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Woof404

02 / The kennel

4,444 genesis
text-drawn dogs.

A whole kennel of small characters. Each dog is assembled from the same short list of parts, and the contract draws it fresh whenever someone asks.
Contracts written / mint not openExample drawings / real traits fixed at reveal
Example Common Woof404 dog, drawn in text#17

Common

4,000 DOGS

Ink on paper. The only tier that can be merged.

Example Rare Woof404 dog, drawn in text#52

Rare

400 DOGS

Navy screen, wider wardrobe. Merges add more.

Example Epic Woof404 dog, drawn in text#230

Epic

40 DOGS

Violet screen. Fixed at forty for good.

Example Legendary Woof404 dog, drawn in text#3

Legendary

4 DOGS

Four dogs, each wearing the crown.

Tier sizes are fixed at deployment: 4,000 / 400 / 40 / 4. Nobody, including the team, picks which dog lands where.

Rarity sealed until the reveal
Woof404 #404, a Common ASCII-art dog with folded ears, sparkle eyes, error cap and a 200 tagWoof404 #1201, a Rare ASCII-art dog with floppy ears, sparkle eyes, error cap and a 503 tagWoof404 #2718, a Epic ASCII-art dog with pointy ears, wide eyes, no gear and a 418 tagWoof404 #2, a Legendary ASCII-art dog with floppy ears, sparkle eyes, crown and a 302 tag

Supply can only shrink

Dogs at genesis4,444
Floor if every Common merges1,444

Four Commons burn, one Rare is minted: three fewer dogs each time.
1,444 is the floor if all 4,000 Commons merge. Nobody has to.

1,400 Rare + 40 Epic + 4 Legendary
With every possible merge done.

The arithmetic of a merge

1,000 merges, at most.
Out of 4,000 Commons.

4,000 genesis Commons ÷ 4 = 1,000 merges at most, each one making a new Rare.

Count in the dogs that start above Common (400 Rare, 40 Epic, 4 Legendary) and a fully merged kennel would hold 1,444 dogs.

That is a floor, not a forecast. Merging is optional, so the real count lands wherever holders take it.

How rarity is decided

Committed first.
Revealed for everyone at once.

Before the first mint, the deployer writes only the hash of a secret seed into the kennel. That seed cannot change afterwards.

Every mint mixes the minter's address, the block and the running count into the contract's entropy, so the final mix depends on people nobody knew in advance.

When the mint ends, the seed is published and a keyed shuffle places every genesis id exactly once: the first 4 positions are Legendary, the next 40 Epic, the next 400 Rare. If the seed holder stays silent for seven days, anyone can finish the reveal without it.

Draw a dog

Pick a number.
See what it would look like.

Same drawing rules as the contract, run in your browser with an example seed.

Woof404 #404, a Common ASCII-art dog with folded ears, sparkle eyes, error cap and a 200 tag
rarity
Common
ears
Folded
eyes
Sparkle
mouth
Bark
gear
Error cap
tag
200 ok
tail
Up
fur
Moss

Example only. This uses a fixed example seed so you can see how ids, tiers and traits behave. The real seed is set by the reveal after the mint closes, so dog #404 will most likely look different then.

Every part

The whole wardrobe.
Seven traits, read from DNA.

Ears

4 options
  • Pointy/\_____/\
  • Floppy(\_______/)
  • Folded|\_____/|
  • Round(o)_____(o)

Eyes

8 options
  • Roundo
  • WideO
  • Happy^
  • Sleepy-
  • Crashedx
  • Spiral@
  • Sparkle*
  • Zero0

Mouth

6 options
  • Woofw
  • Grinv
  • Barko
  • Smileu
  • Wobble~
  • Cheeky3

Tail

4 options
  • Wag~
  • Up/
  • Hook_/
  • Whirl))

Gear

8 options
  • None-
  • Hard hat_[=====]_
  • Error cap.-[404]-.
  • NapzZz
  • Work in progress[ W.I.P ]
  • Crown|\/\|/\/|
  • Antenna_|_
  • Bug(oo)~

Commons draw from 5 pieces, Rare and Epic from 7. The crown belongs to Legendaries only.

Collar tag

8 options
  • 404 not found
  • 200 ok
  • 301 moved
  • 418 teapot
  • 500 oops
  • 503 napping
  • 302 be right back
  • 201 fresh

Fur

6 options
  • Ink
  • Toast
  • Slate
  • Honey
  • Moss
  • Plum

Commons wear the dark ink shade on paper; the other tiers wear the light shade on their screen.

Next chapter / 03

Meet $WOOF404.

The project token, and what it does not do.