Get a Quick Start

First of all, every player enjoys a beginner's protection period when they first come to Haypi kingdom. During this peaceful time, you won't be attacked or able to attack other players. Draw upon the opportunity to develop your city as the protection will expire in 7 days or when your general title reaches 3rd Baron.

1. Go to "task", follow Task List to complete tasks one by one. This helps you get the idea of playing in the game.

2. Keep upgrading buildings, researching techs, training troops, etc to support fast city expansion.

3. Create or join an alliance, or even go it alone.

4. Send troops to go hunting which may harvest money or treasure if you are fortunate enough. If your troops is mighty enough, go to occupy oases, fortified points, or other players' cities.

5. Go to Marketplace to trade resource or treasures .

6. Upgrade your general title - go to "task" to complete tasks "Upgrade General" et treasures to upgrade general title if you have already sufficient prestige.

7. Build as many new cities as your title allows to have more buildings.

8. Go to war to raid other's cities.

9. Congratulations on ascending in Haypi ranking list!

New players are recommended to spend a few minutes reading the help text below before you get a quick start of an exciting experience:
 

 Main Interface - Top Bar

Let's get to know the main interface of Haypi Kingdom. First of all, the top bar.

Click the top bar to see details of resources as below:

Wood, stone, iron, and crop are necessary for upgrading resource fields and buildings, training troops, trading at Marketplace, etc. You need to keep upgrading Lumber Mill, Stone Mine, Iron Mine, and Cropland to increase resource production. Click the icons for details.

Crop is food for troops. If you have a large number of troops, you must take good care of your crop supply. If crop is Insufficient crop, troops get starved.

Person is necessary for upgrading resource fields and buildings,  training troops, selling at Marketplace, etc. Person is produced at Main Building. As Main Building is upgraded, more persons are produced per hour.

Money is necessary for upgrading technology at Tech Center, trading at Marketplace, etc. You can make money by selling goods at Marketplace, occupying fortified points, or exchange money with coins (1coin = 2000money). Go hunting in oases may harvest money as well.   

Coins can be used to speed up upgrades, enhance resource production, buy VIP time to add upgrading slots, buy resource or treasures, call back troops, enhance your city loyalty immediately, etc. Coins can only by purchased with real money at "shop". Each player is awarded 30 coins when they first play the game.

Main Interface - Menu 

The bottom bar in the main interface. You can see 12 buttons on the bottom bar.

chat: You may choose to chat in "World", "Alliance" if you have joined one, or "Private".  In "Private", click "Select" to add or remove contacts.

alliance: Alliance gets individual players together for more powerful attack or defense. You may create or join an alliance for support. Players in a same alliance can't attack each other. Enter "Alliance List" to see how many alliances are there and click the ">>" or "<<" button for next or last page.

task: Go to "task" for a Task List which helps new players get the idea of playing in the kingdom. Just follow the task list to complete tasks one by one. Before you collect "Reward", be sure to upgrade Warehouse first so that you have capacity for the reward.

help: Click "help" to read "Basic Operations of Haypi Kingdom" so that you can get a quick start in the game.

ranking: You can see rankings of all players in Haypi Kingdom in term of general's title, alliance,  and prestige.

Title: There are 20 levels of general's title, from 3rd Civilian to King of the kings (For details, please see www.haypi.com/general.htm).
Prestige: General's prestige, together with treasure, is prerequisites for title upgrades (ditto).

shop: At shop you may purchase coins. Three packages are available for choice.

general: Here you can distribute general's attribute points and skill points. You can also upgrade skills and equip general with treasures here. And click "Management" you will see more options. (For details, please see www.haypi.com/general.htm).

map: Click "map" to view your location and neighborhood in Haypi Kingdom. The grid map is 600x600, coordinates ranging from [0, 0] to [600, 600]. All players are positioned somewhere in the map.

Each grid stands for a city, oasis, fortified point, or empty field. The number with a grid indicates its level. Different colors marks different groups. Your own cities are marked with a green number. Your alliance member's cities are marked with a yellow number, and all the other cities are marked with a red number. 
Unoccupied oases and fortified points are marked white.

Similarly, oases and fortified points that you have occupied are marked with green. Those occupied by your alliance members  are marked yellow and those occupied by your enemies are marked red.
 

cities: Click "cities" to see details of your main city, branch cities, fortified points and oases you have occupied. After you have occupied oases, you may find them here.

actions: If you send troops on actions of hunting, occupying, transporting, dispatching, fighting, etc, you can click "Actions List" to see queues of your troops on missions. For some actions, you may click "Callback" button to have your troops back.

treasure: Click "Buy Treasure" to choose among an array of treasures like resource, money, nuggets, gemstone, etc.

letter: Check your Mail Box to see letters from other players, trade report, war report, system notice, etc.

Main Interface - buildings

Cropland: Cropland produces crop. When upgraded to higher level Cropland produces more crop.

Iron Mine: Iron mine produces iron. When upgraded to higher level Iron mine produces more iron.

Stone Mine: Stone mine produces stone. When upgraded to higher level Stone mine produces more stone.

Lumber Mill: Lumber mill produces wood. When upgraded to higher level Lumber mill produces more wood.

Main Building: Main Building is the administration center of your kingdom. When upgraded to higher level, Main Building increases the speed of construction and produces more persons.  

Warehouse: Warehouse stores four resources of crop, iron, wood, and stone. You need to upgrade warehouse constantly to increase its capacity as the resources exceeding a warehouse' limit will be lost. Upgrading Warehouse increases the maximum amount of resources it can store.

Cranny: Cranny protects four resources of crop, iron, wood, and stone, avoiding the resources being robbed in wars. Upgrading Cranny increases the amount of resources it can protect.

Barracks: At Barracks you can train troops of Infantry, Cavalry, Archer, and Siege Engine (For details, please see www.haypi.com/troop.htm). Upgrading Barracks speeds up training process. The higher level the Barracks is the faster your troops can be trained.

Tech Center: Tech Center is a building where technology is researched. By upgrading tech you enhance your troops ability. If you want to build a trap, you have to research the trap tech first at Tech Center. Similarly, if you want to upgrade a trap, you need to research an upgraded tech first. Tech research costs money only. Tech research results can be shared among all your cities.

Marketplace: You may buy or sell resource or treasures at Marketplace. Selling costs persons and money. Marketplace has a virtual trade system where you experience selling and buying as a real merchant do.

City Wall: City Wall is built to protect a city against enemies. To reinforce city wall, you can build traps and gun turrets. Traps are hidden devices set outside a city to catch offensive enemies. The higher level it is the more enemies can be caught. Gun turrets are built on city walls to shoot enemies in the distant. By increasing its level you increase its durability in attacks.

Trap is built outside a city to catch enemies. The higher level the trap is the more enemies it can catch. Part of the trapped enemies can be turned into your troops if your General has the convince skill. To build a trap, you need to research the trap tech first at Tech Center. Similarly, if you want to upgrade a trap, you need to research an upgraded tech first.

Turret is built on city walls to shoot enemies in the distant. By increasing its level you increase its durability in attacks. To build a turret, you need to research the turret tech first at Tech Center. Similarly, if you want to upgrade a turret, you need to research an upgraded tech first.

Term Explanations

SpeedUp: If you are impatient about counting down the upgrading time, SpeedUp can shorten time when upgrading or doing research. This costs coins. You have three options: 1 coin shortens 15 minutes, 2 coins shortens 1 hour, 5 coins shortens 5 hours, and 10 coins is for instant finish.

Enhance: This function enhances resources production by 50% for a period of time. You have three options: 1 coin for a period of 24 hours, 5 coins for 7 days, and 20 coins for 30 days.

VIP: Ordinary players have 2 upgrading slots at one time for each of three categories: buildings, techs, trap&turret. That is, you may upgrade two buildings, two techs, a trap and a turret at one time. When you go hunting, you can hunt 2 oases at one time. When you transport resources or dispatch troops to your own city, you can handle 2 queues of actions at one time. If you wish to do more actions at one time, you may purchase VIP time with coins.

During VIP time you have 3 upgrading slots at one time for each of three categories: buildings, techs, trap&turret. When you go hunting, VIP can hunt 3 oases at one time. When you transport resources or dispatch troops to your own city, VIP can handle 3 queues of actions at one time.

Add VIP Time: Go to "Main Building" to click "Add VIP Time" button. You have four options: 10 coins for 1 week of VIP time, 30 coins for 1 month, 120 coins for 6 months, and 200 coins for 1 year.

Expert: Expert is an honorary title for outstanding players who have loved the game, written beautiful reviews for it, posted threads about it in other forums, and helped new players in a friendly and responsive manner. Expert is the highest honor bestowed upon players. Salute to our devoted players!

There are just a few Experts in each server. Experts are selected based on favorable response from other players and Haypi Kingdom staff's observation. Experts will enjoy VIP time for free. Please note Expert title is not permanent, and it is evaluated regularly for performance.

PS: Many of our players have inquired about how to become Admin, we thank you all for your interest and support, yet Admin is for Haypi staff only.

So much for the help text. You can still find more useful information at our website www.haypi.com. If you have any suggestion or question about the game, feel free to email us at kingdomsupport@haypi.com

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