Hiring an Academy crew

Facts checked 1 Nov 2026

With a little SWAY and STRK in your wallet, and your wallet connected to the Academy, you're ready to hire your first tutor crew. You hire it right here, on the hire desk below, and then find it in the game.

Choose your tutor crew

Academy tutor crews are built for the Training Ground. Each has a crewmate for every kind of work it asks of you, and some, like the flagship Academy Teachers, have more:

• A Miner: For core sampling and extraction. A second Miner makes both faster.
• An Engineer: For refineries and factories.
• A Scientist: For a bigger share of the by-products when you refine.
• A Merchant: For lower marketplace fees: a crew without one pays double.

One crew takes you through the whole Training Ground, from your first extraction to the materials for a warehouse. Each crew's crewmates have their own traits, so no two crews work quite alike.

The hire desk below shows which crews are free right now, their price, and how long you can hire them for. Each costs 100 SWAY a day, for 14 to 28 days. Fourteen days is plenty for the whole Training Ground, and you can extend the hire if you need longer.

Hire it on the hire desk

1. Make sure your wallet is connected: the button at the top of the page shows your address. If not, see Connecting your wallet to the Academy.
2. On a free crew above, choose how many days to hire it for: 14 is a good start. The total shows underneath: fourteen days cost 1,400 SWAY.
3. Click Hire with your wallet, and read the review: the crew, the days, the total, and when the hire ends.
4. Click Sign with your wallet, and check what your wallet shows before you approve. It asks for two things in one go: permission to take exactly that much SWAY, and the hire itself. You'll also pay a small network fee in STRK.

Once the transaction goes through, the crew is yours to command until the hire ends. The hire runs on adalia.exchange's crew rental contract on Starknet, the same one adalia.exchange's own website uses, so you can also hire, see, and extend Academy crews there.

Find your crew in the game

1. Sign in to Influence at game.influenceth.io with the same wallet you hired with.
2. Your tutor crew appears among your crews, stationed on Adalia Academy.
3. Select it, and check its food level, or see it on My Crews. Your first job is always to feed it: see the next lesson, Feeding your crew.

When your hire ends

• Need More Time? Extend a running hire before it ends: your crew shows Extend the hire on the hire desk above.
• Empty the Warehouse First: Sell or use everything in the crew's warehouse before the hire ends. Whatever is left passes to the next student.
• The Crew Goes Back: When the hire ends, the crew returns to the Academy for the next student. Any SWAY you earned by selling stays in your own wallet, but anything you haven't sold, whether it's in the crew's warehouse or still waiting to be collected from an extractor, may be lost to the next student who hires that crew.