So you have spotted some of these badges plotted in some of ET's member houses, and now you think you would like some. Well the first thing to know is that you don't just get a badge for nothing; you have to work hard and contribute something to the Elftown community.

Types of badges

There are several types of badges here on Elftown; Donor badges which you can obtain by donating art or poetry to Elftown, title badges which you gain when you 'work' for Elftown and then the 'Work' badges.

Donor Badges

You can obtain a donor badge by submitting some art work or poetry to Elftown. Do note that submission doesn't always grant you a badge, in some cases your submission has to be selected to be featured.

Having a Poem featured on the daily poem will earn you the 'robin' badge.

Having your art featured on the Featured Art will earn you the 'Featured Art-bird' badge.

Taking part in an 'official' ET competition can earn you special occasion badges. For taking part you earn the green version. For winning you earn the coloured version.

If there is no special badge, there is a fairly complicated system:
Donating one piece or to one contest grants you a green squirrel.
Donating two pieces or to two contests grants you a phase 1 squirrel.
Donating four pieces or to four contests grants you a phase 2 squirrel.
Donating six pieces or to six contests grants you a phase 3 squirrel.
Donating eight pieces or to eight contests grants you a coloured squirrel.
Donating ten pieces or to ten contests grants you a green Master of Building.
Donating more than twelve pieces or to twelve contests grants you a coloured Master of Building.
Winning a contest grants you either a coloured squirrel or a green/coloured Master of Building. That also depends on the badges you already have.
*Donations are not just done to contests, but also to Elftown itself such as buttons and decorations. One contest is counted as one piece of art donation, even if you submitted two entries.

This shows you can become a Master of Building by being a commited artdonor.
You can also become a master of Building by building things for Elftown.

For art that you donate to Elftown Graphics, you receive an ant-badge.
If you have donated more than a hundred (100) pieces of art to Elftown Graphics you can earn a 'Centipede' badge instead of the ant-badge. The more pieces of art you donate, the higher badge you will get.

You can also donate money and earn yourself a special 'Squirrel' badge for Donors of Funds.

Elftown Title Badges

It is a lot harder to gain an Elftown Title badge, and in many cases you can only gain these badges by being 'appointed' to a position. Some of these badges include the 'wolf' badge for the ET crew, the 'eagle' badge for guards and so on.

In most cases you can not ask to join these ranks.

The 'Work' Badges

You can gain a work badge by doing something constructive for Elftown. Such work includes translating ET Official pages, Translators, inspecting ET's pages for bugs and errors Navigators, and building, creating and maintaining the ET community, Architects .

In most cases if your work is constructive it will be noticed and you will be rewarded with the appropriate badge.

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