What Is WarEra? Complete Beginner Guide (2026)

I started WarEra as a soldier. I put my points into fighting, picked a war build and felt very clever about it.

A few months later I reset those points, moved to running companies, and started checking the price of iron before breakfast. Nobody warned me about that part.

That's WarEra. You come for the war and stay for a spreadsheet. This guide is what I wish someone had told me on day one, written for game version v0.27.3.

What is WarEra?

WarEra is a massively multiplayer strategy game you play in a browser. The world has 181 countries and 742 regions, and almost everything in it is made and sold by players. The bread your soldier eats came from somebody's company. The gun was crafted or bought from someone too.

Four things feed each other, and you can lean into whichever you like:

• Economy. Companies turn production points into goods, and you sell those goods on the market.
• War. You fight in battles for your country, or for pay, using gear, ammo and food that players made.
• Politics. Countries have parties, taxes, allies and wars, and all of that changes what your work is worth.
• Trading. Prices move all day, so buying and selling well is a game of its own.

The five words you need first

The game throws a lot at you. Learn these five and the rest starts to make sense.

• Energy. The bar you spend to do things. Working, hiring and training each cost 10. It refills by about a tenth of its size every hour.
• Production points (PP). What work creates. Every good needs a set number of PP per unit.
• Companies. Each one makes a single good. Your Companies skill limits how many can run at once.
• Employees. Since v0.27 you hire computer-run employees, not other players. They work every hour, and their wage comes out of your own money.
• Concrete and steel. Concrete pays for new companies, product changes and moves. Steel pays for storage and automated engines.

What to do on your first days in WarEra

1. Put your skill points into Energy and Production. Energy decides how often you can work. Production decides how much each work makes: the skill's value is 30 plus 3 per level, and one work makes about that many PP.
2. Never let the energy bar sit full. Once it's full, the hourly refill is simply thrown away. It's the easiest money in the game to lose, and I lost plenty of it.
3. Do your missions. Daily, weekly and monthly sets each have 10 missions. Players report that claiming 7 of the 10 pays a bonus of XP, coins and cases.
4. Build your first company and work in it. Your work adds PP to the company you click. Check the most profitable products table before you choose what it makes.
5. Join a military unit and a party. The game is better with people. Browse the military units and parties to see who's active near you.

How money works in WarEra

You earn by selling what your companies make. A new company costs 50 concrete multiplied by how many you'd own after building it, so the second costs 100, the third 150, and the tenth costs 500. Automated engines make PP without you: at level 5, an engine makes 120 PP a day.

I wrote a whole guide on this with my real numbers: how to make money in WarEra.

How fighting works

Fighting uses health, gear and ammo. Your weapon loses 1 durability on every attack, hit or miss. Gear comes in six tiers from common to mythic. You can buy it or craft it, and the Craft Calculator tells you which is the better deal today.

Free tools to help you start

I built these because I needed them, and they're free with no login:

• Trading Desk for prices and charts on every item
• Market to compare each item with its usual price
• Game News for official posts and the best player guides
• Search Anything to look up any player, country, party or military unit

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