Gold keys and the one-time welcome reward
Selected design / playtest proposal — not live
Daily proposal: manually claim one Gold key after 15 qualifying participation minutes that UTC day. A minute needs at least one legitimate credited skill action; minutes accumulate across sessions and count once across all skills. Idle, chat-only and GUI activity do not qualify. Eligible actions still count at full mastery even when skill XP is capped.
This participation gate is not a measurement of fifteen uninterrupted focused training minutes.
Lifetime milestones: one Gold key when current reward score Q first reaches each of 10, 25, 50 and 75. Prestige does not repeat them.
Separate welcome entitlement: after the Mayor handoff, receive 8 bread + 8 torches, then choose exactly one of 9 oak planks / 8 wheat seeds / 4 cobblestone. No crafting bench. The selected welcome is once per player and does not use an ordinary key or daily allowance.
Closing the welcome menu retains the choice state. Prestige does not grant another Mayor payment, welcome reward or starter-tool receipt. Existing-player handling must be checked before enforcing new onboarding gates.