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Captain Fly Log Update (12) 26th Oct 2023
The Launching of a 1000 Argosy Ships
The tide is high, the wind is fair and so finally after many lunar cycles, it’s time to launch the much anticipated Argosy of the Picaroons.
In previous blog posts we have a explained Max Salt & The Leaderboard as well as some Argosy dynamics. Here we explain the final details of how The Picaroons, The SubVersibles, The Ships and Chandlery Parts come to together — so you can sail up the Admiral of the Fleet Leaderboard, claim treasure and maybe even Win a Wall*.
Ready Steady Launch
The main tool we have is like an advent calendar. But it’s not.
It’s a DRY DOCK for a Picaroon Argosy ship.
Click the ‘My Manifest’ button, select your ship and ED away.
Stow and unstow an inventory of ship parts. Update the blockchain. Add Picaroon crew and Subversible friends. Add parts. Take them off. Unstow. Add new crew. Mix it up a bit. Pretty ship? Or functional? Fast or fun? Or both. You decide.
To find out more— visit Your Manifest at thepicaroons.com
Build-a-Boat What-ifness
At Astro Laboratories we like to experiment. It all starts with a question ; ‘What if”. As in ‘What if we could generate a 100K rare gems on Ethereum?’ Our first NFT collection in 2018 was BlockMark Rox & Gems and with the added Game of Crowns . It was early days.
Today we ask ‘What if NFTs could own NFTs?”. We experiment with ERC721/ERC115/ERC721a and our version of ERC1665 — new NESTED NFTs.
Now— An NFT Ship can own an NFT chandlery ship part. And be sold with it.
8 Picaroons can sail onboard a Ship and 3 SubVersibles can swim alongside a ship. And an Argosy Ship can own Ship Parts.
You can add 8 crew to your Argosy ship. That could be 8 rats or 4 sloths and 4 rabbits. Any combination is accepted.
However — The highest Picaroon score (with a full crew bonus) will come from a full complement of the 8 crew roles (Captain, First Mate, Navigator, Bosun, Cook, Cooks assistant and 2 crew).
Flat thinking
A good way to think of NFT tokens in an Ethereum Smart Contract is to think of them as a block of flats with an inventory. The flats stay where they are but can change ownership.
Let’s not forget ‘Digital Edition Control’. That’s the key thing about blockchain NFTs. The log of ownership and proof of authenticity (and 1 of 1 or limited edition scarcity).
Picaroon Buyer Beware!!
An Argosy Ship can own Chandlery Parts. Like a house can be sold furnished.
THIS IS IMPORTANT a Ship is never sold with Picaroons or SubVersibles. Like a house is not sold with the previous owners and pets still inside….That would be just plain weird. But a Ship can be sold with or without parts. Buyer beware.
When parts are unstowed from a ship it is locked down for 200 blocks to prevent funny business and miss-selling.
There are 30+ ships parts to collect ; 1000 ships and 7000 ships part (+849 Fox boxes) . There are enough ships parts for an average of 7.8 parts per ship.
(Please note there is a small gas transaction due for transfer of ships parts to ships as the Ethereum contracts verify ownership and interact.)
The Lucky Armada
From the Chandlery of Ships Parts you can buy a Treasure Map which reveals 1 of 3 treasure chests.
In 150 randomly lucky treasure chests there is a Ship in a bottle. This can be redeemed for a Lucky Armada ship of the Argosy (via Google Form). Details of how to claim soon on X-Twitter.
In addition the 1st Ships Bottle and the last Ships Bottle will receive TWO Argosy Ships.
Forget not the Fox Boxes
All Picaroon Captain Foxes (849) in the summer of 2023 were airdropped a Fox Box.
These will reveal a fox figurehead in the colour of the fox which owns it.
A red captain fox will have a red figurehead. A green captain fox like Eaton of St. Kitts (2136) will have a green fox figurehead. Could make you green with envy.
Leading Numbers
If you want to win Treasure by winning the Admiral Leaderboard here are the numbers you want. The numbers you need; the amount of future ships for sale, the amount of ship chandlery parts for sale.
The details of scoreable points for increased Speed, Mood & Navigation (+Crew + SubVersibles) — to sail up the leaderboard, are available in Captains Log №13 here
Also remember — The ships of the Lucky Armada are discoverable at any random time — up to the limit of 150 ships.
The Argosy sub-fleets will be released from the Astrolaboratories.eth dock in 2023–24 and consist of the Fleet, The Flotilla and finally — The Squadrons. There will only ever be 1000 ships of the Argosy in total.
December Treasure
Astro Labs will run quarterly treasure prizes throughout 2024. There’s some great merch shipping it’s way for future winners. But for now…
The First Treasure to be awarded on December 6th is ……
Montbars del Havana (7060) — The Picaroon featured on the first Picaroon Mural by the talented Alex Lucas . The IRL French Bulldog — Montbars is to be found in Hackney London. The NFT version could soon be in your wallet.
* You don’t win the actual wall (that belongs to the restaurant..My Neighbours the Dumplings. Delicious BTW) but you do win the NFT as featured on the wall.
Future Leaderboard prizes are in the pipeline. But here’s some decks we made earlier in June. The second place prize for Commander of the Flagship is a FULL set of 5 Picaroon Skateboards.
Not for use on the Poop Deck. Only on the Skate Deck. Where else?
Join us
Feel free to join the Picaroon conversation and add suggestions over on twitter and discord. All are welcome abooarrd.