How to Start Faraland: Hero NFT or Demi Hero — the Honest Entry Cost

ByNFT Video Games Editorial Team

Faraland is a 2021-wave turn-based RPG on BNB Smart Chain — hero summoning, expedition quests, land NFTs and the FARA token — and one of the few P2E-era titles still live and still shipping official updates. The honest entry cost: starting costs a hero. You need a BNB wallet and at least one playable hero — either a permanent NFT hero or a cheap, limited-lifespan Demi Hero summoned with Soul Stones.

What Faraland is#

A browser RPG from the 2021 GameFi cohort — you field heroes in expeditions and PvP, level them, equip items and pets, and trade every piece as an NFT on the game’s own marketplace. It survived the post-2022 die-off: the official blog resumed regular dated updates through mid-2026 (marketplace and infrastructure posts), and the game itself is still online. The full picture sits on the Faraland registry profile.

Requirements#

  • A browser — the game runs on faraland.io, no install.
  • A BNB Smart Chain wallet — MetaMask or similar, with the BSC network added. The wallet is mandatory; this is a chain-first game, not a normal account game.
  • A small amount of BNB — for gas plus the hero purchase itself (heroes list in BNB).
  • At least one hero — either a permanent NFT hero from the marketplace or a Demi Hero summoned with Soul Stones. There is no free hero.

The start#

  1. Set up MetaMask and add the BNB Smart Chain network — the official guide at guide-faraland.gitbook.io walks through this step by step.
  2. Fund the wallet with BNB — enough for a hero plus a little gas. Buy BNB on any major exchange and withdraw to your wallet.
  3. Connect the wallet on faraland.io and open the marketplace — every hero, item, pet and land parcel lists there.
  4. Choose your entry: a permanent NFT hero (capped at 20,000 ever minted — floor prices are demand-set, so compare against the alternative below) or a Demi Hero, the game’s deliberate low-cost entry path.
  5. If going the Demi route: buy Soul Stones on the marketplace (or earn them in quests and PvP tournaments) and use them to summon a Demi Hero — identical to NFT heroes in race, abilities, fighting and earning, but with a limited lifespan you extend with more Soul Stones.
  6. Run expeditions — the PvE quest loop is where equipment, pets, EXP and Soul Stones come from; PvP tournaments sit alongside it.
  7. Add FARA only when you need it — FARA (the game’s BSC token) buys gacha item rolls and equipment and is the currency Demi Heroes themselves list in; PancakeSwap is the route the official docs point to.

What the NFT layer actually adds#

  • A capped hero supply — only 20,000 NFT heroes exist, which is why entry pricing historically ran high and why the Demi Hero system exists at all.
  • Demi Heroes as the real onboarding ramp — the studio replaced a planned free-hero mechanism with Soul Stone summons so new players pay a small FARA cost instead of a BNB hero floor. Over 7,000 Demis have sold on the marketplace at tens of FARA each.
  • Everything is an asset — heroes, equipment, pets, land and Demi Heroes are all on-chain and all trade on the in-house marketplace, priced in BNB or FARA depending on the asset.
  • Land with a fee cut — land NFTs earn a share of marketplace fees, the one yield-bearing asset class in the game.

Safety notes#

Do the whole entry inside faraland.io. A wallet-required game like this attracts the usual kit: cloned domains, “free hero” or airdrop DMs, and fake marketplaces. Connect your wallet only on faraland.io reached directly — never via DM or search ad; verify a hero listing on the in-game marketplace before paying; remember Demi Heroes expire without Soul Stones so a “cheap hero” that dies still costs money; and FARA is a market asset — it moves like one.

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Verified October 11, 2026 · Sources: faraland.io, guide-faraland.gitbook.io (wallet, marketplace, Soul Stone/Demi Hero docs), blog.faraland.io, bscscan FARA contract, registry record · how we verify

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