The six worlds

/travel opens a menu of every world with its rules in plain words. Public routes cost a passage fee; /spawn and your own homes are free. Every trip has a 5-second warm-up that taking damage or leaving the chunk cancels.

• DelphiSafeSpawn and the tutorial. No PvP, no building, no claims.
• AgoraSafeThe second safe city. No PvP, no building, no claims.
• GaiaSettleThe persistent world, and the only one where land can be claimed. PvP is on outside protected land.
• The WildsResourceA gathering world. PvP on, no claims.
• TartarusRiskThe Nether world. PvP on, no claims.
• AetherRiskThe End world. PvP on, no claims.

Drachma and Ambrosia

Drachma (DR) is the currency of Kosmos. You earn it by selling to the profession markets and from quests, contracts, bosses and daily rewards, and you spend it on land upkeep, travel, the forge, bounties and siege bonds. Send it to another player with /plutus pay; see your balance with /wallet.

Ambrosia is exchanged from Drachma, one way, in whole batches.

Ambrosia (AMB) comes only from /plutus exchange. It never turns back into Drachma and can't be transferred between players. Every coin of both currencies is written to one ledger, which is reconciled every day.

• Starter grant5,000 DR, once, after your first 30 minutes of active play.
• Welcome giftA stone pickaxe and 16 torches.
• Daily bonus250 DR and 4 bread, from /rewards.
• Weekly bonus1,500 DR, from /rewards.

Professions

Choose a profession in /journey. Professions run from level 1 to 50, with a milestone every ten levels. You start with one slot, get a second at Hoplite and a third at Paragon, and can switch with a respec.

• MiningOurea · /oureaOnly natural ore pays; blocks that players placed earn nothing. Gemstones with quality grades, a codex, a skill tree and a gem market.
• FishingNereus · /nereus140 species in six tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, Platinum and Mythical. Each fish has its own size, weight and quality. A fish bag, treasures, records, a codex, a skill tree, a fish market and tournaments.
• FarmingDemeter · /demeterCustom crops, soil quality and quality tiers on the harvest. A codex, a skill tree and a produce market.

Quests and contracts

/quests opens your journal. Rewards are paid once, in Favor and Drachma.

• First stepsStoryLearn the lay of the land.
• To the AgoraStoryPay for passage to the Agora.
• First tradeStoryBuy something from another player's store.
• Daily minerContractMine 7 natural ore blocks today.
• Daily fisherContractCatch 12 fish today.
• Daily farmerContractHarvest 12 ripe crops today.
• Daily traderContractComplete a sale or a purchase today.

The forge

/forge adds augments to tools and armour, and repairs and salvages gear. Every fee is paid in Drachma. Augments work against the world and its monsters, and none of them gives an advantage over other players.

Land and the Polis

Claim land in Gaia, chunk by chunk. /land opens a menu; /homestead and /polis do the same by command.

• HomesteadYour own protected land. Trust builders you choose. A Homestead is never besieged.
• PolisA city-state with a roster and roles, a shared treasury and upkeep. Members can invite, deposit and withdraw. A Polis needs a War Chest to hold more than 8 chunks.

Sieges

A Polis can only be attacked in a declared siege. /siege lists wars, windows and War Chests.

• Declaration24 hours' notice and a 75,000 DR bond held in escrow. Part of the defender's treasury and stockpile is staked in escrow too.
• WindowsBattles only happen inside the defender's published weekly windows.
• FightersUp to 8 enlisted fighters a side, allies included, and at least 3 online on each side to start. Fighters need 10 hours of active play, 3 of them in the last 14 days.
• Battle45 minutes. The attacker wins by holding the War Chest for 90 seconds with no defender nearby, and may break a limited number of blocks to get there.
• AfterwardsStakes settle exactly once, broken blocks are restored, and the defender gets a 72-hour shield.

Bounties

/bounty opens the board. The Drachma you put up is held in escrow and paid once, to the hunter who lands a verified PvP kill on the target. A 10% fee is burned when a bounty is claimed, and cancelled or expired bounties are refunded in full. Players in their first 48 hours can't be targeted, and kills from the same network go to staff review.

Bosses

Bosses rise at altars. Every ability is telegraphed for at least a second, on screen and by sound, on Java and Bedrock. Rewards are shared by contribution. /bosses lists them.

• AsterionThe Labyrinth MinotaurAltars in the Wilds, Tartarus and Aether. Drops Minotaur Horn Shards and Labyrinth Hide.
• MedusaThe GorgonAltars in Tartarus and Aether. Drops Gorgon Scales and, sometimes, a Petrified Eye.

Seasons

Four seasons of seven days each, with a climate for every world. /horae shows the season, the calendar and the forecast, and can put a season display on your screen.

Everyday life

• Homes/sethome · /homeHome waypoints come with rank: the first at Acolyte, six at Olympian.
• Graves/charonWhen you die, your items wait in a grave. Only you can open it for 30 minutes; after that, anyone can. You can have up to three graves at once.
• Vaults/pandora vault54-slot personal vaults. You get more as you rank up.
• Chat/ch · /msgGlobal, local and Polis channels, private messages, /ignore, @mentions with a sound, and [item] to show the item in your hand.
• Voice/voiceProximity voice through the Simple Voice Chat mod on Java, out to 48 blocks, with voice blocks and Polis groups. Bedrock players use text chat.
• Stats/statsYour stats, achievements and top-10 leaderboards, with past winners kept in a legacy hall.
• Comforts/hecateAFK status, sit anywhere, and mail to players who are offline.

Fair play

Accounts are protected by a password login; premium Java accounts are verified with Mojang and Bedrock players sign in automatically. Anti-cheat checks movement and combat on both editions. Anti-xray runs in Gaia, the Wilds and Tartarus, and players behind walls stay hidden from cheat clients. Every block and container action is logged, and every sanction can be appealed with /appeal.

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