How To Play

New here? Start with the shareable New Player Welcome— character creation, Classes, kits, the permadeath oath, and first-hour tutorial quests. Below are the controls, the basics, and how world access works. When you're ready to go deeper on a system, jump to its guide: Traits, Leveling & XP, The World & Exploration, Inventory, Gear & Crafting, Combat & Sparring, Magic & Spells, Holy Roller Casino, Experia TCG, Chat, Friends & Quests, and Wallets, Claiming & the Marketplace. The full key list lives on Keybindings.

Move — Arrow keys or numpad 1–9. Hold to keep walking.
Hotbar — Number keys 1–0 (top row). Pick a slot, then Use / Drop / Equip (logged in).
Look around — Shift + arrows, or the move-camera button (🕹️). Pan the camera without walking. Tap move-camera off to snap back to you.
Engage — A or Numpad 0. Tap to interact; hold on grass to mine dirt; hold Engage + a direction into a fir tree to chop it.
Melee Attack — S or Numpad .. Use your ACTIVE melee action (⚔️ button to pick) on a target within two tiles.
Ranged Attack — D or Numpad Enter. Fire your ACTIVE ranged action (🏹 button to pick) the way you're facing.
Cycle hunt target — Tab. Lock the biggest threat nearby and start hunting; press again to hop targets. Hunt shoots at range and swaps to melee up close.
Trait Builds — W. Open the 🧬 Build picker — hot-swap between your three saved trait builds.
Wave — Numpad +. Friendly emote — everyone nearby sees you wave.
Flip the bird — Numpad −. Cheeky emote — a soft “up yours” to the room.
Recenter camera — Numpad 5. Snap the view back to your character.
Zoom — Z. Cycle camera Near / Mid / Far.
Move camera — C. Toggle free-camera pan mode (or tap the move-camera button).
Inventory tray — I (phone). Pop the backpack hotbar over the world.
Keybindings — K. Open the keyboard cheat sheet.
Sidebar — M. Toggle the Pup-Boy sidebar / menu hub.

Explore — Walk around The World and say hi in chat.
Greet frens — Click a fren to walk over and wave.
Interact— Shift+click (or long-press) a character’s body — yours included — for actions like Wave, Trade, and Invite to Party.
Inspect a tile — Shift+click any tile for its coordinates, mining loot, and traits.
Mine grass — Stand on grass and hold Engage to pack it into dirt — you might find sticks!
Treasure — Open the treasure chest when you find it.
Save progress — Log in with X to keep your character and earn XP.

Starter clearing — Everyone can wander the spawn 128×128 clearing (four chunks). Ghosts (no X login) can look but not interact.
Leave the clearing — Hold at least 1 $XAnimals (read-only wallet check) in either wallet slot — 1 $XAnimals in your mainnet wallet or 1 test $XAnimals in your Devnet wallet — or log in as an approved #animaltwt animal from animaltwt.com. Animals play free across the full world when signed in as that account. 💚
Claim items — Burn $XAnimals to web3-claim a hotbar stack (permanent). Claimed items can be traded on the Marketplace or gifted wallet-to-wallet.

Solana Devnet only — The web3 economy (claim, Marketplace, inscribe) runs on Solana Devnet during beta — not Solana Testnet and not mainnet. Tokens here are test $XAnimals with no real-world value — nothing you do spends real money.
Set up a Devnet wallet — In Phantom, turn on Testnet Mode, then choose Solana Devnet (do not choose Solana Testnet). In Solflare, choose Devnet. Grab free Devnet SOL for gas, then get test $XAnimals to claim and trade.
Two wallet steps — Linking a wallet asks for a quick, free message signature (not a transaction) so we know the wallet is yours — then we read your balance for world access. Claiming or trading on the Marketplace needs a separate, live transaction-signing session on Solana Devnet.

Link a wallet (free ownership signature) and holding more than 1% of $XAnimals supply puts you in Whale Club. Perks are exclusive maps, cosmetics, and events only — no XP tricks or daily coin stipends.

Tier	% of $XAnimals	Benefits
Orca	>1%	Whale Club — exclusive maps, cosmetics & events details
Humpback	>2%	Whale Club — deeper exclusives + Humpback flex details
Blue Whale	>3%	Whale Club — top flex + Blue Whale sanctum details

Hunt (Tab) — lock a target and auto-attack at range or melee. Details: Combat.
Magic — burn your starter Scroll of Fireball, then assign spells from Character Sheet → Spells. Magic 10+ to cast. Magic & Spells.
Parties — invite frens, share chat, delve the Temple together. Social.
Temple of Raj — dungeon portal in the Brothel (level 2+). World.
Casino & TCG — Holy Roller tables and Experia card duels. Casino · TCG.
Builds — three hot-swap trait builds (🧬 / W); Redeem XP to level (cap 69). Traits.

Welcome packet & intro cutscene — start in your own home with a starter kit and a short skippable story beat (coming).
Scroll Cases & more spells— multi-scroll containers and the “still in the oven” catalog going live one by one.
Hunger & seasons — eating starts to matter, and live events roll through the world.
Player safety tools — report, mute, and ban as the world fills up.
Guilds & LFG — bigger crews and matchmaking for delves.

animaltwt — The X hashtag that inspired this game.
XAnimals — The Solana token we use to power this game. CA: FJtB7uHWLDJA92vv2zdTyGRzMDQ227vivWhEjaeEpump
Visitor / ghost — Playing without logging in — starter clearing only.
Player — Someone logged in with X; progress saves.
Character — The animal (or human) you control.
NPC — A computer-controlled character in the world.