PLAYER GUIDE

How to Play

Your field guide to mining crystal, trading your haul, and earning $CRYS in Crystara.

Getting Started

Crystara is a voxel mine-and-fight world on Solana. You dig glowing crystal out of the caverns, sell it in the village, and the grind turns into $CRYS.

Type a name and hit Play. No wallet is needed to start. You spawn in The Village, a safe town ringed by a fence and full of shops and NPCs. Walk out the gate and the crystal caverns beyond are where you dig and fight.

Controls

Action	Key
Move	W A S D
Look around	Mouse
Mine / Attack	Left click
Switch tool (pickaxe / sword)	1 and 2, or scroll wheel
Jump	Space
Talk to an NPC	E
Open your bag	Tab
Open the map	M
First / third person	V
Pause menu	Esc

Hold the pickaxe to mine crystal. Switch to the sword to fight monsters.

The World

Crystara is one continuous world with a safe hub at its heart.

The Village is a safe town ringed by a fence. You cannot be hurt inside it. Shops and NPCs line the square around a glowing crystal tower.
The Mine is everything beyond the fence. Walk out the village gate and the crystal caverns are where you dig and fight. Head back through the gate any time to bank your haul, heal, and upgrade.

Mining

Out past the village fence, the cavern walls and floor are solid rock you cannot break. The only things you mine are the glowing crystal nodes scattered across the caverns.

Aim your crosshair at a crystal and a tooltip shows its name, how much it sells for, and which pickaxe you need. Left click to mine it. Mining drops crystal into your bag, not COIN. You turn crystal into COIN by selling it to the Merchant.

Crystal has a drop chance. Small teal and purple cave crystal pays out almost every time. The richer nodes only give up their crystal some of the time, so keep swinging. Each node grows back a few minutes after you clear it.

Better pickaxes break richer crystal. Upgrade yours at the Blacksmith:

Pickaxe	Mines
Stone (start)	Teal and purple cave crystal
Iron	Teal crystal nodes
Crystal	Amethyst nodes
Diamond	Gold nodes, the richest

Combat and Danger

The caverns are not safe. Monsters roam the dark, and once you are past the gate they chase you and attack. Your hearts drop when they hit you.

Switch to your sword (press 2) and left click to fight back. The monsters are tough and take several solid hits to bring down. Killing one drops a little COIN, but combat is mostly about surviving so you can keep mining. The real money is in the crystal.

The risk is real. If your hearts run out you die, respawn back in the village, and lose any crystal you had not sold yet. COIN and $CRYS you already banked are safe. Sell your crystal before you die, and when your hearts get low retreat inside the fence, where they regenerate on their own.

The NPCs

The village is full of people who help you turn crystal into a fortune:

Merchant buys your crystal for COIN.
Banker turns COIN into $CRYS and back, and will handle wallet withdrawals when the token launches.
Blacksmith upgrades your pickaxe, Stone to Iron to Crystal to Diamond.
Quartermaster gives bounties: collect a set of crystal for a COIN reward.
Alchemist brews Haste (mine twice as fast), Fortune (better crystal odds), and Vein Sense (the richest nodes near you glow).
Guildmaster lets you join the guild for +10% on every sale, and tracks your rank.

Tips for New Players

Start by mining the small teal and purple cave crystal with your Stone pickaxe. They are the easiest first money.
Sell your crystal at the Merchant before you push deeper, so you do not lose it if you die.
Save up and upgrade your pickaxe at the Blacksmith to reach richer crystal.
Monsters are a danger, not a payday. Fight the ones that corner you, but mining is where the real COIN is.
Take a bounty from the Quartermaster before a run for a bonus reward.
Join the Guild early. The +10% sale bonus adds up fast.