# Timeline

Where Gluniverse is, and how it got here. This is the honest record. When the stage changes, it changes here first.

## Now: open alpha

Gluniverse has been in **open alpha since 19 July 2026**, and since 27 July the door is simply **open**: anyone with a Solana wallet can enter, no token and no whitelist. Connect a wallet, [sign once](/gluebook/gluniverse-enter), and play.

What is live right now:

- The full world: the Dead Forest, the four wild lands, the Foal Pen, the Crossroads, the Field, the town of Glueburg, the [Arena](/gluebook/gluniverse-arena) and [the Ocean](/gluebook/gluniverse-ocean).
- The [player economy](/gluebook/gluniverse-economy): finite resources, crafting, gear that rolls rarity, and the Gloo Exchange order book with live charts.
- [Land you claim](/gluebook/gluniverse-the-field) and a stable you build and ride from.
- [Fighting](/gluebook/gluniverse-fighting) in the wild, with real stakes, and staked duels between players.
- The **Bank**, where gloo swaps to and from SOL and part of every swap buys and burns $GLUE.
- [Cosmetics](/gluebook/gluniverse-cosmetics) that drop in the wild and trade at Sticky Situations.
- The [casino](/gluebook/gluniverse-casino), the [races](/gluebook/gluniverse-races), the [magic tree lottery](/gluebook/gluniverse-magic-tree) and the pub [racebook](/gluebook/gluniverse-racebook).

## Since the alpha opened

The world has not sat still. What has landed since:

- **The Ocean.** A hidden all-water zone past the Shore for souls at level 16, with fish, reef sharks, a new material and the Ocean Treasury.
- **Swimming**, slow and submerged, and the level 16 **ground slam**.
- **The Arena grew teeth.** Staked duels in leagues, and open-ground knockouts that take your bag.
- **Racing leagues**, career records and **leaderboards**.
- **Death loot you can chase**: a pin on where you fell and three minutes where the pile is yours alone.
- **The Camera** and the portrait studio in town.
- **[Knacker's Pass](/gluebook/gluniverse-knackers-pass)**, the open PvP snow mountain, its frost forge and the boss **Lil Knacker**, the only source of keystones and [relics](/gluebook/gluniverse-relics).
- **[The Black Market](/gluebook/gluniverse-black-market)**: thirty player shops, the land sale board, and the Noctavia claim.
- **[Poker](/gluebook/gluniverse-poker)** at the casino, which became a real walk in hall.
- **The level cap rose to 35**, [referrals](/gluebook/gluniverse-referrals) pay both sides, and the five **skill relics** wait on K.

## The economy rebalance, August 2026

The biggest change the world has had, in two waves, and it is worth knowing which ones changed rules you may have learned.

**10 August.** The five common materials, sap, straw, water, hide and scrap, stopped being pools that empty forever and became **renewable**, bounded by a ceiling on how much may be **held at once**. The world had literally run out of ground the week before. No supply was added: each ceiling is exactly the total its pool already held. See [Scarcity and the Cap](/gluebook/gluniverse-scarcity).

**15 and 16 August.** The ownership arc:

- **[Horse shit went premium](/gluebook/gluniverse-horse-shit).** Its nodes are gone. A stable and [the activity bar](/gluebook/gluniverse-activity-bar) are the only two sources left.
- **The [tent](/gluebook/gluniverse-tent)**, a shelter you carry, pitch and repair, for players with no land.
- **[Rooms inside stables](/gluebook/gluniverse-stable-interior)**, with **[furniture](/gluebook/gluniverse-furniture)** to put in them.
- **[Upkeep](/gluebook/gluniverse-stable-upkeep)**, so owning a stable costs bricks every day, and the **[auction](/gluebook/gluniverse-stable-auction)**, so land nobody comes back to goes up for sale.
- **[New land](/gluebook/gluniverse-new-land)**: eleven more plots, unlocking as new players reach level 8.
- **[Armour fusing](/gluebook/gluniverse-kiln)** at the kiln, and a kiln you can build in your own yard.
- **[The trading licence](/gluebook/gluniverse-trading-licence)** replaced the level 15 sell gate with a nine quest chain.

The racing Track has its own phases, tracked on [Where We Are](/gluebook/where-we-are).

## Before: invite alpha

The world first opened to a small, closed invite list, whitelisted wallets only, to harden the netcode, the economy and the combat against real players. That shakedown is done, and those wallets carry straight into open alpha.

## Next

The world keeps growing. New zones only ever add supply, they never edit what is already there, and each one is announced as content. What comes after open alpha is not announced yet. When it is ready, you will read it here first.

## The honest note

This is an early alpha, and real money moves through the Bank on chain. Things can break, and scarcity is a game mechanic, not investment advice. Play it like a game.