Mendwell, the town

Mendwell (the town)

Your first notebook goal (grow and harvest a radish) brings Grandpa's Waystone in the mail: click the mailbox by the shed (the red flag is up when there's mail), take the Waystone Kit, and place it (H, Tech, Waystone). Then click it, or the Waystone to Mendwell button, to go to town. Click the town's waystone (or Waystone home) to go back. Poncho doesn't run programs in town: it's crowded. Click the ground to walk him around the square.

• Online, Mendwell is shared. Everyone on the server who's in town is in the same Mendwell: you see their Ponchos walking about with their names over them, and the bar at the bottom lists who's here and how many people are online. Your farm, bag, requests and trust stay your own.
• Chat (online): type in the box under Poncho's chat and press Enter to talk to everyone in Mendwell (it pops up over your Poncho for the others too).
  • /w name message whispers to anyone online, wherever they are; /r message replies to the last whisper.
  • /mute name hides someone's messages (it follows you to other PCs); /unmute name undoes it. Everyone you've muted is listed in the Friends panel, with an Unmute button.
  • /report name what happened sends their recent messages to the server's moderators.
  • Messages are filtered for slurs, and spamming is slowed down.
• Friends (online, the Friends button): add someone by name while they're online; they accept in their Friends panel. The list shows who's online and where.
  • Visit a friend's farm from your own farm, even when they're offline. It's look-only: click to walk around, and Leave a note they'll find in their Friends panel. Go home to come back.
  • Choose who may visit your farm: Friends (the default), Anyone, or Nobody.
  • Mail a friend anything stackable from your bag (potatoes too). It arrives in their mailbox at home (or pick it up at the Mendwell bank).
• Community events (the Event Board on the square, or the Event button): now and then Mendwell asks the whole valley for help, like "20,000 potatoes in 3 days". You'll see it in chat and on top of the notebook strip. Some events want items handed in at the Event Board (they leave your bag). Others count by themselves: corn harvested, or glitches beaten anywhere. If the valley makes the goal in time, everyone who put in at least the minimum gets the rewards by mail, and the top 3 also get a Mendwell Trophy (a rare decoration for the farm). If time runs out, nobody gets anything.
• Town trust: Mendwell is wary of robots after the Loop. Deliveries earn trust: Wary 0 → Polite 50 → Friendly 150 → Trusted 400 → Beloved 1000. Each level adds 5% to market prices; higher levels open better trader goods (rare decor kits at Trusted and Beloved); Beloved gets 10% off land.
• Request Board: three requests at a time ("Marta at the mill needs 12 corn"). Deliver from the bag for potatoes and trust. Requests come down after 2 town days, and new ones go up.
• General Store (the green house with the awning, west of the market): everything that used to be in the bag's shop (seeds, saplings, materials, parts, Syntax Manuals), and it buys the goods the market doesn't (oil, syrup, cloth, rubber...) at a set price, including what clearing land leaves you with: wood,

stone, weeds, scrap, compost and spare seed potatoes. Buying and selling only happen in town.

• Market: buys crops at prices that change every town day (80%-160% of their usual price, plus your trust bonus). The trader sells three offers a day (seeds, compost, building materials, manuals, kits), one of each per day.
• Bank: deposit anything stackable and take it out later (only in town).
• A town day is 10 minutes of game time.

Click the market stall, request board or bank on the map, or use the buttons at the bottom.

The Trading Post (players' market, online, level 5+)

The blue stall on the square (or Actions → Trading Post) is where players buy and sell from each other.

• Buy: everything for sale, cheapest first. Search by name or pick a kind (crops, seeds, materials, parts). Choose how many and press Buy; it goes straight into your bag (or waits for you if the bag is full). Hover a part to see every stat before you buy.
• Sell: set a price each for anything in your bag and press List. It leaves your bag and waits at the post. Posting costs 1% of the value (at least 1 potato), and 5% of each sale goes to Mendwell. Listings last 3 days; you can have 10 up at once, and Withdraw one any time.
• Buy orders: post "I want 50 Corn at 6 each". Your potatoes wait at the post; anyone with corn can Sell to them and is paid on the spot. Buy orders are for crops, seeds and materials (not parts).
• Waiting for you: your pay from sales, what you bought with a full bag, and anything withdrawn or ended. Press Collect whenever you're in town. You're paid even while you're offline.
• Prices next to an item shows its last sales and the average price this week.