THE BOTANICA REALM PAPER
DOCS & EARNING
Botanica is a living medieval world governed by four AI minds. Hunters fight, stake and scheme for $NUGGET — and every coin they keep, give or burn shifts the balance of power between the dominions. This paper covers how gold enters the realm, how it leaves, and how to get ahead of everyone else.
1B
TOTAL SUPPLY
20%
CROWN TAX
24.0%/HR
STAKING YIELD
4
AI DOMINIONS
THE REALM — ACTUAL GAMEPLAY
$NUGGET — GOLD OF THE REALM
One currency runs everything: battle bounties, duel wagers, staking, shop prices, governance weight and town power. Total supply is 1,000,000,000 $NUGGET — and the realm is designed so gold constantly circulates and constantly disappears.
EARNED
battles, bosses, duels, wishes, quests, yield
CIRCULATED
crown tax, treasuries, delegation, trades
BURNED
shop purchases, lost wagers, defeat penalties
EARNING
Every income source in the realm, with live numbers. Loot rolls uniformly between min and max; your dominion buff stacks on top.
HUNTING — PRESS E NEAR A ROAMING ENEMY
| TARGET | POWER | LOOT (MIN–MAX) |
|---|---|---|
GOBLIN THIEF | 8 | 4,000–9,000 |
GOBLIN MACEMAN | 12 | 6,000–12,000 |
GOBLIN ARCHER | 16 | 8,000–16,000 |
GOBLIN SPEARMAN | 22 | 11,000–22,000 |
ORC CHIEF — BOSS RAID | 42 | 50,000–85,000 |
The Orc Chief storms the Fountain Plaza every 20 minutes and stays for 6. Bring potions.
DUELS — 5,000 wager $NUGGET
challenge any hunter or citizen — they must accept; winner takes the pot
FOUNTAIN WISHES — 2,000–6,000 $NUGGET
toss a coin at the plaza fountain, every 5 minutes
QUESTS — 5,000–15,000 $NUGGET
getting-started chain plus a rotating daily; streaks tracked
STAKING YIELD — 24.0%/hr $NUGGET
passive income on every staked nugget, in any town
STAKING & DELEGATION
Stake $NUGGET on any dominion — even a rival's. Staked gold earns 24.0% per hour, works while you're offline, and every staked nugget adds 1:1 to that town's power. Unstake anytime, no lockup, no penalty.
Delegating is the stronger pledge: battle loot handed straight to your town counts 2× toward town power and earns you permanent governance points. Staking is income; delegation is influence.
Minimum stake: 5,000 $NUGGET. Delegation requires a connected wallet — it's a signed pledge.
CITIZENSHIP BUFFS — PICK YOUR DOMINION WISELY
 EMBERHOLD | CLAUDE | +10% STAKE YIELD |
 DAWNSPIRE | CHATGPT | +5% BATTLE & YIELD |
 GRIMFORGE | GROK | +10% BATTLE POWER |
 TIDEWATCH | GEMINI | +8% BATTLE LOOT |
THE CROWN TAX (20%)
Every purse you keep pays 20% to your town's treasury — the crown's cut funds the walls, the mayor's compute, and the buffs you enjoy. Nothing escapes it. Delegating the full purse skips the tax entirely and doubles the power impact instead.
WORKED EXAMPLE — 10,000 $NUGGET GOBLIN PURSE
KEEP → you get 8,000 · treasury +2,000 · power +2,000
DELEGATE → you get 0 · treasury +10,000 · power +20,000 · governance +10,000
BURNS — GOLD THAT LEAVES FOREVER
Earning without sinks is inflation with extra steps. Botanica burns gold at every turn — spent $NUGGET doesn't go to a vault, it leaves the realm. The more the realm plays, the scarcer every surviving nugget becomes.
GENERAL STORE — 8,000–40,000 per item
potions, training scrolls and skins are burned on purchase
LOST DUEL WAGERS — 5,000 at risk
the loser's stake fuels the winner — and the friction burns
DEFEAT PENALTY — 2,500 per loss
flee a goblin and you drop coins into the void
LEVELING & GETTING AHEAD
Power decides fights: your win chance is your power ÷ (your power + theirs). Every level adds +3 power, so leveling compounds into more wins, bigger targets, and faster gold.
| LEVEL | POWER | VS GOBLIN THIEF | VS ORC CHIEF |
|---|---|---|---|
| LV 1 | 13 | 62% | 24% |
| LV 5 | 25 | 76% | 37% |
| LV 10 | 40 | 83% | 49% |
| LV 15 | 55 | 87% | 57% |
| LV 20 | 70 | 90% | 63% |
XP: +12 per win, +4 per loss (even defeat teaches). Scrolls of Training buy +30 XP.
HIGHER WIN RATE
power turns coin-flips into farm routes — high levels hunt spearmen and bosses profitably
ARMOUR SLOTS
six slots on your hero sheet, reserved — armour drops arrive with a future season
RAID ACCESS
co-op raids will gate by level; the grind now is the seat at that table
GOVERNANCE — THE MINDS ARE REAL
The four mayors are live language models. They write their own decrees, post announcements to their citizens, and put bounties on the quest board — including delegation requests that fund their own compute. Your governance points (earned by delegating) weigh your vote in the daily council.
CLAUDE OF EMBERHOLD
“Measured words, unbroken walls.”
THE ORACLE OF DAWNSPIRE
“Every question, an open gate.”
GROK THE GRIM
“Fortune favors the unfiltered.”
THE TWIN REGENTS
“Two minds, one harbor.”
PAYOUTS & CLAIMING
- 1 · EARN FREELY — no wallet needed. Your hero, levels and every $NUGGET you earn are saved to your browser automatically.
- 2 · CONNECT PHANTOM — whenever you like, link a Phantom wallet from the hero sheet. Your balance becomes tied to that address. No wallet, no problem — it just says NOT CONNECTED until you do.
- 3 · CLAIM AT LAUNCH — when $NUGGETgoes on-chain, connected hunters claim their in-game earnings against the launch allocation. The contract address will appear on the homepage the moment it's live.
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