Getting started

## About

ChainZ Arena is the first ever cross blockchain (ETH, TRON, EOS) and cross platform idle RPG game. It was launched April 24th 2020.

Build your deck of heroes to battle against other players and the AI. Pick your choice of heroes out of five classes, four elements and different qualities (all together there are several hundred different cards).

Fight in weekly tournaments, get rewards and test your skills in some ever new special events.

And.. there is Soul, the unique in-game token you can earn by skilled playing and in-game mining. Stake Soul to receive juicy drops, every day. You can even buy and sell Soul at a crypto exchange.

The game is free to play. You can buy high quality cards to be more successful in tournaments and purchase mining hammers to gain Soul drops.

Smart contracts are used to run and pay out the daily drops and tournament rewards.

And there is so much more: the forge, hero market, Chainopoly, multi-deck tournament (man, I *really* wanted to keep this section short)...

## Account Creation

Register an account or try out with a guest account. It is strongly recommended to register if you want to play often and advance in the game.

Registration requires to chose a blockchain faction: TRX (Tron), EOS or ETH (Ethereum). See faction details below.

Chose wisely, as you cannot change your faction once it has been set.

Registration is straight forward. Mind that there is a time limit to verify your email. Press Send to receive a mail with your verification code, then enter the code in the form within the time limit.

The mentioned rewards are some resources to get you started. A free starter pack.

## Factions

Your faction is your home base, your guild. You can battle against other factions in the weekly factions war.

In addition your faction sets your main crypto currency (TRX, EOS or ETH).

In that currency, you

* deposit or withdraw funds to/from your in-game wallet (see below)
* receive most of your soul drops
* pay and trade advanced cards and special game resources

## Change your Name

Before you start you should change your player name. Open the **player menu** at the very top left of the screen:

Click (1) *Rename* and name your account. Mind that the name cannot be changed once it has been set.

## Set a wallet password

Stay in the player menu to set a wallet password (2).

**Important**: as of now this password allows only up to 14 characters. It is not mentioned here and you can enter more than 14 characters, but later on when you try to withdraw from the wallet you will get an error if the password is longer.

For security reasons it is advised to not re-use your account password for the wallet.

## Your first Heroes

Claim your **Registration Reward**:

You just got your first resources!

that is 100k gold, 20k spirit, 4 summon scroll and 5 skill books.

Gold, spirit and skill books are required to upgrade heroes. And with each summon scroll you can summon one hero.

**Summon heroes**

Now you need heroes! Open the Summoning Circle.

There are two summoning modes, normal (free) and advanced (need to pay). We focus on normal mode now.

You have a certain amount of summoning scrolls available, it is 38 in the example.

Press the *Free* (every 8 hours) or *Summon x1* button to summon a single hero. Or use the bulk summon feature, *Summon x10*.

Repeat until you have no summoning scrolls available.

**Your Heroes**

Open the Heroes menu.

Those are your heroes. Default sort order is by quality.

Let's leave them as they are for now, because we want to fight our 1st battle!

You can dig deeper in heroes and deck building later on, in the Heroes section.

## Your first Battle

Open the Battle menu...

... and press *Challenge* two times.

Here you set the formation for the PvE (player vs engine) battle.

The formation consists of 1-6 heroes. Let's select the first six heroes out of our hero inventory at the bottom. We don't care about optimization and hero positioning at the moment.

Press *Confirm* to start your first battle.

Victory!

Claim your rewards by pressing *Confirm*.

Now, for a second battle.

Notice that you advanced to battle **stage** 1-2. Fight your 2nd battle and win.

## Mining

Mining in ChainZ Arena is called *AFK Mining*, because it happens automatically in the background. All the time!

It does not matter what you are doing, if you are fighting a battle or browse the hero exchange, if you are logged into the game or not, or if your gaming device is powered on or off: your account is mining all the time!

Access your mining rewards via the **Treasure Chest** from the Battle menu**.**

There are three sections.

At the top you see which and how many resources you get per minute: gold, spirit, experience points and Soul (if a mining hammer is active).

In the middle you see your already mined items: resources, items and Soul (if a mining hammer is active).

At the bottom you see four slots for lucky chests. If a mining hammer is active and if a free slot is available, chests drop randomly.

After 24 hours of mining, no more mining rewards are added. So it's recommended to claim your mining rewards at least every 24 hours.

### Mining Hammers

Mining hammers are optional and take your mining to the next level. You need to buy a hammer with your faction currency.

Hammers

* boost all mined resources (see green text below)
* enable mining of Soul
* enable Lucky Chests

To be clear about this: if you want to mine soul you need to buy a mining hammer.

Access mining hammers from the *Battle* menu:

Hammers come in six variants that allow mining for 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 or 12 hours.

Prices are not linear. E.g. the 4h hammer costs more than four times of the 1h hammer. The extra price is a compensation for more convenience.

If the hammer's timer hits zero, the hammer is destroyed and stops mining.

There are two slots available to place your hammer. If both slots are used and the first hammer's time is up, the hammer from the second slots starts working automatically and is moved to the first slot. E.g. if you buy a 1h hammer (1st slot) and a 4h hammer (2nd slot), you will mine for five hours in total.

**Advanced** mining topics are covered here.

## Where to go from here

Some suggestions:

* collect more resources: continue to **battle through the stages** until you lose for the first time
* having plenty of resources available, focus on **deck building**
* load your **wallet** with some currency (see below)
* start **mining** with a hammer
* learn about the different **game modes**
* learn all about **Soul** (including purchase at a crypto exchange)
* use the menus section for **reference**

## Wallet

There is an integrated in-game wallet for currencies that holds your funds:

If you stake Soul, your daily drops are payed out in all three currencies. The example is from a TRX faction player. Major part of his drops are paid out in TRX, but also in the other two currencies.

Use the icons to (1) deposit, (2) withdraw or (3) exchange currencies to your base currency.

For more information, please read the guide.

## FAQ

There is an official FAQ from the ChainZ team.

In addition, we collect more FAQ from the community here (@TODO link to FAQ page).

## Guides

### Official Guides

#### The Guide to ChainZ Arena

This is a must-read! Please read the official guidee from the ChainZ's team.