✍️ A handwritten note pays 2 
, up to 100 a day
Pencil Post
This postbox only takes handwriting. Write a note with the Apple Pencil, send it to someone in the family, and they write back the same way.
Write a note
💬 Conversations
Tap a person to see every note between you, oldest first.
Letter Forge
By hand: gold letter 2 · silver 2 · bronze 2 · other 1
- Every letter gets a score out of 100
- 85 or more is a gold star, 70 or more silver, 50 or more bronze
- Silver letters open up words
- Gold letters and words open inks and stamps
- Nothing is timed
What to forge
How
Grey: not tried. Bronze 50+, silver 70+, gold 85+. The round always picks your weakest ones first.
Free Write
- A blank page, nothing to trace
- Write what the card asks, in your own letters
- Tap I've finished
- The reader is a computer that reads handwriting
- It reads exactly what you wrote, letter for letter
- A match pays you. A miss costs nothing: have another go
Your Free Write record
🧱 Building costs the blocks you place. Take it apart and they all come back
Build
❓ How Build works
- Every block is a material you earned.
- Placing a block takes it from your materials.
- Save a build and it becomes a stamp for notes.
- Take it apart and the blocks come back.
- Kits and chess sets only borrow your builds.
- They cost nothing more.
- A kit: armour, sword, shield, protection, trinkets.
- What it is made of gives real numbers on the Island.
- Draw the chestplate's top corners for shoulder guards.
- Shoulder guards give up to armour +6.
- Separate shoulder guards too? The stronger ones count.
- Combine puts your builds on a big canvas for free.
- New blocks you paint on it cost as usual.
- Upgrade swaps one material for another.
- You pay the difference, and you see it first.
- 🎯 Choose the spots: only the blocks you tap change.
- You see the new kit numbers first.
⛏️ A traced tunnel opens a chest: 2 of its ore and 2 
. Jewels you mine are extra
Tunnel
Every 8 blocks you dig opens a tunnel, with two jobs. Trace one steady line from the green dot to the chest without touching the rock, and the chest is yours. Mine the jewels hidden in the rock: pick up the pickaxe and tap the glowing spot on each block. Miss, and you just try again.
💰 Nothing is earned here: save at 1% a day, swap at today's price, or roll for a prize
Money
- Every game pays in materials
- Swap them, save them, or roll for a prize
Market
- Swap any material for any other, at today's price
- What you give is worth what you get. If you give more, the extra comes back to you as dirt
- Prices move when the family buys and sells, and drift back each day
💡 How it works
Every game pays in its own material
- Letter Forge, notes and Free Write: diamonds, iron, coal and dirt
- Tunnels: copper, iron and jewels you mine
Redstone Workshop: redstone
Word Workshop and some quizzes: lapis
Plate Builder: emeralds
Time Twister: gold
Crew Types and Chess: quartz
Where in the World?: sand
Secret Spanish: wood
Pyramid Builder: sandstone; Sokoban: cobblestone; Chess: obsidian
Crystal Lab: amethyst; Garden: grass; Nether Challenge: netherite (rarely)- 🗺️Every material and where it comes from: the Economy tab, "Where every material comes from"
- 📈Prices move with what the family buys and sells, and drift back to usual as the Market restocks each day
- 📋Every way to earn, with exact amounts: the Economy tab, "How to earn"
Want dirt? Swap for it. Never write badly for it.
Statement
- Every move: earned, swapped, built or taken apart
- Your balance is how much of each material you have. This list shows it after every move, like a real bank statement
Bank
- 1% more every day (1% means 1 for every 100), a tiny bit every second
- Any material can be saved. Each has a limit on what goes in: 200 diamonds, 600 iron, 5,400 dirt
- Take out any whole number (1, 2, 3 ...), any time. No fees, no fines
Item Roller
- 70 dirt-worth a roll, for one prize: from 10 dirt to 20 netherite
- 5 rolls a day
- The bigger the prize, the smaller its chance: every chance is below
Emlyn's idea.
🎨 Gold letters open inks. Gold words open stamps
Inks and stamps
Earned in the Forge. Used in the Post.