This post is gonna combine two things, both of which were brought up in the customer conference. There’s the First Golden Hands Awards, a contest where players can design their own items and cosmetics for a chance to have them implemented in-game, and the rates for free cubes such as Strange, Craftsman, and Meister Cubes.

The First Golden Hands Awards

Have you ever wanted to see items you made with your own hands in MapleStory? Well this is your chance! With the Golden Hands Awards, you can design outfits, pets, and faces/hairs with the chance to win and have put into the game!

You can submit your designs from July 8 to July 21. After that, there will be user voting to decide the 50 finalists from August 3 to August 10. From the finalists, Nexon’s team of judges will decide the final winners from August 10 to August 30. You can see the list of judges on the official site, they include members of MapleStory’s art team as well as a famous designer, a pixel artist, and a member of BTS, Jin!

Winners will be announced on September 1, and their items will be implemented and put on sale in September (for hairs and faces) and October (for outfits and pets).

A total of 6 winners for the Golden Hands Awards will be chosen for each category, and there will also be 10 Silver Hands Awards winners for each category. Both sets of players will win special prizes!

Golden Hands Awards (6 winners per category)

• Outfits
  • 3m won
  • Honourable Golden Hands medal
  • 100 coupons for your created Cash items
  • A set of 6 MapleStory keyboard long pads
• Pets
  • 3m won
  • Honourable Golden Hands medal
  • 100 coupons for your created Cash items
  • A set of 6 MapleStory keyboard long pads
• Hairs
  • 1.5m won
  • Honourable Golden Hands medal
  • 100 coupons for your created Cash items
  • A set of 6 MapleStory keyboard long pads
• Faces
  • 1m won
  • Honourable Golden Hands medal
  • 100 coupons for your created Cash items
  • A set of 6 MapleStory keyboard long pads

Silver Hands Awards (10 winners per category)

• Each Category
  • Shining Silver Hands medal
  • 1 of 6 MapleStory keyboard long pads

The MapleStory keyboard long pads feature really nice new artwork, themed after the first six areas of Arcane River!

There are various guidelines and requirements for each category. You can see the guides and download the outlines from the homepage.

Free Cubes Rates Revealed

They have released the rates for free cubes, which includes Strange Cubes, Craftsman’s Cubes, Meister Cubes, and Strange Additional Cubes. 

You can see the details on each page below:

• Strange Cubes
• Craftsman’s Cubes
• Meister Cubes
• Strange Additional Cubes

If you’re just looking for the tier up rates, they are as follows.

• Strange Cubes
  • Rare → Epic: 0.9901%
• Craftsman’s Cubes
  • Rare → Epic: 4.7619%
  • Epic → Unique: 1.1858%
• Meister Cubes
  • Rare → Epic: 7.9994%
  • Epic → Unique: 1.6959%
  • Unique → Legendary: 0.1996%

For Strange Additional Cubes, they have the same rates as regular Additional Cubes (except obviously they cannot tier up and can only roll Rare lines).