Otherdeed artifacts: from banana peels to one-of-one relics
Artifacts are the objects — one per plot, on about 21.3% of Otherdeeds. Where resources are an economy, artifacts are a cabinet of curiosities: forged tools, glowing orbs, obelisks, a whale statue, a mirror, a jar of Koda farts. Some exist by the thousand; fourteen types have supplies of ten or fewer, nine of them true one-of-ones. This is the trait with the most personality, the widest rarity spread in all of Otherside — and the trait where "has one" tells you the least until you check the supply.
The four bands
One honest caveat before the table: Yuga publishes no official artifact rarity tiers. These four bands are a Mr. Deeds classification, grouped purely by each artifact's measured supply in our counts — useful shorthand, not canon. The number that matters is always the individual artifact's exact supply.
| Band | Types | Supply each | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 6 | 900–1,000 | rugged tools, Ancient Coin, Banana Peel |
| Medium | 25 | 350–750 | forged tools, Camp Fire, Jar of Koda Farts, Whale Statue, Glass Eye |
| Rare | 29 | 50–130 | the colored Orbs, Unknown Map, Mecha Piece, Chest of Holding |
| Ultra | 14 | 1–10 | the one-of-ones, the colored Obelisks, Relic Book Page, Portal Piece |
The ultras: Otherside's relics
Fourteen artifact types have supplies of ten or fewer, and nine are literally one-of-one: the Archway, the Archway Keystone, the Blade of Eternum, the Celestial Egg, the Foretelling Scroll, Mirror Mirror, the Mystery Potion, Pandora's Box and the Sword of Chosen — one plot each, out of 100,000. Just above them sit the colored Obelisks (5 each), the Relic Book Page (6) and the Portal Piece (10). These are the closest thing Otherside has to relics, and the deeds that carry them are landmarks people know by number. A step down — but still just 60 copies each — sit the rare-band favorites everyone asks about: the Blue, Red and Yellow Orbs and the Unknown Map.
Artifact supply is not deed rarity
Suppose an artifact has 60 carriers. That tells you one thing: 60 deeds carry this artifact. It does not tell you how many of the 60 also have four filled slots, or a rare resource, or two, or tier-5 land, or a still-fused Koda — and those intersections can be much smaller than 60. Counted from the current data: 4,548 deeds combine an artifact with at least one rare resource, 476 with two or more rare deposits, 1,904 with all four slots filled, 5,396 with tier-4/5 land, and just 377 with a Koda. Narrow the artifact side to the rare and ultra bands and "grail artifact + rare resource" is a 562-deed category. The artifact is one layer of the deed, and the deeds people remember are usually the ones where the layers stack — #7906 carries the one-of-one Mirror Mirror and a Koda and four deposits, and no single one of those labels describes it.
Rarity and value are different questions
A one-of-one object is objectively scarce — but scarcity is a supply fact, not a price. Collectors can care more about one artifact's name, look or lore than another's, and the market decides what that attention is worth. So keep three questions separate: how many exist (the exact count), how many deeds have the broader combination (counted again — see the rarity article), and what buyers have actually paid (market data). This site treats the first two as counting problems and the third as evidence, never as interchangeable.
Reading an artifact listing
Two habits worth forming. First, check the supply, not just the name — "artifact" covers a 1,000-supply Rugged Shovel and a one-of-one Archway, and listings love to say "RARE ARTIFACT" about both. Every artifact page here states the exact supply and shows every deed carrying that artifact. Second, look at the whole deed — an artifact rides on top of a plot that also has an environment, size, sediment and deposits, and the interesting deeds are the ones where several things stack.
Next: Kodas — the creatures that started as a deed trait and became their own collection.
Sources
- Artifact bands, supplies, carrier deeds and compound counts: this site's full-collection count via
api.otherside.xyz. - Artifact images: cropped from Yuga Labs' own deed artwork (the artifact is drawn on each carrier plot).