Trading
A creature is tradeable only when both are true:
- level ≥ 10
- age ≥ 6 epochs, counted from the creature’s mint
Sending too early
Cardano has no transfer hook, so the chain cannot stop you sending a young creature. The game still watches.
If an under-level or under-age creature moves to a wallet that is not linked to your account:
- It is stranded through the next epoch - always at least one full epoch. A stranded creature is away from its owner while still too young to change hands, so it can't be fed or sent to a habitat.
- If the destination wallet is linked in time, or the creature is sent back to one of your linked wallets, it's home again and nothing is lost.
- If not, the creature is tombstoned - deceased. The NFT remains as a marker; it is no longer alive in the game.
Avoid listing, buying, or sending a creature that is not yet tradeable to avoid killing the creature. Marketplaces will still allow the trade of tombstones, but the game will not treat a tombstone as a creature.