Gavun's Grid Miner
A free-to-play mining game from the Gavun Wud team. Dig through a mine that never ends, chain gems into combos, outrun the monsters and crack Mystery Boxes for miner skins that can be minted as animated NFTs on Polkadot Asset Hub.
Overview
Website: gavunminer.xyz
Cost: Free. No wallet and no sign-up are needed to play. Pick a name to appear on the leaderboard.
Wallet: Connecting a wallet lets you own what you dig up, and holding $WUD earns bonus skill points. Nova Wallet, SubWallet, Talisman and Polkadot.js are supported.
How a Run Works
Every run starts with a little over two minutes on the clock. Swipe on mobile, or use WASD or the arrow keys on desktop. Digging burns energy, so the run is a balance between scoring and staying alive.
| Find | Effect |
|---|---|
| Gems | +100 points. Chain finds within 2 seconds to stack a combo up to x8. |
| Golden gems | +500 points. Rarer, and they blink before they vanish. |
| Pancakes | +10 seconds and a full energy refill. After tier 10 they vanish 10 seconds after appearing. |
| Ore | Costs extra energy and hides a gem, a bomb or a FUD trap. |
| FUD blocks | A 10-second penalty in the open, 5 seconds when hidden in ore, and nearby loot is blasted. |
| Rubble cages | Hold loot, and a monster that hunts your tunnels. Touching one costs 12 seconds. |
| Power gems | 10 seconds of Hunt Mode: monsters flee, and catching one is +300. |
| Bombs | Clear ore, rubble and monsters in a flagged radius. Your own blast cannot hurt you. |
| Skill points | Pause the run so you can spend a point in a perk tree that resets every run. |
| WUD Beer | Ultra-rare and glowing. A flat +10,000, more during a boost. See WUD Beer. |
In the final 10 seconds of a run everything scores double.
Play-2-Earn Events
When an event is running, players can switch from a solo run to Play-2-Earn. It is the same mine and the same run, except the score is paid out to the connected wallet. Solo runs do not earn anything.
Miner Skin NFTs
Miner skins are earned in real runs and from Mystery Boxes. Every skin in the game can be minted to Polkadot Asset Hub as an animated NFT in collection 852, and traded on Chaotic.
| Tier | Stars | Max supply per skin |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 1 to 3 | Unlimited, earned in any run |
| Uncommon | 4 to 5 | 4,000 to 5,000 |
| Rare | 6 to 7 | 1,500 to 3,000 |
| Epic | 8 to 9 | Smaller still |
| Legendary | 10 | The rarest skins in the game |
Each skin also carries an element, an affinity and a biome. Owners and listings are read live from Asset Hub on the Grid Miner collection page.
Wallets cannot connect inside Telegram. Open gavunminer.xyz/connect in a regular mobile browser or inside a wallet app's own browser. Your account is the same either way. Save your recovery code when you first sign in: it is the only way back into your account on a new device.