Guide

Start

1. Go to Play and choose New here. Think of a name (3 to 15 letters or numbers) and a password of at least 8 characters.
2. Create your character: choose boy or girl, skin colour, hair, clothes and shoes. With Surprise me you get a random character. You can always change it later via Me > Character, or with a full-length mirror or wardrobe.
3. You get your own house on a free plot straight away, with a name sign and a mailbox. In your Items there is already furniture as a gift.
4. Every day you log in you get free play money (the money of Maketoo, only for in the game). Then choose a job under Work.

Walking around and clicking

• Click on the floor to walk there. Your character walks around furniture and people by itself.
• Click on a piece of furniture and your character does the logical thing: sit on a chair, sleep in a bed, open the fridge, switch the lamp on or off, or use the item’s function (see Items and what they do). When you move the mouse over something, you see what happens when you click.
• Click on someone to whisper, become friends, give something or trade, or to view their profile.
• Click on yourself to eat or drink what you’re holding, wave or dance.
• By walking through a deur or orange wegwijzer you go to another room, the street, the square or a district.
• Zoomen: pinch with two fingers on your phone or tablet, or use the scroll wheel, the buttons + en − or the + and − keys. With ⤢ you see the whole room and with ◎ you go to your own character. Dragging (one finger) moves the view; when you walk, the view follows by itself.
• On phone and tablet you tap instead of clicking. Placing something in your house: tap once to see where it goes and once more on the same spot to place it.

Hunger, Energy, Mood and Social

Your character has four needs. You see them as four bars on screen. They run from 0 to 100 and are updated every half minute, even when you do nothing. Keep all four as high as possible: that keeps your character fit and cheerful.

Raise your needs fast

Eating, drinking and cooking

Take something from a koelkast, order at the bar or use an appliance (coffee machine, toaster, blender, toastie maker, pizza oven, vending machines). What you’re holding is shown in your hand. Click on yourself or use the button next to the chat to eat or drink it. You can only hold one thing at a time; you can also give something to someone next to you.

Cook

1. Take something rauws raw from the fridge: an egg, pancake batter, vegetables, meat or a sausage.
2. Click on a fornuis (6 seconds), oven (5 s), barbecue (4 s) or magnetron (3 s).
3. After cooking you hold the dish in your hand. Cooking itself already improves your mood.

Everything you can eat and drink

Items and what they do

Many items in the Shop do something. Click on them when they are in a room: your character walks over and uses it. Most functions work for every visitor, also in someone else’s house. Using the same thing again is possible after a short pause.

• Appliances put something in your hand: coffee, toast, a smoothie, a toastie or pizza.
• Machines let you choose. Anyone who isn’t the owner pays £0.03 play money; that money goes to the owner of the machine.
• Activities (sport, reading, painting, showering) last a few seconds and then give a big boost.
• Musical instruments give you a boost and everyone in the room gets a better mood too.
• Playing together (table tennis, table football, games console) only works if someone is standing next to the item. You both get the boost and there is a winner.
• Ambience: radio, speaker, disco ball, aquarium, candles, heater, fire pit or Christmas tree work for everyone in the room as long as they are on. Several add up to at most +3 per half minute.
• Sitting and lying: on a massage chair, rocking chair, hammock, bath or canopy bed you get extra energy or mood as long as you sit or lie on it.
• Tidy up: a bin clears all the mess in the room, a dishwasher all the dirty plates.
• Animals: a food bowl, basket or scratching post calls all the pets in the room.

114 items with a function. On/off items say “mood”: they work when they are switched on.

Decoration

Rare

Outside

Game

Kitchen

Sit

Light

Hobby & technology

Sleep

Bathroom

Sport

Music

Animals

Summer

School

Windows & wall

Your house and rooms

• Click on My house to go home. Your house starts with a hall.
• Click on Furnish and choose something from your Stuff; then click on a floor tile. With R of Rotate you rotate it, with Esc you stop. In decorating mode, click on a piece of furniture to move it, rotate it or put it back in your bag.
• You can stack furniture: put a lamp on a cupboard or a plant on a pile of books.
• Windows, curtains, blinds, paintings, shelves, lamps and decorative doors hang on the wall (Shop > Windows & wall): in Decorate, point with the mouse (or your finger) to the spot on the wall where it should hang. Curtains may go over a window.
• Your front door and the doors to your other rooms are set in the wall. Want them somewhere else? Click on the door and choose Move door, and point to another spot on the wall.
• Bij My house you add rooms. You then get a door in your Stuff: place it to walk to the new room.
• In the room settings you choose the floor, wall and who may come in: everyone, only friends, with a password or nobody.
• After eating a dirty plate is sometimes left behind. Click on it or place a bin or dishwasher to tidy up.

Work and play money

• The money of Maketoo is called play money and is shown in euros. You can only use play money in the game. You buy it with real money (£0.86 = £0.86 play money), but you can never exchange it back for real money.
• Every day you log in you get free play money.
• Choose a job under Work. You can change once a week. If you have a role at the town hall (officer, chief officer, mayor, president or contractor), that is your job and you don’t choose an extra job. Wages arrive on the 20th of the month, if you were in town that month. See the wages on the page Team.
• With a sweet or drinks machine in your house you earn £0.03 play money per drink or sweet sold to visitors.
• Furniture isn’t cheap: saving pays off. Want something else? Swap it in the Swap fair with other residents.

Tasks, challenges and earning

Besides your wages you earn play money by doing things in town. Open Tasks in the bar at the bottom.

• Dagtaken: every day you get three tasks, for example “Tidy up 3 things”, “Cook 2 dishes” or “Play a game of bowling”. Each task gives £0.03 to £0.05; finish all three and you get £0.07 extra.
• Uitdagingen: for all kinds of things you do more often (tidying, cooking, sport, learning, bowling, jumping, talking, giving, caring for animals…) you earn bronze, silver, gold and diamond: £0.04, £0.13, £0.43 and £1.29.
• Niveau: everything you earn with tasks counts towards your level. Each next level takes longer to reach, and at each new level you get a small gift.
• Log in every day: the more days in a row, the higher your extra bonus (up to £0.09 a day).
• Maximum per day: with odd jobs you earn at most £0.17 a day, with playing and sport £0.17, at school £0.22 and by teaching £0.34. So you don’t get rich in Maketoo in one day: it’s about a little bit every day. Daily tasks, challenges, levels and your wages don’t count towards it.

Odd jobs and the bin lorry

1. Every now and then mess appears in your house by itself: a stain, socks or an empty crisp packet, and sometimes a dirty plate after eating.
2. Click on the mess, or use a bin or dishwasher. You get £0.01 per item and a vuilniszak in your hand.
3. Walk outside and click on the green kliko next to your door: “Put rubbish bag in” (+£0.01). It holds 6 bags.
4. Op dinsdag the bin lorry drives through all districts every hour between 8 and 20. Put your wheelie bin out on the street; the lorry empties it and you get £0.01 plus about £0.01 per bag.

Mess you make yourself with the socks button earns nothing.

The school

In town there is Rainbow Primary School. You go through the school years as in the Netherlands: years 1-2, years 3 to 8, then secondary years 1, 2 and 3, and then you get your diploma.

• Oefenen: open Tasks > School while you are in the school and choose Practise (5 questions). Every correct answer gives £0.01 and counts towards your school year.
• Toets: after 20 correct answers you can take the test: 10 questions, and with 7 correct you move up to the next year. You then get a reward, and £0.43 extra for your diploma. Not passed? After 10 minutes you can try again.
• Learning together: click on the schoolbord to start a lesson. Everyone in the classroom gets the same questions. If the class together gets 60% or more right (with at least two pupils), everyone gets a teambonus.
• Leraar: choose the job Teacher under Work. At the blackboard you then choose which school year you teach and you see the correct answer. Your class earns extra per correct answer and you earn £0.01 per correct answer from your pupils.

The questions fit the school year: counting and shapes in years 1-2, addition in year 3, times tables and telling the time in years 4 and 5, fractions, decimals and geography in year 6, percentages in year 7, Europe in year 8, and negative numbers, powers, equations, Pythagoras, physics and history in secondary school.

Bowling, trampoline park and playground

• Strike Bowling Alley: click on a lane for a game of 5 turns. Watch which way the lane pulls, choose direction and power, and throw. A strike gives 10 extra points and a spare 5. You earn play money with your score, and the scoreboard shows the best bowlers of the week.
• Boing Trampoline Park: jump in a row on a big trampoline for a combo: from jump to somersault and twist. Every 6 jumps in a row earns £0.01. Also dive into the foam pit or climb the climbing wall.
• The Sandpit Playground: swinging, sliding, climbing, roundabout, zip line, sandpit and seesaw (two players). Playing makes you cheerful and earns £0.01 each time in the playground.

The Swap market: swapping furniture

Click on Swap in the bar. There you swap things with other residents, even when they aren’t online. No play money is involved: only things for things.

1. Offer something: choose up to 6 things from your bag and optionally write what you’re looking for. Your things are held while the offer is open (at most 14 days, 5 offers at a time).
2. Make a counter-offer: see something nice under “Offers”? Choose which things you give for it. Those are held too.
3. Kiezen: under “My swap” you see all counter-offers. Choose Swap! and the things change owner straight away. All other bids are returned automatically.
4. You can always withdraw; your things then go back to your bag. If you’re in a room together, you can also trade directly: click on someone and choose Trade.

Housing market and renting

• Open the Housing Market to buy or rent houses. On the website you see what is for sale right now.
• Put your own house up for sale or rent under My house. A sign then appears in your garden and anyone may come and look.
• A tenant may move everything and make a mess. Afterwards everything is put back exactly and the tenant pays £0.01 for the final cleaning.
• If you sell your only house, you get a new empty house straight away and your animals move with you.

Pets

• You buy dogs and cats in the Shop under Animals. They live in your hall.
• Click on your dog and choose Walk on the lead: it walks with you, outside too.
• Cats go outside on their own and come back home by themselves.
• Animals that meet each other play together. Anyone may stroke them.
• With a food bowl, dog basket, kennel or scratching post you call all the animals in the room together. That also improves your mood.

Chat, friends and guestbook

• Just type to talk; your text appears in a little balloon above your head. Shout makes your message big.
• Click on someone to fluisteren (only the two of you see it), become friends, give something or trade.
• Bij Friends you see who is online and can send messages, even if someone is offline.
• Put what you like in your profile. Others write in your gastenboek. Your profile only goes on the internet if you switch that on yourself.

Invite friends

• Open Me > Invite friends and copy or share your own link.
• If your friend really plays (a day old, played on two different days and some experience), you get £0.43 play money and your friend £0.11.
• Does that friend invite someone too? Then you get another £0.11 bij.
• Fair play: sign-ups from the same internet connection as the inviter don’t count, and at most 10 invitations are rewarded per 30 days.

Account, logging in and e-mail

• When signing up you enter your date of birth and e-mail address. You can play Maketoo from age 8.
• Are you younger than the age limit in your country (13 in the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Sweden; 14 in Austria and Italy; 15 in France; 16 in Germany)? Then enter the e-mail address of your parent or carer (your own e-mail address can then stay empty). Your parent gets an e-mail and gives permission there. Until then you can look around and play, but not chat or make friends yet. Buying with real money under 16 is only possible if your parent has allowed it. Look at Me > Parents to see how things stand.
• Players under 16 and adults (18+) cannot whisper, become friends or send each other private messages; they do see each other in the public chat. Phone numbers, e-mail addresses, links and social media names are automatically wiped from the chat.
• Zet Stay logged in on, and you don’t need to log in again each time on your own device. Your browser can save your password for you. You log out under Me > Log out.
• Bij Me > Account you can switch on e-mail notifications: when your wages arrive, when you received play money or when you’ve been away for a while. At most one e-mail a day, and you can always unsubscribe with the link in the e-mail.

Sitting and sleeping

• Click on a sofa, chair or bed: you sit or lie down where you click. If that spot is taken, you move to the nearest free spot.
• A wide bed has room for two (or three): if someone is already lying there, you move to the other side.

Safety

• Never share your password, not even with the police, the mayor or the president: they never ask for it.
• Under Me > Security tweestapsverificatie switch it on. You then need a code from an app on your phone as well as your password.
• Forgot to log out somewhere else? Under Security choose Log out everywhere.
• Is someone being annoying? Click on that person and choose Report to the police. The last chat lines are included automatically.
• Don’t share an address, phone number or school in the chat.

Police and administration

• Officers en hoofdagenten handle reports and can give warnings, impose a chat ban or remove someone from a room.
• De burgemeester furnishes the public buildings and keeps the town friendly.
• De president has final responsibility.
• Builders build new public buildings for the town, but are not police or administrators.
• Want to help? Read the vacatures.

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