Items and economy across worlds

The core risk

A modified server can mint unlimited currency or legendary items. Every agreement therefore acts as a customs policy.

Provenance

Items have a global id origin.server/uuidv7. The origin world signs the item at creation; the signature travels with it. When an item returns to its origin, it is checked against the origin’s own records, which prevents duplication.

Unknown item kinds

Worlds may define their own kinds (svet-a:dragon_axe). Each such kind must declare a fallback from the shared core: namespace. A world that does not know the kind either accepts it as the fallback with the given parameters or rejects it, according to its import policy.

Currencies

Gold coins are physical items in the player’s inventory (category currency). They are not a separate account balance and are not converted: only the number of coins travels between worlds, one for one. A coin that crosses a portal is simply an item in the travel ticket, so it is limited by the inventory capacity of the player, is dropped into the grave on death, and can be looted like any other item.

Because coins are not converted, a world cannot protect itself through an exchange rate. Each agreement is the customs policy instead:

  • import.currency: count allows coins to arrive; deny (default) keeps them at the border. The import limits of items (daily_limit_per_player) apply to coins as well.

  • A per-agreement daily cap on coins entering the world bounds the damage of a peer that mints coins without restraint; an operator can lower it or close the portal.

  • Coins taken out of a world are removed there in the same two-phase handover as every other item, so they cannot be spent twice.

  • The 100 starting coins are granted only when the player’s record is created in the home world; arriving as a guest never grants them again.

Coins in the inventory

A coin stack holds 10,000 coins. Coins are the only item that may occupy several slots, so the amount a player can carry is limited only by the free inventory slots, and the number of coins that may cross a portal is not limited by the agreement’s item limits beyond what the world chooses to set. Existing balances were moved from the former balance column into the inventory by migration 0015_gold_in_inventory.sql; the API still reports the exact amount as stats.gold and in a grave’s gold field.

Portal toll

Using a portal costs 2 coins. One coin is credited to each of the two players whose cooperation created the portal (one per end), even when that player is currently playing in another world. Because a coin is an inventory item, a credit that cannot be delivered at once waits in the account’s inbox and is added when the player is next available at their home world. The toll travels with the travel ticket, so no coin is created or lost. (Planned: the toll is part of the travel handover, not yet implemented.)

Worlds with very different price levels can be abused by carrying coins back and forth. Operators are expected to set caps accordingly, or to deny coins in one direction.

Custom content packs

  • Content-addressed by hash, signed by the world, cached by clients.

  • Data only: meshes (glTF), textures, definitions.

  • No executable code in packs. Custom logic, if ever needed, runs only server-side as sandboxed WASM.