Splinterlands: More Land Expansion Sneak Peeks... Land Hoooo!!!!

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September 3rd, 2021

On today's AMA, Nate showed us some more new land art that will be gracing our beautiful land soon.

Land is a new expansion coming soon to Splinterlands that is going to add several new layers to the game and ecosystem. Although owning land is not required to play the game (as there is only 150k plots of land and over double that in players at the moment), you may want some of the products that these lands will be responsible for creating.

Land owners will be responsible for producing resources to create new Item and Spell cards. These cards will not be available to purchase in packs or on the Splinterlands store. The only place you will be able to get them is from the market that the land owners will be creating with the resources that they have produced.

These new Item and Spell cards will cost mana, like monster cards, and will be used on a NEW 2nd round of card selection during a match, after the initial monster lineup is chosen. These Item and Spell cards will be (tentatively) combined to make higher level spells and items, much like how the mechanics of leveling Monsters and Summoners currently works. It sounds like new series of Spells and Items may come into play as time moves on, much like new expansions of regular cards, so it's just one set of items and done... no, you will be able to create new items and spells as Splinterlands moves forward!!

Level 8 Mine Interior
Here we see a level *8 INTERIOR of a mine!! Did you know that there was going to be interiors, because I sure didn't!? I can't see what sorts of things they do with lands and buildings! They also plan to animate these scenes. That. Is. Exciting!! What other building interiors will we see, and will there be uses for seeing the interiors...??
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Mountain landscape
A mountain range landscape! Look at that detail! That is beautiful. I love the skull entrance, a nod to The Legend of Zelda if I've ever seen one, and I'm loving it! I'm looking forward to seeing more scenery like this. Worth the price of admission all by itself!!

Level 8 Mine
Here we see a level *8 Mine building that will be on various lands! This is just the building portion and not the actual full land scene, but this shows the type of direction they are going with in placing buildings on different land types. First you get the land, then you get the buildings, then you get the money...
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The Elusive Land
Land is very scarce in Splinterlands. There are only 150k plots of land, and no plans to produce anymore. On top of that scarcity, many players own and hold hundreds, if not thousands of plots of land to themselves, making land even that more hard to find. At the time of this article, land plots are selling for around $500 each. With land plots originally selling for $10-20 each, it's easy to see that there has been quite a rise in interest, and this is still before land is claimable or usable. Will the land prices jump again once we near both of these milestons for the expansion?

Let me know in comments: Do you plan on getting any land? Do you have some already?

If you're as excited for lands than I am, I know that it's hard to wait for it to be usable. With that said, I think we all know that it will be well worth the wait, and we may be sipping on Pina Colada's in the carribean somewhere while someone else is working the digital lands for us!

Thank you, and see you in Praetoria!

-ChannelMagnetic-

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