Badges

**Badges** are a reward given to players for notable achievements in Hackmud. Badges are typically awarded for activities such as responsibly reporting potential exploits and sandbox breaks to the developer, or winning competitive community events. Badges can be displayed on the profile of its owner, should they choose to.

## List of Known Badges

### break\_badge\_XXX

Awarded to players who responsibly disclose severe exploits or sandbox breaks to the developer. This badge is only awarded once it is confirmed that the related exploit has been properly patched. So far, at least **69** copies of this badge have been handed out total.

### break\_report

Awarded to players who help report exploits or sandbox breaks to the developer, if they were not the first to report said break.

### alpha

Given to players who were present for Hackmud's alpha period.

* The badge description is likely a reference to Angie's original name -- Alice.

### beta

Given to players who were present for Hackmud's beta period.

### builder

Awarded to players who have made contributions to Hackmud's codebase. Examples of this which have resulted in builder badges being awarded include:

* Creation of the chat API website
* Creation of the https://binm.at fansite for BINMAT.
* Improvements to the game's miniracer configuration

### puzzlemaster\_v1

Awarded to creators of community events.

* The description is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Gold-Bug, in which William Legrand deciphers a secret message that will lead him to buried treasure.
* The badge's icon is morse code for "*PUZZ*" (**.--. ..- --.. --..**)

### puzzlemaster\_v2

Awarded to creators of community events.

* The description was the solution to a challenge ciphertext posed by the inventors of the RSA cipher in 1977
* The badge's icon is base64 for "*puzzlemaste*". Assumedly, the letter "y" was cut off due to the icon's size limit, as *cHV6emxlbWFzdGVy* becomes "*puzzlemaster*".

### seal\_of\_the\_antecedent\_v1

Awarded to the creator of the first developer-endorsed event. (`heart.beat`)

* It is a *puzzlemaster\_v1* badge, with a "1" in the middle and surrounded by triangular drawing characters.

### king\_kamehameha\_v1

Awarded to the winner of the `surf.shack` community event.

* This was the first community event where a badge was awarded to the winner
* The badge's description is Hawaiian for "*Ha‘aheo dances because of the clear calm waters of Lehua. One can do things well when calm.*", a Hawaiian proverb from the Olelo No'Eau.

### top\_toymaker\_v1

Awarded to the winner of the `grott\_os.experience` community event.

### ruthless\_dream1er

Awarded to the winner of the `vix.dream1` community event.

### community\_cultivator\_v1

Awarded to the winners of the "it\_takes\_a\_village" community event.

### plaque\_plaque\_v1

Awarded to the winner of the "christmas\_crackers\_v3" community event.

### garbage\_collector\_v1

Awarded to those who were involved in patching a major issue affecting scripts erroneously timing out due to memory limitations.

* The script name mentioned was one of the scripts used to test the conditions which caused the issue.
* The rest of the description is the error returned when a script runs out of memory during execution.

### frostbitten\_finger\_v1

Awarded to the winner of the "christmas\_crackers\_v4" community event.