THE LOOP
Keepers are identical. The zoo behind them is not. You mint a face, open pens, hatch fauna, pair them into exhibits, then breed for families. Rank follows the family — never the JPEG.
- MINTkeeper
- OPENgate
- HATCH10,000
- PAIR500
- BREED25,000
- RANKearn
THE KEEPER
3,333 Genesis Keepers. Same pith helmet. Same face. Marketplace sales take the ERC-6551 backpack with them — animals never list alone.
THE GATE
Activation buys exhibit capacity, not rank. Transfer voids it. You pay the delta to climb, not the full sticker again.
Gate
30,000 $ZOO
2 pens
×1 weight
Paddock
66,000 $ZOO
3 pens
×1.25 weight
Range
135,000 $ZOO
4 pens
×1.6 weight
Reserve
270,000 $ZOO
6 pens
×2 weight
Sanctuary
720,000 $ZOO
8 pens
×3.33 weight
50% to 0xdead. 45% rations. 5% treasury. Click CLAIM — nothing auto-sends.
THE YARD
Hatch fauna into the backpack. The egg does not show the catalog. You pay, you wait, you look. 15 minutes on-chain, 8 seconds in local preview. Roster cap is 32.
PAIR IS NOT BREED
Pair any two singles into one exhibit. Same species is not required — you will not know the full roster from this book. Breed is the biome bet: 100% same land, 50% adjacent, 10% distant. Distant still burns.
ALWAYS LEGAL
Same biome. Breed always takes. You find out the kid when it lands.
Neighbors and the wrap (Night ↔ Savanna) are 50%. Skip a neighbor and you are at 10%. The sixth land sits off the ring — never adjacent.
OFF CATALOG
Cross-biome births can roll something the egg will not. Same biome never does. Adjacent is the only sane ticket. That is all the book says.
GESTATION — MAX PARENT RARITY
Floor 15 minutes. Incubators cut 20% per level. 10% chance the kid steps up one rarity, 2% two. Inbred litters drop one rarity.
RANK
EMPTY → SINGLE → PAIR → FAMILY → DYNASTY. A family is two parents plus at least one kid. Unpair drops rank immediately. Vault weight follows the family score, not the Keeper face.
EMPTY
No fauna. Closed zoo energy.
SINGLE
At least one unpaired animal. Still a hobby.
PAIR
Two animals share an exhibit. Rank moves.
FAMILY
That pair has a kid. Vault weight gets real.
DYNASTY
Two families, or one family with a Rare-or-better.
FEES AND THE LAB
Your ration share is tier weight × family score. Hatch, pair, and breed feed open zoos. The lab sinks everything to 0xdead. Rations accrue for 30 days. You click CLAIM. The vault does not push. Mint ETH, OpenSea royalties, and Pons fees never enter the vault. Recycle is ops: buy $ZOO, then depositReward.
50% to 0xdead. 50% rations. Click CLAIM. Nothing auto-sends.
50% to 0xdead. 50% rations. Click CLAIM. Nothing auto-sends.
50% to 0xdead. 50% rations. Click CLAIM. Nothing auto-sends.
100% to 0xdead. Lab fees do not go to rations.
50% to 0xdead. 45% rations. 5% treasury. Click CLAIM — nothing auto-sends.
Incubators
Cut breed time 20% per level.
Field Guide
Move hatch weight off Common into Uncommon and Rare.
New Paddocks
+1 exhibit and +3% vault weight per level.
Safari, Market, and Quests are locked ruins on the map. Look. Don't walk.