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What it does

Fixed Tiles keeps the same squares every round. You choose which tiles (manually or via a preset), set a round budget, and the crank even-splits that SOL across the selected mask late in the round.

Settings

Tile mask / presets

Click tiles on the 5×5 grid or use a built-in preset. The mask must have a valid tile count (product bounds apply — typically a handful of tiles, not zero).

Per-round budget

Total SOL to even-split across the selected tiles each round.

Gates

Optional skip gates in the strategy picker (off by default). They do not change tiles or amounts — only whether this round fires.

• Crowded-round skip gate — sit out when recent network-wide SOL is above your cap. See Crowded-round skip gate.
• Motherlode range gate — sit out when the live motherlode pool is below your min or above your max ORE. Leave a side empty to ignore that bound. See Motherlode range gate.

How to set up

1. Connect your Solana wallet on the Mining page.
2. Create a miner and choose Fixed Tiles in the strategy picker. Choose a preset or click tiles for your mask, then set the per-round budget.
3. Sign the transaction. This creates your miner accounts on-chain (Manager + Strategy Deployer + ORE Miner). Cost ≈ 0.005 SOL (account setup).
4. Deposit SOL. Transfer SOL into your miner’s autodeploy balance. Minimum 0.03 SOL; 0.3 SOL or more gives runway for many rounds.
5. Done. The crank runs this strategy each round. Activity shows deploys and skip reasons.

When it skips a round

• Invalid or empty mask
• Budget too small to fund every selected tile at the minimum amount
• Paused, insufficient balance, or optional crowded-round / motherlode-range skip

Worked example

Late fire with a fixed 5-tile mask and even-split budget — no EV ranking.

Activity (C) and Results (D) match what you see in the Mining Activity / Sessions panels. Thinking (B) illustrates what the crank evaluates that round — only EV Gate has a live Strategy Insight table in-app.

Skip variant (Crowded-round skip gate on)

With the optional Crowded-round skip enabled, a busy recent window sits the round out — mask is unchanged, no deploy.

Skip variant (Motherlode range gate on)

With Motherlode range enabled, a live pool outside your min/max sits the round out — the mask is unchanged, no deploy.