Mechanics

Waves, retries, and lock farming

• Wave lock unlocks after clearing wave 25.

• Moving units and manual loot always count as active play, and recent wave clears stay eligible for about 2s after each response.

• Ground loot now survives normal wave clears and the next wave start until you pick it up, its magnet finishes, or it expires on its own timer.

• If a drop finishes auto-collecting while the tab is hidden, or a wave-manager action swaps snapshots mid-animation, the battlefield keeps the loot pickup and corpse fade visible long enough to finish cleanly.

• Locked-wave farming has a 60s stamina grace. After that, release the lock or move on before you can build more stamina.

• Battlefield zoom unlocks at wave 60. Premium accounts get +/- zoom controls and keyboard + / - in the safer 8-14 range, while admin mode keeps the full 7-15 range.

• Window layouts save per account. Hold the title grip on desktop and release over a slot to move a window across the three columns. On mobile, double tap the grip to pick a window up, then tap a slot in the stack to place it.

• Retry rolls stay inside 80-120% of the base wave threat budget.

• Sample budgets at level 8: wave 1 = 31 (25-37) • wave 10 = 192 (154-230) • wave 25 = 533 (426-640) • wave 50 = 1205 (964-1446) • wave 100 = 2782 (2226-3338)

Party building

• Mercenary contracts unlock at levels 10, 20, 30, 40.

• Premium leaders unlock a 6th auto-spell slot at level 25. Free accounts stay capped at 5 auto spells.

• The fielded party caps at 4 members total, so late contracts mostly add replacement flexibility instead of infinite scaling.

• Mercenaries keep automatic spell rotations and frozen progression after hiring, so treat them like specialist slots, not second leaders.

• Paladin shots, wand strikes, and single-target attack spells now travel as visible projectiles. Ammo choice changes the sprite, damage lands when the projectile arrives, and wave-ending hits stay visible through the transition.

Shop, bestiary, bank, and escort events

• Rashid unlock target: level 15, earliest event wave 9.

• Grizzly Adams unlock target: level 18, earliest event wave 10.

• Jefrey unlock target: level 35, earliest event wave 19.

• Merchant events start at 5% and cool down for 60s globally plus 180s per merchant after a proc.

• After a successful unlock, their base encounter chance resets to 1.67%, and each failed roll only adds +0.33 percentage points per wave instead of +1 percentage point.