Beginner's Guide

The structure of each week

Combat encounter

On the game map time is divided into days and night and weeks. A week has 3 days, 3 nights, and a boss fight. Each day lasts until the player has moved 50 tiles on the map and each night lasts until the player has moved 30 tiles on the map. During the day the player has a sight radius of 5 tiles in each direction and during the night the sight radius is decreases to 3 tiles. If an enemy is seen during the night, the enemy will move towards the player at the same speed as the player. Defeating a boss unlocks two additional item slots. Bosses can be fought early by opening the pause menu and selecting Fight Boss. Fighting a boss early does not advance the game to the next week early.

The game has three possible maps, each one with different items available:

• Woodland: The bosses are powerful enemies. Winning a run in unlocks Swampland.
• Swampland: The bosses are powerful enemies. Unlocked by winning a run in Woodland.
• Kingmaker: The bosses are human players. Before the run you must choose 3 out of 6 item bundles: 3 from Woodland and 3 from Swampland.

Battles resolve automatically. You and your opponent take turns attacking each other. Both you and your opponent have 4 stats:

• Health: If fighter whose health reaches 0 loses.
• Attack: How much damage each fighter does each turn.
• Armor: Absorbs damage before Health and replenishes between battles.
• Speed: The fighter who has higher Speed has the first turn. In case of a tie the player has the first turn.

Pressing CTRL enables quickbattle mode. In quickbattle mode battles are resolved automatically.

Many items inflict status effects on either the player or the enemy. The following status effects exist:

• Freeze halves the attack as long as there are freeze stacks and removes 1 freeze stack at the end of the turn
• Thorns deals damage equal to the amount of thorns when struck and removes all thorns stacks at the end of the turn
• Acid removes armor equal to acid at the start of the turn
• Poison takes damage equal to the amount of poison at turn start if no armor and and removes 1 thorn stack at the start of the turn
• Regeneration restores health equal to the amount of regeneration at turn end and removes 1 regeneration at the end of the turn
• Riptide takes 5 damage at the end of the turn and removes 1 riptide at the end of the turn
• Stun skips the attack and removes 1 stun at the end of the turn
• Purity gives 1 attack per stack and restores 3 health when removed