If your like me, the idea of Cryptobots is amazing, but your not really sure how it works. After doing about a week of research, playing around with it and studying it, I am going to write a guide to help others join without wasting too much of their money. If you want to join click here.

What is CryptoBots?

Its like Cryptokitties but so so much better. Its robots instead of cats, which is immediately cooler. It also has a development team that is actually active and adding new features. It has a battles feature that allows you to fight other players and win new bots.

How do I play?

You’ll need some Ether and the metamask wallet plugin. It costs about .01 eth to buy your first bot, but that price is increasing. Just a week ago the cheapest bots were .009. As more people come to the platform, I expect prices to increase. More people equals more money.

Once you buy your first bot, you’ll probably want to make a new one. You can accomplish reproduction one of two ways. You can select another persons bot to breed with, which will cost you the breeding cost (.008) plus what the other owner is charging you. Alternately you can buy a second bot (make sure it is NOT a parent, child or sibling of your first bot), and then breed those two. This will cost you .008 eth.

Selecting your bot can be tricky. Certain traits are more rare than others, and thus more valuable. To figure out what traits are rare, click on the auction tab, then click all. Then search for a certain trait. You can see how many bots have that trait. At the time of writing, only 21 bots exist with the octopus mod.

As you can see, we are in the all tab of the auction screen. We have searched for octopus, and gotten 21 bots as a result.

Rare traits are good, but expensive. Keep an eye out for bots with rare traits that seem cheaper than other bots.

Battles are an important part of CryptoBots. Rare Traits typically perform better in battles. When you engage in battle, you are pitted in a mini tournament against 3 other bots. You square off against another owner. IF you beat them, you square off against the winner of the other match. The over all winner is gifted a bot with a rare attribute. You are gifted a bot with either the arms mod or the pistols mods. The pistols mod is more rare. The least expensive bot with an arms mod is worth .0198 eth at the time of writing. That’s about 15 dollars just for winning one match!

Currently there is a system wide tournament going on. The pot is 5 eth, about $4000 US. the winner of the tournament get 1 eth and a Rare Bot. Cryptobots is a game, but it is also a hobby. It costs more than most games, but you can also make quite a bit of money from it.

Look At all the Beautiful Bots

It’s Fun

Its incredibly satisfying to play this game. It is fun to watch the prices, speculate breed and sell. The community is great, and it is so much fun to watch the game get improved every few days. If you want to play, click here.