How to Play MetricBase World

🚀 1. Getting Started

Entry is free — you need no $BASE and no tokens of any kind to play. A Solana wallet (or Telegram) is just how your character is saved.

✈️ Playing on Telegram

The whole game runs inside Telegram at t.me/MetricBaseWorldBot/play — no install, and no wallet needed to start.

• Sign in with Telegram and play immediately. You gather, craft, trade and earn Season points exactly like everyone else.
• To collect Season $BASE rewards you need somewhere to receive them. Open ⚙️ → 📅 Daily & Season and paste your Solana address under “Where should we send your $BASE?”. Check it carefully — on-chain transfers cannot be undone.
• Already play with a wallet? Link the two so Telegram signs you into your existing character: in the Mini App tap “Already play with a wallet?” for a 6-character code, then enter it in-game under ⚙️ → ✈️ Link Telegram. Your wallet stays your identity — nothing is moved or merged.
• Telegram has no built-in Solana wallet, so connecting one from inside Telegram hands you over to Phantom or Solflare. Linking (above) means you only do that once.

🎮 2. Controls

Desktop (keyboard)

Mobile (touch)

On phones and tablets, use the on-screen joystick to move and the contextual action buttons (attack, gather, interact) that appear near the bottom of the screen. The HUD buttons across the top and side open Inventory, Crafting, Quests, and the social panels.

🔄 3. The Core Loop

MetricBase World is built around one satisfying everyday loop, wrapped in a community layer:

⛏️ 4. Gathering

Walk up to a resource node, face it, and press the gather key. There are four gathering skills, each with its own XP and levels:

Tiers & requirements

Higher-tier nodes need a higher skill level — e.g. Iron Deposits and Hardwood trees require level 3, and Ironwood requires level 4. Level a skill up by gathering its basic nodes first.

Rare finds ✨

Every gather has a small chance to also turn up a rare material — Amber (trees), Gemstone (rocks), or Pearl (fish). They sell for a lot, and a Gemstone can be forged into the best weapon in the game.

🎣 Fishing is a minigame

Unlike trees and rocks, fish fight back. Cast at a fishing spot and:

• Wait for the bite — tap too early and you spook it (the wait restarts).
• ❗ BITE! — hook it within the reaction window.
• Reel — tap when the sweeping marker is inside the green zone. Three good taps land the fish; two misses and the line snaps.

Better rods widen the green zone, and rain makes it wider still — the fish really do bite better in the rain. Every cast costs 2g of bait and the energy is spent landed or escaped — so breathe, watch the rhythm, and tap on the beat.

🐠 Fish rarity

Every landed fish rolls which species it is. Most catches are the common River Fish or Prized Salmon, but rarer species surface too — and they sell to Rudi for far more. A Lucky Lure and rain both tilt the odds toward rarer species, and rare-and-better catches are announced to the whole zone.

🏞️ River & lake waters

River Fish

sells 8g

Common

Bluegill

sells 9g

Common

Striped Carp

sells 22g

Uncommon

Whiskered Catfish

sells 26g

Uncommon

Golden Trout

sells 85g

Rare

Crystal Koi

sells 280g

Epic

Ancient Sturgeon

sells 1,400g

Legendary

🌊 Deep waters (Wilderness & Grotto)

Prized Salmon

sells 16g

Common

Silver Pike

sells 40g

Uncommon

Ghostfin Eel

sells 130g

Rare

Stormray

sells 420g

Epic

Abyssal Leviathan

sells 2,000g

Legendary

🍳 Every species cooks

Take your catch to a workbench: each fish grills into its own dish, and the rarer the fish, the mightier the meal. Epic-and-better dishes fully restore your energy — so decide: sell the trophy to Rudi, or eat like a legend before a long Wilderness run.

Dish	Restores	Cooked from
Cooked Fish	+40 HP · +35 ⚡	River Fish
Pan-Seared Bluegill	+45 HP · +40 ⚡	Bluegill
Grilled Salmon	+60 HP · +55 ⚡	Prized Salmon
Hearty Carp Stew	+60 HP · +55 ⚡	Striped Carp
Crispy Catfish Fry	+70 HP · +60 ⚡	Whiskered Catfish
Grilled Pike Skewer	+85 HP · +65 ⚡	Silver Pike
Golden Trout Fillet	+110 HP · +80 ⚡	Golden Trout
Smoked Ghostfin Eel	+130 HP · +90 ⚡	Ghostfin Eel
Crystal Koi Sashimi	+150 HP · full ⚡	Crystal Koi
Charged Stormray Steak	+170 HP · full ⚡	Stormray
Ancient Sturgeon Roast	+220 HP · full ⚡	Ancient Sturgeon
Leviathan Feast	+260 HP · full ⚡	Abyssal Leviathan

🌾 5. Farming

Farm plots are scattered across the world (look for tilled soil). Stand on an empty plot and interact to plant a seed, then wait for it to grow.

• Planting uses whichever seed you're carrying (wheat first, then carrot).
• Crops grow in real time, even while you're away or offline.
• Return when it's ripe to harvest + Farming XP; bake wheat into Bread at the workbench.
• Besides buying seeds, you can gather them free: crop patches placed in Player Worlds yield Wheat / Carrot Seeds (the generic Crop Field gives a random one) and train your Farming skill.
• In Player Worlds, every painted soil tile is a farm plot — and Crop Markets placed there buy your harvest and sell seeds on the spot. Harvesting in someone else's World pays the owner's gather tax.

⚒️ Farming tools & gear

Forge a hoe and dress for the fields — farming gear pays off both on crop patches and at farm plots:

The growth boost locks in when you plant — whatever hoe is equipped at planting decides how fast that crop matures.

🍗 5b. Energy & Food

You can't adventure on an empty stomach. Every working action spends Energy (the 🍗 gauge on your HUD, max 100):

When your energy is too low for an action, you'll be told you're too hungry and the action is refused until you eat.

Restoring energy

Eat food (from your Inventory) to refill — most food restores HP and energy:

Food	Restores	Get it by
Bread	+30 HP, +25 energy	Baking wheat, or buying from Rudi (8g)
Cooked Fish	+40 HP, +35 energy	Cooking River Fish
Grilled Salmon	+60 HP, +55 energy	Grilling Prized Salmon
Fish dishes ×10	up to +260 HP, full energy	Cooking rarer species — see Fishing

Note: a Health Potion is medicine — it heals HP but does not restore energy. For energy you need real food.

🔨 6. Crafting & Tools

Open the Crafting panel (C or the 🔨 button) to turn raw materials into useful goods. Crafting charges a small forge fee in gold and takes time at the workbench — heavier gear takes longer to forge, and the button shows "Crafting…" while it works.

What you can make

• Materials: Planks, Hardwood Planks, Copper / Iron / Steel Bars, and Lamp Oil (fuel for building lights).
• Food: Cooked Fish, Bread, Carrot Soup (2 carrots + a fish), Carrot Bread (wheat + carrots), Grilled Salmon — restore both HP and energy.
• Weapons: Copper Dagger (+18), and the prestige Gemforged Blade (+30, needs a rare Gemstone).
• Tools: three tiers that speed up gathering.

Tool tiers

Tier	Speed	Bonus
Copper (axe / pickaxe / rod / hoe)	30% faster	hoe: crops grow 15% sooner
Iron / Pro (axe / pickaxe / rod / hoe)	50% faster	hoe: crops grow 25% sooner
Steel (axe / pickaxe / hoe / Trawler's Net)	50% faster	40% chance of a bonus drop · steel hoe: crops grow 35% sooner
Gilded Rod (fishing)	60% faster	50% bonus catch · +25% fishing XP
Abyssal Rod (fishing)	65% faster	60% bonus catch · +50% fishing XP · pearls surface far more often

Equip a tool from your Inventory into the tool slot (separate from your weapon). It only helps the matching skill.

🔧 Durability & repairs

Tools, weapons, and armor wear out: tools lose a point per gather (a copper axe fells ~120 trees; steel lasts nearly triple), weapons and armor wear in combat. At zero durability the item breaks and is destroyed — watch the bars in your Inventory.

• Repair all gear from the Inventory panel: the fee per durability point scales with the gear's tier (starter gear 2g/point, steel roughly 3×, capped at 4×), and any piece missing 30%+ also needs 1× its tier material (iron bars for iron gear, planks for rods, a gemstone for the Gemforged Blade…).
• Light top-ups are gold-only — repair early, repair often.
• Swapping gear doesn't reset the damage: an item remembers its wear when re-equipped.

🎓 Craft mastery — Fine & Master quality

Crafting is a profession. Open the 🎓 Mastery tab at the forge and specialize in up to 2 of 6 craft families — Cooking, Smelting, Woodwork, Smithing, Toolcraft, or Artifice:

• Specialized crafts earn mastery XP (value-weighted, daily-capped) and roll ✨ Fine or 🌟 Master versions of gear — more damage, more armor, faster tools, and up to 60% more durability. Cooks and smelters roll bonus portions instead.
• Rudi never sells Fine or Master gear, and it vendors for the same price as Standard — its premium exists only between players. Want top-tier gear outside your two specialties? Find a specialist and trade.
• Non-specialized crafting always makes Standard quality. A respec (5,000g, burned) clears your specialization slots; your mastery XP is kept.

Fishing & farming accessories

Craftable gear that boosts a skill while worn (stacks with your tool):

• Lucky Lure Pendant (necklace) — rare catches (pearls) surface much more often. Craft: 2 Pearls + 1 Iron Bar.
• Angler's Ring (ring) — +25% fishing XP. Craft: 1 Pearl + 1 Gemstone.
• Angler's Straw Cap (helmet) — +10% fishing XP and sometimes an extra catch. Craft: 10 Wheat + 5 Fish — a great first goal for new anglers.
• Farmer's Sun Hat (helmet) — +10% Farming XP and sometimes a bonus crop. Craft: 10 Wheat + 5 Carrots.
• Grower's Ring (ring) — +25% Farming XP. Craft: 1 Amber + 1 Gemstone.

The Gilded Rod is crafted from planks, steel and rare Amber; the Abyssal Rod upgrades a Gilded Rod with 3 Pearls — the ultimate fishing setup also widens the catch minigame's green zone.

⚔️ 7. Combat & Leveling

Approach a hostile creature (Training Dummy, Wild Slime, Slime Brute, Ember Slime) and press Space to attack. The server handles all damage fairly. Monsters hit back, so watch your HP. The Hub is a combat-free town — your first fights are in the Wilderness, against the Training Dummy and Wild Slimes.

• Equip a weapon for more damage per hit.
• Earn XP and gold from defeating monsters (and quests), which raises your combat Level and max HP — all the way to level 99. Your gathering skills climb to 99 too.
• Out of combat, your HP slowly regenerates — or eat food to heal fast.

🐉 The monster ladder

Each step up hits harder and takes longer to bring down, so the real question is whether you can out-heal it. Gear is what turns a losing fight into a winnable one.

Monster	Where	HP	XP	Drops
Training Dummy	Wilderness	—	low	Training Scrap · never hits back
Wild Slime	Wilderness · Grotto	45	20	Slime Gel
Thornback Slime	Wilderness · Grotto	95	45	Thorn Gel
Slime Brute	Grotto	150	55	Slime Core
Ember Slime	Wilderness (N) · Grotto (S)	200	85	Ember Core
Void Brute	Obsidian Reach	420	180	Ember Core ×2
Charred Sentinel 👑	Obsidian Reach	900	600	Obsidian Shard

🛡️ Gear tiers

Armour is crafted from bars; the top tier needs monster drops. Higher tiers also last far longer before they need repairing.

Tier	Rarity	Chest armour	Made from
Copper	Common	22	Copper bars
Iron	Uncommon	40	Iron bars
Steel	Rare	60	Steel bars
Ember	Epic	88	Steel bars + Ember Cores

Each tier is a full four-piece set — helm, chest, gloves and boots:

Helm

head

Chestplate

body

Gloves

hands

Boots

feet

Weapon	Bonus damage	Made from
Rusty Blade	+12	Bought from Rudi
Gel Knife	+8	Slime Gel
Copper Dagger	+18	Copper bars
Gem Blade	+30	Gemstones
Thorn Cleaver	+36	Thorn Gel — the level 5–9 bridge
Ember Blade	+44	Steel bars + Ember Cores
Obsidian Edge	+60	Obsidian Shards + Ember Cores + steel

Knockout & respawn

If your HP hits 0 you're knocked out. Pay 100 gold to respawn immediately, or wait 30 minutes for a free revival. You can't move or fight while knocked out.

⚔️ Gear, armour & abilities

Damage is Attack × Skill × Crit − Armour. Armour has diminishing returns — it always helps but never makes you invincible. Base crit is 5% at 1.5×; gear raises both.

• Equipment slots: weapon, tool, helmet, chest, gloves, boots, two rings, necklace, cape, offhand. Craft copper / iron / steel armour sets plus a gemstone ring, pearl amulet, and cape.
• Rarity: gear comes in 8 tiers (Common → Unique, shown by name colour) that scale its stats.
• Durability: weapons and armour wear as you fight and break at 0. Use 🔧 Repair all gear in the Inventory panel for a gold fee.
• Weapon abilities: each weapon type fills the skill hotbar (1–5 / Q / E / R) with its own kit — swap weapons to swap abilities.

The Inventory panel shows your live ⚔️ attack · 🛡️ armour · 🎯 crit · 💥 crit power and a durability bar for each piece.

🗡️ 7b. PvP & Danger Zones

Player-vs-player combat is opt-in by where you go. Every zone shows a danger tier banner when you enter:

To fight: left-click a player to target them, then attack. When someone is knocked out in a Red/Black zone, their dropped items form a loot bag anyone can grab with F.

👮 Crime, reputation & bounties

Strike down a non-consenting player and you become a Criminal — your name turns red and towns lock you out until it cools off (~10 min). Anyone can put a bounty (gold) on a target; whoever defeats them claims the pot. Guild-war kills are sanctioned and don't make you a criminal.

⛓️ Jail

Crime doesn't pay: a criminal who's defeated in PvP gets arrested and thrown in the Jail for 2 minutes. The cell stays locked until your sentence is served — then you're released and pardoned, free to return to town.

🤺 Duels (Arena)

Want a fair fight with nothing on the line? Left-click a player and hit ⚔️ Duel. If they accept, you both heal to full and fight a consensual 1v1 anywhere — even in a safe town — with no loot, no crime, and no knockout penalty. Drop your opponent to win; the loser is simply restored. Duels draw after 90 seconds, and leaving forfeits.

🎯 Reading a fight

PvP is fully readable: hurt or PvP-flagged players show an HP bar over their head, and while you're duelling or trading blows a target frame appears at the top of the screen with your opponent's HP, energy, and level. Eating or drinking is public — everyone nearby sees the item bubble, and the target frame lists what your opponent just used. Time your burst for when the potion chugger runs dry.

🐎 Mounts

Craft a mount and equip it in the Inventory panel's Mount slot for a permanent movement-speed boost.

Sturdy Pony

+25% speed

Swift Steed

+45% speed

Dire Wolf

+70% speed

🛡️ 7c. Guild Warfare & Territory

Guilds are now full power structures. Open the 🛡️ Guild panel to manage yours.

• Approval-gated joins: request to join a guild and a leader or officer must accept you — no instant joins. Your request shows as "Pending" until then.
• Ranks: Leader 👑 / Officer ⭐ / Member. The leader promotes, demotes, and kicks; officers approve/deny join requests, kick members, and run the bank & wars.
• Guild bank: any member deposits gold; officers and the leader withdraw.
• Income tax: the leader sets 0–10%; a slice of every member's gold earnings auto-funds the bank.
• Wars: declare war on a rival guild (mutual). Warring guilds fight each other freely — even in Yellow zones without flagging — and those kills are lawful. Make peace to end it.

🏴 Territory control

PvP zones contain capture points. Stand on one as a guild member for about 12 seconds uncontested to claim it — a rival nearby contests it and freezes progress. A flag shows the owning tag, a capture ring, and contested state. Every point your guild holds pays territory income into the guild bank every 5 minutes. Ownership persists; disband and you lose your land.

👑 7d. Castle Siege

On a recurring schedule (a 15-minute window every 4 hours), the King Crystal in the Obsidian Reach (Black Zone) becomes vulnerable and a red “CASTLE SIEGE LIVE” banner appears.

• Guild members click the crystal to strike it during the window.
• The crystal is heavily armored with a huge HP pool — one player cannot break it inside the window. Bring guildmates, your best weapons, and plenty of food (every strike costs energy).
• The guild that lands the killing blow is crowned Sovereign of MetricBase until the next siege, wins a large prize into its guild bank, and is announced server-wide.
• The reigning Sovereign shows in a 👑 chip and persists across restarts; the crystal resets each window.

🥇 PvP seasons & rank

Every PvP knockout shifts your PvP rating (+25 for a kill, −15 for a death), which sets your rank — Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, Grandmaster, Legend. The 🏆 Leaderboard's PvP tab ranks the season's best fighters. Seasons last 90 days; at each reset your rating returns to the baseline (you keep your character, gear, and gold).

📜 8. Quests

Talk to NPCs (press E) to pick up quests. They guide you through the game and reward XP, gold, and gear.

Open the Quest log (the HUD card on desktop, or the floating quest button on mobile) to track your active objectives.

💰 9. Trade & Economy

Rudi's Provisions (Hub & every placed Shop)

Press E near Rudi (or any placed 🏪 Shop building in a World) to trade. Rudi now buys and sells every item in the game — materials, fish, dishes, seeds, weapons, tools, armor, even mounts. Only pets stay exclusive to the Quartermaster's gem shop. Use the search box, category chips, and sort picker to browse the full catalog.

📈 Prices move with supply & demand

Every item's price drifts between 0.4× and 3× of its base value, following what players actually do over the last 7 days:

• Demand (price rises): eating food, planting seeds, using crafting ingredients, repairing gear, gear breaking — and buying from a shop.
• Supply (price falls): gathering, crafting, harvesting, and monster drops flooding the world with an item.
• Dumping a big stack on a vendor also softens its price for a few minutes (it recovers on its own).

📋 Town order boards

Towns consume goods — the Hub, Wilderness Camp, and Grotto Outpost each eat through bread, planks, potions, bars, lamp oil and more every day, creating baseline demand even when no player is buying. On top of that, each town posts rotating bulk orders on the 📋 Town Orders tab of any shop:

• Orders pay a 10–40% premium over the current market price — but you must deliver at the town that posted it, they're first come first served, and they expire after a few hours. Partial deliveries are fine.
• New orders are announced in system chat, and the board shows every town's open orders so you can plan a delivery run.
• Daily earnings from town orders are capped (per player and per town) to keep the gold supply healthy — the board shows your remaining daily earnings.

🗺️ Regional prices — buy low, haul, sell high

The three towns are separate price regions: the Hub (Rudi), the Wilderness Camp (Mara), and the Slime Grotto (Fen) each run their own ledger on top of the global market:

• What a town consumes (orders + daily appetite) pushes its local price up — lamp oil is worth more in the Grotto, planks in the Hub. Regional prices stay within 0.8×–1.3× of the global price.
• Dumping is local: flooding Rudi with planks floors the Hub's plank price only — Mara at the camp still pays full rate. Hauling goods between towns is now a real profession.
• The 📋 Towns tab shows a price grid for everything in your bag across all three towns, with the best price starred. Player Worlds and everywhere else trade at the plain global price.

🌩️ Economic events & adaptive fees

The world's economy has weather of its own:

• World events fire every few hours and are announced in chat: 🦠 Crop Blight (harvests halved for a day — stockpiles soar), ⛏️ Vein Discovery (one town's region mines bonus ore for 6h), 🐟 Fish Run (bonus catches near one town), and 🌱 Growth Spurt (crops planted grow 30% faster). Active events show live on /stats — log in while they last.
• Rain matters: crops planted in the rain grow faster, and fish bite more (both scale with how hard it's raining).
• Adaptive fees: repair, respec, bait, and exchange-listing fees breathe ±20% with the 7-day mint-pressure gauge (gold minted ÷ burned). When the gold supply inflates, fees firm up; when it shrinks, they ease. The gauge and the current multiplier are public on /stats — you can always see why a fee moved. Rewards are never throttled, only fees flex.

🚚 Caravan runs — freight for hire

Every town board also offers caravan runs: pick up a sealed cargo satchel and walk it to another town for a flat fee, paid on delivery.

• Fees scale with the danger of the route — Hub ↔ Wilderness pays least, Hub ↔ Grotto (through two danger zones) pays most. One cargo at a time, 30-minute delivery window, short cooldown between runs, and a daily freight earnings cap.
• ⚔️ Cargo drops on death in red and black zones — whoever grabs the loot bag inherits the run and the fee. Escort your haulers, or turn bandit and intercept someone else's payday. Safe and yellow zones never drop cargo.
• 📦 Haulers are marked — anyone carrying cargo shows a 📦 badge on their nameplate while in a red or black zone, so couriers can be escorted (or hunted). In safe and yellow zones the badge is hidden — the cargo's only at risk where it can actually drop.
• Employers can pin a supply job to a delivery town on the 🧑‍🌾 Job Board — the worker must hand the goods over in that town, making player-to-player hauling contracts possible (gold escrow as always).

The open Gold Market

Rudi's shop also hosts a player-to-player order book where you trade in-game gold for crypto. Pick your currency — $BASE, USDC, IDRX, or SOL — then post a bid (buy gold) or an offer (sell gold). Trades settle peer-to-peer on-chain directly between the two wallets, verified by the server; a small in-game gold fee applies. Each order shows the currency it's priced in, so check before you buy.

📈 Price chart & recent trades

The market tab shows a live candlestick price chart (tokens per 1 gold) plus the last price and 24h change, so you can spot the going rate before you trade. The chart follows the currency you've selected — switch the currency picker to see each market's own history. Underneath, a Recent transactions ticker lists the latest fills across every currency, each with the gold traded, the amount and currency it settled in, and how long ago it happened.

📣 9b. Ads & Earnings

MetricBase World has a built-in ad marketplace: brands buy ad space in the world, and players share 50% of the revenue just by playing. Open it from ⚙️ → 📣 Ads & Earnings. All money is in $BASE.

💸 Earn as a player

Ads appear on in-world billboards (one in each zone) and a banner above your skill bar. Every minute you can see an ad, you generate an impression — and as a program member you earn 50% of what the advertiser pays for it.

🌍 Earn as a World owner — revenue sharing

Own a Player World? Switch on 📣 Run ads in ⚙️ → 🌍 Worlds and a billboard appears near your spawn. From then on, every impression it generates pays out in full:

• No invites needed for the owner half. The 5-friend requirement is for the viewer program — your World earns because you own the space it stands in. You can claim owner earnings without ever applying.
• Your World must be published — an unpublished World has no visitors, so nothing accrues. You also need a wallet bonded to your character, since the payout is $BASE.
• The busier your World, the more it earns. Every visitor who is in the ad program generates an impression a minute, and you take half of each.
• You can't farm your own billboard. Standing in your own World pays you the owner's half only, never both halves.
• Track it in the Worlds panel (lifetime $BASE + views) and claim it from 📣 Ads & Earnings, same 10,000 $BASE minimum as everyone.

📈 Advertise as a brand

Deposit $BASE, create a campaign, and bid:

• Deposit $BASE (min 100) to fund your ad balance. Paid already but don't see it? Use "Credit a past deposit" with your transaction hash.
• Create a campaign — name, image URL, headline, click URL, and a CPM bid ($BASE per 1,000 impressions). It goes to review.
• Win the best slots — once approved, ads are ranked by CPM. The highest bid takes the highest-traffic slot (the Hub billboard), then the banner, then the Player Worlds slot, then the other zones. Higher bid = more visibility.
• The Player Worlds slot is one buy, many places — its winning creative shows on the billboard in every World that runs ads, so as more owners switch it on, that slot's reach grows without you changing a thing.
• 🏆 Watch the live auction — the Brand Portal shows every bid's rank, CPM, and the slot it currently holds, refreshed every 30 seconds, with your own campaigns highlighted. See exactly what the top slot goes for and outbid it in one edit.

📅 9c. Daily Rewards & Seasons

Open ⚙️ → 📅 Daily & Season for free gold every day:

• 🔥 Login streak — claim a bonus each day you log in. It grows with consecutive days: 100g → 150g → 200g → 300g → 400g → 500g → 1,000g from day 7 on. Miss a day and the streak resets.
• Three daily tasks — rotate at midnight UTC from a pool: gather 🧺, defeat mobs ⚔️, craft 🔨, harvest crops 🌾, sell items 💰, or visit a Player World 🌍 (that one pays a 💎 gem too). Progress counts automatically while you play — just come back and press Claim.

🏆 Seasons & the prize pool

A Season runs for 30 days. Almost everything you do earns Season points, and at the end a fixed, pre-announced $BASE prize pool is split between the players in the race.

• Earning points is free and automatic — gathering 🧺 1, harvesting 🌾 1, selling 💰 1, mobs ⚔️ 2, crafting 🔨 3, jobs 🧑‍🌾 5, visiting a World 🌍 5, daily login 5, PvP wins 🗡️ 10, and referrals 🤝 50. Topping the Richest board pays a daily bonus too.
• Points never mint $BASE. The pool is a fixed amount announced up front — points only decide how that pool is divided, never how much exists.
• Your rank, points and estimated share are all live in the panel, and 📢 Share your Season renders a card you can post.
• 👑 Founders earn multiplied points — ×1.5 / ×2 / ×3 by tier, applied to every source above. It changes how the fixed pool is split, never its size; see 14c. Founders.
• 💰 Your deposit multiplies points too — up to ×2, and it stacks with the Founder tier. See the deposit vault below.

𝕏 Earn with X

Beyond the +50 for connecting, the Earn with 𝕏 list in the same panel carries live tasks — reply to or repost a MetricBase post and claim season points for it.

• Each task gives you a personal code. Include it (plus the task's hashtag) in your post — Post it opens X's composer with both filled in.
• Paste the link back and it verifies in seconds: the post must come from your linked handle and contain your code, so a code can't be shared or reused.
• One claim per task per player. Verification is free — no X subscription needed.

𝕏 Two steps to collect your reward

Season rewards go to players who connect X and share their season. Both steps live in-game under ⚙️ → 📅 Daily & Season:

1. Connect X — free, one tap, and the first connect also pays +50 season points.
2. Post your season and paste the link back. We give you the exact text with your personal code in it. Publish it from your connected account, paste the post's link into the panel, and it verifies in seconds. Keep your code and #MetricBaseWorld in the post — that's how we confirm it's yours.

Your post needs a public account so we can read it back, and one post counts for one player. The supplied wording says you're collecting a Season reward because that's what it is — we'd rather be straight with your followers about it.

🏁 Entering the prize race — the deposit vault

From Season 2 onward, the pool is split between players who enter it. Entry is a 10,000 $BASE deposit into your own vault — you withdraw it yourself once the season ends.

• Playing stays completely free. Without entering you still earn points, still hold your leaderboard rank, and still play every part of the game. Entering only decides who is in the payout split.
• Deposit from ⚙️ → 📅 Daily & Season. You need a connected Solana wallet — the deposit is sent from it and withdrawn back to it.
• Season 1 had no entry and pays out under its original rules.

📈 Deposit more, score more

Your deposit sets a season-point multiplier. Every point you earn is multiplied by it, so a bigger deposit means a bigger slice of the same pool:

• No tiers, no cliff edges. The curve is smooth (it's the square root of your deposit over the entry floor), so every token does something and you're never one token short of a step.
• It caps at 2× (40,000 $BASE). Past that, more deposit buys no extra points and the panel says so rather than quietly taking it — a season shouldn't just go to whoever holds the most $BASE.
• It applies from the moment you deposit, to points earned after it — it does not reach back and re-score the points you already banked. Topping up late boosts the rest of the season, not the whole of it.
• Top up any time; a top-up has no minimum once you're in.

💸 Withdrawing your deposit

• You withdraw it yourself, whenever you like, once the season you deposited in has ended. Nothing is auto-returned — so if you want to keep competing, you simply leave it in and it keeps working next season.
• Take out as much or as little as you want. Withdraw part of it and the rest keeps earning its multiplier.
• A 5% fee is kept by the treasury on whatever you withdraw. Withdraw 10,000 and you receive 9,500.
• Prize winnings are paid in full — the fee is only ever on the deposit you take back out.
• Your deposit is locked while the season it was made in is running. That's the point of it: it's what you're competing with.
• Drop below 10,000 and you leave the prize split (and your multiplier returns to 1×) until you top back up. The panel warns you before a withdrawal does that.

🧑‍🌾 9d. Job Board — hire & be hired

Open ⚙️ → 🧑‍🌾 Job Board to hire other players or work for them. It works in every zone and inside player Worlds.

• 📦 Deliver items — the employer requests a quantity of any stackable material or consumable (wood, ore, fish, potions…). The worker gets the items into their bag and presses Deliver; partial deliveries are fine. The employer collects the delivered items from the panel.
• 🧺 Gather / 🌾 Harvest / ⚔️ Defeat mobs — activity contracts. Progress counts automatically while the worker plays, anywhere in the world, exactly like daily tasks.

How the money moves: the gold reward is taken from the employer and held in escrow the moment the job is posted — a worker can never be stiffed. When the job completes, the reward is paid to the worker automatically (by mail-safe credit if they're offline) and the employer gets a 📬 mail notification. Cancelling an open job refunds the escrow in full.

• Each player can have up to 5 active job postings and work 1 job at a time.
• Rewards range from 10g to 1,000,000g. Abandoning an activity job resets its progress for the next worker; delivered items always stay with the employer.
• All job activity is tracked publicly on the 📊 Economy dashboard.

🏢 9e. Companies & the Stock Exchange

Beyond guilds sits the corporate layer: player-run Companies with a treasury, payroll, and warehouse — and a full Players Stock Exchange where their shares trade for gold. You can be in one guild and one company at the same time.

🏢 Found or join a Company

Open ⚙️ → 🏢 Companies. Founding costs 2,500 gold: pick a name, one of six types — ⛏️ Mining, 🌾 Farming Cooperative, 🎣 Fishing, 💰 Merchant, ⚒️ Blacksmith, or 🚚 Logistics — plus an emblem and colour. A company holds up to 20 members across four ranks (owner → manager → employee → trainee), each with its own permissions for approving joiners, kicking, setting rates and salaries, and touching the treasury or warehouse.

• 💰 Treasury & revenue share — a shared gold pool. The owner can set a revenue share up to 10%: that slice of every member's gold earnings flows into the treasury automatically (it stacks with guild tax).
• 📦 Warehouse — 48 shared item slots. Members contribute goods; authorized ranks can withdraw them or vendor-sell warehouse stock with the proceeds going straight to the treasury.
• 💵 Daily payroll — the owner sets per-member salaries (up to 500g/day) and a member dividend of up to 25% of the treasury per day, split among members. Both pay out daily, even to offline players. Dividends need at least 2 members who've been active in the last 3 days.
• 📜 Company contracts (B2B) — hire another company. An owner or manager posts a supply contract to a different company; the reward (50g – 1,000,000g) is escrowed from your treasury, the hired company fills it from its warehouse, its treasury gets paid, and the delivered goods land in your warehouse. Every gold in and out shows on both companies' financial statements. Up to 5 open at a time.
• 💬 Company chat — a private chat channel alongside guild and party.
• 🏅 Type perks (every member): ⛏️ Mining — +10% bonus ore chance · 🌾 Farming — crops grow 10% faster · 🎣 Fishing — half-price bait · ⚒️ Blacksmith — +15% Fine/Master craft rolls and 20% cheaper repairs · 💰 Merchant — share-trade fees reduced by a third (the burned portion never shrinks) · 🚚 Logistics — caravan runs pay +25% with half the cooldown. Pick your company like you pick your profession.

📈 The Players Stock Exchange

Open ⚙️ → 📈 Stock Exchange. A company owner can list their company for 1,000 gold (burned), issuing shares that anyone can trade.

• Always-on market maker — prices follow a bonding curve: the first share costs 10g and each share issued raises the price by 0.05g. You can buy from or sell back to the market at any time; the gold reserve always covers every outstanding share by construction.
• 3% trade fee on every fill — about two-thirds goes to the company's treasury (owning shares literally funds the business), the rest is burned.
• Limit orders — post buy or sell orders at your own price on a real order book with price-time matching. Buy orders escrow your gold; if your order fills at a better price, the difference is refunded. Up to 10 open orders per trader.
• 📅 Weekly shareholder dividends — each week a share-weighted vote sets what percentage of the company's net profit (default 30%, max 50%) is paid out to shareholders in gold, proportional to holdings. Offline holders are paid too.
• 👔 CEO & control — the largest holder is shown as CEO; a stake above 50% is a controlling stake whose dividend vote decides policy outright. Hostile takeovers by accumulation are entirely legal.
• 🪙 $BASE share blocks — sell blocks of shares peer-to-peer for real $BASE, settled on-chain directly between the two wallets.
• 📊 Trader tools — candlestick charts, day high/low, top gainers and losers, a ⭐ watchlist, a portfolio tab with cost basis and unrealised P/L, and full company financials (income statement, cash flow, balance sheet).

🏠 10. Housing & Shops

Owning land is the big mid-game goal (and the largest gold sink). Plots are available in every outdoor zone.

😴 Rest at home

Your house isn't just for show — it's where you recover. Open your own house (🏠 panel) and hit Rest here to instantly refill your energy and HP. You can rest again every 8 minutes, so a home is a real advantage for long play sessions (you'll still want food on the go).

💡 Building lights

Switch your house or shop's light on from the 🏠 panel. A lit building casts a warm window glow that everyone can see at night — great for finding your place (or your shop) after dark. The light slowly burns the building's energy reserve while it's on; top it up with Lamp Oil, a craftable fuel (2 River Fish + 1 Wood at the workbench — each flask restores 50 energy). When the reserve runs out, the light switches off until you refuel.

Run a player shop

Build a Shop and stock items from your inventory at prices you choose. Anyone can buy from it (by quantity or buy-all). Sales pile up as earnings you collect on your next visit — so you earn even while offline.

🤝 11. Social Play

✨ 11b. VIP Lodge, Arcade & the Black Zone

🏛️ Community Lodge (VIP)

The Community Lodge off the Hub is VIP-only, with three ways in (prompted at the door, saved to your character): hold 10,000,000 $BASE (free while you hold), a Burn pass — 100 gold + burn 10,000 $BASE for 14 days, or a Gold pass — 1,000 gold (no burn) for 14 days. Inside, talk to the arcade host to launch the Base Rush arcade game in a full-screen cabinet.

⚫ The Black Zone (Obsidian Reach)

Reached through the Black Gate in the Slime Grotto. Entry costs a one-time burn of 1,000,000 $BASE — a lifetime unlock tied to your account. It's full-loot and holds the best resources in the game (obsidian gemstone veins, ancient hardwood, dense iron) plus the King Crystal and its weekly siege.

🌍 12. Player Worlds — build your own zone

The end-game flex: found your own World — a persistent, buildable zone that other players can visit, farm, and shop in. You design it, you set the prices, you collect the earnings.

🧱 Assets, the Build Shop & the P2P market

• Grass and bare dirt are free; other ground is cheap; decor is moderate; buildings cost thousands; resource nodes are the priciest (they earn forever).
• Buy assets for gold in the 🛒 Build Shop — they go to your asset inventory, are consumed when placed, and return to inventory when removed.
• Trade assets with other players on the built-in P2P market (list for gold; escrowed until sold or cancelled).
• Saving a build auto-buys anything you placed but don't own, and refunds removals.

🌊 Terrain that plays

• Rivers block walking (they're 2×2 tiles) — lay a Bridge over one to open a crossing. Design chokepoints and routes!
• Soil is a working farm plot: visitors plant seeds and harvest, and each harvest pays you the gather tax.
• Buildings block their footprint (homes 3×3, markets/windmill/bridge 2×2); trees, rocks, and decor stay walkable. Resource nodes you place are really gatherable — wood, ore, and fishing spots all work.
• Mob dens spawn real monsters — place a 🟢 Slime Den (Wild Slime) or a Brute Den (Slime Brute) and visitors can fight them for combat XP and loot (slime gel / cores — no direct gold, so Worlds can't be farmed as a gold faucet). They respawn like any mob and count toward the ⚔️ daily task.
• The Shop building is a working store — walk up + interact to browse Rudi's full general store (same stock, prices, and price pressure as the Hub), so visitors can restock potions and sell their haul without leaving your World.
• Two exit portals stand on the north-west and south-east edges of every World, so visitors always have a way home from either side of your build — plan your paths (and toll roads) around them.

🌾 Crop Markets

Place a Wheat Market or Carrot Market and it becomes a working trade post: visitors walk up + interact to buy that crop's seeds and sell their harvest (wheat: 5g seed / 7g sell · carrot: 9g / 14g). Pair markets with soil fields for a self-contained farming economy that ticks daily quests too.

🗺️ Expansion — burn $BASE to grow

Expanding also raises your build caps proportionally — a maxed World holds 2.25× the props of a fresh one. The resize happens live for everyone standing inside.

📐 Build caps — how much fits in a World

Every World has hard limits per category (they keep builds fair and fast to render). Caps scale with your World's area, so each expansion raises all of them:

• Resource nodes (trees, rocks, fishing spots) are the binding limit for gather-farm Worlds — plan them first. Mob dens, buildings, markets, and decorations all count as props.
• Ground paint (grass, water, soil, paths) has no practical cap — you can paint every tile. Painted soil counts as farm plots for gameplay but not against the farm-plot cap (only placed plot assets do).
• Hitting a cap shows "Too many … (max N)" on save — remove pieces from that category (they return to your asset inventory) or expand your World to raise every cap.

📊 Discovery & analytics

• The Explore tab ranks published Worlds by 🔥 Popular (real visits, deduped per visitor per day) or ✨ New; the most-visited World wears a 👑 Featured badge, and a 🟢 badge shows who's inside right now.
• Owners get a per-World analytics grid: visits, here-now, passes sold, pass gold, tax gold, and lifetime earnings.

📣 Run ads and take a cut

Switch on 📣 Run ads in your World's settings and a billboard goes up near the spawn carrying the ad marketplace's Player Worlds campaign. You take 50% of every impression it generates, paid in $BASE; the visitors who saw it share the other 50%. Nothing is deducted for the platform.

• Your World must be published (visitors are the whole point) and your character needs a bonded wallet to be paid into.
• It's a single toggle — no placement, no bidding, no minimum traffic. Turn it off and the billboard disappears for everyone inside.
• The sign never blocks movement, so switching ads on can't wall off a path you built.
• Lifetime $BASE and views show in the Worlds panel; claim from 📣 Ads & Earnings.

Full detail, including how it interacts with the viewer program: 9b. Ads & Earnings.

🗺️ 13. The World

Travel between zones through glowing portals. Each zone is themed:

🌗 Day & night

The world runs on a live day/night cycle — a full day passes about every 20 minutes. Watch the sky shift through dawn ☀️ day, dusk 🌇, and night 🌙; the HUD clock shows the current in-world time. Everyone shares the same time of day.

🌦️ Weather

The skies are alive too. The world rolls through weather — clear 🌤️, cloudy ☁️, rain 🌧️, fog 🌫️, and the occasional thunderstorm ⛈️ with lightning. Like the time of day, everyone shares the same weather, and the HUD shows the current conditions. (Rain stays outside — step into the Community Lodge to dry off.) Weather isn't just for show: fish bite more in the rain, so grab your rod when the clouds roll in. You'll also hear it — a soft rain bed and rolling thunder in storms (rides the 🎵 music toggle).

🪙 14. $BASE Utility & Transparency

$BASE is the world's fuel. It is never needed to play — entry is free and always stays free. What it buys is optional: capacity, status, convenience, and a place in the Season prize race. Every sink and flow below is publicly auditable:

🔥 Burn sinks

💱 Other $BASE flows

• 🏁 Season deposit vault — 10,000 $BASE to join the prize race, more for up to a 2× point multiplier. You withdraw it yourself after the season, minus a 5% fee to the treasury. Not a burn — see 9c. Daily Rewards & Seasons.
• 🏆 Season prize pool — paid out from the treasury to players, split by Season points. Fixed and pre-funded; points never mint new $BASE.
• Gold Market — trade gold peer-to-peer for $BASE (and other currencies).
• 🎁 Magic Chests — four tiers opened with $BASE, rolling gold, gear, materials and season points (cosmetic skins to come). What you spend goes into the Season reward pool. Full rarity odds are shown before you buy. Once your haul is revealed you can share it on 𝕏 for +10 season points — one bonus per chest, so it rewards each opening rather than repeated tapping.
• Rudi's gold desk — buy gold 1:1 with $BASE inside the 🌍 Worlds panel. A chest averages more gold per $BASE, but the desk gives you the exact amount you ask for — use it whenever you need a specific number and can't risk a roll.
• Ads — brands pay $BASE per impression; 50% goes to viewing players.
• Casino — the Lodge blackjack table plays in $BASE.

🎒 Expanding your bag

Open your Character panel and tap the 🎒+ button next to the bag meter to burn $BASE for more inventory slots (three steps, up to 40 slots).

📊 The transparency dashboard

Everything above is publicly auditable at world.metricbase.org/stats — live players, gold minted vs burned, $BASE burned by sink, player Worlds economy, markets, ads, daily activity charts, and the 👑 Richest Players board: top players by full net worth (gold + items + build assets + Worlds, houses, shops and stock portfolio) with day-over-day change, resetting each 90-day season. There's an 🤝 Invites board too, ranked by friends who actually stayed rather than raw sign-ups, and a 👑 Membership card with the live Founder count. Hit 𝕏 Share the numbers there to post the live stats.

🏛️ 14b. MetricBase DAO

$BASE holders govern the world at world.metricbase.org/dao — a standalone page where the community creates polls and votes with the weight of its holdings. No game account needed: just connect your wallet.

• Token-weighted: your voting power equals your $BASE balance — one wallet, one vote per poll.
• Gasless: voting is off-chain — you sign in with your wallet and the server reads your live on-chain balance. No transaction, no fees.
• Final: your vote's weight is frozen the moment you cast it, and votes can't be changed.
• Polls run 1–14 days with 2–6 options; results show live weighted bars, voter counts, and total $BASE weight.
• 🛡️ Guild delegation: guild members can delegate their voting power to their guild on the /dao page — when the guild leader votes, every delegator's live balance is cast for the same option (no 1M minimum for delegators — pooling small holders is the point). Revoke any time; leaving the guild voids it.

👑 14c. Founders — NFT membership

MetricBase Founders is a 1,000-piece Solana collection (0.1 SOL mint). Holding one marks you as a Founder in-game. Open 👑 Membership from the top bar to see your status, your tier, and the mint link.

🏅 Tiers

Each NFT carries a Tier trait. Your account uses the highest tier you hold, and perks stack up the ladder:

• Season-point multiplier — every point you earn, from any source, is multiplied by your tier. Points decide how the fixed, pre-funded prize pool is divided, so a Founder takes a bigger slice of the same pot. It never mints new $BASE, and it never makes you gather faster or hit harder.
• DAO voting bonus — added to your $BASE voting weight on /dao. It is a boost, never a bypass: you still need the 1,000,000 $BASE minimum in your wallet to vote at all, and even the top bonus sits below that floor.
• Recognition everywhere — your badge shows on your nameplate, in the who's-online list, on your player profile, and on the /stats Richest and Invites boards.

🎭 The Founder wardrobe

Each tier unlocks cosmetic skins — Founder's Regalia (Bronze), Midnight Ember (Gold) and Aurora Weave (Ember) — shown in the Membership panel. Holder skins are their own set: they are never in the chest roll pool, so selling your NFT can only remove holder skins, never a skin you won from a Magic Chest. The art is still in production, so these currently show as unlocked-and- coming rather than wearable.

✈️ The Founders group

Send /founder to @MetricBaseWorldBot on Telegram and the bot checks your holdings and issues a single-use, one-hour invite to the holders-only group. You need to have linked Telegram to your wallet (⚙️ → ✈️ Link Telegram) and to hold a Founder NFT.

🔄 How holding is detected

• Your wallet is checked when you join and again on a periodic sweep — nothing to claim, nothing to sign.
• Before reveal, NFTs have no Tier trait yet: you get the crown and Bronze perks straight away, and are upgraded automatically on the next check once the revealed metadata lands.
• If you sell, the badge, tier perks and holder skins come off at the next check. Everything you earned by playing stays yours.
• Telegram-only accounts can't hold — detection reads a Solana wallet. Link one to become a Founder.

💡 15. Tips for New Players

• Do Aria's starter quests first — they teach the basics and hand you early gold.
• Gather a mix of wood, ore, and fish, then craft a tool early — faster gathering snowballs everything else.
• Plant a crop before you log off; it'll be ready when you return.
• Don't dump 20 of one item on Rudi at once — his prices drop. Spread your sales.
• Save toward a 500-gold land plot; a player shop earns passive income.
• Team up — a party levels faster thanks to shared combat and gather XP.
• Keep some food on hand so a tough fight doesn't end in a knockout.
• Always carry food — it refills your 🍗 energy so you can keep gathering, fighting, and farming. Bread is the cheap staple; cooked fish and salmon give more.
• Claim your 📅 Daily Rewards every day — the login streak alone is up to 1,000g/day, and the "visit a World" task is free money.
• Visit Player Worlds with low gather tax for fresh nodes — and when you're rich, found your own and make the tax work for you.