Troves & Recipes

Troves are the game layer that brings Upland together. At their core, Troves connect gameplay to location. Exploring the map, interacting with assets, caring for plants, visiting neighborhoods, using structures, and participating in activities can all become ways to earn Troves and progress through the world. Instead of each system standing on its own, Troves create a shared layer where player actions, location, and decisions begin to connect.

Troves are designed around a simple but powerful idea: almost anything in Upland can become an output, and almost any output can become an input somewhere else. Properties, structures, map assets, vehicles, plants, neighborhoods, service structures, and activities can all output Troves, and your Block Explorers are how you go out and collect them. Players can then bring those Troves to specific locations like service structures, input them into recipes, and unlock rewards such as rare Troves, Uppies, SPARKLET, UPX, STEM, yield and more.

For example, a player might send their Block Explorer to plants and Service Structures across Upland to discover what each one holds. In the future, other systems like fishing, farming, trade routes, racing, treasure hunting and more will also connect into Troves, giving players different ways to gain rewards based on how they choose to play.

Those Troves can then be used in recipes at service structures. A bakery might turn wheat and milk into bread. A workshop might turn resource Troves into crafted goods. A kitchen, shop, or other service structure might require different combinations of Troves to produce new outputs, rare Troves, SPARKLET, STEM, UPX, or other rewards.

This is where the systems start to reinforce each other. A player may own a property, build on it, decorate it, plant on it, and help make the surrounding neighborhood more active. Those assets can output Troves. Those Troves can then become inputs at service structures, where recipes turn them into new rewards and progression opportunities.

How collecting works

Collection is location-based. Move your Block Explorer close to a Service Structure or plant, then press and hold it to attempt a collection. A normal tap only opens its details. What you find goes into your Trove Wallet, which you open from the Troves icon on the map. Different structures and plants hold different possibilities, and collecting from ones you own improves your chances of finding rarer Troves.

Every collection attempt uses Block Explorer stamina. Every player gets a free baseline, and every Block Explorer in your wallet adds to one shared pool that refills on a regular timer, with no need to equip or switch explorers. Rarer explorers with smaller editions contribute more stamina.

Each object has its own cooldown for each player. Your cooldown doesn't block other players, and it doesn't affect other objects of the same type. Collecting from an object that's still on cooldown for you can give Trove Dust instead of a regular find, so moving on to fresh locations is the better use of stamina.

Recipes

Recipes are discovered through collecting. The first time you find a Trove, you'll see the recipes that use it as an ingredient. When you hold everything a recipe needs, go to the Service Structure where it's available and fulfill it right there. Crafting uses up the ingredients and always gives you the recipe's stated result, sometimes with bonus rewards on top. Some crafted Troves are ingredients in deeper recipes, so you can work your way from everyday finds up to much bigger collection goals.

Uppies are one important path within this larger system. As players explore Upland, they may encounter Uppies across the map who request specific Troves that can only be obtained through certain recipe outputs. To fulfill those requests, players will need to gather the right Troves, bring them to the right service structures, and run the recipes that produce what the Uppie is looking for.

Fulfilling those requests can help players to befriend Uppies. Once befriended, Uppies can be employed at service structures to help level those structures up. Higher-level service structures can unlock better recipes, create more useful outputs, and make that location more powerful within the broader Troves loop.


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Example recipe

Wheat Trove + Milk Trove → at a Bakery service structure → Bread Trove. An Uppie nearby has requested Bread. Deliver it to complete the quest and earn a Friend Request Trove. Use it to befriend the Uppie, and you can mint that Uppie at Level 1.

Recap: The loop

  1. Collect Troves through gameplay (your structures, your plants, your fishing trips, farming, and more).
  2. Combine Troves through Recipes at service structures.
  3. Discover and complete Uppie Quests — missions tied to properties with Uppie Cards, requesting specific Trove combinations.
  4. Earn Friend Request Troves as a quest reward, then use them (plus other Troves, UPX, and Sparklet) to befriend a new Uppie.
  5. Eventually, merge two same-level Uppies to level up. Repeat.

​Players can hold up to three active Uppie Quests at a time — complete or dismiss one to take on another.

Banking & Progression

Not every Trove needs to be spent. Trove Banking lets you permanently deposit Troves into your Trove Vault instead of using them in a recipe or quest — banked Troves can't be withdrawn or used again, but they're the foundation of your long-term Upland history. Each Trove has its own banking tiers (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and beyond), and you don't need to unlock them in order — collect enough of a Trove and you can jump straight to a higher tier. The quantity needed for each tier varies by Trove, and you bank from your Trove Wallet once you hold enough copies. Because banking is permanent, it's worth thinking about which Troves you'd rather keep for recipes.

Banking feeds directly into the Upland Progression System — a numerical level shown on your profile, along with your next milestone and its reward. Banking Troves is the main way to advance it, and other objectives such as developing properties can count toward it, too. Progression runs alongside your existing Upland status (Uplander, Pro, Executive, Director, and above) rather than replacing it, and each milestone comes with its own rewards — Map Assets, UPX, collectibles, and more. 

Strategy

  • The more developed your neighborhood, the more Trove variety you can produce.
  • Multiple service structures in one city mean you can complete more Recipes without long sends.
  • Specialists who produce one Trove type at scale can trade with neighbors who produce a different type.
  • Collecting from structures and plants you own improves your odds of rarer Troves.
  • Spread your stamina across fresh locations rather than revisiting objects that are on cooldown.

Five categories

  • Care. Items that maintain plants, animals, and other living elements.
  • Resource. Raw materials. STEM-bearing plants produce these.
  • Social. Items tied to community interaction (petting, visits, gatherings).
  • Utility. Tools and components that feed into other Recipes.
  • Valuables. Higher-rarity items are sometimes tradable.

Where Troves come from

  • Service structures (cafés, fire stations, supermarkets).
  • Plants (every plant produces something).
  • Fishing (different waters, different fish).
  • Farming crops.
  • Animals (cows produce milk, sheep produce wool, chickens produce eggs).
  • Trade Routes (when cargo moves between neighborhoods).
  • Petting plants in your neighbors' gardens (the social system).

Most Troves are account-bound. A few specific types are tradable, adding an economic strategy layer for active producers.

For the latest on what's live, read Troves Go Live Today: How to Collect, Bank, and Progress.​