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The World

The world is a finite planet — a sphere tiled with hexagons, like the panels of a football. Each hexagon is a cell: one plot of land, owned as a Land NFT. Twelve pentagonal tiles sit at the sphere's vertices — these are not land and can't be owned, and the cells ringing them have five neighbors instead of six. There is no edge and no center — travel far enough in any direction and you come back around.

Land and cells​

Every Land NFT maps to exactly one cell on the sphere — no gaps, no overlap, and the mapping never changes. A cell's ID is just its identity; the sphere has no center and no frontier, so no cell's position is inherently more valuable than another's. Your client places each cell on the globe from its ID — you never handle raw coordinates.

Distance and reach​

The distance between two cells is the number of steps from one to the next along shared edges. It governs how far resources can travel in a single hop:

  • An ordinary cell relays to an adjacent cell.
  • A cell carrying a Hub relays farther, acting as a long-range relay.

These reaches shape every transport route. See Transport for the routing rules and the Economy & Config Reference for the exact values.

Cells hold deposits and at most one building​

When you reveal a cell, deterministic resource deposits materialize beneath it. Deposits are fixed at reveal and never move — only balances travel. Each cell holds at most one building: either an extractor or a hub.