Hello Frens!

UNIM is the lifeblood of the game–literally! We all know that UNIM’s primary sink is in breeding and evolution but did you know that UNIM is used in other parts of the Crypto Unicorns world? Workshops require a ton of UNIM to craft the most advanced items, boosters, keystones, and more! Let’s dive into how UNIM plays a part in Crafting!

Crafting

While the more basic crafting items do not cost UNIM to craft, more advanced material crafting recipes will have a small UNIM cost in addition to their item and time costs. While no one crafting item will cost more than 100 UNIM to craft at launch, the amount of crafting items you will need between upgrading buildings, crafting boosters, and crafting keystones is very high.

Building Upgrades

When the game launches, there will be up to 5 buildings that players can build and upgrade on each land: the Cart, Nursery, Workshop, Stables, and multiple Farms. At launch, each of these buildings can be upgraded to Level 10. Upgrading a building will be inexpensive at first, but as you get higher in levels, the quality of items required and their quantity will increase. It will take several hundred materials to get one Cart from Level 1 to Level 10 on one land. The UNIM cost of crafting all these materials just to get the Cart from Level 1 to Level 10 alone will be close to 100,000 UNIM. And that is just one cart on one land.

And you will want to upgrade your carts to level 10. Each cart has 3 Gathering slots, with the third slot unlocking at Cart Level 10. To maximize the earning potential of your land, you will always want a level 10 Cart with three adult Unicorns gathering per land. Speaking of Gathering, crafting items can also be earned when you use your Unicorns to gather. Which items you get from Gathering is random though, and some of the more advanced items aren’t available from gathering. So while getting crafting items through gathering will reduce the total UNIM spent on crafting items, you will still need a large amount of UNIM to fully upgrade all buildings and all lands.

Boosters

Boosters are items that will greatly assist you in trying to breed Unicorns with better stats. Breeding Boosters will increase the chance of Parts from Parents being passed down. Evolution Boosters will increase the chance of genes upgrading during Evolution. Players who want Unicorns with the best stats, or to try to get a Mythic Unicorn, will want to use the highest tier of Booster during Hatching and Evolving.

Boosters can be crafted in the Workshop. The UNIM cost of Boosters starts out low at Tier 1 but gets into 5 figures for Tier 6 Boosters. Besides the UNIM cost to craft the Booster itself, you will also need other crafting items, most of which will cost UNIM to craft themselves. Look at Breeding Boosters, for example:

Tier 1 Breeding Booster: 100 UNIM + 3 Giggle Shards (225 UNIM) + 3 Gold Dusts (225 UNIM) + 3 Dewdrops (225 UNIM) for a total of 775 UNIM

Tier 2 Breeding Booster: 300 UNIM + Tier 1 Breeding Booster (775 UNIM) + 5 Moondusts (375 UNIM) + 5 Gem Pebbles (375 UNIM) for a total of 1825 UNIM

Tier 3 Breeding Booster: 600 UNIM + Tier 2 Breeding Booster (1825 UNIM) + 10 Pollen Powder (750 UNIM) + 10 Sugar Sprinkles (750 UNIM) for a total of 3925 UNIM

Tier 4 Breeding Booster: 1000 UNIM + Tier 3 Breeding Booster (3925 UNIM) + 3 Fun Fragments (1605 UNIM) + 3 Leprechaun Dubloons (1605 UNIM) for a total of 8135 UNIM

Tier 5 Breeding Booster: 3000 UNIM + Tier 4 Breeding Booster (8135 UNIM) + 5 Polished Gemstones (2675 UNIM) + 5 Powerpacks (2675 UNIM) for a total of 16485 UNIM

Tier 6 Breeding Booster: 10000 UNIM + Tier 5 Breeding Booster (16485 UNIM) + 3 Steaming Pizzas (6405 UNIM) + 3 Vibrant BLooms (6405 UNIM) for a total of 39295 UNIM

The high cost for the best boosters is necessary since high-stat Unicorns will be more competitive in stat-based gameplay like Racing/Jousting. And just like building materials, Gathering rewards can give out crafting items used for Boosters (as well as a tiny chance at low tier boosters). Boosters are meant to be a continuous UNIM sink as long as Players try to optimize their Unicorns.

Keystones

Shortly after launch, we’ll be releasing the Land Vending Machine. This will let players purchase Land NFTs from the remaining stock at will. All the Player will need is the required ETH and a Keystone NFT that matches the land they are trying to buy. Keystone NFTs are craftable in the Workshop and will require a lot of UNIM and other crafting items. Just like Buildings and Boosters, the UNIM required to craft items needed to craft Keystone NFTs will take a lot of UNIM.

The amount of UNIM, crafting items, and NFTs required to craft keystones depends on the type of Land you want to purchase.

Common Keystones: (such as a Cloud Common Land Keystone): 500 UNIM + 5 Dew Drops (375 UNIM) + 3 Cirrus Flakes (1605 UNIM) + 1 Ice Cubes (2135 UNIM) for a total of 4615 UNIM

Rare Keystones: (such as a Light Rare Land Keystone): 2500 UNIM + 1 Cloud Keystone NFT (4615 UNIM) + 1 Heart Keystone NFT (4615 UNIM) + 1 Rainbow Keystone NFT (4615 UNIM) for a total of 16345 UNIM

Mythic Keystones: 10000 UNIM + 1 Light Keystone NFT (16345 UNIM) + 1 Wonder Keystone NFT (16345 UNIM) + 1 Mystery Keystone NFT (16345 UNIM) for a total of 59035 UNIM

If you are planning to expand your lands, you’ll need plenty of UNIM to pay to craft Keystones!

The point of this blog post isn’t to dangle high UNIM costs in front of you. Yes, these costs are high, but they are meant to be, as new ways of earning UNIM will come out after the game launch, including Racing, Jousting, PvE, Neighborhoods, Shadowcorns Acts II and III, and more! And just as new sources of UNIM come out, so too will new sources of UNIM sinks: Decorations, Entry fees into special Races and Jousting Tournaments, Neighborhood upgrade costs, Shadowcorn hatching and upgrades, Unicorn Equipment NFTs to be used in PvE Battle, etc.

The Laguna Games team will do our best to keep the value up and maintain the earning aspect of the game by balancing the UNIM sources and sinks of features as they get implemented into the game. This is why UNIM should be valued for its in-game utility rather than as a token to be speculated on. Once the game launches and those consistent sources and sinks for UNIM exist, it will be much more stable. We look forward to seeing how you spend your precious UNIM once the game launches!

-The Laguna Games Team

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