How the pot splits

Divided among everyone in the winning chamber in proportion to what they deployed. A crowded chamber pays each hunter less; a quiet one pays more. If nobody is standing there, the 86% goes to the Major Motherlode rather than being redirected to Team.

A worked example

The multiplier on the deployment card is this same sum, run on the chamber as it stands. It moves every time somebody else deploys.

What it costs

The amount field is per chamber. The note under the button shows the total before you sign.

What it buys, and what it does not

• You are always in the winning chamber. Covering everything guarantees presence, every hunt.
• You mine the same ore either way. Ore follows your share of the round, not how you spread it.

• It does not beat the house rake. Cover everything alone and you get 86% back. The other 14% went to the Vault, the Motherlodes and Team.
• It does not improve your jackpot odds. A jackpot claim follows your share of the round's ETH, so spreading it thinner buys nothing.

Where each release goes

Triggered only by a valid Hunt. The monthly schedule sets the amount, but no entries means no OIX release.

The schedule

The standard Hunt reward starts at 600 OIX, reduces by 2.5% every 30 days and stops declining at a 100 OIX floor.

• Lifetime release remains capped. Hunt releases cannot exceed the 95,000,000 OIX Hunt capacity or the 100,000,000 OIX lifetime cap.
• No catch-up release. Empty Hunts release zero OIX; future Hunts continue from the schedule that applies at that time.

Every raw withdrawal

That choke point is why raw exists as a separate balance. Locking raw is untaxed. It removes supply, which is what the tax exists to encourage.

The four exits

• Refine. Into tradeable OIX, at the rate below.
• Craft. Spend it in the Workshop; the whole cost is burned.
• Lock. Straight into the Vault, untaxed.
• Sacrifice. Destroyed outright for permanent Vault Weight.

Where each entry goes

The split lands at confirmation, not at the reveal, so supply falls whether a round resolves or rolls over. Liquid OIX only. Raw has not paid the refine tax yet.

Rules of the round

• Up to five tunnels, each with its own stake, in one transaction.
• An empty winning tunnel rolls over. The 90% carries into the next pot; the burn and jackpot slice are already final.
• Winners split by stake, the same as the Hunt.
• Two wallets and two occupied tunnels are required, or the round is voided and refunded in full with nothing burned.

One wallet covering all five tunnels still voids. Five tunnels, one wallet, refund. A person cannot play against themselves here.

What a ladder costs

RC15 base pricing is 2,000 OIX per level number: 2,000 / 4,000 / 6,000 / 8,000 / 10,000. One item to level five is 30,000 OIX; all three are 90,000 OIX. Live values above are refreshed from the Equipment Registry.

Two ways to pay, one price

Craft with mined Raw Orixium or with OIX bought on the market. The number is the same either way and both are burned in full.

Grinding stays cheaper without needing a special rule. 100 raw crafts directly, while buying 100 liquid costs about 111 raw after the refine tax. The miner is always ahead of the buyer, and it falls out of the maths.

Prices carry a bounded multiplier, no lower than a quarter and no higher than four times the figures above.

Weight per commitment

The only yield in the system, paid in an asset the protocol cannot print. Sacrifice is the only irreversible commitment and pays the most. Raw can be locked or sacrificed directly, untaxed.

What weight cannot do

• It does not change which chamber wins.
• It does not change your payout share inside a chamber.
• It does not change jackpot odds. Not by one basis point.
• It does not touch the Lucky Vein at all.

The 8% is set aside before anyone is paid, so a depositor’s reward costs no player anything. Keeping yield and advantage apart is the most important decision in the design.

Two wallet-controlled paths

• Vault ETH accrues normally as Hunts settle.
• Manual Compound Now converts available Vault ETH through the certified V4 route and applies the lock selected in your wallet-confirmed transaction.
• Auto-compound runs only after your wallet signs a destination and threshold policy and nominates the production compounder on chain.
• Gas Credit is prepaid. Only successful automatic network gas is deducted.

Your policy remains bounded

• You choose LOCK or SACRIFICE and, for LOCK, one supported 30 / 90 / 180 / 365-day duration.
• You choose the ETH threshold. When it is reached, all currently pending Vault ETH is routed in that run.
• Turning Auto-compound off stops future delegated runs; it does not unwind an OIX lock or reverse a completed sacrifice.

Sacrifice is permanent. The destination must be explicitly selected in the signed wallet policy before automatic routing can use it.

Why the cap only falls

Burning lowers total supply itself, so the figure a scanner reports is the real circulating cap rather than a constant with a dead address beside it.

Burned OIX cannot be recreated. Lifetime creation is tracked independently from live total supply, so burning never re-opens Hunt release capacity.

The pressure grows with use

Every sink is tied to activity rather than to a schedule. More hunts mean more refining; more Lucky Vein rounds mean more burned at confirmation; more crafting means more consumed outright.

A quiet week burns little and releases little. A busy one can do both; every burn permanently reduces the live supply that remains.

The problem

Everything on a chain is public. Any number derived from data that already exists when entries close could be worked out in advance by whoever was paying attention.

The answer

When a played round closes, the contract commits to an exact future Drand beacon round. That beacon signature does not exist when entries close, so nobody can know the result in advance.