Monsters

Monsters are the core of the Spellborne economy. Every player is able to catch a monster in the wild using crystals. Monsters may also be collectible from various events such as Soul Exchange, Treasures of Celestia, etc. Naturally, players love to collect monsters and trade them with one another, for various reasons, it could be:

• To breed the best monster out there

• To defeat others at PvP

• To collect em' all

• To master all monster breeds

In order to trade monsters, a monster needs to be minted into a non fungible token. This token allows the game to verify the true owner of the monster while it is being traded in the in-game marketplace or outside marketplaces.

Minting a monster can be tricky, as having no limits to mint may lead to the marketplace being flooded with monsters with bad stats, resulting in confusion among new buyers, as well as incorrect pricing of a good stat monster of a specific breed.

Thus, the game requires the player to pay a one time fee to mint a specific monster, this fee depends on the following factors:

• Account Age: Older accounts pay less fee per monster, resulting in less spam and higher costs for potentially alt/bot accounts.

• Breed Supply: Helps control the inflation for specific breeds, higher supply results in higher costs of minting. Vice versa, when players free the monster into the wild, or breed 2 parents to create 1 child, the cost decreases to mint the monster of that specific breed.

• Account Mints: Users trying to mint tons of monsters within a short amount of time pay higher mint costs, to counter hacked accounts or bot accounts.

and a few other hidden factors.

The minimum cost to mint a monster is 1 USD. This cost may go upto 200 USD based on various factors, resulting in control over supply and inflation of monsters in the game economy.

Players may choose to mint the monsters on their preferred chain, however directly transferring the NFTs over to unsupported wallets may result in them being displaced and becoming inaccessible. The only correct way to bridge monsters from one chain to another is via the in-game marketplace.