Holybread is ready to open its gates. Only a few minutes are left until the planned release. I am excited and also kind of nervous. To give you something to read while waiting, I decided to write this post with very detailed information about Holybread and how the game works. I hope to see you later in the game!
Log in
There you can see the login screen of Holybread. You can decide if you either want to log in by using Steem Keychain or Steemconnect. Whatever you feel more convenient with. As I use Keychain for all my applications I will just stick to it. The Keychain window opens up and you have to confirm the log in. To log in to the game the applications are using your posting key. But as there are options to purchase items and ingame currencies with Steem in Holybread you will also need your active key for that.
Choose starter hero
Now the fun part starts. Right after logging in for the very first time you have to decide what kind of hero you want to play. Your starter hero can either be female or male and each gender comes in three different classes. There is the male and the female mage, the archer and the warrior. If you click on those individuals you will see that a little window below opens up. There you can read about the buffs each class has. The buff is dependent on the class, not on the gender so the female mage as well as the male mage come with 5% more damage. Both archers have 5% higher crit chance and the warriors have 5% more life points. I decided to choose the female archer. In that little box below you see an empty space for entering a family name. Think of a family name as kind of a house name. (Almost) every hero that will be part of your team will have the same family name. I choose the name "Brown" for my team.
The sidebar
Now we are fully logged in and ready to go. This is our home screen. On the left side you can see your profile picture. On the right side next to your profile picture you can see three different icons. Those are the ingame currencies. The first one is gold. Every players starts with 500 gold, more gold can be earned by doing quests, winning fights in the arena and selling items at the item store - but we will get into that a bit more detailed later on. The second icon is Breadcrumbs of which I have none because I just started. Breadcrumbs can be earned on quests and at the arena depending on your current rank - we will talk about that in a bit. Last but not least is Bread. You will notice, Bread will come in very useful but not always for free ;)
Under your profile picture and the ingame currencies you can see the set menu. I will talk about each and every site, step by step. Under all those buttons that link to the different sites of the game, there is some spare room. You will be able to see the current prize pool there once the game is live. On the bottom you can see the logout button, a question mark that links to the FAQ, a button that links to our discord server and the name of the current world.
FAQ
I clicked on the question mark and as you can see a separate window opened up. Here are the FAQs. You can read about the game in general, the heroes, the items, currencies and the gameplay. We will keep the FAQ section updated and add more questions whenever we receive the feedback that important points are missing.
Home screen and Earn Bread
Let's go back to the home screen. You reach the home screen by clicking on your profile picture. On the top of the screen are two buttons. One says “Home” the other one says “Earn Bread”. You can see we are on the Home screen since there is a golden glow around the button.
This screen is divided into three boxes. The first one on the top left gives you a little overview on your account. It includes your username, your family name which you can change by clicking on the link that says (Change name). You can see how many heroes you have in your team and your total hero level. Besides, you see how many daily tasks you have finished, but we will have a look at daily tasks in a minute. Also you can see your total amount of Breadcrumbs, and you can transfer them to your Steem Engine wallet by clicking on the link (Transfer to Steem Engine). The next box on the top right offers you premium membership. If you want to unlock all benefits of PREMIUM you can purchase it here for 9.99$. It includes + 24 item slots in your item inventory, + 6 hero slots in your hero inventory, volume of 500 for your saved energy tank and you will also receive 125 Bread. The last box on the bottom shows you how much energy you have left in your regular energy tank and in your saved energy tank. You can reach the quest board by clicking on the link that says “Start a quest!” You can also see your current rank in the Arena and the amount of Breadcrumbs you receive every 15 minutes. Reach the Arena by clicking on “Ready to fight!”
If we click on the “Earn Bread” button on the top we will see three boxes again. In the top left box we see “Daily Tasks”. For now there are three different tasks we can do on a daily basis to earn small amounts of Bread for free. Those tasks are finishing 5 quests, winning 3 arena fights and buying an item from the item store. Once a task is complete your profile picture will start flashing. If you click on it you will be forwarded to the “Earn Bread” site instead of the “Home” site. You will then be able to claim your reward which is 1 Bread for each task. The second option to earn bread is by using your referral link and invite friends to play Holybread. Whenever they buy Bread at the Bakery you will receive 5% as affiliate payment. You will see a list of users in this box and the amount of Bread they brought you. The last option to earn Bread is by delegating SP. You can click on the “Delegate to @holybread” to make your delegation. You can see a loading bar that says “Baking Bread Progress”. Once this bar reaches 100% you can claim your Bread.
Quest screen
Alright let's send the hero on a quest. This is one of the main things you'd want to do in this game. Click on the button that says "Quests" on the left and this site will appear. There is the quest board with a button to ask for new quests. There is a bar that shows your energy below that. My energy bar is at 340 and I will explain why it is like this at the end of this post. Usually the regular energy tank can store up to 100 energy. But you will also notice that there is a second energy bar on the right. This is your saved energy tank. Every hour each player receives 10 energy. If your regular energy bar is full (100) your additional energy will be stored in the saved energy tank that can fill up until 50 (500 for premium members). If you send your hero on quests it will take off energy from you energy bar. Let's say you have 50 energy in that energy bar right now and 10 energy in the saved energy tank. Once an hour you will receive 10 energy to that regular energy tank and as there is some energy in that saved tank as well, 5 energy will be transferred from there to the regular energy bar. So it takes quite some time to empty out that saved energy bar once it has stored a lot of energy, but it also gives you the opportunity to use that energy in case you weren't able to play for a certain amount of time. Alright, so now let's go on an adventure - we click on "ask for new quests".
Choose a quest
Now you can see a box on the screen with three buttons above it. Those three buttons are the three different quests you can choose from. Every quest takes a certain amount of time. There are quests of 5, 10 and 15 minutes. That amount will be taken off your energy tank. For doing quests you will be rewarded with gold and experience. We need that gold to buy items and skill our hero - I'll show you later. And we need experience for our hero to level up. It's always hard to make that decision. Sometimes you will see an item with a question mark on it at the reward section. It will either be a weapon (the fist), a chest armor (that lovely shirt), a head armor (the funny wig) or boots (the old run-down boots). You won't know what hero class the item will be for neither what stats it will have. So you will have to choose wisely which quest to take in order to bring your hero to a higher level and also be able to equip him/her with good items.
On a quest
Once you decided to start a quest, a new screen opens up. The quest I chose takes 15 minutes. I can now either be patient and wait until it is over or I can spend one Bread to skip it and receive my rewards immediately. Also if I accidentally clicked on a quest, I can click on cancel and by that I will go back to the three quests again. I'll get the energy back and can make a new decision. Now that the quest is running you will see that there is a timer on the button on the left side that used to say “Quests”. So even if you click onto another page while the quest is running, you will always see how much time is remained.
Receive quest rewards
SUCCESS! Once the quest is over you'll receive your rewards. Therefore you have to click on the “Open Chest” button. You can see there is a heading saying "lucky drops" under the rewards. I received 75 Breadcrumbs for my quest - this used to be a lucky drop, at the moment a player receives 25 Breadcrumbs for a 5 minutes quest, 50 for 10 and 75 for 15. But there is a chance to receive a hero and you will see him/her below that lucky drop heading as well. The probability of a hero to drop is 1 every 2000 spent energy. There is a 70% chance for that hero to be common, a 24% chance for it to be a rare hero, 5% for an epic hero and 1% for a legendary hero. We will talk about rarity of heroes in details in a few. To transfer the rewards to your account click on “Collect Loot”.
Hero screen
Say "Hi" to Miss Innocentia Brown - the name reflects the aim. Look at her face. Now there are a lot of things you can do and see when clicking on the "Heroes" button. On the very top you can see three buttons that say "Hero 1", "Hero 2" and "Hero 3". As you can see the two other heroes are still locked. We will find out how to unlock them soon. Hero 1 is that lovely archer. Her looks (skin color, hair color and eye color) are randomly generated when you created your account. So we have to accept that awkward match of her purple shirt and her hair. Her first name is also randomly selected off a pool of names and there is an option to change names - I'll show you in a second - but in her case I just won't do that because I feel like it's the perfect name for her. So next to her name you can see the archer symbol just in case the bow and arrow on her shoulders are not enough of a proof that she's an archer.
Let's have a look at her equipment. Every starter hero comes with a very basic low damage weapon and no other items. I will be able to equip and unequip items on and off her and I will show you later. The items have a great influence of how powerful your hero is. On the right side you can see some numbers that we try to get familiar with now. So as I said before, archers come with a bonus of 5% more CRIT you can see that right under her name. The three stats under the bonus are damage, HP and crit chance. Those are the numbers you want to pay attention to when fighting against others. The more damage your hero has the more likely he will be able to win against an opponent. But damage is not only calculated by the hero's weapon. It's a combination of the weapon damage and the main attribute of your hero. The three main attributes are dexterity (for archer), intelligence (for mage) and strength (for warrior). So for my archer I need to skill dexterity in order to cause more damage. For all the nerds - the formula of your damage is "(1 + weapon damage)(1 + (main attribute / 10))". Let's move on to HP - basically your life points. The more HP a hero has the more damage it can bare. To increase you HP you need more attribute points on constitution as the formula for HP is "constitution * 2 * (hero level + 1)". And then there is crit chance. The higher your crit chance (it can be max. 50%) the higher the possibility to hit your opponent with approximately double damage. The formula of the crit chance is "luck * 5 / (enemy level 2).
Now as there is no enemy in sight at this very moment the formula is calculated by using my own hero level instead of an enemy level. But once you sent your hero to the arena, your opponents level will be taken into consideration. So now we know why we want as many attribute points as possible for our primary main attribute and constitution and luck. But you need to know that also the secondary main attributes have a great impact on your hero's performance at the arena. The higher your attribute points for secondary main attributes (intelligence and strength in my case) the higher the resistance against heroes of this class. So let's say I skill my little girl Innocentia with a lot of intelligence, she will more likely not receive brutal damage from a crazy witch or a slimy wizard. To skill any of the attributes just click on the plus item as often as you wish (or can afford) and hit the save button after.
Under the picture of your hero you see a bar that shows the current level of your hero. It takes a certain amount of experience points to reach the next level. Whenever one of your heroes leveled up when a quest is over, there will be a pop up window showing you from what level to what level it leveled up.
Last but not least every player has an inventory with room for 12 items (+24 extra slots for premium members). This is where you will find the items you found on a quest, or bought at the market or item store.
Items
If you move your mouse over an item you will see a little window that shows you all the stats. On the very top there is the name of the item (Slingshot) which is a link and if you click it you'll get to the item details page but we'll get to that later. Under the name you'll find the stats. Items are randomly generated (Using transaction Ids of the Steem blockchain) so you'll find good ones and not so good ones. The really good ones will have your main attribute on it, as well as constitution and luck. The not so good ones might have only one stat on them which may not even be one of your primary attributes. For example there is a possibility for me to find boots with only a strength roll on them. (Not my main stat and only one roll). Under that you can see the durability of that item. Usually it has 200/200. But the crappy starter weapon only comes with 50/200. Each time you attack someone in the arena there'll be 1 point taken off your durability. So yes items can kind of get broken but I'll show you how to repair them in a minute. Under the durability there is information about the resale value of that item. It gets lower the more it is used. You can always sell items for gold at the item store but we will go there later. Then next to the value of the item you'll find its level. If you buy a weapon or find one along the way that is level 15 for example, then your hero needs at least to be level 15. Heroes with a lower level won't be able to hold that weapon. Same goes with classes which is the last information in this little window. It says what class of hero this item is for. A warrior won't be able to equip the mages chest armor. A mage can never hold a sword and so on. So be very careful when buying equipment for your heroes.
If you click on an item that is equipped on your hero you'll see a button that says "unequip" other way round - if you have an item in your inventory and you click on it, there will be a button that says "equip". Make sure to always click the save button whenever you make changes such as equipping / unequipping, or skilling attributes.
Team screen
The next point is "Team". If you click on that button on the left you will see your active and inactive heroes. To show you what it looks like I bought a rare hero (you can see it is rare by its bluish glow - but we will get to rarity of heroes later). So, active heroes are the ones that you send on quests or have them fight in the arena. Inactive heroes are the ones that are in your inventory (the ones you find on quests or buy on the market). As you can see there are three slots for active heroes. At the moment gorgeous Innocentia is a lonely single hero fighting all by herself. To support her with another fellow hero we need to fight at the arena 75 times (no matter if we lose or win) and spend 1500 energy on quests. We will receive a notification once the second hero slot is unlocked and we can equip another hero, skill and level it and have it fight together with Innocentia. To unlock the third hero slot, 200 arena fights are required as well as 4000 spent energy.
As you can see there is room for six heroes in our hero inventory (+ 6 extra slots for premium members). If all slots are taken we won't find any other hero on a quest, nor will we be able to buy one at the market. But we can sell or release heroes we don't need. For doing that just click on the name of the hero (Calendula Brown in that case).
Hero details page
Now we landed on the hero details page. On the right side we can see a picture of the hero. Under that picture there are three buttons. The first button “Rename” is to rename your hero which costs 10 Bread (It says 15 Bread on this picture but this will be changed by the time Holybread is released). By clicking on the next button “Off