Yeti NFT Scope (Smited Yeti: The Abominable Ministry)

2026-11-12

Status

Live since 11 November 2026, 17:33 CT. Smited Yeti: The Abominable Ministry (YETI) mints on Gnosis at subgenius.finance/yeti: 0.1 xDAI for a random yeti, 0.2 xDAI to build your own, every xDAI to THE vault. This doc is now the record; the planning below is kept as it was written.

A first collection at 1 and 2 xDAI (0x29ea2176bd4add12130740404ca549d7ca32d208) was deployed and never opened: yetis needed to be cheaper.

Decisions so far

Added 2026-11-10 after the first sketches:

• One locked base. Every yeti has the same head shape, pose, ears and grin; only the trait layers change. Variance in the base itself (like the gap in the teeth) breaks the "same yeti, different gear" look a set needs.

• No yeti is assigned to anyone up front, BtcBob included. Holders choose theirs on the site before minting, once the set is complete.

• Favorite style so far: the fur-coat aristocrat (sketch 3: round gold glasses, waistcoat, fur spilling over the collar).

• Eyewear is optional, eyes are always there. Every yeti has an Eyes trait drawn on the base; an Eyewear layer (shades, round gold glasses, monocle, none) sits on top. Many yetis wear none, so their eyes show. Dark shades hide the eyes; clear or round glasses let them peek through.

Canon: what a yeti is

The yeti is the original race, magnificent and fallen, and a SubGenius is the half-breed. All quotes are from the Book of the SubGenius (1983), checked against the source text.

• The first right man. "Homo Correctus, First Right Man. He predates Homo Sapiens." SubGenii descend from "the 'Abominable Snowmen,' the Sasquatch, the Bigfeet… The Folk. WE WERE HERE FIRST." (ch.8 p.108)

• Classy and strong. A "12-foot furred giant who lived for almost 10,000 years and was so intelligent that he could stroll naked in the most severe climes." (ch.4 p.67) "Huge, luxuriously furred… the perfect physical and mental ideal," living in clean, gleaming cities. (ch.8 p.107–108)

• First "Bob". "The first perfect Yeti," ruling Atlantis, "more correctly, 'Antiquitum'." (ch.4 p.67)

• The degeneracy. They "had more lust than sense. They interbred with humans… lost their fur coat, their great size… They became Pinker… by which we mean not lighter-skinned, but less interesting." (ch.8 p.108) A balding, fallen yeti is canon.

• The hybrid. A "Yetinsyny". "NOT ALL YETINSYNY ARE SUBGENII! They are sometimes Pinks." (ch.8 p.104, 109)

• Where fullbloods live. The Dzugarians, in the lost Glass City of Chang-Eng on the Ice Plateau That Time Forgot, where "Bob" had his Third Nostril opened with bamboo rods. (ch.8 p.107; ch.2 p.40)

• Latent senses. Third Nostril, Sense of Slack, Psychic Forklift, a 4th that is "(CLASSIFIED)", Mystery Sense. (ch.8 p.110)

• Default expression. One race under "Bob": "all smiling, all smoking." (ch.8 p.110) So the base yeti smiles and holds a pipe.

• Contradictions are a feature. The ch.4 and ch.8 origin stories disagree on purpose.

The brief follows straight from this: a fallen aristocrat of the first race. Strong (broad, seen-it-all face), classy (good suit over the fur, pipe held just so), degenerate (a burn on the lapel, heavy-lidded eyes, a drink it shouldn't still be holding).

The NFT

One base yeti, head and shoulders, facing the viewer, square frame. Every token is that yeti with a different stack of trait layers, so a Lodge yeti is recognizable at a glance in anyone's profile.

How it's built

1. Each trait option is drawn once as a separate transparent layer (fal.ai can help sketch; finished by hand so they all match).

2. The layers are stored on chain, as the Codex covers are.

3. The contract stacks the chosen layers into the finished image inside tokenURI. No server, no AI call, no key at mint time.

4. Rarity tiers: common, uncommon, rare, legendary.

Written in today so later projects can use the yetis

• Standard JSON attributes (Fur: Himalayan White), readable by any wallet or explorer.

• traitsOf(id) returning the trait numbers, so other contracts can check traits directly.

• A personality seed per yeti, derived on chain from its number and traits. Any habitat, ours or one built after us, gets the same yeti with the same habits.

• A square, face-centered profile-picture render plus a transparent-background render for dropping into other scenes.

• Membership is plain ownerOf / balanceOf; nothing extra needed.

Decided at launch: unlimited supply with no duplicates; 0.1 xDAI for a random yeti and 0.2 xDAI to build your own with a live preview, both on the same page.

Draft traits

Nine categories, 118 options, every one traced to a source in the lore dig. This is a first pass to argue over, not the final list. Legendary picks are in bold.

Deep cuts only long-time SubGenii will get: 999 Pupil, Classified eyes, Wool Over Own Eyes, Finger-Bone Toothpick, Psychic Forklift, Bamboo Rods, Live Goldfish, Headless Golfer, Faux Yeti Rug, GORF, Yeti-American, and our own Chair by the Window, Folding Chair and Pink Setting.

The Lodge: where your yeti lives

The NFT is the permanent identity; the Lodge website is the habitat. The habitat can grow, change, or go dark with us, and the yeti itself is untouched.

Visiting. Connect your wallet with a free signature (no transaction) and you find your yeti at home. Like a long-running early-Windows screensaver: you just watch. He never dies and needs no care. Sometimes he's out, and there's a note on the door.

What drives the scene

• Home = his background trait: Ice Plateau, Glass City, Pink Suburbia, the Escape Vessel deck.

• Real-world clock: asleep at 3 AM, pipe and paper in the morning, excremeditating at odd hours, a long Slack afternoon.

• Sacred calendar: X-Day (July 5) building for weeks, with saucers on the horizon and a packed bag; (BOB)'s birthday (Epiphany, January 6); Codex anniversaries; full moons; more dates mined from the lore.

• His traits shape his day: a Pope Mitre yeti holds services, a Silver Chainsaw yeti does yard work badly, a Nearly Pink yeti sneaks into suburbia.

• Chain weather: a busy (BOB) block, a Codex donation, a new yeti minted.

• The long tail of lore words (Pleasure Saucer Lounge, Psychic Forklift, Luck Static and hundreds more) become props, moods and events here, even when they aren't on-chain traits.

Phases

1. NFT + simple Lodge page. One scene per home, day and night, a handful of sacred-date scenes.

2. More life. More habits and props, chain weather, other yetis visiting.

3. Yeti SIMS. A social Lodge commons and fuller simulation, scoped properly when we get there.

Name candidates

Chosen 2026-11-10: "Smited Yeti: The Abominable Ministry" (btcbob's own phrase) for the first avatar NFT collection. Earlier candidates below stay as spares for taglines and later sets.

Round 3 (lore phrases): Yetinsyny: The Abominable Gentry; Homo Correctus: The Fallen Furs; Heirs of Antiquitum: Abominable Aristocrats; Smiling, Smoking: The Ruined Gentry; The Lapsed Lords of Slack; The Glass City Pleasure Lodge; Less Interesting Since Atlantis (tagline); The Third Nostril Social Club; Fur Coat Lost, Dignity Pending (tagline).

Risks and what stays out

• The "Bob" Dobbs head is the SubGenius Foundation's trademark and copyright. A paid collection uses pipe, grin and slick-hair cues only, never the head itself. Same for the Stark Fist magazine and Book of the SubGenius covers.

• "Keep pure thy blood" satire (ch.8) reads as eugenics out of context. No "Pure Blood" or "Chosen" traits, and "Pink" never becomes a skin or fur color (canon: Pink means less interesting).

• Real people stay out: Church figures, authors named in the book, Usenet handles, the real X-Day campground.

• Third-party characters stay out: Devo's energy dome, Monty Python, Wookiees, and Disney's Bill Cipher design.

• Marketplace-sensitive items stay mild or out: 'Frop as drug parody, guns, the Jesus lists, sex material.

• Bored Ape lookalikes: none. Original yeti art only.

Open questions and next steps

• Pick the name Smited Yeti: The Abominable Ministry (YETI).

• Sketch the base yeti, with BtcBob as the test model (one image, shown before anything else) One master yeti, locked; every trait cut from it by hand.

• Trim and finalize the trait list and rarity tiers 97 traits in 10 slots, 9 furs; legendaries by luck only.

• Supply and donation per yeti Unlimited supply, no duplicates; 0.1 xDAI random, 0.2 xDAI build-your-own.

• Random traits, build-your-own with preview, or a mix A mix: both on the /yeti page.

• Whose clock the habitat runs on: the visitor's, or one Lodge time for every yeti

• Mine the lore for the SubGenius sacred calendar beyond X-Day and Epiphany

• Visitors between yetis from day one, or later

Trait List (draft 1)

2026-11-11

10 categories, 97 options, every one from the lore dig. Built for the locked base: one face, one grin, gear stacked on top. Percentages are each option's share within its category; argue with any of them.

Rules

Every trait sits on the locked base: same head, same pose, same ears, same grin. A trait that would change the base is cut or moved to the hand-made 1-of-1s.

Stacking order, back to front

1. Background (drawn inside the master's background shapes)

2. Base yeti, with its Fur color

3. Clothing

4. Third Nostril

5. Eyes

6. Mouth

7. Eyewear

8. Headwear

9. Held item (one shared hand rising from the bottom of the frame)

10. Aura

Size budget: a full yeti stays at 24 KB or less. Master 9 KB; most traits 0.5–3 KB; clothing and backgrounds 5 KB or less. Fur colors cost almost nothing: they recolor the master instead of adding a layer.

Rarity: each percentage is that option's share of its own category. Tiers: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary. "None" counts as an option, so most yetis are not dressed head to toe.

Background, Fur, Third Nostril

Background (12). Skies must contrast with the cream fur.

2026-11-11: backgrounds are now places around Dobbstown and the X-Day campground ("where in camp you caught him"), in 1950s pulp-poster style with muted colors. The real X-Day campground is never named. Goddesses stay pin-up level: bikinis, no nudity. Replaced the lore set, then the outer-space set.

Fur (9). A recolor of the master, so nearly free.

Third Nostril (6).

Eyes, Eyewear, Mouth

Eyes (11). Always present, drawn over the master's eyes.

Eyewear (6). Optional. Most yetis wear none.

Mouth (9). Laid over the locked grin, never reshaping it.

Clothing, Headwear, Held item, Aura

Clothing (11).

Headwear (12).

Held item (11). One shared hand rises from the bottom of the frame.

Aura (9).

Conflicts, 1-of-1s, cuts

Conflict rules

• Rare and Legendary Eyes never come with opaque eyewear (Shades, Aviators, Wool), so the rare eyes stay visible.

• Monocle never with Classified (the bar and the monocle fight for the same eye).

• Pleasure Saucer Overhead never with tall headwear (Top Hat, Pope Mitre, Winged Helm): no room above.

• Pope Mitre goes with Pope Vestments more often than chance (a matched-set bonus, optional).

Hand-made 1-of-1s. Ideas that break the locked base, drawn by hand as a handful of special yetis instead of traits: Fullblood Giant (fur spilling out of frame), Nearly Pink (balding, the fallen yeti), Headless Golfer, Yeti Call (mouth wide open, howling).

Cut from the lore draft

Open: supply and donation per yeti. Decided 2026-11-11: Legendary traits are luck only; build-your-own buyers can never pick them.

Contract Spec (draft 1)

2026-11-11

Smited Yeti on Gnosis: unlimited mints, every yeti unique, drawn entirely inside the token, every donation into THE vault. Built on the Codex's tooling and the lessons it taught. Nothing here is built yet.

Rules the contract keeps

Once the art is locked, nobody can change a yeti, the prices, or where the money goes. Not us either.

The contracts

Three contracts, the same split as the Codex: the art, the drawing, and the tokens.

Read functions anyone (or any later project) can call: traitsOf(id) (10 numbers), seedOf(id) (the personality seed for the Lodge), isTaken(traits), renderSVG(id), tokenURI(id).

Minting

Random, mintRandom(), exactly 1 xDAI. All 10 slots are rolled by rarity weight, legendaries included.

Build-your-own, mintCustom(picks), exactly 2 xDAI. For each of the 10 slots the buyer either picks an option or leaves it to fate. Picking a Legendary is refused. Slots left to fate are rolled like a random mint. Picked slots also get a luck roll: with that slot's legendary odds, the pick is upgraded to a legendary. So any yeti can get lucky anywhere.

The roll. Each slot draws from a hash of the chain's random beacon (prevrandao), the token number, the minter and the slot. Good enough for cartoon yetis; a validator could in theory bias a single roll, and the doc says so plainly.

No duplicates.

1. The contract hashes the 10 trait numbers and keeps every hash it has minted.

2. Random mint lands on a taken combination: it re-rolls automatically (up to 16 tries, then the transaction fails and nothing is charged).

3. Build-your-own picks a taken combination with no fate slots: refused. The mint page checks isTaken() first and shows "Already taken by Yeti #N".

4. Two people race for the same combination in one block: the second transaction fails, no charge.

Conflict rules, enforced the same way (random re-rolls the clashing slot, custom is refused):

• Pleasure Saucer aura never with tall headwear (Top Hat, Pope Mitre, Winged Helm of Wotan)

• Rare and Legendary eyes never under opaque eyewear (Gold Aviators, Round Gold Shades, Wool Over Own Eyes)

• Monocle never with Classified eyes

The money. The exact price goes straight to vault.deposit() in the same transaction. Overpay or underpay is refused, so nobody loses change.

Trading post. Built in, like the Codex: list a yeti at your price, anyone buys it; 97.5% to the seller and 2.5% to the vault in the same transaction. Plain transfers stay free. The contract also reports the 2.5% to outside marketplaces as a royalty pointed at the vault.

Drawing a yeti on chain

Storage. Each trait layer is an SVG fragment on a 512 grid, stored in chunks of 24 KB or less. The whole library is roughly 400 KB, about 20 storage transactions. Gnosis gas makes that a few xDAI total.

Colors without rewriting art. Fur, fur shade, sleeve and cuff are CSS classes instead of fixed colors. The renderer writes one short style line per yeti, for example .f{fill:#B5653A}.g{fill:#7E3F22}.s{fill:#3A3B40}, and every layer picks it up. TV-Color fur points the classes at its stripe pattern. No byte-by-byte find-and-replace on chain, so rendering stays cheap.

Assembly order: background (clipped into the master's sky shapes), master yeti, clothing, arm, Third Nostril, eyes, mouth, eyewear, headwear, held item, aura.

What tokenURI returns:

• Name Smited Yeti #N, a short description, and the 10 traits as standard attributes (plus Fur).

• The picture as one base64 SVG inside a plain JSON data URI (one layer of base64, not two).

• Every piece of text escaped for JSON.

Size and gas. A typical yeti is 15 to 25 KB of SVG; the worst case (heaviest option in every slot, with "Bob" on the shoulder) is about 60 KB. Reading it costs a few million gas against RPC limits of 50 to 100 million. A test will render the worst case on Gnosis and through several public RPCs before anything locks.

Launch sequence

Nothing locks until the yeti looks right where people will actually see it.

1. Local tests. Foundry tests for every rule above, plus a run that renders 10,000 random yetis and checks size, duplicates and conflicts.

2. Rehearsal deploy on Gnosis with a throwaway collection: upload the art, mint a handful, read them back through several public RPCs.

3. Real deploy: art uploaded, mint closed.

4. The gate: a test yeti rendered on Gnosisscan and in the mint page, worst-case yeti included. You look before anything locks.

5. Open the mint. The art stays open for additions only.

6. Verify the source on Sourcify, announce: post #5 in the NFT thread, plus the forum and X.

Open questions

Decided 2026-11-11:

• Trading post: yes, like the Codex, 2.5% of each sale to the vault.

• New traits later: allowed; nothing locks at launch. Probably unused.

• Luck on picked slots: yes, picked slots can be upgraded to a legendary by luck.

• Symbol: YETI.

• Launch: when we're satisfied. No date.