Obelisk pieces, Goliath kills and Club Island: the history traits
Most NFT traits are set at mint and never move. Otherdeeds are different — by design. Yuga built the Expanded deed as a dynamic NFT whose metadata can change over time, and the world's history writes itself back onto the land: event participation, the burn crossing, even monster kills from a Yuga game. A deed can accumulate history. These traits are easy to overlook and full of stories — here's what each one means, and how seriously to take the details.
Obelisk pieces
Two obelisk pieces appear in deed metadata, each tied to a moment in Otherside's history:
First Trip — the First Trip was Otherside's first live playable demo on July 16, 2022, when about 4,500 "Voyagers" stood in one shared world, freed Kodas with their voices, and fought a boss together. Eligible participants could activate an Obelisk Piece on their land afterward — the trait is that participation, fossilized into the deed.
Koda Origins — this one marks the April 2023 Koda decoupling: per Yuga's announcement, deeds burned into the Expanded collection had the Koda Origins piece added to the new deed's metadata. It records the deed's history — it does not mean a Koda is still attached.
One honest caveat, and it's the flip side of "dynamic by design": because this metadata can change server-side, history traits are living data — fundamentally different from a fixed environment or an original deposit. We track them in our dataset, but we treat exact obelisk-piece counts as provisional rather than gospel — when our snapshot and Yuga's live API disagree, the API wins and we re-audit. The deed's own page always shows the latest state we have.
Goliath kills
The rarest badge is a number: a few hundred deeds carry a Goliath kill count from Legends of the Mara, Otherside's 2023–24 strategy game, where players' creatures hunted the giant beasts. In our snapshot the distribution is a clean pyramid — most kill-carrying deeds have one, a shrinking group has two or three, and a literal handful reached four or five. It's a genuine gameplay record: somebody played, won, and the land keeps score. Of all the traits on an Otherdeed, this is the only one that exists because of something a human did well — a rarity category allocated by skill, not by mint.
Club Island
301 plots carry the Club Island trait — a small, distinct district of the map. Club Island deeds are their own micro-community, and plot #0 — the very first deed number — is one of them, a tier-4 Steppes plot. Club Island is also useful for a subtler lesson: some submarkets behave differently enough that their sales history needs to be read separately. A scarce location tag can be statistically interesting even when its market behavior doesn't map cleanly onto the broader mainland — which is exactly how our model treats it.
History compounds too — carefully
A history trait can sit on a deed that already has scarce terrain, rare resources, an artifact or a fused Koda, and the resulting configuration may be extremely uncommon — the same intersection logic as every other trait. But history traits deserve one extra distinction: historical significance, collector desirability and transaction evidence are separate questions. A badge can make a deed a better story without a single sale demonstrating it makes the deed worth more. We report the counted fact and let the market data speak for itself.
Why this design is worth noticing
"Mutable NFTs that grow and change based on the owner's actions" is Yuga's stated philosophy for Otherside, and the badges are that philosophy already working. A deed isn't just a picture of land; it's a ledger of what has happened on it. With the persistent world now open and a resource system announced, expect this list to grow — deed rarity will become even more path-dependent: part mint structure, part location, part asset composition, part history. That's why a living dataset beats a one-time rarity snapshot, and why every deed page here shows the history traits alongside the terrain, refreshed at every build.
Next: What actually makes an Otherdeed rare — the real numbers, and how to place any deed in the population.
Sources
- First Trip event details: @tpan — Otherside's First Trip
- Koda Origins metadata addition: @OthersideMeta — decoupling announcement · NFT Culture
- Mutable-NFT philosophy and Legends of the Mara: PlayToEarn
- Goliath-kill and Club Island figures: this site's data snapshot; history traits re-audited against Yuga's live API.