Collect, Bank, Progress: Troves Are Changing How You Play Upland

We are excited to introduce Trove Banking, the Trove Vault, and Upland’s new Progression System, connected features designed to bring greater depth, choice, and long-term progression to Upland.

Troves will connect more of Upland’s core systems, including property ownership, development, Uppies, and rewards. Banking and Progression build on that foundation, giving players new ways to preserve achievements, earn rewards, and track their journey through Upland.

Banking is the act of permanently committing Troves to your collection. The Vault is where those achievements come to life, allowing you to view the Troves you have banked and the levels you have reached.

Genesis Week offered only an early look at what is ahead. The full release will introduce more Troves, deeper crafting paths, and more opportunities to collect, craft, specialize, and decide which Troves to spend and which to preserve permanently.

For players, this means more ways to make meaningful progress every day. You will be able to build permanent Trove collections, pursue milestone rewards, and use automation to collect additional Troves alongside your own activity across Upland.

Troves, Trove Banking, and the Progression System will launch together later this year!

Please note: All images shown in this post are works in progress and are not representative of final designs. Visuals, layouts, and other design elements may change before release.

A New Way to Measure Your Upland Journey

Think of the Progression System as your Upland level: a numerical representation of your activity, achievements, and advancement throughout the game.

This score will complement the existing Upland status system, including Uplander, Pro, Executive, Director, and higher status tiers, rather than replacing it. Together, your status and progression level will provide a more complete picture of your Upland journey.

Some players may choose to focus primarily on advancing their Upland status, while others may concentrate on the new Progression System. Many will pursue both paths together.

How you choose to progress is up to you.

Your progression level will appear on your profile beneath your existing status and will be represented by a numerical value and progression shield.

You will advance by banking Troves, developing your property collections, completing progression objectives, and continuing to increase your Upland status.

What Is Trove Banking?

As you explore Upland, you will be able to collect Troves and use them in several ways.

Troves may be used in crafting recipes to create additional Troves, used in Uppie Quests, or exchanged for other items and rewards. We demonstrated some of these possibilities during the Genesis Week alpha test, including exchanges connected to Sparklet, Genome Troves, and other rewards.

When a Trove is spent or exchanged, it leaves your account.

Banking is different.

Banking permanently deposits Troves into your collection. Once Troves are banked, they cannot be withdrawn or used elsewhere.

Your banked Troves will appear in your Trove Vault, where you can view the Troves you have preserved and the banking levels you have achieved.

This permanent commitment is what gives Trove Banking its prestige. Your bank represents what you have collected, completed, and chosen to preserve as part of your Upland history.

When you have collected enough copies of a Trove to reach its next banking level, the banking button will become active. Selecting the bank icon will permanently add those Troves to your bank and help advance that Trove’s level.

Trove Banking Levels

Every Trove will have its own banking progression.

The initial banking levels will include:

Bronze
Silver
Gold
Platinum
Diamond
And more….

The number of Troves required to reach each level will depend on the Trove itself. More common Troves will generally require a larger quantity to bank, while Troves found deeper within the system may require fewer to be banked.

For example, reaching Bronze for a Heart Trove might require banking 20 Heart Troves, while reaching Silver might require a higher total. However, players do not need to unlock each banking level in order. A player who has enough Heart Troves to meet the Diamond requirement can bank them all at once and advance directly to Diamond, bypassing Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.

These numbers are only an example, and the exact requirements will vary by Trove and banking level.

This creates meaningful choices. You may decide to pursue higher levels in a few specialized Troves, build a broad collection across many categories, or find your own balance between depth and coverage.

How Banking Connects to Progression

Trove Banking and player progression are separate systems, but they are closely connected.

Your bank tracks the permanent levels of your individual Troves. Your overall progression score measures your advancement across Upland.

To reach certain progression milestones, players may need to satisfy a combination of requirements, including:

A minimum number of collected or banked Troves
Specific Trove banking levels
Coverage across multiple Trove categories
One additional progression objective

As an example, a player approaching level 200 might be required to collect a specified number of Troves, meet the Gold-level banking requirements for that progression level, and complete one additional objective.

The exact requirements will vary between milestones.

Earn Rewards as You Progress

Progression is not only a way to showcase your accomplishments. At specific progression milestones, players will also receive rewards recognizing how far they have advanced.

These rewards may include:

Map Assets
UPX bonuses
Collectibles
Customization items
Additional rewards connected to future Upland systems

Your profile will show your next progression milestone and the reward available when you reach it, giving you a clear goal as you collect Troves, develop your bank, complete objectives, and increase your Upland status.

Reward types and requirements may vary between progression levels, with additional details to be shared as launch approaches.

Uppies and Trove Collection

Trove progression will also introduce important new utility for Uppies and service structures.

Uppies at level 5 and above can be employed at eligible service structures. Employment provides two separate benefits.

First, employed Uppies contribute to leveling up the service structure. Higher-level Uppies provide a greater contribution, helping the structure reach higher levels and unlock better Trove drops from recipes.

Second, employed Uppies automate Trove collection at that service structure. An Uppie’s collection capacity is based on its own level, with higher-level Uppies able to collect more Troves for you automatically from the service structure they’re employed at each day.

This creates a meaningful benefit for developing and employing higher-level Uppies. They contribute more toward leveling up the service structure and have a greater individual capacity to collect Troves automatically each day.

Players will be able to assign Uppies to different service structures based on the Troves they want to collect. As their goals change, they can move Uppies between structures and adjust their collection strategy over time.

Uppies will also provide automation on player-owned properties.

As previously announced, Uppies at level 3 and above can be assigned to properties to care for plants and maintain their well-being. Keeping plants healthy helps players receive the maximum potential Trove drops, while higher well-being can improve the chances of receiving more Troves and rarer Troves.

We are now excited to reveal that Uppies at level 5 and above assigned to a property will do more than care for plants, they will also collect Troves from those plants automatically.

As with employed Uppies, collection capacity will depend on the Uppie’s level. Higher-level Uppies assigned to properties will be able to collect more Troves each day.

Troves collected automatically by employed Uppies or by Uppies assigned to properties will use a separate daily limit from a player’s personal collection cap. This means players can continue collecting Troves while actively exploring Upland, even as their Uppies collect additional Troves from service structures and properties.

Players who put their Uppies to work will therefore be able to maximize their overall Trove collection by taking advantage of both personal and automated collection.

By connecting Uppie progression, service-structure development, plant well-being, improved Trove drops, and automated collection, Uppies will become an even more meaningful part of Upland’s broader gameplay loop.

It’s important to note that the employment and collection features described here are separate from Farming. Farming will operate differently and will have its own mechanics. We will share a dedicated announcement with more details as its release approaches.

A More Connected Upland

Troves, Banking, Progression, Uppies, properties, and service structures are designed to work together as one connected system. What you own, build, collect, and develop will contribute to your broader journey through Upland.

Whether you focus on collecting, banking, developing properties or collecting Uppies, the new Progression System will recognize and reward the way you choose to play. Genesis Week was only the beginning, and there is much more to come when these systems launch later this year.