You can reach early access without spending anything. You cannot reach the top of the leaderboard without spending — a 50,000 $FLOWER deposit is worth 70,000 points, which is more than a hundred days of perfect free play. This guide is about playing the game that's actually winnable: hitting the thresholds that matter, on a routine that costs about two minutes a day.
The two thresholds
Everything between them is a question of which wave you get in, not whether you get in at all.
| Rank | What you get |
|---|---|
| 1 – 100 | Legendary Monster A — realistically a paid bracket |
| 101 – 1,000 | Legendary Monster B / C — reachable free, with serious referral work |
| 1,001 – 5,000 | Rare Monster · Wave 2 — comfortable free target |
| 5,001 – 100,000 | Early access, waves 3 – 5 |
| 100,001+ | No early access |
Set your target by how much reach you have. Top 5,000 is where a Monster NFT starts and is comfortably achievable on the routine below. Top 1,000 is a Legendary, and it is not a paid-only bracket — referrals are uncapped, so around 165 of them are worth as much as a 5,000 $FLOWER deposit. What capital genuinely buys outright is the top 100, where a single 50,000 deposit lands 70,000 points that no amount of free play matches.
Do today — about an hour
These are worth 55 points and they never come round again. More importantly, one of them gates the single best reward on the board.
- Get verified. Not optional and not the same as signing up. The October 1st free mint runs on a verified whitelist — an unverified account can't mint no matter how fast you click. Do this first, today, so there's time to fix problems.
- Link a wallet — 10 points. You'll need a Ronin wallet for the mint anyway, so this kills two birds.
- Connect X — 10 points. Also unlocks the weekly X post quest.
- Join the Discord — 10 points.
- Post in Discord five times — 5 points each, capped at 25. Do the five, then stop; further posts earn nothing.
- Start your nurture streak today. Every day you delay is a day the streak isn't climbing.
Every day — two minutes
Tap your egg three times. That's the whole routine, and it's the backbone of a free run: about 526 points between now and the free mint.
- Do it after 12:00 UTC. The 36-hour grace period only covers a whole missed day if you nurtured in the second half of the UTC day — the reasoning is here.
- Streaks pay 6 points a day at the start and 10 a day from day 30. Breaking one drops you back to 6 and costs about 44 points climbing back.
- Set a repeating alarm. This single habit outperforms every other free action except referrals and the mint.
Every week — five minutes
- Post on X — 20 points the first time, rising with your posting streak. Over eight weeks that's 160–220 points for about forty minutes of total effort.
- Check the weekly board. Weekly rank resets every week and pays a resource box, food box, raffle ticket and loot box. A free player earning 70–100 points in a week is competing against everyone else's weekly total, not their all-time one — which makes weeklies far more winnable than the final ranking.
The one date that matters: October 1st
Referrals are the whole free game
This is the part most free players underrate. Every other free action is capped by the calendar — you can't nurture twice a day or post twice a week. Referrals aren't capped at all. At 30 points each they scale as far as your reach does, and they are the only reason a Legendary band is open to a free player: about 165 referrals is worth the same as a 5,000 $FLOWER deposit.
Here's what a realistic run to October 1st actually looks like, with 50 referrals:
Referrals are 60% of a realistic free total. Everything else combined is the other 40%.
Points per unit of effort
If you only have limited time, spend it top-down:
| Action | Points | Effort |
|---|---|---|
| Free mint, Oct 1 | 250 | One click, one day only |
| Refer a real person | 30 each | One conversation · uncapped |
| One-time quests | 55 total | ~10 minutes, once |
| Weekly X post | 20+ / week | ~1 minute a week |
| Daily nurture | 6 → 10 / day | ~1 minute a day |
| Discord posts | 5 each, 25 cap | Stop after five |
What to ignore
- Discord posting past the 25-point cap. It pays nothing after five posts.
- Chasing the top 100. That band is decided by 50,000-scale deposits — 70,000 points, or roughly 2,300 referrals. The bands below it are genuinely contestable; this one isn't.
- Points beyond a band edge. Rank 4,999 and rank 1,500 get identical rewards. Once you're comfortably inside a band, extra points do nothing until the next one.
- Raffle tickets as a plan. Nice when they land, but never something to organise your week around.
Your realistic totals
| By | No referrals | 25 referrals | 50 referrals | 100 referrals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1 (free mint) | ~990 | ~1,740 | ~2,490 | ~3,990 |
| Nov 1 | ~1,380 | ~2,130 | ~2,880 | ~4,380 |
| Dec 1 | ~1,760 | ~2,510 | ~3,260 | ~4,760 |
The whole guide in six lines
- Get verified today — the free mint depends on it.
- Clear the one-time quests today: 55 points, ten minutes.
- Nurture daily, after 12:00 UTC, and never break the streak.
- Post on X once a week.
- Mint on October 1st. Best value on the board.
- Refer real people. Uncapped, 60% of your final total, and the only route to a Legendary band without depositing.