HOW YAKKAMON WORKS

THE SHAPE OF IT

Two halves, one game

Half of Yakkamon plays itself. Half of it needs you — and each half feeds the other.

THE ENGINE

The core loop

Six things you do over and over. Every system in the game bolts onto this circle.

1. Catch — head into the wild and hunt Yakkamon. Every one you catch joins your roster.
2. Work — send them out to gather resources. They repeat the job automatically, even offline.
3. Collect — their haul stacks up in a storage bin. Tap the bin to move it into your inventory.
4. Craft — turn raw resources into gear, items and buildings, including the gear that catches rarer monsters.
5. Maintain — feed and heal your monsters, and refertilize plots that have degraded. New as of August 21, and it means you can't set this up once and walk away.
6. Level up — higher-level Yakkamon gather faster. Better gear plus a better team means you go catch something rarer, and you're back at step one.

THE ROSTER

Your Yakkamon

Thirty species are in the early-access build (September 17 stream; the older figure was 50–60 at launch), six of them named and revealed on October 14 — and four separate things decide whether one individual is worth keeping.

The Genesis six — revealed October 14, 2026

Every one of the 11,265 Genesis eggs hatched into one of these, or into nothing (831 Bad Eggs). Pictures are the reveal art on the NFTs; the count is how many of each the whole collection holds. Full cards and the collection numbers →

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  Raigo was “Storm”

  LegendaryDragon
  3in the collection · 75 will ever exist

  Stormcharged — Yakkamon within range work 2× as fast (large AOE)

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  Ondi was “Echo”

  LegendaryDragon
  5in the collection · 275 will ever exist

  Yakkamon within range produce double resources (small AOE)

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  Kova was “Ghost”

  LegendaryDragon
  10in the collection · 400 will ever exist

  Unsleeping — always at maximum stamina on the farm (small AOE)

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  Salu was “Bloom”

  LegendaryDragon
  50in the collection · 2,000 will ever exist

  Regenerates a % of Max HP every combat turn

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  Malandrix

  RarePsychic
  50in the collection · 4,000 will ever exist

  Normal working Yakkamon — no ability yet

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  Brazito

  UncommonFire
  10,316in the collection · 91.6% · 15,000 will ever exist

  Normal working Yakkamon — no ability yet

The wider roster

The second dev stream filled in the machinery underneath: monsters have real genetics and base stats, traits are randomly rolled and define your build, and breeding lines carry a rarity-scaled breeding limit, with evolutions planned for after launch. A Yakkamon Training Center, where monsters train themselves up, was teased on the September 17 stream. The team put roll predictability at roughly 80–90%.

THE TIERS

Rarity, decoded

Two corrections from August 21 that reframe the whole roster.

Utilities & auras — what the Legendaries actually do

THE RULE THAT MATTERS MOST

Type locking

Every resource can only be gathered by the right type, so your roster decides what you're able to gather at all.

The consequence is worth sitting with: collecting more species literally unlocks more of the map's materials. A narrow roster caps what you can produce no matter how well you play.

THE ENGINE ROOM

The work cycle

Gathering runs on a repeating work-and-rest cycle that keeps going without you.

1. A cycle starts — you assign a Yakkamon to a resource it's allowed to gather.
2. It takes time — each work cycle runs for a set duration before it pays out.
3. It costs stamina — working burns stamina, which limits how much a monster can do in one stretch.
4. It produces resources — the cycle finishes and drops its haul into a storage bin.
5. It repeats automatically — no tapping needed. Work continues while you're off hunting or battling.
6. It sleeps when tired — out of stamina, the Yakkamon goes to bed, recovers, then gets back to work on its own.

A monster that's asleep isn't broken, it's recharging. There are two ways to raise output: level them up, since higher levels make them more efficient farmers, and collect more of them, since that unlocks more resource types and lets you gather several at once.

Beds are capacity. The September 17 stream showed the cycle running itself: out of stamina, a Yakkamon walks to a bed, sleeps and goes back to work — after battles too. You can override it, but your role is overseer, not micromanager. With too few beds, tired Yakkamon queue for one, so rest capacity is something you build.

THE NEW SINK

Upkeep & degradation

Your farm wears out as you use it — a resource sink that does not exist in Sunflower Land.

WHERE THE LOOT GOES

Storage bins

Gathered resources pile into a bin that keeps filling while you're gone — until it fills up and stops.

Resources don't go straight to your bag. They stack in a storage bin that keeps filling on its own, even while you're offline, until you tap it to collect the haul into your inventory.

The catch: bins have a cap. Once a bin hits MAX it stops accepting, and every hour it spends full is production you never banked. That turns bin capacity and how often you check in into a genuine strategic variable — the difference between a farm that runs all night and one that quietly stops at 2am.

UPKEEP

Looking after them

Your monsters have needs, and a monster that needs something isn't earning.

Status icons float above a Yakkamon when something's up, and a notification feed calls it out by name — screenshots show messages in the form of “[name] is Hungry”.

An item bar sits along the bottom of the screen for exactly this — milk, flowers, mushrooms, a health item and more, ready to use on whoever's struggling. Because a monster in a bad state stops producing, upkeep is part of the economy rather than flavor.

THE STACKING RULE

How boosts stack

A short rule with large consequences for how you build a roster.

THE LONG GAME

Breeding & genetics

Where the team expects the deepest optimization to live — on a one-to-three-year horizon.

HOME

Your base & your gym

The place they all work from — and the doorway out into the wild.

The menu buttons you'll live in: Squad (your active team), Items, Quests, Shop, Trade (the player market) and Log (notification history).

THE WORLD

The living world

A clock, weather, seasons — and a world that opens up in three layers: tiles, Regions, Chapters.

How the world expands

1. Tiles — your Region is made of tiles. Gather resources to unlock more (the starter one costs 10 Wood + 1 Stone). Each tile can hold fresh resources, room to build, or a hunting area — and each raises how much you can run at once.
2. Regions — grow your starting Region far enough and you unlock whole new ones. A Water Region has water hunting areas full of Yakkamon you could not catch back home, and its resources need the right type to gather.
3. Chapters — Regions get bigger each time you expand, and more arrive in upcoming Chapters alongside new species.

GETTING STRONGER

Hunting & crafting

Gear is how you reach the rare stuff — and the gear is built from what your ordinary monsters gathered.

The official Hunting post (September 5) is where the timetable, the temperaments and the wild Legendaries come from. Our reading of it: Every Wild Yakkamon Wants Something.

Crafting is the thing to watch, because it's what actually gates progress. Raw gathering scales easily once you have a roster; what limits most players is turning that pile into the specific items a harder hunt needs.

WHAT THE BOARD WANTS

Contracts

Standing requests for specific Yakkamon, on a board that changes every day — paid in Coin and in items you can’t just gather or craft. The official Contracts post (early October 2026), point by point.

THE ARENA FLOOR

The battle system

“Won before the first hit lands” — the team’s own words. You build the team, place it, pick its skills, and then step in with substitutions and items while it fights. The official Battles guide (September 24) on top of the September 17 stream.

WHAT IT'S ALL FOR

Arena, quests & trading

The arena, your gym, an on-chain market, and the quests and events running alongside. For how a fight actually resolves, see the battle system.

THE LONG RUN

Progression & endgame

Infinite levels, chapter releases, and a meta the team expects to move without intervening.

THE HARD NUMBERS

Quick reference

Every figure the team or the screenshots have actually shown, with where each one came from.

THE GAPS

Not confirmed yet

If you're planning calculators, roster planners or market tools, these are the numbers that don't exist publicly yet.

• Stat numbersThe four battle stats are named — Health, Attack, Defense, Speed — and stats vary per individual with hidden initial values on spawn. The roll ranges, any non-battle stats, and how much of it is visible in game are unknown. The revealed NFTs carry no stats yet: the team said on October 14 that balancing waits for beta and a separate small reveal about unique stats comes closer to launch.
• Work cycle numbersCycle duration, stamina cost per cycle, yield per cycle, and sleep recovery rate.
• Tile numbersHow many tiles a Region holds, what each tile past the first costs, and how many parallel jobs a tile actually adds. Only the 10 Wood + 1 Stone starter price is public.
• The Region unlock condition“Grow your starting Region” is all the post says. Whether that is a tile count, a quest, a level or a resource payment is unknown.
• The transfer mechanicMoving resources between Regions is called a core strategy, but nothing says what it costs — time, stamina, a building, a fee — or whether monsters move freely.
• Upkeep numbersThe degradation rate, the fertilizer recipe, real plot-group sizes and how steeply upkeep scales. Only the 1.6× example figure is public.
• Full type chartOnly Grass→Wood is confirmed for gathering. Combat type effectiveness is now official in principle — weaknesses raise damage, resistances lower it, and skills carry types of their own — but the chart itself is unpublished.
• Skills and their triggersSkills fire on conditions on top of a normal attack, every skill has a type, and you choose which skills a Yakkamon carries into a fight — but the skill list, how many slots a Yakkamon has, where its pool of skills comes from (bred, extracted, learned) and how that squares with August’s expensive extraction respecs are all unpublished.
• Squad, bench and items“Several per side” plus reserves is the official shape; the October 14 stream put it at three on the field and up to three in reserve, “three to six”, as the number beta will test — not final, and not stated per fight type. Potions, debuffs, shields and a single preparation item are named; how many items a fight allows, what they cost to craft, and what a preparation item actually does are unknown.
• Healing and restBattle damage persists until a Yakkamon is rested or healed, but how long rest takes, whether a bed heals as well as restores stamina, and which items heal outside a fight are unpublished.
• Leveling & traitsXP costs, the real level cap, the full trait list, and how much each level actually adds.
• Rarity distributionTiers are now clear, but not how many species sit in each, nor the drop rates.
• Egg mechanicsRare egg breakdowns are separated out, but hatch rates and sources aren’t public.
• Evolution triggersConfirmed to be per-monster and deliberately hidden. The team has said the game will hint rather than explain, so expect this to stay unknown by design.
• Utility numbersThe Legendary abilities are published as text only. The radius of a small or large AOE, Salu’s regeneration percentage, and every Rare and Uncommon utility are still unpublished — the revealed Malandrix and Brazito NFTs say “no ability yet”, and the team says values are being balanced up to release.
• The type chart, part twoThirteen types are confirmed, and the count of weaknesses per type (two for dragons, three for everyone else). Named so far: Dragon, Psychic and Fire on the Genesis six, plus electric, water, grass and a “spirit” type from the October 14 stream — still not the full thirteen, nor the chart itself.
• Battle numbersBalancing is the team’s named remaining hurdle, so damage, speed order and the size of the type-weakness and type-resistance multipliers will keep moving through beta. Battle XP amounts and trainer-level rewards are unpublished too.
• CoinsHow much Coin a tradable unit costs, the burn rates that produce it, how much a Contract pays, and whether Coin can be bought. The official Contracts post writes the name as Coin; the stream had floated a rename.
• Hunting ratesThe official Hunting post describes the system with no numbers: how long an in-game day lasts, how fast a ground regenerates, how often a Legendary appears, what a greedy monster charges, and what an affectionate one judges a hunter on. Also unstated: whether a ground is your own tile or shared with other trainers — and as of September 17 the hunting mechanics are still being prototyped.
• Contract numbersHow much Coin a Contract pays and which items; how many Contracts a board holds and how long a short window lasts; whether “every day” is a real day or an in-game one, and whether every trainer sees the same board; whether a bought or bred Yakkamon can fill one; whether a delivered Yakkamon is consumed (the streams said yes, the post doesn’t say); what the Legendary grind counts; and whether the board opens at early access or with Chapter 0.
• The exact datesThe team’s spoken aims (internal beta the week of October 19, early access mid-to-late November — “the end of November” on October 14 — announced two to three weeks ahead, Chapter Zero six to eight weeks later) sit beside the official docs’ November-or-December and one-month figures. The docs are the record until they change.
• The trainer raffleOne of each Genesis Legendary is reserved for a raffle, and the October 14 stream said the raffle tickets are used at the final trainer airdrop, not in the free mint. No rules, date or entry condition has been published.
• The lifted Bad Egg flags973 Bad Eggs on September 17, 831 at the reveal. The team hasn’t said what cleared the 142 — appeals, a final re-review, or something else — or whether the count is now closed.
• The rest of the airdropThe free mint page promised 1,500 extra event eggs; 1,265 were airdropped on October 13. Whether the remaining 235 go out later, and whether trainer-airdrop Legendaries arrive revealed, is unstated.
• The dragons’ loreRaigo, Ondi, Kova and Salu are “a suite of ancient dragons” with a backstory the team is holding until after launch. Nothing beyond the one-line descriptions on the NFTs is published.
• Endgame featuresInfinite levels and sinks are planned but explicitly not locked down — they arrive after early access.