[2020] Introducing HollowBot, a new way to earn rewards for participating in the community

Hey y’all,

Lately I’ve been writing a lot about matchmaking, hotfixes, and the like - but this is an entirely different kind of post!

A few months ago, a couple of us were talking about how we could create a system to encourage and reward people for participating in various streams and the community in general (not just on Discord, but on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and so on as well). Would it be possible to give players a path towards earning a Hollow outfit instead of continually hoping for good RNG? Turns out, it is now…

Meet HollowBot!

Think of it like a free battle pass for Discord.

HollowBot will be used to track your participation in community events. Each event has a list of rewards that require a number of points. Points can be earned by players by completing various tasks and then letting the bot know. At the end of an event, all rewards that you’ve unlocked will be distributed and then we’ll kickoff the next event. It lets us do lots of neat things in a way that we previously couldn’t, so let’s run through it!

For your basic, run of the mill, points, you’ll earn them by tuning into our streams and getting the key phrase from the streamer/chat that you’ll then message the bot to claim. Every stream we do will have a different phrase that’s only active for that stream (and different streams are worth a different amount of points based on how long they are or how special they are).

For slightly more points, there might be trivia questions asked or hidden objects on a social media posting that you’ll be prompted to answer or find and these can award more points.

Generally speaking the above are only available for short windows of time, so pay attention and be quick about getting your phrases in!

Finally, there are single-use codes that can award large amounts of points. These are generally as rewards from contests, for going above and beyond in your interactions with the community, or more even more rare things (literally there’s one I made called “Made Jesse Laugh”. I don’t expect to hand this one out much!).

The first event will be centered around Chapter 1. It runs roughly from today through early/mid March and players can earn their way towards a few promotional outfits, including a Hollow. For the first event, the reward table looks like this:

Gloom at 250 points
Treeline at 500
Lavender at 1000
Sundown at 1500
Nightshade at 2000
Hollow at 2500

The goal is that if you’re active for the entire event, you’ll be able to make it to the Hollow.

So how do you use it?

The first thing to do is to find HollowBot on our Discord! It sorts near the top, just below the Mods.

You’ll then need to register your Discord and Spellbreak accounts with it by messaging it:

!register YourSpellbreakID#1000

So if your account was jesse#1000, you’d message it:

!register jesse#1000

Then you’ll need to confirm that (to prevent typos and the like) with:

!confirm YourSpellbreakID#1000

Once you’ve registered and confirmed, you’re all set to start earning points!

You earn by points by either entering a key phrase or redeeming a code like this:

!enter 

This would look something like this if the phrase was "hollow lands":

!enter hollow lands

Or

!redeem 

!redeem aaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-eeee

!status

!help