Pixel pets that hatch from Bitcoin blocks. Mint an egg, and 144 blocks later the hash of that block decides what hatches. Nobody knows in advance, not even us.
Your wallet pays once. After one confirmation the mint server inscribes your egg as a child of the Block Pets parent. The price goes to the treasury in the same transaction.
Your egg is confirmed in block N. It hatches at block N + 144, about one day later. The countdown on the egg updates by itself.
When block N + 144 is mined, its hash is mixed with your egg's id. That number picks the species, colours and gear.
The pet is drawn by code stored on Bitcoin. Any Ordinals explorer or marketplace that supports recursion shows it the same way.
Trading opens once all 2,100 eggs are minted. Until then, the only way to get an egg is to mint one.
A 40×40 pixel pet stored fully on Bitcoin as an Ordinals inscription. It starts as an egg and hatches 144 blocks after it's minted.
The traits come from sha256 of your egg's id and the hash of the hatch block. That block doesn't exist when you mint, so nobody can predict or choose the result.
The egg price (paid to the treasury inside the inscription transaction), your share of the network fee, and 330 sats of postage that stay with your egg. Eggs paid in the same block are inscribed together, which keeps the fee low. Your wallet adds its own small fee for sending.
Every egg is a child of one parent inscription. The renderer asks ord for the parent's children in order and only draws the first 2,100. Copies, eggs without the parent, and child #2,101 or later show "Not a Block Pet".
UniSat, Xverse, Leather and OKX. Your egg goes to your Ordinals (taproot) address. Use a wallet that protects inscriptions, and never type your seed phrase into a website.
Nothing is lost: once your payment confirms, the server inscribes the egg to your wallet anyway. Come back and press "Show status", or check My eggs. If the collection sells out before your payment confirms, it is refunded.
Yes: up to 3 eggs per wallet, and up to 3 in a single mint with one payment. The mint server enforces the 3-per-wallet limit. The hard limit checked on-chain is the 2,100 eggs.
Here in The Nest and My eggs, and on any Ordinals explorer such as ordinals.com. Marketplaces that support recursive inscriptions show the live egg and the hatched pet.
No. The supply of 2,100 is baked into the renderer inscription, which can never be edited. Even the parent's owner can't make egg 2,101 a Block Pet.
Pets that hatch on a difficulty adjustment block (every 2,016 blocks) get the Epoch Hatch sparkles. Hatch blocks whose hash ends in 777 give Lucky 777. Pure luck of the chain.