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# Gems Whitepaper

As the Sheep and Wolves journey to Lands of high stakes and high rewards, they catch sight of a shining, tempting Cave in the distance.\
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Curious and seeking opportunities to strengthen their Packs, the 14 Alphas are each determined to find a path to the Cave. After traveling over hills, through valleys, and along the edges of canyons, they finally arrive.\
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Each Sheep and Wolf in the Packs have an opportunity to enter the Cave and compete for Gems.

#### The tl;dr:

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* Burning a Gem guarantees that a player’s Farmer will be rare upon reveal.
* Gems are ERC-1155 NFTs. A maximum of 5,000 Gems will ever exist.
* Gems come in 6 different Farmer Types. The 7th and most common Farmer Type is not represented as a Gem.
* Burning a Gem with an unrevealed Farmer before a certain date (the Submission Deadline) guarantees a player the Type of Farmer displayed on the Gem. Other than Type, the Farmer’s remaining traits are randomized and range from common to extremely rare.

#### Why Gems?

#### Traditionally, NFT reveals leave everything to chance:

1. Users mint an unrevealed NFT
2. The project creators click a magic button to reveal the NFT and its metadata

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Wolf Game is a competition. Players must compete for many aspects of the game, including the rarity and desirability of their Farmers.

#### Utilizing Gems

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Gems are a guarantee to receive one of the rare Types of Farmer.\
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There will be a Submission Deadline to utilize Gems. Should a Player find or acquire a Gem, here is how they may utilize it:

* 1\. The player visits the Farmer Factory, to be released on the wolf.game website.
* 2\. The player connects Metamask and selects an unrevealed Farmer that they own along with a Gem that they own.
* 3\. The player submits a transaction which burns the Gem and guarantees that their Farmer will be of the Type of their Gem. For instance, submitting a Big Daddy Gem with a Farmer guarantees that the Farmer will be a Big Daddy. Using a Gem guarantees only the Type of Farmer; the remaining traits are randomly determined and selected from hundreds of traits of varying rarity across five categories.
* 4\. After the Submission Deadline, Farmers will be revealed.<br>

**Unused Gems**

Any Gems that are not used before the deadline will not have future use. Guaranteeing Farmer rarity is their one and only purpose.\
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Players without Gems will still have a chance at rare Types and Traits.