Welcome to The Mels Live & Melwood Valley

Left-click anywhere on the ground or floor tiles to walk there. Your Sim automatically calculates smooth A* 3D pathfinding around walls, fences, planters, and furniture.

Rotate: Press Q or E (or use on-screen ↺ / ↻ buttons).
Zoom: Mouse scroll wheel or + / - buttons.
Pan: Right-click and drag across the screen to pan the camera view.

Left-click any interactive furniture piece, appliance, crop, or Sim to open a circular Pie Menu displaying contextual interactions (e.g. Cook Recipe, Sit, Water, Turn On Light).

The floating chat window in the bottom-left tracks local speech bubbles, server announcements, and direct messages. Drag the header bar to reposition it anywhere on your screen. On small screens it starts collapsed; use its expand button to open it.

The dock in the top-right switches between ▶️ Live (F1), 🔨 Build (B) and 🛋️ Buy (F). Everything else (Backpack, Phone, Family, Skills, Careers, Garden, Pets, Shop, Fishing, Market, VIP, Photo, Guide and Updates) lives under ✨ More. All the old hotkeys still work.

Tune into Melwood Valley's premier radio frequencies including Lo-Fi Chill Beats, Valley Pop Hits, Sims Classical Orchestra, and Retro Wave Arcade.

The radio tuner modal features real-time animated frequency visualizer bars that bounce in sync with the audio track.

When the radio is tuned in, Sims within auditory range autonomously enter the DANCE animation state, enjoying rapid Fun and Social motive regeneration.

Emits 3D floating musical note particles into the air, indicating to visiting players that music is currently playing in the room.

Three whim bubbles show what your Sim wants right now: cook a meal, go to work on time, pay the bills, gain a skill level, wake up well rested, make a friend... Wants that fit your traits and your day come up more often. Pin the ones you like and dismiss the rest. Each one fulfilled pays its ⭐ (up to 400 ⭐ of wants a day).

The daily loop pays ⭐ too: +15 for each shift worked, +100 for a promotion, +20 for every skill level, +20 for a bill paid on time and +30 for each new friend.

Pick one of seven: Master Chef, Friend of the World, Bodybuilder, Computer Whiz, Fabulously Wealthy, Hopeless Romantic or Renaissance Mel. Each has four tiers of goals built from the daily loop (skills, career levels, friends, romance, earnings, your home, bills). Every tier pays 250 to 1,500 ⭐, and finishing all four unlocks the aspiration's reward trait.

Choose up to three personality traits. They shape your wants and help you along: Genius and Bookworm learn Logic faster, Creative learns Creativity, Active learns Body, Foodie learns Cooking, Outgoing and Romantic learn Charisma, and Ambitious Sims do better at work.

Spend ⭐ on permanent perks (Steel Bladder: bladder falls 80% slower; Hardly Hungry: hunger 60% slower; Never Weary: energy 50% slower; Entrepreneurial: +10% pay...) or one-time elixirs that refill a need. Your ⭐, traits and perks are saved to your account.

Interact with the VR Holodeck Pod in the Neon Byte Arcade (Lot 21) or install a personal Holo-Pod in your own home to jack your consciousness into MelsScape.

Explore procedurally loaded 3D castle chunks featuring stone battlements, torch-lit corridors, iron portcullises, and hidden dungeon chambers.

Wield bronze scimitars, wooden shields, and wizard staves. Attack skeletons and dungeon rats to earn Attack, Strength, and Defence experience.

Crack open stone chests scattered throughout the dungeon to claim gold coins, rare runes, and precious relics you can bring back to the surface.

You start docked at Haven Prime Station in a free Mote corvette. Undock, warp to an asteroid belt, lock a rock with L and fire your Miner. Sell ore or refine it at any station. Haven is safe; pirates appear further out, and below security 0.5 other pilots can attack you.

Every pilot starts with Spaceship Command I, Frigate I, Missile Launcher Operation I and Mining II: enough to fly every frigate the stations sell. Destroyers, cruisers and bigger modules need more skills. Buy a skill book, then train it level by level (I to V). Books and levels are paid with your Sim's Simoleons, not ISK, and each level trains on a real-time timer, even while you're offline. Queue up to 10 levels.

Your Sim's Gaming skill takes 5% off every skill book and level for each Gaming level above 1. Practice at arcades and gaming PCs, or just play VR games.

Remove a queued level before it starts and you get its full price back. Cancel the level that's training and you get back the share of time it still had left. Levels that depended on it are removed (and refunded) too.

Every weapon deals a mix of EM, thermal, kinetic and explosive damage. Shields shrug off explosive but not EM; armor is the reverse. Your fitting screen shows your resists. An Adaptive Invulnerability Field (shield, active), an Energized Adaptive Membrane (armor) and one Damage Control raise them.

A Warp Disruptor (20 km, 1 point) or Warp Scrambler (9 km, 2 points) stops a ship from warping while it has more points on it than Warp Core Stabilizers fitted. A Stasis Webifier halves its speed. The Gnat gets +50% tackle range. Some pirates scramble or web you too: watch for the red WARP SCRAMBLED warning.

Firing on (or tackling) another pilot starts a 60-second weapons timer: no docking and no gate jumps until it runs out. Logging off in a fight leaves your ship in space until the fight has cooled down.

Buy drones on the Market and drag them into your drone bay while docked. In space, launch them from the HUD, lock a target and press F to engage (mining drones mine asteroids into your hold), and R to recall them. You control one drone per Drones skill level. Drones you leave behind when you warp off are lost; ones close by when you dock or jump come home.

Press N for the star map: ten systems, from the Lumen academy (0.9) to the Hollow Choir's home in null-sec Hollow. Click a system, plan the shortest or a safer route (stays in 0.5+ security when it can), and hit Autopilot: your ship warps to each gate and jumps on its own. Any manual flight command takes the controls back.

Fit a Core Probe Launcher (Astrometrics skill) and press Scan in the 🔭 Scanner. Each cycle adds progress on every cosmic signature in the system; at 25% you see what it is, at 100% it appears in your Overview for you and your fleet. Lower security hides more signatures.

Pirate hideouts have guards and a strongbox; relic and data sites hold caches of salvage, modules, drones and rig blueprints. Low and null-sec sites pay better. Cleared sites fade and new signatures appear later.

Somewhere in the Abyss, a signature hides the Drifter Overseer: a flagship with 60,000 hit points, two Marauder escorts, a 5,000,000 ISK bounty and a unique Overseer Damage Amplifier. Bring a fleet.

Every station keeps its own hangar. Ships and items stay where you left them: to use a module at another station, carry it there in your cargo hold. Things you buy from NPCs arrive where you're docked; things you buy from a pilot's sell order wait at the station where they listed them. Your Inventory shows what you own elsewhere.

Too busy to haul? Post a courier contract (📜 Contracts): seal items into a crate, pick a destination, a reward and a collateral. Another pilot pays the collateral to take it and gets the reward on delivery. If their ship is destroyed or they run out of time, the collateral is yours. Contracts nobody takes come back after 3 days.

Enlist in the Aurora Compact (home: Haven, Calder) or the Crimson Ascendancy (home: Ember, Dusk) from the ⚑ Factions window while docked in one of its home systems. Enlisted pilots can fight the other faction's pilots in the warzone (Calder, Brine, Dusk) and both factions' home systems, even in high-sec. Leaving means waiting a day to enlist again.

Faction kills and missions push warzone systems toward your side. When your faction holds a system, your market tax there is halved and repairs cost 25% less. The system header shows who holds it.

Every station has an agent (the Agent tab). Missions are kill (warp to a private 📍 site only you and your fleet can see), courier (carry a sealed package) or mining (bring ore). They pay ISK, Loyalty Points and standing. Standing 1 unlocks level 2 missions, standing 3 unlocks level 3. Up to 3 missions at once; they expire after 2 hours.

The Drifters (blasters) and the Hollow Choir (missiles and webs, in low and null sec) are pirates. Faction navies guard Aurora and Crimson stargates: they attack the enemy faction's pilots and anyone whose standing with them is -5 or worse. Spend LP at faction stations on navy modules and the Aurora Lancer or Crimson Reaver navy frigates.

Open the Fleet window and invite a pilot who's flying right now (up to 5). Fleet members show blue, can't shoot each other, split pirate bounties with everyone in the same system, and share loot rights on wrecks. The boss can warp everyone on their grid at once and, with the Leadership skill, gives members on their grid +2% speed and capacitor recharge per level.

Press Enter to chat. Local reaches everyone in your solar system; Fleet only your fleet. Fleet broadcasts (🎯 target, 🧭 align, 🆘 need help) show in everyone's log. MelsVoid chat and whereabouts stay inside MelsVoid.

Destroyed pirates and ships leave wrecks. Pirates drop modules, drones and salvage; a pilot's wreck holds about half of their cargo, modules and drones. For two minutes only the killer can loot it, then anyone can. Fly within 2.5 km, select it and press Loot all.

Fit a Salvager (needs the Salvaging skill), lock a wreck and run it: each cycle has a chance to pull salvage out. Stations buy salvage, and rigs are built from it.

Every hull but the Mote has three rig slots. Rigs are permanent upgrades (shield, armor, speed or cargo) built in Industry from salvage. Taking a rig out destroys it. Needs Jury Rigging.

Every lost hull pays back 40% of its price. Platinum insurance (Services tab, 30% of the price) pays the full price for 7 days. The 💀 Killboard lists your kills and losses and the latest fights between pilots.

Everyone lives on the same clock: a game minute lasts 2 real seconds, so a waking day is about half an hour. When every player online is asleep or at work, time skips ahead at 10x (the clock shows ⏩) until someone wakes up. The clock keeps counting days, even across server restarts.

Advanced server-side session eviction guarantees your character cannot be duplicated across multiple browser tabs or devices, preserving MMO integrity.

Experience real-time weather transitions (Sunny, Rain, Thunderstorms, Snow, Summer Breeze, Evening Fireflies) with synchronized 3D atmospheric particle engines and ambient temperature readings. Everyone shares the same sky: the weather changes on its own through the day, and clicking the weather badge by the clock shows the current forecast.

Click another player and choose Tip to send them § 100. Upvoting someone's lot costs you § 50, which goes into that lot's earnings pool. Only the owner can collect the pool, and you can't upvote your own lot.

Use your in-game smartphone to check who is currently online in the valley, send invitations to your lot, or inspect another player's level, career, and trophies.

Press O to access the cinematic viewfinder with a rule-of-thirds composition grid. Press Spacebar to snap high-res photos and view them in your in-game Memories Album.

Your job's paycheck (hourly wage × hours worked) and promotion bonuses, shop sales, fishing, selling crops and backpack items, paintings and gnomes, wedding gifts, daily rewards, quests, season tiers and starter directives all pay into your wallet.

Lots, furniture, walls, floors, doors, windows and roofs are charged their catalog price. Cooking, pizza, maid service, pet food and treats, adoptions, seeds, tips and lot upvotes come out of the same wallet.

Every 3 days you play, a bill arrives for your home: 0.5% of the lot's price plus 1.5% of everything built and furnished on it (at least § 75). The 📬 chip on your HUD shows what's due; click it to pay. Pay within 3 days. Once a bill is late you get a final notice, and 2 days later the Repo-Man takes furniture worth the bill (if there isn't enough furniture, the rest comes out of your wallet). Only days you were online count, so a holiday away never ends with the Repo-Man.

Selling furniture returns 80% of its catalog price; demolishing walls, floors, doors and windows returns 70%. Stored furniture placed from your backpack is free.

To keep the valley's economy fair, each kind of earning has a sensible daily limit. Normal play stays well inside them; if you ever hit one, the chat tells you and it resets the next day.

Every account starts with 50. Claim the VIP daily bonus (§ 1,500 + 25 💎, once a day), watch up to 5 sponsor broadcasts a day (§ 2,000 + 15 💎 each), and collect Diamonds from the daily login streak (days 4 and 7), weekly challenges and Season tiers.

Open the VIP Market with P (or More → VIP) to unlock premium items. Your Diamond balance is shown on your profile card.

Cook 3 gourmet dishes on any kitchen stove or range. Yields § 1,500 and +50 Season XP.

Harvest 4 mature plants from personal or community planter plots. Yields 30 Diamonds 💎 and +50 Season XP.

Send messages in global chat or socialize with neighbors and townies. Yields § 1,200 and +40 Season XP.

Customize your wardrobe, hairstyle, or vanity title in the Salon Studio. Yields § 1,000 and +35 Season XP.

Sleep in any bed until Energy reaches 100% capacity. Yields § 800 and +30 Season XP.

Accumulate Season XP up to 1,000 XP to unlock Tier rewards including the Retro Arcade Jukebox, § 25,000 cash, and the exclusive Season Legend vanity title.

Choose between Classic Ponytail & Bun, Chic Bob Cut, Modern Side Crop, Flowing Wavy Locks, Spiky Anime Punk, and Minimalist Clean Buzz. Each style is fully modeled in 3D and renders synchronously across all online peers.

Palette choices include Espresso Brown, Jet Black, Golden Blonde, Auburn Red, Platinum Silver, Bubblegum Pink, Emerald Neon, Cyber Cyan, Royal Lavender, Burgundy, Toffee Caramel, Copper Orange, Midnight Navy, Ash Charcoal, Warm Peach, and Pure White.

Select from 10 realistic natural complexions (Porcelain Fair, Warm Cream, Golden Peach, Warm Honey, Sun-Kissed Tan, Caramel Olive, Warm Bronze, Deep Chestnut, Rich Mocha, Dark Ebony) plus 2 whimsical fantasy tones: Alien Emerald and Frost Lilac.

Switch between Everyday, Formal, Athletic, Sleepwear, and Party Fit. Customize top shirts, bottom pants/skirts, and footwear colorways for each slot.

Equip prestigious vanity titles displayed above your Sim's nametag billboard in 3D space: The Novice, Master Botanist, Culinary Artist, Interior Virtuoso, Valley Socialite, Valley Champion, High Roller, Melwood VIP, and Season Legend.

Place a Vanity Floor Mirror (§ 240) or Oak Armoire (§ 480) in your home to style your Mel directly from the isometric room view or practice charisma speech exercises.