How to get started

How do you get started playing in this immersive economy-simulation? There are a couple things you should know how to do, which we will go through step-by-step now.

### Getting a job

Without a job there is nothing you can really do (with some exceptions). There are many interesting jobs, but one of the easiest to start is the farmer. To become a farmer, write **/job** in the chat and press space. Now you should see all the job-options listed out: Lumberjack, Miner, Farmer, Special-Job-Water, Special-Job-Natural-Gas, Special-Job-Petroleum, Worker, Entrepreneur and Jobless. We are interested in becoming a farmer, so either click on the option **farmer** or type it out. After that, press enter and you should have gotten a reply: **"Success! You just took the job of Farmer"**. Now you know how these so-called slash-commands work, so from now on, we will just write the command you should enter and not now to enter it precisely (e.g. just **/job farmer**).

### Farming resources

Now that you have a job, you can start to farm some resources as a farmer. Use the command **/farm** **grain** to start farming some grain. After that, you should have gotten the reply: **"Success! You just harvested crops and gained Nx Grain!"**. This means you just got your first self-farmed resources! Exciting!

### Selling resources

You got your first resources! But what you are really after is that precious, precious money. So keeping the resources is no good, we want to sell them. To do that, enter the command **/sell grain NUMBER** (instead of NUMBER use the amount of grain you just got from farming). Now you should have gotten the reply: **"Success! You just sold Nx Grain for $N"**.

### Viewing your inventory and stats

Maybe you have forgotten how much grain you have farmed or you just want to see how much money you made. To see everything that is important about yourself, enter the command **/stats**. This shows you your job, money, debt, hunger, thirst and most importantly, your inventory.

### Continuing the GRIND

Now you have farmed your first resources and sold them. But this is not going to stay the same. In the future, you will want to repeat that process again and again, but it doesn't stay that easy. As you might have already seen, you will lose hunger and thirst every time you farm your resources. This is because it of course takes some physical effort to farm those, so don't expect to keep on going without eventually making a pause to eat and drink. As such, whenever your hunger or thirst hits 0, you will want to use the commands **/eat** and **/drink** respectively. These commands will not only buy the necessary food and water automatically, but will then also use them to fill up your hunger- or thirstbar.

### Buying items

You have just learned how to keep on farming and farming grain until the end of time. But that doesn't sound like much fun. Most, if not all, of the fun of this bot comes from continuously changing jobs and making huge profit. But those other jobs can't just be done without any items. Also, having certain items will massively boost the amount of resources you get for working. For now, we will stay as a farmer, but will try to upgrade our crop-yield. For that, you will want to buy a fertilizer. This item doubles the yield of grain you gain for farming, so it's a must-have as a farmer. Of course, you could also buy a tractor, which more than quadruples your grain-yield, but a tractor is also way more expensive. So we will stick to the cheaper alternative for now, but if you have the money, definitely go for the more expensive option, as it is definitely worth it. For a fertilizer you need about $60 (this amount might change depending on current market prices), so be sure to sell enough grain before buying that. Then use the command **/buy fertilizer** to get your hands on that item. From now on, until your fertilizer breaks (when the durability reaches 0), you will gain double the grain.

### Expanding your knowledge

You now have a very basic, yet also sufficient understanding of the game. Of course, there are many more concepts like companies, loans, etc that you still have no idea about. Still, you know all that is important at your current stage and you can already play the game and learn new things on the way. You have gotten started, so this is the end of this article. However, if you're interested in more, I can advise you to do three things:

1. Use the **/help** command. This will send you a Direct-Message with all the commands in the game, so you can read them and get a better understanding of what other things there are.

2. Read wiki articles like the one about companies or how the market functions. These will give you a much better understanding about how everything functions and thus will also make you better at the game.

3. Read about certain jobs like Miner, Lumberjack, Entrepreneur, etc. This will make you be able to switch jobs with a better understanding of what they do.