Alpha Mining Season Rules
Welcome in Miner!
Prepare yourself for the Metaverse Rush with Pickaxe Master Mining Seasons.
You will find here all you need to know about the rules and the competition, get yourself comfortable and ready for a quick read.
To make it easier, we have prepared a table of contents for a fast track of any topic.
1 — General Guidelines.
2 — Highscores.
3 — Leaderboards.
3.1 — Free to Play.
3.2 — Individual — Pickaxe Owners.
3.3 — Clan — Avatar Owners.
4 — Rankings and Prizes.
4.1 — Final Rankings.
4.2 — Prizes.
5 — Terms and Conditions.
1 — General Guidelines
On the 23rd of August, the Alpha Mining Season of the Pickaxe Master will have it’s debut in the Sandbox live map. Now the time has arrived and the most epic Miners are about to be forged!
The Alpha Mining Season will be a special one, not only because it’s the first one, but also because most implementations will occur during this season. For that reason, it will last 3 months until 23rd of November. With your feedback we’ll make sure that the Mining Seasons are fine tuned for it’s long term format.
There will be 18 different leaderboards that you can rank on, including Free to Play and many gated leaderboards for Pickaxe and Avatar Owners — Everyone is included!
With a grand total of 5000 SAND distributed across these Leaderboards, you will have plenty of chances to get SAND prizes. In fact you can rank in #1 Place in all the leaderboards, but you can also count with some heavy competition along the way. Fear not, even if you don’t end in #1 Place, there will be rewards for the remaining rankings that will make your Mining Cart full!
2 — Highscores.
For the Alpha Mining Season, the Leaderboard system will be run manually with the help of the Moderators and Ore Collectors — The highscores will be updated in our website https://thepickaxemaster.io/ and will show the complete rankings of all the players. Additionally you can consult the Top 10 in the Discord too.
For you to register your Highscore, you will need to take a screenshot of your inventory, showing the amount of mined resources, as shown in the picture below.
Once you have your screenshot showing your inventory and Username, post it on Twitter using the hashtag #AlphaMiningSeason and #TheSandbox.
To finalize your Highscore submission, please fill this Google Form — https://forms.gle/2KRC4KC7HiQnBxk1A
Every time you play and you break your own personal record at any resource, you can re-submit your highscore through the same process.
In case you don’t want to post to many Tweets, you can also post multiple screenshots on the same Twitter post, they all will count.
There are a total of 18 different Leaderboards, some are free to enter, others require a NFT to participate. So let’s break it down.
3 — Leaderboards.
3.1 — Free to Play.
The Free to Play Leaderboards are an inclusive competition where everyone can get involved in the game. While it has no requirements to participate, it gives the chance to earn SAND in 12 different categories.
The Free to Play categories are for the “Best Miners”, which consists on the total amount of mined Resources, being each resource it’s own category.
The Leaderboards will be displayed by Resource, make sure to get a good score on each one!
There are 200 SAND of this prize pool and anyone can get it, so come and DIG IT!
3.2 — Individual — Pickaxe Owners.
For the Individual Mining Rankings, your final Highscore is based on the sum of all the mined resources altogether. Meaning that the results obtained from the “Best Miner” categories will be added together, in the end, a final Highscore will be obtained.
Each resource has it’s own value, let’s see how much each resource is worth for the final score:
· Coal — 0.5 Points
· Iron — 1 Point
· Copper — 2.5 Point
· Silver Ore — 5 Points
· Silver Nugget —10 Points
· Gold Ore — 25 Points
· Gold Nugget — 50 Points
· Emerald — 100 Points
· Sapphire — 200 Points
· Ruby — 400 Points
· White Diamond — 800 Points
· Blue Diamond — 1600 Points
Knowing that the final Highscore is the total of points from all the Resource categories, you want to make sure that you got a good score in each of those Leaderboards — Every point counts!
On the Individual Rankings, there are 5 different Leaderboard Tiers. Each Mining Tier is tied to the Rarity of the Pickaxe NFT, which gives access to it’s own Tier and all the previous ones:
You need to own a Pickaxe NFT at the end of the Season to be eligible for the prize distribution.
To participate in the Individual Mining Ranking, it requires a Pickaxe NFT from this collection: https://www.sandbox.game/en/collections/the-pickaxe-master/169/
Beginner Mining Tier — 480 SAND Total Prize Pool — Wooden Pickaxe, Iron Pickaxe, Silver Pickaxe, Gold Pickaxe, Ruby Pickaxe, Diamond Pickaxe, Pickaxe Pendant.
Common Mining Tier — 480 SAND Total Prize Pool — Silver Pickaxe, Gold Pickaxe, Ruby Pickaxe, Diamond Pickaxe, Pickaxe Pendant.
Rare Mining Tier — 480 SAND Total Prize Pool — Gold Pickaxe, Ruby Pickaxe, Diamond Pickaxe, Pickaxe Pendant.
Epic Mining Tier — 480 SAND Total Prize Pool — Ruby Pickaxe, Diamond Pickaxe, Pickaxe Pendant.
Legendary Mining Tier — 480 SAND Total Prize Pool — Diamond Pickaxe, Pickaxe Pendant.
Total Prizes — 2400 SAND
3.3 — Clan — Avatar Owners.
The Clan Rankings are reserved for Pickaxe Master Avatar owners, being the Lucky Miners the first to participate.
Players can participate by having an Original or a Loaned Avatar in their wallets.
The Final Clan Highscore is calculated based on the sum of all the Individual Rankings from the Clan members. That number is divided by the number of eligible Clan members, and then multiplied by the number of Clan participants during the Season. — This will be your Final Clan Highscore.
Important — There must be at least 5 Clan members participating with an Avatar to be elegible for the Clan leaderboard.
Example:
Clan A has 25 members. Out of those 25 members, 15 were eligible and only 10 participated with the following results:
— Player 1: 75 Points
— Player 2: 178 Points
— Player 3: 732 Points
— Player 4: 491 Points
— Player 5: 235 Points
— Player 6: 167 Points
— Player 7: 43 Points
— Player 8: 1146 Points
— Player 9: 628 Points
— Player 10: 342 Points- Clan Total Points: 4037
— Total Eligible Clan Members: 15 Members.
— Clan Average Score: 4037/15 = 269.13 Points
— Participation Member Bonus: 10 Members
— Final Clan Score: 269.13 x 10 = 2691.3 Points
Clan Leaders are able to whitelist which Clan Rankings are eligible to participate, this affects directly the Total Eligible Clan Member count. Clan Leaders can use this wisely to their advantage and grow the Clan.
The SAND prize distribution within the Clan Members, it will depend on the type of structure the Clan Leader has decided.
There are the following types of Clan Structures/Governing forms:
Example:
Clan A is a Department type of Clan.
The Clan Leader decided that the Eligible Clan Members to participate in the competition are only for Unit Leader rank and above. This allows the Clan Leader to optimize the Clan expansion without compromising the Leaderboard rankings.
If your Clan ends up in one of the prized rankings, depending on your position within the Clan Structure, you’ll be eligible to receive the according SAND prizes.
There is a total of 2400 SAND prize pool that will be won by the best Clans.
Once a Player scores for the first time in the Clan Rankings, he will count as an active Player from it’s respective Clan. Players can have 1 Clan transfer per season. If a Player hasn’t scored yet, he doesn’t have restrictions to transfer from Clan to Clan.
If a player gets transferred in the middle of the Season, his previous Highscore will remain as a contribution to it’s former Clan and the points will not be transferred to the new Clan. His Highscore at the new clan will start from the beginning.
If his previous Clan ends in a Prized Ranked Place, the Player won’t be eligible to win SAND as he now is part of a new Clan.
While off-Season, all Player transfers are valid and without limits.
You need to own a Pickaxe Master Avatar (Original or rented) and be part of a Clan at the end of the Season to be eligible for the prize distribution.
To know more about the Genesis Avatars, check out their other features in our website: https://thepickaxemaster.io/TPMCollectiblesAvatars
4 — Rankings and Prizes.
4.1 — Final Rankings
Now that your highscores are registered and uploaded into the Leaderboards, it comes down to who got the most Resources at the end of the season.
You can play as many times as you wish, strategize your game play and break your records throughout the whole Alpha Mining Season.
The distribution of the final rankings will be according to the number of participants.
Please check the table below to calculate how the rewards will be distributed.
This distribution above is valid for the number of Clans and Individual Rankings.
Since it’s still a manual process the insert the leaderboard scores, with the original Pickaxe sale, we set the player cap for the Common Tier to be close to 700, which is an optimistic projection at the end of the Alpha Mining Season.
4.2 — Prizes
There is a grand total of 5000 SAND prizes distributed along the three major Leaderboards:
— Free to Play: 200 SAND
— Pickaxe Owners (Individual Leaderboards): 2400 SAND
— Avatar Owners (Clan Leaderboards): 2400 SAND
You can win at multiple competitions and stack up your prizes, mine your way up to the #1 Place in every leaderboard.
Example:
Player A own a Ruby Pickaxe NFT and a Loaned Lucky Miner during the season and it qualifies for the prizes.
He got to win the Best Miner prizes in the Silver Nugget, Gold Ore and Ruby categories in the Free to Play Leaderboards:
Best Silver Nugget Miner: 12.5 SAND
Best Gold Ore Miner: 15 SAND
Best Ruby Miner: 25 SAND
Total Best Miner Prizes won: 52.5 SAND
The Ruby Pickaxe grants access to the prize gated leaderboards, and his Individual final ranking got him an incredible 2nd Place on the Epic Mining tier, a 5th place on the Rare Mining Tier, 10th place on the Common Mining Tier and 20th place on the Beginner Mining Tier.
Epic Tier: 480 SAND x 30% (11–30 maximum participants) — 144 SAND
Rare Tier: 480 SAND x 8% (76–100 maximum participants) — 38.4 SAND
Common Tier: 480 SAND * 6.8% (301 to 350 participants) — 32.64 SAND
Beginner Tier: 480 SAND * 0.85% (500 to 700 participants) — 4.08 SAND
Total Individual Mining Prizes won: 219.12 SAND
The Clan he was part of, got to be on top of the competition, and his ranking is General in the Department type of Clan Structure. There are only 2 Generals in his Clan.
The Clan won 1st Place and 50% of the total prizes (11 to 30 participants) — 1200 SAND
Due to the Clan Structure, the prize gets the following distribution:
0 — President — 35% — 420 SAND
1 — Generals — 20% — 240 SAND
2 — Squad Commanders — 17.5% — 210 SAND
3 — Unit Commander — 12.5% — 150 SAND
4 — Unit Leader — 10% — 120 SAND
5 — Unit Member — 5% — 60 SAND
6 — Applicant — 0% — 0 SAND
The Generals got a share of 20% of the total Clan winnings, meaning that it gets split among the other Generals, which in this case there are 2 and each take 10% for themselves.
Total Clan Prizes won: 120 SAND
On this example, Player A won at the end of the Alpha Mining Season a total combined of 391.6 SAND by playing with a Ruby Pickaxe NFT and a Loaned Lucky Miner.
5 — Terms and Conditions.
When the Alpha Mining Season is about to end, you will need pass a couple of verifications to validate your entry in the NFT Gated Leaderboards:
— Pickaxe Gated Leaderboards: To be eligible you will need to have the Pickaxe NFT’s in your wallet at least 5 days before the season closes, it can’t be transferred until the season is officially closed on 23rd November. If you decide to purchase a Pickaxe NFT in the middle of the season, please take note of the above.
Additionally, a snapshot will be taken at the beginning of the season. — Players that hold the Pickaxe through the whole season, get a 5% bonus increase in their individual final score. (Only valid for the Pickaxe Gated Leaderboards)
The bonus gotten on the Individual Rankings also passes to the Clan Rankings.
- Clan Gated Leaderboard: To be eligible you will need to have a Pickaxe Master Avatar in your wallet 5 days before the season closes (Original or Loaned), it can’t be transferred until the season is officially closed on 23rd November. You also need to be part of a Clan at least for 5 days before the Season ends. If you decide to purchase or loan a Pickaxe Master Avatar in the middle of the season, please take note of the above.
Additionally, a snapshot will be taken at the beginning of the season. — Players that hold the Avatar (original or rented) through the whole season, will add 5% bonus increase to their individual final score. (Only valid for the Clan Leaderboard)
Due to the nature of development, the Loan feature won’t be ready as the time the Season launches. To compensate, during the Alpha Mining Season, the first time an Avatar is Loaned, it will give the full 5% bonus to the Clan Rankings, as long the Avatar ends the season on the same wallet.
The rules are set to be fair and generous, they can and should be improved over time with the contribution of all the players and community, so all the topics above are subject to change whenever a new rule has to be implemented, removed, tweaked or fixed.
Now that you know all the rules, get ready to enter the First Mining Championship of the Sandbox!
Good Luck Miner!
