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## A look at how The Sandbox (SAND) works, with a focus on what you can buy and build inside this metaverse.

The Sandbox metaverse offers the ability for anyone to create or simply buy, vibrant virtual worlds.

If you can dream it, then you can create it for use as an NFT, or even as an entire game itself in The Sandbox.

We’re talking virtual goods, skins and avatars for entirely custom games made in VoxEdit and Game Maker, two of the tools we’re going to talk about below.

From there, you’re able to completely monetise your area of the Sandbox Metaverse, charging for NFTS (as items and experiences) within the in-game Marketplace

This section of our [guide to The Sandbox](https://leofinance.io/@crypto-guides/what-is-the-sandbox-sand) takes a look at how each aspect of the unique metaverse game works, before moving onto what the SAND token itself is used for.

Let’s get into it.


### How the Sandbox Game works
As a virtual world and part of the greater decentralised metaverse, The Sandbox can be described as a user-generated content platform.

Unlike other play to earn games such as Splinterlands, there are no rules in the Sandbox.

Using a set of free tools, all you have to do is think about it, build it and monetise it using the LAND you’ve acquired with the in-game currency called SAND.

The possibilities are literally endless.


#### Acquire virtual LAND in The Sandbox metaverse
Players are able to own a piece of digital real estate within The Sandbox metaverse by buying LAND.

Multiple plots of LAND when combined are called an ESTATE.

![Acquire virtual LAND in The Sandbox metaverse.](https://images.hive.blog/DQmQEkLDx3Ae86B2n1aexPRkuYoXz7NDnd19X8Uah2H2nxR/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-12%20at%204.53.17%20pm.png)

Once you own LAND, you’re then able to use it to build experiences on top of and populate it with NFT assets which can be gamified in whichever way you see fit.

A total of just 166,464 plots of LAND will ever be available, contained in a map that will form the overall Sandbox metaverse.

#### VoxEdit
The first of these free tools available in The Sandbox, is VoxEdit.

This is a 3D voxel modelling tool where you can create in-game assets.

![The VoxEdit NFT creator.](https://images.hive.blog/DQmXNnykqBtbGyfJBeSydV5pfUVaLQqhEYtYTSGpW5aVctp/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-12%20at%204.51.26%20pm.png)

When we say Voxels, we mean the square 3D pixels that look like lego blocks, which artists can easily put together to build the world they desire.

Some examples of what you can create in VoxEdit include:
* Avatars
* Clothes
* Weapons
* Animals
* Houses
* Scenery
* Landscapes

Everything you build in VoxEdit is an NFT that can then be used on your LAND, or exported to the Sandbox Marketplace to be traded as you please.

If you’ve built it in the SandBox, then you own it.


#### The Sandbox Marketplace
You can buy and sell in-game assets that you’ve created, as well as LAND you’ve acquired, on the official Sandbox Marketplace.

The Sandbox Marketplace is an NFT marketplace that you can use to trade in-game assets for SAND.

![The Snoop Dog collection on The Sandbox Markeplace.](https://images.hive.blog/DQmNWJrLUtAnVibQE7HZ2po243Lz7GtherZFD9ZDn2xuSJy/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-12%20at%204.52.04%20pm.png)

As the native cryptocurrency of The Sandbox metaverse, everything is denominated in SAND which helps fuel the economy and ultimately adds value to the token.

Once you create or simply buy assets off the market, you can then incorporate them into LAND using Game Maker to create unique games. 

Keep in mind, as all The Sandbox assets are NFTs, you can also trade them on external NFT marketplaces like OpenSea.


#### Game Maker
The final free tool offered by The Sandbox is Game Maker.

This is a tool that lets you build unique 3D games that be incorporated into LAND and used within the Sandbox metaverse.

![The Sandbox Game Maker.](https://images.hive.blog/DQmYC9cydSXyqjMreqTBrK4kTARxtYuyLxunEaELFov7hHD/Screen%20Shot%202021-12-12%20at%204.53.33%20pm.png)

Game Maker is a simple program that lets even those without any prior coding experience create from templates and libraries.

Of course there is also the ability for more advanced coders to build from scratch too.

You’re able to design and organise different elements and objects, including the NFTs created with VoxEdit that we spoke about in the section above.

For example, you’re able to build natural or populated worlds and place characters within them as you see fit.

Best of all, you’re then able to create gameplay around the worlds you’ve built, such as quests.

Again, everything can be sold or shared with the community as you see fit.


### How the SAND token facilitates commerce in The Sandbox
How everything we’ve described working in this section of our The Sandbox guide is ultimately facilitated by the SAND token.

There is an entire economy surrounding the metaverse and everything is denominated in the platform’s native SAND token.

Let’s take a look at how this works.

#### The SAND token
SAND is the platform’s utility token that is used throughout the entire Sandbox ecosystem when transacting in any way shape or form.

When it comes to how the SAND token allows things to work, it has the following use cases:
1. **Commerce:** For trade and use within The Sandbox metaverse games.
2. **Governance:** For participation in governance decisions surrounding the network.
3. **Staking:** For earning rewards.

Keep reading our guide to The Sandbox (SAND) to discover what the SAND token itself is actually used for in much more detail.

Best of probabilities to you.

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