Getting Started in Moon Base: The Reactor, Energy, and Your First Moon Dust

The Loop in One Sentence

Tap the Reactor, spend 1 energy per tap, earn 0.5 Moon Dust instantly, and rack up score that converts to TMBX at the end of the month. That's the whole game on day one. Everything else — buildings, streaks, tiers — is about making that loop bigger.

What a Tap Actually Gets You

Each tap does two things at once:

• Moon Dust (MD), right now. Half an MD per tap, credited instantly. MD is the in-game currency — you'll spend it on buildings that produce more MD per hour.
• Score, for later. Every tap also adds to your monthly score. Score is what earns you TMBX — but not per tap, and not instantly. More on that below, because it's the thing new players get wrong most.

Energy: Your Real Limit

You can't tap forever. Every tap costs 1 energy, and when the tank's empty, you wait. Energy regenerates on its own over time, so the rhythm of the game is: tap the tank dry, go do something else, come back to a full tank.

Two things raise that ceiling:

1. The Reactor Core building. It's the only building in the game with dual output — each level adds +3 to your maximum energy *and* +2 MD/hour. It's also the thing you're physically tapping, and its look upgrades as you level it (four visual tiers between levels 1 and 25). Watching your Reactor evolve is half the fun.
2. Tiers. Hold TMBX in a linked, verified wallet and your whole energy system scales up. A Pilot (250 TMBX) gets a 1.5× energy cap and 1.25× regen speed. Crew (1,000 TMBX) gets 2× and 1.5×. Captain (5,000 TMBX) gets 3× cap and 2× regen. Tiers never hand you free currency — they make your account *capable* of more.

The Part Everyone Misunderstands: TMBX

Here it is, plainly: you don't earn TMBX per tap. Taps, daily bonuses, tasks, referrals — all of it earns score. Once a month, a fixed pool of TMBX (currently 833, and it shrinks about 15% every three months by design) gets split across every player who scored that month, proportional to their tier-weighted share of the total.

That means nobody — including us — can tell you "one tap = X TMBX." It depends on how many other players scored that month. What you *can* control is your slice of the pie: tap more, keep your streak, do the tasks, hold a tier. The pool is fixed; your share isn't.

Easy Points You Shouldn't Skip

• Daily streak. Log in daily and your streak bonus climbs from 100 score on day 1 to 250 on day 7. It holds at 250 for as long as you keep showing up. Miss a day and you're back to day 1.
• The one live task. Join the official Telegram announcement channel and you get 250 score, one time. It's verified server-side through the Telegram Bot API — the game actually checks you joined, so no button-mashing your way past it. More tasks are on the way.
• Referrals. Bring a friend via the Friends tab and you earn 500 score — but only once they've tapped 500 times themselves. Fake accounts earn you nothing. Real players earn you everything.

Your First Session, Step by Step

1. Open Moon Base, tap the Reactor until your energy runs out.
2. Spend your first MD on a Solar Array (50 MD, no requirements, +5 MD/hour per level). It's the cheapest building and the only starter with zero gates.
3. Join the announcement channel for the free 250 score.
4. Close the app. Your buildings keep producing MD while you're gone — but only for 8 hours, then production caps until you come back and collect.
5. Come back tomorrow. Streak day 2 is worth more than day 1.

That's it. No survival meters, no colonists to feed — just a Reactor, an energy tank, and a Moon Dust economy waiting to compound. Go tap.