How to Play MetricBase World

🚀 1. Getting Started

MetricBase World is gated by the $BASE token on Solana to keep the economy healthy.

🎮 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 three 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 Pip 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 Pip, 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.
• 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.

🍗 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 Pip (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, 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

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

Fishing accessories

Craftable gear that boosts fishing while worn (stacks with your rod):

• 📿 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.

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) and press Space to attack. The server handles all damage fairly. Monsters hit back, so watch your HP.

• 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 50. Your gathering skills climb to 50 too.
• Out of combat, your HP slowly regenerates — or eat food to heal fast.

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.

🐎 Mounts

Craft a mount — Sturdy Pony (+25%), Swift Steed (+45%), or Dire Wolf (+70%) — and equip it in the Inventory panel's Mount slot for a permanent movement-speed boost.

🛡️ 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

Pip's Provisions (Hub)

Press E near Pip to buy supplies (potions, seeds, a starter blade) and sell your gathered & crafted materials for gold.

The open Gold Market

Pip'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.

📈 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 other zones. Higher bid = more visibility.

📅 9c. Daily Rewards

Open ⚙️ → 📅 Daily Rewards 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.

🧑‍🌾 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.

🏠 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 Pip'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.

🌾 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.

📊 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.

🗺️ 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 key and its fuel. Beyond the entry gate, it has real sinks and flows you can verify yourself:

🔥 Burn sinks

💱 Other $BASE flows

• Gold Market — trade gold peer-to-peer for $BASE (and other currencies).
• Pip's gold desk — buy gold 1:1 with $BASE inside the 🌍 Worlds panel.
• 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, and daily activity charts. Hit 𝕏 Share the numbers there to post the live stats.

💡 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 Pip 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.