In Brief:
- A fresh ENJ Excavators season has begun at Kepithor Studios, clearing the leaderboard and zeroing out gems and upgrades for the entire player base.
- ENJ is divided each week among the 600 highest-ranked players, drawn from a pool the studio funds with its own Enjin validator node — a source Kepithor said returns more than 15,000 ENJ monthly.
- NFTs are the sole thing that survives the wipe: Goblin holders retain their mining boosts, while anything purchased with ENJ expires.
The ENJ Excavators mine has been reset by Kepithor Studios to kick off a new season, returning all players to zero gems and removing every upgrade acquired over the previous cycle.
Word of the reset came via the studio’s X account, which urged players to “chase your share of ENJ before the leaderboard closes.”
The mine has reset and everyone starts from zero.
A new Enj Excavators season is live.
Turn a few taps into a goblin-powered operation and chase your share of ENJ before the leaderboard closes.
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There is nothing unusual about the wipe. The game operates on a weekly rhythm: the board is cleared every Tuesday at 12:00 UTC, and ENJ prizes reach the top 600 finishers not long after.
What survives a reset
Very little. Gem balances, leaderboard standings and equipment upgrades are all erased — even the upgrades players bought with ENJ. Anything bought using ENJ is good only for the duration of that season.
The exception is NFTs. Goblin NFTs sourced from NFT.io persist from one season to the next and deliver a global production bonus of between 1% and 12%, giving holders a head start whenever a new mine opens. On NFT.io, base Goblin Cart NFTs change hands at roughly 25 ENJ.
Utility in the game extends to all 15 Enjin Multiverse NFTs, which sit in something like 21,000 wallets and increase how well in-game boosters perform. Every upgrade in the game takes its name from one of them.
There is one more carryover. A 0.1% mining boost earned by watching an ad follows the player into the next season at half its value, halving again each time after that — 0.05%, then 0.025%, and onward.
Where the prize money comes from
Funding for the pool comes from an Enjin validator node run by Kepithor. The studio says rewards from that node have consistently topped 15,000 ENJ per month.
Since weekly payouts amount to just 2.5% of the pot while validator income continues to flow in, the pool expands instead of shrinking. A guide published by Kepithor pegged the total at nearly 80,000 ENJ, and a live figure can be checked via the crypto menu at kepithor.com.
A recent post from the game’s account reported that upwards of 14,000 ENJ had gone into the main prize pool, raising weekly pools — the season underway at the time included.
A 10% creator royalty on its NFT collection gives the studio an additional revenue stream, taking a slice of each trade on NFT.io and other Enjin marketplaces.
How the season is played
Gems are collected by tapping, then spent on automatic-mining workers and on upgrades that increase output. Because rank is determined by gem balance, the season hinges on a trade-off: every gem put into equipment is one gem off your leaderboard tally.
A prize goes to anyone who plays and spends at least some of what they mine — roughly a minute of gameplay, by the studio’s estimate. The size of that prize comes down to placement.
Enjin’s Managed Wallet handles onboarding. All a newcomer needs is an email address — no seed phrase — and winnings can later be shifted into a self-custody Enjin wallet.
Background
November 2018 saw Kepithor sign on to Enjin’s Early Adopter Program. Kingdom Karnage, the studio’s debut title, ran on the early Enjin Platform on Ethereum from 2018 to 2020, with Kingdom Karnage: Heroes and Kingdom Karnage: Clicker following it.
February 2024 marked the studio’s comeback to the Enjin ecosystem with ENJ Excavators, and the game arrived on Google Play on March 5, 2024, billed as a $12,500 launch. The opening five weeks carried prize pools of 5,000 ENJ.
The integration moved quickly. According to Kepithor, hooking into Enjin Blockchain took under two hours, and the studio authored a tutorial for Enjin’s documentation so that other developers could follow suit. The studio was “very impressed with the Enjin Blockchain’s usability,” founder Nick Franklin said.
Two chains carry Kepithor’s portfolio. ENJ Excavators relies on Enjin NFTs and pays out in ENJ, while the studio’s remaining games are built around its KEPI token on BNB Chain. As Franklin put it, “the beauty” is that “they all work together.”
Player numbers for the game sit just under 2,000, and the studio reports it has moved into profit.
“We’re transparent about what we’re earning and how it’s distributed,” Franklin said.