First Steps — Your First 10 Minutes
You don't need to know what Resonance is to get the most out of your first ten minutes. Sign in, say something in chat, and a starter kit lands in your inventory automatically — that's the whole shape of it. This page walks you through the first session end-to-end.
The moment you cross your first Activity Score event, the system airdrops a Welcome Package to your inventory: a random Standard producer, a starter stockpile of ingredients and materials, and 2,000 RSNC. No purchase, no claim flow on your end. Three more packages — Apprentice (Tune-In L5), Novice (L10), and Adept (L15) — land the same way as you climb.
Step 1 — Sign in
Head to play.rsnc.network and sign in with Discord or email via Privy. Either path creates a secure wallet for you behind the scenes; you never have to manage it. See Sign In for the full flow.
The Welcome Package gates on a small anti-sybil check: you need both a Privy login and a linked Discord account, and the Discord account must be at least 30 days old. If your Discord account is younger than 30 days, you can still earn AS now — the package fires the moment the account ages in. Or come back when it does.
Brand-new players sometimes mistake this for a bug. It isn't; it's a deliberate gate to keep starter kits from being farmed.
If you signed in with email and want the package, link Discord from your profile menu — Link Accounts walks you through it.
Step 2 — Earn your first Activity Score
Any qualifying engagement event will do it. The easiest:
- Say
gmin a Resonance-bot channel (Resonance Official is a fine starting point) - React to a brand's announcement
- Post a substantive message in a brand's chat (the bot's quality scorer picks it up in the background)
Activity Score (AS) is the platform's universal contribution metric. Every brand uses it. Every engagement feeds it. Your AS does three things at once: feeds your share of Monday's bounty payout, levels up your Tune-In frequency, and counts toward this onboarding gate.
You can check your AS at any time via the /streak slash command in Discord, or in the app: the Base dashboard's Tune-In + Weekly-AS strip at play.rsnc.network shows your current level and this week's AS, with the full breakdown under Settings → Profile (the gear icon). (The old standalone Effects/Alchemy tab was retired — Tune-In now lives in the dashboard strip and Settings.)
Step 3 — Your Welcome Package lands
The moment your first lifetime AS event lands, the bot posts a celebratory embed in the brand's Logs channel with a link straight to your inventory. No claim button on your end — the package is already in your inventory by the time you see the embed.
What's in the box:
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Standard producer (random archetype) | 1 |
| Each Standard ingredient | 3 |
| Each Standard material | 3 |
| RSNC | 2,000 |
The producer is one of five Kitchen archetypes — Astral Beehive, Frequency Garden, Echo Mushroom Cluster, Photon Aquarium, or Crystalline Reactor. The ingredient stockpile covers every Standard family, so whichever producer you got has matching seeds ready to plant. See Producers and Sub-Slots for what each archetype yields.
The 2,000 RSNC in your Welcome Package is paid in full regardless of the brand's payout mode. You receive it as RSNC immediately — it doesn't sit in a weekly bounty pool, doesn't compete for a share, doesn't wait until Monday. The same goes for the Apprentice and Novice packages.
Step 4 — Open your Welcome Package
Go to the My Perks tab at play.rsnc.network/my-perks. The Welcome Package sits at the top of the tab.
Click Open. The reveal flow:
- The producer mints to your Kitchen — show up under Harvest Area the moment the transaction lands.
- Ingredients and materials drop into Storage (visible in the Kitchen's Storage tab).
- The 2,000 RSNC posts to your balance immediately.
The open transaction takes roughly 10–15 seconds end to end. You don't need to refresh — the page updates as items arrive.
Step 5 — Plant your first producer
Once your producer lands, head to the Kitchen → Harvest Area and drop the producer into Slot 1 (free at Tune-In L1).
A Standard producer starts with 1 sub-slot (it gains more as it levels). Pull a seed from your Welcome Package that matches your producer's family — for example, an Astral Beehive needs Sweet seeds (Stellar Honey, Astral Apple) — and plant it in the sub-slot. Done.
Standard producers fire on a 7–12 hour cadence. Come back later (the next day is fine) and you'll have a Claim button. See Kitchen Quickstart for the full producer flow.
Step 6 — Cook your first recipe
While you wait on your producer, the Welcome Package's ingredient stockpile is enough to cook a starter recipe right now. The easiest first cook:
- Pulse Bread — Level 1, 80% base success, 30-minute cook, consumes 2 Pulse Egg + 3 Harmonic Herbs.
Open Cooking Area → Slot 1 (free at L1), select Pulse Bread, click Start Cook. 30 minutes later the result mints into Storage with a reveal modal showing the rolled rarity. With 80% base success and no equipment yet, you're well above the par success curve for a Level 1 recipe.
Cooking is half the loop — see Recipes and Cooking for what every recipe does and how Skill, Speed, and Elegance shape your outputs.
What comes next
The Welcome Package is the first of four onboarding airdrops. As you keep earning AS, three more land automatically when you cross specific Tune-In milestones:
| Pack | Trigger | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome | First lifetime AS event (Discord linked, account ≥ 30 days) | 1× random Standard producer + 3× each Standard ingredient + 3× each Standard material + 2,000 RSNC |
| Apprentice | Cross Tune-In L5 | 1× random Rare producer + 3× each Standard material + 1× random Standard equipment + 5,000 RSNC |
| Novice | Cross Tune-In L10 | 1× random Rare producer + 9 random Rare-ingredient picks + 1× random Rare equipment + 10,000 RSNC |
| Adept | Cross Tune-In L15 | 1× random Mythic producer + 5 random Rare-ingredient picks + 1× Rare/Mythic equipment + 15,000 RSNC |
All four land the same way: the package and its contents are airdropped straight to your inventory (grants auto-open — no claim chase or purchase flow), and the bot posts a celebratory embed in the brand's Logs channel. The RSNC in every package bypasses bounty mode.
At the rate AS accumulates from normal engagement, L5 is typically reachable in your first week and L10 within two to three weeks of consistent participation. See Tune In for the full level curve and what else opens at each milestone.
Why bounty mode is good for newcomers
Most Resonance brands run on Bounty Mode: instead of paying out RSNC per event, the brand pools their weekly RSNC budget and distributes it on Monday morning, weighted by every active user's Activity Score. See Bounty Mode for the math.
The implication for a newcomer: every AS you earn is a real share of a real payout, even in your first week, even if you only post a handful of times. There's no per-event RSNC threshold to clear. You don't have to hit a streak or a level before contributions start mattering. A few gms and a couple of substantive messages land you a meaningful slice of the Monday bounty alongside the package airdrops.
The Tune-In side compounds: the AS you earn for the bounty share also feeds your Tune-In level, which unlocks the Apprentice and Novice packages, the Kitchen's higher slot tiers, and a permanent discount on every RSNC spend in the platform.
See also
- Sign In — the full Privy + Discord onboarding flow
- Activity Score — what counts as a qualifying event
- Bounty Mode — how AS becomes Monday RSNC
- Tune In — level milestones and what each unlocks
- Kitchen Quickstart — the next step after your first cook