Sky Mavis has launched Axie Infinity: Terrariums V1, its new land-based earning system, giving landholders a simpler way to make use of their plots after the shutdown of its previous land-based game Homeland.
The launch is significant because Axie land has long been one of the project’s biggest unresolved promises. Land was sold years ago as part of the wider Lunacia vision, but creating a compelling, sustainable game around it has proved difficult. Homeland was one attempt to bring that vision to life. Terrariums is a more focused reset: less a full land game, more an economic layer that allows plots and axies to work together.
At its simplest, Terrariums turns land into a passive earning system. Players activate a plot, assign axies to it, spend a resource called Lunium, and then earn the new in-game-only bAXS token from hourly reward distributions. The design is deliberately lighter than Homeland. It does not ask players to manage a complex town-building or resource-production game. Instead, it gives landowners a relatively straightforward way to put dormant assets to work.
The two key inputs are axies and Lunium.
Axies generate Atia’s Flame, which determines how much weight a player’s plot has when rewards are distributed. The more Flame a plot has, the greater its share of the reward pool. Rarer axies contribute more Flame, which means the most rare axies gain a clearer role. Mystic axies generated 200 times more flame than common axies. This is one of the more important parts of the design. Terrariums is not just about land; it also gives older and rarer axies another form of utility.
Lunium is the fuel that keeps the system running. Without it, plots do not earn. There are two types. Local Lunium is generated by each plot for free, but slowly. Global Lunium is bought and can be used across all plots in a player’s account. This creates a choice between waiting for free generation or paying to keep plots earning more consistently.
That makes Terrariums more than a simple passive yield system. Landholders are not just receiving rewards because they own land. They must decide how much Lunium to spend, which plots to activate, and which axies to assign to which plots. Returns also depend on competition, because each plot’s share is based on how much Atia’s Flame it has compared with other active plots in the same land category.
This should create some optimization, particularly for players with multiple plots and rarer axies. A prestigious plot type will not automatically be the best option if it is crowded with other high-Flame plots. Equally, less obvious plot categories may become attractive if the competition is weaker. Terrariums V1 is not a deep strategy game, but it does introduce enough variables to make the economy dynamic.
The first earning tick is scheduled for 19th June at 07:00 UTC. Players can activate their plots ahead of that, but those relying only on free Local Lunium will need to wait for it to recharge. According to Sky Mavis, Local Lunium takes around five days to fill up. Anyone who wants to earn immediately needs to buy Global Lunium through one of the launch packages.
This is also where the monetization model becomes clear. Lunium can be bought with bAXS, AXS, USDC and WETH, but it is not itself a tradable token. Rather than creating another liquid asset that could become speculative or unstable, Sky Mavis has made Lunium an internal resource. It functions as a sink and a spending mechanism without adding another open-market token to the Axie ecosystem.
Sky Mavis says revenue from Lunium sales will go to a company-controlled wallet and be used to strengthen the Axie economy, including by buying axies. That gives Terrariums a broader role than just rewarding landholders. It creates a new loop between land, axies, spending and ecosystem support.
It is also worth stressing that this is only V1. Many features are being held back for later releases, including land item placement, evolved parts, accessories, Fortune Slips, estate multipliers and deeper collectible part utility. In other words, Terrariums is not yet the full expression of Axie’s land ambitions. It is a foundation.
Play Axie Infinity: Terrariums V1 via its website.