Dark Forest v0.6 Round 4: Society Eggnog has concluded! Thank you all who participated and congratulations to the winners!

Over 1700 players participated in this very brief round. Of those, over 750 earned an invite key to the next round (the date of which is yet to be announced) by earning at least one point through withdrawing silver or discovering an artifact.

Scoring

This round was a lightning round where everything was sped up dramatically; the game speed was faster, and the real life duration of the round was shorter than usual… clocking in at less than four days (a total of 84 hours!).

Players were up to the challenge and quickly gained steam when the round launched. In a dominant showing, @orden_gg ended up taking first place with an elegant score of 777,777,777. Even a bigger achievement is the fact that the group behind orden_gg has now taken first place in the last three rounds! They are the new unstoppable force in the Dark Forest. Don’t worry, we’re going to mix the rules up next time. orden_gg, you better be ready for a new challenge!

In second place came @MarrowDAO who didn’t reveal their identity until after the round ended. If you haven’t heard, MarrowDAO was responsible for launching one of the first GPU universe miners - perhaps that played a role in having their best placement yet?

@Ayo_space_ninja landed at rank three, seeing a well-deserved redemption from the previous round where they disastrously tanked from rank #4 down to rank #54 in the final minutes.

As the rounds have progressed, it’s easy to notice that many of the top placements are taken up by groups or DAOs. This highlights the ever-growing need for collaboration among the Dark Forest - it’s dangerous to go alone, so take friends with you!

DAOs, you’re gonna need to be nimble ;)

Highlights

• The Astral Colossus has been unleashed by @d_fdao. During the round, players were encouraged to contribute to the Astral Colossus’ account by using a plugin to give silver-occupied spacetime rips and artifact-occupied foundries to the Colossus - a collaborative effort to propel one player to the top of the leaderboard. The Colossus ended up at rank #38 on the leaderboard. Surely this isn’t the last we’ve seen of it…
• @orden_gg has released a new version of their artifact market, dropswap.gg, that allows you to view and send artifacts from any round!
• @Ner0nzz, a player known for their high level of competition, livestreamed some of his DF gameplay on Twitch – answering questions and discussing tactics. Make sure to read his ‘The Art of Dark Forest War’ if you haven’t.
• @TheVelorum published their own Round 4 wrapup with many detailed statistics about artifact usage, market sales, and more.
• The first Dark Forest Community Art Contest has begun! Hosted by @JannehMoe and Pecos, you have two more weeks to submit art and attempt to win your share of a 500 xDai prize pool! (see some of the current entries in the #df-art-contest channel in Discord)

Valhalla

The top 63 players will be awarded planet NFTs in Valhalla on the Ethereum mainnet. If you won a prize, we’ll send an email to you in the future with instructions on how to claim it. These NFTs can be inspected on Etherscan and OpenSea.

Please note that a few fake Dark Forest collections have popped up on OpenSea. The ones we’re aware of were taken down, but more can pop up at any time. Please only refer to the official Dark Forest Collection on OpenSea.

Special Prizes Awarded

We know you’re still waiting for the Round 3 Valhalla prizes. Don’t worry, they’re almost ready. Round 4 will be released shortly after. Thank you for being patient. <3

Similar to the previous round, beyond the top 63 planet awards, we’re also awarding a number of special prize planet NFTs to individuals who contributed to Dark Forest in especially creative and/or community-minded ways. These prizes are awarded by the core developer team with input from a few community members. They aren’t meant to be an exhaustive listing of all community projects; rather, they’re meant to highlight a sample of community contributions that we thought were especially cool.

In future rounds, the Dark Forest team will continue to award NFT prizes at our discretion to players who contribute to the Dark Forest community via open-source tooling, content creation, bug reporting, and more.

• d_fdao (lvl4): for creating the first trustless, permissionless multiplayer contract aka The Astral Colossus
• disruptbanksy (lvl3): for frequent community assistance, helping users solve problems, and even giving out xDai to get players up and running
• velorum (lvl3): for frequent community assistance and moderation (both in general and technical areas), content creation, and moderating the Spanish language channel
• modukon (lvl2): for community assistance, and creating/reviewing plugins
• bulmenisaurus (lvl2): for community assistance and plugin contributions
• weaselslider (lvl2): for frequent community assistance
• nahkd (lvl2): for community assistance, especially during the beginning of this round
• niftymaestro (lvl2): for creating the Find Planet By Name and Highlight Buffs plugins
• nightlostk (lvl2): for continued community support and moderation of the Mandarin language channel
• erica (lvl2): for continued community support and moderation of the Mandarin language channel
• stx69 (lvl2): for creating the Planets Overview and Upgrade Headquarters plugins
• fromddy (lvl2): for creating the Highlight Friends and Gift Area Planets plugins
• snowtigersoft (lvl2): for continued curation of the Awesome list, plugin contributions, and Dune Analytics contributions
• binderdoug (lvl2): for continued contributions to and maintenance of open-source plugins and developer resources
• jacobrosenthal (lvl2): for continued contributions to and maintenance of open-source plugins and developer resources
• spencecoin (lvl2): for continued community leadership and assistance with community management

When projects were launched with either multiple contributors, or with both DAO and individual involvement, the Dark Forest core team used discretion to decide where and how the special prize planet should be awarded.

As with the top 63 prizes winners, we will email the special prize winners with instructions on how to claim them in the near future.

Thank you for playing in Dark Forest v0.6 Round 4: Society Eggnog! We’ll see you in the next round.

-Dark Forest Team