🐕 1 · What is Marsverse
Marsverse is a multiplayer game about colonizing Mars, built around MarShiba — the meme of the first dog on Mars. You play in third person, in your browser. There is no PvP: you don't fight other players, you compete on how efficient your colony is and how many Martian days (Sols) you survive.
There are two ways to play, and you can switch between them:
- Settler — claim a plot and build a colony on it. Land is limited, so plots in a sector can run out.
- Free Roamer — no land needed: explore, mine resources, trade and stack Gold until you grab a plot of your own (or new land opens up).
Either way the goal is the same — keep your Shiba alive and survive the Sols. Trade what you produce, or perish: “trade or die”.
🪐 2 · The world
Mars is split into sectors — separate servers, each a few kilometres across. A sector has three kinds of space:
- Residential zone — where settlers claim plots and build their colonies.
- The Hub — a central marketplace with NPC contracts and player-to-player trading. The economic heart of the sector.
- Resource fields — shared areas where everyone mines Iron and Silicon.
The world is persistent: it keeps running while you're offline, and everything you build is saved on the server so it's exactly where you left it when you return.
New servers are added over time — each with a different Martian setting depending on its location (canyons, crater fields, dust plains, volcanic flats…), so there's always fresh land to settle.
🧑🚀 3 · Two roles
There's no class system — just two natural ways to play, and you can move between them:
Settlers need raw materials; roamers need survival goods and Gold. That mutual need is what drives the whole economy.
🔁 4 · The core loop
| Step | What you do |
|---|---|
| 1 · Claim | Stake a plot in a sector and lay your first platform. The land is now tied to your wallet. |
| 2 · Build | Set up production — power, water, oxygen, food — and grow your base plate by plate, building by building. |
| 3 · Survive | Balance what your colony produces and consumes so your Shiba lives through each Sol. Every Sol survived extends your streak. |
| 4 · Trade | Sell your surplus, buy what you lack, stack Gold. The market — not combat — is how you climb. |
🏠 5 · Your plot & buildings
Your plot is a platform you build out of ground tiles (up to a 10×10 area). On it you place functional buildings — each does a real job in the colony:
Buildings, their positions and their levels are all saved on the server — log out, come back, and your colony is intact. You can freely move and upgrade your own buildings in edit mode.
🌡️ 6 · Survival & Sols
Your Shiba has three vital needs that tick down over time:
A well-run colony produces enough of each to cover the night. A Sol is one Martian day (24h). Every Sol your dog survives adds to your streak — your prestige and your standing in the sector. Let the needs run out, and the streak ends. Don't let him die.
⛏️ 7 · Resources
Two raw materials come from the shared resource fields:
Roamers mine them and sell to settlers who need them to build and upgrade. Water, oxygen and food aren't mined — your colony produces them from power (Water Extractor, Oxygen Generator, Greenhouse). Scarcity is what gives raw materials their value.
🪙 8 · Economy
A closed, player-driven economy. Gold runs the colony; almost everything of value flows between players.
Gold — the in-game currency
- Earned by being productive — mining, producing a surplus and trading.
- Spent on survival refills, building & character upgrades, vehicles, skins and more.
- Minted only from limited NPC contracts — supply stays disciplined, no infinite faucet.
The Hubs
Player trading
Beyond the hubs, players trade directly with each other — resources, items, and even selling your plot in-game to another settler. The treasury buys nothing and backs nothing; prices are set by players. Value comes from other settlers, never from a promise.
The shop
Spend Gold on more than survival: playable characters, vehicles, plot upgrades, character upgrades and plenty more — and most of it can be traded between players too.
🔗 9 · $MARSHIBA (on-chain)
$MARSHIBA is the Solana token that connects the colony to the chain. You swap Gold ↔ $MARSHIBA peer-to-peer, signed in your own wallet — one click, no custodian holding your keys.
Every swap splits like this:
🎮 10 · How to play
Open mars.marshiba.com in your browser. Connect a Solana wallet (Phantom) so your plot and progress belong to you — or jump in as a guest first. No install.
Controls
- WASD move · E enter/exit rover · R interact
- I inventory · Tab edit mode (place & move buildings)
- In edit mode: click a tile to place, click a building's INFO pill to open its management panel.
🛰️ 11 · Roadmap
- ✅ Done — Foundation: game development (beta version live), player-to-player trading, $MARSHIBA token launch and the burn mechanism integrated into the game. 🎮🔥
- ⚙️ In progress — Growing the game: new features, developing the game together with the players, new skins & new vehicles. 🐾🚙
- 🔭 On the horizon — Full release: the full version of the game, mobile release on Google Play & App Store, and even more maps & servers. 📱🗺️
⚖️ 12 · Disclaimer
Marsverse is a game and $MARSHIBA is a community meme token — not an investment, and nothing here is financial advice or a promise of profit. You earn by being productive and trading with other players; any value comes from the community and the market, not from any guarantee by the team. Play for fun, and only ever risk what you can afford to lose.