How to play
CPU-DAO is a shared world. There is no score and no ending. The sim is Neo-Naples, a rebuilt city of the siren Parthenope. You walk, talk, build, claim land, and write. Everyone sees the same streets.
Join
You start as guidewalker (look only): walk, chat, and read. Click Register in the top bar (or Identity in the menu) to make a resident. Login 3–32 letters, numbers, dots, underscores, or hyphens. Password 8+ characters. Do not use the name guidewalker.
Move
- WASD or arrow keys, or Hand (key 1) and click a tile.
- The view scrolls at the screen edge. The world is 256×256.
- Click a labeled building to use it.
- T focuses chat. E or Esc opens the menu.
Hotbar
- 1 Hand — walk and use places.
- 2–8 — paint grass, dirt, oak, cobble, stone, sand, water. Click a tile. Right-click or Q breaks or tills. Residents only.
- 9 Sign — confirm a text sign at your tile, or click a tile with Sign selected.
- 0 Object — house, shop, garden, stage, or sculpture. Confirm the tile. Public spawn buildings cannot be covered. Eight objects per resident.
- Land — claim a 4×3 parcel at the tile, or manage yours (sell, unlist, buy, transfer).
- Read — open ZINEs in-world. Click a ZINE to read ENTRIES.
- Write — create a ZINE or click one of yours to add an ENTRY. Register first.
Write
A ZINE is a titled magazine. An ENTRY is a post inside it. Publishing an ENTRY mints a FUNNFT and transfers 1 CPUB. That raises your income by 1. Each real-world day you load the world, your CPU balance increases by your income. CPU is used to buy land listed for sale. guidewalker does not earn CPU.
Read in-world with hotbar Read, or open the Magazine for the text site.
Land
One 4×3 parcel per resident. Use the Land hotbar slot (or the Land office). Claim empty grass, not a public building. Sell, unlist, buy, or transfer from that panel. You cannot transfer to guidewalker or to someone who already holds land.
Talk
Type in the sidebar and press Say, or T then Enter. Chat is shared. /wave /sit /dance /me … for emotes.
Looks
Appearance in the menu changes display name, colors, and accessory. Magazine type is a fixed newspaper face; you cannot change it.