NFTs and items

Tools, land, avatars and weapons are all NFTs in one collection on the third-party atomicassets contract. Alien Worlds contracts mint into it and read attributes out of it; they do not implement NFTs themselves.

Collection and schemas

alien.worlds is both the TLM token account and the NFT collection name. Within the collection, item types are separated by schema:

Schema	Holds
tool.worlds	Mining tools
land.worlds	Land parcels
faces.worlds	Avatars
arms.worlds	Weapons

These are schemas, not contracts

tool.worlds, land.worlds, faces.worlds and arms.worlds are atomicassets schema names. They are not accounts and have no actions or tables of their own. Material that presents them as contracts is wrong — a mistake this documentation itself used to make.

Which contracts mint

Six contracts send atomicassets::mintasset, each for its own reason:

Packs

open.worlds opens packs. A pack open cannot be resolved in the same transaction, because it needs randomness that the sender must not be able to predict:

The WAX RNG oracle (orng.wax) supplies the random value in a later transaction. This two-phase shape is why opening a pack is not instant, and why the contract keeps per-pack state between the two halves.

Shining

s.federation upgrades NFTs by combining lower-rarity items into a higher-rarity one. It both burns and mints:

Because shining destroys inputs, it is one of the few operations that permanently reduces NFT supply — relevant if you are reasoning about item scarcity.

Mint control

nftmt.worlds is the controlled-minting contract: it holds mint configurations, sets attributes on minted assets, and is also the one contract that talks to atomicmarket, announcing auctions for assets it mints.

Redeeming points for NFTs

uspts.worlds holds the points earned from mining and mints NFTs when they are redeemed. Because points come only from mining, this closes the loop: mine with better tools, earn more points, redeem for better tools.