The Achievements Page, and the Badge Art We Redrew Three Times

Published 2026-07-26 · Tags: vault, product

A dedicated /vault/achievements page with rarities and unlock dates, and the story of three attempts at badge art before one of them read at 48 pixels.

Vault achievements have their own page now: /vault/achievements. Connect a wallet and you get the full set with rarities, unlock dates, and the ones you're closest to. No wallet connected and you see the whole catalog of badges with how rare each one is across every wallet we've seen.

The other thing we did this week is redraw all the badge art. Three times.

The first set was fine. Icons on hexagons, a color per rarity. Looked like every other achievement system on the internet, and the gold ones in particular looked like something you'd earn for logging in. We threw them out.

The second set went too far the other way. Detailed illustrations, a full scene per badge. Beautiful at 400 pixels, mush at 48, and 48 is the size they're actually shown at most of the time. Threw those out too.

The third set is what shipped: a single strong silhouette per badge, cut to read at small sizes, with the rarity carried by the medallion behind it rather than by the icon itself. The vault's own visual language (the lock ring, the padlock, the chain link) shows up throughout, so they look like they belong to the product rather than to a sticker pack.

A few got names changed in the process. "Lock #1" became "First Vault". "The 1k" became "Stacker". The threshold badges became a family (Piggy Bank, Stacker, Heavy Bag, Diamond Vault, Legendary Hoard) so you can tell at a glance which one is bigger without reading the number.

Small page, mostly art. But people share these, and if they're going to be screenshotted into a Discord, they should look like something you'd want to screenshot.