🐟 Koi Pond Guide

Welcome to the pond!

Koi Pond is a community Discord game where everyone in your server cares for the same shared koi pond.

Feed the koi, earn Pond Coins, collect fish, play minigames, buy upgrades, activate server boosts, climb the leaderboards, and grow your pond together. ♡

🌊 Getting Started

  1. Add Koi Pond to your Discord server.

    🐟 Add Koi Pond to Your Server
  2. Choose a channel where you want your pond panel to live.
  3. Use /pond to post a Koi Pond panel in that channel.
  4. Server managers can use /pondsetup to configure notifications and customize the pond.
  5. Start feeding the koi!

Need a reminder inside Discord? Use /pondguide.

🎛️ The Pond Panel

Most of Koi Pond is played directly through the buttons underneath your server’s pond.

🍚 Feed Koi

Feed the pond when the koi are ready.

A successful feeding:

You cannot feed twice in a row.

If you were the last person to feed the pond, another pond keeper must take the next turn.

The pond also has a feeding cooldown. The panel tells you when the koi will be ready again.

🎮 Play

Open the Koi Pond minigame menu.

Current games include:

Choose a game and follow the prompts inside Discord.

🛒 Shop

Spend the Pond Coins you earn from playing and feeding.

Some purchases are personal items while others activate bonuses for the entire server.

See the full shop section below for details.

🐟 Koi

Open your personal koi collection for that server.

The collection browser lets you:

Your collection is personal to you within that server.

📊 Stats

View your personal pond statistics for the current server.

Your stats include:

🏆 Leaderboard

Open the leaderboard menu.

There are two kinds of leaderboards:

Players

See the top pond keepers in your current server, including:

Ponds

See the global pond leaderboard and compare your server’s pond with other Koi Pond servers.

Global ponds are ranked by total pond feedings.

🥣 Communal Bowl

Work together with other players to fill a shared bowl using Pond Coins.

More on this below!

🔄 Refresh

Refresh the pond panel to display the latest pond state, progress, cooldown, and active boosts.

🍚 Feeding and Pond Progress

Every pond grows as its community feeds it.

The pond starts at Level 1 and can currently grow to Level 20.

As the pond reaches higher levels, more feedings are required to continue progressing.

The normal feeding wait also increases as the pond grows.

Level Total Feedings Required Base Feeding Cooldown
1 0 1 minute
2 25 1.5 minutes
3 75 2 minutes
4 150 2.5 minutes
5 300 3 minutes
6 500 3.5 minutes
7 750 4 minutes
8 1,100 5 minutes
9 1,500 6 minutes
10 2,000 7 minutes
11 2,750 8 minutes
12 3,750 9 minutes
13 5,000 10 minutes
14 6,500 11 minutes
15 8,500 12 minutes
16 11,000 13 minutes
17 14,000 14 minutes
18 18,000 15 minutes
19 23,000 16 minutes
20 30,000 17 minutes

Certain server boosts can temporarily shorten these cooldowns.

🐟 Collecting Koi

Successful feedings can lead to collectible koi encounters.

Koi are divided into different rarities:

When you catch a koi for the first time, it is added to your personal collection for that server.

If you catch a koi you already own, it counts as a duplicate catch and awards bonus Pond Coins instead.

Some koi are not available through normal feeding.

Limited, seasonal, event, and special koi may have their own requirements.

⭐ Favorite Koi

You can choose one of your caught koi as your favorite.

Your favorite koi may appear alongside you in pond interactions, giving your pond identity a little extra fih flavor.

🪙 Pond Coins

Pond Coins are Koi Pond’s main in-game currency.

You earn coins through successful feedings and certain bonuses.

Coins can be spent on:

Coins and items belong to your player profile in the server where you earned them.

🛒 Pond Shop

Open Shop from the pond panel.

🍚 Premium Koi Food — 75 Coins

Your next successful feeding counts as 2 feedings worth of pond progress.

The item waits in your inventory until it is used on a successful feeding.

🍵 Tea Party — 100 Coins

Activates a 30-minute server-wide boost.

While Tea Party is active, successful feedings earn:

+5 bonus Pond Coins

⏱️ Lucky Bell — 150 Coins

Immediately removes 25% of the pond’s current remaining feeding cooldown.

If the pond is already ready to eat, the Lucky Bell is not used and you are not charged.

🌸 Lotus Blessing — 200 Coins

Activates a 30-minute server-wide boost.

While active, each successful feeding has a chance to double the coins earned from that feeding.

🎏 Koi Treat Bag — 250 Coins

Contains:

3 Premium Koi Food charges

Buying the bag adds all three charges to your inventory.

🐸 Frog Friend — 300 Coins

A permanent personal upgrade.

Once your Frog Friend joins you, successful feedings earn:

+5 bonus Pond Coins

You only need one Frog Friend.

He is small. He is employed.

🎂 Pond Party Cake — 500 Coins

Activates a powerful 30-minute server-wide pond boost.

While active:

Buying another Pond Party Cake extends the duration.

🍀 Lucky Feed — 200 Coins

Stored in your inventory until your next successful feeding.

That feeding:

Lucky Feed’s boosted rarity pool includes:

📦 Mystery Pond Parcel — 150 Coins

Open a suspicious parcel immediately.

Possible outcomes include:

Sometimes gambling on a soggy package is character development.

🟡 Golden Pellet — 125 Coins

Stored until your next successful feeding.

That feeding earns triple the normal base feeding coins.

🥖 Illegal Bread — 25 Coins

You were explicitly told not to feed the koi bread.

This item provides no sensible financial benefit.

The pond remembers.

🥣 Communal Bowl

The Communal Bowl lets the entire server work together toward a powerful pond-wide event.

The bowl requires:

1,000 Pond Coins

Each player can contribute up to:

200 Pond Coins per bowl

Available donation buttons include:

When the bowl reaches 1,000 coins, a 60-minute Feeding Frenzy begins.

Contributions reset when the frenzy begins.

Donations are paused while Feeding Frenzy is already active.

🌧️ Feeding Frenzy

Feeding Frenzy lasts for 60 minutes.

While active:

The pond panel displays Feeding Frenzy while it is active.

✨ Active Pond Boosts

The pond panel displays currently active server boosts.

These can include:

Some effects can exist at the same time.

🎮 Minigames

Press Play on the pond panel to open the minigame menu.

🃏 Koi Memory

Choose your difficulty and play Koi Pond’s memory game.

🐟 Go-Fish

Open a Go-Fish lobby and play through Discord.

🐸 Lily Pad Hop

Help the frog hop across the lily pads.

Follow the game’s prompts and see how far you can make it.

🏆 Leaderboards

Press Leaderboard from the pond panel.

👤 Player Leaderboard

Shows rankings for the current Discord server.

You can see:

Player rankings are unique to each server.

🌎 Global Pond Leaderboard

Compare your server’s pond against ponds across Koi Pond.

The leaderboard displays:

Ponds are ranked by total feedings.

Want your server to stand out?

Give your pond a custom name with /pondname.

🌸 Naming Your Pond

Server members with Manage Server permission can use:

/pondname

to give the server’s pond a custom name.

Pond names can be up to 50 characters long.

Changing the pond name updates the server’s registered pond panels.

🔔 Feed-Ready Notifications

Server managers can configure automatic notifications using:

/pondsetup

Notifications can alert your community when the koi are hungry and ready to be fed again.

Inside the setup menu, admins can:

You must have Manage Server permission to change these settings.

The bot only pings the configured notification role.

🎨 Pond Themes

Server managers can customize the color theme used by their pond panels.

Current themes include:

Themes can be changed through /pondsetup.

Changing the theme updates registered pond panels in the server.

💬 Useful Commands

/pond

Posts a new Koi Pond panel in the current channel.

/pondsetup

Opens server configuration.

Requires Manage Server.

Use it to configure:

/pondname

Changes your server’s pond name.

Requires Manage Server.

/pondguide

Opens the basic Koi Pond guide inside Discord.

🌸 Limited and Special Koi

Not every koi can be found through ordinary feeding.

Some fish may only be available through:

Previously obtained limited koi remain part of their owner’s collection even when they are no longer normally obtainable.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Why can’t I feed?

There are two common reasons:

The koi are still full.
Wait until the feeding cooldown ends.

You were the last person to feed.
Someone else must take the next turn.

Are my coins shared with everyone?

No.

Your Pond Coins are personal to you within that server.

The Communal Bowl is shared, but players choose when to donate their personal coins to it.

Are my koi shared with the server?

No.

Each player has their own koi collection within each server.

Why did I catch a koi I already own?

Duplicate catches can happen.

Instead of adding another copy to your collection, duplicate catches award bonus Pond Coins.

Does the pond belong to one channel?

The pond belongs to the server.

Use /pond to post a pond panel where your community wants to interact with it.

Where can I see when the pond is ready?

Check the main pond panel.

It displays when the pond will be ready to feed again.

You can also ask your server admins to enable feed-ready notifications.

Something broke. Where do I report it?

Need help, found a bug, have a suggestion, or simply need to speak to other people who have become emotionally invested in digital carp?

Join the Koi Pond community.

fih be upon ye. 🐟