📈 Levels & XP
Your level is your personal progression on OpenWar. It goes up as you earn XP, and most importantly it unlocks access to weapons: until you reach the required level, certain weapons are unusable.
🎮 Check your progression at any time with
/lvlor via the Stats Menu (key B).
⬆️ How to earn XP
You earn XP by playing normally:
| Source | Examples | Details |
|---|---|---|
| ⛏️ Mining blocks | ores, logs… | The rarer the ore, the more it pays off |
| 💀 Killing mobs | zombies, cows, horses… | Each creature has its own value |
| 🌾 Harvesting plants | wheat, carrots, crops… | Only when the plant is fully grown |
🚫 Anti-farm: breaking a block that you placed yourself gives no XP. No cheating by placing/breaking in a loop.
🚫 Creative mode does not give XP.
➡️ The complete list of XP values can be viewed in-game — see Stats Menu → XP Sources.
🔢 The levels
- There are 60 levels.
- The XP required increases with every level (from a few hundred at the start to over a million for the last ones).
- When you level up, your XP bar resets to zero for the next level.
- 🔑 Every 3 levels, you receive a Level Key (with a little reward sound)!
💜 If you are in a faction, the faction XP boost speeds up your gains, and part of your XP also feeds your faction's level.
🔓 Unlocking weapons
This is the heart of the system: each powerful weapon requires a minimum level. Below it, you cannot place or use it (the game tells you the required level).
Some notable milestones:
| Level | Unlocks (examples) |
|---|---|
| 12 | Your first grenade |
| 15 – 21 | The full grenade range (frag, plasma, gas, MIRV…) |
| 22 | First missile (anti-ballistic) |
| 28 – 30 | Artillery shells, demolition charge, launcher core |
| 32 – 44 | Warheads, turrets, heavy rockets |
| 45 – 48 | Mini-nuke shell, radar satellite, EMP missile |
| 51 – 56 | Soyuz core, plasma railgun, laser satellite |
| 60 | Microwave machine (max level) |
☢️ Real nuclear weapons (Little Boy, nuclear shells & warhead) do not unlock at your personal level, but at faction level 20 → see Factions — Perks.
➡️ Full interactive list: Stats Menu → Unlocked Items.
➡️ See also: Stats Menu · Keys · Server Ranks