Ronke Rice Farmer Village Sells Out 3,169 Genesis Lands

Ronke Rice Farmer Village, the farming game on Ronin that also goes by RRF Village, has sold out all 3,169 of its Genesis Lands on Ronin Launchpad, according to a November 12 post on Ronin’s blog. ^[1] The mint opened on November 10 with a 6-hour guaranteed phase and a 3-hour first-come-first-served phase, and the public phase that followed lasted under two minutes. Those figures come from Ronin’s own post, and we have not checked them on chain.

Pixel Art and Visual Style

Ronke Rice Farmer Village is drawn in bright, cartoonish pixel art from a top-down view, with some of the same resource-gathering charm as Forager. Each farm sits on a floating island of crop rows, fenced animals and pink-blossomed trees, while a hot air balloon loaded with goods drifts past on its way down to the shared village. The village itself has a fountain square and market stalls where other players’ avatars gather. The mood is cheerful without trying too hard, and the art makes the floating-island idea easy to read at a glance.

Hot air balloons drift past a floating island’s pink-blossomed trees.

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Player Sentiment Remains Unclear

We looked for what players are saying about Ronke Rice Farmer Village online, setting aside spam and shill posts, and found too little genuine discussion to get a clear picture of how they feel about the game yet. ^[2] The only activity numbers so far come from the team: 523 players have joined the closed playtest, and 333 of them were active in the 7 days before the post went up. ^[1]

Ronke Token Price Movement

RONKE, the token players earn in Ronke Rice Farmer Village, has run well ahead of other gaming tokens over the past three months and the past year. It fell over the past month, though by less than the gaming group, and it was up on the day of this article. The figures are in the list and chart below.

• 30-day range: $0.0006502 to $0.001159
• Past 90 days: +100.3% (vs. other gaming tokens: +6.7%)
• Our wash-trading model has no reading for this token ^[4]

RONKE vs. Gaming Index: data table

Window	RONKE	Gaming Index
1 year	+174.11%	-59.04%
6 months	+389.64%	-0.35%
3 months	+100.30%	+6.74%
1 month	-8.30%	-18.94%
1 day	+8.40%	-2.42%

How Ronke Rice Farmer Genesis Lands Work

The 3,169 Genesis Lands split into three tiers: 2,250 Outpost (Rare), 750 Highlands (Legendary) and 169 Skyrealm (Mystic). Every land minted sealed. After the mint, one Ronin VRF draw sets every tier at once, so nobody picks a tier, the team included. ^[1] The tier decides the farm’s size. A free farm starts at 9×9, while Outpost lands are 16×16, Highlands 23×23 and Skyrealm 30×30. Each land also comes with one, two or three relic islands depending on tier, plus one free key.

Relics give daily bonuses up to a cap: a Garden relic has a chance of extra crops, Livestock gives extra milk, eggs and pork, and Quarry gives extra ore. Relics stay with the land when it changes hands. Linking a land to a game account also lifts the free-farm limits. There is no tree cap (free farms get 3, plus 2 per expansion), market listings are unlimited (free farms get 5), and you can set twice as many defenders in raids. Raids are part of Clash of Neighbors, the PvP mode where you train raiders in your Farmer Factory, attack another player’s farm and earn trophies on a weekly leaderboard. The server runs every battle and saves a replay.

The day-to-day loop in Ronke Rice Farmer Village is classic farming. You plant up to 12 crop types, raise livestock, craft resources in factories like the Windmill and Feed Factory, and deliver orders for gold and RONKE. Actions cost energy, which refills over time. A balloon takes you down from your island to a shared village of up to 50 players per world, where you can chat, visit farms and play side games: pond fishing, 4 arcade games, Buried Harvest digging, butterfly hunts, Bug Busters and daily errands from Ned. Two of them run on chain, Bowling Party and the Horske and Dogke races, where Ronin VRF picks the winner. ^[1]

Ronke Rice Farmer uses two currencies. Gold comes from farming and orders, or you can buy it with $RONKE, and you spend it on expansions, buildings, seeds and upgrades. Gold never turns back into RONKE. RONKE itself comes from the Ronke Board, and the server checks every reward. The team says its economy docs are live on the official RRF Village site.

Some pieces are already on Ronin mainnet: the two on-chain mini-games, the Genesis Lands contract with its VRF reveal, and a daily on-chain check-in on the quest site. The game itself is not. Under a Tagalog beta overview on YouTube, one viewer asked whether the game is live yet. ^[3] The answer is still no. The land reveal and the full launch are both listed as “coming soon,” with no date, so buyers have paid for land in a game they can only play in closed testing.

Ronin has been courting new games all autumn, as when Axie Infinity co-founder Jihoz invited games to Ronin after Abstract announced its shutdown, and a launch date for Ronke Rice Farmer Village is the next thing to watch.

Ronin Waypoint and Sony NFT Ideas

A document titled “Sky Mavis Developer Documentation: Building on Ronin” describes Ronin Waypoint. It calls Ronin Waypoint an account service and a keyless wallet in one. The document says it is designed to provide a unified gaming experience. It also says developers can let users connect a Ronin Wallet to access their assets.

A 2023 Sony patent filing describes a player who may decide to own or acquire a game asset to strengthen their arsenal in a video game. The filing says a player may also acquire the asset as a collectible because of its unique history recorded in the NFT. It adds that collecting the asset may give the player an improved standing in the game. It also says transferred assets remain available to the respective players during gameplay.

References

1. ↑ “Original announcement on blog.roninchain.com” blog.roninchain.com
2. ↑ “What shill detection is and how we identify it” (English) What is Shill Detection
3. ↑ “YouTube comment by @bagambo” (English) YouTube Comment
4. ↑ “What wash trading is and how we detect it” (English) What is Wash-Trading

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