Welcome to CoinRepublik. Take a breath — you are not behind, you are not late, and you cannot break anything today. This is a world where you build a town, hire people, produce goods, trade with thousands of other real players, and slowly grow a small republic that is genuinely yours. The twist that makes this place different from any other browser game is simple: the gold you earn here is backed by real 24k gold and can one day be withdrawn as actual cryptocurrency. So while we are going to play, learn and have fun, every smart decision you make has a little real-world weight behind it.
Day 1 has exactly one job: get comfortable. We are not going to build anything yet. We are going to walk around, look at your starting town, peek inside your inventory, and learn the single most important concept in the entire game — Energy. Master Energy on day one and every other day becomes easier. Ignore it and you will spend your first week confused about why you "can't do anything." Let us make sure that is never you.
Step 1: Say hello to your town
Open the Home → Town page. This is your home base, the place where everything you ever build will physically sit. You will see a map made of land patches — small plots of ground. Some are already yours and ready to use; beyond them are over a thousand more you can claim later. In the middle sits your City Hall, the administrative heart of your town. Every road you build connects back to it, and it is where you will recruit your very first citizen tomorrow. For now, just look. Pan around. Notice the empty patches waiting for houses, farms and workshops. This emptiness is not a problem — it is potential.
Step 2: Check what you own
Head to Inventory → Balances. This is your wallet. You will likely see two kinds of money: a tiny amount of gold (the premium, crypto-backed currency) and some local currency — the everyday money of the country your town sits in, such as IDR, RON or GBP. Gold is rare and precious; you use it for special things like buying new land (0.1 gold per patch) or premium features. Local currency is your day-to-day cash for wages, materials and trading. Now glance at Inventory → Raw Materials and Inventory → Products. Raw materials are the basic inputs of the economy — wood, stone, titanium, gold ore. Products are finished goods made from them — food, clothes, and more. You may have a small starter kit waiting. Knowing what you start with tells you what you can build first.
Step 3: Understand Energy — really understand it
At the top of almost every page is your Energy meter. Energy is the fuel for everything you do: construction burns it, production burns it, working a job burns it. Without Energy you are a citizen standing still. Here are the rules that matter, and they never change:
- Your Energy is capped at 1000. You cannot store a single point more.
- It regenerates naturally at just 1 point per hour. That is slow — on purpose.
- Almost every meaningful action consumes Energy. Working a job, for example, costs roughly 5 Energy per hour.
- You can restore Energy instantly by consuming food, drinks, wine or cigars — small items that give anywhere from 1 to 9+ points each.
The mistake every new player makes
They let Energy sit at the full 1000 cap "to save it." But regeneration STOPS when you are full — so a maxed-out bar that is doing nothing is wasted potential leaking away every hour. The fix is a habit: keep your Energy working. Spend it on building, producing or earning, then let it climb back up. Idle Energy is the only resource in this game you can lose just by hesitating.
Think of Energy like a phone battery that slowly recharges no matter what — but the charger stops the instant it hits 100%. You would never leave it plugged in at full while you had things to do. Same here. The rhythm of a healthy CoinRepublik player is: spend Energy productively, let it refill, spend again. Once that rhythm becomes second nature, you have learned the deepest lesson of your first week.
Step 4: Try a consumable (optional but fun)
If your starter kit includes any food or drink, open Inventory → Products, consume one item, and watch your Energy meter tick up. That little jump is your first taste of the Energy economy: later you will produce these items yourself, or buy them cheaply on the market, and use them to power through big building projects. There is a sensible limit — you can use up to five of one type per day — so it is a steady boost, not an infinite cheat. But knowing the trick early means you will never be stranded at zero when something important needs doing.
Why all of this matters
It is tempting to rush — to build five things and hire ten people on the first afternoon. Resist that. CoinRepublik rewards players who understand the loop before they sprint around it. Today you learned the shape of your world (a town made of patches around a City Hall), the contents of your pockets (gold, local currency, raw materials, products), and the heartbeat that powers all of it (Energy: capped at 1000, regenerating 1 per hour, spent by nearly everything, refilled by consumables). That is a genuinely strong foundation, and it took only a few minutes.
Tomorrow we put that foundation to work. Day 2 is about people: you will build your first house and welcome your very first citizen — the worker who will let you actually produce and earn. Everything from here grows from that. For now, take the short quiz below. Each correct answer pays you 0.0001 gold straight from the game fund, and every question you answer is a small step toward graduating this school. There is no pressure to answer at all — but you came this far, so why not start earning?
How rewards work
Every question pays 0.0001 gold for a correct answer, paid instantly by the game fund. Answer at least 90% of all 70 questions across the week correctly and you graduate as a Tutorials Master — a one-time 0.0003 gold bonus and a badge, sent straight to your email. Important: each answer, right or wrong, locks that question for good — so read carefully before you choose. There is never any penalty for a wrong answer beyond locking it.