What the LBTC Gaming Soul is
Every LBTC wallet gets a Soul Gamer avatar, called a Forgeborn. You do not buy it or pick it: it is calculated from your real activity on LBTC and it evolves as you do more. It is one identity you can carry into every LBTC game.
How to start
A new activity can take up to a minute and a half to show, because results are saved for 90 seconds to keep the site fast.
The seven tiers
Your tier needs two things: enough total Soul Charge and activity in enough different areas. One big grind in a single place is never enough. Pick a tier chip above to watch the avatar evolve. The × number is the staking bonus for that tier (see below).
Armoured suit, visored helmet and a forge pack with glowing vents.
Thigh armour and a warm bronze palette.
Helmet fins, a tabard, upper-arm armour and a second layer on the pauldrons.
A cape, horns, feathered wings and a rune-lit chestplate.
Polished steel plate with orange trim and a larger forge pack.
A halo, orbiting crystal shards and shoulder spikes, in blue steel.
Three orbiting rings, a spiked crown and gold plate.
An area counts as active once it has at least 10% of its maximum points.
Soul Charge
Soul Charge is a score from 0 to 1,120: the sum of eight areas. Your Gaming Soul is the result of what you do on every LBTC platform: the games, the chain and your NFTs. Each area has its own maximum, so no single thing (and no single rich wallet) can carry an avatar. Inside each area there are diminishing returns: the first steps give a lot, later steps give less.
The eight areas
Shards you have earned in LBTC Farm, the hours you have played and your Farm level. Your Farm account must be linked to your wallet (log in to LBTC Farm with your wallet).
Play LBTC Farm and earn shards →Shards you have earned (a lifetime total across the one shared shard bank, so spending shards does not lower it) and how many arcade games you have played.
Play the arcade games →Shards and active play time earned in LBTC Frontier, once you log in to LBTC Frontier with your wallet. Frontier pays into the same shard bank as every other game.
Play LBTC Frontier and earn shards →Blocks you have mined (lifetime), blocks you mined in the last 24 hours, payouts received through the mining pool, and a bonus if you hold a Genesis Miner NFT (bigger for the earliest positions).
Mine a block, or become a Genesis Miner →LBTC you have staked or liquid-staked (stLBTC), how many separate stakes you hold, and the shards you have staked in the shard pool.
Stake LBTC or liquid-stake →LBTC in your wallet. This one grows slowly: it only reaches its maximum at about 100,000 LBTC.
Hold LBTC in your wallet →NFTs you own. Rarer NFTs count for more (Common 1, Rare 2, Epic 4, Legendary 8), with diminishing returns. Every NFT also becomes gear on your avatar.
Collect NFTs: they become your gear →Your LBTC Survivors level and the NFTs you hold there, once your Survivors account is linked to your wallet (log in to LBTC Survivors with your wallet).
Play LBTC Survivors →The numbers, for the curious
Points follow maximum × (1 − e^(−amount / scale)), so they rise quickly at first and flatten out.
- Farm: shards (scale 800, up to 110), hours played (scale 20, up to 30), level (scale 15, up to 10).
- Arcade: shards earned (scale 1,500, up to 90), games played (scale 30, up to 30). The shard figure is the lifetime total of the shared shard bank.
- Frontier: shards earned in LBTC Frontier (scale 3,000, up to 90) and hours of active play (scale 8, up to 30).
- Mining: lifetime blocks (scale 40, up to 140), blocks in 24 h (scale 6, up to 30), pool payouts in LBTC (scale 4,000, up to 40), Genesis Miner bonus (Legendary 60, Epic 45, Rare 30, Common 20).
- Staking: staked plus liquid-staked LBTC (scale 300, up to 110), number of stakes (scale 2, up to 40), staked shards (scale 25,000, up to 40). The area is capped at 150 in total.
- Holding:
100 × log10(1 + LBTC) ÷ 5, so 100,000 LBTC gives the maximum. - Collection: rarity points (scale 15, up to 160). A Genesis Miner counts as 8 extra points.
- Survivors: 10 points for a linked account, plus your level (scale 15, up to 70) and your Survivors NFTs (scale 4, up to 20).
Gear from your NFTs
Every NFT you own becomes gear. You do not choose the slot: it is decided by the NFT itself (its number and name), so it never changes. Your rarest piece in each slot is the one worn. The glow colour shows rarity.
| Slot | Common | Rare | Epic | Legendary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ⛑️ Helm | Brow light | Side fins | Crown of flame spikes | Crown of flame spikes |
| 🛡️ Armor | Chest trim | Extra pauldrons and belt glow | Back plate with glowing seams | Back plate with glowing seams |
| 🗡️ Weapon | Cleaver | Slim glowing blade | Slim glowing blade | Greatsword with rings |
| 🪽 Wings | none | Flaming wings (bigger than the tier wings) | ||
| 🐾 Pet | A floating light | A hound that stands beside you | ||
On the NFT page, rarity names above Epic (such as Mythic or Genesis) all count as Legendary here. Want more gear? Collect NFTs →
Your Gaming Soul and the staking bonus
Your LBTC Gaming Soul is a one-per-wallet NFT that you mint from the Gaming Soul page with your own wallet. It makes your avatar official: games that support it load this exact avatar when you log in with your wallet, and it earns you the staking bonus.
The staking bonus
If you stake shards in the shard staking pool, a Gaming Soul pays you a bonus on top of your normal reward. The bonus grows with your tier: your reward counts up to ×1.00 at Spark and up to ×2.00 at Genesis, in even steps. Each bar shows what a normal 10,000-shard reward becomes:
Experimental: the bonus, its cap and its maximum can be changed or switched off, and nothing about it is guaranteed.
Staking shards and collecting NFTs both raise your Soul Charge, which raises your tier, which raises your bonus. Open your Gaming Soul to see what would move your tier next.
One avatar in every LBTC game
Everything you do in these games already feeds your avatar. The aim is for each game to show the same Soul Gamer when you log in with your wallet, and to let you play with it once you have minted your Gaming Soul. Games switch their character over one by one: the avatar page and the one-line embed for developers are live now.
For game developers
Add one script and a game can show the exact same avatar and check whether a wallet minted its Gaming Soul:
<script src="https://latebitcoiners.com/forge/embed.js"></script>
const s = await ForgeAvatar.soul(address); // s.minted, s.tier_name, s.avatar ...
const b = await ForgeAvatar.shards(address); // b.available, b.staked, b.total: the ONE shard bank, show this number
await ForgeAvatar.mount(el, address, { requireSoul: true }); // draws the same 3D avatar
If a game gives anything of value for a Soul, it should check it from its own server. The avatar itself is cosmetic.
Hall of Souls and sharing
The Hall of Souls on the Gaming Soul page lists the highest avatars among the wallets that have been looked up so far. Look yourself up and you are on it. Copy share link gives a page anyone can open, and Save image makes a share card with your avatar, tier and badges.
Questions
Are my shards the same in every game?
Yes. There is one shard bank per wallet and every LBTC game reads and pays into it. If a game ever shows a different number, log in to it with your wallet and refresh; the Gaming Soul page always shows the bank’s own number.
How does LBTC Frontier count?
Once you log in to LBTC Frontier with your wallet, the shards you earn there and your hours of active play add to your Soul Charge in the Frontier area. Its shards also count in your shard bank like every other game.
My Farm (or Arcade) card shows 0. Why?
For Farm, your Farm account must be linked to the wallet you looked up: open LBTC Farm and log in with your wallet. For Arcade, only shards you earned with that wallet count.
My Survivors card says it is not linked.
Open LBTC Survivors and log in with your LBTC wallet, the same way as in LBTC Farm. Once your Survivors account is tied to that wallet, your level and NFTs count here.
I mined blocks but Mining looks low.
Mining counts blocks paid straight to your address, blocks in the last 24 hours, and payouts from the pool. Early on it grows fast and then flattens, as every area does.
Does it pay anything, or change my rewards?
The avatar itself pays nothing and has no financial value. The optional staking bonus (only with a Gaming Soul, only for shard staking, only when it is switched on) pays extra on top of a normal reward. It never reduces anyone’s normal reward. See the Gaming Soul section above.
Do I need a Gaming Soul to see my avatar?
No. Anyone can look up any avatar for free. The Gaming Soul is for taking your avatar into other games and for the staking bonus.
What happens to my bonus if I sell my Gaming Soul?
It stops, and your normal reward is unchanged. A Soul only counts for the wallet that minted it, so as soon as it leaves that wallet the bonus ends (it can take up to about half an hour to update).
Is the bonus live yet?
The status is shown in the Gaming Soul section above. Until it says live, minting a Soul still gives you the portable avatar, and your bonus will start when it is switched on.
Can I change how my avatar looks?
Not yet. The look comes from your tier and your NFTs, so it always reflects what you really did.
Is it private?
It only uses public information that anyone can already see on the chain and in the games. Anyone can look up any address.
Why did my tier not change after I played?
You need both enough Soul Charge and enough active areas. Open your avatar and read Next: it shows what is missing. Remember it can take up to a minute and a half to update.
Good to know
LBTC Gaming Soul and Forgeborn are experimental software. The avatar is a cosmetic status. LBTC and anything on this site may have no value. Nothing here is financial advice.
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