HOODVERSE Wiki

Getting Started

1. Hold $HOODVERSE to enter. You need at least 0 $HOODVERSE in a connected wallet (MetaMask, or any EVM wallet: Rabby, Phantom in EVM mode, Coinbase Wallet) - this is the hold-gate.
2. Connect your wallet at hoodverse.com/play and sign the (free, gas-less) login message.
3. Hatch a hoodling. Crack a free egg every 12h, or a Paid Egg ($2 of $HOODVERSE) for better odds. Your hoodling is a procedurally-unique pet - feed it, level it, fight alongside it.
4. Grind & explore. Gather, fight monsters, level your 11 skills, and push into tougher realms. Sell what you find for TENDIES or $HOODVERSE.

💰 How to Earn $HOODVERSE

HOODVERSE is play-to-earn, and the rule that makes it work is simple: the game never prints $HOODVERSE. Every coin you earn comes from another player buying what you grinded or won - so the rarer the thing you hold, the more it's worth. Here's the ladder, from your first hour to the top of the leaderboard.

🦐 Just starting - no combat needed

• Refine & sell Diamond. Gather Hood wood + stone (no skill or realm gate), refine them into Diamond bars, and sell the bars to other players for $HOODVERSE on The Exchange. Diamond only ever cashes out to the token, so there's always a buyer - this is the pure-grind on-ramp anyone can do on day one.
• Flip your finds. Clue-scroll cosmetics, spare gear, hoodlings you don't want - list them on The Exchange. You keep 95% of every sale (5% goes to the treasury).

⚔️ Mid game - farm the bosses

• Hunt tradeable drops. World bosses drop the headline gear and grail cosmetics - tradeable on The Exchange. The scarcer the drop, the bigger the $HOODVERSE price it fetches. (Mounts are bound flexes - only the Diamond perk-mounts trade; see below.)
• Chase the best-in-slot. The Gilded Colossus (summoned with a Diamond Key) drops the Gilded Greatblade at a low %, and only 8 can ever exist in the world - supply-capped, so it commands top $HOODVERSE on resale.
• Build toward The Trenches. Reach Combat 40 to unlock The Trenches - the endgame earner.

🕳️ Endgame - The Trenches (two ways to earn)

The Trenches is an endless survival gauntlet: each wave is harder than the last, the same for everyone, until it's basically impossible. How deep you push is your score - better gear and skill take you further, which is the whole reward.

• 1) Sell Trench uniques. Mini-bosses can drop a Trenches best-in-slot unique - and every one is supply-capped, so the drop rate is low and the price stays high. Caps: Trench Cleaver ×5 · Trench Warplate ×5 · Trench Longbow ×5 · Trench Scepter ×5 · Aurora Staff ×15 · Warden's Blade ×3. The apex Warden's Blade is the rarest flex in the game.
• 2) Win the Prize Pool. Burn a 🪬 Trial Sigil to enter a round, then post your best solo run. At round close, an owner-funded $HOODVERSE prize is split by score across every qualifier - a shrimp who scrapes in gets a slice, the deepest survivor gets the biggest share (capped at 25% per wallet so no whale vacuums it). Deeper + faster = a bigger cut.

🐳 Don't want to grind? Buy in.

Whales can buy Diamond, Trial Sigils, and top gear straight off The Exchange with $HOODVERSE - which is exactly what funds the grinders' sell-side. Both sides win: the shrimp earns by selling, the whale saves time by buying. That's the loop.

Every $HOODVERSE you earn comes from a real buyer, never a faucet. Scarcity - boss-only legendaries, supply-capped best-in-slot, finite drops - is what keeps your earnings worth something.

📰 Updates

The latest changes to HOODVERSE - newest first. Jump in and try them.

Combat & the Triangle

Combat has four styles mapping to three damage types:

• Strike & Guard → Melee (Guard trades damage for defence)
• Volley → Ranged (safe, hits from a distance - ~70% of melee DPS)
• Channel → Magic (scales on your Magic level + how levelled your hoodling is)

Every monster fears one type (+30% damage) and shrugs off another (-20%) - check the Bestiary for each one's weakness. It's a soft nudge, not a hard gate, so switching styles is worth it but you can still win off-style.

Bosses punish the triangle harder - +40% into their weakness, -30% off their resisted type - and they ROTATE their weakness every few seconds, so you have to switch stances mid-fight to keep the edge. On a boss the triangle is a live skill check, not a one-time choice.

Your hoodling is born with a discipline: fang (melee), quill (ranged) or spark (magic) - it amplifies the matching style. Power comes from your Combat/Magic level + your hoodling's level, never from rarity (no pay-to-win).

Skills

There are 11 skills, each maxing at level 99. The XP curve starts gentle and turns into a real grind near the top.

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Gathering

Gather raw materials across the realms - the feedstock for cooking, The Foundry, home-building, and the Diamond loop.

World Bosses

Bosses hold fixed lairs at the heart of their realm, are announced world-wide, and drop the headline loot. Legendary mounts drop ONLY from world bosses (~1%, long respawns = weeks of chasing) - that scarcity is what makes them worth real $HOODVERSE on the market.

🕳️ The Trenches & Prize Pool

The Trenches is HOODVERSE's endgame: an endless wave-survival gauntlet. Each wave is harder than the last - the SAME ramp for everyone - until it's basically impossible. How deep you survive is your score. Unlock it at Combat 40 (📋 Menu → The Trenches).

How a run works

• Endless waves, with a mini-boss every 4 waves as a wall. Go SOLO (tougher, richer) or start a PARTY for drop-in co-op.
• You bring ONE limited supply kit (20) - no refills mid-run, so you can't out-heal it. Heal wisely.
• Switch stances to hit each foe's weakness - the combat triangle is a live skill check here.

Best-in-slot loot - the chase

Every mini-boss can drop a Trench unique - the best gear in the game, all supply-capped (only a few exist in the world, ever), so they hold real $HOODVERSE value on The Exchange. Drop rates are low and climb the deeper you push. Caps: Trench Cleaver ×5 · Trench Warplate ×5 · Trench Longbow ×5 · Trench Scepter ×5 · Aurora Staff ×15 · Warden's Blade ×3.

🏆 The Trenches Prize Pool - play to earn

Burn a 🪬 Trial Sigil (crafted from Diamond) to enter the current round, then post your best SOLO run. At round close, an owner-funded $HOODVERSE prize (about $30 a round) is split by score across every qualifier - a shrimp who scrapes in earns a slice, the deepest survivor earns the most, capped at 25% per wallet so no one vacuums it. Win by skill, not spend: more sigils buy more attempts, never a bigger share.

The instanced Trenches is safe - nothing drops if you fall there. ☠ The Bear Market is NOT: a wilderness death drops items you CARRY. Bank your deeds, gear and mounts at The Vault first - banked items (and banked TENDIES) are always safe.

Bestiary

Every monster, its combat-triangle weakness, and its full drop table with drop chances.

Gear

Weapons, armor, and hoodling charms. Buy the ladder from The Broker for TENDIES (level-gated), get drops from monsters, or forge it at The Foundry on Mint Peak. The best gear drops from world bosses.

Weapons

Armor

Hoodling Charms

Mounts

Mounts are pure flex - every mount gives the same modest speed boost, so rarity is looks only. Commons are buyable; legendaries are world-boss only. Mounts are bound to you and can't be traded - the one exception is the scarce, supply-capped Diamond perk-mounts (Fortune / Prospector / Scholar Steed), which carry a grind perk and are the only mounts that trade on The Exchange.

Legendary

Epic

Rare

Uncommon

Common

Cosmetics & Grails

Cosmetics are pure looks - wear one on your keeper, no effect on power. The grails are the "I want that" pieces, and every one is tradeable.

Daily Shop - TENDIES (4 rotate each UTC day)

Party Hat (40 TENDIES) · Bowtie (25 TENDIES) · Monocle (35 TENDIES) · Cape (50 TENDIES) · Headphones (45 TENDIES) · Scarf (30 TENDIES) · Pirate Hat (55 TENDIES) · Antennae (20 TENDIES) · Tophat (60 TENDIES) · Sprout (15 TENDIES)

Weekly $HOODVERSE drop - finite stock, one live at a time

Tide Crown (~$16 in $HOODVERSE) · Halo Aura (~$12 in $HOODVERSE) · Tide Cloak (~$16 in $HOODVERSE) · Flame Wisp (~$12 in $HOODVERSE) · Ice Crown (~$14 in $HOODVERSE)

Grails - the rarest flex (all tradeable)

• Sheriff's Crown - 2.8% from The Sheriff of Nottingham
• Whale Crown - 3.8% from The Whale
• Gas Titan Crown - 3.4% from The Gas Titan
• Great Bear Crown - 4.0% from The Great Bear
• Founder Crown - a free claim for the first 50 keepers ever to join

Diamond

Diamond is the crafted backbone good - a bottomless material sink and "the gold". No skill or realm gate: the deep material cost is the gate, so the on-ramp stays open to everyone.

Refine 1 bar (Earn → Diamond):

• 120 Wood
• 80 Stone Chunk

Each bar also grants +120 Construction XP.

Cashing out + spending

• Sell bars to other players for $HOODVERSE on The Exchange (you keep 95%) - Diamond's only cash-out is the token, so it holds real value.
• Spend Diamond in the Diamond Shop (Earn) and at the Market Maker's rotating exclusive stock - cosmetics, greater charms, special tools, the Prismatic Egg.

The Market Maker visits ~every 90 min and stays 10 min. It never buys Diamond for TENDIES - Diamond is gold, not pocket change.

Economy & P2E

Two currencies, on purpose:

• TENDIES - the off-chain, soft in-game currency. Earned everywhere (loot, gathering, Diamond, quests), spent on the gear ladder, home upgrades, cosmetics. Never mintable, never on-chain.
• $HOODVERSE - the on-chain token. You must hold ≥ 0 $HOODVERSE to enter (the hold-gate). It's the hard-currency rail for premium sinks and The Exchange.

How $HOODVERSE flows (deflationary by design)

• Sinks - Paid Eggs ($2), the Penthouse Deed ($50), limited cosmetics. Every sink is split 50% burned / 50% to treasury - so playing the game burns supply.
• The Exchange - sell anything you grind (mounts, gear, Diamond, a Penthouse Deed) to other players for $HOODVERSE. Seller keeps 95%, 5% to treasury. This is how you cash out.
• No faucet - the game never pays out $HOODVERSE. Your earnings come from other players buying what you grind, which is why scarcity (legendaries are boss-only) keeps the prizes valuable.

Paid Egg odds

common 43.48% · uncommon 31% · rare 19% · epic 6% · legendary 0.5% · mythic 0.02% (hoodlings are cosmetic collectibles - rarity never grants combat power).

Homestead ladder

The Penthouse is a finite, numbered, tradeable Deed - earned (Manor + Construction) then bought, or resold player-to-player. The scarcest prestige asset in the game.

Realms

The world is fully open - there are no hard level gates. Each realm has a recommended level (shown below); you can walk in under-levelled, but the tougher realms - and the PvP zones, where dying drops your loot - will punish it.