HOW TO PLAY

Fish and cook

Fish any of the six water realms, then cook at the Cookstone for XP and food that heals. See the Fishing chapter for the rod, the rare mounts and the 137 creatures that only live in water.

Bank storage

Six pages of 48 slots keep your loot safe. Unlock more with gold.

Forge

Bring metal to the Plaza forge for level two tools: axe, pickaxe, rod and sword. It is the only working smithy in the game.

1. Get the rod

The fisherman at The Lake hands you the basic rod for free. Stand next to him to take it. Owning it is not enough: the rod has to be equipped, or every cast is refused.

2. Cast and hook

Click water within 5 tiles of you to cast. Wait for the bite, then click the same tile again to hook. Two clicks, not one.

3. Wait your turn

About 23 seconds between catches, per realm. There is no bait, the rod never wears out, and there is no daily cap.

The forged rod is the one that catches creatures

With the basic rod you will never hook a creature. With the forged rod equipped, every hook has a 5% chance of pulling a creature instead of a fish.

Forge it at the Plaza forge: your basic rod plus 500 metal, 1,000 wood, 400 coal and 3 Alpha Essence. The basic rod is consumed, so the Alpha Essence is the real gate: it only drops from Alpha beasts.

Hooked a creature? Now hold the line

A tension fight starts, and it is timed by rarity: 6s Common, 8s Uncommon, 11s Rare, 14s Legendary. The safe band on the bar gets narrower the rarer it is, and the line snaps after 1.4s outside the band, counted across the whole fight.

Hold on to the end and the capture is guaranteed, with a normal shiny roll. Snap the line and it swims away.

Speed you feel

Rides run from 1.14x to 1.66x your walking speed. Across a 62 by 62 map that gap is the difference between a hike and a hop.

Only four have a price

The stable sells exactly four, from 460 to 760 gold. Every other mount in the game has no price tag at all, because gold was never the way in.

The rest are earned

A handful unlock from progress. All the others are event rides: streaming, recruiting, and whatever a season hands out. When an event closes, its mounts stop entering the world.

Sixty-four slots

Your mount bag holds 64, so collecting them is a real goal and not just a side effect. Press H to open it and swap rides.

Marketplace

Buy and Sell commodities, creatures, scarce mounts and cosmetics.

The caravan

The merchant does not buy things one by one. He pays 10 gold per completed delivery: 150 wood, 100 stone, 50 coal and a fourth slot that rotates daily. The world pays out 10,000 gold a day this way, and no single player can take more than 500 of it.

Three roles

Owner, manager and member. Managers invite, approve requests and remove people. Only the owner can disband the guild or hand it to someone else.

A roster that grows

Every guild starts small and widens with gold. Members donate to the guild bank, and the bank pays for the next expansion.

Private channel

Guild chat is its own room, separate from world chat, with reactions and a message of the day the owner writes.

Guild board

Guilds rank against each other on a board of their own, and you pick the style your tag wears next to every member name.

Four plots

Every player works up to four plots at a time. Plant, go do a lap of the map, come back to a berry.

Seven kinds

Seven berries grow, from Oran to Enigma. A one-time starter claim gets your first seeds into the ground for free.

Seeds come back

Roughly a third of harvests hand the seed back, so a patch pays for itself. Chopping and mining drop seeds now and then too.

The Cookstone

Raw fish and meat go on the fire. Cooked food heals far more than raw, and cooking is a skill that levels like any other.

Six daily quests

Chop wood, mine rock, fish, cook, capture a creature and win in the arena. Each pays its XP straight into the matching skill.

Three sizes

Targets arrive in three bands, paying 1,000, 1,750 and 2,500 XP. The larger the ask, the larger the payout.

The wheel

One free spin every time its timer runs out. Wood, stone, balls and better sit on the wheel.

Bring a friend

Claim a code of three to twelve characters. An invite only counts once your recruit reaches level 5 and has played 45 minutes, so nobody farms it with empty accounts.

First to three

Three goals wins. If nobody gets there in five minutes the match ends on the clock, and up to twelve open matches show in the list at once.

Charge the shot

Hold the kick to load it and release to fire. Roughly eight tenths of a second gets you a full power strike, and the bar tells you where you are.

Carrying slows you

The ball itself is faster than any player, and holding it costs you speed, so nobody dribbles the length of the field. Pass it or lose it.

Tackling costs

A sliding tackle steals the ball, but you lie there recovering for a full second afterward. Miss it and the counterattack is already gone.

A telegraphed slam

The Titan winds up for about a second and a half before it slams. Every death to that attack is a death you could have walked out of.

Phases and cubs

Each phase brings two cubs with it, and the tougher the Alpha the more they take: three hits at the bottom, five at the top. Somebody has to handle them while the rest keep hitting the boss.

A queue, not a lobby

The den holds a fixed number of raiders, and there is a level gate. When a slot opens you get fifteen seconds to take it before it passes on.

Alphas first

Alpha beasts in the wild zones and the Primordial Vale are the training ground. Learn to read a wind-up on them before you ever read one on the Titan.

Friends

Add someone by name and they decide. Requests can be canceled before an answer and declined after, so nobody lands on your list uninvited.

Direct messages

Private threads hold 240 characters a message and keep the last thirty days. React to a line without answering it.

Block, both ways

Block up to 500 people. A block runs in both directions at once: neither of you reaches the other in chat, no friend request lands, and the profile card stops opening.

Report a person

Reports do not go into a void. They land in a moderation queue a human reads, and the same tools can mute or remove an account.

Shiny hunting: the odds are per species

Shiny runs from about one in five hundred on the rarest species to one in fifty on the most common, and the Nokedex prints the exact number on every species sheet.

When the roll happens

Throw a ball and the shiny was already decided when the creature spawned. Hook one with the forged rod and it is decided only when you win the tension fight.

Alphas are the exception

Beat an Alpha and the rare creature it drops is always shiny. It is the only path where the roll is not a roll.

Quality is a grade

Every capture is scored 0 to 100 from its stats and rarity. Shiny adds 10. Being the very first of its species ever minted adds 8, and the next nine add 5.

Six you play for

Founder closes on September 1, 2026 and is granted the moment you join, so it is the only badge here with a deadline. Then Level 20, Level 30, Titan Slayer, a seven-day quest streak, and Guild Founder.

Titan Slayer is shared

You do not need the final blow. Everyone who damaged the Titan enough to earn loot gets the badge, so joining a raid late still counts.

Eight rungs for recruiting

A separate ladder pays out as your validated invites climb, and the top rungs are worn by almost nobody. Invites only validate at level 5 and 45 minutes played.

Two you cannot farm

Bug Finder and Club Member have no automatic trigger at all. They are handed out, which is the entire point of them.

Eleven mounts, nine tiers

Hours streamed unlock them at 1, 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, 100, 200 and 500 hours. The 24 and 48 hour tiers hand out two mounts each.

The 500 hour mount

Capricorn sits alone at the top of the ladder. Nothing else in the game asks for that much of anything.

A human checks

There is no hour counter running in game. You apply from the streamer panel with your channel link, and a person verifies the hours and hands the mount over.

Never sold, still tradable

No shop lists them and they have no gold price. That does not make them unreachable: another player who earned one can still put it on the marketplace.

Five, and no sixth

Fire, Water, Nature, Thunder and Celestial. One egg per element, and that is the entire catalog. Nothing else is coming to fill it out.

One swing in five hundred

Eggs fall while you chop and mine, and nowhere else. No shop sells one, no quest pays one, no chest holds one. There is exactly one door and it opens about twice in a thousand hits.

Nobody has opened one

The hatchery is a later milestone. Until it opens, every egg in the world is sealed, and whatever is asleep inside is on no Nokedex page you can read today.

So they trade on faith

Eggs stack, drop and trade like any commodity, and the price is whatever the room believes is in there. That is not an oversight. Scarcity first, answers later.

Every single invite

Each validated invite lands five Basic Balls, two Precision Balls and one Master Ball, plus a seed. No gold, on purpose: gold you can grind, and Master Balls you cannot.

It has to be a real player

An invite only counts once your recruit reaches level 5, catches something, and has 45 minutes of real play behind them. Making a wallet is free. Playing three quarters of an hour is not.

Twenty-five mounts, forever

Every validated invite rolls a one in a hundred raffle for a recruiter mount. Five recruiter mounts exist, five copies each: twenty-five in the whole history of the game, and no shop will ever list one.

The ladder keeps paying

Packages and badges land at 3, 5, 10 and on up to 200, and the fifteenth invite pays an egg. At ten invites, your share of the marketplace fee doubles. It comes out of what your recruits pay, not out of your pocket.

Nothing starts alone

Challenge a player directly or leave an open invite. Until the other side accepts, there is no duel, and either of you can walk away without losing anything.

Ten to ten thousand

A duel can run for experience or for gold, and the prize goes from 10 up to 10,000. Both sides put up the same, and the winner takes it.

The board remembers

Results feed an arena leaderboard everyone can read. It is the only PvP in the game that ranks you, so The Wild is where you fight for loot and the Arena is where you fight for a name.

It pays twice

Winning in the arena is one of the six daily quests, so even a small pot comes with quest XP behind it. On a slow day it is the cheapest quest on the list.

Health is a slow burn

The health bottle does not slam your bar back. It heals in five ticks across ten seconds, twenty a tick, so drinking it mid fight only pays if you survive the next ten seconds.

Shield and Strength

The other two drinkables buy you a window rather than a number: one soaks damage, the other adds it. Both come from the alchemist for gold.

Poison is not a drink

It sits with the other three on the shelf and it is the one you never swallow. The game will not let you, which is the kindest thing it does all day.

Loot waits for you

What drops is yours alone for fifteen seconds before anyone else can touch it, then sits on the ground for a while longer. Walk within a couple of tiles to take it.

The shop list is empty

Every cosmetic in the game arrives as a drop. There is no cosmetic store, no season pass and no bundle, and the clothing shop sells exactly zero of them. That is not a policy we wrote down, it is the roster.

The odds are printed

Four in a thousand hits on a tree, rock or coal node. Six in a thousand fish. Two in a hundred forge crafts. We publish the numbers because a drop rate nobody can check is just a sentence.

Seven loops, seven pools

Chopping holds 82 pieces, catching 81, fishing 69, Alpha kills 68, coal 63, rock 48 and the forge 12. Whatever loop you actually enjoy is dropping something no shop will ever sell you.

Scarcity, piece by piece

48,506 pieces will only ever exist across all 423, but the caps run from 250 down to a single copy. Seven are mythic and two are genesis. The rarest cosmetic in the game will have exactly one owner.