Waves Duck Hunt: How to catch eggs
Waves Duck Hunt is a game where you discover eggs hidden around you in augmented reality and get rewards. Choose an egg on the map, get to it before anyone else, open it with your phone camera, and find out what's inside it!
Eggs may contain the following rewards:
SPICE tokens are required to raise ducklings
NFT ducks
Items for use in Duck Metaverse games
You can start playing and open the first 7 eggs for free. To take away your rewards and continue playing, you need an NFT duck with AR glasses.
Overview
How to increase the rewards with a skill tree
How to install and play with mobile app
Rules
Golden eggs are eggs laid by your duck. When you open a golden egg, you are guaranteed to get a reward.
Purple eggs are eggs laid by other users' ducks. When you open a purple egg, you have a 30% chance to get a reward. With a 70% chance the reward goes to the owner of the duck.
Playing without a duck, you can open up to 3 eggs per day, up to 7 eggs total. Eggs spawn within a radius of up to 7 km around you.
The daily and total limit on opening eggs are spent each time you open an egg — no matter golden or purple.
The daily limit is renewed 24 hours after each opening of the egg.
If you have reached the limit on opening eggs, you can still see eggs on the map, but cannot open them.
Adding ducks to the game improves your playability. The daily and total egg opening limits provided by the ducks are added up.
The total egg opening limit provided by a duck equals to its egg laying capacity. However, the total limit and the capacity are spent independently of each other. If the duck has laid all of its eggs, but you have not yet reached the opening limit, you can continue opening purple eggs.
If another player opens an egg laid by your duck, your limit is not spent (and the prize goes to you with a 70% chance).
A laid egg has up to 5 copies, each of which appears next to one of the most active players. When one of the copies is opened, all copies disappear from the map.
The more often you play, the higher the chance of eggs appearing around you.
You will need
Phone with camera and geolocation function.
An idle duck and AR glasses or 1 EGG to buy glasses to continue the game.
How to start playing
🦺 Your safety is the top priority. If EGG is in a hard-to-reach place, try refreshing the page; if that doesn't help, use the rope switch to find another egg.
Important: allow the website to access your location.
Read the safety warning and take a quick site tour.
Log in with your Waves account. If you don't have an account yet, it only takes a couple of minutes to create one. How to create an account
On the map you will see some eggs. Tap the egg to find out the distance to it and time left until it disappears. Tap × to close the hint.
Approach the egg or use the rope to bring it closer. The rope can deliver eggs to your location from up to 1 km away: the shorter the distance, the cheaper it is. The EGG price for rope usage is split between EGG/vEGG and WAVES tokens, also you can pay the EGG part with vEGG tokens
Don't forget to complete the daily and weekly tasks for rope usage!
Important: allow the website to access the camera, motion and orientation.
Golden eggs with a guaranteed reward will appear on the map when you add an NFT duck with AR glasses to the game. The duck is also required to take away your rewards.
💡 The rewards are distributed once a day, including the collected SPICE tokens, the feed limit for ducklings, and level points. The feed limit is credited at 2x of the $SPICE you catch yourself inside the golden egg. If someone opens your egg and you are rewarded, you will receive 1/2 of the amount of $SPICE caught. Also, you can catch extra rewards such:
"Helmet" - a rare part of the fire armor suit. Read about
catch up to 4 hunt boosters from the new festival's collection daily!
How to add a duck to the game
⚠️ After putting the AR glasses on your duck you will be able to unlock the duck from Waves Ducks Hunt only after 7 days.
Tap on the duckling image in the upper right corner.
Tap the Get a duck button.
If you don't have a duck yet, you can choose a duck on the Marketplace tab and buy the duck for EGG. More about auction rules
On the My Ducks tab, select one of your ducks. Any duck except those in farming, on the marketplace, or in other Metaverse games will do.
Tap Send to Duck Hunt for $1 EGG and sign the transaction.
💡 You can send multiple ducks to the game to improve your playability. To add the next duck to the game, go to the main interface of Waves Ducks; on the My Farm page, open the duck card and click Duck Hunt. Every duck needs its own AR glasses.
If you decide to take the duck from Waves Duck Hunt, you will keep the AR glasses. You can put the glasses on another duck later.
How to choose a duck
When choosing a duck, consider how its parameters affect your playability.
Hunt Power depends on the duck's genotype and is calculated by this formula: Here N is the number of ducks with the same genes, regardless of the generation.
The amount of SPICE token in eggs laid by a duck depends on its Hunt Power, date of birth and generation. Young ducks with a rare set of genes lay more nutritious eggs.
A duck's egg laying capacity is the number of eggs it can lay. The capacity depends on the duck's Hunt Power, generation and breedability. Breedable ducks of the latest generations with a rare set of genes lay more eggs.
The total egg opening limit provided by a duck equals to its capacity.
The radius in which a duck lays eggs depends on its Hunt Power and the number of different genes in its genotype
Here's a table with the absolute average duck stats if you are looking for a suitable duck to start hunting!
The ducks' rewards decrease depending on their hatch date. The newly hatched duck is more suitable for hunting than the old one. Here's the formula for the average estimated degradation of the duck's stats on the periods:
How to recharge a duck
Recharge lets you continue playing with a duck that has already used up its golden egg capacity. Recharge increases the duck's egg-laying capacity and total egg-opening limit.
The cost of every additional egg starts at 0.02 Waves Ducks EGG goes up gradually.
💡 Recharge is available for ducks in the hunt with the EGG or vEGG token. You can earn additional rewards by completing daily and weekly tasks on recharge!
Go to the duck card in the game or in the main interface of Waves Ducks.
Tap ⚡ total capacity.
Tap the cost button and sign the transaction.
How to upgrade the hunt perks!
You can increase your hunt stats by upgrading your skills. High-level skills can turn upside to down your play style! For example, you should unlock more points of magnetism if you are a lazy player who doesn't like to walk for EGG
To unlock new levels, you need to catch a sufficient amount of EGGs in Duck Hunt
Each further level requires more caught EGGs and the price increases for an upgrade as the perks power
After leveling up, you can select one available perk to update in the skill tree:
Hatching - increases the number of EGGs you can catch without ducks
Magnetism - bonus effect that will spawn EGGs closer to you by gravity distortion
Stealing - top secret steals technology that increases your chance of stealing a reward from someone else EGG
How to install and play with mobile app
We have verified the app for Android and IOS platforms. If you prefer having everything in one place, you might enjoy playing with Duck Hunt app. To install the application, please follow the direct link to the store, depending on the platform of your device:
IOS https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wavesducks.hunt&hl=en_US
Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wavesducks.hunt&hl=en_US
How to log in?
Аs in the web version, you can also authorize via email or SEED method. Just submit your credentials to log in, as shown in the screenshot below:
If you want to play with the SEED phrase, you need to install the Keeper Wallet app to securely store and authorize into Duck Hunt with your SEED phrase.
Link to download Keeper Wallet app on Android:
Link to download Keeper Wallet app on IOS. Please note that you should install the app in the test flight space!
Here's a detailed guide on how to import your account in Keeper Wallet app:
If you have a secret phrase for Waves account, you can import the account into Keeper mobile app.
Tap Import wallet. Create and confirm a password.
💡 Additionally, you can set a 4-digit PIN code to enter the app
Enter or paste your secret phrase. Check the generated Waves address.
Troubleshooting
Black background, the map is not displayed
Check your browser settings: access to location data is most likely disabled.
Error “Access to the camera is required”
Refresh the page: the website will request access to the camera again.
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