Getting Started
EnderBot's core concepts, explained in the order you meet them, with each part pointing to the guide that goes deeper.
What EnderBot Is
EnderBot is a role-playing game played entirely through commands, inside Discord. You play a character who harvests the world's resources, turns them into tools and items, sells or trades them, and grows over time through jobs, a Farm, pets and an organization.
The whole loop comes down to four beats: you spend [missing " Mana" value] to harvest, you process your haul at a crafting station, you sell or equip what you made, then you start again with better tools. The parts below take those concepts one at a time, in the order you will meet them.
Your First Five Steps
The order below is the one the bot itself suggests: each step opens up the next.
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>tos` — accept the terms and create your player account. Nothing else works before this.
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Mana, Your Action Counter
[missing " Mana" value] is the resource that gates everything else: every job action costs 1. It cannot be bought, it regenerates over time — it is what sets the pace of the game.
- Regeneration: 1
Mana per minute, even while you are offline.
- Maximum: 300, plus 1 per player level. The
- Where to see it: `
Mana stops climbing once it hits the cap: anything that would regenerate beyond it is lost. Coming back to spend what you banked is therefore the basic habit.
How Mana is spent, action by action, is detailed in the jobs guide.
Jobs: Mining, Chopping, Digging
Three jobs harvest the world's raw resources. Each has its own tool and its own experience bar, and each has favoured areas: working there raises the loot of your critical hits by 10%.
| Job | Command | Bonus area |
|---|---|---|
| Mining | ` | Mine |
| Chopping | ` | Forest |
| Digging | ` | Beach |
| Digging | ` | Desert |
Every action costs 1 Mana. Add a number to chain several, or `all` to spend your whole pool at once: `
>mine all`.
Foraging, ` >forage`, is a fourth harvesting action. It costs
Mana like the others and levels the digging job, but yields Farm seeds instead of job resources.
Each action grants 1 to 3 base job experience points. These levels are independent from your player level: ` >jobs` shows all three. An action also has a 1% base chance to land a critical hit, far more generous than an ordinary one.
Tools, rings, critical sources and resource tiers are all detailed in the jobs guide.
The Map and Exploration
The permanent world is called [missing " Enderia" value] and holds twelve areas: [missing " Beach" value], [missing " Village" value], [missing " Forest" value], [missing " Mine" value], [missing " Factory" value], [missing " Lake" value], [missing " Tundra" value], [missing " Volcano" value], [missing " Desert" value], [missing " Farm" value], [missing " Tower" value] and [missing " Capital" value]. Each has its own resources and bonuses, and some hold a shop.
` >adventure` (aliases `>adv`, `>map`) shows the map and your position. `
>move` relocates you, but only to a neighbouring area, and the trip takes real time: one hour by default, which boots shorten down to a twenty-minute floor.
Areas, pet-led expeditions and terrain bonuses: see the exploration guide.
Your Tools and Their Quality
There are five kinds of gear: the pickaxe, the axe and the shovel for the three jobs, the ring for passive bonuses, and boots to shorten travel. ` >tools` (alias `>tool`) lists what you own.
Pickaxes, axes and shovels come in twelve tiers, from wooden to infernal; a higher tier grants more power per action and unlocks resources that lower tiers simply cannot harvest. Each tool also carries a quality, from common to legendary, which decides how many runic modifiers it accepts and how far it can be tempered.
| Quality | Slots | Max temper |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 0 | 3 |
| Uncommon | 1 | 5 |
| Rare | 2 | 7 |
| Epic | 3 | 8 |
| Legendary | 4 | 10 |
Tempering, ` >temper`, repairs a tool and raises its base stats level after level. A tool you care about can be flagged with `
>tools favorite`, which shields it from mass salvaging.
Forging tools is covered by the crafting guide, using them to harvest by the jobs guide.
Crafting
Crafting turns what you harvest into ingots, tools, potions and gear. It happens at stations, and most of them work on a delay, in three beats.
- Start the craft at the station you want, for example `
- Wait: the recipe has a crafting time.
- Come back and claim the result with `claim` — that is the moment the item and the experience land.
Eight stations exist in total, the Farm ones included. The furnace and the crafting table are open from the start; the others, including the alembic and the jeweler, must be unlocked first. ` >station` (alias `>stations`) reviews them all.
Every craftable item has its own mastery, over ten levels. It only rises when you claim a finished craft, and pays up to 20% less time and 10% fewer ingredients; at level 10, tools and rings no longer come out in common quality.
A tool you no longer need can be salvaged: the bench returns 25% of the resources spent crafting and tempering it, and destroys the tool.
Stations, recipes and the unlock chain: see the crafting guide.
The Economy: Endercoins, Shops and Trading
The game's currency is the [missing " EnderCoin" value]. It buys from merchants, upgrades your trade licences and pays for most services.
` >shop` opens the shop of the area you are standing in. Three merchants keep one: Thalor in the [missing " Village" value], Myrrha in the [missing " Capital" value] and
Selene at the [missing " Farm" value]. Their stock rotates every day at midnight UTC, and the affinity you earn by trading with them — six tiers, from neutral to revered — unlocks discounts, higher buy limits and exclusive tool ranges.
` >trade` swaps items with another player: the offer stays open for 24 hours, then expires. How much you can trade each day depends on your trade licence, bought at the [missing " Village" value] shop and upgradable up to level 12.
Merchants and affinity live in the shops guide, licences and limits in the trading guide.
The Daily Routine
Part of your progression does not depend on Mana but on showing up. These commands are worth running every day:
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This routine is detailed in the common gameplay guide, the quests guide and the achievements guide.
What You Build Over Time
Once the loop is second nature, five systems take over. None is required to start, and they all stack:
| System | What it brings | Command |
|---|---|---|
| Farm | Crops that grow while you are away, from the seeds foraging brings back. | ` |
| Pets | Companions to raise, who lead expeditions in your place and grant bonuses. | ` |
| Cards | A collection of characters to summon, trade and complete. | ` |
| Altars | Permanent sacrifices that raise your maximum | ` |
| Organizations | A guild of players, with its shares, structures and bonuses — including a job critical bonus. | ` |
Each of these systems has its own guide: Farm, pets, cards, altars and organizations.
Where to Go Next
The guides linked from this article take each part further. If you only read three after this one: jobs, crafting and common gameplay — those are the three systems you will use every single day.