Wiki & Mechanics Guide

The physical seat of power. A designated structure on the map with a 30-meter interaction radius. Players must be within this radius to claim the throne or interact with sovereign functions.

To become King, a player must stand at the Command Center and begin a 90-second claim. During this time, the claim is broadcast to the server — anyone can contest it. If uncontested, the claimant becomes the new King.

After a failed or successful claim, a 5-minute cooldown prevents immediate re-attempts, giving the server time to react.

The King can be forcibly removed through a coup. Coups are triggered at the Command Center and follow the same claim mechanic — but this time against a sitting ruler.

If the King is inactive for 36 hours, they are automatically abdicated, opening the throne to challengers. This prevents stale leadership.

Nobles can censure each other — a formal rebuke that carries political weight. Reward tags from approved proposals are tracked, creating a public record of each Noble’s contributions.

Renown accrues passively through taxable activities — gathering, farming, crafting, looting, recycling, trading, vending, fishing, and excavator use. A percentage of each activity’s value is collected as tax and converted to Renown for both the player and the treasury.

Resource scarcity is dynamically scored based on server-wide availability. Scarce resources are worth more in tax value, creating natural economic incentives. The scarcity heatmap on the Market page shows real-time resource availability.

A portion of all taxes flows into the public treasury, controlled by the King. Treasury funds are used for edicts, projects, and bounties. The treasury balance is visible to all players — fiscal transparency is enforced by design.

Attempts to evade taxes generate heat. Heat accumulates over a 6-tier system, with escalating consequences at each level. The system is designed to discourage evasion while allowing calculated risk.

Players can act as informants, reporting suspected evaders for rewards. The confession mechanic allows evaders to come clean — reducing heat in exchange for back-payment of owed taxes.

Higher ranks unlock political features and provide a tax discount on all transactions:

Default players can hold 1 active contract. Nobles, Beta Testers, and Protectors can hold 2 contracts simultaneously.

The system automatically places bounties on players engaged in anti-social behavior. Auto-bounties are funded by the treasury.

If you accept a bounty contract and fail to complete it, you receive a temporary gathering penalty as consequence. The penalty lasts 8 hours with periodic reminders.

A siege cannot simply be declared — it requires a 60% approval vote from the server. Once triggered, defenses within the Citadel Zone are temporarily normalized for a 2-hour siege window. During this time, attackers can attempt to breach the Citadel and claim the throne.

This system ensures that leadership change is a community event, not a solitary raid.

Each project tier is progressively more expensive and provides proportionally stronger effects. Active projects also have maintenance costs — ongoing treasury drain that must be sustained. If the treasury runs dry, projects deactivate.

The King must balance funding new projects against maintaining existing ones, creating meaningful fiscal decisions.

There are 6 buff categories the King can invest in. Each has 3 tiers of increasing cost and power.

Every active buff tier drains 50 scrap per hour from the treasury. A King running Recycler T3 + Gathering T2 would pay 250 scrap/hour (5 tiers total). If the treasury runs dry, all buffs suspend until funded again.

Cumulative treasury spending unlocks permanent server-wide bonuses that stack on top of active project buffs:

Lot owners can lease their land to tenants. Rent is paid in Renown with a minimum of 50 Renown/day. Tenants have a 48-hour grace period to pay before automatic eviction.

Each lot can have a virtual vault for secure storage. Vaults upgrade through 4 levels with increasing capacity:

Lot owners can open player-run shops with item listings and bundled kits. Shop sales have a 5% tax. Each shop supports up to 50 listings and 20 kits.

Tickets cost 25 scrap each (max 5 per player). A draw happens every 60 minutes if at least 3 players have tickets. Winners collect the entire pot minus the 15% house edge. Offline winners receive their payout on next login.

House edge is split: 50% to treasury, 50% removed as sink. Players earn 1 Renown per "big win" (3×+ payout), capped at 3 Renown/day from gambling.

Missions track a wide range of in-game actions: resource gathering, building, combat kills, monument captures, bounty completions, vote rewards, account linking, playtime milestones, tax reports, and more. Some objectives are shared across your team.

Missions link into chains — completing one unlocks the next. Some missions require flags from earlier completions as prerequisites. The starter chain guides players from arrival through citizenship and into combat, bounty hunting, and civic engagement.

Every PvP kill is logged with context: weapon type, distance, headshot status, and situational tags. The system detects patterns like roof camping and door camping using configurable heuristics.

Base raids are tracked from first explosive impact through completion. The system measures total sulfur equivalent spent, tracks attackers and defenders, and classifies raid outcomes.

Each explosive has a sulfur equivalent cost tracked by the system to assess raid investment:

Completed raids are classified as success, failure, or partial based on loot analysis. Offline raids (owner disconnected) are flagged separately and can trigger auto-bounties on the attackers.

Stand within 5m of a downed player and use /labor capture or apply handcuffs. Choose a resource type and amount. The prisoner then gathers that resource to pay off their debt, tracked automatically.

The maximum debt amount varies by resource rarity:

Unpaid debts accrue interest over time, growing the balance. Prisoners have a 48-hour grace period before their debt defaults. Defaulting results in a Debtor shame tag and a Social Rank penalty.

Teammates can pay on a prisoner’s behalf using /labor buyout <name>. Payment uses whatever matching resources the ally has in inventory. Team members are notified when a teammate is captured.

The Overseer and King can intervene in debt disputes:

Resources paid by prisoners collect in a private vault for the captor. Use /labor vault to view and /labor collect to withdraw. Vaults persist across logins.

Control what effects you see with /os vfx [mode]:

Cosmetic effects are purchased with Renown and persist across logins. Equip with /os vfx equip <name>.

Effects fire automatically for key events: rank promotions, bounty claims, mission completions, election results, and donation milestones. These use 6 tone categories (ambient, solemn, triumph, tension, civic, festive) with built-in rate limiting to prevent spam.

To prevent visual clutter: max 3 attachments per player, max 2 looping effects, and area density limits ensure effects stay immersive. Cosmetics pause automatically during server strain.

Each wipe cycle is recorded as an era. Your actions during an era — how long you ruled, what you built, who you defeated — are preserved in your dynasty record.

There are 20 title types that can be earned through various accomplishments. These titles display on your profile and carry prestige across wipes, creating a long-term metagame beyond any single server cycle.

Threat points are earned through combat actions. Kills, raids, monument captures, and headshots all generate threat. Being tagged as a camper generates significant additional threat. Points decay over time, so threat naturally drops if you stop fighting.

The server’s overall state is determined by aggregate raid activity across all players:

Server state is calculated from aggregate player threat. Hotspot detection identifies areas with concentrated combat activity, displayed on the live map.

Maintaining a daily vote streak increases your rewards with scaling bonuses. Hitting milestones (specific streak counts) unlocks additional one-time rewards. Dynamic daily goals — community-wide vote targets — provide bonus rewards when the server collectively meets them.

Team names must be unique (case-insensitive). Each team receives a permanent 12-character GUID that persists indefinitely. Disbanded teams are retained for 90 days before automatic purge.

If the leader leaves and no members remain, the team is automatically disbanded. Complete roster history is tracked — join dates, leave dates, and leave reasons.

Stats are aggregated from CombatTracker, RaidTracker, and MonumentTracker. Use /team stats or /team top to view the leaderboard of top 10 teams this wipe.

There are 20 permanent badges that persist across wipes — once earned, they’re on your profile forever. Achievements are organized into categories:

Profiles power 12 leaderboard categories, each ranking the top 25 players:

Mandates are performance-tracked obligations assigned to the King. They set measurable goals with accountability reporting visible to all players. The King’s authority depends on meeting these benchmarks.

Codes use a 32-character set (A–Z excluding I/O/S, digits 2–9) to avoid ambiguous characters. One code per player at a time.

Alternatively, authenticate via Steam OpenID on the website. If your Steam account matches a game server player, the link is created automatically — no code needed.

Messages are queued (up to 100) and flushed every 2 seconds for efficiency. Failed sends are retried up to 3 times over 30-second intervals.

Role tags are appended for political ranks: King (red), Noble (gold), Protector (blue). All formatting goes through OverseerChat.

Nine plugins automatically forward gameplay events to the chat bridge:

A composite 0–100 score combining population and retention metrics, recalculated every 15 minutes. Server health determines vote goals, event thresholds, and trend classifications.

Player retention is measured from wipe day (day 0 cohort). The system checks how many wipe-day players return at specific milestones: