Field Manual
Getting Started
Welcome to the shore, master. You land with a name, a purse, and not much else. This page covers the first sixty minutes — enough to plant a flag, hire your first hand, and not get jumped by the next one off the boat.
What is Slves?
Slves is an open-world pixel-art MMO. You play a slaver on a shore where every other player wants the same dirt you do. You buy and train slaves, build a farm, dig stone and iron, fight in the deadzone, and try to leave the season worth more than you arrived with. Every coin you earn settles in $SLVE on Solana when you cash out.
Your first hour
- Step 01Sign in
Use Discord, X, or your wallet on the landing page. That gets you a master account that follows you across sessions.
- Step 02Pick a name
Your first time in the world you'll be asked to name yourself. You can rename later by re-running the tutorial.
- Step 03Visit the market barn
It's the big red building in the centre of the map. Walk into it. The auction house opens — every slave, seed, sack and lump of iron there was listed by another master.
- Step 04Buy a wretch
Wretches are the cheapest class. They're slow and a little dim but they'll work a hoe or chop a tree all day. Spend your first coin on one.
- Step 05Stake a corner
Press B to open the build menu. Drop a Crop Patch + a Silo somewhere off the main path. The silo's circle marks the radius your auto-farmers reach.
- Step 06Set them to work
Click your slave, assign them to the silo. Give them seeds and they'll plant, water, harvest, deposit on a loop while you do other things.
Read the HUD
- Top-left — your name, fame, cruel, coins, owned slave count, ping.
- Bottom-centre bars — HP (red), Stamina (sky), Rage (orange). Rage builds when you slap your own slaves, and every point of rage adds 9% damage to your next swing.
- Action bar — 4 hotkey slots for tools. Drag from your inventory to bind them.
- Runaways pill — a red chip appears above the bars whenever wild slaves are loose in the deadzone. See Deadzone & runaways.
Common keys
| WASD / Arrows | Move |
| E | Interact with the thing you're standing on |
| B | Build menu |
| I | Inventory |
| C | Craft menu |
| X | Whistle (recall every slave you own) |
| F | Attack (or just left-click) |
| 1–4 | Hotbar slots (axe, pickaxe, hoe, etc.) |
| Esc | Close whatever's open |