Pondsama is the latest edition to the Moonsama Multiverse, it is our upcoming browser-based 5 on 5 autobattler.

Pondsama and its battle system has been designed in a way that it's so simple it can even run in a command line. This allows us to run the game on fully decentralised hardware.

The vision for Pondsama was spawned on May 7th, the general idea proposed was to implement NFT fishing in our legendary Carnage event.

Promptly a competition was organized to design metaverse NFT fish for the metaverse fish ponds.

Only 5 days after the initial announcement the following amazing progress was already reported.

This second addition to our Multiverse carries with it all of the opportunities and challenges of balancing both the Pondsama game and it’s place in the awesome Moonsama Multiverse. In the early stages of release Pondsama will be play-tested, the end goal of Pondsama is a balanced and fun game that can be played by anyone and anywhere.

While the specifics of design are subject to change, the Moonsama team will deliver a highly balanced and FUN Pondsama metaverse game, which is integrated with our Moonsama Minecraft Metaverse.

The heart of Pondsama is Moonsama’s 2-hour Carnage Event which takes place each and every Sunday from 16:00 UTC to 18:00 UTC, it is the main source for gathering required Pondsama resources.

The mechanics of going fishing in the Moonsama Minecraft Metaverse are crucial to know so you can catch as many aFish as possible which you can use as a resource for summoning Foundational NFT fish.

All information you need to ensure you can enjoy Metaverse fishing during Carnage is described here, beware however to keep an eye on your surroundings, it’s Carnage after all 👻

To go fishing for NFT fish in the Moonsama Metaverse you need a Moonrod.

The awesome Moonrod can be crafted in the workbench menu for the following resources:

The Moonrod works exactly the same as the regular fishing rod, you equip it in your right hand, right click to cast, wait for the bubbles and then right click to catch your aFish or something else…

Specifically for the Moonsama whales amongst us, we will buff the Moonrods with the Lure enchantment, this will be based on Moonsama power:

This is done to avoid Whales having to fish for an unreasonable amount of time to catch enough aFish.

The next thing you need to go fishing in the Moonsama Metaverse is Alpha Bait:

Usually resources can be gathered directly in the Moonsama Metaverse, however the highly efficient Alpha Bait is special, it can only be crafted in the workbench menu for the following resource:

Now you have to tools you need to go fishing in the Moonsama Metaverse!

The next step is to catch as many Alpha Fish (aFish) as you can during Carnage.

For 1 Alpha Bait (aBait) you will catch 1 Alpha fish.

For Pondsama an additional resource has been added to our Multiverse which is represented by the already highly sought after $POOP tokens, these are generated by our on chain/bridged NFT Fish. Each week 10.000 $POOP tokens are distributed to NFT Fish holders, proportional to holdings.

This already renowned resource is produced by your NFT Pondsama Fish.

As Pondsama design and build progresses, resource generation will continue to be based upon community inclusion and grind reduction which is typical for p2e games. Emphasis will always be placed on the “fun” aspect of gaming.

One example will be the leaderboards for Pondsama which might be used to grant additional $POOP resources. To prevent grind experience, due to players feeling like they must grind high levels of game wins, leaderboards will be based upon players win percentage after completing 20 games, rather than total wins.

Pondsama, as mentioned earlier, is a 5v5 autobattler, to engage in battle, you must have a 5-Fish squad available to fight.

Obtaining your squad is the very first example of interoperability and interactivity between our games, which is one of the Moonsama Project goals.

If you’ve been playing in our awesome Carnage Events, you likely have more than enough resources to obtain a squad of fishy fighters.

Beneath the sunken ancient city of Madelin lies "The Sunken One". Little is known about this mysterious ancient beast so far.

NFT Fish will be summoned by donating the following resources to "The Sunken One":

To summon your NFT Fish follow these steps:

The first step in summoning your NFT Fish is to navigate to the Moonsama Marketplace Workbench. You can reach the Marketplace from this page and selecting ‘Visit Marketplace’ or you can follow this url: https://marketplace.moonsama.com/.

When you arrive at the Moonsama Marketplace you will see the below page:

You can navigate on this page by selecting on the various menu items.

For the purpose of summoning your NFT Fish, select:

The workbench is where you can Summon your NFT Fish by offering resources to the ‘Sunken One’!

You can also create other items here, such as SamaBoxes, Moonrod’s and Fishbait, with your Multiverse Asset Factory resources. After you click on the Workbench menu option and you will see this:

The highlighted selection area allows you to select a specific item to craft, in this case to summon an NFT please select the PONDSAMA tab as shown below:

To be able to create your offering bundle and summon an NFT fish you will need to have sufficient resources as confirmed earlier here. If you have sufficient resources you are now ready to begin crafting your offering bundle using the below steps.

Select “Create offering bundle” and a pop-up will appear as per below:

You can craft multiple bundles at a time or leave the amount as ‘1’ and then select ‘Create offering bundle’ once more. Upon selecting the green button it will trigger your MetaMask wallet to pop-up and ask for you to confirm and approve the transaction. Once you select ‘Confirm’ in Metamask the transaction will be processed.

Following the transaction completing as per above, you can now ‘Approach the Sunken One’ and will be shown the button as per below back on the Pondsama workbench website page:

Select the orange button as per the above and it will trigger your MetaMask wallet to pop up once again. Confirm the transaction and await it to complete as per before.

The above is confirmation that the resources required for the bundle (amount previously mentioned here) have been burnt and deducted from the resources held in your wallet.

You you are now ready to meet the sunken one and summon a NFT Fish 😱 

You are now ready to meet the Sunken one.

To go ahead and complete the offering ritual, please select the ‘The Sunken One emerges’ button as per shown below:

After clicking the above you will now be shown the ‘Throw Offering’ selection screen as per below:

Click the ‘Throw Offering’ text area and get ready to meet the Sunken One!

SPOILER (ANIMATION OF SUNKEN ONE) Please see an example animation for a fish offering in the video below:

Following the meeting with the Sunken One you will be shown your newly summoned NFT FISH!!! CONGRATULATIONS! This NFT Fish will be added to your ‘My NFTs’ after a short period of time.

After completing the summoning of your NFT Fish it will soon arrive in your ‘My NFTs’ section of the Moonsama marketplace.

To see your NFT fish details, go to the ‘My NFTs’ menu selection with your MetaMask wallet connected and your newly summoned Pondsama NFT fishes will be shown in all their glory as per below:

From this view and to check the details for each of the NFT fish select one and it will take you to a detail page as per below:

On this screen you can see the breed, type, nature, skills, attributes (HP - health points, PW - power points, DF - Defence points, SP - Speed points) breed counter and generation.

Now that you have your NFT fish, you will need to assemble your Squad ready for Battle!

Note that a full squad of 5 NFT Fish, which is needed to do battle in Pondsama, this requires five times the resources listed earlier. Summoning NFT Fish will not be a limited time event, so if you do not have enough resources, you can focus on the resources you need during the next Carnage event.

Check out the NFT Fish summoning cost in this graphical overview:

Akin to Moonsama lore, there will be a possibility of minting a NEON fish.

There is a flat 0.1% chance to mint a NEON, making them extremely rare (1 in 1000).

Have a preliminary look here:

Initially, Pondsama is designed for both balance and a “rock-paper-scissors” design between several different types of attributes:

In the diagram below you can see some examples of fish with specific attributes:

Each summoned NFT Fish will initially be “Organic” and will have randomly-generated base stats, these stats will likely inform the path you take for your NFT Fish. Base stats currently include HP, PW, DF, and SP resp health, power, defend and speed. NFT Fish will also generate with several different Natures, Passive Abilities, and Combat Skills.

Your NFT Fish’s nature provides your NFT Fish with a boost to its randomly-generated base stats, with an associated decrease in another base stat. There are twelve different natures:

As the name implies, you NFT Fish’s passive ability will impact the ongoing battle according to pre-determined rulesets. A few of the possible passive abilities include:

Finally, Combat Skills are special attacks or abilities you may choose to activate during a battle. These may have drawbacks, niche use cases, or other benefits/costs as you can see below:

At this stage you have now summoned your very own Pondsama NFT Fish and have been provided with its attributes.

Now it’s time to showcase them in your Pondsama Pond, the purpose of this is twofold:

Follow the steps outlined below to get your Pondsama NFT fish available in your pond and to interact with them.

First order of business is to Bridge your NFT fish using the Moonsama Multiverse Portal, click here to open it.

On the Moonsama Multiverse Portal look for the section “On-chain items”, you should see your minted Pondsama NFT Fish listed here:

To start the import process click “Import to game” as highlighted, this will lead to the following pop-up:

Now click “Import to Metaverse”, this will trigger you Metamask application to pop-up. It will request you to confirm the transaction required.

After clicking “Confirm” in Metamask you will see this pop-up indicating that the import is running:

Once the transaction has been processed the import is finished, you will receive the following confirmation:

After a short period of time your Pondsama NFT fish will be shown in the “In-game items” section:

Now you are ready for the next steps!

Now start up your Minecraft launcher and join the townhall server, the server address can be found here. Look for the Pondsama Arcade hall once you are in the townhall square, it has a massive fish fountain in front of it and looks like this:

Once you have entered the awesome Pondsama Arcade hall take some time to admire the interior:

The magnificent Arcade hall is home to a great deal Pondsama Arcade machines:

Take the stairs down to the gaming zone and walk up to one of them:

If there is seating available at the Arcade machine you can right-click it to take a load off 🛋, otherwise just stand in front of it.

Now simply right click the Arcade machine, this will open up the following dialogue:

In the dialogue shown above click “[START GAME]” this will lead to a prompt asking you if you want to open the url that leads to your very own pond.

If you agree by clicking “Yes” your pond will open in your browser and you can admire your Pondsama NFT Fish in action:

You can also interact:

Take care though, you can get easily carried away by interacting and watching your NFT fish 😘

Pondsama is still developing at high speed, this means that specific plans are not set in stone yet. However developments will keep coming!

The video below gives an impression what the future ponds might look like:

Once Pondsama launches, your NFT Fish will automatically earn their proportional share of the weekly $POOP inflation. There are 2 scenario’s for earning $POOP.

First scenario:

In this scenario all you need to do is simply hold the the NFT Fish in your wallet/ bridge and participate in at least 10 battles with your squad of NFT Fish over the course of a week.

This number of battles will take around 1 hour to complete, please note cooldowns have been implemented so battles can not be fought consecutively.

However it is designed in such a way so that you can complete all battles over the course of a week, which will provide more player flexibility.

For this scenario, there is 5,000 $POOP allocated each week.

Second scenario:

Players that wish to get their hands on a little more $POOP can participate in 20 or more battles to try and make it onto the Pondsama leaderboard, for an additional share of the weekly $POOP inflation. For this supplementary scenario, there is 5,000 $POOP allocated each week as well.

You can battle more times each week (for fun!) which will impact your win percentage, but there are no other requirements to earn these rewards. However, there are more coming features:

🔜  More information regarding Pondsama battles coming soon..

In the future, breeding NFT tier 1 NFT fish to obtain absolutely mind blowing NFT fish will become possible.

Please note that the tier 1 NFT fish have 3 specific types (Organic, Infected, Mecha) and each fish has its own random statistics, traits and other attributes.

This means that breeding these foundational fish together will result in next level metaverse NFT fish. Below diagram gives an idea of possible pairings to breed metaverse NFT fishes.

Breeding will be released once sufficient play testing has been completed.

🔜  More information coming soon..

More information will follow as Pondsama develops further, you can expect information for topics such as: