How to play Zone77
The player guide, topic by topic: how to start, build your town, use Energy, train soldiers, fight the Rust, work with an alliance and win the Great Clock. Numbers are from the Regular season.
Basics
Getting startedBuild mines, grow your town, make soldiers and join an alliance. The tasks from Old Vey show you the way.
ResourcesCoal, Iron, Water, Food and Gears. You make them every hour, but you can only keep as much as your storage holds.
Food and hungerWorkers and soldiers eat Food every hour. If Food runs out, hungry soldiers leave your town.
Energy and speed-upsUse Energy to speed up buildings and research, and to start powers. You get 1 Energy every 2h 24m, up to 10.
FactionsYou choose a faction when you join a season. Each one plays in a different way, but none is stronger than the others.
Your town
Fighting
SoldiersEvery faction has guards, fighters, spies, riders and wall breakers. Settlers are the same for everyone.
The mapThe map is a square of 151 × 151 fields. The center is where the Great Clock will be.
The RustThe Rust are broken robots that live in camps. Beat them to take their resources. The camps fill up again after some time.
Attacks and defenseIn a battle, the attack power of one side meets the defense power of the other. The stronger side wins. When two players are close in power, the attackers pull back.
SpiesSpies look at another town and tell you about its resources, soldiers and buildings.
New player protectionFor the first 72 hours other players cannot attack you. If you attack another player, your protection ends.
Together
The season
The Great ClockOn day 30, 7 Great Clock sites appear near the center. The first alliance to build the Great Clock to level 77 wins the season.
SeasonsA season lasts 42 days. Everyone starts at the same time, and at the end the season closes and a new one starts.
Fast and Regular seasonsThere are two kinds of season. Fast seasons are short and quick. Regular seasons are long and calm.