What is an Otherdeed? Anatomy of an Otherside land plot
An Otherdeed is one plot of land in Otherside, Yuga Labs' metaverse world — an NFT on Ethereum, one of exactly 100,000. The deed's number is its plot number, and its traits are recorded in its metadata, with the visual ones rendered directly on the artwork. The easiest way to understand one is not to start with "rarity" — start with anatomy. Here's how to read one, trait by trait, the way I'd explain it to a friend who just bought their first.
The anatomy of a deed
Take a loaded one as our specimen: #86, a Wastes plot carrying a Glass Eye artifact and four resource deposits, three of them tier 3.
A deed has up to seven kinds of traits, and the visual ones are rendered right on the artwork (history badges live in the metadata only):
Environment — the landscape type. There are 29, from common ones like Glacia (6,393 plots) down to Chaos (111 plots in the entire world). The environment sets the whole look of the plot and groups into eight visual families. One thing to internalize early: environment rarity answers "how many plots use this landscape?" — it does not answer how rare the whole deed is. Full guide.
Environment Tier (1–5) — Yuga's official name for the plot-size trait. Tier 1 is the standard plot; tier 5 is the big, dramatic version and only about one plot in ten gets there. On the artwork, a higher tier means more land and more on it — bigger plots carry visibly more structures, flora and terrain features. The tier has also had a real gameplay function: in Legends of the Mara it set worker capacity — one worker on a tier-1 plot, five on a tier-5. Read environment and tier separately: a tier-5 common environment is unusual for its size, a tier-1 scarce environment for its terrain, and a tier-5 scarce environment intersects both.
Sediment — the ground layer under the terrain, one of five types, each with its own tier from 1 to 3. Easy to overlook because it sits underneath the flashier traits, but it's already had documented gameplay utility: in Legends of the Mara, sediment type determined what you could farm and sediment tier set the yield. Full guide.
Resources — the deposits sitting on the land, up to four per deed, one at each compass point: northern, eastern, southern, western. Each deposit is one of 74 resource types at tier 1, 2, or 3, and it's physically drawn at its position — the northern deposit sits at the top of the plot. About 87% of deeds have at least one deposit; only 8.8% carry a full four. Resources raise several rarity questions at once — how scarce the type, how scarce at this tier, how many slots are filled, the total tier density, whether there's more than one rare — which is why they're the deepest trait system on the land. Full guide.
Artifact — a one-off object placed on some plots: orbs, obelisks, forged tools, a whale statue, a jar of Koda farts (really). About 21.3% of deeds carry one, and they range from ~1,000-supply common items to true one-of-ones. Full guide.
Koda — the native beings of Otherside. Originally 10,000 deeds had one; most Kodas have since been split off into their own collection, but 1,683 deeds still carry theirs — an additional separable asset living inside the deed's wrapper. Full guide.
Badges of history — some deeds also record where they've been: an Obelisk Piece from Otherside's live events, Goliath kills from Legends of the Mara, or membership in the 301-plot Club Island. These make Otherdeeds more dynamic than a conventional frozen rarity sheet. Full guide.
Simple and loaded, side by side
At one end of the spectrum: ordinary environment, low tier, no deposits, no artifact, no Koda. At the other: scarce environment, high tier, four deposits with rares at deep tiers, artifact, Koda, history. Most deeds live somewhere between the extremes.
Why "one rare trait" is not enough
People usually describe a deed by its most obvious feature — "it has Dimensional," "it has an artifact," "it's Chaos." Useful shorthand, but it leaves out the rest of the asset. The better habit is a rarity profile: terrain rarity, plot-size rarity, sediment rarity, resource density, rare-resource count, highest deposit tiers, artifact supply, Koda status, and the meaningful intersections between them. That's exactly how the rest of this site is designed to read the land — and the rarity article turns the habit into a method.
The part people miss
The artwork is generated from the traits, not alongside them — so you can verify a deed by eye. Count the deposits at the compass points, check the artifact, look at how much land there is. If a listing's picture doesn't match its trait sheet, something is wrong. Every deed page on this site (like this one) lays the traits out next to the art with the full supply context — how many other plots share each trait — so you can see at a glance where a deed sits in the population of 100,000.
Next up: why there are two Otherdeed collections — read this one before you shop.
Sources
- All counts and percentages: this site's own count — every plot pulled from Yuga's own
api.otherside.xyzand chain-deduplicated. - Legends of the Mara sediment mechanics: PlayToEarn — Otherside Introduces Legends of the Mara