Player Guide
How Oil Strategic Reserve works, start to finish
1. What is OSR?
Oil Strategic Reserve (OSR) is a gamified, virtual node-mining platform on Robinhood Chain. You burn $OSR tokens to deploy virtual Oil Rigs and Mining Shafts on your own 3D compound. Those nodes produce real rewards over time, paid out from the $OSR emission reserve — bought at launch and deposited in the distributor — released via a Bitcoin-style halving curve.
Think of it like an incremental game where every action is on-chain: your rigs and shafts are real state, your burns send $OSR to the burn address, and your rewards settle to your wallet.
Both Oil Rigs and Mining Shafts accrue $OSR per second. Progression is wallet-wide: you raise your Compound Level to unlock more node slots, more daily crates, and higher rarity pools. Bonus Mining Shaft slots arrive in Season 2; Oil Rigs are claim-only in v1.
2. Quick start
- 1
Connect a wallet
Open the Command Center and connect an EVM wallet (MetaMask, Rabby, …). In mock mode you can just paste any address to try the game.
- 2
Deploy your first node
Tap Deploy. Pick an Oil Rig or Mining Shaft, burn the required $OSR + small ETH fee, and it appears on your compound.
- 3
Let it produce
Nodes accrue rewards every second based on your components' grow-power and your share of the global halving emission. Watch pending rewards tick up in your HUD.
- 4
Claim, open crates, compound-upgrade
Claim to cash out (2% fee, 1h cooldown; your wallet may be asked to confirm the withdrawal for a small network fee), open Supply Crates to upgrade your components, or compound-upgrade your wallet to unlock more nodes and crates. Repeat.
3. Nodes: Rigs vs Shafts
Node capacity scales with your Compound Level: 2 nodes at L1, growing to 8 nodes at L10, Oil Rigs and Mining Shafts combined. Bonus Mining Shaft slots, for running more nodes, arrive in Season 2. Each node is an independent entity with its own components and production rate.
Oil Rig
Offshore platform on the water quadrant.
›Earns $OSR via the halving emission
›Funded by the OSR emission reserve (bought at launch)
›Also earns USO (United States Oil Fund, a Robinhood Stock Token) once you reach Compound Level 5 — delivered as real USO tokens to your wallet. Rigs only; see USO rewards.
›Claim-only in v1 — compound is a Mining Shaft feature
›Slots: Derrick Tower, Pump Jack, Pipeline, Flare Stack
Mining Shaft
Underground operation on the land quadrant.
›Earns $OSR
›Funded by the OSR reserve wallet
›Bonus node slots coming in Season 2
›Slots: Drill Bit, Ore Cart, Rail Track, Shaft Elevator
4. Levels & Auras
Your nodes' visual level mirrors your wallet's Compound Level (L1 → L10). Each level upgrades the rig's material era — rough steel through reinforced and high-tech to a black-and-gold prestige finish — and grows its size, making progress visible at a glance on the compound.
Production itself comes from your components, not the visual level: your rate = min(your GP / network GP, 30%) × E(t) — where GP (grow-power) is the Formula D multiplier of your installed components.
Aura tiers
L1
rust
L2
bronze
L3
copper
L4
steel
L5
silver
L6
platinum
L7
amber
L8
hot-orange
L9
white-hot
L10
gold
Higher levels also pump up the scene's bloom intensity — a max-level compound looks visibly brighter than a fresh one.
Live preview — each level
Click + drag to rotate · scroll to zoom
Higher levels upgrade the rig's material era (rough steel → reinforced → high-tech → black-and-gold prestige), grow its size, and light a powered deck ring at the milestone levels. The per-component rarity glow layers on top.
5. Components & Crates
Each node has 4 component slots. Components are earned by opening Supply Crates — 4200 $OSR at L1 scaling to 13,650 $OSR at L10 (split 50/30/20 burn / reserve / treasury), plus a flat ETH protocol fee. Your daily crate limit scales with Compound Level — from 3/day at L1 up to 30/day at L10, per node type. Every drop has a rarity tier that multiplies the node's output:
| Rarity | Multiplier | Visual |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 1× | |
| Uncommon | 1.8× | |
| Rare | 3× | |
| Epic | 10× | |
| Legendary | 50× | |
| Mythic | 300× | |
| Divine | 3,000× |
A node's total multiplier uses Formula D: the average of its 4 slots' durability-adjusted multipliers, raised to the power 0.75 (capped at 500×), then multiplied by a rarity-boost stack (Epic ×1.05, Legendary ×1.15, Mythic ×1.4, Divine ×2.0 per component). Empty slots count as Common. Higher rarity pools unlock with Compound Level: Legendary at L4, Mythic at L6, Divine at L8. Drop odds are published and a bad-luck-protection (pity) system guarantees dry streaks on the top tiers can't run forever.
Slot compatibility: Oil Rig components fit only in Oil Rigs, Mining Shaft components fit only in Shafts. Each component has a specific slot (you can't put a Derrick Tower in a Pump Jack socket).
Use the Inventory page to move components between nodes — unequip from one, equip on another. The displaced component falls back to your locker.
Every slot, every rarity
Oil Rig slots
| Slot | Common 1.00× | Uncommon 1.80× | Rare 3.00× | Epic 10.00× | Legendary 50.00× | Mythic 300.00× | Divine 3000.00× |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derrick Tower | |||||||
| Pump Jack | |||||||
| Pipeline | |||||||
| Flare Stack |
Mining Shaft slots
| Slot | Common 1.00× | Uncommon 1.80× | Rare 3.00× | Epic 10.00× | Legendary 50.00× | Mythic 300.00× | Divine 3000.00× |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drill Bit | |||||||
| Ore Cart | |||||||
| Rail Track | |||||||
| Shaft Elevator |
Each tile shows that slot at that rarity — rarer tiers add emissive glow that blooms in the scene. The live rig preview above shows the hero model these install into.
6. Earning & Claiming
Rewards accrue continuously, per second, based on:
- Your grow-power (Formula D multiplier summed across your nodes' components)
- Your share of total network grow-power — capped at 30% per user
- The global halving emission rate E(t) (see section 9)
There is no new-player multiplier. Every operator is paid on identical terms — your rewards come from your components and your share of the network, never from how recently you joined.
Pending rewards are kept server-side and streamed to your HUD every ~10s. When you Claim All, every node's pending balance is zeroed and the net amount is paid from the reward reserve to your wallet (2% fee retained in the reserve to keep emissions solvent). Claims have a 1-hour cooldown per wallet.
Player-submitted claims. After the switch to player-submitted claims, pressing Claim reserves your OSR and your own wallet sends the withdrawal to the reserve contract, paying a small network fee (typically ~$0.03 in ETH on Robinhood Chain). If you cancel the wallet prompt, close the tab or have no ETH yet, nothing is lost: the reserved OSR never expires and a Withdraw button appears next to Claim until you withdraw it. A phone linked by QR can claim, but the withdrawal has to come from your wallet. The 2% fee and 1-hour cooldown are unchanged.
Crate installs and compound upgrades internally accrue first, so you never lose production between actions — you're always paid at the rate you actually had for the time you had it.
USO rewards — Oil Rigs only
On top of $OSR, oil rigs earn USO (United States Oil Fund — an oil ETF issued on-chain as a Robinhood Stock Token). Every OSR trade on the public OSR/USO market pays a 0.5% fee in USO to the protocol; that USO is what gets shared with rig owners. Mining Shafts do not earn USO.
To earn USO you need both:
- Compound Level 5 or higher (your wallet-wide level — see section 7). Minting a rig alone is not enough.
- At least one Oil Rig deployed.
How it is shared:
- By stake, automatically. Every 2 minutes the USO that arrived since the last split is divided among every eligible player in proportion to their oil-rig grow-power — the same component-rarity-and-condition number that sets your OSR production, summed across all your rigs. More rigs, or better-kept rigs, mean a larger share. There is nothing to press: it lands as pending on its own.
- Your share is your share of the network. There is no per-wallet cap: a wallet holding a tenth of all eligible grow-power receives a tenth of every split, and 100% of each pool is paid out. Because grow-power rises steeply with component rarity, a mythic or divine part changes your share by far more than an extra common rig does.
- Timing does not matter. New USO reaches the reserve about every 15 minutes, not continuously, and is split at the next tick whether or not you are online. The Real-World Asset Rewards panel shows the USO waiting for the next split, how many players qualify, and your estimated share.
To receive it:
- Open the Real-World Asset Rewards panel in the HUD and press Claimon the USO row. There is no percentage fee and no cooldown; the game sends the payout and the transfer's network fee is deducted from it.
- After the switch to player-paid USO withdrawals, pressing Claim reserves your USO on-chain and your own wallet withdraws it, paying a small network fee in ETH (typically ~$0.03). Your full USO arrives — nothing is deducted and there is no gas-based minimum. If you cancel the prompt or have no ETH yet, the USO stays reserved and a Withdraw button stays in the panel until you take it. The panel says which of the two applies to you once it sees it.
- USO and OSR are two separate claims. Claim Rewards on your rigs pays out OSR only and never touches your USO balance; the USO Claim button pays out USO only and never touches your OSR.
- The USO is delivered in kind: real USO tokens land in your own wallet on Robinhood Chain. It is a token, not cash — selling it back costs a small market spread plus gas (see the selling section of the panel).
Tip: USO is split by oil-rig grow-power, not by how often you claim OSR. Claiming OSR more often does not raise your USO share; better components on your rigs do. Your OSR earnings are unaffected by the USO split either way.
7. Compound Levels
Your Compound Level (L1 → L10) is your wallet-wide progression track. Each upgrade costs $OSR — from 250 OSR for L2 up to 30,000 OSR for L10, split 50/30/20 burn / reserve / treasury — plus a flat ETH fee. Each level unlocks:
- More node slots (2 at L1 → 8 at L10, rigs and shafts combined; bonus shaft slots arrive in Season 2)
- A higher daily crate limit (3/day at L1 → 30/day at L10, per node type)
- Higher rarity pools (Legendary at L4, Mythic at L6, Divine at L8)
- USO rewards at L5 — from Compound Level 5 your oil rigs start earning USO on top of $OSR (see USO rewards)
Upgrades have a 12-hour cooldown. In a hurry, you can expedite: pay the on-chain expedite fee to skip the cooldown for one upgrade (the fee goes to the treasury).
See the full level table on the Tokenomics page.
8. Fees
Mint burn
70%
of OSR cost to burn wallet
Mint treasury
30%
of OSR cost to treasury
Mint ETH fee
—
flat, per mint
Claim fee
2%
retained in reserve · 1h cooldown · withdrawal may need a small network fee
Compound upgrade
250 → 30k OSR
L2→L10 · +ETH fee · 12h cooldown
Expedite
—
skip the compound cooldown
Crate cost
4200 → 13650 OSR
by compound level · +ETH fee
Upgrade & crate split
50/30/20
burn / reserve / treasury
Mints split 70/30 burn/treasury on the OSR leg; compound upgrades and crates split 50/30/20 burn/reserve/treasury. See Tokenomics for the live numbers straight from the backend.
9. Referrals
Share your link from the Referrals page and earn a slice of every OSR claim made by the players you bring in — and by the players they bring in, three levels deep.
Referral levy
8%
of every claim's gross, all players
Level 1
5%
to the wallet that referred the claimer
Level 2
2%
to their referrer
Level 3
1%
to theirs
›The levy is flat: every claim pays it, referred or not, so a code never costs the player who enters one. A level with nobody in it stays in the reserve. Nothing here is paid from the protocol's own OSR.
›Enter a code before your first deployment. It cannot be changed afterwards.
›A referrer earns only while they own at least one node. Earnings ride along as their own line on your next claim — no separate withdrawal.
Where the program is switched off, no levy is charged and the Referrals page says so.
10. How emission works
OSR uses a halving emission curve. Global OSR issuance starts at 262 OSR/sec at launch and halves every 7 days until the lifetime supply is fully paid out.
E(t) = 262 OSR/sec × 0.5 ^ (t / 7d) Day 0 : 22.6M OSR emitted Day 7 : 50% of lifetime already emitted Day 14 : 75% emitted Day 30 : 95% emitted Lifetime total: 228.6M OSR (reserve of at least this bought at launch; fixed 1B supply)
Each user earns a share of each second's emission, proportional to their grow-power (sum of component multipliers across their nodes):
user_rate = min(your_gp / network_gp, 30%) × E(t)
Two key mechanics:
• Share cap: no user can capture more than 30% of emission
(prevents lottery-in-thin-network wins)
• Denominator floor: network_gp is floored at 2000 GP, so a
thin network cannot hand early players the whole curveWhy does emission halve? To front-load excitement during the first 2 weeks while still leaving meaningful yields for latecomers. By day 14, 75% of lifetime OSR has been distributed — what remains is split by grow-power, so a latecomer who builds a strong rig still earns a real share of the tail.
You can always see current global emission and your share on the Reserve Vault page — it's fully public.