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Overview

Growtopia (2012, Robinson + Hommel; sold to Ubisoft 2017) was a 2D sandbox MMO with a soul:
total creative freedom, a player-run economy, true world ownership, and a living social fabric.
The founder of Sprout was a passionate, competitive player. Growtopia is now "unplayable" to
him for **two reasons**: runaway **inflation**, accelerated by a **bot/autofarm** problem, and
**Ubisoft devaluing the economy themselves** by cranking gem-pack sizes (he recalls ~$20 buying
~125,000 gems in 2015, vs. ~$20 buying ~10,000,000 gems + bundled items later — which made the
time/effort to earn items worthless).

> "We're going to come in and create the next Growtopia — but really, the first."

**The magic to recreate** (the feeling, not just the mechanics):
- **Freedom.** You can do *anything*. A clear competitive grind path for driven players AND a
pure-fun path (minigame worlds, parkour, spleef) f

The world

• Side-scrolling tile world, 100x60 cells at 32px tiles (landscape 640x360).
• 33 item types · 12 blocks · 11 crops · 8 splice recipes · 5 cosmetics.
• Unbreakable: bedrock

Controls

• Joystick = move; JUMP (double-jump) = hop; tap a solid tile = break; tap empty (block selected) = place.
• Select a seed + tap soil = plant; tap a grown plant = harvest; tap a sapling with another seed = splice.
• WARDROBE = equip cosmetics live; WORLD = claim/lock; BAG = full inventory.

Economy & safety (future-proofing)

• Currency = Shards + a block/seed inventory; saved to user://sprout_save.json.
• Server-authority seam: break/place route through _authority.request() → LocalServer (Phase-1 local fake). The client never mints state — Phase 2 swaps a real server in with no gameplay change.
• item_id space is append-only (never renumbered) so saves & the wire protocol stay stable forever.

Blocks & Items (33)

icon / id	name	type	key
1	Grass	block	grass
2	Dirt	block	dirt
3	Stone	block	stone
4	Bedrock	block	bedrock
5	Plank	block	plank
6	Leaf	block	leaf
7	Brick	block	brick
8	Sprout Seed	seed	seed
9	Sand	block	sand
10	Glass	block	glass
11	Stonebrick	block	stonebrick
12	Darkplank	block	darkplank
13	Lantern	block	lantern
14	Berry Seed	seed	seed_berry
15	Pumpkin Seed	seed	seed_pumpkin
16	Gold Seed	seed	seed_gold
17	Berry	crop	berry
18	Pumpkin	crop	pumpkin
19	Gold	crop	gold
20	Mossberry Seed	seed	seed_mossberry
21	Sunberry Seed	seed	seed_sunberry
22	Ironbark Seed	seed	seed_ironbark
23	Glowvine Seed	seed	seed_glowvine
24	Melon Seed	seed	seed_melon
25	Crystal Seed	seed	seed_crystal
26	Starfruit Seed	seed	seed_starfruit
27	Mossberry	crop	mossberry
28	Sunberry	crop	sunberry
29	Ironbark	crop	ironbark
30	Glowvine	crop	glowvine
31	Melon	crop	melon
32	Crystal	crop	crystal
33	Starfruit	crop	starfruit

Crops & Splicing

Crops

crop	seed	harvest
Leaf	seed	Leaf
Berry	seed_berry	Berry
Pumpkin	seed_pumpkin	Pumpkin
Gold	seed_gold	Gold
Mossberry	seed_mossberry	Mossberry
Sunberry	seed_sunberry	Sunberry
Ironbark	seed_ironbark	Ironbark
Glowvine	seed_glowvine	Glowvine
Melon	seed_melon	Melon
Crystal	seed_crystal	Crystal
Starfruit	seed_starfruit	Starfruit

Splice recipes (8) — hidden in-game; discover by experimenting

Cosmetics (5)

icon	slot	art
	Hat	av_hat
	Wings	av_wings
	Tool	av_tool
	Cape	av_cape
	Crown	av_crown

Changelog