Docs & Guides

1. What Is Smallverse Market

Smallverse Market is a virtual-world marketplace where creators, collectors, and traders meet. Members publish listings for digital creations and commissions, browse categories, run auctions, message each other directly, and build a reputation through reviews.

2. Getting Started

Creating an account takes less than a minute:

1. Create your account — pick a username (3–20 letters or numbers), enter a valid email, and choose a password with at least 8 characters including an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, and a number. A CAPTCHA confirms you are human.
2. Confirm your email — use the verification link we send you so your account stays recoverable and trusted by other members.
3. Set up your profile — add an avatar, a banner, and a bio from Settings. A complete profile earns far more trust than an empty one.
4. Explore — browse the Sculptures, Art, Wears, Rares, Featured, and Auctions categories, or press Ctrl/⌘ + K to search instantly.
5. Claim your first credits — open Get Credits to claim your daily login reward and start your streak.

3. Buying & Collecting

Finding something you want:

• Search — the search bar in the navbar works from every page; results can be filtered by category, tag, and sort order.
• Favorites — tap the heart on any listing to save it to your Favorites list for later.
• Interest requests — send an “I'm interested” request from a listing page. The seller gets a notification and can open a chat with you.
• Auctions — listings marked as auctions show the current bid and time remaining; see Auctions & Bidding below.
• Reviews — check the seller's profile, reputation score, and past reviews before committing to anything.

4. Selling Your Creations

Anyone with an account can publish a listing. From New Listing you can set:

• Title & description — what you are offering and what the buyer receives.
• Category — Sculptures, Art, Wears, or Rares (this decides where the listing appears).
• Display price & payment methods — how you present your price and how you prefer to be paid. The platform does not process the payment itself.
• Tags — extra keywords that make you findable in search.
• Region / server / platform — where your item or service lives, so the right buyers find it.
• Images — up to several images per listing; clear images get dramatically more views.

Managing your listings:

• Vault — My Listings shows everything you have published, with views, favorites, and status.
• Edit — every listing can be updated or deactivated at any time from your vault.
• Feature — spend credits to feature a listing so it appears in Featured and ranks higher in browse views.
• Auction — turn a listing into a timed auction with a starting bid instead of a fixed price.

5. Auctions & Bidding

• Sellers set a starting bid and a closing time for their auction listing.
• Buyers place bids from the listing page; each new bid notifies the previous highest bidder.
• When the auction closes, the highest bidder wins and both parties are notified. The seller should then message the winner to complete the deal privately.
• Bidding is a serious commitment — withdraw only if you genuinely cannot complete the trade, as unfulfilled wins damage your reputation.

6. Credits

Credits are the in-platform currency used to boost your listings. You can:

• Earn them free — claim the daily login reward (with an increasing streak bonus) and complete missions such as “First Listing”, “Power Seller”, “First Fan”, and “Regular Visitor”.
• Buy them — purchase credit packs securely through our payment provider from Get Credits.
• Spend them — feature a listing so it shows in Featured placements and gets priority in browse results.
• Track them — your balance is always visible in the navbar, and full history lives in Get Credits.

7. Reputation & Reviews

• Members can leave reviews after dealing with each other; reviews appear on their public profile.
• Your reputation score is calculated from those reviews and your history on the platform — it is shown next to your listings.
• Complete profiles with an avatar, bio, and verified email consistently earn more trust and more sales.
• Old, stale, or misleading listings should be edited or deactivated — they hurt your standing and waste buyers' time.

8. Safety & Scam Prevention

The platform connects people; it cannot guarantee what happens off-platform. Protect yourself:

• Never share your password — staff will never ask for it, in Discord, in tickets, or anywhere else.
• Keep deals in platform messages — if an agreement later disputed, only the on-platform conversation can be reviewed.
• Check reputation first — look at profile age, reviews, and listing quality before paying anything.
• Beware of off-site links — never sign in through a link someone sent you; navigate to the site yourself.
• Report anything suspicious — use the report option on a listing or profile; moderators review every report.
• Understand the disclaimer — we do not process payments or hold funds, so treat every private arrangement with the same caution you would use anywhere else online.

9. Reports & Moderation

• Report — any listing, profile, or message can be reported. Reports go to the moderation queue and are reviewed by staff.
• Actions — depending on severity, staff can issue warnings, restrict selling, messaging, or marketplace access, remove content, or ban an account entirely.
• Support tickets — for account problems, false positives, or appeals, open a ticket from Support.
• Transparency — moderators keep audit logs of administrative actions so enforcement decisions can be reviewed.

10. Account Security

• Sessions — when you log in we issue a session cookie that lasts 7 days. It is HttpOnly, so scripts on the page can never read it.
• Device binding — sessions are tied to your browser and network. If both change at once (a strong sign of a stolen session), the session is destroyed and you must sign in again.
• Changing your password signs you out of all devices. Use this if you suspect someone else has access.
• Logging out — use Log Out from the avatar menu or the mobile menu when you are on a shared computer.
• Rate limiting & CAPTCHA — automated attacks on login and registration are blocked automatically.

Full detail lives in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

11. Privacy & Your Data

The short version of how we handle your data:

• What we store — username, email, bcrypt-hashed password, optional avatar/banner/bio, your listings, messages, reviews, and security logs.
• Cookies — a single session cookie (session_token). No advertising cookies, no analytics trackers, no social pixels.
• Who sees what — your username, avatar, bio, reputation, and listings are public. Your email is never shown to other users.
• Infrastructure — hosted on Cloudflare (CDN, security, hosting) — see Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
• Your rights — access, correct, export, or delete your data at any time; deletion requests go through our Discord.

Read the full document: Privacy Policy →

12. Rules & Terms

The rules everyone agrees to when using the platform:

• Be truthful — listings must describe what you actually offer; no misleading prices or bait listings.
• No illegal or harmful content — nothing that breaks the law, exploits others, or violates another person's rights.
• Respect intellectual property — do not sell work that is not yours or that you have no right to distribute.
• No harassment — no hate speech, threats, spam, or coordinated abuse toward other members.
• One account, one person — do not evade bans or manipulate reviews, bids, or credits.
• Keep it on-platform — for your protection, agreements should be documented in platform messages.

Breaking these rules can lead to restrictions or termination of your account.

Read the full document: Terms of Service →

13. FAQ

14. Getting Help

• Support tickets — for account issues, bugs, or appeals, open a ticket at Support. You will get an email when staff replies.
• Discord — join our Discord for community help and announcements.
• Docs — you are here. Bookmark this page; it is updated whenever the platform changes.