Splinterlands has scheduled land 1.5 to be released Tuesday, November 14th, 2023. Thats tomorrow, and there has still not been any delays announced, even the recent Town Square indicated that a delay is possible. Land has been long awaited, and its very exciting that it could finally be here.

Edit: Shortly after posting this, a land delay was announced. The new planned release date is November 28th.

With the imminent land launch, it is interesting to take a look at the distribution and top holders of the currently claimed land plots.

This post contains:

• Distribution of land plots between accounts as a function of number of plots held.
• DEC held in accounts compared to DEC needed to power up land
• Number of land plots with sufficient DEC to be used right away.
• Top land holders

How is land distributed?

Data sampled at 15:00 UTC time, 13. nov. 2023

The distribution of land plots is shown in the table and figure below.

Number of plots in account	Number of accounts	Percentage of all plots
1	1519	1.1 %
<= 10	3140	6 %
< 100	3543	14.5 %
< 1000	3794	45.5 %
> 1000	51	54.5 %

Some takeaways: 3845 accounts hold a land plot. 51 accounts hold 1000 plots or more (equivalent of a region). Together these own more than half the claimed land plots. Accounts with less than one tract equivalent (100) plots, own only 14.5% of plots.

The plot below shows in more detail how the land plots are distributed between accounts of different sizes.

Are land holders prepared?

To be fully utilized, each land plot requires 50k DEC or a Runi to be powered up, plus possibly a power source. There are 150k land plots in total, giving a land the potential to absorb 7.5 billion DEC (7.5 million USD at peg), if we ignore the power source and Runis.

The chart below shows the number of land holder accounts as a function of how much of the DEC they need that are currently holding in their account. Each bar represents a fraction interval of 5%.

Since players can store DEC in other locations than their land account, this might not be completely accurate but it gives an indication

We can also examine how this fraction depends on how many plots the accounts have:

Number of plots	Average ratio of needed DEC to held DEC	Plots with sufficient DEC
1	25.4	205
2-10	21.5	1137
11-99	22.0	2186
100-200	9.4	2054
201-999	11.4	1557
>= 1000	7.5	5736

The results are not that surprising. The ratio of held DEC to needed DEC is higher for the lower plot numbers, as expected. However, the numbers are low, meaning that lots of accounts with very few plots do not have much DEC in their accounts at all.

For the tract and region owners, the ratio is low. This makes sense since the amount of DEC needed to fill all the worker slots for these accounts is very large. Even so, the region owners are able to fill a lot more plots than the other groups.

In total, slightly less than 13000 land plots (12875) can be filled immediately if all the DEC held in the land holder accounts is used for land. On top of that, Runis can be used to fill another 3521 plots.

Note that these calculations are based on the DEC balances sampled at one time point and that account DEC balances can have changed since that

Top land holders:

Account	Number of plots
@vugtis	4512
@gamecredits.org	3110
@cryptomancer	3001
@mastersorcerer	3000
@blockchainff	3000
@brybro27	2302
@neal.cards	2169
@mattclarke	2127
@cryptoeater	2020
@promote.helper	2014
@byzantinist	1984
@yggspl	1869
@nullfame	1800
@yabapmatt	1710
@michealb	1534
@snowboy145	1500
@leveluplifeph	1218
@hive-engine	1200
@knightav	1196
@fighter4-freedom	1186
@jarvie	1126
@xorcyst	1118
@azircon	1115
@digitspin	1111
@janoshik	1106
@moriarty95	1106
@molins	1103
@wolf-sl	1100
@khazrakh	1038
@jesterago	1037
@queenofmonsters	1036
@wackojacko21	1021
@tufkat	1017
@db-cooper	1015
@mavrik	1013
@tameshon	1011
@cryp71x	1010
@druidsblood	1010
@ryan600	1006
@mangowambo	1002
@redundancy4040	1001
@steelman	1000
@dagny-taggart	1000
@jeffopenscards	1000
@ashcinder	1000
@sidedoorventures	1000
@dhimmel	1000
@banner8888	1000
@spswhale	1000
@abrockman	1000
@preferansist	1000

A full list is also available at Splintercards

Final words

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Kalkulus