Legends of the Mara is an upcoming, land-based game about gathering resources, evolving Vessels into Mara and Mara into Kodamara, and defending against The Shattered, a race of mysterious, dangerous Titans.

To start playing, you must own an Otherdeed Expanded. This is an Otherdeed that has been run through a contract which detaches any associated Kodas, generates a Vessel NFT, and returns the Otherdeed in Expanded form. In addition, you will need either a Koda or a Vessel to make use of the deed. You can also use Maras or Kodamaras to work on your land plots, but they won’t be available right away.

Legends of the Mara Gameplay

Players nest Vessels in their Otherdeed to grow them into Maras. Only one Vessel may be nested at a time on a deed. Vessels come in three types, Hunter, Farmer, and Enchanter. A nested Vessel will evolve into the corresponding type of Mara. Players assign Mara to their Otherdeed to begin working. Players can also use Sediment Fragments and Seasonal Catalysts to upgrade their Mara into a Kodmara, a more powerful version of the Mara. The selection of ingredients used to generate the Kodamara determine the final outcome. Mara evolution is a one-way process.

Kodas are special in that they do not need to be nested first, and they can be assigned to any of the roles. They are also the most powerful of the game units. The Tier rating of the Otherdeed determines worker capacity. While the Sediment trait determines how many Sediment Fragments the Otherdeed produces. Farmers placed on an Otherdeed allow for Fragment harvesting.

Players can choose between farming their Deed for resources, or battling The Shattered for special treasures, known as Unearthed Artifacts. The game will include a leaderboard showing which players have done the most damage to The Shattered, and how long it took to take down one of these mighty titans. Top players on the leaderboard receive additional treasures at the end of the season. Legends of the Mara will include an evolving storyline with their seasons, making each one a little different.

The Otherside team also mentioned (without any details), their plans to create ‘alliances’ with other PFP projects as “reinforcements into the Legends of the Mara battle.” Perhaps we’ll be able to use NFTs from other projects as workers and fighters?

You can learn more about Legends of the Mara on the official website. Season One should launch sometime this summer. We should also see an official litepaper with more technical details about the game soon as well.

What is the Otherside?

Otherside is a Metaverse project by Yuga Labs, the founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club. It is a world of floating islands, each one an NFT Otherdeed (100,000 in total). Otherdeeds come in different tiers, which affects their appearance and their resource production. Each plot can produce up to four different resources. Some lands also come with special Artifacts or Koda visitors. The land NFTs are dynamic, designed to change and evolve based on the owner’s actions.

Otherside will eventually release tools that allow Otherdeed holders to shape and create their own experiences on their plots.

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

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Otherside ramps up their activity with a new feature that lets players convert their Otherdeeds and mint special NFTs along the way! This has broken the plots up into two collections, the original Otherdeeds, and Otherdeeds Expanded.

Expanding an Otherdeed involves claiming a Vessel. One may be claimed for each deed. The process burns the original NFT, issues a new NFT with the same stats in the collection Otherdeed Expanded, airdrops a random Vessel NFT to the owner, and, if a Koda is present on the plot, airdrops a Koda NFT as well. This also updates the metadata on the new Otherdeed to include a Koda Origins Obelisk Piece.

Vessels are inhabited by Shades. There are three basic types – Hunter, Farmer, and Enchanter. Each one will have a different role. They will hatch into ‘Mara’, who, along with the Koda NFTs, will be important for the upcoming gameplay.

This is not a required process for Otherdeed holders. However, the Otherside teams says that it is the key to unlocking future game experiences, including the Legends of the Mara!

What is Legends of the Mara?

Otherside has always been about mutable NFTs that grow and change based on the owner’s actions. And it looks like they will continue this philosophy with Legends of the Mara!

We don’t have a lot of details about the actual gameplay for Legends of the Mara, but we do have a some information. It all starts with the Vessels, which hatch Mara of the associated type after a period of hibernation. Mara can ingest a ‘seasonal catalyst’, and evolve into Kodamara, with traits taken from the Catalysts. The game will run in seasons, with different catalyst effects from each season.

Players also harvest Fragments with Farmer Mara from the sediment layer of their Otherdeed. They type of Sediment determines the type of Fragments harvested. These Fragments are then fed to the Mara, which also affects how they evolve. It’s unclear if the Fragments and Catalysts are the same thing.

Beyond all of this info, we don’t really know what this game will entail. Is it just growing and feeding and evolving the Mara? Or is there a greater goal? Hopefully we will learn more soon. Supposedly the first Mara will arrive this Summer!

You can learn more about Legends of the Mara on the official website.

What is the Otherside?

Otherside is a Metaverse project by Yuga Labs, the founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club. It is a world of floating islands, each one an NFT Otherdeed (100,000 in total). Otherdeeds come in different tiers, which affects their appearance and their resource production. Each plot can produce up to four different resources. Some lands also come with special Artifacts or Koda visitors. The land NFTs are dynamic, designed to change and evolve based on the owner’s actions.

Otherside will eventually release tools that allow Otherdeed holders to shape and create their own experiences on their plots.

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

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