The Sandbox LAND Presale — The Smurfs™ Arrive at The Sandbox Metaverse!

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5 min readDec 9, 2020

The Sandbox LAND presale 4.3 resumes with The Smurfs™ arriving at the Sandbox Metaverse!

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TL;DR

If you don’t have an account yet on www.sandbox.game, you will need to create one prior to the presale to access it.
We are resuming the LAND presale 4.3 that features a 10% discount on the public sale price on December 11th at 1PM GMT
You will only be able to purchase LANDS with $SAND
A total of 5,518 LANDS will be available in this sale
This round will feature 2,400 Smurf™ Premium LANDS
Premium LANDS will contain exclusive ASSETS from Smurfs
We are giving away 1 Smurf NFT to ALL LAND owners as special gift to our community

We have a Special Gift for all LAND owners 🎁

As a way to thank our loyal community who’s been contributing to The Sandbox since the very beginning, we’ll be giving away 1 Smurf to ALL LAND owners.

We will be taking a snapshot of the Ethereum blockchain on December 12th at 1PM GMT to collect all the addresses of LAND owners (so whether you bought during a presale or on secondary marketplace such as OpenSea, you will be counted)

All the addresses will be whitelisted to claim this exclusive Smurf at an ulterior date — more details will be shared on how to claim next week.

We are resuming the LAND Presale round 4.3, this time with 2,400 premium Smurfs LANDS filled with exclusive assets, starting on December 11th, 2020 at 1 PM GMT. This will be your last chance to get a hold of a piece of The Sandbox metaverse at a special discount, so don’t miss out!

Get Ready!

If this is your first LAND presale, or its been a while since you participated, these articles are helpful.

To buy a LAND, you will need to follow these 3 steps:

*We will disable account creation during the presale as part of our optimizations (see below), so make sure to create your wallet BEFORE the presale starts.

1 Set up your wallet

Choose between the different wallets integrated on our marketplace to register, get some SAND and prepare to get your piece of the 2,400 premium Smurf LANDS this December 11th 2020 at 1 PM GMT.

2 Get $SAND

After you have set up your wallet you’ll be able to get the key to the Sandbox virtual world!

Learn the different methods available to buy LANDS and ASSETS.

3 Buy LAND

Learn how to buy a piece of the Sandbox metaverse and prepare for our upcoming LAND presale.

Be sure to be ready on The Sandbox Map!

What are Premium LANDS?

A Premium LAND is a single parcel of LAND that features specific characteristics, including Premium ASSETS. They will appear as Yellow LANDS on the map and are defined by two main characteristics:

Premium Location: Each Premium LAND is located close to either a Partner, an IP, or a TSB Estate. These locations are highly likely to attract more visitors thanks to partner visibility as well as the Transportation System and the recently introduced Portals.

Premium ASSETS: Premium LANDs are pre-assigned with a bundle of exclusive ASSETS to kickstart game creation. When purchasing a Premium LAND, buyers will also receive 4 premium ASSETS.

Meet The Smurfs

Here’s an overview of the very first premium Smurfs NFTs included with the Premium LANDS.

14 Legendary ASSETS

2 Epic ASSETS

1 Rare ASSET

1 Common ASSET

Each Premium LAND includes 1 Common, 1 Rare, 1 Epic and 1 Legendary Premium ASSET. Each Legendary ASSET will showcase a unique set of attributes, behavior, and skins, all of which have a limited scarcity of 200 copies.

Premium LANDs for this upcoming LAND presale round will contain Smurf™ premium ASSETS.

To learn more about previous Premium ASSETS (sold in LAND Presale 4.1), read the article on Presale 4.1 here.

Performance Improvements

As some of you may know, we ran into some performance issues on the last LAND presale that we have looked into, and improve the overall performance everyone will experience from our sales in the future, starting this December 11th.

What happened on November 12th

Our database has been overloaded with database write query processes
Network latency with our S3 connections
The frontend shutdown and had the API services went unresponsive,
API kept restarting in an attempt to circumvent the excess load to no success

Improvements we have made for December 11th

Overall refactoring of the frontend and backend source code
Migrated our whole database from MySQL to RDS Aurora Serverless to facilitate rapid scaling
Implemented Redis cache to reduce the amount of database SQL reads or writes, by moving several services to Redis cache
Added Datadog monitoring to receive real-time metrics of each function and methods of the API, getting live status and reports of issues
Various Infrastructure changes to reduce other possible bottlenecks
Implemented Flags to enable/disable features on Frontend without shutting down the whole website
Multiple other improvements