The doors are wide open. Contribute to Featured Artist mapping and earn some cool stuff in the process through the Mappers' Guild!
Not sure what the Mappers' Guild even is? You're not alone.
The Mappers' Guild is a community of mappers who create maps from the Featured Artist catalogue and earn rewards for their efforts. Since its inception, this MMO-inspired project expanded to its own website and now includes a bunch of other mapping-related opportunities!
This article covers new additions to the Mappers' Guild since our last update. Skip to any section you're interested in:
Quests allow mappers to collaborate on simple objectives tied to each Featured Artist, like "Create and rank at least 2 mapsets of songs by artist
, each hosted by a different user".
Priority quests take that a step further, offering more complex objectives that aren't necessarily tied to one Featured Artist's music!
These new-style quests function differently from normal quests too. Here are the important differences:
Check out these new quests from the priority quest listing. It explains basically everything that we can't fit in this article!
As the name implies, these quests are a bit more special than ordinary quests, and we're offering some special rewards in turn!
To start, maps associated with priority quests earn bonus progress towards Mappers' Guild profile badges. This is handled with a complicated point-based system, which you can read about here if you're really invested.
On top of that, anyone who completes a priority quest also receives a customised keychain based on a pattern in their winning beatmap!
Depending on your country, shipping this may be difficult or impossible. pishifat (the dude writing this article) will be creating and shipping these individually, so don't expect the same efficiency as a professional production studio. :)
And on top of all of that, we're also offering a new profile badge to anyone who completes 3+ priority quests.
The priority quest listing details more about prizes and will always have a few active quests running at any given time, so participate in whichever you're interested in!
Previously, you needed at least 3 Ranked maps to host beatmaps and earn rewards in the Mappers' Guild. Those days are over.
As of this change, anyone can participate in the Mappers' Guild!
This includes:
If you're a newer mapper looking to get started with the Mappers' Guild, feel free to ask questions in the osu! Discord server's #mappers-guild
channel!
Most changes to the Mappers' Guild aren't too glamorous. Here's a few highlights from the past year:
Up until now, modders would earn 1 Mappers' Guild point for each map they mod.
Some Beatmap Nominators have requested their points for modding to scale according to beatmap length, since anyone who nominates a beatmap is guaranteed to have modded the full mapset.
That said, anyone who nominated a Mappers' Guild beatmap has earned points relative to their modding efforts. This includes cases when a user forgot to add themselves as a modder too!
Anyone who engaged with the Mappers' Guild before could tell you that these were annoying. So now they're gone.
It's no secret that a lot of quests are inactive. There's no major penalty for this, but to give other users a chance, any quest that is inactive for a year is dropped and made available to the public.
To claim certain quests, each party member would need to spend some points. Some users have 0 available points though, so they can't take quests.
Instead of completely locking users out of quests, the party leader can now compensate for another user's lack of points by spending more of their own points.
A ton of people are involved in the Mappers' Guild, but some stand out above the crowd. Below are some of the top contributors to the guild! (More specifically, this is anyone who's contributed 10+ difficulties to Ranked Featured Artist maps since last July... and SMOKELIND, who focused on total Ranked maps instead.)
User | Modes | Ranked beatmaps | Ranked difficulties |
---|---|---|---|
Hinsvar | osu! | 15 | 65 |
Faputa | osu!taiko, osu!mania | 7 | 43 |
FAMoss | osu!mania | 9 | 40 |
Deif | osu!, osu!catch | 10 | 31 |
Jemzuu | osu!, osu!catch | 7 | 29 |
HEAVENLY MOON | osu!taiko | 10 | 28 |
Hivie | osu!taiko | 6 | 27 |
KyeX | osu!taiko | 5 | 27 |
Cynplytholowazy | osu!, osu!taiko, osu!mania | 7 | 25 |
JBHyperion | osu!catch | 5 | 24 |
skolodojko | osu!taiko | 3 | 17 |
Verti | osu!catch | 3 | 16 |
op45667 | osu!taiko | 4 | 16 |
Ayesha Altugle | osu! | 2 | 15 |
AJT | osu! | 5 | 15 |
Antti | osu!taiko | 4 | 15 |
Kukkai | osu!catch | 3 | 15 |
Alchyr | osu!taiko | 6 | 14 |
autofanboy | osu!catch | 4 | 14 |
Garden | osu! | 3 | 14 |
allein | osu! | 4 | 14 |
meiqth | osu!taiko | 3 | 14 |
Boaz | osu!taiko | 5 | 14 |
Nytrocide_ | osu! | 4 | 14 |
PandaHero | osu! | 4 | 13 |
Daycore | osu! | 3 | 13 |
GIGACHAD | osu!taiko, osu!catch | 3 | 13 |
BlackBN | osu!taiko, osu!catch | 3 | 13 |
Burak | osu!taiko | 3 | 13 |
Lasse | osu! | 3 | 12 |
ZiRoX | osu!catch | 3 | 12 |
M a r v o l l o | osu!, storyboarder | 2 | 12 |
frozz | osu! | 2 | 12 |
Down | osu! | 3 | 12 |
Horiiizon | osu!taiko | 2 | 12 |
arcpotato | osu!taiko | 1 | 12 |
Strategas | osu! | 4 | 11 |
-Rustyy | osu!catch | 1 | 11 |
cai_ji_ccc | osu!mania | 2 | 11 |
Annabel | osu!taiko | 2 | 10 |
DeviousPanda | osu! | 2 | 10 |
Iceluin | osu! | 1 | 10 |
PaRaDogi | osu! | 4 | 10 |
Eyenine | osu!taiko | 2 | 10 |
Ph0eNiiXZ | osu!taiko | 4 | 10 |
-NoName- | osu!mania | 2 | 10 |
Unlucky_w | osu!, osu!catch | 3 | 10 |
SMOKELIND | osu! | 8 | 8 |
While these folks may be in the spotlight, there's a lot of other people in the Mappers' Guild who contribute too. If you're one of them, thanks for the help!
—pishifat
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