How to Play
ℹ️ If you're brand new to The Third Kingdom and the Futureverse ecosystem, make sure you check out the Getting Started with The Third Kingdom guide first!
1. Choose Your Biome
Begin by selecting a biome for your Origin Island based on the SurrealScapes you own. Once selected, the biome cannot be changed (for now).
2. Explore Your Island
Navigate your island with ease:
Click and drag with the right mouse button
Use WASD or arrow keys to move
Scroll to zoom or use Q and E for fine control
3. Build Extractors
Your first goal: harvest resources – stone, gems, ooze, gold, and alloy. Fill your Origin Island with extractors to begin. Need to reshuffle your setup? You can always demolish and rebuild.
4. Harvest Resources
When an extractor has harvested enough, an indicator will appear over it. Click on it to collect the resources. The indicator will flash when the extractor is full.
5. Upgrade Extractors
Upgrade your extractors to increase the rate at which they extract resources or how much they can hold before they reach capacity.
6. Deploy Prysms
Prysms are land-harvesting devices essential for generating energy, harvesting Mycelium, and unlocking ROOT.
Deploy Prysms on Origin Island to boost production based on their traits
Each time you prestige, deployed Prysms generate energy
ℹ️ Note: Prysms are consumable collectibles lasting one season once deployed. However, Eternal Prysms of Mastery are special and remain active across all seasons, providing ongoing production boosts.
Important: Once deployed, Prysms are tied to your FuturePass, and their metadata updates to reflect their deployed status. Deployed Prysms cannot be used again in the game.
7. Stack SurrealScapes
SurrealScapes are resource-rich biomes that:
Boost resource production
Increase Prysm deployment capacity
Unlock missions (learn more below)
By deploying Prysms and stacking SurrealScapes strategically, you can enhance your resource production, energy generation, and unlock greater rewards.
8. Use Kingdom Coins
You can choose to use Kingdom Coins to accelerate progress:
Skip extractor upgrade costs
Reroll Prysm production boosts
Mint resources to Material World
Reroll available missions
Kingdom Coins can be purchased with ROOT tokens. Here’s a guide on how to buy ROOT
9. Prestige
Once you’ve collected enough resources, click the Lighthouse to prestige. Prestiging will:
Reset your buildings and materials
Give you a production production
Generate energy for Mycelium harvesting (if you have at least 1 Prysm deployed)
Unlock the Archipelago
10. Trade your Resources
Mint and trade the resources you harvest to help build the Material World, an interconnected realm of materials that creators can use in their games across the metaverse.
11. Unlock the Mycelium Archipelago
After your first prestige, you’ll unlock the Mycelium Archipelago, where energy can be converted into Mycelium, and Mycelium redeemed for ROOT.
12. The Mycelium Totem
At the center of your Archipelago is the Mycelium Totem. It converts energy into Mycelium at a steady, baseline rate – just choose the amount of energy to deposit, and let it work for you.
It also allows you to redeem your Mycelium for ROOT at a 1:1 ratio, with a 72-hour cooldown after each conversion.
13. Unlock Missions
Place your SurrealScapes in eight slots in the archipelago to unlock missions.
The bigger the SurrealScapes, the more missions they unlock
Team Bonuses apply to each slot – choose your placements wisely
14. Form Squads
Form squads of character collectibles made up of two roles:
Guardians (Flufs, Party Bears, Genesis Brains, Walkers, Doodles, Pudgy Penguins, Deadfellaz, Cool Cats, and Shadow Wolves) – boost mission success
Manage your squads in The Great Hall.
15. Run Missions
Now that you’ve assembled your squad, it’s time to send them on missions!
Every mission presents a unique challenge and reward. Missions differ by:
Max energy amount
Duration
Energy-to-Mycelium conversion rate
Chance of success
Don't like your options? Reroll individual missions using Kingdom Coins.
16. Mission Results
The amount of Mycelium you get from a mission depends on its star rating:
3 stars: Achieve the mission's full potential Mycelium amount!
1 star: Receive the baseline amount, matching the passive Totem output.
To qualify for the highest rating, all squad members must remain in your wallet for the entire duration of the mission.
Note: All inactive mission slots will refresh every 6 hours. After completing a mission, the empty slot will generate a new opportunity at the next timed cycle.
17. Redeem Mycelium for ROOT
You can redeem your Mycelium harvest for ROOT via the Mycelium Totem.
Minimum: 2,000 Mycelium required to convert
Conversion rate: 1:1 (Mycelium to ROOT)
Cooldown: 72 hours after each redemption