Ranked runs

Entering

Take the ranked portal in Salvador. You need a Ranked Key:

You also need 8 free inventory slots.

A fresh start

Your real character is set aside for the duration of the run. You play a run character:

• Level 1, your class, no skills.
• Your class weapon, a starter helmet, chestplate and boots, and 2 small healing potions.
• No mining level is required inside the run.

When the run ends, you get your real character back exactly as you left it.

Floors

Each floor is generated: about ten rooms linked by corridors.

• Start room: a few ore veins of the floor’s gem.
• Combat rooms: the doors lock when you walk in and open once the room is cleared.
• Treasure room: a chest with ore and hacking cartridges, once per floor.
• Boss room: the god of the tier.

Monsters scale with the tier and with your run level.

The floors follow the gem chain:

During the alpha, a run goes down to Jade (Ares). Quartz and Diamond open once their bosses are ready.

Extract or continue

When the god of a floor falls, two portals appear: Extract (blue) and Continue (red).

• Extract ends the run and scores it.
• Continue takes you to the next floor. The points of the floors you cleared are kept for the run, but they are still at stake: you only score them by extracting.

Inside the run

• Upgrade as you go. Ore you mine in the run upgrades your run gear. Each vein also gives a little ore of the tier below.
• Nothing leaves the run except points. Loot, ore and sats stay in it.
• Resurrection. When you die, you can come back on the spot for 0.01 HYPE, up to 3 times per run. Resurrections feed the season pool like the key.