The War Codex

1. Connect your Solana wallet — You need a Solana wallet (Phantom, Solflare, Backpack, etc.) with SOL for fees and game actions.
2. Create or join a guild — Pay 0.1 SOL to create a guild. To join one, submit a request and wait for the founder's approval. Joining costs 0.01 SOL.
3. Take on the twelve trials — Your guild works through trials across all four pillars. Each completed trial yields a fragment.
4. Buy clues when you're stuck — Clues cost 1 SOL. They're shared with the entire guild the moment one member buys one.
5. Submit the final answer — Once your guild has assembled all twelve fragments in order, submit the complete answer. First correct submission wins the vault.

Each trial, when solved correctly, reveals a single letter called a fragment. There are twelve fragments. In the correct order, they spell the password that unlocks the vault.

Fragments are cryptographically hashed. When you submit a letter for a trial, the system hashes your submission with a salt and compares it to the stored hash. This means:

• Fragment letters exist nowhere in the codebase in plaintext
• Even the developers cannot extract fragments from the source code
• Verification is instant
• The final answer is similarly hashed — verified but never leaked

Each quest has a defined time window. When the timer expires, the quest ends regardless of whether anyone has won. If no guild submits the correct answer in time, the vault rolls over to the next quest with increased rewards.

NOTE

The Quest Board is coming soon. It will display the live countdown, active guilds, and the Shame Board. It is not yet live.

To create a guild, pay 0.1 SOL. This is a real, on-chain transaction. Upon creation:

• You choose a guild name (must be unique)
• You become the guild founder and first member
• Maximum guild size is 20 members
• The guild needs at least 3 members before it activates

WARNING

Guild creation is irreversible. The 0.1 SOL fee is not refundable. The name cannot be changed later.

Joining a guild is not automatic. You submit a request, and the founder must approve it. Only after approval are you added as a member.

The flow:

1. Find a guild you want to join
2. Pay 0.01 SOL to submit a join request
3. Your request sits as pending until the founder reviews it
4. The founder accepts or rejects
5. If accepted, you are added to the guild

WARNING

The 0.01 SOL fee is charged when you submit the request, not when you're accepted. If the founder rejects your request, the fee is not refunded.

You can only be a member of one guild at a time. Once in a guild, you cannot switch during the current quest.

Every guild has a private Troll Box — a real-time chat channel powered by Supabase Realtime. Only guild members can read or send messages.

• Messages are limited to 500 characters
• All messages are stored and visible to all current guild members
• Non-members cannot access the chat
• Chat activity earns XP: every 10 messages grants 5 XP

Use it to coordinate trials, share findings, and strategize. Or just argue. Both happen.

All guild members share access to purchased clues for their trials. When any member buys a clue, the entire guild sees it. Answer submissions are also guild-level — one member submits, it counts for everyone.

The Shame Board (coming with the Quest Board) publicly displays every failed answer attempt, with guild name and attempt number. Failed guesses are permanent and visible to all players.

If your guild wins the vault, the prize is split among all guild members according to the guild's configured split mode (equal, weighted, or custom).

Level is calculated as: level = floor(sqrt(totalXP / 50))

Early levels come fast. Later ones take longer. Some thresholds:

Your title changes as you level up. Titles are displayed on your profile alongside your level card.

Every transaction follows this flow:

1. You click an action button (Create Guild, Request to Join, Buy Clue, Submit Answer)
2. The server builds a transaction using the pump.fun Agent Payments SDK
3. The transaction is sent to your wallet for signing
4. Your wallet shows the details — review them carefully
5. You approve and sign
6. The transaction is submitted to the Solana network
7. Upon confirmation, the action is recorded in the database

All payments flow through the pump.fun Agent Payments program (program ID: AgenTMiC2hvxGebTsgmsD4HHBa8WEcqGFf87iwRRxLo7). A percentage of each payment is used for automatic token buyback-and-burn. The rest goes to the TrenchQuest treasury.

The vault prize (25 SOL + 2% of supply) is held separately in the TrenchQuest vault address until claimed by the winning guild.

The vault contains:

• 25 SOL — Direct SOL prize
• 2% of total token supply — Distributed as tokens to the winning guild

The token component's value shifts with the market. At any given time it could be worth more or less than the SOL component.

To claim the vault, a guild must:

1. Assemble all twelve fragment letters in the correct order (positions 1-12)
2. Submit the complete answer
3. Pay the submission fee (0.001 SOL)
4. Be the first guild to submit the correct answer

WARNING

Wrong answers are publicly displayed on the Shame Board with your guild name. Every wrong guess costs 0.001 SOL and tells every other guild you haven't cracked it yet. Guess wisely.

When a guild wins, the prize is split among all guild members according to the guild's configured split mode. The founder sets this at creation. Options are equal split, weighted split, or custom allocation.

The castle is hosted at play.workadventu.re/@/trench-quest/trench-quest/trenchcastle. It is a browser-based multiplayer environment. No download required. Just a wallet address and a willingness to wander.

The castle has multiple maps. Some are obvious. Some are not. Several trials explicitly require you to explore the castle:

• The Cartographer's Journey (Trial #7) — Visit every map in the castle, including hidden ones. Screenshot proof required.
• The Ambassador's Circle (Trial #8) — Meet and introduce yourself to 10 new people inside the castle. Screenshot the conversations.
• The Codebreaker's Path (Trial #11) — Hidden on every map is a fragment of a code. Find them all and piece them together.

TrenchQuest supports any Solana wallet that implements the Wallet Standard:

• Phantom
• Solflare
• Backpack
• Coinbase Wallet
• Ledger (via Phantom or Solflare)
• Any other Wallet Standard-compatible wallet

Every transaction can be independently verified on any Solana explorer (Solscan, Solana Explorer, SolanaFM). When you sign a transaction, your wallet displays:

• The exact amount being transferred
• The destination address
• The program being invoked
• Any additional instructions

Always review transaction details before signing. TrenchQuest will never ask you to sign a transaction for more than the displayed action price.

TrenchQuest runs on Solana Mainnet-Beta. All transactions are real and irreversible. Make sure your wallet is connected to mainnet, not devnet or testnet.

All challenge secrets — briefings, descriptions, proof requirements, and fragment letters — are encrypted using AES-256-GCM. The encryption works as follows:

• Each secret is encrypted with a unique initialization vector (IV)
• Decryption requires the QUEST_VAULT_KEY — a 256-bit key stored only in the server environment
• The key never reaches the client or browser
• Even a full frontend decompile yields only ciphertext

Fragment letters and the final answer are stored as salted SHA-256 hashes:

• The actual letters/answer exist nowhere in the codebase in plaintext
• Verification is one-way: the system can check if your submission is correct, but cannot reverse-engineer the answer
• Each hash uses a unique salt to prevent pre-computation attacks
• Even with full database access, the answer cannot be extracted — only verified

Challenge content is decrypted only on the server, only after verifying the requesting guild has purchased access:

1. Client requests challenge content via API
2. Server verifies the guild has a valid purchase record
3. Server decrypts content using the vault key
4. Decrypted content is sent to the client over HTTPS
5. The vault key is never transmitted

NOTE

Even if the entire source code repository were leaked, the challenge answers would remain secure. The ciphertext is public. The key is not.

The four pillars demand four different types of people. Build accordingly:

• Creation — You need musicians, artists, and builders who can use AI tools. Trials #1-3 are community votes. Your output has to be good.
• Conquest — You need someone who can launch a token, hold capital, and write compelling content. Trial #4 (token market cap) can win or lose alone.
• Connection — You need people who will actually go into the castle and talk to strangers. Trial #8 requires 10 real conversations. There is no shortcut.
• Chaos — You need a poker player, someone willing to explore every corner of the castle, and someone with actual trading receipts.

Trials #1, #2, #3, and #9 are decided by community vote. This means social reach matters. A guild with a large following can win these outright. A guild without one needs output quality that speaks for itself.

Think about your vote base before the trial window opens. A great entry with no voters loses to a mediocre entry with a crowd behind it.

• Guessing the final answer early — Every wrong guess is public. It tells rivals how close (or far) you are.
• Ignoring the Cartographer's Journey — Visiting every map takes time. The hidden ones are genuinely hidden. Start early.
• Not recruiting for the right pillar — A guild of coders will dominate Creation but stall on Conquest. Know your gaps.
• Underestimating Trial #4 — Launching a token that gains market cap is hard. You need a plan before the trial opens, not after.
• Neglecting guild chat — Coordination happens there. A silent guild is a fractured guild.

Pump.Fun is the largest token launchpad on Solana. Their smart contracts have been audited, run at scale, and trusted by the entire Solana community. When payments flow through their program, you're trusting infrastructure that powers one of the biggest platforms in crypto — not something we built in a weekend.

• Automatic token buyback-and-burn — A percentage of every payment automatically buys back and burns tokens. Handled at the program level. No one can skip it.
• Transparent payment flow — Every transaction goes through program ID AgenTMiC2hvxGebTsgmsD4HHBa8WEcqGFf87iwRRxLo7. Verifiable on any Solana explorer.
• No custom wallet handling — TrenchQuest never touches your private keys, holds your funds in an intermediary, or processes payments through contracts we wrote ourselves.
• Invoice-based verification — Each payment generates a unique invoice with a time window. The SDK verifies on-chain before any game action is recorded.

You shouldn't trust random game developers with your money. You don't have to. The model is:

• You trust your wallet — You sign every transaction. You see exactly what you're approving.
• You trust Pump.Fun's program — The same program that powers the largest token launchpad on Solana.
• You trust the Solana blockchain — Every transaction is public, immutable, and permanent.

We built the game. Pump.Fun handles the money. Solana keeps the receipts.

• SDK: @pump-fun/agent-payments-sdk v3.0.3
• Program: AgenTMiC2hvxGebTsgmsD4HHBa8WEcqGFf87iwRRxLo7
• Currency: Wrapped SOL (So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112)
• Transaction builder: PumpAgent.buildAcceptPaymentInstructions()
• Verification: PumpAgent.validateInvoicePayment()

NOTE

You can inspect every transaction on Solscan or Solana Explorer. Search for the program ID above to see all TrenchQuest payments. Nothing is hidden.