# AFK Mode

Many Village Chiefs have already heard of your budding renown. They offer to only take a small fraction of your rewards in exchange for your service. A friendly Village Chief has sent an invitation letter as well. 

Where would the road take you, Samurai?

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## Playing the AFK Game Mode

### Step 1 - Introduction

You start off with a random Lvl.1 Samurai that fights mobs automatically. The defeated mobs will drop Rice fragments.&#x20;

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The number of Dropped Rice Fragments that you have is shown in the UI below.

You also have a pet egg, but it isn't born yet. &#x20;

There's nothing much to do at this stage until you level up your Samurai. Levelling up increases the Samurai's speed of fighting mobs, births the pet, and allows you to participate in the various game modes available.&#x20;

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### Step 2 - Making the first level up

Click level up, and it will require an on-chain transaction. You will require a small amount of ETH for gas fee, and SSS used to level up. &#x20;

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### Step 3 - Welcome to Lvl.2 !&#x20;

Lvl 2. is the first milestone in the game.&#x20;

At the top of the UI, you can see that a green bar showing your refund, and a countdown beside it. This is the refund for the level up that you just did. Higher levels require longer countdowns, and it's recommended to keep the Pet and Samurai level similar to have shorter countdowns. At the end of the countdown, you will be able to harvest the full amount of SSS back by playing a minigame called [Showdown](/minigames/showdown.md).&#x20;

Aside from the refund, you can see that your new pet is born!  Pets automatically picks up the Dropped Rice Fragments, converting them into Harvested Rice Fragments.  Just like Samurai, Pets have a speed value that can be increased by levelling them up.&#x20;

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The number of Harvested Rice Fragments that you have is shown in the UI below. Just like Sushi Samurai, Pets also have a speed value.&#x20;

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### Step 4 - Collecting Rice

The Harvested Rice Fragments can be **Collected** to the Rice Bag, shown in the UI below.&#x20;

For AFK mode, the SSS rewards are distributed each block to to the global supply of Rice. This means each Rice accrues SSS rewards over time incrementally. Having more Rice also accrues more SSS rewards.&#x20;

The Rice Bag shows <mark style="color:green;">the amount of Rice you collected</mark> / the global supply of Rice.

Collecting Rice can be done as often as you like, and it's an on-chain transaction.&#x20;

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### Step 5 - Limits to Collecting Rice

Starting from the first collection, each Player's Rice Bag has an Expiry Date of 30 days. This can be seen from the hourglass icon in the Rice Bag UI.&#x20;

After 30 days, the Rice Bag and Rice bowl (from pet) is expired, and reset.&#x20;

The player will need to build up his Rice Bag again by collecting Rice.  Samurai and pet levels are not reset.

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The player's Rice Bag also has a maximum limit of 4,509,601,296. However, this can be increased by using NFT skins.&#x20;

These NFT skins are obtained from winning special events and completing quests.  They can also be  traded on NFT marketplaces.&#x20;

This is different from the skin purchased from the in-game shop, which are not NFT skins.&#x20;

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[NFT Skins](/introduction/nft-skins.md)
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### Step 6 - Choosing a land to play on

Players start on a random land, and they can switch between lands to play on. Each Land is an tradable NFT that has a tax rate set by the owner.

Whenever player collects to the rice bag, it's subject to the land tax set by the land owner.

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### Step 7 - Harvest (Refund the cost of upgrades)&#x20;

When the countdown of the Refund is finished, players can fully recover their SSS cost of upgrading Samurai and Pets by doing a Harvest.&#x20;

This can be repeated multiple times, and you can still level up even while a countdown is active, since the countdown will be modified instead of being reset.&#x20;

There is a customary [Showdown](/minigames/showdown.md) battle to complete before being able to Harvest, and the UI will indicate it. &#x20;

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### Step 8 - Rice Renewal (Collecting Rewards)&#x20;

When a player wants to collect the SSS rewards from AFK mode, he needs to do Rice Renewal.&#x20;

When a player does Rice Renewal, his Rice Bag resets to zero, and the total supply of Rice decreases. This way, the remaining players get more future rewards.&#x20;

There is a customary [Showdown](/minigames/showdown.md) battle to complete before being able to Renew Rice, and the UI will indicate it. &#x20;

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