Becoming an Uplander

The easiest way to become an uplander is to spend the minimum amount of money and buy UPX (5 USD). Once you complete the following steps you will become an uplander.

• Join upland (4,500 UPX)
• Buy $5 worth of UPX (5,000 UPX*)
• Mint one property
• Complete Newbie collection (800 UPX) - read here to understand when is the best time to be filling the standard collections.
• If you choose this route and use our referral code, we recommend completing the missions as a visitor, but collecting the bonus only after making your UPX purchase and after leveling up to uplander status.  The bonuses we provide are only relevant for visitors.

* There are certain referral codes, like ours that provide you with an additional 50% bonus on your first UPX purchase (up to $100). In the case you did use a referral bonus, you would receive 7,500 UPX.  Before deciding to spend the $5, the Upland Guide offers other promotions when using our referral code. It is worth checking those out before signing up. It's nice to get a 50% bonus on $5, but if you are willing to spend more you are still eligible to receive that same 50% bonus (up to a $100 purchase of UPX!) The Upland Guide also offers additional benefits when using our referral code.

To help you learn how to play Upland, they have created a number of starter missions that you can complete that as a visitor to help you learn the game and earn up to 3,350 UPX to get you closer to to the 10,000 UPX thresh hold to become an Uplander.  (Note that as you complete those missions there are tasks that have costs associated with them).

In addition to completing these missions, as a new player you get your daily bonus during the first 21 days of playing. This period is divided into 3 streaks of 7 days each. If you login to the game every 24 hours without breaking this interval (meaning not earlier) you will receive your daily bonus, which increases every day. If you break the 7 day login streak, your daily bonus will not increase daily and it's amount will be decreased to the one you received your very first day. The days limit remains the same - 21 days.

If you become an Uplander and break the rule mentioned above, you will be able to finish the current streak, but won't be able to start a new one. This means the 21 day period may be shortened for some users.

Watch this video to learn the best way to complete all these tasks in order to reach Uplander status.

If after completing all the steps mentioned above and you have yet to reach Uplander status, you can also ask people for visits. The maximum visit fee varies depending on the city. The highest fee in the game is 125 UPX. Head over to the official Upland discord server to ask for visits in the #visits channel. Start engaging in the community and hopefully people will give you some visits. This process could take quite a number of days depending on how much time you invest in this. This, in combination with logging in every day for 21 straight days should be able to get you to Uplander status.

We do not suggest this method of reaching upland for 3 main reasons.

1. We value your time. The following may not be true for everyone and this is a generalization for the masses. We believe that the time you will need to spend asking for visits and completing all the missions is worth more than $5.  Once you get going in Upland you are bound to complete all the missions and earn that UPX.  The question is how much time do you want to invest at the beginning to complete the tasks while potentially missing out on extra bonuses.
2. Always collect your daily bonus, but when this is your primary growth strategy you are missing out on other opportunities. A lot can happen in three weeks in Upland. You may not want to watch from the sidelines as the game continues to run forward as you slowly pick up daily bonuses.
3. Once you reach uplander status, your growth will also likely be very slow. If the properties you bought were the cheapest ones, but not in a desired neighborhood, you may be stuck with them without the ability to sell. This would bring you back to square one - properties that nobody want and no UPX. This will likely lead you to do the following - invest money to buy more properties, sell for a loss, or get frustrated and abandon the game.
4. Buying UPX and using the referral code gives you a great bonus (additional 50%) on your initial $5 or any amount you decide to invest. The best way to achieve accelerated growth is by starting off by buying your way to uplander status - even if it is only $5.

Treasure hunting can be rewarding but it is also risky, especially as a new player. This involves sending yourself to properties around the city looking for a treasure. Treasure hunting has a learning curve, and it is possible to lose UPX on it as you learn and improve at it. Sending yourself to other properties involves using up a send a paying the visitor fee, and for this reason treasure hunting is best when you own a large network of properties scattered across a city because you do not have to pay a visitors fee or use a visit when sending yourself to your own property. Read more about sends and travelling here.
You can treasure hunt for free once per 24 hour period. If you find a treasure, you will win UPX. There is even a small chance you might win spark. If you do win spark, you will not receive it immediately. As a visitor, you will have until the upcoming Tuesday to level up to Uplander, otherwise you forfeit the spark reward. Some treasures have more UPX in them than others, so it is possible that even if you find a treasure you could be at a net loss due to your send costs.

If you are able to master treasure hunting quickly it is possible to win your way to uplander status. Before you start, we recommend reading our top 5 things to understand before treasure hunting before getting started.  Also note that that treasure hunting is currently only available using the app and not the browser version of Upland.