The Complete Manual

Pick a username and you are in — no wallet connection required. You can optionally connect a MetaMask wallet on the Robinhood chain to tag your account for on-chain rewards; you can also recover an existing character by entering the same username later. You spawn at the Highgate plaza with a starter kit.

World of Hoods is a live multiplayer world. Other online players move around you in real time, you share one chat, and you can challenge each other to duels in the arena.

Everything is mouse + keyboard, and works on touch screens too.

The map is one seamless island. Highgate plaza anchors the north-east; the wilderness grows more dangerous as you travel south and east. You can build your own house anywhere on open grass (see the Housing chapter).

Click a tree with an axe to chop wood; click rock or coal nodes with a pickaxe to mine. Gathering levels up your separate Gathering skill (the green bar) which unlocks farming and higher-tier activities. Materials are also the backbone of housing — every house costs wood and stone to build.

Melee only — click a mob and your hood closes the gap and swings automatically. Arena mobs (slimes, zombies, brutes) are the training ground. Wilderness mobs (dire wolves, skeletons, the Warlord) hit harder and drop far better loot.

Leveling raises your max HP and base damage. Armor reduces incoming damage. Upgrade your weapon from wooden to iron to steel, then save for the $WoH-only Hood Blade.

Click the rippling fishing spots around Mirror Lake with a rod to catch raw fish. Walk to the Roast Pit on the shore and a Cook Fish prompt appears — each cook turns 1 raw fish + 1 wood into a Cooked Fish you can eat or sell.

Once your Gathering skill is high enough, visit the farm signpost to plant crops in open plots. Crops grow over real time; come back to harvest them for gold and Gathering XP. Farming never pays $WoH — it's a steady gold and XP sink, perfect while you wait on node respawns.

This is the heart of World of Hoods. Six rich nobles — Lord Pemberly, Baroness Vex, Count Grubb, Duke Fontleroy, Lady Goldworth, and Magnate Orin — wander their estates in Crownhaven's Gilded Quarter, marked by gold top hats, a bobbing $, and pulsing gold dots on your minimap. Walk up and hit the big Rob button.

Every rob is a gamble: most attempts succeed and pay gold that scales with your level — but get caught and a bodyguard clobbers you for a chunk of your HP. Each noble's purse needs time to refill after a successful hit, so rotate the whole quarter instead of camping one target. The goal tracker at the top of your screen always points an arrow at the nearest noble with a full purse.

On top of gold, every successful rob rolls a server-side loot table of 16 real tokens: the CashCat memecoin plus 15 tokenized stocks on the Robinhood chain — AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, GOOGL, META, MSFT, AMZN, COIN, PLTR, AMD, ORCL, INTC, CRCL, HOOD, and SpaceX. Drops are tiny fractional shares — each one worth a few cents, sized at the live market price so a pumping token never inflates a drop's value.

One ticker is crowned the Hot Stock of the day — flagged with a flame on the ticker tape — and drops at double the normal rate all day. Your haul lives in the Portfolio (the Stocks button in the HUD): holdings, live street value in USD, payout history, and gifting to other players by username.

The scrolling ticker tape at the top of your screen, the sparkline charts, and your portfolio's street value are all driven by live on-chain prices. A price oracle batches every token's contract address to DexScreener, picks the highest-liquidity trading pair for each, and refreshes every 60 seconds — including the real 24-hour percentage change.

Between refreshes, prices get a tiny deterministic wiggle so the tape feels alive, but the anchor is always the real market quote. Tokens without an active trading pair yet fall back to realistic reference prices and go fully live the moment a pair exists.

The Stocks button also opens the full Stock Market District: an Exchange floor charting all 16 tokens, an Events floor with the live Stock Rush board and King of Wall Street throne, and a Seasons floor with this week's five competitive leaderboards.

At the top of every UTC hour a world event fires, rotating between three flavors. The event banner under your goal tracker counts down to the next one, so you always know when to be in the Gilded Quarter.

Every half hour, the last ten minutes (:20–:30 and :50–:00) are a Stock Rush: a live race counting every successful rob. When the window closes, the top 5 robbers are automatically paid a slice of the day's Hot Stock, first place earning over 6x the fifth-place prize. The live board — your score, the leader, and the countdown — shows in the banner strip and the Wall Street district.

One player at a time holds the King of Wall Streetcrown. Beat the sitting king in a duel to take it — and pickpocket 10% of their carried gold (capped at 2,000) on the way out. The crown is worth defending: the king's rob drops are boosted starting at 1.25x and growing 0.05x per hour held, up to a 2x cap. Every coronation is announced in world chat.

Separately, every duel is a Portfolio War: the winner skims 5% of the loser's unpaid stock loot (capped per token), transferred atomically server-side. Carrying a fat unpaid portfolio into a duel is a real risk — get paid out first.

Every week is a fresh season with five leaderboards, all computed from the append-only event ledger since the week started: Portfolio Value (street value of everything you looted), Most Robs, PvP Wins, Rare Stock Hunters (rarest tickers looted), and Top Crews.

Crews are player-made gangs (create one for free, one crew per player, up to 12 members). Your crew's season score is the sum of every member's loot — recruit active robbers and climb the board together.

Everything you loot accrues to a server ledger, and payouts send the real tokens on-chain. Robinhood-chain stocks (and CashCat) transfer as ERC-20s to your linked 0x wallet, with every transaction confirmed by receipt before it counts — a failed or pending send never advances your paid balance.

Your balance uses an earned-vs-paid watermark: only the confirmed on-chain amount ever advances the paid marker, so a failed transaction can never eat your balance, and nothing can be double-paid. If a token's treasury isn't funded yet, your loot keeps accruing and becomes claimable the moment it is.

Highgate's buildings are no longer just scenery. Approach any of them and a glowing action prompt appears in the center of your screen — click it (or tap) to open that building's interface.

The world has grown, and with it four new activity hubs. Each is reached by walking up to the structure and clicking its glowing prompt.

Step into the Bank to open your vault. It has two tabs: Gold and Items. Anything in the vault is completely safe — dying never touches it, and no other player can reach it.

Because death costs 10% of your carried gold, depositing your earnings before a risky Wilderness run is the single best way to protect your wealth.

Enter the Casino (or walk up to the wheel beside it) for one free spin every 12 hours. Extra spins cost 75 $WoH — half burned, half to the treasury — and never reset your free timer. Prizes range from gold and potions up to the $WoH jackpot.

Gold is the soft currency for everyday items. $WoH is the premium in-game currency — and the top seasonal earners are paid real tokenized stocks on-chain. Open the Marketplace from the HUD cart anywhere to buy gear, sell loot, or swap gold for $WoH. Every exchange routes 5% to the arena treasury.

The Tradetab is a full player-to-player auction house: list items priced in gold or $WoH, and anyone can buy them even while you're offline. All currency moves server-side, so balances are always conserved and tamper-proof.

Open the Housespanel from the HUD home icon. On the Build tab, give your house a name, pick a style, and hit Build — it's placed exactly where you're standing and instantly becomes visible to every other player, with your name floating above it.

You can build on any open patch of grass, away from town, water, and other houses. Houses are permanent and server-saved, so yours stays put whether you're online or not.

The My Houses tab lists everything you own. For each house you can:

Any house listed for sale shows a gold "For Sale" nameplate in the world. Walk up to it and a Buy this House prompt appears, or open the Houses panel to see the price and owner. When you buy, the price is debited from you and credited to the seller in a single transaction, and ownership transfers to you instantly.

Because the entire trade is resolved on the server, currency is always conserved — a house can never be double-sold, and no client tampering can mint gold or $WoH. The house keeps its location; only its owner and name belong to you now.

Open the scroll icon for your daily quests: defeat mobs, chop wood, mine ore, catch and cook fish, brave the Wilderness, earn gold, and spin the wheel. Rewards include gold, XP, and $WoH. Quests reset every day at midnight.

Reach the dungeon portal with a Dungeon Key to start a run. Tiered waves of mobs spawn and don't respawn; clear them all to earn the tier reward. The boss's HP scales to your damage when summoned, so it's always a real fight. Dying aborts the run — bring heals.

Open the PVP panel to challenge another online player to a duel. Duels are resolved on the server based on combat power, and the winner is credited the $ARENA reward automatically. It's a fast way to test your build against real opponents.

The leaderboard ranks players by $WoH earned in-game. The top 5 each day receive a Dungeon Key, and the top earners each season are paid real tokenized stocks — $TSLA, $NVDA, SpaceX and more — on-chain to their linked Robinhood-chain wallet. Earning through play, not trading, is what counts toward your rank.

World of Hoods is a Next.js 16 (App Router) + React 19 app. The game itself is a hand-rolled 2D engine — no game framework — rendering an isometric-style tile world to a single <canvas> at 60fps. Persistence is Neon Postgres via Drizzle ORM (fully parameterized queries), and on-chain rails use viem on the Robinhood chain (EVM) for wallets, payments, and token payouts.

No client is ever trusted with value. Casino outcomes, rob loot rolls, duel results, marketplace trades, bank moves, and house sales are all decided and settled in API routes against Postgres — the client only renders the result. Cross-player transfers use atomic conditional updates (debit only if balance covers it), so currency is conserved by construction and concurrent buyers can never double-spend or double-win.

A player's real id is their credential, so it never leaves the server. Everything broadcast to other clients — nearby players, duel rosters, spectate feeds — carries a one-way HMAC-derived public id instead. Server routes resolve a public id back to a real player only within a safe candidate set (online players for duels, your own friends for removal), and every value-touching route validates id shape up front, returning a clean 403 for anything else.

Payout engines advance the paid watermark only after a confirmed Robinhood-chain transaction receipt, making double-pays structurally impossible and failed sends harmless. Treasury private keys live in server-only environment variables; price data is read-only from a public aggregator; and the game never asks players for a private key after the one-time signup reveal.