Family safety features

This page describes the safety features that are built into TATAZO, for grown-ups and for players. No game can promise that nothing will ever go wrong, so the best protection is still a grown-up who plays along and talks about it. Here is what the game gives you to help.

Talking to other players

• No free-text chat. Players talk with preset phrases (quick chat) and emotes. Nobody can type a message, a phone number or an address to your child in the game.
• Names are filtered.
• Mute and block any player from their card on the Players screen.
• A password for your world: when you host, you can set a password on the Play with friends screen. Only friends you tell it to can join.
• Report any trade from your trade history (unfair, a trick, unkind, or something else).

Fighting and places

• On most worlds players can't hurt each other except in a duel both agreed to. Cozy and Creative worlds turn it off completely. Only the Tibia preset, marked for teens, lets players fight freely.
• The village is protected: no creatures, no fighting, and nobody can dig or build there.
• Land claims: a Home Totem protects what you build around it; only friends you add can build, dig or open chests there.
• Visitors: in a new world, players who join are visitors: they can dig and build only on their own land (a Home Totem of their own) until the host picks Make member on their card. A child whose grown-up approved the host as a friend joins as family, with no waiting. So nobody new can flood or dig up your valley. The host can switch this off in the world settings.
• Creatures are never hurt for good: they are cleansed, and animals run home.
• A Survival world can be made with One life, where a knocked-out gator is retired for good. It never applies to a child's profile: a child's gator always gets up again.

Worlds for everyone, worlds for teens

Every world says who it's for: everyone or teen. A child's profile doesn't list teen worlds, and if it's sent to one by address it steps back out before anything loads.

The Family screen

Open Profile, then FAMILY. It's protected by a 4-digit parent PIN (five wrong tries lock the pad for 30 seconds, and longer each time after that, up to 15 minutes, even if the game restarts). From there a grown-up can:

• mark the profile as a child's profile;
• set trading: off, the market board only, or the board and approved friends;
• set a daily limit on trades and coin purchases (no limit, 3, 5, 10 or 20);
• show or hide the store (hidden on a child's profile until a grown-up shows it);
• turn real-money purchases on or off (off until a grown-up turns them on);
• set play time a day (30 minutes to 3 hours): when it's used up the game says it's time to rest, and 15 more minutes need the PIN;
• turn on the take-a-break reminder;
• turn on questions at dusk: when the sun sets in the game, a little card asks a question for everyone playing to talk about together, like "What should we build next?" (on by default for a child's profile);
• approve friends (on the Players screen, with the PIN);
• see play time for the last 14 days, the trades and purchases of the last 30 days, and the real-money purchases.

While a child's profile plays, "Parental controls on" shows in a corner of the screen. The Family screen and the store's texts are in English or Brazilian Portuguese, following the computer's language.

Before a child's first face-to-face trade, they answer a short trading quiz with pictures. With a child on either side, a trade needs both to be approved friends, trading set to allow it, and the daily limit not yet reached. Anyone else simply sees that the player "isn't taking trade requests right now".

Healthy play

• A take-a-break reminder after 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes of play (Settings, or the Family screen). It's off by default, and set to one hour on a child's profile. It only shows a friendly note.
• Each new morning in the game, a short card sums up the day before: a natural place to stop.
• Daily goals have no streaks, and nothing is lost for skipping a day.

Privacy

• The optional webcam motion controls work entirely on your own computer: camera pictures and body positions never leave the device.
• The game has no third-party analytics and no ads. Game data only goes to the worlds you join.
• This wiki has no trackers, no ads and no cookies. The forum asks for no email and no real names (see its rules).

Money

• Orange coins are the game's money. They are earned only by playing and trading, and are never sold for real money.
• Store looks are extra outfits sold for real money, one at a time, at the price Steam shows in your own currency. They never make anyone stronger, nothing is random (no loot boxes, no timers), there is no currency to buy, and they can't be traded, given away or turned into orange coins.
• Real-money purchases are off on every profile until a grown-up turns them on with the PIN, and every purchase asks for the PIN. The checkout shows the price, who sells the look and a box to tick before paying; each purchase leaves a receipt, and REFUNDS AND HELP opens Steam Support.
• On a child's profile the store stays hidden until a grown-up shows it. (Selling is not switched on in the game yet.)
• This wiki does not list the store's looks.

If something goes wrong

• Block and report the player.
• Talk about it together, and tell the world's host (the person who runs it).
• On the forum, every post has a Report button, and moderators review reports.