Event Compendium

A 30-minute battlefield where everyone competes to gather Orichalcum from veins, paying out Charm Designs, Charm Guides, gems and avatar frames. Register for one of six daily time slots. City buffs don't follow you in — performance is about in-event skill choices, not raw power, which makes it one of the few events where free players genuinely compete.

The plays: start at the map edges, not the contested center. Farm patrol guards for XP and take the right-branch skill first (+1,500 Orichalcum per guard kill). React to Vein Outbursts immediately — temporary yield boosts on specific veins. The Smelter opens in the final five minutes and pays per second of occupation, so even brief control counts.

The vein-hop trick: the level-3 left skill pays 5,000 Orichalcum for occupying a common vein, once per minute — so occupy, recall instantly, and hop to a new vein every minute. The right skill pays the same for failing a capture, enabling deliberate hero-less "fake attacks" against occupied veins.

25 Phaethon stages of scaling difficulty, plus alliance-wide Captain bosses. Scouting costs 15 stamina, solo attacks 10 more, rallies 25 more; Mercenary Contracts cut the totals. Higher difficulties pay Fire Crystals — up to 85 at the top tiers — plus Chief Gear chests and Mythic shards.

The one decision that matters: difficulty is locked for the whole event the moment you pick it. Choose the highest you can actually finish, because completing it is what unlocks stronger tiers next month. Retries are free on failed compositions, so experiment — then leave alliance Captains up long enough for every member to hit them before the strong players finish them off.

Two modes: Ice Fishing runs on Bait (start with 5, regenerate 1 per 3 hours, cap 10 — capped bait is wasted bait, so fish before it fills). Frosty Prospector runs on rare Treasure Charts with an auto-maxed kit reaching rarer fish and sunken chests — save Charts for deliberate leaderboard pushes rather than casual attempts.

Upgrade the Line first — it sets your maximum depth, and depth is where the value swims. The Collection Guide pays permanent rewards for species caught across event cycles, so even lazy participation compounds.

All three are covered in depth in Materials & Currencies — including Mia's real orb odds (the reset-early advice is wrong), Treasure Hunter's search budgeting, and Kasia's shop priority (Mithril first).

Item-triggered world-map bosses paying hero shards. Gina's Revenge is the early-state version — the cheap way to star up Gina for her permanent stamina discount — and converts to Hero's Mission around day 195. The world-map search bar now locates event bosses directly when you're holding multiple summon items.

Endless Trials (Wulfgar) and Crazy Joe are in Events and Formations. Quick capsules for the rest:

Crystal Reactivation — spend Embers for Fire Crystals and Fire Crystal Chests. Check the chest odds against the flat rate before buying chests; save for one concentrated redemption rather than dripping.

Vision of Dawn — growth-task event for younger accounts; complete what you were doing anyway, don't force it.

Rookie's Growth / Tundra Star / City Development / Power Up — beginner milestone ladders. The rule for all of them: they reward normal growth, so time your Furnace and research finishes into their windows instead of grinding for them.

Dead Shot, Beast Whisperer, Wild Brawl, Dreamscape Memory, Snowbusters, Tundra Adventure, Wander Theater — smaller rotating solos. The universal logic applies: check what scores, check what you're holding, take milestones over rankings.

A week-long turn-based tournament: your alliance faces five others of similar tier, one per round. Each match is fought in three lanes — left, middle, right — with members assigning squads to lanes; win two of three lanes to take the match.

Where alliances lose it: stacking all the strongest players into one lane. The opponent wins the other two uncontested. Spread anchor players across all three lanes, and put your R4s in charge of lane assignments rather than letting members self-sort by ego. Pet skills fire automatically at deployment level, so feed pets before registration.

Alliance-vs-alliance battlefield racing for Arsenal Points. Only top-20-power alliances register, fielding up to two legions of 30 fighters + 10 subs. Capturing a building pays Control Points; holding it accrues Occupation Points continuously; losing a building scatters 50% of its stored points onto the field for anyone to loot — which makes timed steals worth more than pitched defenses.

Key mechanics: troops are only injured, never killed — healing or a 12-minute battlefield exit restores them, so aggression is cheap. Mid-battle unlocks the high-value structures (Imperial Foundry, Munitions Warehouse, Mercenary Camp), and hidden Weapon Workshops spawn in waves for swing points. Role discipline beats skirmish-winning: an alliance that treats it as random fighting loses on points while winning fights.

Three alliances from different states fight over the Lost Canyon in a strictly phased hour: 3 min preparation → 17 min Seize & Conquer → 20 min Fortress Occupation → 20 min Citadel Onslaught. Each member deploys up to 3 squads; leaving the battlefield costs a 12-minute re-entry cooldown, and members can't leave the alliance once deployed.

The shape of a win: phase one is a land grab — split into groups, take bridges and entry points, build connected territory. Manage Fuel for teleports and pushes. If you're behind entering the final phase, the Frozen Citadel is the comeback mechanic — everything can swing on it.

Cross-state, stage-per-day scoring against a matched opponent alliance: construction/growth, hero development, pet training, gear enhancement, trade dominion (trucks), then full-scale competition. Same hold-and-dump logic as KoI, plus the truck layer: lettered trucks on your map belong to your matched opponent — raiding them scores you and costs them.

Star ratings across events set your tier and multiply rewards. Realistically an alliance needs 20+ members hitting daily personal thresholds to compete — participation breadth beats individual heroics.

Fortress Battles (Fridays) — registration-based fights for the map's fortresses; each alliance can register for one fortress at a time, and holding one pays a permanent territory buff. The capture mechanics (banner path, 30-minute hold, 3-day occupation) are in Alliance & State Play.

Alliance Mobilization (monthly) — task-card completion race. The discipline that wins it: don't burn a high-multiplier card on a task you can't finish, and don't hog cards you won't complete — refresh discipline is an R4 conversation.

Bear Hunt (~every 47h) — full treatment in Formations: leader 10/10/80, joiners 100% Marksman.

Frostdragon Tyrant — cross-state boss rally event; its Dragonborn's Truck exchange is where Charm Secrets appear for FC8+ states, making it a charm-progression checkpoint later.

Tundra Arms League and Icefire Warhymn League — bracketed competitive leagues layered on existing systems. Mechanics shift by season; treat the in-game rules screen as authoritative and apply the standard doctrine: scout the scoring table first, spend inside windows only.

State of Power / SvS / King of Icefield — the flagship tier, covered fully in Events & Timing.

A second, peaceful base reached by dock. The Tree of Life is its Furnace-equivalent — each level pays permanent buffs back to your main account, upgraded with Prosperity and Life Essence earned by decorating and developing the island.

Why it's not skippable: the buffs are permanent and the investment never resets. Treat it as a weekly errand — collect essence, place decorations for set bonuses, queue the next Tree level — rather than a daily obligation. Showdown decoration components (Giant Horns) upgrade island decorations too, so those event rewards have a destination.

Collectible advisors giving passive account-wide bonuses — extra stamina, event-specific boosts (Kathy strengthens Frostfire patrol farming), production and combat perks. Expert development materials come from the Wish Station facilities daily, which is another reason to keep that loop running. Check the Expert screen before big events; the right advisor active is a free multiplier.