Apeiron NFT Primer: The Ins and Outs of our NFT Economy in Fall 2023
Hello ladies and gentlemen! As our community of passionate players grows, we thought it would be helpful to release a more in-depth play…
Hello ladies and gentlemen! As our community of passionate players grows, we thought it would be helpful to release a more in-depth play and earn guide. This guide will help new players familiarize themselves with the NFT side of things for our game and maximize their experience within our game — and on the Marketplace!
Please note that this is a pretty detailed guide with a lot of information. Some of our newer doods wanted us to put together a one-stop blog post for answering all their questions about Apeiron NFTs, and this is it. It ain’t for the faint of heart. There’s a lot to take in here, but if you have any questions you can always head over to our Discord and our community of awesome doods will help you out.
For those of you who just want the bare necessities:
>Get a Planet with some powerful Skills and more concentrated elemental distributions.
>Get a Star if you’re super passionate about Apeiron and want to get passive rents.
>Mint your 3 Apostles for Season 2
We also have an infographic! In case you’re the visual type of dood.
This guide will cover:
Planets & Avatars
1.1 Planets and Avatar Skills
1.2 Celestial Conjunction Explained
1.3 Primeval Legacy
2. Star NFTs
2.1 Planet Aging & Star NFT Tiers
2.2 Orbital Tracks
2.3 Astronomicals
3. Apostles
3.1 Apostle Minting
3.2 Skills & IVs
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1. Planets & Avatars
1.1 Planets and Avatar Skills
Planet NFTs are valuable assets that enable players to create a more tailored gameplay experience in Apeiron, and should be your first stop in planning out your Apeiron NFT journey. While owning a Planet NFT isn’t necessary to participate in the game, it does give players an edge. But first, you need to understand a little bit about how Skills work.
Skills determine your Avatar’s powers in battle. Skills range in power from Tier 1 to Tier 6, with Tier 6 being generally stronger. Usually, you get access to Skills through your Planet’s elemental distribution. Planets with more focused elemental distribution (e.g. Pure Planets of a single element) get access to Tier 6 Skills through the Skill Tree. So the first thing to check out when looking at Planets is the Planet’s elemental distribution.
Planet NFTs also have a set of Birth Skills that are NOT tied to their planet’s elemental distribution. Birth skills can either be hereditary from parent Planets or drawn from mutation chances, which means you’ll have a chance to get powerful Avatar skills without needing to worry about your elemental distribution.
There are also Primeval Planets, which were the first Planets to ever exist, generated through our Planet NFT Pre-sale. Being a Primeval Planet holder has its perks; first off, it’s cheaper to breed. On top of that, you’ll get “Primeval Access”, aka early access to our latest game builds. You’ll also gain access to what we call “Godling Bounties”, which are quests on Discord that you can complete to earn additional rewards. Finally, you’ll get special airdrops tailored just for our Primeval holders.
1.2. Celestial Conjunction (Planet Breeding) Explained
Celestial Conjunction — Planet Breeding — is the process of breeding 2 Planets together and creating a new Planet. Breeding can create powerful new Planets, which you can either sell or keep for your own play, and you only need two Planets to get started.
Specifically, the breeding process requires mini-Black Holes (mBH), which can be earned through events in our Discord community or direct purchase on the Marketplace, and 2 Planets that are not directly related in previous breeding, including parent, child, or sibling Planets. Each Planet can only be bred three times max.
There are varying mBH costs for breeding depending on the Planet’s bloodline (its elemental distribution), conjunction count (how many times it’s been bred), and whether or not it is a Primeval Planet (one of the first Planets to exist in Apeiron, generated from our Planet NFT Pre-sale). You can see those costs in the table above.
Ultimately, with breeding you want to try and concentrate your elemental distribution to get closer to a fully Pure Planet. This means you generally should try and breed Planets with matching elements — a Duo Planet of Fire and Earth, for example, you should breed with another Duo of Fire and Earth to try and get closer to either Pure Earth or Pure Fire. One factor that can really help in this regard is the “Primeval Legacy” traits. Read on!
1.3 Primeval Legacy
Primeval Legacy is a distinctive trait originally found in around 11% of Primeval Planets. This exclusive trait can be passed down to the next generation through breeding. Primeval Legacy traits GUARANTEE when breeding that your new Planet does not fall below a certain minimum threshold for the dominant element. For example, if one of your planets has the Primeval Legacy trait with a value of 80% Fire element, then, the new Planet will have a guaranteed value of at least 80% Fire, as long as the dominant element is Fire before triggering the Primeval Legacy effect. This can really help you to control the elemental distributions and get them lined up in the way you want.
But what if you have multiple Primeval Legacy traits of the same element from different parent Planets? In this case, whichever trait value is higher will be the one to activate. So for example, if one Planet had a Primeval Legacy ensuring 80% Fire, and another had a Primeval Legacy ensuring 50% Fire, only the 80% Fire Primeval Legacy would activate, assuming that the dominant element of the offspring Planet is Fire.
As of now, there are two methods to acquire a planet with Primeval Legacy, either by purchasing them from the Marketplace OR through breeding with a Planet that has a Primeval Legacy and hoping the offspring inherits the trait. Specifically, if a new Planet is bred where a parent or grandparent has a Primeval Legacy trait, the offspring has a 10% chance of inheriting it per parent or grandparent that has that trait, up to a maximum inheritance chance of 60%.
2. Star NFTs
2.1. Planet aging & Star NFT Tiers
So much for Planets. But Apeiron also has Star NFTs for our more dedicated and competitive players, and especially for those interested in alliance and guild gameplay.
In the Apeiron godiverse, Planets age at a base rate of 1 year per 24 hours. The older the Planet gets, the stronger it becomes; older planets are more valuable because they have access to more Relic slots.
Planet aging can increase the value of your planets and strengthen your combat power in the game. Star NFTs accelerate the aging process for your Planets and provide alliance buffs. There are a total of 11 Star NFT tiers, with Tier 1 being the highest and providing a 54x aging buff to your planets (so it will age by 54 years in 24hrs), while Tier 11 being the lowest offers an aging buff of 1.2x. The higher the Star tier, the greater aging buff it provides, and therefore, the greater its value on the Marketplace. Additionally, Astronomicals can be added to Star NFTs to make them stronger — more on that below.
You can purchase Star NFTs directly on the official Apeiron Marketplace.
2.2. Orbital Tracks
For Planets to receive aging buffs and bonuses, they need to be attached to a Star NFT Orbital Track. The higher the Star NFT tier, the more orbital tracks it possesses. For instance, a Tier 1 Star NFT provides 200 orbital tracks, allowing up to 200 planets to be attached to it and receive simultaneous aging buffs.
It may be challenging to utilize all 200 tracks with your own collection, which is why you can actually rent out your Orbit Tracks to other players for USDC, which serves as the ultimate passive yield generator!
2.3. Astronomicals
Astronomicals can be purchased on the Marketplace to customize the effects of Star NFTs. Each Astronomicals category has different effects — for example, suns give additional aging buffs, while asteroids increase the number of Orbital Tracks. Astronomicals allow you to maximize the utility of your Star NFTs.
Astronomicals range from tier 1 to 3, with tier 1 being the highest tier. However, different Stars have different Astronomical Slots, with different restrictions on the type of Astronomical it can utilize. Check your Star’s Astronomical slots before making any purchases.
3. Apostles
3.1. Apostle Minting
In the current season 2 demo, the Apostle minting function has been launched, enabling players to mint dood Apostles secured through dungeon gameplay into NFTs. Initially, players will have access to 2 Reserve Slots to keep Apostles for minting into NFTs. These NFTs can be used in the future seasons or sold on the Marketplace.
It’s pretty easy to obtain Apostles in the game. You can find them chilling in dungeon battle treasure chests or even in dungeon shops of the game. At the end of a dungeon run, players can select which Apostles to keep in their Reserve Slots, while other unreserved Apostles are lost forever. Note that you can reserve dead Apostles if you wish. In the current season, you may enjoy one free Apostle Reserve Slot, and you can unlock up to 3 by spending Animus, or up to 6 by owning Planet NFTs and burning Battlepasses. Only Hunters, Warriors and Priests are available for minting at the time of publication. Players are furthermore limited to only minting one Apostle from each class, for a maximum of 3 unique Apostles minted.
After reserving the Apostle(s) for at least 7 days, they can be minted into NFTs on the Apostle Mint page on our Marketplace. If you have a Dood Halo or Doodelic Wing, minting your first two Apostles is free. Dood Halos have a chance to drop during Booty Hours, and Doodelic Wings are distributed during community events. Note that every account can only have 1 maximum Dood Halo and 1 maximum Doodelic Wing. If you mint a third Apostle, it will cost 0.02wETH. If you never get the Dood Halo or Doodelic Wing, the minting costs are 0.02wETH for the first, 0.05wETH for the second, and 0.1wETH for the third.
After minting — congrats! You now officially own an Apostle NFT! But you might be wondering: what kind of Apostle should you mint?
3.2. Skills & IVs
Each Apostle possesses 3 skills from their class skill pool of 8, which can be enhanced to level 1–5 independently — although future releases will see up to 10 levels for each Skill. Skill combinations can be valuable depending on their synergy. In addition, each Apostle has an IV (Individual Values) level, representing the Apostles’ stats in battles. Higher IVs mean stronger Apostles.
Let’s say you wanted to mint your Priest Apostle. A good healing-focused Priest would have some combination of Circle o’ Healing, Aura of Awesomeness and Almost-vincible. You would try to look for a high IV Apostle with such a skill set, then level those skills as high as you could by sacrificing other Apostles with the same skills. This is in addition to leveling up the Apostle.
Please note that different skill sets are useful in different scenarios, and the above example is just one example of many. Additionally, skill sets that are useful in PvE might not be as useful in PvP, so make sure you know what skills you are looking for before minting that Apostle. If you’re not sure, you should seek advice from experienced players who lurk on our Discord, they’re very friendly and helpful, we promise!
As for IVs, they are the values deciding the base stats of Apostles in battles, which means that even if two Apostles share the same level, the one with a higher IV will have better stats than the lower IV one. Therefore, it is better to go for the Apostle with higher IV during battles and minting. Of course, you have to take into account their skills too, as mentioned above. If an Apostle has a high IV but a bad skill set, it’s not going to be as valuable as an Apostle with a marginally lower IV that possesses your ideal skill set.
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And that concludes our NFT primer, our official play-and-earn guide! We hope that this gives you new doods and godlings some idea of how to take the next step in your Apeiron journey. And no matter what planets or assets you hold, feel free to hop in to our Discord server and chat! We have a diligent team of overseers that are more than happy to provide more info on all things Apeiron and help you kickstart your adventure to no.1 godiverse street, Axis Mundi. Also, don’t forget to follow our Twitter for the most updated news!
And as always, thank you for reading godlings, we’ll see you next time! ~
About Apeiron
Apeiron is the world’s first NFT-based play-and-earn godgame. Apeiron will feature a unique card-based action-adventure combat system combined with god game simulation gameplay inspired by classic god games like Populous and Black & White. Players will be able to build up planets from above before descending to the ground as a powerful Avatar to solve the mysteries of the universe. Players will grow their planet to the point of developmental stagnation, then reset the planetary cycle via an Armageddon event to allow for even more advancement and thrilling late-game alliance level GvE and GvG activities. Apeiron will use a tri-token architecture, which means that there will be three separate tokens to navigate their ecosystem: a governance token, a play-to-earn token, and a premium alliance token.
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This article was amended on September 27th, 2023 to make the language in the opening paragraph slightly more beginner and new player friendly.