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DeepVein Idle

The rules

Lines 8935–8952 of the Codex export. This is the game's own text, unedited.

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The rules

Few, and the usual ones. They exist so the ranks, the market and the chat mean something. Breaking them costs the character, and there is no appeal for a bot.

One login per person. A login may hold one ironman beside its own character, from the character select; that is the only way to have more than one. A second login -- to trade with yourself, to hold a place in the ranks, to farm the world boss twice -- gets both removed.

No bots, macros or scripts. The game is built to work while you are away; you do not need to fake being here. Anything that plays for you, clicks for you or reads the game for you is out.

No bug abuse. If something pays too well, it is a bug: say so in chat rather than milking it. Coins and items made from a bug are removed, and how the bug was used decides whether the character goes with them.

No real-money trading. Nothing in the world is for sale for money except what the shop sells for gems. Buying or selling coins, items or characters for money loses both sides their characters.

Be decent in chat. No harassment, slurs, spam, or pretending to be someone else, staff included. In All, write English; Chinese has a room of its own, 中文, where Chinese is welcome.

Names are names. Nothing offensive, nothing that pretends to be another player or the game itself. A bad one is renamed without asking.

An ironman stands alone. It plays the same world by stricter rules:

No market: it neither buys nor lists. The vendor still buys from it.

No trading with other players.

No guild.

It never finds a horse; it rides what the stable sells.

Its own chat room, and its own world-boss leaderboard.

Found a bug or a cheat? Say so in chat. That is worth more to the game than anything you could take from it.

A table with no header? Some Codex screens are prose in the game and only look tabular when exported. Where the pipeline could not find a header row it leaves the text above as it came, rather than inventing columns.