- it's free to play
- you can purchase silver coin with IRL money
- you can also collect various items, foraged, hunted, and farmed, and sell them for silver to the hudson bay trading company
- you can use silver coin to purchase some basic, non-gamebreaking items from the hudson bay trading company
- you use same silver to increase your claim, and upkeep your town
- you can trade silver to other players for items or whatever
- you can kill someone and take their silver