No. TerraFormer.Online allows one account per person. Using the same account on your phone and your computer is fine. Creating extra accounts (for example to collect referral rewards or extra starting gold) gets all of the accounts banned, and new accounts can no longer be created from those devices and that network. Before any withdrawal, your email and ID are verified, so duplicate accounts can never cash out.
A map-based mining game played on the real Earth. Every square on the map is a real ~50 m plot of land. You buy plots, they mine for you, you build 3D mining camps on them, cut gems, craft jewelry and trade with other players. Two currencies drive it: ๐ฐ gold (the game's money) and โก Energy (ARAYA Energy, a real Solana token).
Create an account with your email and a password, then confirm your email. Throwaway inboxes aren't accepted. You don't need a crypto wallet to play โ you can link one later from the Energy Wallet.
Yes โ Profile โ ๐ Tutorial & help, or the โReplay the guided tourโ button above. Inside a 3D camp: โ๏ธ Settings โ Replay tutorial.
Yes โ open โฐ More โ ๐ฌ Video Tutorials. The Official guides walk you through getting started, the money-making strategies (with the real math), Energy and cash-outs, and the advanced game. From players has guides made by other miners.
Gold is the game's working money: buying land, tools, plot upgrades, fuel, storage, water lines and power cables, drones and more. It can't leave the game.
A real token on the Solana blockchain and the one currency with real-world value. Everything in the economy is measured against it. 1 Energy is always worth at least 10 gold, and more whenever Energy's dollar price is higher.
Camp workers and buildings, global upgrades, licences, Idle Autopilot, rescue lifts, premium drones โ or convert it to gold, or cash it out to your wallet once cash-outs are open.
Each player has a daily Energy allowance so the treasury can keep paying for years. Anything you earn above it is banked, not lost โ it's paid out first as the next day's allowance opens. A pop-up tells you when this happens. There's no limit on how much can be banked; the Energy Wallet shows your banked total and a countdown to the next payout.
In the Energy Wallet. Energy โ gold pays the exchange rate minus a small fee (2โ6%). Gold โ Energy costs the rate plus a fee and only fits inside your daily allowance, so converting back and forth can't be farmed.
Your first 10 freshly minted plots cost the plain claim price. After that, each new plot you mint from the map carries a portfolio premium that grows slowly and is capped at ร4 (ร3 for members). The premium isn't lost: the plot keeps what you paid in its value, and its ground holds proportionally more ore to mine. Want cheaper land? Buy plots from other players on the ๐ Market โ there is no premium there.
Your buy radius. You can only buy new land inside it โ around where you currently are and around your Home Base. It grows as you level up: 3, 7, 15, 30, 75 km at levels 1โ5, then +12 km per level (up to 600 km). Members reach 50% further. To buy elsewhere, travel there, or use a drone's Claim Agent.
Your real-world location, taken from your device once you allow location access. You can always buy land around it. It can't be moved by hand โ it moves automatically only if you stay somewhere else (25 km+ away) for 7 days in a row.
How rich the ground is (0โ100). It comes from the real geology at that spot โ documented mines and deposits nearby, famous mining districts and rivers. Higher scores mean more gold and rarer minerals, and higher prices.
Yes. Each plot's Real geology panel lists what's documented within ~5 km, from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System (304,000 sites), Mindat.org localities (100+ countries, growing every 30 minutes) and famous districts like the Mother Lode, Yogo Gulch and Pala. Those minerals always appear in that plot's 3D mine. The Game Updates page shows new data as it's added.
Plots are graded by mineral score: higher grades cost more but yield more. Hotspots are the richest ground.
Yes. Ocean plots need an ๐ข Ocean Dredge to be mined, and their 3D camp is an underwater seafloor mining station โ a glass dome on the sea bed with a submarine and a pirate crew. You can run a โก shore power cable to them for +25% idle income (priced by distance offshore).
A pipe from the nearest river to a land plot: +50% digging and panning, +25% idle mining, and it lets the Mini Dredge work there. Cost depends on the distance; plots more than 10 km from a river can't have one.
List it on the Market for gold or Energy (within a fair-value band), auction it, offer it in a trade, or quick-sell it to the System Reserve for an instant gold payout.
Yes โ Investments. You put in gold or Energy and earn a share of that plot's output.
Plots you've switched to auto-mining dig gold (plus a small Energy share) on their own. Richer, upgraded plots โ and plots with water lines or power cables โ earn more. Free players collect up to 24 hours of idle time, so check in daily; members get every plot working with no limit.
Workers (hired at the Store or from the Conductor at the train station) dig and haul ore; the drill and the oil rig produce steadily. When you come back, the camp's idle Energy is collected automatically โ for up to 24 h for free players and much longer for members.
A paid extension that lets non-members collect idle income for longer than 24 hours.
Auto-mining burns fuel. Keep it topped up in Profile โ Fuel & storage, or your plots stop mining.
There's a limit to how much gold you can hold from mining. Upgrade storage so idle income never stops at the cap.
Drag the joystick (or WASD) to walk and drag the screen to look around. Tap DIG to dig. Deeper ground holds rarer minerals but gets dark below ~6 m โ buy a lantern. Watch your stamina.
Walk up to any building; a round button appears โ tap it. The Merchant buys and sells resources, the Store sells gear and hires workers, the Bank buys bars, gems and jewelry and has your vault, the furnace smelts bars.
Mine your sand pit all the way down and the Rock Mine opens: tunnels in the mountain with richer ore and rough gems. The Crystal Cavern is members-only and rich in rough gemstones plus silver and gold.
The NPC at the train station (the submarine dock on ocean plots). He hires idle miners and builds bunkhouses so more workers can live in your camp.
Sell at the Merchant, or store items in the Bank vault. Buy a bigger backpack at the Store.
Gems โ Workshop โ Hands-on cutting bench. You take a rough stone through the real process: extract it from the rock (or pick it from river gravel), clean it, trim it on a diamond saw, grind the table, dop it, set up the faceting machine, cut the girdle and facets at the right angles and index positions, polish through the grits, transfer, cut the crown and table, and remove it from the dop.
The Triangle step cut (19 facets, from level 1) and the Standard round brilliant (57 facets, lapidary level 3, worth 1.4ร). Hand-cut gems are worth 2โ2.5ร a bot cut.
It rises with every stone you cut. Higher levels unlock rarer stones (Yogo sapphire needs level 9), widen tolerances, reduce chips and speed up steps.
At the refinery (Gems โ Jewelry), smelt metal into stock, pour a 1 troy oz bar (31.1 g), and cut it into 5 ring blanks of 6 g. Jewelry is worth the stone + the metal blank + bench work. Yields follow real averages: ~0.02 g of gold per pan, ~1,550 pans per ounce.
Yes โ list rough or cut gems in the Gems market (up to 5ร their value), sell them at the Bank, or trade them.
Merlin's Gem Bot is a real automated faceting machine built by Barbrick Design. The game has a 3D Gem Bot Mini you can run exactly like the real one (More โ Gem Bot & Factory, or Gems โ Workshop).
A level-15 building: a 3D print farm (up to 100 printers) prints the 29 parts of a Gem Bot (about 60 printer-hours and 1.7 kg of filament), technicians assemble each machine in 6 hours, and up to 100 Gem Bots cut your rough stones automatically on real timers. Each technician runs 10 machines. Printers are built from copper and aluminum bars. Walk through it in 3D from your camp's Gem Warehouse.
Yes โ the full Merlin's Gem Bot User Manual (with every touch-screen page explained, and a PDF download). The game's Gem Bot โ ๐ฅ๏ธ Machine tab has the same touch screen: the < > arrows move through SETTINGS, DESIGN, PREFORM, CUT and POLISH; SETTINGS has the Switch Test, Home, Manual Control and calibration pages.
Rough mineral and specimen photos are real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, used under their free licenses (shown representative of each specimen type, not the exact Montana/Idaho locality unless noted). Faceted gems are not photos: they are raytraced live in your browser from each design's real facet angles and the gem's real optics (refractive index, dispersion and body color), tracing light in, around inside the stone (total internal reflection) and back out.
It runs the same sequence as the real firmware and touch screen โ one axis at a time, straight moves, in the same order โ and the same hands-on steps a person does on the real machine: mounting the dop, setting the stone to the wheel for every tier (not automated on the real machine), swapping the 600, 1200 and polishing copper laps, and transferring the stone. The real Gem Bot currently cuts designs with a 1:1 length-to-width ratio (โ in the design library); other designs can be cut in the game. Speeds and times are close to the real machine but approximate.
Real machines need a person now and then. Gem Bots wait for a technician to set the stone to the wheel for each tier, change laps, transfer the stone or re-glue one that came off the dop. Printers wait to be started, emptied, or cleared after a failed print or a clogged nozzle. One technician minds up to 10 machines โ if machines blink amber in the 3D factory, hire more technicians.
Gem Bot โ ๐ Designs. It's the full Gem Bot design library: pick a shape, then a design to see its facet diagram and the full angle and index table. โถ๏ธ Practice runs it on the 3D Gem Bot Mini; ๐ญ Cut this in my Factory sets your factory's Gem Bots to that design (cut time follows its real facet count). ๐พ marks designs loaded on the real machine's SD card.
Yes โ right here in the game: Gem Bot โ ๐ Buy a Gem Bot Mini ($4,200 USD). Fill in your shipping details and pay with PayPal or with Energy from your linked wallet. Your order is saved to your profile and joins the build queue once paid; Barbrick Design emails you with a build timeframe. Lead time is 3 months plus 1 month for each machine already in the queue. Shipping is quoted when your machine is finished and paid before it ships.
Enter your machine's licence key under Gem Bot โ Owners: the Gem Bot Owner badge, the Factory at half price at any level, a free technician, 10% faster factory cutting and every design. With Chrome or Edge on a computer you can also plug the machine in by USB and watch it mirrored in the game (read-only).
The Travel tab moves you to rivers and mining regions. Walking is free but takes real minutes; driving costs fuel and is faster. Members unlock global destinations. Wherever you arrive, your orange buy radius moves with you.
Drones scout ground beyond your circle. Aerial drones survey land; RC boats survey rivers and lakes (they must launch on water). When a mission finishes you get a soil analysis report of the best plots tested and which direction and how far the best ground is.
A premium drone licence that lets your drones buy the best open claims they find automatically โ even beyond your circle โ within your price and score limits (the normal price plus a 25% agent fee, a few per mission).
No. You can play everything without one. Link one when you want to deposit or cash out Energy.
Tap your Energy balance โ Energy Wallet โ Link wallet. Connect Phantom or Solflare and sign a short message โ no password or seed phrase is ever shared. One wallet can belong to one account.
In the Energy Wallet, enter an amount and press Deposit โ your linked wallet sends Energy to the game treasury, and it's credited once the blockchain confirms it. This is the only way to deposit: Energy sent to the treasury any other way is not credited. If the network is slow, the deposit finishes automatically the next time you open your Energy Wallet.
Cash-outs open when Energy's market cap passes $100,000 โ progress is shown live in the Energy Wallet. Your account must be at least 7 days old with a linked wallet, and before any withdrawal your email and identity (photo ID) must be verified so that every player is one unique person. Daily limits grow with your level and with market-cap milestones; members get more. One cash-out can be in progress at a time.
Converting Energy โ gold costs 2โ6%; cash-outs cost 3โ15%. The economy regulator sets them from the Energy market and they're shown before you confirm.
Tap your Energy balance for the Energy ledger, or your gold balance for the gold profit & loss ledger. Both list every transaction.
Trade plots, items, gold and Energy side by side with another player. A fair-value check keeps trades reasonable, you can counter-offer, and completed trades appear on the public ledger.
Share your link from Profile โ Invite & Earn. When a friend you invite reaches Level 5, they get 2,000 gold and you get 2,000 gold + 200 Energy; each further friend who qualifies pays you 1,000 gold + 200 Energy more than the last (up to the 10th), and your tier 2 and 3 get 25% and 10% of it. When someone in your team buys a membership, the team shares 10,000 gold + 1,000 Energy instantly (70% / 20% / 10%). Tap any name in Invite & Earn to see what that player has earned you, and you earn a share of the gold they (and their invitees) spend with the game. A friend who signs up from your link is linked to you automatically, even if they confirm their email on another device. You can also type an invite code in Invite & Earn during your first 30 days. Players who were never invited join the TerraFormer team's referral group when they reach Level 5, and they still get their 2,000-gold welcome bonus.
The scrolling bar under the header and the Social Hub's Live Activity show what's happening right now: plot sales, trades, crafts, finds, investments, level-ups and achievements. Tap โ๐ข Playing right nowโ to see who's online.
Badges mark milestones (and the launch-only Founder badge). Achievements like levelling up, cutting your first gem or your first investment are announced in the activity feed.
Your daily report and idle clock: a check-in bonus, what your plots earned, and tips. Members get double check-in bonuses.
Tap any message in the Global Chat (Social Hub, or Profile โ Friends & chat) and choose Reply: your message quotes theirs and they get a notification. Type @ in the chat box to pick a player from the list; the player you mention is notified too. Tap a quoted message to jump to the original.
Ask anything in the Global Chat. Other miners often jump in, and questions nobody can answer get passed to the TerraFormer team. You get a notification whenever someone replies to you.
Your notifications: replies and @mentions in chat, trade offers, plot and market sales, friends, investments and other game events. New ones pop up with an Open button that takes you straight to them. The red number is how many you haven't seen.
Yes! Upload it to YouTube (public or unlisted), then open โฐ More โ ๐ฌ Video Tutorials โ โ Submit yours and paste the link with a title. The team reviews every video first; you get a ๐ notification when yours goes live in From players. Keep it about TerraFormer, your own content, no referral spam and no promises of earnings.
After 20 minutes without activity you're signed out to protect your account (your game is saved). Your account can also be active on only one device at a time. Just sign in again.
The game pays out one fixed amount of Energy each day to all players together. It's about 1% of the treasury plus half of the day's real revenue, so it keeps paying for years. First, everyone who plays gets a daily pay when they check in (300 Energy). The rest is shared by what your mines produce (3D camps and auto-mining). It's square-root scaled, so a bigger operation earns more but can't take it all, and no player gets more than 35% of the day's budget. Members and players who come back often get a little more. Anything your mines make above your share goes to your bank and is paid out first the next day. Energy Wallet โ Energy Ledger โ ๐งฎ How today's payout works shows your exact numbers.
Each drill in your 3D camp takes up to 2 workers: one runs the lever and the other hauls the ore to the bank. Add or remove a hand on a specific drill at the drill itself, or in the Train Conductor under Drill crews. A drill with no crew sits idle. When every mine your crew can work is mined out, your miners help at the drills on their own.
A plot has two kinds of ground. The surface pit is used by 2D auto-mining on the map. The 3D camp has its own three mines: the sand pit, then the rock mine, then the crystal mine (members only). The surface pit can be worked out while the camp still has plenty of ore. The plot panel and the Train Conductor show what's left in each one.
No. Once today's payout allowance is used up, sale proceeds go to your banked Energy instead of your balance. The sale message tells you exactly how much was banked. Banked Energy pays into your balance first when the allowance resets at 00:00 UTC, and the Energy Wallet โ Energy Ledger shows the countdown. You can also use the Claim button there whenever some of today's allowance is left.
Yes โ to the cloud, automatically. Clearing your browser data or switching devices doesn't lose your camps.
No โ one account per player. Multiple accounts can't cash out and may be suspended.
Energy is a crypto token; its price moves with the market and can go down as well as up. Nothing in the game is financial advice or a promise of earnings.
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