Banking

Bank news - daily market closes, the weekly bank summary, and any rate changes - is posted to the Discord #market-news channel.

The Central Bank is the server's savings bank. It offers three products: flexible savings (deposit and withdraw any time), 7-day bonds (locked for a week at a higher rate), and stocks (the Prosperity Index - the highest long-run returns, with real down weeks). Money in the bank earns weekly returns and still counts toward your net worth. Rates are scaled to server time: one real month is one in-game year, so a good "annual" return arrives in about four real weeks.

Products

Product	Base rate	Risk	Liquidity
Flexible savings	1% per week	None	Deposit and withdraw any time
7-day bond	1.5% per week, locked in when you buy	None	Locked for 7 days; can auto-renew; early exit forfeits interest plus a small penalty
Stocks (Prosperity Index)	Volatile — big bull runs and real crashes (the market moves every hour)	Can lose value fast in a downturn	Buy and sell any time

• Rates are paid in full each week. The interest pool is funded by taxes and penalties, with the Treasury covering any difference. Bond rates are locked at purchase; flexible rates can change for future weeks.
• Interest is calculated on the lowest balance you held for the full week, so topping up right before payout does not earn extra.
• The full rate applies to your entire balance - there are no balance caps.
• Minimum deposit: $50. One bond at a time per player, from $50 up - no maximum.
• Capital gains tax: bond interest pays net of a 10% tax, and realized stock gains are taxed 15% when you sell. Your deposits and principal are never taxed. Tax proceeds flow back into the bank's interest pool.
• When a bond matures, the principal plus interest is credited automatically to your flexible savings - or, with auto-renew on (/bond autorenew), it locks straight into a fresh 7-day bond at the then-current rate, compounding week over week.

High-yield tiers

Large accounts earn multiplied rates on savings and bonds. Your tier is set by your total account balance - flexible savings, bond, and stocks combined. It applies to weekly savings interest and to the rate locked into new or auto-renewed bonds.

Tier	Total account balance	Rate multiplier	Flexible	Bond
Standard	under $50,000	1×	1%/week	1.5%/week
High-Yield	$50,000+	4×	4%/week	6%/week
Private Reserve	$150,000+	8×	8%/week	12%/week

Tiers apply to savings and bonds only — the stock market is the same for everyone, whatever your balance.

Check your tier with /savings balance.

Using the bank

Command	Description
/savings	Open the bank menu (works on Bedrock)
/savings deposit <amount>	Deposit cash into flexible savings
/savings withdraw <amount>	Withdraw back to your wallet
/savings balance	Check your savings and bond
/bond buy <amount>	Buy a 7-day bond at the current locked rate
/bond status	See your bond's maturity time and projected interest
/bond autorenew	Toggle automatic renewal at maturity (compounds)
/bond claim	Exit a bond early (forfeits interest, charges a penalty; you confirm first)
/stocks invest <amount>	Buy into the Prosperity Index
/stocks sell <amount|all>	Sell back to your wallet at the current value
/stocks status	Your position and last week's market close

Stocks

Main article: Stock market

The Prosperity Index moves every hour - the same move for every investor, with days that can swing several percent in either direction. The official daily close (the net of the day's hourly moves) is posted to Discord at 4 AM and shown in /stocks status alongside the live day-so-far number; the week's net move is announced in chat at the weekly close. The market runs hot and cold: bull runs can stack double-digit weekly gains, and corrections or crashes can wipe gains back out just as fast. Over the long run the index is built to grow with the server's economy.

Reading the market (beginner tips)

You don't need spreadsheets to do well here. /stocks shows the index level, a 24-hour mini-chart, the last seven daily closes, and any current streak — and the daily close posts to Discord every morning. A few patterns cover most of what matters:

• Streaks are real. Several green closes in a row usually means a run — riding it has been profitable. Runs always end eventually, so take some profit on the way up.
• Crashes happen. A violent red day is often followed by more rough days. Stepping out for a day or two after a big drop — or buying the recovery once it stabilizes — are both real strategies.
• Buying the dip beats panic-selling the bottom. The players who lose the most buy the top of a run and sell the bottom of a crash. Over the long run the index grows with the server.
• Never invest money you need tomorrow. Rent, food, and gear come first; invest what's left.

Full price charts are coming to the economy website, where classic chart patterns (double bottoms, breakouts, and the like) will actually be visible — the skills you learn reading them work the same way here as in real markets. There is no lock and no penalty: buy in or sell out whenever you like. New money rides from the next hourly move, so there are no free instant gains. Positions can shrink hard on a bad day - never invest cash you cannot afford to see dip.

Your first deposit asks you to accept the account terms below with /savings accept.

Account terms

By making your first deposit, you agree to the terms below. They exist to keep the bank fair and safe for everyone.

1. Your savings are yours

Money you deposit stays yours. Flexible savings can be withdrawn at any time. Bond principal is returned when the bond matures (or earlier, with a penalty). The bank does not charge fees to hold your money, and there are no inactivity fees - your savings remain yours for as long as you have an account.

2. Interest

Savings and bonds earn interest, paid out weekly.

• Rates are paid in full. The rate shown in /savings is what you receive, funded by the bank's interest pool (taxes, penalties, and Treasury top-ups).
• Bond rates are locked when you buy the bond and are honored for the bond's full term. Interest is paid net of the 10% capital gains tax.
• Flexible savings rates can change for future weeks. We will never reduce interest you have already been paid; changes only affect future periods.
• Interest is calculated on the lowest balance you held for the full week, so topping up right before payout does not earn extra - money has to actually sit in the account.

3. Bonds

• A bond locks your money for its full term (currently 7 days) at a fixed rate.
• When it matures, your principal plus interest is credited to your flexible savings.
• Ending a bond early forfeits all of its interest and charges a small principal penalty. You will always be shown the penalty and asked to confirm before an early exit goes through.
• Bonds set to auto-renew roll the principal plus paid interest into a new bond at the then-current rate. You can toggle auto-renew at any time before maturity.

3b. Stocks

• Stock positions are revalued hourly by the shared market move - the same percentage for every investor. Values go down as well as up - a down day reduces your position, and that reduction is final.
• The market is designed to trend upward with the server economy over the long run, but no specific week or return is guaranteed.
• There is no lock-in: you can sell any part of your position at its current value at any time.
• Realized gains are taxed 15% at sale, measured against what you originally paid in. Selling at or below your cost basis is never taxed.

4. Exploited, duplicated, or mistakenly-credited money

The Central Bank runs on a real, tracked economy. To keep it fair:

• Money gained from a bug, glitch, duplication, lag, or a system/admin error is not a valid balance. Staff may remove or reverse it at any time - even if it has already been spent, traded, moved, or saved into the bank.
• If your balance changes in a way you cannot explain - a sudden jump, a payment that ran twice, a deposit or interest amount that looks wrong - tell staff right away. Quietly keeping or moving money you know is bugged is treated as abuse of the economy.
• Do not exploit, and do not help others exploit. Doing so can mean a rollback of the gains, removal from economy systems, and - depending on severity - a ban.
• Honest reporters are rewarded, not punished. Find a real bug and report it instead of abusing it and you may earn a bug bounty (past finders have earned cash and crates). Reporting in good faith will never get you in trouble.

5. Account security

To protect the bank and its savers, staff may:

• Recover money credited in error to your account, as described in section 4.
• Temporarily freeze an account that shows suspicious activity, while it is reviewed. A frozen account can still be viewed; deposits and withdrawals are paused until the review clears.
• Review or limit unusually large withdrawals for security. Normal saving and withdrawing should not be affected unless a security review or a temporary bank pause is active.

6. Fair use

• One Central Bank account per player. Using alternate accounts to farm interest or get around limits is abuse of the economy and is handled under section 4.

7. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the bank grows. Material changes will be announced. Continuing to use your account after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Questions about your account? Ask staff - we're happy to help.

Taxes on bank money

• Interest and gains are taxed at source — 10% on bond interest and 15% on realized stock gains, withheld automatically when you're paid. Your deposits and principal are never taxed.
• Wealth tax: from June 18, money in your flexible savings account counts toward the wealth-tax bracket exactly like wallet cash (it's instant-access money). Bonds and stocks do not count — invested money is taxed on its gains, not for being held.
• The wealth tax is only ever charged from wallet cash — nothing is ever force-sold.

See also

• Stock market - the full investing guide, from chart reading to how real markets work
• Economy - server economy overview
• Commands - full command reference
• Server rules - general conduct rules