🏭Item Creation Process

Pre-Minted Vs Minted Items

Another issue with bringing entirety of value-centric RNG minting onto blockchain is gas cost associated with item generation. While some blockchains (like Hedera) can make NFT token creation affordable, we assume not everyone will want to spend more gas on minting every single item they unpack because of associated gas cost. As such, we separated item creation into 2 stages.

Stage 1: Unpacking

Upon buying and subsequently unpacking a faction box, a player gets the right to access a randomly generated item from that season's faction pool. During the "unpacking" process, this item gets its place on our system: it's stored within a smart contract, given an ID, and its future owner is determined. This owner can only be the person doing the unpacking.

Items unpacked but not yet minted are visible under the 'preminted' section in a player's inventory.

Stage 2: Minting

If the player decides an item is worth additional minting cost, minting process can be initiated. The process can be initiated directly from unpacking screen or later on from players inventory.

IDs?

Unlike the Set NFTs, which are assembled from Items, the items themselves are generated and stored on blockchain prior to their inception in NFT form. As such they receive their stored key which can be used as an internal ID prior to NFT image stored on IPFS is generated. This allows us to skip ID generation and use a simpler numerical identifier.

Cross-chain duplicity

To prevent the ID duplication we will increment items based on the amount of networks connected.

Processing Fee

The processing fee has to be paid for item minting due to security reasons. Please refer to Fees for more detailed description.