As its beta phase draws to a close, game developer Zillion Whales has unveiled details of the upcoming launch of web3 RTS Wild Forest across PC and mobile app stores. 

In conjunction with the global launch, it’s also kicking off season 2 of its play-to-airdrop campaign, entailing 2.5x rewards than the first season. By completing in-game missions and climbing the leaderboard, players can become eligible of the forthcoming WF token community round. Another way to get access to the WF airdrop is by staking your Lord NFTs for 90 days.

In soft launch since November 2023, Wild Forest launched its inaugural NFTs on Ronin in February 2024. However, as the Wild Forest beta phase is about to end, certain game assets will become useless. In order to tackle this, the team has launched Forge, a feature effectively letting users turn their old beta assets into Essence. This resource can then be used to acquire new useful items in the game’s Forge Shop, which is set to go live soon following the game launch in early July. 

Currently, Forge allows items such as Beta Units, including both in-game Units and Unit NFTs, to be converted. In addition, broken NFTs, and both offchain and onchain Release Units can be burned. As the game progresses, more items will qualify for burning.

The amount of Essence a user gets is based on their current rank and level in the game, with the ratio being

• Common Release Unit: 100 Essence
• Uncommon Release Unit: 260 Essence
• Rare Release Unit: 640 Essence
• Epic Release Unit: 2 220 Essence
• Legendary Release Unit: 10 080 Essence

Also worth pointing out is that following the official Wild Forest launch, users will have 4 weeks to convert their beta items, after which Release Units will be burned and Beta Units become non-usable.

Hitting 1.5 million daily active users earlier in May, Sky Mavis’ Ronin continues to deliver and expand as one of the top gaming blockchains. We have tracked the recent news and forthcoming launches relating to some of the top games within the network.

Currently the most popular blockchain game, social RPG Pixels, has revealed details of its upcoming release of chapter 2, which will change the game, its resource generation, and earning mechanisms significantly.

Going live 17th June, at a quick glance the next iteration will revolve more around skilled gameplay, and a new tiered rewards system means the further players level up, the more PIXEL they can earn. In the next 6-12 months, Pixels is also planning to launch a range of mini-games.

Latest in line to join the Ronin ecosystem, gaming IP Ragnarok, and its forthcoming monster taming MMORPG Ragnarok: Monster World, is currently the most traded NFT collection on Ronin’s Mavis Market. This follows a successful mint earlier this week where the game’s Nyang Kit NFTs minted out in less than a second. As for Ragnarok: Monster World, it’s expected launch is Q3 2024.

Not far off, as the second most traded NFT collection is mobile RTS Wild Forest with its Lords NFTs. A couple of other collections, including Packs, Skins and Units are also available to buy via Sky Mavis’ Marketplace. Wild Forest’s recent mint saw $1 million worth of NFTs selling out in less than a minute. 

Following this, the team has dropped details about what to expect with the official game launch later in June 2024. The two main features include Unit Perks and Arcade mode. Whereas Perks are various abilities which unlock randomly as a unit levels up, Arcade is a new mode aiming to focus on fun gameplay that doesn’t impact ratings or league standings, nor does it require a deck to play. 

Finally, hybrid PC god game Apeiron has started its $1 million Guild Wars 2024 tournament, with the initial guilds battling to secure tournament slots.

Wild Forest released details about their upcoming pre-release NFT sale, which includes 2,000 Lord NFTs, founder-level NFTs for the game which offer ongoing benefits to their holders! The sale opens on May 23rd for those who can claim a whitelist spot.

A pre-release NFT sale for Wild Forest opens next week! This sale will include over 13,000 NFT packs containing Lords, Units, and various skin NFTs.

Packs come in three varieties — standard, premium, and founder. Each level of pack offers increasingly valuable rewards, and the founder packs even contain guaranteed legendary NFTs! Packs are priced in RON token and cost 10 RON, 40 RON, and 120 RON respectively. There will be 8,000 standard packs, 5,000 premium packs, and only 200 founder packs available during this sale.

Anyone already holding a Lord NFT or who participated in the recent play to airdrop campaign should be able to claim their whitelist spot at https://playwildforest.io/whitelist. You have until May 20th to make your claim. If you didn’t get a spot already, you still have a chance! The Wild Forest team plans to hold a livestream on May 21st where they will raffle off 50 spots to Lord holders, and anyone who accumulated at least 15k points during season one. Stayed tuned to their social feeds for more info.

It’s unclear if this sale will include a public phase.

NFTs in Wild Forest

Wild Forest will support several types of NFTs, including Units, Lords, and Skins. Unit NFTs allow holders to play with those units in-game, where they can be ranked up to legendary status, offering improved stats over the in-game units.

Lord owners receive various perks including in-game benefits as well as priority access to future sales, airdrops, and events.

Skins are cosmetic items for units. These pre-release packs contains seven different, limited-edition, Spirit Warrior skins for the following units — Swordsman, Archer, Knight, Ninja, Squirrelcopter, and Juggernaut.

All NFTs can be traded on the Mavis Market.

What is Wild Forest?

Wild Forest is a free to play, web3-enabled, real-time strategy game, that has some similarities with old school games such as Warcraft (the original games) and Starcraft. Players start with a small base, claim areas, harvest resources, build troops, and try to destroy their opponent’s base.

Wild Forest plays a little differently however, as players need to build a deck of seven unit types before the game begins. Then, once the game starts, they can only build those units, giving the game both a strategic and a tactical layer.

Players can own NFT unit cards, which can be leveled up to create more powerful, higher tier units.

Interested players can pick up card packs on the secondary market, though they are not cheap (currently $100+)! You can also buy Lord NFTs, a founder-type PFP collection (~$650 current floor price). Lords will provide access to future sales, early access to future releases, and grant automatic castle ownership.

Wild Forest is built on the Ronin network.Players will need a Ronin-compatible wallet to use NFTs and receive rewards.

To learn more about Wild Forest, visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord.