Growtopia - the Minecraft alternative?

You must have played or at least heard of Minecraft. It's one of the most popular and successful game available on the web. 

So, what is this Growtopia?
Growtopia is an open world game based on the 2-D landscape and is very similar to the famous Minecraft games, initially released on January 11, 2013.

This game mostly revolves around the concept of farming. It is primarily a multiplayer sandbox platformer game with crafting. There are no predefined missions in this game. It just has an infinite number of worlds where you can do whatever you want with all your online friends. Most of the things in Growtopia grows on trees – ranging from Dirt Trees to Lava Trees to many more kinds of stuff and the essential Jetpack Trees.

There are many different types of farmable available in Growtopia from where you can earn and collect gems by breaking and planting. Breaking items give you gems and seeds which in turn is used for plating more trees and more earnings.

With the gems available, you can buy other stuff to get world locks which is the primary currency in this game. These world locks will enable you to get you most of the available item in the game. You will also be able to buy other things to decorate your world and have a better gaming experience.

The game has been developed by Robinson Technologies, which is a Japan-based independent game development company. It was founded by Seth Robinson and also co-developed with Mike Hommel, coming from Hamumu Software.

On February 28, 2017, Ubisoft announced the acquirement of Growtopia  and the deal was finished during Ubisoft's 2016-17 tenure, with the original developers having the authority of being design and general advisors to the game's continued development.

What are the features of a Growtopia account? 

When you have access to the game, you have exclusive benefits such as:

*Unlimited access to the world.
*It is entirely free to play, and a single currency can be earned. 
*Full chatting and messaging facility.
*Thousands of fabulous items to discover while in game.
*Adapted for mobile gaming, and plays great on big screens too.

The wealthiest people in the game are those who own ‘auto worlds' or ‘buy worlds.' These worlds have people going into them automatically hence they profit through the vend sales. There are many ways to earn some profit. You can be anything ranging from farmer, mass producer, supplier, vend shop owner, profitable world owner, just to name a few.

The game has a fundamental, but un-wildly long, way to play. What you do to play the game is that you literally create a world, destroy blocks, they drop seeds, splice those together, and create new blocks. You keep doing this and advance the game forward. 

Some tips to get going in the game:

🔺Collect gems which can sometimes drop down to get a small lock in the store. This will stop people from stealing your world in the game.

🔺Use “tapjoy." You can get tons of gems very quickly.

🔺If your seeds take a long time, play on other people's maps. Some have giveaways and other items to earn. It's a relatively straightforward process to get higher tier items for practically free sometimes.

How to get a free Growtopia account?

Before you can join the game, you will be needed to make an account with no GrowID. Players with no GrowID can change their gaming name anytime, but, they cannot transfer their game progress to other cross-platform devices, and their game progress can only be accessed on the particular device.

Features of not having your own GrowID includes the following:

  ⧫Able to change the gaming name anytime.

       ⧫An ID will follow names from 100 to 999

      ⧫Without an ID, you will be unable to use certain features of the game which requires a GrowID.

      ⧫Without the ID, no password or email attached to the account can be recovered if lost.

You can download the free Growtopia app from Android Play Store or from Apple App Store and register a new account for playing the game.

The process is as follows:

1)   Open the Growtopia app and click on the Play Online option.

2)  Next write in a random name.

3)  After this is done, click on Connect.

4)  After entering into the game, open the menu tab and tap on the Get Grow ID button.

5)  Next write in your name, password and verify the password as required. Remember to give a unique name to your account.

6)  You will be required to enter your e-mail, in case you forget the login credentials, where the e-mail will be needed to reset your account.

7)  Once you are done with it, tap on the get Grow ID button.

8)  You will get a new Growtopia account to enjoy playing the game.

Growtopia also has a history of blocking some user accounts if it doesn’t fit in with the terms. If you still wish to continue playing the game, you can head over to the web and search for Growtopia accounts and there you will be presented with many websites who claim to provide you with unblocked login credentials for the game. 
So, play wisely and enjoy Growtopia.

                                       

                                                - Sonal Bera