Alpha Season 4

TL;DR

Starting October 9 at 2 PM UTC, enjoy a galaxy of diverse adventures, challenges, and rewards!

Over 1,400 SAND and 170+ NFTs are available per player in season rewards, including wearables, equipment, and access to exclusive gated content.

Jump: Alpha Hub | Battle Pass | Alpha Pass | Earning EP | Season Rewards | Navigate Season 4

Alpha Season 4 will take place over ten weeks and feature over 100 unique experiences. Each day, a new experience (or sometimes several) will launch.

Alpha Hub: Connect, Claim Rewards

The Alpha Hub is a social gathering spot that remains open for the full duration of the season. It's a jam-packed wonderland with immersive areas and many top brand partners. Start your journey here, hang out with friends anytime, and press ENTER to chat with players or ambassadors there to help.

Interact with characters and content in the Alpha Hub for tips and tricks to guide your season journey and earn your first Ethos Points through quests.

Revisit the Alpha Hub weekly to unlock gated areas with NFT passes to claim rewards.

Battle Pass: Level Up!

Your journey through Alpha Season 4 is tracked within the Battle Pass, featuring 30 exciting levels to conquer. Completing each level grants a unique reward, including SAND and different types of NFTs.

15 of the levels have free rewards for all players, while the remaining 15 levels have rewards exclusively for Alpha Pass holders. You can access the Battle Pass both within the game client and on the web dashboard starting October 9 at 12pm UTC, when Alpha Season 4 launches.

Alpha Pass: Unlock Bonuses

Each Battle Pass level you reach during Alpha Season 4 unlocks a reward, like SAND or exclusive NFTs. Some of these rewards are exclusive and can only be unlocked if you own an Alpha Pass!

The Alpha Pass earns the owner additional SAND within the Battle Pass and grants 10 Partner Pass NFTs that provide access to exclusive gated areas within experiences. This gated content contains special quests that unlock bonus SAND and Ethos Points (allowing you to level up faster).

Alpha Pass holders will be able to earn 13x more SAND by progressing through the Battle Pass vs non-holders.

How to Get an Alpha Pass

Earn Ethos Points (EP)

As with previous seasons, playing and progressing in Alpha Season 4 revolves around the collection of Ethos Points, or EP. Gathering EP allows you to level up your Battle Pass (and unlock rewards!).

You can earn EP in several ways. The primary one is simply by playing and completing the different types of quests across all season experiences. There are three types of quests within Alpha Season 4:

Once you earn a certain amount of EP, you will progress to the next level in the Battle Pass. Completing level 1 requires 10 EP, level 2 requires 15 EP, and so on, up to level 30 (with 3,375 EP!).

EP is used to determine your place on the season leaderboard. The more EP you have, the higher you climb, and the more chances you have each week to win an Alpha Pass via the leaderboard raffle!

Bonus Ethos Points (EP)

While completing quests within season experiences are the primary way to collect EP, Alpha Season 4 also introduces other powerful ways to gain bonus EP and level up even faster.

Daily Challenges

Maximize your EP with Experience of the Day and the Social Challenges. These reset daily. Once reset, you can't go back to complete them, so be sure to complete them each day.

You can earn large amounts of bonus EP to level up faster and get more rewards daily!

Refer Friends

Earn bonus EP for inviting friends to play Alpha Season 4! For each friend that reaches Level 1 in the Battle Pass, you will receive an extra 50 EP (up to a max of 10 friends). You can stack up to 500 EP with the friend referral system, so invite your friends to play!

How To

You can find your unique referral link on the Summary page of the Alpha Season 4 dashboard on the website.

Own an Avatar

Avatar owners passively earn bonus EP weekly based on the rarest avatar in their connected wallet!

If you own multiple avatars of different rarities, you will only earn EP from the rarest avatar you own.

The weekly bonus EP for avatar ownership will be distributed every Tuesday at 2pm UTC.

You can purchase an avatar in the Avatar Shop to start earning passive EP!

Premium Quests

Certain experiences in Alpha Season 4 will have a Premium Area that is NFT-gated and contains Premium Quests. On average, each Premium Area contains around five quests (however, it can range from two to eight depending on the experience).

Quests inside the Premium Areas are considered “Normal” quests (yellow exclamation mark) but reward more EP than Normal quests found outside of Premium Areas (five EP inside, one EP outside).

To access these areas, you will either need a Partner Key NFT or a Category Key NFT.

Partner Keys

You can buy a Partner Key on The Sandbox Marketplace on the first day of Alpha Season 4 for 5 SAND and can expect to earn up to 30 bonus EP per key if you complete all the quests unlocked.

Category Keys

You can buy Category Keys on The Sandbox Marketplace on the first day of Alpha Season 4 for 20 SAND and expect to earn up to 300 bonus EP per key if you complete all its unlocked quests.

Season Rewards

Alpha Season 4 is filled with incredible rewards, with a SAND reward pool worth over $2.5 million USD and 170+ exclusive NFTs — from space-themed NFTs to passes, wearables, equipment, and more. Discover more about the rewards in Alpha Season 4 below.

SAND Reward Breakdown

There are numerous ways to be rewarded with SAND in Alpha Season 4.

• All players will have the opportunity to earn 25 SAND within the Battle Pass, with Alpha Pass holders able to earn an additional 300 SAND.

• LAND owners will have the opportunity to earn 80 SAND based on the collective EP gained by the community (more on this below).

• A Final Raffle will be held on the last day of the season, in which 500 winners will be rewarded with 1,000 SAND each. As with the Weekly Leaderboard Raffle for Alpha Passes, the number of entries you have in the Final Raffle will be based on your leaderboard rank (i.e. how much total EP you have earned throughout the entire season, so be sure to collect as much EP as possible through quests, daily challenges, and friend referrals).

NFTs Reward Breakdown

Space Helmets

Players can receive up to two space helmet NFTs during Alpha Season 4.

• Gold Space Helmet: Eligible for players who pre-register ahead of Alpha Season 4. Pre-registered users will receive the Gold Space Helmet NFT in their claim section on the first day of the season. This NFT will no longer be available for additional players after the season launches.

• White Space Helmet: All players who either create an account or log in during Alpha Season 4 will be able to claim this NFT in their claim section for the duration of the season. This NFT will no longer be available to be claimed after the season ends.

Battle Pass NFTs

There are 20 NFTs you can earn by progressing through the Battle Pass (10 available to all players and 10 only for Alpha Pass holders).

• 10 exclusive equipment NFTs, each in collaboration with a unique top brand partner, will be available to all players within the Battle Pass. These equipment NFTs are all able to be worn and used in-game.

• 10 Partner Pass NFTs, each also in collaboration with a unique top brand partner, will be available only to Alpha Pass holders within the Battle Pass. Each Partner Pass NFT unlocks access to a gated area within the relevant Partner’s experience(s). This gated content contains special quests that unlock bonus SAND and Ethos Points (allowing you to level up faster)

Adventure Quest NFTs

Not only do Adventure Quests grant the most Ethos Points of any quest type (20 EP each!), you’ll also be rewarded with special branded NFTs by completing the Adventure Quests available across the 40 partner experiences of Alpha Season 4! Like the equipment NFTs granted within the Battle Pass, the NFTs rewarded from Adventure Quests are also able to be worn and used in-game. Look for quests marked with a blue “!” in-game to start your adventure and unlock special rewards.

Marketplace NFTs

110 Partner NFTs from 40 brand partner collections will be available for sale during Alpha Season 4 in very limited quantities. Each collection will be released the day their associated experience goes live and can be purchased in The Sandbox Marketplace! Many of the collections will be designed as part of a set to match the branded NFTs rewarded in the Battle Pass and by Adventure Quests, so be sure to complete and wear your favorite full NFT sets in-game.

LAND Owner Rewards

LAND owners will earn bonus rewards based on the Ethos Points gained by the community as a whole during Alpha Season 4. There are four community milestones between 125K to 500K collective EP, and when each is reached, LAND owners will be able to claim LAND Owner Hub Pass NFTs that unlock access to special rooms in the Alpha Hub. Each room holds a SAND Chest with 20 SAND, meaning LAND owners can earn up to an additional 80 SAND throughout the season.

If you haven’t already, it’s the perfect time to get your first LAND!

Navigate Season 4

Season Guided Tour

This season includes a guided tour of tips to quickly explain the Alpha Season 4 dashboard, rewards, and more.

Need a Refresher?

Click the ? on the top right of any Season 4 page to view the guided tour again.

Start Playing: Download the Launcher

Use our step-by-step instructions to install the Launcher, which will keep you connected with what's ready to play in Alpha Season 4 and the latest version of the Game Client.

How to Play

The first time you open any Experience, you'll see a tip screen for controls needed to play.

New to The Sandbox?

Play Tutorial First Time Square to learn controls and earn your first NFT rewards!

Enter the Alpha Season 4 HUB

The Alpha Hub includes helpful video screens with quick tips for using controls, inventory, etc.

Learn more about the Alpha Hub in Season 4.

Find Experiences to Play

There are many ways to see which Alpha Season 4 Experiences are open for play:

• Visit the Alpha Season 4 dashboard on The Sandbox website (www.sandbox.game)

• View in the Launcher

• View in the Game Client (gameplay software)

Claim Rewards

Alpha Season 4 rewards earned through completing Battle Pass levels, Premium Quests, Avatar Ownership, LAND Ownership, daily challenges, etc. automatically appear on your Claims page when you are logged into your account.

Rewards earned from giveaways from livestreams or partners may be received differently (and you may need to provide your wallet address). Please follow instructions provided in giveaways from The Sandbox Trusted Partners or The Sandbox team.

Avoid Scams

Be careful about potential scammers who may want to offer anything that's too good to be true and NEVER share your wallet's seed phrase or password with ANYONE (even staff)!

This may include Alpha Season 4 Passes, Category or Partner Key NFTs, Avatars, LAND, or even fictitious content that isn't built into The Sandbox Season 4 structure for playing and earning rewards. Always check the source to verify it is official.

Your wallet is managed by a third party. The Sandbox is not able to recover any lost funds from scammers who attempt or succeed at stealing content from your wallet with fake offers. We'll do our best to report any known scams identified during Alpha Season 4 to help keep you safe!

🚀 Let's Have a Blast!

Our past Alpha Seasons have represented significant milestones for The Sandbox and for the realization of the metaverse. Alpha Season 4 will be bigger and better than ever, with some of the biggest, most beloved brands coming together to create immersive, rewarding experiences right next to those created by our global end user community. We’re incredibly excited for our growing community to join us for this epic ten-week event.

See you for the launch of Alpha Season 4 on October 9 at 2pm UTC!