GARUD

Garud is a real-time game of matter and skill. You pilot a robot into a world of twenty lands, each holding one material that forges one of your twenty parts. You fight live for the ground, work the node by hand, and haul matter home to build yourself up. Nobody wins while parked; nobody wins on stats alone.

• Real-time, skill-first. Every part fires on a button. Aim, dodge, position and manage energy yourself — a well-piloted small robot can shoot out a mammoth. Stats tilt the odds; they never auto-win.
• No passive play. Fighting and extracting are active. A land's node fills on its own, but the pile only moves for a robot that is present and takes it. Offline is pure vulnerability — a sitting duck, earning nothing.
• Extract and forge. Everything you pull from a land is forged straight into the robot's parts — its progress lives on the machine itself.
• Go everywhere. Twenty lands, twenty materials, twenty parts. A land's terrain has one best tool — but its material forges a different land's tool, so no land is self-sufficient and completion is a tour of the whole map.
• Everything on the asset. Tier, twenty part levels, integrity, energy, heal state, carried materials — all mutable attributes on the robot.

A robot has three base stats set by its tier (§3), plus a twenty-part kit (§4) that levels 1 → 100. The base stats are what tier buys — and all tier buys:

• Integrity — the health pool. Take enough fire and you're knocked out and sent home.
• Defense — damage mitigation, diminishing returns. Softens every incoming hit.
• Energy — capacity + regeneration. Firing costs energy; energy is the throttle on how hard and how long you can pour out your kit. A base stat, like health — not a part.

Ten tiers, Scrapling → Garud Prime. Everyone starts at Level 1 with the weakest bases. Higher tiers carry more Integrity, Defense and Energy — a bigger robot can down a small one in a handful of clean shots — but never a guaranteed win against a skilled, present pilot.

Every robot carries the same twenty part slots, and every part does two jobs: a tool that works a specific terrain, and a weapon you fire in combat. Each part levels 1 → 100, and leveling scales both jobs — more extraction yield, more damage or a stronger effect. Every part must be manually activated — fire or toggle by hand, nothing triggers automatically. Each activation spends energy and puts the part on cooldown. Twenty parts on staggered cooldowns means there's almost always something ready — energy, not cooldown, is what limits you.

Cooldowns and energy costs are launch reference values, tunable per season. Leveling a part raises the magnitude of both jobs (damage / effect strength and extraction yield); cooldown and base energy cost are per-part constants.

Combat is piloted live and resolves on the server, never by auto-battle. You fire parts by hand; each shot spends energy and goes on cooldown. Land hits, dodge theirs, watch your energy, and drop the rival's Integrity to zero before yours. There is no turn order and no dice standing in for your aim.

// the real-time exchange
Fire a part    → spend its Energy cost; blocked while on cooldown or if Energy < cost
Energy         → refills continuously at the tier's Regen rate (a base stat)
A landed hit   → HitDamage × (1 − rivalDefense / (rivalDefense + 600))   // leveled parts hit harder
Integrity 0    → knocked out → pushed back to base → heals over time before it can redeploy

Defense uses diminishing returns — Defense / (Defense + 600) — so higher tiers shrug off more, but a fresh challenger who keeps landing shots still wins. Both robots share the same firing rules, so the difference on the field is pilot skill plus how well each machine's energy sustains its kit.

The world is twenty lands, each with one terrain, one material, and one best-suited tool. The twist that forces the tour: the material a land drops forges a different land's tool — never its own. Working a land hands you the key to the next, and the chain loops through all twenty. To extract well anywhere you must first have earned the tool somewhere else.

Each land's node yields one unit of material every 5 minutes and piles up until taken — so an unwatched land becomes a growing prize. Extraction is an active job: you work the node by hand with a tool, and the terrain-matched tool (the land's "best worked by") pulls far more per effort than an off-terrain one. A stronger, better-matched, higher-level tool clears a fat pile faster.

The node cap stops an unwatched land hoarding forever and gives late arrivals a reason to challenge for a ripe node instead of starting fresh. Nothing accrues to an offline player — the world fills the node, but only an active robot takes it.

• 1 · Deploy. Send a robot from base to one of the twenty lands.
• 2 · Fight. If a rival is there, duel in real time — fire your kit, manage energy, drop them. The loser is pushed to base; the winner holds the ground.
• 3 · Extract. Work the node by hand; the terrain-matched tool hauls the accumulated pile fastest.
• 4 · Forge. At base, burn the material into that land's part, raising it toward 100 — which unlocks the next land's tool (§6).
• 5 · Complete. Circuit the map, max all twenty parts, then promote.

Every robot has a home base — where it returns by choice or defeat to heal, and where forging happens. A player keeps as many robots per base as they like: a base is a roster, not a slot. Healing is time-dependent — a knocked-out robot restores Integrity over real time and can't redeploy until it passes a threshold, and heal rate scales with tier, so bigger machines take longer to patch. The price of losing is measured in downtime, not lost matter.

Every material is consumed to raise a part's level. Each part climbs 1 → 100, and each level costs units of exactly that part's material, in rising bands, so the last levels cost far more matter than the first. Since one land feeds one part, the only way to pay is to keep returning to the land that forges it.

Maxing one part takes on the order of 590 units of its material — roughly two idle days of a node, longer where lands are contested — and twenty parts complete a robot. The material is fused into the part as it levels.

• Completion. Average part level is a robot's public progress — a scrap machine reads near 1, a finished one 100 and ready to promote.
• Titles & records. First to complete a tier, longest-held land, most eliminations — milestones carried as attributes.
• Land registry. Which of the twenty lands a pilot has held and worked; completing the set is its own badge.
• Fleets. With unlimited storage, players run fleets — some robots farming quiet lands, some raiding contested ones.

The combat view is a live arena with an energy bar as the central gauge and twenty cooldown pips ringing it — the player reads energy the way a shooter reads ammo. The world view is the twenty lands with live node timers and current holders; the robot view is a twenty-part schematic, each part showing its 1–100 level, terrain and the land that forges it. Signature elements: beveled armor-plate panels, a plasma energy-ring, and a completion meter that fills toward promotion.

This document is informational and describes a work-in-progress design (v0.3); mechanics and all numeric values are reference points and subject to change.

Nothing here is financial, investment, or legal advice, nor an offer or solicitation to buy any asset.