Open Perpetuum

A persistent-universe MMO: you pilot robots across a galaxy of zones, gather resources, build and defend power base stations (PBS), contest intrusion sites, trade, and research your way up from a starter bot to a fully fitted war machine.

World Map Movement & zonesTeleports, interzones, docking, zone types GatheringOres, plants, nodes — the foundation of the economy MissionsRepeatable jobs for credits, items and EP CombatPvP and NPC combat, damage types, loot, insurance Power base stationsReactors, production, defense, docking IntrusionContest sites with SAPs, raise stability, unlock facilities ProductionReverse engineering, the mill, prototypes, items ResearchExtensions and the tech tree MarketBuy, sell and trade with other players Robots & fittingBodies, classes and per-model stats SparksYour agent’s nanobot and its ability bonuses

New here?

1. Getting started — account, character, your first robot, and how to get your first credits.
2. FAQ — the tutorial, picking a faction, what to do next.
3. Movement & zones — how you get around (teleports, interzones, docking).
4. Gathering — ores and plants, the foundation of the economy.

What you can do

In the field

• Gathering & scanning — mine ore, harvest plants, scan for nodes
• Combat — PvP and NPC combat, damage types, loot and insurance
• NPCs & PVE hunting — ranks, weaknesses, spawns, TAPs, tactics
• Exploration — artifacts and relics under the surface
• Missions — repeatable jobs for credits, items and EP
• Movement & zones — travel, teleports, zone types

Industry & progress

• Robots & fitting — bodies, classes and per-model stats
• Modules & fitting — the module families and fitting rules
• Production — the item lifecycle: reverse engineering, mill, prototypes
• Research — extensions and the tech tree
• Sparks — your agent's nanobot and its ability bonuses
• Items & inventory — containers, stacks, packing

Trade & economy

• Market & trade — buy, sell and trade with other players
• Transport — hire couriers or move cargo yourself
• Shop — server-side shop items (generated table)

Big play

• Power base stations — build and run a PBS: reactors, production, defense, docking
• Outposts & SAP — outpost ownership, stability and the four SAP activity types
• Intrusion — contest sites with SAPs, raise stability, unlock facilities
• Terraforming & zone resources — how zones grow ore and plants, and terraformable zones (see the worked zone examples and gamma zone 106)

With others

• Groups — corporations, alliances, gangs
• Social — mail, channels, friends, standings

Knowledge

• FAQ — early-game questions and the jargon (EP, NIC, CT, EWar…)
• Lore — the setting: Nia, the Nians, the Syndicate
• Client & PC setup — running the client, multi-boxing rules, UI scaling

Data reference

• Content tables — every ore, plant, item, robot, extension, recipe, mission, tech-tree node and shop item, generated from the live database
• Zones — the full zone index, resource-generation rules and the world map (every zone on the grid with its teleport links)

Developer pages (file formats, server internals) live in Dev mode — toggle it from the top bar.