ℹ️ Tutorial

Every stone travels through a few stages. Someone paints it and places it out in the world for the first time. A player finds it, and can either keep it where it is for the next person, or take it with them and place it somewhere new later on.

Each stone also has a short mission or description — check it out on Search a stone or Stone Overview before you take one with you, it might ask you to do something fun along the way.

Painted a new stone? Head to Submit a Stone to register it: give it a name, pick a type, enter its weight, write its mission, and choose one of three suggested codes — that's the code you write on the physical stone.

Your submission then waits for an admin to approve it. Once approved, you're paid 15 credits as a creation bonus, and the stone is ready to go.

From there you have two options: place it yourself on Stone Found? using its code and earn another 10 credits once it's actually out in the world — or list it on the Marketplace instead and let someone else place it for you (more on that below).

Stone Overview is the read-only map of every stone that's currently out in the world. Tap the "☰ Places" list or a pin on the map to open a stone's detail card with its description, weight and coordinates.

Use the filter chips (🏛️ Light, 🌿 Medium, 🍴 Big, 📡 Heavy) to narrow the list down by a stone's weight — handy if you're only looking for something you can carry easily.

Search a stone looks the same as Stone Overview, but adds one thing: your own live position. Tap the 📍 button bottom-right to start tracking — the app will follow your movement and show how far away each stone is, both on the list and in a stone's detail card.

Once you're close enough to a stone, extra buttons appear on its detail card:

• Take 🎒 — shows up within 100 m of a stone. Use it once you've physically picked the stone up.
• Keep 📌 — shows up within 50 m. Confirms the stone is still exactly where it should be.
• Lost ⚠️ — also within 50 m. Use this if you were expecting a stone here but can't actually find it.

Every stone carries a short ID painted on it. If you'd rather type that ID in by hand than tap through the map, Stone Found? is the page for that. Enter the "#" ID and hit "Search!".

1. Brand new stone: if nobody has ever placed it out in the world yet, the page walks you through setting its very first location — tap "Find me!" and confirm your position to activate it.
2. Stone lying somewhere: if the stone is currently out in nature, you'll see its name and mission, plus a button "I take the stone with me!" — tap it and the stone is now marked as carried by you.
3. Stone you're carrying: once you're ready to let it travel on, come back to Stone Found?, enter the same ID again. Since you're now carrying it, you'll see "Re put me into nature!" instead — tap it, confirm your current position, and the stone is placed back out in the world at its new spot for the next player to find.

If the stone happens to be unclaimed (no owner yet) and you're logged in, you'll also see the option to adopt it right here — more on that below.

Not every stone gets placed by the person who painted it. On My Profile, any approved stone you haven't placed yet can be listed on the Marketplace instead — just set an asking price in credits.

Other players browse the Marketplace and bid on stones they like. The first bid that meets or beats the asking price wins immediately, and the credits go straight to you as the seller — a real sale, unlike taking over someone's placed stone (see below), where the credits just disappear instead.

Changed your mind? As long as nobody has bought it yet, you can withdraw a listing any time from My Profile.

Once someone buys your stone, arrange to get them the physical stone — from that point on, they'll earn the 10 credits placement bonus once they place it, not you, since they're the one doing the work.

Every new account starts with 1000 credits. On top of that, your first login of each day pays out a small random bonus between 1 and 22 credits.

Logging in again later the same day won't pay out a second bonus — only the first login of a calendar day counts.

You'll see your current balance any time on My Profile, and it's what everything below is spent from.

Stones without an owner show up as unclaimed when you find them on Stone Found?. You can adopt one to make it yours — the cost is whatever the stone's own protection value happens to be at that moment.

Once adopted, the stone shows up under "My adopted stones" on My Profile, together with its current protection value.

Every stone you own shows its last known spot right on My Profile — tap "Open in Google Maps" under a stone to see exactly where it currently sits.

You can also rewrite a stone's mission any time. Open "✏️ Edit mission" under the stone, type a new description, and save it. Whoever finds the stone next will see your updated text — handy if the original mission ran its course and you want to send the stone off on a new one.

Every stone quietly keeps track of the total distance it has ever covered between placements. You'll see it as "🚶 X km traveled" under each of your stones on My Profile.

For every full 100 km a stone racks up, its current owner is paid 1 credit — automatically, no action needed on your part.

Adopting a stone that already wandered around before anyone claimed it? That earlier distance counts too — you'll pick up any credits it had already earned the moment it becomes yours.

Taking over someone else's stone with an offer works differently: any distance the stone racked up under its previous owner is left behind. You only start earning credits for kilometers the stone covers after it becomes yours.

On My Profile, every stone you own shows a "Protect" option. Spending your own credits there raises that stone's protection value — the higher it is, the harder it becomes for another player to take the stone away from you.

Protection can go up to a maximum of 127 credits per stone. Once a stone is fully protected, the option disappears — there's nothing more to add.

Found a stone that already belongs to someone else? You can make an offer of your own credits to try and take it. On purpose, you won't be shown how well the stone is protected — that's part of the risk.

• Offer more than the stone's protection and it becomes yours. The stone keeps its existing protection value — it doesn't reset.
• Offer too little and the stone stays with its owner — but your credits are spent either way.

If someone successfully takes one of your stones while you're away, you'll see a short message the next time you log in, letting you know which stone you lost. No surprises — just check back in occasionally to defend what's yours.

The Statistics page ranks every player by credits, highest first. Alongside the ranking you'll see two stone counts per player: Owned (stones they currently hold) and Created (stones they originally placed into the game).

Your own row is highlighted, so you can always spot yourself in the list.