Leaderboard and fair play
What gets ranked, how your farm reaches the board, weekly seasons, and why cheating doesn't work.
What’s on the boards
There are two boards for your Endless farm, plus the daily challenge and the weekly season.
Weekly season
Every week (Monday to Monday, UTC) there is one season farm. Everyone starts from the same soil and weather, with 6,000 ticks, twice a daily. Your best run counts, and you can submit as often as you like. Each season has the same three medals as the daily (Wealth, Speed, Brevity). When the week ends the winners move to the Hall of Fame on the leaderboard, and everyone’s replays open up.
Endless farm
- Net worth. Your coins, plus everything you’ve spent on land, bots, buildings and research, plus the value of your barn stock. Spending never lowers it.
- Growth. How much your net worth rose over the last 24 hours. A new farm with a sharp program can top this one on its first day.
Joining
Sign in with GitHub from the game. That’s the only account you need, and the board shows your GitHub name. From then on the game sends your farm’s progress to the server in the background.
How a farm is checked
Your program runs on your computer, never on the server. As it runs, the game writes down each move: which bot, which action, on which tick. Every few seconds while the game is open, it sends that list to the server.
The server keeps a checkpoint of your farm. It loads the checkpoint, plays your moves on it with exactly the same rules as the game, and checks it reaches the same farm. If it does, the result becomes your new checkpoint and your net worth updates. If any move was impossible, the whole batch is turned away.
Why cheating doesn’t work
- Editing your save does nothing. The server never reads your save, only your moves, and replays them from its own checkpoint.
- Faking moves fails, because every move is checked against the rules: a bot that’s still busy, a tile you don’t own or coins you don’t have all get the batch rejected.
- Running faster than real time isn’t possible on a live farm. A farm can’t be further along than 10 ticks for every second since it was created.
- A cleverer program is fair game. That’s the whole point.
Practice is separate
Sandbox mode, the lessons and anything you run at higher speeds never touch your Endless farm. Experiment as much as you like.