World ofINDIECRAFT

THE RULES

Every number on a character sheet comes from the tables below, and the tables come straight from the source file that produces them. Nothing here is rounded for effect.

XP = lifetime revenue in dollars + 500 per product shipped
level = the last tier reached in the table below
iLvl = the average item level of the gear you are wearing

Level is what you have banked and cannot lose. Item level is what you are carrying right now: every stat on your sheet is an equipment slot, each piece scores from where that stat sits on its own ladder, and your iLvl is their mean — which is exactly how the game computes it. A slot TrustMRR never filled is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero, because no data is not a bad score.

THE LEVEL TABLE — 60 TIERS

A table, not a formula: hand-tunable, explainable in one screenshot, and it lets level 1 be free without putting level 60 out of reach. Going from 40 to 41 costs proportionally what 10 to 11 did.

  1. 1$1
  2. 2$2
  3. 3$3
  4. 4$5
  5. 5$8
  6. 6$13
  7. 7$22
  8. 8$36
  9. 9$60
  10. 10$100
  11. 11$125
  12. 12$160
  13. 13$200
  14. 14$250
  15. 15$320
  16. 16$400
  17. 17$500
  18. 18$630
  19. 19$800
  20. 20$1K
  21. 21$1.25K
  22. 22$1.6K
  23. 23$2K
  24. 24$2.5K
  25. 25$3.2K
  26. 26$4K
  27. 27$5K
  28. 28$6.3K
  29. 29$8K
  30. 30$10K
  31. 31$12.5K
  32. 32$16K
  33. 33$20K
  34. 34$25K
  35. 35$32K
  36. 36$40K
  37. 37$50K
  38. 38$63K
  39. 39$80K
  40. 40$100K
  41. 41$125K
  42. 42$160K
  43. 43$200K
  44. 44$250K
  45. 45$320K
  46. 46$400K
  47. 47$500K
  48. 48$630K
  49. 49$800K
  50. 50$1M
  51. 51$1.25M
  52. 52$1.6M
  53. 53$2M
  54. 54$2.5M
  55. 55$3.2M
  56. 56$4M
  57. 57$5M
  58. 58$6.3M
  59. 59$8M
  60. 60$10M

RARITY

Indexed on level. A purple border reads without a single word, which is the whole reason it is there.

THE CLASS TREE

Deterministic, first match wins, and the order is the point: how you build and how you find customers are choices, so they are read first. The size and price of the business follow from them. Percentages are what the corpus actually looks like right now, not an estimate.

  1. 1Adventurer465 · 18%No products yet, or nothing earned yetWhere everything starts.
  2. 2Mage188 · 7%Builds on openai or anthropicBuilding with whatever just shipped.
  3. 3Hunter95 · 4%An SEO channel with domain rating 30+, or domain rating 50 on its ownFound before they go looking.
  4. 4Warlock90 · 3%Buys acquisition: search, social or influencer adsSummons customers, and pays for every one.
  5. 5Shaman275 · 11%Runs on an audience they built — X, YouTube, a newsletterTheir audience is their channel.
  6. 6Priest13 · 1%Measured retention above 60% across more than 50 customersTheir customers stay.
  7. 7Monk623 · 24%Real lifetime revenue and no recurring revenue at allTakes no rent. Every sale is finished the day it happens.
  8. 8Rogue32 · 1%$300 or more per customer per monthFew marks, big scores.
  9. 9Warrior197 · 8%25+ paying, under $30 eachVolume, earned one dollar at a time.
  10. 10Paladin132 · 5%3+ paying, $30 or more eachHolds the line. A real base at a price that lasts.
  11. 11Evoker489 · 19%Real revenue that the rules above cannot yet placeEarning already, and still finding the shape of it.

Anyone still earning falls through to Evoker, so Adventurer means one thing only: shipped, and nothing coming in yet. It is never a verdict — every founder here has launched something, which most people never do. The colours are the canonical ones, not ours: a class is a colour before it is a word, and there is no point inventing a vocabulary that millions of people already read fluently.

FACTIONS AND REALMS

Neither is computed. Both are read straight off the listing — who a founder sells to, and where the business is registered — and both are the commonest answer across their products, because somebody with three B2B tools and one consumer app is a B2B founder. Where TrustMRR never said, the sheet says nothing rather than guessing.

Business type is the only field in the whole payload that splits the corpus down the middle, which is why it became a faction rather than another line of metadata. It is also the fact that changes how every other number reads: $200 a month is a bargain from one side of that line and a fortune from the other.

92 realms hold 2161 characters. The global ladder is, in practice, the American one — so the realm you stand on is the ladder most founders can actually place in.

ACHIEVEMENTS — 35

All retroactive, all phrased as something gained. Once earned they are never taken back, even if the condition stops being true.

Disagree with any of it? One file holds the whole thing, and rebalancing pull requests are the kind we want. See the ladder.