New here? This walkthrough gets you from a blank profile to hanging out in chat in about five minutes. Work through it top to bottom, or jump to whatever you're stuck on.

1️⃣ Finish your profile

• Add a photo and a few words about you. Head to Edit Profile to set your avatar, banner, status, and the "about me" blurb. This is the first thing people see.
• Pick a theme. Themes restyle your whole profile in a click. Browse the built-in ones in Edit Profile - or, if you're a Donor, design your own in the Theme Builder.
• Arrange your layout. Use the live drag-and-drop layout builder at the top of your own profile to move cards around - single column, sidebar, multi-column, masonry, or a header-banner look. Show or hide any card, and add your own custom cards too.

2️⃣ Find your people

• Browse members on the Browse page and send friend requests. When someone accepts, they show up on your Top Friends.
• Sign a guestbook on a profile you like, leave a comment, or fire off a private message to say hi.
• Post a bulletin from the Bulletins page - it's a quick broadcast to everyone, great for a first hello.

3️⃣ Jump into chat & cam rooms

• Open the Chat Rooms list and click one to join. Text chat works for everyone; rooms with cams let you go on video too.
• Set a chat nickname so a friendlier name shows next to your messages while your username stays in the userlist.
• Go on cam: click Cam Up and allow camera + microphone access when your browser asks. Only one app can use your camera at a time, so close Zoom/Teams/OBS first.
• On your phone? The cam room is built "cams-first" - the video grid fills the screen, and the chat box slides up when you tap the message strip or the keyboard button.

4️⃣ Make it yours

• Create your own room. Anyone can host. Go to Create a Room and pick a name, a layout, a size, and whether it's public, password-protected, hidden, or request-to-join. Once you've made one, the Room Admin Guide unlocks for you with everything about running it.
• Build a Page. Under My Pages you can spin up extra profile pages (band, business, fan page - whatever) that live under your account.
• Leave a time capsule on the Capsules page - a message that unlocks on a future date.

🆘 If something breaks

Most chat/cam trouble comes down to browser permissions, extensions, or your network - not the site. The FAQ & Connection Help page walks through the fixes: granting camera/mic access, ad-blockers, hardware acceleration, cookies, and more. Start there.

🏡 Little Life

A full life-sim game. Open Little Life from the menu.

• Create a Little - name them and pick up to 4 traits.
• 🛒 Buy mode - buy furniture; it goes to your inventory.
• 💾 Saves - keep up to 3 separate games; New Game, load and delete saves from the bar at the top.
• 🎨 Design tool (in Build mode) - click-drag to paint floors and build walls, doors and windows; right-click to rotate the wall side; pick from several floor and wall designs; Save Layout when done.
• 🔨 Build mode - select an inventory item, then click a grid cell to place it. Click placed items to pick them back up, or sell for 50%.
• 🎮 Live mode - click placed objects for interactions (sleep, cook, shower, study…) that move your needs, mood, skills and money. Watch the needs bars at the top.
• Careers - take a job and work shifts for income and promotions.
• 💬 Social - meet neighbours and build relationships (chat, joke, compliment, deep talk, date). Socializing fills social & fun and builds charisma.
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Family - once a relationship reaches "partner", propose & marry, then "Get Cozy" for a 75% chance of a baby. Kids grow Baby → Kid (grade school) → Teen (high school) → Adult. Help with homework for better grades; good grades earn college scholarships (full/partial/grant), and a college education means a higher-paying start - grown kids send money home. When a kid is an adult, Move Out spins them into their own playable household (a new save) with a nest egg and their education head-start - true multi-generation play.
• 🔄 Fully live home - Live mode never refreshes: walking, interactions, needs, mood and money all update in place; your little glides with a walking bob and announces actions in a speech bubble.
• 🤖 Free will - go idle and your little takes care of themselves (eats when hungry, naps when tired - half strength, never spends your money). Toggle it in ⚙️ Game Settings, along with game speed (0.5x-4x) and weather effects.
• 🌦️ Daily weather & day/night - every day brings real weather (sun, rain, snow, clouds) with animated effects over the home, and the sky shifts with the actual time of day.
• 🌍 The World - three shared community venues (Plaza, Club with a dance floor, Pool Lounge with a FULL-SIZE animated pool - swim, dive and float from the diving board) where every member's little hangs out LIVE: click to walk, use public furniture together, and chat with speech bubbles and quick emotes.
• 🎮 Control switching - play any family member from the NOW CONTROLLING bar: your spouse, or any kid (school life: class, homework, recess) - and hand control back whenever. Money is shared household-wide.
• 🏠 A living home - in Live mode your whole household is on screen: your small stands next to the last item they used, and your spouse and at-home kids each idle on their own favourite spot with name tags.
• 🛒 Organized catalog - every item sits in its proper aisle (Music, Fun & Games, Kids, Living, Kitchen, Bedroom, Bathroom, Study, Fitness, Outdoor, Decor) - including the newer pieces like the jukebox, arcade cabinet, foosball, karaoke, claw machine, VR rig, ball pit and home bar, each with its own interactions and hand-drawn animated art.
• 🕊️ Legacy (v3) - pick your small's look (skin, hair, outfit) with a live preview; choose a wedding tier; adopt kids; births can be twins; spouses work and bring home income. Smalls age, grow frail and eventually pass on - your heir or spouse inherits the home and continues the family, generation after generation, with a family tree to look back on.
• 🚗 Garage - buy a vehicle to ease your commute and boost mood; maintain it as it wears.
• ✈️ Travel - take vacations to fully recharge needs and earn a mood boost.
• 🐾 Pets - adopt up to 3 in-home pets; play and feed them to fill fun & social.
• Aging - your small ages through life stages (Young Adult → Elder) as you play.
• 🏠 Properties - own multiple lots (apartment → mansion). Your active lot is your home; others earn passive rent. Bigger lots have bigger build grids.
• 🏢 Businesses - buy a café, gym, gallery, studio or shop and run it for income that scales with your skills and employees.
• 💰 § Money Packs - convert tokens straight into in-game § from the Token Shop: Pocket Money (§5,000), Cash Stack (§20,000), Briefcase (§50,000) and the Vault Drop (§100,000).
• 🪙 Token Shop - exclusive premium items bought with tokens (the same tokens as Pet World & the store). Earn a few by playing daily and hitting skill milestones, or top up via the token shop.

🏪 Marketplace

Buy and sell with other members. Browse the Marketplace from the top menu.

• Posting: click Post a Listing, add a title, price, category, photos (up to 4), and a description. It's free.
• Buying / contact: open a listing and use Contact seller to message them, or Pay with PayPal if the seller added their PayPal — payment goes straight to them.
• Sharing: every listing has a Copy link button and a Share to chat picker that drops the item (with its price and link) into a cam room's chat.
• Featured bumps: float your listing to the top for 7 days (2,000 tokens or $2.00 via PayPal).
• Your active listings also show in a block on your profile.

🐾 Pet World

Your community comes with a full virtual-pet portal. Adopt a critter, raise it, play with it, and show it off right on your profile. Jump in any time from 🐾 Pet World in the menu.

• Adopt for free. Go to Adopt and pick from dozens of species. Your first pet costs nothing - name it and it's yours.
• Care for it live on your profile. Your active pet appears on your profile in a live card - pet, feed, play and rest all happen right there with no page reload. How you treat it shows: a well-loved pet looks happy and bright, while a neglected one turns sad, faded, skinny, or overfed and slow.
• Shop & dress up. Spend tokens in the Shop on food, toys and treats, then use the Wardrobe to kit your pet out with outfits, backdrops and habitat decor.
• Play mini-games for tokens. The Mini-Games pay out tokens you can spend on your pet - a free way to earn.
• Battle in the Arena. Level your pet up and take it into the Arena for turn-based battles, both against the computer and against other members (matched by level).
• Daily Quests. Three quick quests every day (care for pets, win a battle, finish a mini-game) - claim each for tokens, finish all three for a bonus. Find them at the top of Mini-Games.
• Breeding Den. Pair two of your pets (level 3+) in the 🥚 Breeding Den to hatch a baby. Babies usually take after a parent, but there's a small chance of a rarer surprise species. Each parent rests afterward.
• 🧬 Hybrids. Ten brand-new animals exist ONLY through breeding: pair the right two species (the combos are listed in the Breeding Den) and hope for a hybrid hatch. They never appear in adoption or the Exotic Breeder - collect all ten!
• Trade on the Market. Buy and sell pets with other members in the player Market.
• Gift your friends. You can pet and gift your friends' pets too - a nice little way to say hi.

Want the full tour? The in-portal 📖 Pet Guide walks through every screen in detail.

💎 Exotic Breeder

The Exotic Breeder is a premium, daily-rotating adoption area - separate from normal adoption - stocked with rare creatures you won't find anywhere else.

• Pre-evolved & powerful. Exotics arrive already at a high evolution tier (Elder / Ascended / Mythic) with boosted stats - a big head start over a freshly-adopted pet.
• They bring their own habitat. Each exotic ships with its own signature backdrop and habitat decor, auto-equipped the moment you adopt it.
• Rotates daily, never repeats. A fresh set is dealt every day, and the whole catalogue cycles through before any exotic appears again - plus brand-new exotics arrive every month.
• Limited daily stock. Each exotic has only a few available per day. When today's are gone, they're gone until they come back around - so grab one when you spot it.
• Costs tokens. Exotics are premium, so they cost more than a normal pet. Earn tokens in the mini-games or top up on the Buy Tokens page.