Praetoria.live

Within @splinterlands, Praetoria has 142,482 plots across 143 regions and 7 territories. They are owned by 4,078 real accounts. There are 311,824 monsters staked on that land right now — 247,557 of them actively working — drawn from 873 different species.

Not only are these numbers subject to change, these numbers are guaranteed to change. All of that is public. All of it is on chain. But almost none of it has ever been seen.

That is what this is: a way to go there, explore, walk around. Stand on a plot, look around, walk to the next one, cross into the next region, and find out whose land you are on.

It is open now, at praetoria.live. You can directly visit the map here.

Praetoria.live map view in action

What works today

• The whole map. All 143 regions, every plot placed where it actually is.
• Walking. Plot by plot. Walk off the edge of a region and you arrive in the neighbouring one, on the same row you left.
• Hive Keychain login. Your land is marked as yours the moment you sign in.
• Fog of war. The map starts hidden. You uncover it by exploring — or by owning the land, because you already know your own ground.
• Other people. You will see them moving, live, region by region.
• Explorer's Marks. Leaving your mark on the world (and HIVE). More below.
• It works on a phone. Properly — touch controls, not a shrunken desktop.

Uncover the map through exploration

One rule underneath all of it

The chain decides. We render.

Nothing here is invented. Nobody's land was made up, no card was swapped for a placeholder, no plot shows a worksite it does not have. Where our index and the blockchain disagree, the blockchain wins and the disagreement is flagged.

The Explorer's Marks

Walk to a plot.

Leave a message on it.

The plot owner gets to read it.

Whoever walks there next can read it.

If they want, they can leave their own mark.

That is the whole feature, and it is the most Hive-native thing here.

A Mark is a real Hive comment, signed by the player who wrote it, from their own account. It names the plot it belongs to and it mentions whoever owns that land — so if someone leaves a note on your deed, it reaches you wherever you already read Hive. No new inbox. No notification system to check.

Hive is already the social layer. This just puts it on a map.

Which means a Mark outlives this project. If this project vanished tomorrow, every
message anyone left would still be on chain, still signed, still theirs, still pointing to where they left it.

This week's Marks live here: the Weekly Explorer's Mark.

Why this is good for Splinterlands

Land is the deepest part of the game and the least visible. For most players it is a spreadsheet — a very promising spreadsheet they have never stood on.

Those 311,824 monsters were already there. Somebody paid for them, staked them, and left them working. Until now there was no way to look at them. Rendering them takes nothing out of the game; it shows what is already in it.

And it all points back at the real economy. A castle changing hands is news. A region filling with worksites is news. A stranger's Mark on your plot is a reason to look at land you have not thought about in months. None of that needs inventing, because it is already happening — it has just never had a surface.

I want this to bring people to land, not to route value away from it.

world map view showing current location and locations of owned plots

Where this goes

Planned, not built. These things tend to take time.

• Next: characters who live on the land. The monsters standing on a plot are already known by name, level and species — and the Land cards in particular make natural inhabitants. They should behave like they are there: give you something to find, tell you where you are, send you somewhere. One quest I already know I want, because the world can verify it on its own: find another staked card of the same race as the one asking.

• Then: showing your collection on your land. A plot as somewhere a player displays what they hold — a binder you can walk to, rather than a list.

• Then: delegation and rentals. Landowners with idle cards and new players with none is a trade waiting to happen, and land is a good place to make it.

• Later: a resource economy. Land already produces grain, wood, stone and iron every hour. There could be a game in that, a token offering for the players attention, and it should reach the people walking the map.

• At some point: something better to look at than a grid. The grid is honest — every square is a real plot in its real place — but it is not a view. I want a proper scene of where you are standing: the terrain, the buildings on it, and the monsters actually staked there, drawn rather than listed.

• Eventually: combat. Fighting what is actually staked on a plot. This one is hard, it depends on everything above, and it is honestly a long way off.

Some of this will change. Some of it will be wrong. It gets built in the open, and this account will post as it lands.

The tags

Everything from this project carries #landsofpraetoria. The site also reads #praetoria and #roleplaypraetoria — tag a post with any of the three and it appears on blog.praetoria.live with nobody approving it.

#roleplaypraetoria is there because I would like people to write in-world if they want to. Invited, not required, and nothing in the game asks you to.

we also have a place to write blogs which helps directly supports the project

If you own land

You do not have to do anything. Your plots are already on the map, drawn from public data, exactly as the chain describes them.

Nothing here touches your assets. It cannot: this project holds no key that could move a card, spend DEC, or change anything you own. Logging in is an ordinary Keychain signature with your posting key — the same one you use to comment.

And if you would rather your land were not shown on this project, say so and it will not be. We can and do reserve the right to moderate our front end: land owners can request to be removed from the project, and we can moderate and filter inappropriate/hateful content from the HIVE backend. We can't & won't stop your speech, but we can choose to not repeat it.

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Praetoria is a Splinterlands world. This project is independent, built by @amphlux, a dedicated player, but not affiliated with Splinterlands. In memory of Gigas.