Player guide
HOW TO PLAY LOBSTERWORLD
A quick path from your first hatch to harvesting, combat, quests, and trading — written for players, not developers.
Start Here: Your First Hour
Connect your Solana wallet, hold enough $LOBSTR to hatch an egg, then hatch it — your lobster's pixel traits and starting stats come from that egg. Pick a display name and choose Server 1 or Server 2. You spawn on the Reef with no tools — the tutorial crab shows where to pick up your Kelp Sickle, Shell Pick, Trap Net, and Builder Claw.
Click the ground to move. Drag tools to hotbar keys 1–6. There is no armor — spacing and healing matter more than cosmetics.
The World at a Glance
The Reef is home base (bank, thermal vent, shops, tutorial). The Kelp Forest is peaceful woods to the south with foraging spots and room to place your Den. The Lagoon is for foraging and cooking at the Thermal Vent grill. The Deep and its extensions are dangerous — you leave a Shell-Grave if you die.
Gathering, Tools, and the Crafting Loop
Kelp Sickles cut kelp, Shell Picks break coral rock and black coral, Trap Nets catch fish and krill, Builder Claws place heat vents and dens. Stacks merge up to 999 per slot. Bank in the Kelp Vault on the Reef when you run low on space.
Combat: Spacing, Tempo, and Rewards
Combat is claw-to-claw only — Crusher Claws and similar weapons. Learn at the Reef armory, then try the Pit for PvP. Predators can rarely drop mounts; they do not drop Pearls today.
Quests, Dailies, and Long Arcs
Follow the tutorial, then check daily quests for harvest X kelp, mine X coral, catch X fish, and defeat X predators. Rewards include Pearls, XP, and sometimes badges.
The Deep, Risk, and Shell-Graves
The Deep has a safe camp in the south. Outside it: predators, PvP, and Shell-Graves. Swim north for the Abyss (the cave gate needs a combat level) or east for the Trench.
Travel light, bank valuables first, and read the full Shell-Graves section in the Game Guide if you want details.
Life Skills: Foraging and Cooking
Forage in Kelp Forest ponds or the Lagoon. Cook raw fish at the Thermal Vent grill on the Lagoon for cooking XP. Heat vents you build are for healing, not cooking fish.
Friends
Add friends, accept requests, and send DMs. See who is online and which realm they are in. Parties and teleport-to-friend are not in the game yet.
Economy, $LOBSTR, and Trading
Pearls buy most items. Open the Marketplace from the HUD cart button anywhere. List items for Pearls, or list Pearls for $LOBSTR — when someone buys with $LOBSTR, the seller gets 95% and 5% goes to the game treasury. You need to hold $LOBSTR in your wallet to hatch and play.
Near the wreck on the Reef, the Whirlpool wheel gives one free spin every 12 hours (average skill level 5 required). Extra paid spins cost $5 USD worth of $LOBSTR — half burned, half to treasury — and do not reset your free timer.