Season 1 · On Ink

Retired mining bots. Back to work.

Deepcore Mining Co. left 5,050 bots behind on Kessler Rock. They built an outpost. Stake yours, mine CELL, gather materials, salvage gear and build more bots before the 30-day season ends.

Bots
5,050
Free mint
1,550
Per wallet
2
Art
On-chain
How the Outpost works

Eight things your bot can do

CELL is the Outpost's power. It lives in each bot's battery: it can't be traded or withdrawn, and every CELL spent is burned. Materials stay in the Outpost too. Nothing in the game is sold for ETH.

01

Stake

Send your bot to the Outpost in one step, no approvals. It stays yours, and you can take it home any time.

02

Mine

Shallow Field pays 10 CELL a day plus 2.5 per Drill tier. Rich Vein splits 15,000 CELL a day between everyone mining there.

03

Gather

Every bot has a profession: Driller, Scavenger, Harvester or Grower, a quarter of the bots each. It gathers its own material at 3 a day, any other at 1.

04

Calibrate

Gain a level every 8 hours. Free up to level 6, then 1 Biofuel a level. Higher levels open harder salvage sites.

05

Salvage

Send a crew of 1–3 bots to the Asteroid Belt, the Derelict Ship or the Black Hole to roll for better gear.

06

Fabricate

Build new bots: 10 CELL at first, then Ore and Circuits too, rising to 66 CELL as the Outpost fills up to 5,050.

07

Barter

Swap materials for CELL with other players. Short on something? A recipe takes 10 CELL for each missing unit.

08

Light the Reactor

Every CELL spent burns in the Reactor. Each milestone the Outpost passes sets off a 48-hour Solar Flare.

The bots

Seven chassis, exact counts

Rarity is for looks. What matters at the Outpost is the gear your bot wins and its level.

Miner chassis
Miner2,020 · 40%
Hauler chassis
Hauler1,263 · 25%
Scout chassis
Scout909 · 18%
Hover chassis
Hover505 · 10%
Crystal chassis
Crystal252 · 5%
Golden Prototype chassis
Golden Prototype76 · 1.5%
Glitch chassis
Glitch25 · 0.5%
Fully on-chain

The card is the bot

Every bot is drawn as a card by a contract on Ink, live from the game. The frame shows the chassis's rarity; the card shows the serial, gear tiers, level, CELL battery and profession. New gear shows up the moment it lands.

  • Frame color: Miner steel to Glitch magenta
  • O · D · S: Optic, Drill and Shield tiers
  • 10 battery cells, lit from 1 to 200 CELL
  • Profession icon: pickaxe, cog, ice or sprout
NFT card of a Miner, Driller, level 4
Miner
NFT card of a Scout, Harvester, level 9
Scout
NFT card of a Golden Prototype, Scavenger, level 15
Golden Prototype
NFT card of a Glitch, Harvester, level 20
Glitch
Gear

132 items, every one unique.

Three slots, eleven tiers, four unique items per tier. Salvage and the Workshop reach tier 6; where the higher tiers come from is revealed during the season.

Optic

Sharper eyes on salvage runs: better odds at the top tiers.

Drill

Mines more: +2.5 CELL a day per tier, and a bigger share of the Rich Vein.

Shield

Protects your other gear from downgrades on salvage runs.

  1. Tier 0 drill
    T0Rusty
  2. Tier 1 drill
    T1Iron
  3. Tier 2 drill
    T2Cobalt
  4. Tier 3 drill
    T3Plasma
  5. Tier 4 drill
    T4Golden
  6. Tier 5 drill
    T5Void
  7. Tier 6 drill
    T6Singularity
  8. Tier 7 drill
    T7Event Horizon
  9. Tier 8 drill
    T8Red Giant
  10. Tier 9 drill
    T9Mothership
  11. Tier 10 drill
    T10Deepcore Prime
Season 1

Thirty days at the Outpost

The calendar is fixed from the day the Outpost opens. Only the mint-out moves: it comes whenever the Outpost finishes building bots.

  1. [START DATE] · 10 daysWhitelistAsteroid Run. 100 spots a day, dropped at a random time.
  2. [MINT DATE]Free mint1,550 bots, 2 per wallet, whitelist only.
  3. Day 1, 24h after the mintThe Outpost opensMine or calibrate, salvage the Asteroid Belt, Daily Diagnostics. First builds after a day of mining.
  4. Day 2Gathering opensOre, Circuits, Coolink and Biofuel, all at once.
  5. Day 4Barter boardTrade materials for CELL with other players.
  6. Day 5Black Hole and WorkshopDeeper runs for level 6+ crews, and sure upgrades.
  7. Day 20Final phaseThe prize list is set: bots staked now and still staked at the end share it.
  8. Day 25Season finaleRevealed during the season.
  9. After day 30Season endsPrize claims open for 30 days.
The prize

A prize for finishing the season

Part of every trading royalty goes into a prize pool that nobody can touch until the season ends. Bots staked from the final phase (day 20) to the end share it.

25% is split equally between every qualifying bot. 75% is split by gear points, so better gear means a bigger share. Prizes left unclaimed 30 days after the season go to the team, and so does the prize part of royalties from trading after the season.

Where the 5% royalty goes

  • 2%Prize pool, paid at season end
  • 2%Quotrons builder registry, supporting the Ink ecosystem
  • 1%Team

Built to be checked

On Ink

Every contract lives on Ink, verified on the explorer.

Fair rolls

Salvage, builds and the reveal use Pyth Entropy randomness.

48-hour timelock

Any admin change waits 48 hours in public, within fixed limits.

Keys renounced

Admin control is given up after the claim window closes.

Questions

Is the mint free?

Yes. The first 1,550 bots are free to mint (you pay only gas), 2 per wallet, for whitelisted wallets only. Unminted bots join the top Fabricator tier.

Do I need to connect my wallet to get whitelisted?

No. Finish Asteroid Run, link your X account, and paste your Ink wallet address. No wallet connection or signature.

Is CELL a token?

No. CELL lives in each bot's battery. It can't be traded, sent out of the game or sold, and every CELL spent is burned.

Are materials tokens?

No. Ore, Circuits, Coolink and Biofuel stay in your Outpost inventory. They can't be sent or sold on a marketplace; you use them in recipes or swap them with other players on the barter board for CELL.

What if I don't have the right profession?

You can still do everything. Any bot can gather any material, just slower; you can buy materials on the barter board; and a recipe that's short takes 10 CELL for each missing unit.

What happens if I sell my bot?

Before mint-out, half of the battery burns when an unstaked bot changes wallets. The traits always show what the bot would arrive with.

Where can I trade bots?

On OpenSea, on Ink. The picture and traits always show the bot's current state.