🌿 Grow Guide

From a cold start to your first growing plant.

• Create your account

  On the welcome screen choose “New account”. You’ll get a Player ID and an API key shown once — save the key; it’s how you sign in from another device.

• Claim your starting tokensLive

  Open your Profile and claim your starting GROW tokens. You’ll spend them on seeds, pods, care, and upgrades.

• Plant your first seedLive

  On the Grow dashboard, pick a seed in your Starter Pod and tap “Plant here”. Your plant appears as a card you can open.

• How pods work

  A Pod is a grow chamber that holds plants and sets the climate (temperature, humidity, light, CO₂). Higher-tier pods hold more plants and automate care.

• What to do after planting

  Open the plant to water, feed, and watch its vitals. Keep it healthy through each stage until it’s harvest-ready.

How a grow actually works.

• Seeds

  Each seed is a strain with its own genetics — flowering time, yield, difficulty, and trait DNA. Buy more seeds in the Lab.

• Plant stages

  Plants progress: seed → germination → seedling → vegetative → flowering → late flower → harvest. Each stage has different needs.

• Care actionsLive

  Water and Feed keep levels up; Treat Pests / Treat Disease clear problems. Over- and under-doing it both hurt health, so read the vitals.

• Growth timing

  Growth is a real-time, server-authoritative simulation — plants advance on their own schedule, computed honestly on the server. Care nudges health and outcomes, not the clock.

• What 10× QA speed meansIn progress

  During testing, the ⚡10× badge asks the server’s test clock to fast-forward so testers see progression in minutes. It’s a QA/testing tool, not a reward — and it only works on test backends (it’s disabled on the live production backend, where it stops and tells you).

• HarvestLive

  When a plant is harvest-ready, harvest it. Yield weight and quality are computed on the server from how well you grew it — no way to cheat the roll.

• Rewards

  Selling a harvest credits GROW to your wallet through an auditable ledger. Every earn and spend is recorded.

Where strains and genetics live.

• What the Lab is for

  The Lab is your genetics bench: buy seeds, inspect strain DNA, and cross strains to breed new ones.

• BreedingLive

  Cross two strains to create a new one. The genome is blended and the result is generated on the server (no seed-shopping the RNG).

• GenBank & MicroscopeLive

  Browse the strains you own and inspect bud genetics. These views are read-only for now.

• What’s expandingIn progress

  Deeper genetics — trait stability, lineage/provenance, and richer crossing tools — are being expanded over time.

Buy and sell with other growers.

• What the Market is for

  List seeds and harvests for sale at a fixed price or as an auction, and buy from other players.

• What’s live nowLive

  Creating listings/auctions and buying are wired to the real economy — sales post to the GROW ledger.

• Honesty note

  If any market action ever doesn’t complete, the UI will tell you plainly instead of pretending. No silent buttons.

Seasonal competition for the best growers.

• What it’s for

  The Grow Cup is where growers will enter their best harvests/strains to compete for rankings and prizes.

• Current statusComing soon

  Competition features are being prepared. Treat anything you see here as early/coming-soon until labeled live.

We build in the open. Here’s the honest state of each system.

• Live

  Grow loop (plant → care → harvest → sell): working.

• Live

  Market (list / auction / buy): working.

• Live

  Lab breeding + strain views: working.

• Live

  University (courses, perks): working.

• In progress

  Notifications & activity feed: being expanded.

• In progress

  Deeper genetics / lineage tools: being expanded.

• Coming soon

  Grow Cup / competitions: planned, not live yet.

• Not wired

  Curing room / on-chain rewards: NOT wired in this build.

• GrowVerse by Kudbee

  GrowVerse / GrowPod Empire is an early, live build by Kudbee. We build transparently — live systems, placeholders, and upcoming features are labeled clearly.

• Built on Algorand

  The economy runs on an auditable in-game GROW ledger, with an Algorand on-chain asset layer for rare strains (TestNet today; an offline mock by default). On-chain minting is optional and not required to play.

• Early testers

  Thanks for testing early. Things will change quickly, some systems are still being built, and your feedback shapes the game.