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One pond per person, the same on every server. Shells and pearls are game money: nobody can buy them or cash them out, and they never turn into Newt coins.

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Start your pond

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Open your pond

Run /pond view. Your puddle starts with 500 shells and an egg that hatches in 10 minutes.
2

Collect and sell

Your pond makes flies on its own until it’s full. /pond collect moves them to your jar, where nobody can steal them. /pond sell turns them into shells at this hour’s price.
3

Upgrade

Spend shells with /pond upgrade so your pond makes more.
The buttons under /pond view do the everyday things in one click. A button turns green when it’s ready, and the panel updates itself for an hour after you last use it. The picture turns muddy when your pond gets dirty (below 80%, worse below 50%), and after a click it shows you doing it.

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Every day

  • Shells, a chance at an egg, and a streak bonus that grows for 20 days.
  • Day 7 adds a Speckled egg, day 30 a Golden egg, and day 100 two Golden eggs.
  • The weekly and monthly bonuses come with your first claim after they’re due.
  • A Hibernation charm saves your streak through one missed day.
Hunt every 10 minutes, forage every 5, fish every 15 and call a swarm every hour. You get flies, shells and items, and now and then an egg or a pearl.
A dirty pond makes fewer flies, down to half. You can clean every 6 hours. Feeding once a day costs a few flies, grows young newts by 8 hours, and gives your pond +15% flies for 6 hours.

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Grow your pond

Leave out item to browse every upgrade. Leave out levels to buy as many as you can afford. When you can afford it, /pond relocate moves you to the next biome. Your upgrades start again, except the nursery, but everything makes more. At the Mystic Spring, once you’ve earned 10 billion shells since you last started over, /pond metamorphosis starts you over in a puddle for slime tokens. They buy perks that last forever. You keep your newts, eggs, items and pearls.

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Newts

Eggs hatch into larvae, which grow into efts after 12 hours and adults after 36. Rarer newts have better stats. Each biome can hatch four more species.
  • Workers make your pond produce more. Efts can work too.
  • Raiders steal from other ponds. Adults only.
  • Guards make raids on you less likely to work. Adults only.
Hatches what’s ready and puts the best eggs from your basket in the incubator.
Opens at the Lake. The new newt takes after its parents, and now and then is a rarer species.
You both need to have reached the Garden Pond, with Discord accounts at least 30 days old. 5% of the shells goes in tax.

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Stealing

  • A raid sends your raiders after the flies in someone’s pond, up to 30% of what isn’t hidden. If they’re caught, your raiders get hurt and you pay a fine.
  • A snatch tries for the shells in someone’s wallet. Shells in your /pond burrow are safe. Both accounts must be at least 14 days old.
  • You can raid and snatch every 30 minutes.
  • A new pond is safe for 2 days, until it leaves the puddle or steals. A pond that was just raided is safe for 2 hours.
  • Get raided, and you have an hour to raid back with a bonus.
  • Passive mode in /pond settings keeps you safe, but you can’t steal either.

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Colonies and events

A colony pools shells into boosts for every member. It holds 10 members, and up to 25 with upgrades. Starting one costs 5,000 shells, and its name is picked from two lists.Each week, every member of the top three colonies in the Colony War wins pearls: 15, 10 and 5. The leader also has /colony kick, /colony transfer and /colony privacy.
Now and then, playing sets off an event in the channel: a fly swarm, rain, a drought, a snake or a heron’s nest. Tap the button to join. With heron bait, /pond heist starts a heist yourself.

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Good to know

  • Flies in your jar and shells in your burrow can’t be stolen.
  • Shop prices and rewards grow with your pond.
  • /pond top ranks ponds here or everywhere. /pond achievements pay pearls and unlock titles.
  • Pearls buy Golden eggs, growth tonics, hatching warmth and hibernation charms. Bump crates can drop them too.
  • /pond guide explains the game inside Discord.
  • To turn it off in your server, switch off the Pond Empire category on the dashboard’s Commands tab. To keep it to some channels, use a channel rule on the Advanced Permissions tab.
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