New here? This walkthrough gets you from a blank profile to hanging out in chat in about five minutes. Work through it top to bottom, or jump to whatever you're stuck on.

1️⃣ Finish your profile

• Add a photo and a few words about you. Head to Edit Profile to set your avatar, banner, status, and the "about me" blurb. This is the first thing people see.
• Pick a theme. Themes restyle your whole profile in a click. Browse the built-in ones in Edit Profile - or, if you're a Donor, design your own in the Theme Builder.
• Arrange your layout. Use the live drag-and-drop layout builder at the top of your own profile to move cards around - single column, sidebar, multi-column, masonry, or a header-banner look. Show or hide any card, and add your own custom cards too.

2️⃣ Find your people

• Browse members on the Browse page and send friend requests. When someone accepts, they show up on your Top Friends.
• Sign a guestbook on a profile you like, leave a comment, or fire off a private message to say hi.
• Post a bulletin from the Bulletins page - it's a quick broadcast to everyone, great for a first hello.

3️⃣ Jump into chat & cam rooms

• Open the Chat Rooms list and click one to join. Text chat works for everyone; rooms with cams let you go on video too.
• Set a chat nickname so a friendlier name shows next to your messages while your username stays in the userlist.
• Go on cam: click Cam Up and allow camera + microphone access when your browser asks. Only one app can use your camera at a time, so close Zoom/Teams/OBS first.
• On your phone? The cam room is built "cams-first" - the video grid fills the screen, and the chat box slides up when you tap the message strip or the keyboard button.

4️⃣ Make it yours

• Create your own room. Anyone can host. Go to Create a Room and pick a name, a layout, a size, and whether it's public, password-protected, hidden, or request-to-join. Once you've made one, the Room Admin Guide unlocks for you with everything about running it.
• Build a Page. Under My Pages you can spin up extra profile pages (band, business, fan page - whatever) that live under your account.
• Leave a time capsule on the Capsules page - a message that unlocks on a future date.

5️⃣ Play, listen, and keep your streak

• Puzzles & word games. Open Puzzles from the Games menu for a daily Word Guess (six tries, build a streak), Sudoku in four difficulties, a timed Word Search, and a 90-second Anagram sprint. Every game keeps your best scores and feeds the leaderboards.
• Poker. If the Poker Room is open, pull up a seat for multiplayer Texas Hold'em. It's play money only - you get free chips, with a daily top-up if you bust out - so it's all for fun. No one else around? Hit Add bot to fill the table with AI players and deal right away.
• Board games with friends. Challenge someone to Connect Four, Checkers, Chess, Battleship and more from the Arcade, or right from a player's name inside a room.
• Give your profile a soundtrack. Under My Music, paste YouTube links to build a playlist and choose autoplay, shuffle, repeat, and whether it starts open or collapsed. Visitors get a little player on your profile.
• Show up daily. Logging in each day grows your streak and pays out tokens. Hit the named milestones - Week Warrior, Fortnight, Monthly Regular, and beyond - for escalating bonus rewards. Your next milestone shows on the streak badge so you always know what you're chasing.

🆘 If something breaks

Most chat/cam trouble comes down to browser permissions, extensions, or your network - not the site. The FAQ & Connection Help page walks through the fixes: granting camera/mic access, ad-blockers, hardware acceleration, cookies, and more. Start there.

🏡 Little Life

A full life-sim game. Open Little Life from the menu.

• Create a Little - name them and pick up to 4 traits.
• 🛒 Buy mode - buy furniture; it goes to your inventory.
• 💾 Saves - keep up to 3 separate games; New Game, load and delete saves from the bar at the top.
• 🎨 Design tool (in Build mode) - click-drag to paint floors and build walls, doors and windows; right-click to rotate the wall side; pick from several floor and wall designs; Save Layout when done.
• 🔨 Build mode - select an inventory item, then click a grid cell to place it. Click placed items to pick them back up, or sell for 50%.
• 🎮 Live mode - click placed objects for interactions (sleep, cook, shower, study…) that move your needs, mood, skills and money. Watch the needs bars at the top.
• Careers - take a job and work shifts for income and promotions.
• 💬 Social - meet neighbours and build relationships (chat, joke, compliment, deep talk, date). Socializing fills social & fun and builds charisma.
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Family - once a relationship reaches "partner", propose & marry, then "Get Cozy" for a 75% chance of a baby. Kids grow Baby → Kid (grade school) → Teen (high school) → Adult. Help with homework for better grades; good grades earn college scholarships (full/partial/grant), and a college education means a higher-paying start - grown kids send money home. When a kid is an adult, Move Out spins them into their own playable household (a new save) with a nest egg and their education head-start - true multi-generation play.
• 🔄 Fully live home - Live mode never refreshes: walking, interactions, needs, mood and money all update in place; your little glides with a walking bob and announces actions in a speech bubble.
• 🤖 Free will - go idle and your little takes care of themselves (eats when hungry, naps when tired - half strength, never spends your money). Toggle it in ⚙️ Game Settings, along with game speed (0.5x-4x) and weather effects.
• 🌦️ Daily weather & day/night - every day brings real weather (sun, rain, snow, clouds) with animated effects over the home, and the sky shifts with the actual time of day.
• 🌍 The World - three shared community venues (Plaza, Club with a dance floor, Pool Lounge with a FULL-SIZE animated pool - swim, dive and float from the diving board) where every member's little hangs out LIVE: click to walk, use public furniture together, and chat with speech bubbles and quick emotes.
• 🎮 Control switching - play any family member from the NOW CONTROLLING bar: your spouse, or any kid (school life: class, homework, recess) - and hand control back whenever. Money is shared household-wide.
• 🏠 A living home - in Live mode your whole household is on screen: your small stands next to the last item they used, and your spouse and at-home kids each idle on their own favourite spot with name tags.
• 🛒 Organized catalog - every item sits in its proper aisle (Music, Fun & Games, Kids, Living, Kitchen, Bedroom, Bathroom, Study, Fitness, Outdoor, Decor) - including the newer pieces like the jukebox, arcade cabinet, foosball, karaoke, claw machine, VR rig, ball pit and home bar, each with its own interactions and hand-drawn animated art.
• 🕊️ Legacy (v3) - pick your small's look (skin, hair, outfit) with a live preview; choose a wedding tier; adopt kids; births can be twins; spouses work and bring home income. Smalls age, grow frail and eventually pass on - your heir or spouse inherits the home and continues the family, generation after generation, with a family tree to look back on.
• 🚗 Garage - buy a vehicle to ease your commute and boost mood; maintain it as it wears.
• ✈️ Travel - take vacations to fully recharge needs and earn a mood boost.
• 🐾 Pets - adopt up to 3 in-home pets; play and feed them to fill fun & social.
• Aging - your small ages through life stages (Young Adult → Elder) as you play.
• 🏠 Properties - own multiple lots (apartment → mansion). Your active lot is your home; others earn passive rent. Bigger lots have bigger build grids.
• 🏢 Businesses - buy a café, gym, gallery, studio or shop and run it for income that scales with your skills and employees.
• 💰 § Money Packs - convert tokens straight into in-game § from the Token Shop: Pocket Money (§5,000), Cash Stack (§20,000), Briefcase (§50,000) and the Vault Drop (§100,000).
• 🪙 Token Shop - exclusive premium items bought with tokens (the same tokens as Pet World & the store). Earn a few by playing daily and hitting skill milestones, or top up via the token shop.

🚗 Mad City

Mad City is an open-world driving and crime sandbox. From the Games menu pick Mad City to drop into a 3D city. Drive on the streets or get out on foot, buy better cars and weapons, and snap up businesses and properties that pay you passive cash even while you are away.

Controls: W/A/S/D or arrow keys to drive and walk, F to enter or exit a vehicle, Space / mouse to fire your equipped weapon, Shift to sprint on foot, and Tab to open the phone (shop, properties, drugs, missions).

Making money: follow the mission chain for big payouts, run product between districts (buy where it is cheap, sell where demand is high), and reinvest into businesses for steady income. Your cash, cars, weapons, properties and progress save to your account automatically.

The water: you can swim at the south beach, off the bridges and in the mansion pool - but watch your Air meter. Stay under too long without getting back to shore and you will run out of breath, start choking, and drown. Get to land before the meter empties.

Step inside (walk-in 3D rooms): every business and property you own is a real, multi-room space you walk around in. Get out on foot, walk up to its marker (or sit in a car stopped right at the door) and press E to step inside. Businesses have a customer floor plus back rooms; homes have proper divided rooms (living, bedroom, kitchen, dining). Walk room to room, then step on the glowing accent-coloured pad and press E to run the place. Step on the green EXIT pad (or press Esc) to head back out. The grand Hilltop Mansion (foyer, living room, dining, library, kitchen, master bedroom) and your Private Island estate (great room, kitchen & dining, master suite, games room) are full multi-room mansions - each with a front AND a back door. Activities pay real in-game cash (capped and cooldown-guarded, so the house always stays honest).

Finding your places (GPS): can't spot a place you own? Open the phone (Tab) -> Real Estate and tap GPS on it, or open the City Map (pause, then Map) and tap it. A blue line then leads you straight to its door.

Special papers: own the Corner Newsstand and you can buy under-the-counter special papers. Pick one up, then USE it any time for a timed edge out on the street: faster movement and driving, harder hits in a fight, +50% on all payouts, slow armor regen, or fast cooling of your wanted heat. Active buffs show in the corner of the screen.

🏪 Marketplace

Buy and sell with other members. Open the Marketplace from the top menu.

• Posting: click Post a Listing, pick Fixed price or Auction, add a title, category, photos (up to 4) and a description. It's free.
• Auctions: set a starting bid, increment and how long it runs. Bidders see the live high bid and full history; a late bid auto-extends the clock so nobody gets sniped. Add an optional Buy-It-Now price to let someone end it early.
• Make an Offer: turn it on for a fixed listing and buyers can propose a price. You can accept, decline, or counter from your Offers page.
• Buying / contact: open a listing and use Contact seller to message them, or Pay with PayPal if the seller added theirs - payment goes straight to the seller.
• Watchlist: tap Watch on any listing to save it to your Watching page.
• Saved searches: save a keyword or category and get a notification the moment a matching listing is posted.
• Ratings: leave a seller a star rating and note after a deal. Every member has a public store page showing their listings and rating.
• Sharing: every listing has a Copy link button and a Share to chat picker that drops the item into a cam room's chat.
• Featured bumps: float your listing to the top for 7 days (500 tokens or $2.00 via PayPal).

🐾 Pet World

Your community comes with a full virtual-pet portal. Adopt a critter, raise it, play with it, and show it off right on your profile. Jump in any time from 🐾 Pet World in the menu.

• Adopt for free. Go to Adopt and pick from dozens of species. Your first pet costs nothing - name it and it's yours.
• Care for it live on your profile. Your active pet appears on your profile in a live card - pet, feed, play and rest all happen right there with no page reload. How you treat it shows: a well-loved pet looks happy and bright, while a neglected one turns sad, faded, skinny, or overfed and slow.
• Shop & dress up. Spend tokens in the Shop on food, toys and treats, then use the Wardrobe to kit your pet out with outfits, backdrops and habitat decor.
• Play mini-games for tokens. The Mini-Games pay out tokens you can spend on your pet - a free way to earn.
• Battle in the Arena. Level your pet up and take it into the Arena for turn-based battles, both against the computer and against other members (matched by level).
• Daily Quests. Three quick quests every day (care for pets, win a battle, finish a mini-game) - claim each for tokens, finish all three for a bonus. Find them at the top of Mini-Games.
• Breeding Den. Pair two of your pets (level 3+) in the 🥚 Breeding Den to hatch a baby. Babies usually take after a parent, but there's a small chance of a rarer surprise species. Each parent rests afterward.
• 🧬 Hybrids. Ten brand-new animals exist ONLY through breeding: pair the right two species (the combos are listed in the Breeding Den) and hope for a hybrid hatch. They never appear in adoption or the Exotic Breeder - collect all ten!
• Trade on the Market. Buy and sell pets with other members in the player Market.
• Gift your friends. You can pet and gift your friends' pets too - a nice little way to say hi.

Want the full tour? The in-portal 📖 Pet Guide walks through every screen in detail.

💎 Exotic Breeder

The Exotic Breeder is a premium, daily-rotating adoption area - separate from normal adoption - stocked with rare creatures you won't find anywhere else.

• Pre-evolved & powerful. Exotics arrive already at a high evolution tier (Elder / Ascended / Mythic) with boosted stats - a big head start over a freshly-adopted pet.
• They bring their own habitat. Each exotic ships with its own signature backdrop and habitat decor, auto-equipped the moment you adopt it.
• Rotates daily, never repeats. A fresh set is dealt every day, and the whole catalogue cycles through before any exotic appears again - plus brand-new exotics arrive every month.
• Limited daily stock. Each exotic has only a few available per day. When today's are gone, they're gone until they come back around - so grab one when you spot it.
• Costs tokens. Exotics are premium, so they cost more than a normal pet. Earn tokens in the mini-games or top up on the Buy Tokens page.