Onchain Gameplay: progress and rules

This page tracks onchain gameplay as it is built: where each part stands today, and the rules that are already fixed for launch. The Onchain Gameplay overview explains what the update adds; this page is the checklist behind it.

Onchain gameplay is in development on devnet; dates will be announced. Pixel Kingdom Wars runs on Solana devnet: devnet tokens, SOL and items have no monetary value, and nothing on this page is a promise of income.

How it is being built#

• Every part ships switched off. Each piece is built and tested on its own and stays off in the live game until it is ready.
• "In testing" is not "live". A part that works in testing is not deployed: no KEEP mining pool is funded and nothing on this page is in the game yet, except the rows marked LIVE.
• KEEP mining gets a practice period. Before real claims open, daily results are worked out, checked and compared without being paid. See KEEP mining: how it works.
• Dates will be announced. This page describes progress in words; it never promises a date.
• Stages, in order: Designed → In development → Built → In testing → LIVE.

Where each part stands#

• LIVE — in the game now.
• COMING — part of this update.
• PLANNED — designed, and follows after it.

The rules fixed for launch#

These rules and numbers are locked for launch. Everything else — costs, timers, batch sizes, odds and the mining score's weights — is still being tuned, so these pages describe it in words.

Currencies#

Bases#

KEEP mining#

Taxes#

• Once, on new production only. Tax is taken when something is newly gathered or mined, and never again on claims, transfers, purchases, spending, refining, tax receipts or escrow returns, and never retroactively.
• Tax-free: campaign rewards, quest rewards (including the daily quest bonus), mail rewards and Gems. How a few other rewards are treated will be announced.
• A KEEP market sale pays the seller 90% and burns 10%.
• Realm permit SOL is split half to the spot that sold the permit and half to the team; it never goes into the island pool.

Islands and permits#

Crafting and vehicles#

Fair-play rules#

• Play counts, parking doesn't. No contribution means no KEEP mining share, and a maxed base nobody plays receives nothing. Farming resources alone never qualifies.
• Every paying day needs that day's play. A score kept between visits never pays a day you didn't play and commit ingots.
• Useful actions are narrow. Spending Gems you converted from KEEP on in-game sinks can count, at most once a day. Converting KEEP, holding Gems, turning Gems into SHARDS, and Gems from the store or tasks never count.
• Loops never count. Trades, sending things to yourself and claiming over and over add nothing: the score counts actions, not amounts.
• Boosts are per base and never multiplied. One Seeker credential is planned to boost one wallet at a time.
• A Land Deed counts only if it was yours for the whole day, and activity always stays credited to the player who did it.
• Wallets with both kinds of base. Whether a wallet that holds a Land Deed can also draw from the smaller pool through its bases without a Land Deed is still being decided.
• Nothing you own grants records. Items, NFTs, ingots, trading and the Clan Charter never grant or multiply EXP or Renown, and a buyer never receives a seller's.
• Seeker Island shares are equal. The island pool is split equally among the spots that won the term.

What a raid can and cannot take#

Raids are instant, as today: nothing in this update adds travel or marching time to an attack.

• Can take: SHARDS, as today, and — only when the raid destroys your Keep — 1% of each raw realm resource stored there.
• Can never take: refined materials, kits, Crystal Fragments, Forge Ingots (being cast, waiting or committed), anything already put into a refining job, backpack items, Gems, KEEP or any NFT.
• Berths can be damaged in a raid, but the vehicle on one is never destroyed.

The full list, item by item: Items and inventory.

What can be traded, and what never can#

• The KEEP market (planned) trades realm resources, kits, Crystal Fragments, Forge Ingots and tradeable items for KEEP, for Land Deed holders only. See Market and trading.
• In SOL, on NFT marketplaces: Land Deeds and unused vehicle NFTs, each with a 5% creator royalty. Today's SOL item market keeps running.
• Never traded: Gems, items bought with Gems, Renown, EXP, installed vehicles, realm permits and special-site rights.

Still being tuned#

These are designed but not fixed yet, so the docs describe them in words only:

• the weights inside the KEEP mining score, how quickly a score fades after 48 hours, and the mining floor;
• how long the safety delay before claims is;
• how a Land Deed base's mining capacity grows, and the Workshop's caps, batch sizes and timings;
• what unlocks the second base without a Land Deed;
• how much Renown and EXP a day adds;
• whether a wallet with a Land Deed can also use the smaller pool;
• what a base without a Land Deed needs to take part in KEEP mining;
• whether the Gold Forge still drops items after the switch;
• how a few other rewards are taxed.

What will not change#

• Raids are instant.
• KEEP is never lootable.
• The team takes 0% of the new taxes.
• Converting KEEP to Gems is one way.
• Devnet tokens and items have no monetary value.

See also#

• Onchain Gameplay — the overview of the update.
• KEEP mining — the player guide.
• KEEP mining: how it works — the technical deep dive.
• Renown and EXP — the two new player records.
• What changes for players — your balances at the update.
• Items and inventory — storage, raids and trading, item by item.