THE RUNARIA PAPERS

Everything below — every rate, price and probability — is pulled from the same configuration the game runs on. The docs cannot drift from the code.

OVERVIEW

Runaria is a browser skilling MMO on Solana. You play a townsfolk of the vale: chop, mine, fish, forage, farm, ranch, cook and fight across five hand-built zones, levelling eight skills toward 99. Everything you gather sells for gold — and gold, together with the rune shards that shake loose from your work, converts into $RUNE, the game's on-chain token.


Skills	8 · level cap 99
Zones	5 (1 deadly)
Gathering nodes	17
Items	37
Quests	10
Recipes	5
Crops	6
Foes	5

THE LOOP

Every session is the same honest cycle:

STEP	WHAT HAPPENS	WHERE
1 · Work	Press E on nodes, plots, pens and foes. Loot fills your 24-slot satchel; XP accrues per action.	All five zones
2 · Bank or risk	Banked goods are safe forever. Carried goods drop where you die in the Scorch.	The Vault, the Hearth
3 · Sell	Every item has a fixed gold price. Cooked food and quest hand-ins pay a premium.	Market Row, quest board
4 · Forge	Rune shards (9% per gather, 25% per kill) forge 10→1 rune = 25 $RUNE. Gold trades at 100:1.	The Rune Altar
5 · Queue payout	Claimable balance queues to your connected Phantom wallet, settled on-chain at launch.	The Rune Altar

EARNING ALGORITHM

Three formulas govern everything.

1 · Experience. XP to advance from a level grows geometrically:

xp_to_advance(level) = ⌊60 × 1.35^(level−1)⌋

LEVEL	XP TO REACH	ROUGH GRIND
2	60	minutes
3	141	minutes
5	397	minutes
10	2,379	an evening
15	11,272	weeks
20	51,157	weeks
30	1,032,012	a legend
40	20,753,731	a legend
50	417,289,693	a legend
75	756,453,217,666	a legend
99	1,015,763,302,407,320	a legend

2 · Shards. Every successful action rolls once. There is no pity timer and no daily cap — the roll is flat:

P(shard | gather) = 0.09 · P(shard | kill) = 0.25
rune = 10 shards · 1 rune = 25 $RUNE

3 · Expected $RUNE per hour. For any node, your hourly rate is cycles per hour times the value of a cycle — gold converts at 100:1, shards convert through runes:

cycles/hr = 3,600,000 / (harvest_ms × tool_mult + respawn_ms)
$RUNE/hr = cycles/hr × ( avg_yield × price / 100 + 0.09 × 25 / 10 )

The full evaluation for every node in the game is below. Higher-level nodes dominate — that is deliberate: levels are the real currency of Runaria.

NODE YIELD TABLES

Base tool, solo, no quest bonuses. Sorted by expected $RUNE/hr.

NODE	SKILL	LV	GOLD/HR	SHARDS/HR	$RUNE/HR (EV)
Ember Spring	Fishing	18	14,824	19.1	195.88
Mossy Pool	Fishing	8	7,429	25.7	138.57
Spruce Tree	Woodcutting	12	10,033	13.3	133.52
River Shallows	Fishing	1	5,294	31.8	132.35
Amethyst Crystal	Mining	30	11,134	5.6	125.26
Iron Vein	Mining	6	7,980	16.0	119.70
Ruby Crystal	Mining	22	10,047	7.5	119.30
Copper Vein	Mining	1	6,075	20.3	111.38
Red Caps	Foraging	1	6,109	19.6	110.18
Oak Tree	Woodcutting	1	4,696	23.5	105.65
Birch Tree	Woodcutting	5	5,967	17.9	104.42
Purple Caps	Foraging	15	7,200	10.8	99.00
Gold Vein	Mining	14	6,923	11.3	97.55
Blue Caps	Foraging	6	5,475	14.9	92.07
Apple Tree	Foraging	1	3,692	16.6	78.46
Cherry Tree	Foraging	8	3,349	12.6	64.88
Wild Hive	Foraging	4	3,130	10.1	56.46

Mob hunting stacks on top: each kill pays gold plus a 25% shard roll. Cowling Mages in the Scorch are the highest single-kill value in the game (80–160g + 140 combat XP).

RUNES & PAYOUTS

The Rune Altar in the Hearth is the only place value leaves the game. It does three things:

ACTION	RATE	REQUIRES
Forge shards	10 shards → 25 $RUNE	Shards (wallet needed to earn them)
Exchange gold	100 gold → 1 $RUNE (min 500g)	Connected wallet
Request payout	Full claimable balance → payout queue	Connected wallet

Payout mechanics: requesting a payout binds your claimable balance to your wallet address in a queued entry. Queued entries are settled on-chain in $RUNE when the token launches — order of settlement follows order of request. Your queue survives in your save and is visible at the altar. One wallet per settler; switching accounts in Phantom re-binds future queues to the new address, never past ones.

DEMO MODE

No wallet, no problem — the whole game is playable free. But demo mode has two hard walls: every skill caps at level 3, and rune shards crumble instead of dropping — you will never accrue $RUNE on demo. Connect Phantom at any time and both walls lift instantly; nothing you did on demo is lost.

TOOLS & ROI

Tools are the main gold sink. Faster harvests mean more cycles per hour — the payback column estimates how long the upgrade takes to pay for itself on that skill's best unlocked node.

SKILL	TOOL	COST	EFFECT	NEEDS
Woodcutting	Iron Axe	450g	20% faster	level 5
Woodcutting	Runed Axe	2,400g	40% faster · +1 max yield	level 15
Mining	Iron Pick	500g	20% faster	level 6
Mining	Runed Pick	2,600g	40% faster · +1 max yield	level 16
Fishing	Oak Rod	400g	20% faster	level 5
Fishing	Runed Rod	2,200g	40% faster · +1 max yield	level 15
Foraging	Oak Sickle	350g	20% faster	level 4
Foraging	Runed Sickle	2,000g	40% faster · +1 max yield	level 14
Farming	Iron Hoe	400g	0% faster · +1 max yield	level 6
Farming	Runed Hoe	2,200g	0% faster · +2 max yield	level 16

ITEM PRICES

Fixed market prices, in gold. Cooking multiplies value — compare raw fish to its roast.

ITEM	SELLS FOR	ITEM	SELLS FOR
Amethyst	180g	Birch Log	20g
Eel Roast	140g	Copper Ore	18g
Ruby	120g	Milk	18g
Ember Eel	70g	Cherries	16g
Vegetable Stew	70g	Tomato	16g
Gold Ore	55g	River Perch	15g
Carp Supper	55g	Red Cap	14g
Purple Cap	40g	Carrot	14g
Chili	38g	Oak Log	12g
Spruce Log	34g	Wheat	11g
Grilled Perch	32g	Apple	10g
Iron Ore	30g	Egg	9g
Honey	28g	Chili Seeds	7g
Cabbage	27g	Cabbage Seeds	5g
Mossy Carp	26g	Corn Seeds	4g
Bread	26g	Tomato Seeds	3g
Wool	24g	Carrot Seeds	3g
Blue Cap	22g	Wheat Seeds	2g
Corn	22g

QUESTS

Hand-in bounties from the townsfolk. Quests always beat market price on the items they ask for.

QUEST	GIVER	WANTS	PAYS
Roof Before Rain	Marta the Carpenter	5× Oak Log	120g + 60 woodcutting xp
Kettle Metal	Bram the Smith	6× Copper Ore	160g + 80 mining xp
Friday Tradition	Old Pike	4× River Perch	110g + 55 fishing xp
Soup for the Sick	Sister Fenn	6× Red Cap	140g + 70 foraging xp
A Dozen, Less Three	Widow Hessel	9× Egg	170g + 85 ranching xp
Payment in Kind	Marta the Carpenter	3× Bread	210g + 100 cooking xp
Honest Iron	Bram the Smith	6× Iron Ore	260g + 130 mining xp
The Long Table	Sister Fenn	2× Vegetable Stew	380g + 190 cooking xp
The One That Bit Back	Old Pike	2× Ember Eel	420g + 210 fishing xp
A Ring, Possibly	Bram the Smith	1× Ruby	500g + 240 mining xp

ZONES & DEATH

ZONE	STATUS	RULE
The Hearth	SAFE	Bank, market and the quest board. Safe ground.
Whisperwoods	SAFE	Timber, mushrooms, honey and quiet water.
The Deep Mines	SAFE	Ore veins in the dark. Mind the goblins.
The Meadows	SAFE	Fields to sow and animals to tend.
The Scorch	DANGER	Lose a fight here and your entire satchel plus 10% of carried gold drops to a tombstone at the spot. Walk back and press E to recover it. Banked goods are never touched.

The design is a bet, not a tax: the Scorch holds the top of every yield table, so the question is always the same — bank first and walk back, or carry on and push your luck.

WARDROBE

Cosmetics for the Settler, priced as a pure gold sink. Hair is free. The full royal fit costs 19,600g — wearing it is a statement about your grind.

SLOT	RANGE	PIECES
HAIR	free	9
HAT	250–4,200g	3
CHEST	150–6,500g	11
LEGS	100–2,400g	5
FEET	80–120g	4

$RUNE TOKENOMICS


Token	$RUNE on Solana
Supply	1,000,000,000 — fixed, no mint authority
Launch	Fair launch on pump.fun. No presale, no team allocation.
Payout treasury	Seeded from creator rewards; funds the settlement of the in-game payout queue.
In-game rates	Fixed pre-launch (100 gold = 1 $RUNE, rune = 25 $RUNE). Subject to rebalancing after launch as real price discovery happens.
Anti-abuse	Payouts are wallet-bound and queued in order. Demo mode earns nothing. Per-wallet settlement caps may apply at launch to protect the treasury.

The honest version: the game pays out of a treasury, the treasury is funded by the token, and the queue is public in your save. Play, stack the queue, and settlement begins the day $RUNE is live.

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