Raw material
Lumber
Where every city starts. Wood goes into almost every recipe and into every building before anything else does.
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One island.
Everyone builds
on it.
Plotopia is a city-builder played on a single shared map. You claim a parcel, put a building on it and staff it with citizens — and what your neighbours build changes what yours produces. There is one world, and everybody is in it.
A1 · 41:18unclaimedWhat it is
A city-builder where the map is the mechanic
Most builders let you put anything anywhere. Here, where a building stands decides what it is worth — and the parcels around you belong to other people.
01
One shared island
No instances, no private worlds. The parcel next to yours belongs to somebody, and if it is empty, somebody can claim it tomorrow.
02
Build, staff, breed
Thirteen buildings and a population that has to be born, rested and matched to the work. A city is limited by its people long before its materials.
03
Nothing runs on a timer
Close the game for two days and the two days are there when you come back, exactly as they would have been if you had watched them.
The loop
Claim, build, staff, collect, merge
Five things, and you learn all of them in the first half hour. Everything after that is doing them better.
1
Claim
Pick a parcel on the island and make it yours. Where you pick decides more than what you build on it.
2
Build
Put down one of thirteen buildings. Raw material, refinery, utility, or one of the three that look after your people.
3
Staff
Assign citizens. Each building cares about exactly one of their three work stats, and a well-matched crew is worth several badly-matched ones.
4
Collect
Buildings run in cycles and bank what they make. Nothing runs on a timer — come back in two days and the two days are there.
5
Merge
Two finished buildings side by side become one bigger building covering both parcels. That is how you reach the top levels.
Thirteen buildings
Raw material, refinery, utility — and three that look after people
Every one of them grows through seven levels, and the last two are merges: two finished buildings side by side become one that covers both parcels.
Raw material
Sand Pit
Nothing is made of sand alone — but brick, glass and concrete all begin here.
Raw material
Metal Works
The scarce one. Metal decides how fast the refined half of your chain can run.
Refinery
Brickworks
Wood and sand go in, brick comes out — the first real step up the chain.
Refinery
Concrete Plant
What the upper levels are built from, and the only thing a Factory accepts.
Refinery
Glassworks
Glazing for the tall buildings, and the ingredient a brewery cannot do without.
Refinery
Factory
The deepest step in the chain. It runs slowly and rewards patience.
Refinery
Beverage Factory
The one line that makes no building material. It feeds your population.
Utility
Water Works
Every producer draws water at the start of every cycle. This is where it comes from.
Utility
Energy Plant
The other half of the infrastructure. No power, no cycle — for anybody.
Population
Hospital
Where citizens are born. Two rested parents, one brood, one new citizen.
Population
Residential
Where citizens rest. Skip it and your whole city stops at once, two days in.
Income
Office
Makes no resource at all. It earns instead — and its influence is what decides how much.
The chain
Ten resources, three steps deep
Three come out of the ground. Five are refined from those, one step at a time — wood and sand become brick, metal and sand become glass, concrete becomes appliances. And two, water and power, are infrastructure: every producer in the game burns both at the start of every cycle, whether or not they appear in its recipe.
Which means a Water Works has customers whether or not anybody trades with it — and a blackout is everybody's problem at once.
Wood
Sand
Metal
Brick
Glass
Concrete
Appliance
Beverage
Water
EnergyThe ten resources, as they appear in the game
Citizens
Your buildings do not run themselves
Every citizen has three work stats, and every building cares about exactly one of them. A high-Intellect clerk is wasted in a mine. Matching them is the lever you have.
Common
lower drain
Uncommon
lower drain
Rare
lower drain
Epic
lower drain
Legendary
lower drain
Strength
Craft
Intellect
Illustration — every citizen rolls its own three
They tire, and they are born — not bought
Work costs stamina. A rarer citizen spends it more slowly, but nobody works forever: they need a Residential to rest in, and new ones come from a Hospital, where two rested parents produce one child whose rarity is rolled.
Which is why a city that skips housing runs beautifully for two days and then stops all at once.
Neighbours
What stands next to what
Every building looks at the parcels around it and reacts to what it finds. A power plant lifts the refineries near it. Housing suffers next to heavy industry, while the industry does not care at all — and that asymmetry is what makes districts form without a single rule telling anyone to zone.
The block one building reacts to — half of it is somebody else's
Range
The block around you
A square of parcels centred on the building — near enough to plan around, far enough that your neighbours are in it.
Effect
A multiplier, not a bonus
A well-placed building produces several times what the same building produces in a bad spot. It is the largest single lever in the game.
Catch
Not all of it is yours
Half the parcels in range belong to other players. You can plan around them — you cannot control them.
Shared world
You are building next to real people
One island, one map, one economy. You see other cities go up around yours as they happen, and parcels, citizens and resources all change hands on the same marketplace.
Get in
Open it and start building
Plotopia runs in your browser. There is nothing to download, nothing to install, and no separate account to create — your wallet is your identity on the island.
Nothing to install
MetaMask to connect
Balances in Topia
You sign a message — you do not send a transaction
To join, you connect a wallet and sign a short text message proving the address is yours. That signature is free: it is not a transaction, it costs no gas, and it moves nothing. It is how the island knows which city is yours.
Without connecting, you can still look around — you just cannot build.
Getting started
- Open
play.plotopia.orgin a desktop browser. - Connect your wallet and sign the message it shows you.
- Claim a parcel, put a Lumber Camp on it, and assign your first citizen.
- Something broken or confusing? Tell us — we read everything.
Questions
The things people ask first
Do I need to download anything?
No. Plotopia runs in your browser at play.plotopia.org — there is no installer, no launcher and no client to keep updated. A desktop browser and a mouse is the whole setup.
What do I need to join?
A wallet. Plotopia uses MetaMask to identify you: you connect it, sign a short message proving the address is yours, and that address becomes your city on the island. Signing costs nothing — it is a signature, not a transaction, so there is no gas and nothing is sent.
What is the currency?
Topia, ticker TPA. Plot purchases, the player-to-player marketplace and the fees the world charges are all denominated in it, and your balance sits with your wallet. Topia is the in-game currency — the Founder Edition pre-sale is a separate thing and is paid in USDC on Base.
Can I look around before connecting?
Yes. Without a wallet connected you can open the island, pan across it and see what everybody has built. What you cannot do is claim, build or trade.
Can my friends build on the same island?
That is the whole idea. There is one world and one map; the parcel next to yours belongs to somebody, and what they build on it changes what your buildings produce.
Does it work on a phone?
It is built for a desktop browser. A city on a shared island needs a map you can see and a pointer you can aim; a phone screen gives you neither.
There is one island. Come and take a parcel.
It opens in your browser. Connect a wallet, pick a spot, and you are building inside five minutes.