Lumiterra is an open-world MMORPG built on the Ronin blockchain, blending combat, resource gathering, and farming into its gameplay. It offers a diverse skill tree and a robust equipment crafting system, with plenty of quests and dungeon rewards available. Players can freely choose their character’s development path and complete quests solo or in teams. All in-game items can be traded on a dedicated NFT marketplace, where players can find rare materials, potions, and gear to boost their character’s abilities, allowing them to tackle higher-level quests more quickly.

Beyond the captivating gameplay, Lumiterra integrates DeFi mechanics through Lumi Finance, using a sophisticated token model to ensure the game’s economy remains sustainable. This system allows players to continuously earn rewards while attracting more people to join the game.

Although Lumiterra hasn’t released information about its development team or funding, the team has won awards in two hackathons. Throughout three closed beta tests, the number of participants has grown from just over 1,000 in the first round to more than 10,000, with positive feedback from the community. This shows that the team is carefully refining the game to meet player expectations. Here are some key milestones in Lumiterra’s development:

• June 2023: Released the first game trailer
• July 2023: Won the championship at the ETHShanghai hackathon
• August 2023: The Web2 version ranked 11th on the Itch.io platform, attracting 35 million monthly visits
• August 2023: Ranked in the Top 25 at the ABGA hackathon
• December 2023: Genesis blind boxes sold out, with prices increasing more than tenfold
• January 2024: The Web3 version’s first closed beta test attracted 1,156 players and received widespread positive feedback
• March 2024: Launched Lumiterra DeFi V2
• June 2024: Second closed beta test addressed key issues from the first, greatly improving gameplay. With solid play-to-earn opportunities, the game’s reputation quickly recovered within the community despite initial skepticism (FUD)
• June 2024: Announced a strategic partnership with Ronin, with the new version to be deployed on the Ronin network
• August 2024: Began the first closed beta test (CBT-1) of the new version on Ronin

How to Play

In Lumiterra, players take on quests by engaging in combat, gathering resources, and farming to earn rewards. The more challenging the quests, the better the rewards, and different types of quests offer unique rewards. To maximize their earnings, players need to constantly improve their character’s abilities and equip higher-level gear, allowing them to take on tougher quests more efficiently.

Talent Tree

Combat Talent Tree (Source: Lumiterra Ecosystem Site)

In Lumiterra, each player has three talent trees: Combat, Gathering, and Farming. Players earn experience points specific to each talent by repeatedly performing these activities. Once enough experience is collected, it can be spent to unlock skills that enhance a character’s core stats and provide active abilities. Here’s a summary of the types of skills you can learn in each tree:

• Combat: Attack and defense boosts, increased health, stun (active skill), and combat equipment recipes.
• Gathering: Boosted damage and efficiency when gathering resources like grass, trees, and ores, plus gathering equipment recipes.
• Farming: Reduced production times for crops and pets, increased yields, group watering/feeding (active skill), and farming equipment recipes.

Each talent tree levels up independently, so progress in one doesn’t affect the others. This means players can specialize in one area while leaving others underdeveloped. For example, a player focused on combat might have level 5 in Combat talents, level 3 in Gathering, and level 2 in Farming. Players can freely customize their characters to match their playstyle.

Equipment System

Personal Equipment (Source: Lumiterra Ecosystem Site)

Each talent has its own specialized equipment set. Equipping these items improves a character’s base stats and enhances their efficiency in combat, gathering, and farming. There are two ways to obtain equipment: crafting it yourself or buying it in the marketplace. To craft equipment, players must first learn the relevant recipe from their talent tree, gather the required materials, and then visit an NPC to craft it. The higher your talent level, the better equipment you can craft.

For instance, to craft level 3 combat equipment, you need level 2 combat gear, level 3 gathering essence, and level 3 farming essence. This shows that a player focused on combat won’t be able to gather all the materials alone, as they lack expertise in gathering and farming. While leveling all talents evenly could help, it requires significantly more time as you progress. As a result, most players don’t train all three talents equally. This crafting system encourages players to participate in the NFT marketplace, driving activity by promoting resource trading.

Quests and Leaderboards

Token Quests (Source:Lumiterra Ecosystem Site)

Once your character is prepared, you can start taking on quests. There are three main types: Token Quests, Daily Quests, and Bounty Quests. Each quest type is divided into combat, gathering, and farming sub-quests. Daily and Bounty Quests mostly reward experience points, but Token Quests, as the name implies, offer not only experience points but also the chance to earn game tokens like LUAUSD or LUAG Future—one of the primary sources of income for players.

The tasks and rewards of Token Quests are generated randomly and refresh automatically every 15 minutes. However, the refresh rate isn’t 100%, so existing quests might not always update. In addition to experience points and tokens, players earn a “luck value.” The higher the luck value, the better the chances of getting quests with token rewards. As your character levels up, the maximum luck value increases, and so do the token rewards.

Quest Reset Tickets (Source: Lumiterra Ecosystem Site)

To ensure a guaranteed refresh of quests, Lumiterra offers a “Quest Reset Ticket,” which provides a 100% refresh rate. These tickets are awarded based on the points leaderboard. Players can earn points by challenging PVE dungeons, with the number of points determined by factors such as the number of monsters defeated, completion time, and total damage dealt. The higher a player’s ranking, the more reset tickets they receive. The leaderboard resets daily.

PVP Battles

PVP Combat Zones (Source: Lumiterra Ecosystem Site)

Lumiterra also includes real-time PVP combat between players. To prevent high-level players from bullying lower-level players, the map is divided into three distinct zones:

• Peaceful Zone: No PVP combat is allowed.
• Danger Zone: Players can attack others if their PVP switch is on, even if the other player doesn’t have theirs enabled.
• Chaos Zone: PVP is unrestricted, and players can attack each other freely without enabling PVP mode.

Winning a PVP battle earns rewards while losing means you risk dropping items from your inventory. These items could either be claimed by the victor or recovered by the platform. The PVP mode enhances the game’s challenge and fosters more interaction between players, offering a more intense combat experience.

In-Game Token Economy

Overview

Lumiterra’s Economic Model (Source: Lumiterra Whitepaper)

Lumiterra incorporates DeFi mechanics into its game, segmenting its users into three groups: DeFi users, GameFi users, and regular gamers. DeFi users, acting as investors, earn high annual returns by purchasing game tokens and providing liquidity while funding the quest reward pool. GameFi users participate in various in-game economic activities to earn rewards, and gather materials, and craft equipment, which they can sell in the NFT marketplace. Regular players focus on the gameplay and are the end consumers in the NFT market, earning through arena battles or quests. These different economic activities establish a supply-and-demand dynamic between players, driving profits and increasing the value of in-game assets. A portion of the profits is reinvested to improve game content, drawing more users and creating a sustainable economic cycle.

DeFi System

Token Economy Model (Source: Lumiterra Whitepaper)

Lumi Finance is the core element of Lumiterra’s economic system, designed to support its DeFi ecosystem. The game operates with four tokens: LUA, LUAB, LUAUSD, and LUAG. LUA, LUAB, and LUAUSD have no cap on total supply, while the supply, distribution, and unlocking schedule of the governance token LUAG have not yet been disclosed.

LUA

LUA is the primary asset within Lumi Finance. To mint LUA, users must pay with stablecoins like USDT, USDC, or LUAUSD, along with LUAB. A unique feature of LUA is its guaranteed minimum price. When the market price is above the floor price, LUA trades just like any other asset in an AMM (Automated Market Maker) system. However, if the market price drops to the floor price, all LUA trades are conducted at that minimum price. This price stability is maintained because a portion of the stablecoins used to buy LUA is set aside in a liquidity pool as a cash reserve, ensuring the floor price is supported. By staking LUA, users not only earn LUAB as a reward, but they can also mint LUAUSD stablecoins at the floor price ratio and redeem LUA at the minting price anytime.

LUAB

LUAB is the reward for staking LUA and LUAUSD, and it functions like a call option on LUA. Its value fluctuates alongside LUA’s floor price, allowing holders to mint LUA at the current lowest market price. The formula is: LUA = LUA floor price + LUAB. Since LUA’s price can never drop below the floor price, LUAB holders can acquire LUA at the most favorable market rate. Additionally, users must hold LUAB to mint LUA, with gradual release, which helps control the supply of LUA and prevents excessive arbitrage, ensuring sustainable staking rewards.

LUAUSD

LUAUSD is Lumiterra’s stablecoin, minted by staking LUA. Since LUA can always be redeemed at the minting price, and its value won’t fall below the floor price, each LUAUSD is backed by a corresponding dollar value, guaranteeing price stability. LUAUSD is primarily used for various in-game transactions, including buying and selling in the NFT marketplace. Additionally, users can stake LUAUSD to earn rewards in LUAB and LUAG.

LUAG

LUAG is Lumiterra’s governance token. Players can earn LUAG by providing liquidity for LUAUSD, staking LUA, participating in airdrop events (like trading competitions), or opening Genesis blind boxes. When players stake LUAG, they receive veLUAG, which allows them to take part in DAO governance voting and receive rewards from the ecosystem.

In essence, Lumi Finance’s most crucial feature is the price floor set for LUA, which is the backbone of the economy. Since LUA underpins all three tokens, a collapse in LUA’s price would destabilize the entire token economy. The price floor mechanism prevents this, offering stability in a volatile market and giving users confidence to invest. However, because part of the funds is kept in cash reserves, this can slow LUA’s price growth in bullish markets.

Conclusion

As a Web3 game, Lumiterra aims to balance engaging gameplay with a well-structured economic system. The development team has carefully refined the game’s features and economic model through its phased closed beta tests. Each test improves on issues from the previous phase, adding more content to increase player enjoyment while keeping the economy balanced. Despite the short testing periods, the game has steadily improved and gained a positive reception from the community. While no official funding information has been disclosed, Lumiterra’s two hackathon wins and the success of its previous tests make its future very promising.