Crates

Engauge’s crates system allows you to create highly configurable crate drops that periodically (automatically or manually) drop goods like XP or currency.

Navigate to Dashboard Your ServerEditCrates to create and edit your server’s crates.

Configuration

Click the large New Crate button to create a new crate.

Announcement

The announcement settings allow you to control what the crate will look like when it drops, as well as where it should drop.

Some notable fields:

• The Message field can be configured to use formatting templates like level messages.
• The Announcement channel field controls where the crate will “drop” when it is time to drop. If you leave this option unset, then the crate will drop in one of the contributing channels (see Reward section).

Reward

The reward settings control what the crate actually gives your members when they claim it. Crates can drop XP, currency, or both.

• Set Maximum redeemers if you’d like to make it so that the crate can only be claimed by a certain number of people at a time. The default, 0, means there is no limit.
• The Contributing channels represent the channels that “charge” this crate (see Criteria section).
• The Redemption time is how many seconds the crate can be claimed for after it is dropped.
• The Cooldown is how many seconds the crate waits after its redemption time to start charging again.

Tip

Once a crate drops, it cannot be dropped again until the redemption time and then the cooldown time have elapsed. If you want the crate to become droppable again immediately, set the cooldown to 0 seconds.

Criteria

The criteria of the crate controls what “charges” it, or brings it closer to dropping automatically.

• None, drops manually: the crate never drops automatically, and you must always drop it manually.

• Drop after a specified amount of messages sent: the crate charges with each message that is sent in any of its contributing channels. Only messages that earned XP count (see message spam prevention).

• Drop on a time interval: the crate automatically drops a certain number of minutes after it last became droppable. This means the crate will drop every (redemption seconds + cooldown seconds + time interval minutes).

  Crates at Specific Times

  If you are trying to make a crate that drops daily (for example), keep in mind that the redemption time and cooldown count towards this interval!

  If your crate has a redemption time of 300 seconds (5 minutes) and a cooldown of 60 seconds (1 minute), you will need to make the time interval equal to 1440 - 5 - 1 = 1434 to make the crate drop at exactly the same time each day.

Copying crate settings

You can copy a crate by clicking the blue copy button in the top left of the crate settings page. This creates a new crate with all settings copied from the original, but with a new name.

Dropping crates manually

Crates can be dropped at any time.

1. Navigate to Dashboard Your ServerEditCrates

2. Click the crate you’d like to drop

3. Press the Drop button in the top right