes a creature farm faster (+4%/level) and unlocks nothing you have to manage - it just gets better. XP comes mostly from what it finds; the rarer the find, the bigger the reward.

Try-XP is a tiny guaranteed drip: 0.1 XP every 6 min of active farming (1 XP/h). It never overshadows real finds - it just means time is never wasted.

The level curve

Cost to the next level = 30 + level × 20. No level cap.

05Squad Tours & Cheer

Two ways to push a creature past its lazy baseline - one social, one you drive yourself.

Both boosts are lazy and fair: only the slice of time that actually overlaps the farming window counts, so the bag you see and the payout you collect can never disagree.

06Mood & Petting

Anyone - even a walletless guest - can pet any creature. Petting lifts its mood, and mood directly scales its farm rate. But there is a sweet spot: love it, don't smother it.

The first 6 pets push mood from ×0.8 up to ×1.2. From the 10th pet in 24h the creature is overstimulated and drops to ×0.6 - worse than not petting at all. The community has to share the petting slots. A hungry or sick creature caps out at ×0.85 no matter what.

Bond points - the visitor's reward

Every pet earns bond points, and a creature in trouble is worth more (the game nudges you toward the ones that need help).

Social - the neighborhood layer

Beyond the daily mood swing, every creature carries a slow social standing (0-100) - lonely, shy, fine, chatty, beloved. It is a gentle extra farm-rate factor on top of mood and tools: -5% when utterly lonely up to +10% when beloved. Slow by design - it flavors the economy, it never rivals mood.

07The Warden's Trials

An old Warden lives on the isle - click him on the map, or open QUESTS. He keeps 96 trials in two paths: Wanderer (8 chains) for anyone, even with no creature at all, and Keeper (8 chains) for owners. Within a chain the trials unlock one after another; the chains themselves run in parallel, so you always pick what to push.

Forage - playing without a creature

The Wanderer's core loop. Every 15 minutes you can comb the island for items - no creature required. Each foray earns wanderer xp, and every 25 xp raises your rank (up to 8). A higher rank means bigger hauls and better finds.

What the trials pay

08Equipment

Some finds are worth more equipped than sold. A creature can wear a tool (faster farming), a charm (luckier drops), and use bag items to carry more.

TOOLS · +farm rate

+5%

+8%

+15%

+18%

+30%

+50%

CHARMS · +luck

+4%

+5%

+12%

+15%

+25%

+45%

BAGS · +slots (consumed)

+1

+2

+3

Wear & repair

Tools and charms wear down per item harvested, not by the clock. Rarer gear lasts far longer. Repair with materials before it hits 0%.

09Items & Rarities

32 things to find, from a humble Berry to a world-shaking Star Fragment. Tap any icon for its value, XP, and effect.

Common 89.9% of drops · 2 XP

Rare 9% of drops · 10 XP

Epic 1.1% of drops · 40 XP

Legendary 0.018% of drops · 150 XP

10Market

Two markets, one currency (USDC): trade living creatures and trade farmed items. The fewer creatures left alive, the more yours is worth.

11Memorial & Directory

THE MEMORIAL

Every creature that goes extinct is remembered here - species, serial, who kept it, and when the world lost it. Death is permanent, but it is never invisible.

ALIVE DIRECTORY

The living register: browse who is still breathing, jump to any creature on the map, and watch the number that only ever goes down.

12Fair Sale

Which creature you hatch is provably fair. The full genesis manifest - every serial's species, palette and traits - is hashed (sha256) and the commit is published before the sale opens. Nobody, including us, can reshuffle it after the fact; each creature's mapping is only revealed when it's adopted.

Hatch price by serial

Price is set by the serial number - early adopters pay the least, and it climbs as the world fills up.

Once all 1,000 are hatched, the only way in is the market - at whatever the last survivors are worth.