Earth 2 Reaches Staking Milestone Ahead of Chapter 1: Reality Thread 1
July 21, 2025 – Sydney, Australia – As anticipation builds around the release of Chapter 1: Reality Thread 1, Earth 2 is proud to announce a significant platform record: over 74,000,000 Essence has now been staked by Players on land inside Earth 2. This represents more than 7% of the maximum Essence supply possible and over 20% of the current total circulating supply – a powerful indicator of long-term confidence and commitment from our Player base.
This achievement signals not only strong support for the future of the platform but also comes just as we enter one of the most important phases of development: the first Pre-Alpha playable release of E2V1.
Reality Thread 1: Reminders
With Reality Thread 1 preparing for launch, we want to take this opportunity to clearly communicate some important reminders and expectations for all testers participating in this next step and other community members who may watch E2V1 streams.
It is important to emphasise that this build is being released for the primary purpose of broader testing across a more diverse range of PC setups. This is the core purpose of our current testing group – we allow our testers to stream instead of hiding progress behind closed doors, to provide better transparency to the Earth 2 Community.
Upon release, Reality Thread 1 will be made available to the 457 approved testers we currently have on our system and their experiences will provide valuable insights into performance across a varied hardware spectrum.
While our internal QA team has already conducted thorough testing, external test builds are crucial for uncovering issues that may not surface in controlled environments. It is also important to note that experiences may vary significantly from one system to another – so a specific issue encountered by one tester may not affect others, and vice versa.
1. This Is a Pre-Alpha Build
E2V1 currently represents a very early access version of Earth 2’s 3D geolocational world. As such, bugs, performance issues and incomplete systems are expected.
This phase is focused entirely on testing- not delivering polished gameplay.
Your participation and feedback help improve and validate the foundational mechanics being introduced.
2. Foundational Features Are the Focus
We are testing early, foundational systems such as:
- Character Synthesis and lifecycle
- Vital stats and survival mechanics
- Foraging across the global terrain
- Terrain collision and traversal
- Save and respawn mechanics via Mentars
- Basic inventory and item interactions
Each of these elements is part of a greater vision for E2V1 as a persistent, interactive digital Earth.
3. Gameplay Loops not part of this Release
Although full loops like questing, crafting (required for clothing items), agriculture, sustained exploration and other features are still in development, we have decided to include an early distance-based mini-game challenge for our testers to keep things a little more interesting while also demonstrating the potential of the platform with such straightforward mechanic. This feature encourages exploration and engagement within the current limitations of the build.
All movement and data from the point of synthesisation or spawning of a Character to the death or saving point of a Character, are being recorded on our servers and we will be publishing the data through leaderboards and rankings in the coming weeks.
4. More Items and Energy Types Are Coming
The current build intentionally limits access to certain items and energy types during foraging. We’ve done this to ensure that when wider testing access rolls out, a larger portion of the community will have an equal opportunity to discover these features for the first time. New items will be introduced gradually in future Reality Thread updates.
5. Streaming or Sharing Footage? Be Transparent
We welcome content creation, livestreams, and gameplay discussion – but if you choose to share your experience, please be transparent with your audience. Clearly state that this is an early Pre-Alpha build focused on testing and iteration, not a full-featured game release.
6. Some Features Are Intentionally Missing
Certain features we have already developed but have not publicly revealed to date such as
- Beacons for marking and recording comments for revisiting locations
- Mentar locators (ability to locate other Mentars and summon them)
- Viewing properties while in Character mode
… and more, have not been included in this release by design. These features will be part of releases, requiring Players to obtain, craft or attach relevant items to access them. We just want our community to know these features have already been identified by us and are in the pipeline for release.
Until then, testers will need to remember where their Mentar is after spawning and make their way back to it in order to save their Character’s progress. Additional unlockable systems such as Save Campfire, Summon Mentar and more are planned for release in upcoming updates.
Paving the Way Forward
Most of the above details and guidelines have already been outlined in our recent article (linked below), but we felt it was important to reiterate them ahead of this important test phase.
To review our recent article please visit: https://earth2.io/news/e2v1-chapter-1
The journey toward a true player-driven metaverse is being constructed step by step and the successful launch of Reality Thread 1 will mark a major milestone on that path.
We thank every member of our community for your ongoing passion, your constructive feedback, and the dedication many of you continue to show. With over 74 million Essence now staked, it’s clear that Earth 2’s Player base is not just watching but participating in the digital future of our platform!
Our development team is finalising the last round of updates, including recent bug fixes primarily related to the new Inventory and Distance Travelled additions. We anticipate the release window for Reality Thread 1 to become available over the next 48 hours, assuming we have no major issues arise. This will occur in two separate steps as mentioned in our original article with the new Earth2 Launcher going live first and then a separate update at some point after that of the updated E2V1 Pre-Alpha build going live.
Get ready to step into the first playable stage of Earth 2 Version 1.
Join the journey, shape the future. Earth 2, the People’s Metaverse.
About Earth2
Earth 2® is a futuristic concept for a second earth; a metaverse, between virtual and physical reality in which real-world geolocations correspond to user generated digital virtual environments. These environments can be owned, bought, sold, and in the near future deeply customised.
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