## The Scrapyard
A drone is a disposable fighter: a cheap robot that fights other drones in its own bracket for a small purse, takes damage that never heals, is scrapped by its third fight at the latest, earns no wage, holds no vault, and can never enter Ranked. A newcomer plays tonight for a dollar. Mint it, fight it up to three times, it is scrapped — that was the game.
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## Two brackets, never mixed
Drones fight drones. Machines fight Machines. A 120-point drone only ever meets other 120-point drones; nobody can buy a bigger robot in either bracket.
The purse is a ladder, not a fight. One fixed weekly Scrapyard purse, declared before the week opens and funded only by fees, goes to the top of that week's leaderboard — most wins, ties split — never per fight. Wins count per owner, not per drone, so a lucky survivor cannot distort the board. No per-fight prize is ever funded from burns: a winner paid from a loser's burn would be a wager, and there is none here. A drone fights up to three times; damage carries between fights and nothing heals; it is scrapped at zero hull or at the end of its third fight, whichever comes first.
| SCRAPYARD | RANKED | |
|---|---|---|
| Who fights | drones only | Machines only |
| Machine required? | no | yes, owned, checked on chain |
| Entry | a drone (about a dollar) — it fights up to three times; damage carries, nothing heals | burns $BITBOTS |
| Stat budget | 120, always | 225–370 (tier + rarity) |
| Purse | small, separately funded | the larger share |
| Pink slips | never | yes |
| Friday wage | never | yes |
Rent versus own
If a drone did what a Machine does for less, nobody would buy a Machine. It does not, and the reason is structural: a drone is rented time in the pit. A Machine is owned capital.
| A DRONE | A MACHINE | |
|---|---|---|
| After you use it | damaged; scrapped by its third fight at the latest — no repairs, ever | still yours, unchanged, forever |
| Friday | nothing, ever | a wage, whether it played or not |
| Savings | no vault — the contract has no such storage | banks wages in a vault a buyer reads before paying |
| Resale | none; it no longer exists | permanent asset, sold with the balance attached |
| Ranked / pink slips | can never enter | the only thing that can |
| Strength | 120 | 225 at the absolute floor |
No quantity of drones ever produces a wage, a vault, or a ranked entry. Forty drones cost about what the cheapest Machine costs, and when their fights are done — three each at the very most — you own nothing. The Scrapyard is where you find out whether you like this. The only way to get better than a dollar a night is to graduate.
## The promise, implemented rather than made
NO WAGE SHARE · NO VAULT · NEVER RANKED · THREE FIGHTS AT MOST
Drones never take a share of the wage pool. The drone contract is separate. It has no function that writes to the Machines contract, and the Machines contract has no function that reads it. There is no code path by which a drone enters burnedFor, and burnedFor is the only wage weight there is.
The drone contract has no vault mapping and no withdrawWages. Not "we won't fund it" — the storage does not exist, so a drone provably cannot bank an asset. Minting a million drones changes nothing in any Friday payroll run, because the payroll script reads the Machines contract and never opens the drone contract at all.
Every drone carries: 0 wage shares · earns nothing. It is in the token metadata, as a trait, so a marketplace shows it without taking our word for it.
Damage never heals. A drone leaves a fight with whatever hull it has left and enters the next one at that hull. No repair function exists in the contract and there never will be — the test suite asserts that no function can raise a drone's hull. Hard cap: three fights, lifetime; even an undamaged drone is scrapped at the end of its third. The record survives: a consumed drone keeps its poster, its stats and the run it had.
The strongest drone ever minted is weaker than the weakest Machine ever forged, by 105 points. That is arithmetic, not policy. Drones roll the same five stats, POW DEF SPD CMP EFF, on the same 0–100 scale, then renormalise to exactly 120. Rarity is shape, never size: a glass cannon, a wall, a sprinter — never a bigger one. Appearance rarity ("finish") exists and is labelled as appearance.
## The burn
The only way a drone comes to exist is a burn of 25,000 $BITBOTS to 0x…dEaD — one fortieth of an Apprentice. No sale, no treasury allocation, no allowlist; the only operator mint is a marketing gift that burns the operator's own 25,000 — it never takes a public slot. There is no series cap, because supply cannot dilute anything: the wage lives somewhere drones cannot reach. There is a per-wallet cap, which binds an address rather than a person — a speed bump, not a fairness guarantee.
Burning means sending the tokens to an address nobody holds the keys to. They are destroyed — nobody, including us, can bring them back, and there is no refund. The page asks for exactly one burn's worth of allowance, never unlimited.
## What they look like
Sample drones from the published generator, rolled from test seeds — not real tokens, not for sale. A real drone's art comes from its on-chain seed and nothing else.
Every sample sums to exactly 120. Hull, lift, optic, tool, fin, core, palette and finish are appearance; none of them buys a bigger budget.
## Mint a drone
HOW TO MINT A DRONE, IN FOUR STEPS
- Get $BITBOTS on pair.fund — you need 25,000 for one drone.
- When the Scrapyard is open, connect your wallet here and press APPROVE (one wallet tap: it lets the contract burn exactly 25,000).
- Press BURN & MINT (second tap). The tokens are gone for good and your drone appears with its name, serial and five stats.
- Fight it in the Scrapyard up to three times; damage never heals; when it is scrapped it goes to the graveyard with its record.
Contract —. Three steps, two wallet prompts. Gas is pinned on every transaction (this chain silently drops transactions a wallet sizes against its absurd block gas limit); the wallet must show the number this page logs, not a re-estimate.
CONNECT YOUR WALLET
waitingCAN YOU MINT?
lockedConnect a wallet and this fills in with your real numbers, read in your browser straight from the chain: your balance, how many drones this wallet has minted, whether the window is open. If anything blocks you, it names it.
APPROVE, THEN MINT
lockedYOUR DRONE
waiting0 wage shares · earns nothing · three fights at most; damage carries, nothing heals. The art is drawn from the seed the contract stored at mint; anyone can re-run the published generator and get the same bytes.
DRONES MINTED IN THIS BROWSER
local recordThis list lives in this browser only. The chain is the truth: ownerOf(id) on the contract.
## Fight in the Scrapyard
Drone against drone, refereed on the server on the same engine the arena runs. The fight is an autobattle: you set a plan before the bell, sign one free message per drone per week (nothing moves), and the referee reads your drone's stats and current hull from the chain, matches it against the next queued drone of another owner, and plays it out. If nobody is waiting, your drone is queued and you get an exhibition against the house drone in the meantime — clearly marked, never recorded. Damage is pushed to the on-chain record in a batch the operator signs; until then the drone cannot enter again.
YOUR DRONE AND YOUR PLAN
before the bellOne signature per drone per week, free. Ten entries per wallet per day, however many drones you hold. A drone enters at its current hull and leaves with whatever is left; nothing heals; the third fight is its last.
THE RECORD
refereed server-side## The ladder
Wins per owner, not per drone, this week. The week rolls on the same day as the arena's. The purse is fixed and declared before the week; it goes to the top of this table (ties split), never per fight.
| # | OWNER | WINS | LOSSES | DRAWS | FIGHTS |
|---|
Last week's receipt
Recent fights
Every fight record is public JSON: seed, both plans, both starting hulls, both stat blocks, the round log. Anyone can replay it through the published engine and get the same log.
## The graveyard
Every drone scrapped by a refereed fight, newest first: its poster, its stats, how many times it fought, and the fight it died in. The record survives the drone.
## Check it yourself
generatorHash. Download it, hash it, read seedOf(id) from the contract, run generate(seed) then droneSVG(): you get the exact image the token shows, and five stats that sum to 120. The metadata at /api/drone/<id> carries the seed, the hash and this link under provenance. The site is a trusted dependency for serving the art; it is not one for what the art is.