Bricks

Beginner

Think of Bricks as raffle tickets you collect just by playing.

1. You mine ZINC by deploying SOL onto hidden tiles in a round.
2. Every time you mine, the protocol hands you some Bricks automatically. You do not buy them or claim them separately.
3. Your Bricks pile up in your account over time.
4. Later, those Bricks become entries into the Stockpile, a separate prize with a SOL and ZINC pot.

The more raffle tickets you hold, the better your chance when the Stockpile is revealed. Bricks do not decide whether you win an individual mining round. That is a different mechanic. Bricks are mainly your stake in the Stockpile prize. Mining is the only thing you have to do; the tickets accumulate as a side reward.

Intermediate

Here is how Bricks are actually earned, step by step.

1. Each qualifying deploy credits Bricks to your PlayerProfile, the account that tracks your lifetime totals and spendable balance.
2. The amount scales with two things you control: how much SOL you mine, and how few tiles you spread across.
3. Spreading onto fewer tiles is more “focused”: one tile is the most focused choice and tends to earn the most Bricks per deploy.
4. This creates a trade-off: covering more tiles raises your chance of hitting the winning square in the round, but earns fewer Bricks. Covering one tile earns more Bricks but is a riskier play in the round.
5. Mining in consecutive rounds builds a streak, which adds a bonus on top.

So Bricks reward conviction. You decide each round whether to optimize for the round payout or for Stockpile tickets, and the numbers shift accordingly.

Advanced

The earning intuition follows a simple shape. Let S be the SOL you mined and T be the number of selected tiles. More S pushes Bricks up; more T pushes them down, so the most Bricks come from mining more SOL onto fewer tiles, with a single tile being the extreme.

1. A small private jitter is folded into the calculation. Because the exact factor is not public, you cannot reverse-engineer an input that games the maximum: the reward stays incentive-aligned rather than exploitable.
2. Streaks track consecutive qualifying rounds on your PlayerProfile. Each unbroken round adds a streak bonus, but the bonus is capped, so it rewards consistency without running away.
3. Miss a qualifying round and the streak resets, which is why steady participation matters.
4. Bricks behave as weighted lottery tickets: the Stockpile selects ranked winners, and your odds are proportional to your share of all committed Bricks.

Your balance lives on PlayerProfile, which records lifetime Bricks earned and your current spendable total for entering the Stockpile.