Account Types & Avatars
Understanding Your Entropia Identity – Free Accounts, Avatars, and More
Getting Started with Your Avatar
When you register for Entropia Universe, you create a single avatar – your in-game identity – that you can use across all planets. This avatar is persistent and unique to you. It retains your name, skills, gear, and social connections no matter where in the universe you travel.
Creating your avatar is free, and you can fully explore the game without depositing money. The system is open-ended, meaning your avatar has no class or predefined path, and skills grow through your actions, allowing you to shape your own destiny.
Account Types
There is only one main account type in Entropia Universe; the free-to-play account. However, the way you interact with the game can vary depending on whether you:
Play for Free
- No deposit required
- Access to most gameplay systems
- Participate in beginner missions, explore, chat, trade
- Limited gear and slower progression
- Must earn PED via sweating, trading, events, gifts, or other players
Deposit to Play
- Optional deposits via credit card, PayPal, or crypto
- Faster progression with access to gear, weapons, tools, vehicles
- Allows participation in deeper professions (crafting, mining, etc.)
- Can withdraw earned PED after reaching 1,000 PED (100 USD)
Depositing is not required, and many players start out for free and learn how to earn before choosing to invest. However, depositing can significantly increase your options, efficiency, and chances of success in the real-cash economy.
Avatar Customisation
At character creation, you’re offered a powerful avatar customisation system where you can adjust your avatar’s body shape, facial features, gender, and hairstyle. This avatar will represent you across the entire universe, and can be updated later at a beauty salon (a real in-game profession).
Your avatar also includes:
- A profile with skills, stats, achievements, and society info
- Access to a storage vault, inventory, and personal PED card
- Reputation and social standing – important in a player-driven economy
The name you choose is permanent (typically: First Middle-“Nickname” Last), so choose carefully. Many players are known by their avatar names for years or even decades.
Skill-Based Progression
There are no classes or levels in Entropia Universe. Your avatar becomes stronger through skills, which increase by performing specific actions. For example:
- Hunting improves aim, combat reflexes, and weapon use
- Crafting increases engineering and blueprint efficiency
- Mining boosts geology and extraction
- Trading raises your reputation and negotiation skills
There are over 100+ individual skills, all contributing to your effectiveness and unlocks. Skills can also be traded or sold through implant chips – which is another example of the real-cash economy at work.
Alt Accounts and Rules
MindArk has strict rules about multi-accounting. Each player is allowed only one active avatar, and using multiple accounts can result in a permanent ban. This rule helps keep the economy fair and prevents abuse of the free-to-play system.
However, families or roommates can play separately as long as they each have their own computer and account, and do not interact in ways that break game rules.
Society & Social Identity
Your avatar can also join a society – Entropia’s version of guilds. Societies form the social backbone of the game, and your reputation as a trustworthy or knowledgeable player is often tied to how you interact with others.
Whether you’re a helpful mentor, a feared hunter, a stylish fashionista, or a silent miner, your avatar becomes your brand in Entropia Universe.
Questions? Join the forum ->
Disclaimer: This Knowledge Base is developed through a collaboration between AI-generated source material and human-authored content. While all entries are fact-checked, readers are encouraged to contact EntropiaPlayer with any corrections, suggestions, or additional information.
Comments are closed