Create what you couldn't before
Dust is a world that truly exists. Everybody can agree that it's real and nobody's making it up. Nobody can own, control, or stop it. Nobody can break its physics or delete its matter, and everybody can fit. What you build inside can outlive you and benefit your broader life.
MMO PLAYERS
Build Core Features Only Big Studios Could
You're not limited to building untrusted third-party widgets. Build the trusted first-party socio-economic systems of the world, imagine your own version of the World of Warcraft Auction House, Runescape Grand Exchange, Final Fantasy XIV Gold Saucer, and Black Desert Online Transport Network.
MECHANISM DESIGNERS
Design Real Financial & Social Mechanisms
Build real financial & social mechanisms into the world. Imagine doors opening for pass holders; chests enabling trade, auctions, and lending; force fields providing rewards for protecting it; ore reserves backing custom currencies; futarchy governing territory; and, insurance compensating for mobs.
TECH FUTURISTS
Grow The Societies & Lifeforms of Tomorrow
Explore coordination beyond physical limitations by writing algorithmic social contracts with unbounded complexity and autonomous enforcement. Grow lifeforms that independently exist, act, and create value to earn the computational resources needed to sustain themselves.
JOIN THE GRASSROOTS MINECRAFT FAN MOVEMENT
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Join Discord for support with what you're building. Send email for broader inquiries.
Build Something Truly Lasting
The matter and energy of the world flow cyclically by the mathematically-enforced Public Physics Protocol.
Every action is permanently recorded for anyone to verify, visible in the Protocol Explorer.
Grow and eat plants for energy, and return energy to the land as you act. Mine ores to craft tools, and ores regenerate as tools deplete.
Claim territory by energizing force fields. Territories can be attacked and defended.
What you build inside your territory becomes a permanent store of your effort.
Enrich Both Dust and Your Broader Life
The most powerful modding tools ever created. Program any machine in the world. Design custom UIs that run directly in-client. And for the first time ever, integrate with absolutely anything - from Reddit and Discord to your own custom currencies or even real dollars - without needing their approval.
See what's possible: Permutation City is programming spawn tiles, force fields, and chests to let custom "Permutation Passport" holders spawn directly in their territory, rent their land, trade in their shops, and govern their city using custom UIs and "Permutation Pesos".
After your project comes of age, you will evolve from a user to a founder, ready to rise within Dust - a public good that everyone can shape and benefit from. Join the open coalition of philosophers, researchers, economists, engineers, and creators that will collectively build and maintain Dust.
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