Adding priority fees to collection creation so there's higher chance of landing on chain

[martincik]

Hi team,

This is our code for creating collection with Metaplex foundation JS SDK:

export async function createCollection(
  metaplex: Metaplex,
  metadataUri: string,
  name: string,
  sellerFee: number,
  creators: { address: PublicKey; share: number }[],
  symbol?: string
) {
  const createNftBuilder = await metaplex.nfts().builders().create({
    uri: metadataUri,
    name: name,
    sellerFeeBasisPoints: sellerFee,
    symbol: symbol,
    creators: creators,
    isCollection: true,
    tokenStandard: TokenStandard.NonFungible,
  })

  const resp = await createNftBuilder.sendAndConfirm(metaplex, {
    commitment: "finalized",
  })
  return {
    mint: resp.mintAddress,
    metadataAccount: resp.metadataAddress,
    masterEditionAccount: resp.masterEditionAddress,
  }
}

How do I modify this code to add priority fees for Solana? Thanks.

[johnsonchau-bulb]

Bumping this as recent solana network congestion is causing minting to be very flaky

[mileshiroo]

i had this problem too and this worked for me as a temporary fix to add a priority fee. changed RpcClient.cjs and RpcClient.mjs in dist/ and patched with npx patch-package

  async sendTransaction(transaction, sendOptions = {}, signers = []) {    
    const prepared = await this.prepareTransaction(transaction, signers);

    const modifyComputeUnits = ComputeBudgetProgram.setComputeUnitLimit({ 
      units: 1000000  
    });
    
    const addPriorityFee = ComputeBudgetProgram.setComputeUnitPrice({ 
      microLamports: 1 
    });

    prepared.transaction.instructions.unshift(addPriorityFee);
    prepared.transaction.instructions.unshift(modifyComputeUnits);

    transaction = prepared.transaction;
    signers = prepared.signers;
    const defaultFeePayer = this.getDefaultFeePayer();
    if (!transaction.feePayer && defaultFeePayer) {
      transaction.feePayer = defaultFeePayer.publicKey;
      signers = [defaultFeePayer, ...signers];
    }
    transaction = await this.signTransaction(transaction, signers);
    const rawTransaction = transaction.serialize();
    try {
      return await this.metaplex.connection.sendRawTransaction(rawTransaction, sendOptions);
    } catch (error) {
      throw this.parseProgramError(error, transaction);
    }
  }