The Creeper's Lab doesn't accept money to access gameplay features, in-game rewards or any pay-to-win mechanisms.
These currencies are defined in the game itself, or outside, and can be redeemed for a variety of rewards, abilities and items.
Acolyte Tokens are earned by voting every day and running events. More on acolytes
These are found in-game as a styled piece of amethyst shard.
See the Guilds of Creeper's Lab topic for an indepth look at the quests, tokens, and how to cash them in!
Each Guild provides you with unique challenges for you to go away and complete, then come back to the Guildhall to claim your rewards! Each challenge can be done up to five times a month. Prizes are unique to each guild and themed with the guild’s activity. The guilds available are:
Once you reach Master in a particular guild, you can swap ten tokens from one guild and receive a Multidisciplinary Guild Token. These can then be traded at a different guild you are a Master of in order to receive 5 tokens for that guild.
You can also turn Multidisciplinary Guild Tokens into Transverse Tokens. Once per month per Guild you are a Master of, you may additionally turn one Transverse Token into one Multidisciplinary Guild Token.
Horseman Points are earned by completing the monthly tasks that are offered on the Horseman island of the Creeper Citadel, or permenant tasks that are offered in each Horseman area.
These are represented in-game as a styled piece of paper, and can be used to purchase powerful tools and weapons of the Grand Abomination line.
See the Horseman Points Guide for an indepth look at the quests, points, and how to cash them in!
Earned at the Hunter's Lodge, these can be used across the many traders found there. It can be obtained by converting other monster drops, directly from rarer mobs, or by completing waves on Easy / Normal / Hard difficulty.
Merit Points can be obtained in various ways, such as participating in events, challenges and voting for the Creeper's Lab every day.
In exchange, people can use them to gain temporary abilities such as flight, invisibility, keeping inventory on death, and more.
The amount of points accumulated can be viewed by typing /points in-game, or by looking at your player profile.
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Merit Vouchers can be earned by spending 10 Merit Points, or won through various events. Visit the fifth floor of Moosemart, at the Creeper Citadel, to get them and view the full range of trades. This includes replicas of past event items, shortcut items for those exploring the science areas, cosmetic costumes of science mobs, heads of previous staff members, and even some exclusive items! You can also head directly to the Hunter's Lodge to access any of the existing raid bosses.
Merit Vouchers are found in-game as a styled piece of paper.
These special tokens are not meant to buy items directly: they are used to exchange one type of currency into another.
The amount of currency that can be exchanged in a given month is often limited, so the trades are done through special machines that impose the limits instead of being simple sellers in Moosemart. Some of these are offered in:
Transverse Tokens are made out of disc fragments.
Obtained every day from the Advent Calendar in December each year since 2020, these take the form of styled magma cream and can exclusively be redeemed in the special hut at the Seasonal Park in Central. Up to 25 can be obtained by player during a full advent period.