We’re excited to announce a new update to the Common Ground World Litepaper, packed with significant new details that outline the exciting future of our web3 gaming ecosystem.
This update brings greater clarity to key aspects of our vision and describes new opportunities for new and existing community members alike to engage with our awesome and rewarding competitive farm sim game!
What’s New?
Guilds and NFT Sharing for Daily Challenges: Refined details on how guild leaders and members can share NFTs to complete daily challenges.
$SOIL Economy: Expanded information on how to obtain and spend $SOIL, driving deeper levels of gameplay strategy and in-game economics.
2025 Roadmap Priorities: A refreshed list of development goals for the coming year.
Common Ground World Node Enhancements: Enhanced functionalities for nodes, strengthening their role in the ecosystem.
Competitions: New details on competitive events, giving players more ways to get rewarded for gameplay and showcase their skills.
Upgradeable NFTs: In-depth specs on upgradeable NFTs, including upgrade materials, costs and logic.
Reward NFTs, Town Points, and $SOIL Emissions: Detailed figures on reward NFTs’ contribution to Town Points, supply limits, and their relation to DIRT and currency costs for upgrading NFTs.
Be sure to check out the full Litepaper for all the updated details, and stay tuned as we continue to evolve and improve the Common Ground World experience.
The world of Common Ground World is about to get even more exciting with the release of the brand-new Daily Challenges feature! With this substantial update, players will now have the chance to participate in daily events to unlock rewards in the form of $SOIL, the latest in-game token exclusive to GalaChain. This update brings fresh opportunities for players to explore, compete, and grow their farms while collecting performance-based rewards.
$SOIL will officially launch soon, but for now, you can collect $DIRT, for which $SOIL will automatically be awarded once it is released on GalaChain.
The new Daily Challenges feature is designed to bring an extra layer of excitement and rewards to your farming adventures. Each day, you’ll find a new Daily Challenge in the Events category of the game, where you can participate using your Reward-eligible NFTs (list provided below).
Complete tasks like producing or selling certain crafts before the day ends, and watch as your efforts generate a portion of that day’s available $SOIL rewards!
The amount of $SOIL you collect is based on how much you contribute to the daily pool, which is determined by your performance in Town Points. Players who contribute more Town Points will receive a higher percentage of the $SOIL pool. This competitive structure is sure to keep the game fresh and engaging for everyone.
What Can You Do with $SOIL?
In the same way that healthy soil is an essential ingredient of any effective farm, $SOIL is the key to unlocking unique in-game opportunities. Here’s how it can be used:
Upgrade your NFTs: Use $SOIL to boost the effectiveness of your NFTs, helping you become a more powerful player and giving you a strategic edge in the weekly competitions.
Access premium experiences: Whether it’s unlocking exclusive events or obtaining rare items, $SOIL will be your pass to premium content within Common Ground World.
Get Involved — Even Without NFTs!
Don’t have any reward-eligible NFTs yet? No worries! You can still participate by joining a Guild. Through the Guild Library feature, Guild leaders can lend eligible NFTs to their members, allowing you to participate in the Daily Challenges and even collect rewards!
Connect with other players through the Common Ground World Discord channel to find a Guild and get started.
If you’re looking to pick up your own reward-eligible NFTs, stay tuned—more will be available in the Gala Games Store soon!
A Look Ahead: The $SOIL Token Launch
While the $SOIL token is set to become the primary reward for Daily Challenges, the rollout will be carefully monitored. Initially, players will receive DIRT instead of $SOIL to ensure that the system runs smoothly without exploitation. Once stability is ensured, the transition to $SOIL will occur, so keep an eye out for that exciting change!
Get Ready for Daily Challenges!
We hope you’re all excited to dive into Common Ground World’s Daily Challenges, with something new to pursue each and every day! Whether you’re competing for the largest share of $SOIL or working with your Guild to achieve farming greatness, this update promises endless fun and rewarding gameplay.
Happy Monday, builders! Who’s ready for an exciting new Common Ground World competition?
This week’s competition begins at 10am PT tomorrow, Tuesday September 10th and ends on Friday, September 13th. Yep, that means you’ve got three days to build the best possible town with the meta details listed below and get the highest leaderboard spot you can reach! Finish high enough and you’ll be in the winnings for some $GALA!!
If you’ve never played Common Ground World before, don’t fret! There’s nothing to be lost and competition is fun even for first timers. But there are two other gameplay modes to enjoy: Common Ground and Casual mode.
Join us this Friday for a new live Common Ground World Town Hall event on Gala Games’ Youtube channel. If you haven’t watched the last episode yet from August 30th, check out the replay now.
Town Halls are a fantastic way to stay informed about the latest goings on around town!
This Week’s Competition🍄
Time to dig deep and fungify your farms! Harvest mushrooms and bake up some delicious Mushroom Pizza to get a pizza the action! 🍕🍄
Fungi Feast
Goal: Sell Mushroom Pizza Trade Time: 20s and 1 Gasoline Biome: Plains S Edges: Ocean N, River E, Plains S, Plains W
New Mushroom-related Crops/Crafts
Mushroom Farm
Specializes in cultivating mushrooms that flourish in low light, growing faster in the shade.
This Rare NFT delivers 1 passive Mushroom to nearby tiles, making it a must-have for any serious chef! Boost your Mushroom Pizza production or prep for the Risotto recipe update coming mid-October. Keep your farm thriving with fresh fungi!
“Stand” NFTs like this one are essentially a magical source of their specialty resource, saving the player valuable time and energy when properly placed on the playing field.
We hope y’all enjoy this week’s competition! Make sure you tune into Friday morning’s Town Hall for all the latest news and updates from Common Ground World!
Common Ground World is a cornerstone of the Gala Games ecosystem, a truly remarkable and memorable game and always a great time to play.
With a constant flow of new features and updates, regular competitions to win $GALA, NFTs given to active players just for playing the game each month, and an amazing community of players from all over the world, it really pays to become part of the CGW community.
This game was created by some of the most experienced pioneering developers in the social gaming industry, some of the same brilliant minds behind famous titles like Farmville 2, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends.
Originally called Town Star (and renamed alongside a strategic partnership with award winning film project and generative agriculture project “Common Ground”), Common Ground World represents the intersection of one of the world’s most beloved gaming genres with web3 empowerment. In fact, the game was one of the earliest titles in the world to integrate web3 functions with features like real item ownership and crypto rewards for competitive gameplay.
Launching the Game
When you launch Common Ground World (directly in your browser with no need for an app download), you’ll be cheerfully greeted by the Farmer hero and presented with three different gameplay modes:
Common Ground mode
Casual mode
Events
Common Ground
In Common Ground mode, your mission is to dig into a heavily damaged plot of land and create something that thrives and grows. Capturing the essence of regenerative agriculture and the Common Ground movement, this gameplay mode is not for the faint of heart.
When you first begin, reinvigorating the earth will be a daunting task. You’ll only find a small workable corner of land that can be teased into growing anything. The rest must be carefully worked one tile at a time, restoring the proper biomes that will make soil and vegetation thrive.
Think of Common Ground Mode as a long-term and advanced form of gameplay. If you can turn the situation around and unlock the true potential of the land, you may consider yourself a Common Ground World expert, no matter how long it takes to accomplish your goals.
Casual Mode
Relax into CGW’s beautiful 3D gameplay!
In Casual Mode, you’ll get a taste of core gameplay with a prebuilt town whose structure varies week to week. The starting formats of these towns are designed to give you well-rounded examples of CGW gameplay, giving you a chance to see what you’re in for as you construct a town from scratch in the game’s core Competition mode.
You’ll start off with a fresh town, which may already have Wind Turbines that produce Electricity, an industrial water supply ready for more advanced production, a Windmill capable of making Flour, Sugar and Salt, and much more.
You’ll first notice that the workers from each of their houses are already hard at it – The Lumberjack is heading out to harvest wood from natural trees on your land, and the Farmer is fetching water from the well to bring it to your Brine fields where a crucial ingredient for salt is grown. Once you have ingredients to mill, select your Windmill to choose a craft and the Miller will also get to work.
Events
The Events category is where you’ll find the weekly competition server, as well as any other competitions that might be happening.
A typical weekly competition takes place over the course of 72 hours, beginning at 10am PT on Tuesday and ending at 10am PT on Friday.
Starting from scratch with a new town, each competitor must build the most efficiently functioning town possible as quickly as they can. Leaderboard positions come down to stars – The more stars, the higher your position on the leaderboard. When the competition ends, the top places on the leaderboard win $GALA prizes, and sometimes additional rewards such as Blueprint NFTs.
The weekly competition event always observes a special meta that gives favor to a single craft or family of crafts, keeping players on their toes and exploring a more focused strategic aspect of the game. Additionally, each weekly competition comes with a new biome combination (type of land and surrounding land) that each player must work into their build.
To ensure you’re ready for the next weekly competition, watch the Common Ground channels of the Gala Discord community. There you’ll find all necessary details of the upcoming competition as early as the previous Wednesday.
COMING SOON – Daily Challenges for Greater Rewards
A new Daily Challenge feature is coming soon that will unlock additional reward opportunities for owners of specific NFTs. These challenges will offer rewards in $SOIL, the upcoming reward token of Common Ground World. Daily Challenges will update every 24 hours, creating a new dimension of strategy for NFT owners!
For the latest info on this exciting new feature as it gets closer to launch, be sure to watch the bi-weekly Common Ground World Town Halls on Youtube (every other Friday at 8am PT) and keep your eyes on the Common Ground World Discord channels!
Play and Win with Free Monthly NFTs
Each month, all Common Ground World players are rewarded with a free NFT in either Common or Rare rarity, depending on how much they played the game.
To receive the Common free NFT, play for 10 days within a calendar month, making at least one in-game trade each day and a minimum of 25 trades for the whole month.
To receive the Rare free NFT, play for 25 days within the month, making at least 1 trade per day and no less than 75 trades for the whole month.
Free monthly NFTs are a great way to start a Gala digital item collection for nothing more than playing an awesome game each day!
Getting Started Strategies
Common Ground World is most enjoyable as you discover tactics for yourself. Strategically speaking, it’s a deceptively complex game, especially for its simple and charming farm town appeal. For a skilled player, a CGW town is a robust ecosystem of timing, resource and workforce management and competitive strategy.
The Gasoline Challenge
The first (and many would say the most important) challenge of Common Ground World is producing a supply of Gasoline that can keep up with the Gasoline expenses of delivering your chosen crafts to neighboring towns. In normal gameplay, you’ll always start a fresh town with 40 units of Gasoline. At first it may seem like a lot, but sooner or later it will dwindle, so start right away working on a way to create Gasoline within your town.
Wages
Your town’s workers won’t get out of bed for free. Literally, they’ll return to their homes and go to sleep if you don’t have any work for them (or worse) if you don’t have anything to pay them! This is why as more workers and more specialized workers enter your town and start earning a living, you’ll need to continue elevating your production tiers to bring in more money with new deliveries.
Selling for More
It takes 10 units of any crop or craft to sell, and with each successful sale delivery, you’ll receive cash and stars based on the difficulty and resources required for the production. For example, Wheat is a low-tier crop – It can be grown simply by watering a field and carrying the harvested wheat to a Silo. So you can expect Wheat to earn a significantly lower haul of cash and stars than a load of Flour, which is a next-tier product crafted from Wheat.
Basically, the more generations of refinement that your raw resources go through, the more money and stars you’ll get for them in the end when it’s time to deliver. And that’s the name of the game.
Build Balanced
The key to Common Ground World is building a balanced town where the various workers and buildings work perfectly together in carefully orchestrated detail.
If you’re producing a certain resource too quickly and don’t have anywhere to store it, then some of the energy spent producing that resource will be wasted.
Layout Matters
IRL towns employ city planners for a reason. Functional towns and cities don’t just build themselves or fall together from a bunch of coincidences. Early on, you’ll want to imagine the expanded vision of your town in the future. Think in long term goals, even when you may be several steps away from their completion.
Because of proximity effects given off by certain types of structures, you’ll want to create designated areas for different types of operation in your town. For example, you don’t want the pollution of a Gasoline operation interfering with your ability to grow crops, nor would you like your Warehouses to cast shade and negatively affect your fields’ access to the sun’s rays.
Most buildings require adjacent Roads, and the placement of Roads is not to be taken lightly. Your workforce will move much faster on Roads
Learn Your Passives
Passive production is one of the keys to becoming a successful builder in Common Ground World. Basically, passive production means creating a situation where resources are automatically provided to a unit or structure that needs them. The simplest example is placing a Wheat Field next to a pond, where it will receive the passive water it needs to grow. If placed where it can get water naturally from the ground, the Farmer will not need to bring buckets of water, effectively eliminating the need for a well in that instance.
Playing with NFTs
Common Ground World is a web3 game with real player ownership of certain in-game items. Items owned as NFTs carry several advantages compared to their in-game counterparts, and some NFT items provide benefits that cannot be found through any standard in-game item.
NFTs can be transferred and traded
NFTs can be instantly placed and removed for no additional cost
Earlier in 2024, Guilds were first introduced to Common Ground World gameplay, bringing a new level of cooperative strategy and team competition. Spend some time in the Common Ground World Discord community and you may get invited to join a Guild, unlocking greater potential rewards and access to new types of competition.
Guilds are led by owners of Common Ground World Nodes. Each Guild comes with a unique feature called the Guild Library, which allows Guild members to check out NFTs from the Guild Leader’s collection for use in the latest competitive events.
Guild membership is controlled entirely by the Guild Leader (invite only), but there’s a good chance that you’ll find actively recruiting Guild Leaders in Common Ground World’s Discord community!
We’re excited to introduce you to this charming farm sim game. Hopefully you’ve found some helpful information in this getting started blog. We look forward to playing with you and seeing you rise up the leaderboard in the weekly competition.
Welcome back builders! We hope y’all had a good weekend and you’re ready to dive into a new Common Ground World competition, starting tomorrow at 10am PT and running for 3 days!
Town Hall
Check out the replay from last Friday’s live Town Hall on the Gala Games Youtube channel. These events are a great way to get all the latest information in a game that’s really good at keeping players on their toes!
The team holds Town Halls every two weeks at 8am PT on Friday mornings. The next one will take place on August 30th.
Starlight Picnic
Pack your baskets! This week’s Market Boxes are brewing with Mocha Coffee and stuffed with Salmon Paninis. Sip, savor, and shine under the starlight!
Meta: Sell Starlight Market Boxes Trade Time: 100s, 1 Gasoline Biome: Desert W Edges: Ocean N, Desert E, River S and Desert W
In addition to the standard $GALA rewards, top finishers will get the Hasty Ice Cream Shop Blueprint NFT, available in 6 different rarities depending on leaderboard position:
The Legendary Café des Étoiles NFT is a gourmet hotspot that features master chefs who whip up delightful dishes & satisfying sips. With a menu of Salmon Panini, Lasagna, Chocolate Ice Cream, Fancy Cake, Apple Pie, Mocha Coffee, & Sangria, these chef know how to use fewer ingredients for maximum flavor.
Common Ground World is free to play and easy to learn, but difficult to master! There are lots of ways to start building and enjoy the game, and you can always enhance your gameplay by collecting Common Ground World NFTs like buildings, Blueprints and more.
Join a Common Ground World Guild to get involved in group competitions. To participate in the bustling Common Ground World community, be sure to join the Gala Games Discord community!
No download is needed to play Common Ground World. All it takes is a free Gala Games account and you can play right in your browser. Have fun!
