🏙 UrbanPact

Team city-building on Telegram

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🌱 Getting Started

Sign up, take your first actions, and find your feet.

Getting Started

UrbanPact is played entirely through Telegram. There's no app to install — just open the bot and start a conversation.

/start Registers your account and places you in the wilderness — your solo starting phase.

You begin with 1,000 gold and the Settler tier. Before joining city life, every new player spends time alone in the wilderness: gathering resources, upgrading their housing, and learning the ropes at their own pace. When you're ready, you leave the wilderness and join or found a real city.

Once registered, the bot shows a navigation keyboard at the bottom of your screen with quick-tap buttons. In the wilderness your keyboard shows 🏕 Camp as the main action. Once you're in a city it expands to the full set. If you ever dismiss the keyboard, use /menu to bring it back.

💡 The game is turn-based at the hour. Every hour in the wilderness you passively gather a random unlocked resource plus 50g, and your quest timers run continuously in the background. To keep things quiet, this all updates your Camp panel silently — you only get a notification when your quest queue runs down to its last quest or empties, so you know to send your camp out again. Completing a quest also pays a small gold bonus scaled by duration: 8g for 3-minute quests, 10g for 4-minute, 13g for 5-minute, and 15g for 6-minute quests. Prefer total silence? Mute wilderness updates in /settings.

Beginner objectives

Use /objectives (or tap 🎯 Goals in the keyboard) to see a twelve-step guided checklist split across two phases:

Wilderness phase (5 steps):

  1. Complete your first quest — tap 🏕 Camp and send yourself on an expedition
  2. Fill all your quest slots — use the Fill Slots button to pack every available slot at once
  3. Upgrade your housing — gather enough resources to move beyond a Tent. Better housing unlocks longer quests and more queue slots
  4. Reach Cottage tier — keep upgrading through Shack, Cabin, and Cottage to unlock all four quest locations and the full 10-slot queue
  5. Leave the wilderness — use /join or /found when you're ready. Your home carries over and leftover resources convert to gold

City phase (7 steps):

  1. Fill your city action queue — tap 📋 Queue and add gather actions until all slots are full
  2. Complete your first city gather — wait for the next hourly tick to fire
  3. Queue actions 5 ticks in a row — keep your queue topped up every hour for 5 consecutive ticks (a gap resets the queue streak)
  4. Buy your first tool — open /vendor and buy a tool; the Shovel (450g) is cheapest. Tools boost gather yield and unlock crafting recipes
  5. Complete your first craft — buy a Workbench at /vendor (1,500g), then use /craft to queue a recipe
  6. Reach Citizen tier — earn 1,000g and 100 reputation by staying active
  7. Help build a city project — gather resources while a project is active to earn reputation on completion

The objectives screen always shows your next hint — you only need to focus on one thing at a time. The 🎯 Goals button disappears from the keyboard once all twelve are complete.

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