Ether Mines · Wiki

Genesis +50 Gwei · a title

1. Harvest wood — Mine a tree trunk, by hand.
2. Craft a wooden pickaxe — Crafting (E): 3 planks. A log gives 4 planks.
3. Mine an ether crystal — The blue ore in the rock. Stone is cut with a pickaxe.
4. Pet an animal — Right-click (or tap) a friendly creature.
5. Reach the City — Follow the validators path from the Atrium to the great diamond.
6. Sleep in a bed — Place a bed, then use it after dusk: it rests you, and it becomes your home.

The Forge +100 Gwei · a title

Crystal answers to crystal. Forge a pickaxe from it, and the geodes deep below will open for you.

1. Forge the crystal pickaxe — 2 planks + 3 crystals. Unique item, ×5 mining.
2. Open a geode — Below layer 20, in the large caves. Only the crystal pickaxe opens them.
3. Forge the pure ether pickaxe — 4 pure shards + 4 crystals + 2 planks.
4. Forge a weapon — Craft a Volt Blade or a Pure Ether Blade to fight back.
5. Defeat a hostile mob — Shadows lurk in caves, guardians watch dark validators. Fight one off.

The Awakening +200 Gwei · a title

Under everything lies the genesis rock. Break it, forge a validator heart, and give a dark validator its light back.

1. Reach the genesis rock — Right at the bottom of the world, just above the bedrock. Only the pure ether pickaxe can break it.
2. Craft a validator heart — 1 genesis fragment + 2 pure shards + 4 crystals.
3. Relight an old validator — Follow the compass to the ruins, then right-click (or tap) the dark validator.
4. Attest a validator — Objectives tab → Validators: visit one of your validators and attest it to collect its Gwei and keep it active.

The Network +400 Gwei · a title

One validator is a spark. A network is a fire. Relight more, defend the Atrium, and face the guardians of the towers and the depths.

1. Relight three validators — One dark validator sleeps in each ruin. The compass in the Objectives tab points to the nearest.
2. Trade with another player — Open Trade, offer something, and have them accept.
3. Defend the Atrium — Every hour, for its first 10 minutes, corrupted nodes converge on the Atrium. Destroy one.
4. Defeat the Plasma Core — Climb a tower past the wardens on each floor: the Plasma Core waits at the top, next to its treasure.
5. Earn a Genesis Titan Fang — Defeat the Genesis Titan in the depths.

The Merge +600 Gwei · a title

Up in the sky floats a sanctum where work and stake were made one. Its twin guardians never fall alone: strike them down together.

1. Climb to the Merge Sanctum — A floating arena far from the Atrium: the compass points to the nearest. Its Beacon Stair spirals up from the ground.
2. Bring down the twins together — Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake guard the sanctum. One struck down rises again after 12 s unless the other falls too.
3. Wear the Merge Aegis — Open your chest, pick the Aegis, and equip it.

Circuits side chapter +100 Gwei · a title

When you have a moment: the Circuits Complex, east of here, has a working example of every gate trick. Copy them, then make your own.

1. Light a lamp through a gate — Craft an AND, OR or NOT gate (Crafting, Circuits), then wire it with cable so its output powers a lamp.
2. Build a two-key door — Wire two pressure plates into an AND gate, its output into a door: it only opens when both are pressed at once.
3. Build a self-oscillating blinker — Loop a NOT gate's own output back into its own input with cable: no clock needed, it blinks on its own.
4. Build a latch that remembers — Wire an OR gate: one input from a plate, another looped back from its own output, into a lamp. Tap the plate once — it stays lit. A working example stands in the Circuits Complex.
5. Build a coin flip — Feed a self-oscillating NOT loop and a plate into an AND gate, its output into a latch. A quick tap lands on whichever phase the loop was in — too fast to call.
6. Leave your mark: three gates — Keep an AND, an OR and a NOT gate of your own standing somewhere in the world (on your plot: the Circuits Complex is public, nothing can be built there).

Shut down a validator 2026-10-26

• In the Validators tab, Shut down sends one of yours back to the ruins, dark again, for anyone to relight.
• Make room under your three, then relight another ruin to try for a rarer one: three epics, why not?
• What it earned until then is paid first; its seal goes with it.

New faces, and your inventory 2026-10-26

• In the Workshop: five pairs of eyes and two mouths to change your face, a Full Beard and Spiky Hair.
• A new Inventory aisle in the shop: everything you own, by kind (head, mouth, eyes, body, back, trail, tool, companion, outfit, title, emote), to wear or take off in a tap.
• Press K for a small menu of your gestures, and make one at once.

Three validators each 2026-10-25

• Each player can now run three validators at most: the other ruins are left for the newcomers.
• Those who ran more keep their three rarest; the others went back to dark ruins, ready to be relit.

Helms, gauntlets, leggings and amulets 2026-10-25

• Four new pieces to craft, each in three kinds that help their own way, and they add up: Volt mines and moves faster, Pure Ether hits harder with a blade, Genesis brings your hearts back sooner.
• A new Character tab: your character among its slots, click one to choose what to wear, and everything it adds up to below.
• What you wear shows on your character, for everyone around.

Fights that hit harder 2026-10-25

• Chain your blows with a blade: a slash, a backhand, then an overhead chop, each with its arc of light.
• A blow that lands holds a split second and shakes the view; its damage rises from the mob, in gold for a critical one.
• Struck mobs flinch, fallen ones topple over, and a hit you take knocks your head aside.

A world that moves 2026-10-25

• Doors swing open on their hinges, levers tip over, and a chest lifts its lid while you look inside.
• A block you place grows into place; a block you mine flies to you.
• Lie down in a bed, sit on a chair or a sofa, eat at a table: the players around you see it.

Emotes 2026-10-25

• Press G (or the smiley button) for a row of gestures everyone around you sees: Wave, Point, Cheer, Clap and Sit.
• Typing /wave, /cheer, /sit... in the chat does the same.
• Two new gestures in the Workshop aisle of the shop, Dance and Bow: try them on your character before buying.

A new guard 2026-10-25

• On guard, you now hold your blade upright, tip down, in front of you, both hands on the grip.
• A parry shows: for a moment you step aside, the blade raised level above your head. The others see it too.

A new shop 2026-10-25

• The shop now has three aisles: the Store (premium pieces and sets), the Workshop (everything bought with Gwei) and the Wardrobe.
• Each week the Store shows one premium set, with a button to try the whole set on at once.
• Premium sets can be bought whole for less than their pieces; already own some? You only pay for the share you are missing.
• The Wardrobe keeps up to four outfits: save what you wear, and put it all back on in one tap.

Creatures of the land 2026-10-24

• The dunes, forests, plains and snowy peaks have their own creatures now.
• Gas Scorpion, in the dunes at night: it stings from afar with a bolt of gas.
• Phishing Spider, in the forests at night: beware its gold coin, it pounces.
• Pump Slime, on the plains at night: it hops toward you.
• Cold Wallet Yeti, on the snowy peaks, day and night: slow and tough, its blows throw you far.
• Leaves, pink leaves, palm fronds and grass blocks are picked up when you break them, to build with.
• New blocks to lay paths (Crafting → Construction): Dirt Path, Gravel Path and Paving Stones.
• Critical blows: strike while coming down from a jump for 50% more damage, and any blow has a small chance to be critical.
• On your hovercraft, you now turn with it: no more spinning apart from it in a fast turn.
• A player holding the Plasma Pistol now holds it out toward where they aim.

Softer land 2026-10-24

• The edges of steps, cliffs and tree crowns look rounded, like modelling clay: the land reads as one soft mass.
• Grass wraps over the rounded edges, and inside corners curve smoothly too.
• Players and villagers have softer, rounded shapes.
• Your health shows as a life bar instead of a row of hearts: a pale trail shows what a blow just took.
• A creature you strike shows its own life bar over its head for a few seconds.
• Walking backwards is slower than walking forwards.
• Gliding with the Titan’s cape: arms spread like wings, no more running in the air.
• Settings → On screen: hide what you don’t need (position, players online, gear, Gwei, objective, aimed block, names over heads).

The sound of the ground 2026-10-23

• Footsteps, mining and building sound like what they touch again: grass, sand, snow, wood, glass and stone each have their own.

Fairer fights 2026-10-22

• Mobs stop a step away to strike instead of walking into you: your guard and your parries now catch every blow from in front.
• /invite and /kick work again: let a friend build on your plots, or take it back.
• Pink foxes roam the forests again: pet one and it picks you a flower, once a day.

Version 1 2026-10-21

• Your account is your nickname and a password: enter with them on any device to find your game. Got a temporary password? The game asks you to choose your own.
• Plots cost Gwei: 500 for the first, twice as much for each next one, 9 at most per world.
• A wiki, linked from this screen: controls, chapters, crafting, mobs, validators, plots, the shop.
• On a phone: spaced action buttons, a button to ride a hovercraft, and the character stays in view in the shop while you try things on.
• On a phone, drag your finger while firing the pistol to turn and aim.
• This update log, right here.

Animations and models 2026-10-20

• Seen from behind, your blows and your guard match what you see in first person, and the other players see them too.
• Mobs flash when struck, wind up before they strike (raise your guard right then), and burst into cubes when they fall.
• Jumps, landings, runs, swims and ladder climbs have their own moves.
• Every item you hold has its own clay model, doors, fences and plants included.
• Holding jump in the water, you float half in it instead of bouncing on the surface.
• Faster start, and the game keeps where you stand even when you only walk.

Shop, towers and validators 2026-10-19

• The shop sells every look, with variants of outfits, hats, capes, wings, backpacks, trails and pickaxe trims.
• Bigger towers and Merge Sanctum: more room to fight.
• Validators need an attestation once every 8 days, not every day.

The game server 2026-10-18

• Players, mobs, fights and loot now go through the game server: smoother multiplayer and fair fights.
• Front-Runner Boots: worn on your feet, with a dodge (Q, or the lightning button).
• Claiming a plot shows it to you first.

The clay look 2026-10-17

• A new look for the whole world: soft clay shapes, glow, aurora and clouds.
• Guard and parry with a blade: raise it just before a blow and the mob reels.
• Diamond Gliders: hovercrafts to ride, twice as fast and over water too.
• The Mempool: an open-air colosseum and its boss, the Front-Runner.