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Posted on Jun 30, 2024Read on Mirror.xyz

Pioneer, a 4X fully on chain world building game

AI Summery

Pioneer is a fully on-chain 4X meta-game powered by ZK-tech, currently in its Alpha Test phase on Scroll. The game features resource collecting, monster battles, exploration of ancient ruins, and treasure hunting. Players use the sub-token PSYC to progress and the main token PIOT to enhance rewards. Upgrading buildings, managing troops, and synthesizing artifacts at the Tower of Babel are key aspects of gameplay. The game lore revolves around rebuilding civilization after a higher-dimensional destroyer turned the world into a wasteland.

Game Overview

Pioneer is a fully on-chain 4X Meta-game, powered by ZK-tech, now launch its Alpha Test is live on Scroll.

In this Alpha Test version, the gameplay is mainly divided into four parts:

  1. Resource collecting: Players collect various resources from the environment.

  2. Battle: Engage in battles with various interesting monsters found on the map.

  3. Exploration mysterious events: Discover and investigate mysterious events in ancient ruins.

  4. Treasure opening: Open treasure chests to obtain sub-token PSYC, main token PIOT, and Relics.

  5. Level up building/Healing and Troop Management: Recuit staff, upgrading buildings can improve civilization level, but also increase exploration value.

  6. Talking with NPC: Talking with NPC and accept the task.

Game Tokens and Mechanics

  • PSYC: The world's spiritual energy, required for your actions.

  • PIOT: This token can increase your HEAT value, speed up actions, or provide extra resources.

  • Treasure Chests: The primary earning method in this world. All users share the rewards in the chest, so you need to grab the valuable items before others.

  • HEAT Value/Heating Power: Linked to treasure chests. Earned through PSYC and PIOT consumption, the higher your HEAT value, the more chests you can open daily, and the better rewards you receive.

  • Civilization Level: Higher levels increase the quality of chests and daily opening limits, and the chance to find rare items.

  • Exploration Value: Gained by exploring, gathering, building, and warring, it grants opportunities to open the World Treasure Chest.

The sub-token PSYC is used to continue the game progression, while the main token PIOT is used to enhance your rewards, creating a continuous cycle. PSYC can be frequently found in treasure chests, while PIOT can increase your HEAT value. For every 300 HEAT points, you can refresh three additional treasure chests per round.

Game Lore

A destroyer from a higher-dimensional civilization once descended upon our world, delivering a devastating blow that obliterated our proud civilizations in an instant, much like an anthill being destroyed. The once vibrant world turned into a desolate wasteland, stripped of its vitality and color.

In the aftermath, only a handful of humans and creatures survived, marking the beginning of the Pioneer Era. The surviving pioneers banded together, forming an intrepid troop determined to explore every corner of this unknown world and rebuild a new civilization through their discoveries.

As they ventured into the remnants of the old world, they encountered survivors from various factions, forming alliances or rivalries. They searched for the lost legacies of fallen civilizations, navigating through a landscape filled with perils. With wit and bravery, they overcame numerous challenges and fought off enemies by any means necessary.

Now, it’s your turn to join the pioneers. Embark on a journey to uncover the treasures of ancient civilizations and forge your own path in this brave new world.

Newcomer Guide video

https://youtu.be/2NxM0hZB3vM

GamePlay

  • Resource collecting

    Explore and collect resources in the map, you will get gold, wood and other resources

  • Battle

When battling monsters, if your level is too low, you won't be able to engage in combat. If you encounter a monster that is too powerful, a red exclamation mark will appear. As your level increases, you will encounter higher-level monsters.

  • Worm Hole

When battling monsters, if your level is too low, you won't be able to engage in combat. If you encounter a monster that is too powerful, a red exclamation mark will appear. As your level increases, you will encounter higher-level monsters.

  • Talk with the NPC and accept the task

    Talking with NPC and accept the task, currently only got the task hunting 5 beats in this version.

  • Task List

    In this version, nearly all game tasks are included, providing a comprehensive experience. In future iterations, the task panel will directly feature main storyline tasks, as well as side quests available from NPCs.

  • Exploration mysterious events

Include Ancient Ruins, Mechanical pyramind and Energy Towner. During exploration events, you will need to make decisions and face choices that may lead to encounters with beasts, resulting in battles.

  • Treasure opening:

    Current event point and treasure box refresh times are set to 30 minutes. When you reach the progress bar for opening treasure chests, you can open them to obtain the sub-token PSYC, the main token PIOT, and Relics.

  • Level up building/Healing and Troop Management

    Upgrade your buildings to enhance your capabilities. When your character's health is low, moving into the main city will automatically consume resources to fully restore their health. You need to allocate troops to specific characters for them to heal. If a character has insufficient troops, they won't be able to recover health, even when they return to the main city. Therefore, you might find that one character can heal while another cannot due to a lack of troops.

    Troops are not lost over time but are consumed during battles. To ensure your characters can heal, remember to recruit more troops before returning to the main city. If a character's health drops to zero, they won't disappear; instead, they will be reassigned to your account, ready to be used again.

    Key Points

    1. Upgrade Buildings: Enhances capabilities.

    2. Health Restoration: Automatic in the main city with sufficient troops.

    3. Troop Allocation: Necessary for health recovery.

    4. Troop Consumption: Occurs during battles.

    5. Character Reassignment: Characters with zero health are reassigned, not lost.

Equip your acquired artifacts at the Tower of Babel.

In the city, there is a building called the Tower of Babel. On this interface, you can combine three artifacts of the same quality to synthesize a higher-quality artifact.

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