Currencies

Godmaw uses a deliberately simple currency roster: one trade currency, one shared feed-and-craft resource, and ten recognizable computer hardware parts grouped into three biome-tiered buckets. Every currency is a ledger balance — fungible, trackable, and impossible to duplicate.

Five currencies were cut during design (Weights, Compute, Fame, Echoes, Cinder). “Simplicity scales.”

Tokens

Tokens are the single trade currency of Godmaw — the day-to-day money you use to buy, sell, and pay upkeep. Everything on The Exchange is denominated in Tokens.

Faucets (how Tokens enter the economy): selling gear and parts on The Exchange; NPC payouts and contract rewards; The Rig’s capped idle mining generator; quest and daily rewards.

Sinks (where Tokens leave): The Exchange broker fee (~3% on every fill, drained permanently); crafting and item upgrades; cosmetics; extra Vault tabs; Rig upgrade tiers; respec.

The Rig’s idle generator is deliberately a thin, capped floor — a great dive always out-earns idling by a wide margin. The idle faucet can never inflate the economy.

Compute Scrap

Compute Scrap (internal schema name: essence) is the shared feed-and-craft resource. It flows from one activity to many uses, keeping a single unified resource rather than a proliferation of crafting currencies.

Primary faucet: dismantling surplus gear at the Workbench (crush). Every item has a Compute Scrap yield value that scales with its rarity and band. Crushing is the economy’s main item-sink — it pulls gear out of circulation while generating Scrap.

Uses (all Compute Scrap sinks):

• Upgrading items at the Workbench (consumed alongside server parts)
• Leveling the Companion
• Feeding The Rig’s idle mining generator (the Rig converts Scrap + spare parts into passive Tokens)
• Rig crafting and station-tier upgrades

Compute Scrap is tradeable on The Exchange. Players who accumulate surplus Scrap can sell it; players who prefer to skip the crush loop can buy it.

The idle loop gate: The Rig’s mining generator requires Compute Scrap as fuel. That Scrap comes from crushing dive-only loot. The Rig cannot produce its own fuel — this structural dependency ensures idle output can never sustain itself without active play.

Server Parts (Crafting Materials)

Crafting materials in Godmaw are real, recognizable computer and server hardware — the parts you would use to build a server rack. They are distinct tradeable goods, grouped into three biome-depth tiers.

T1 — Basic Parts (mat_t1)

Dropped in: Static Sea, Reverie (outer biomes)

Used in low-band item upgrades and base-tier Rig improvements.

T2 — Advanced Parts (mat_t2)

Dropped in: Recursive Wilds (mid biome)

Used in mid-band upgrades and mid-tier Rig improvements.

T3 — Exotic Parts (mat_t3)

Dropped in: Delirium, the Kernel, and major boss encounters

Used in top-band upgrades, apex crafting, and the deepest Rig tiers. These are the scarcest materials in the game.

Why Three Tiers?

Crafting recipes require a mix of parts from multiple tiers — you cannot upgrade a high-band item using only outer-biome drops. This makes every biome relevant at every stage of the game, keeps demand for all ten parts alive, and ensures The Exchange’s part markets stay liquid. Skipping a biome means skipping the parts that gate your progression.

The same parts feed both item upgrades and Rig improvements — one unified materials economy. Every part is always useful.

System Accounts

The ledger uses four reserved system accounts (negative IDs) to track the economy’s plumbing:

The economy invariant: sum of all player wallets = total MINT out − total SINK in. Any deviation is a dupe alert, and the ledger identifies the exact transaction that caused it.