ANDRAS CURRENCY GUIDE
Welcome to the currency guide! Here, you’ll find all the information regarding earning shards, the ARPG’s primary currency.
When you submit a claim or a prompt, please include a breakdown of the shards you’re claiming, otherwise your submission will be rejected.
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What Rewards Shards?
The following artwork and writing will give you shards:
- Event prompt entries
- Mini prompt entries
- Training prompt entries
- Taming prompt entries
- Exploration prompt entries
- Raffle entries
- Masterlist artwork
- All miscellaneous artwork and writing
Please note: By default, all prompts and raffle entries earn you shards. The number of shards you earn are listed under the ‘rewards’ section of each prompt. However, you can also earn extra shards for your entries! Please remember to tally up the bonuses using the currency guide below.
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The artwork and writing guides are split into their own categories. Please use the guide for the type of work you’re submitting!
Artwork Shard Bonuses
Characters:
- Uncolored line art and sketches: 1 shard
- Headshots and busts: 1 shard
- Full bodies and half bodies: 4 shards
Extra:
- Featured character: 3 shards
- Small companions: 1 shard
- Medium companions: 2 shards
- Tamed mounts: 3 shards
- Untamed mounts: 2 shards
- Simple background: 4 shards
- Complex background: 6 shards
- Gift art: 1 shard
- Your character has a ‘master’ title: 1 shard
- Your character has an enchanted item or accessory: 1 shard
- NPC: 2 shards
Crafts and Animation SHARD BONUSES
- Animations: 2 shards per unique frame
- Sculpture or plushie: 15 – 30 shards per complexity
- Other crafts: Please ask a mod in the discord Q&A channel
Extra:
- Featured character: 3 shards
- Small companions: 1 shard
- Medium companions: 2 shards
- Tamed mounts: 3 shards
- Untamed mounts: 2 shards
- Gift art: 1 shard
- Your character has a ‘master’ title: 1 shard
- Your character has an enchanted item or accessory: 1 shard
- NPC: 2 shards
Writing SHARD BONUSES
Word Count:
- 200-299 words: 2 shards
- 300-399 words: 3 shards
- 400-499 words: 4 shards
- 500-599 words: 5 shards
- 600-699 words: 6 shards
- So on and so forth! Every 100 words earns you one more shard, so 840 words would net you 8 shards.
Extra:
- Featured character: 3 shards
- Small companions: 1 shard
- Medium companions: 2 shards
- Tamed mounts: 3 shards
- Untamed mounts: 2 shards
- Gift art: 1 shard
- Your character has a ‘master’ title: 1 shard
- Your character has an enchanted item or accessory: 1 shard
- NPC: 2 shards
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What Are Ethereal Shards?
Ethereal shards are a special currency in Andras. You can earn them by participating in event prompts each month. Every entry will earn you 1 ethereal shard that you can use at the Mystery Seller to get limited-time items and prizes. Ethereal shards are typically added in the rewards section of the prompt submission page by default.
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Claim and Submission Examples
Example #1: Monthly prompt
- Default prompt reward: 4 shards (listed on the prompt page!)
- Full body: 4 shards
- Medium companion: 2 shards (Kiritsune)
- Complex background: 6 shards
- TOTAL: 16 shards
Example #2: Art for fun
- Full body x 2: 8 shards
- Gift art x 2: 2 shards
- TOTAL: 10 shards
Simple vs Complex Backgrounds
Examples of a simple background
Examples of a complex background.
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Submission, shard, and Claim Rules
- Collaborations on prompts, art, and writing is allowed! Please specify who is participating. Each person will get half (rounded up) of the total shard reward.
- Shard bonuses stack. For example, a full body of the featured character with a simple background will earn you 11 shards. If this was drawn for a monthly prompt with a default reward of 4 shards, you would earn 15 shards.
- Shards can be traded between players.
- Players are allowed to take commissions for shards.
- Shards and other ARPG items cannot be sold for USD or any other real life currency.
- You can include as many woolynes/faelidhs as you want in a prompt or submission.
- You can include as many tamed mounts as you want in a prompt or submission.
- You can include up to 6 companions and/or untamed mounts in a prompt/submission. However, companions and mounts must be accompanied by a woolyne or faelidh to earn coins in order to discourage shard farming.
- Art can only be used to claim rewards for one prompt, double dipping is not permitted
- Currently, there is no maximum word count. However, please allow mods extra time to process lengthier written artwork!
- Submissions of any kind without a shard breakdown will not be accepted!