Skin Crates

Buy crates and keys, watch the reel spin, collect skins, sell them or trade up.

Skin Crates is a weapon skin market that lives in the Intranet. There are no blocks and no items: open the SkinCrates app on an Intranet computer, phone or tablet and everything happens there, with tabs for Inventory, Shop, Market and Trade Up. All weapons, skins and crates are made up; the pictures are placeholders for now.

What is in it

• Shop - 6 crates, bought together with their key for Money. Opening needs a crate and its key and shows a spinning reel. Each crate holds 17 skins in four tiers (Mil-Spec, Restricted, Classified, Covert) plus rare special items (knives, gloves). The first crate, the Origin Crate, holds 9 skins and 5 knives.
• Float and exterior - every item has a float and an exterior from Factory New to Battle-Scarred. 10 % come with a KillCount.
• Prices follow the world's date - every crate has a release date. Crate, key and skin prices move month by month: a launch peak, cheap while a crate still drops, a jump when it stops, then a rise of about 18-26 % a year (rare items rise more, crates faster). Before its release a crate shows as "Coming soon" with its date and cannot be bought. Price charts on the crate and skin pages, a 30-day trend in the shop.
• Boom and crash phases - market-wide phases over the calendar, shaped after real market history (2014-2026) and continued with similar booms and crashes until 2035. Crates swing hardest, common skins least; some phases hit only knives and gloves or only crates.
• Market - sells your skins at today's price, depending on tier, exterior and KillCount. Sell one by one or all of a tier. An opening pays back 40-50 % of crate plus key on average, so crates never become a money machine.
• Trade Up - swap 10 skins of one tier for one of the next higher tier, or 5 Covert skins for a special item. The result comes from the crates of the skins you put in; its float is the average of the inputs. The page shows every possible result with its chance and float, and asks for confirmation before signing.
• Money - purchases and sales appear on the bank statement as "SkinCrates shop" / "SkinCrates market" and use the same account as other mods (shared accounts included).
• Selling from an item's page asks for confirmation first, so a stray click after the reel does not sell your prize.

The inventory is kept per player on the server. Works in singleplayer and on servers.

Requirements

• Intranet 0.1.1 or newer (required).
• Money 0.4.0 or newer (required).
• Tycoon Calendar 0.1.2 or newer (required, prices follow its date).

Minecraft 1.21.1, NeoForge 21.1.x.

This mod is made for the Margin Call modpack, but works on its own. All names are made up; it contains no real brand names, pictures or texts.

A note on how this was made

This mod was built with substantial help from AI. I gave the direction; the design, the code, the textures and this text were written by an AI assistant. I would rather say that plainly than have you wonder.

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