# How to play

### 🧩 Getting Started: **The Town Board**

Welcome to **Townies,** your journey begins with the **minting of your Townies Island**, the foundation of your entire city-building economy.

#### 🏡 What Happens When You Mint an Island?

* Initializes your **unique game session**
* **Activates passive Wood generation**
* Starts with **3 buildable tiles**
* Unlocks access to the **multi-resource economy**

Your board is your personal domain, your land, your layout, your legacy.

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### 🔁 Core Game Loop

Townies follows a strategic, resource-driven progression loop:

1. 🌲 **Generate Wood**\
   → Passively from your Island
2. 🏘 **Build Houses**\
   → Spend Wood to generate **Stone**
3. 🔥 **Build Forges**\
   → Spend Stone to generate **Iron**
4. ⛪ **Build Churches**\
   → Spend **Iron** to generate **$cGOLD** and boost **Iron production from Forges**
5. 🗺 **Expand your Island**\
   → Use resources to unlock more tiles
6. 🏰 **Build a Castle (16+ tiles)**\
   → Convert $cGOLD into tradable **$GOLD**
7. 💸 **Use $GOLD**\
   → Upgrade buildings, accelerate timers, unlock tiles, and trade on-chain

#### 🧠 The Townies Cycle

> **Play → Build → Produce → Expand → Convert → Earn**

Every building feeds the next. Every resource has a role.\
The better you optimize your layout and timing, the faster you ascend.


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