New Player Recommended Route ​

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Your First Run ​

  1. Buy a BossRush Ticket from the base merchant
  2. Grab the free Achievement Medal + buy the Adventurer's Journal
  3. Pick the DEMO Ultimate Challenge map (default, easiest)
  4. Choose Easy difficulty (1 Boss/wave)
  5. Beat everything, grab the reward crate, extract

You just unlocked "First Steps" and "Easy" achievements. Nice.

Next: Spend 5000 on Foundations ​

Once the first payout lands, buy and build these three. They're cheap, and they all keep producing - the earlier you set them up, the more they've earned by the time you need them.

  • Duckov Codex — Cost: 4000; What it buys you: Logs every Boss you kill. The first entry alone returns 50,000 in achievement cash
  • Mailbox — Cost: 500; What it buys you: A daily paper with a bounty and a check-in wall that pays high-quality prizes as it fills
  • Duck King Campaign from Jeff — Cost: 0; What it buys you: Six story quests on Jeff's quest page. Chapter 1 pays 20,000

The Codex pays for itself ten times over on the first square you light. And it has actually been logging since the day you installed the Mod - buying the book just lets you open it.

Then: Take Chapter 1 ​

Jeff's Chapter 1, "Sign Us Up" is practically written for your second run:

  • Clear one standard BossRush run
  • Take zero damage through wave 2

That's 20,000, and it unlocks the base garden - after which the three custom Bosses start dropping seeds you can grow into "raid meals" that buff the start of your next run.

Each later chapter unlocks something else: chapter 2 opens the display bonus (Boss trophies on a weapon rack or dummy), chapter 3 the jukebox tracks.

Meet the NPCs ​

  • Find Dingdang and Yu Zhi on normal maps
  • Chat + gift daily → build Affinity
  • Dingdang Lv.2 = shop (Affix Forge Stones only show up at Lv.10) / Lv.4 = Cold Quench Fluid for stat locks; reforging is available from the start
  • Dingdang also runs affix forging: reforging changes numbers, affixes change behavior (kill explosions, lifesteal on hit, armor thorns)

Custom Bosses ​

  • Fight the Dragon Descendant → learn its two-phase trick
  • Get the Dragon Set (Crimson Helm + Flame Scale Armor) → fire immunity + dash
  • That set will carry you a long way

Worth knowing: relic souls have been banking since your very first Boss kill. Save 240 in one bloodline and the PetNest lets you condense that Boss's egg on demand - the cub that hatches fights alongside you.

Gear Progression ​

Basic gear → Dragon Set + Dragon's Breath → Dragon King Set + Halberd + Totems → Reforge with Cold Quench Fluid → Affix Forging to turn well-statted gear into gear that actually does something

Other Modes ​

By the official difficulty rating, lowest first:

  • From Scratch ★★★ — Naked + Ticket. Random start, grow from zero
  • Faction War ★★★ — Naked + Faction Flag. Multi-faction chaos
  • Black Market Duck Cup ★★★ — just a Ticket. You stay out of the ring and watch two Boss teams, blue and red, brawl from the stands. The big decision is which team to back; six matches a season, with one bell to ring per match for a disaster
  • Infinite Hell ★★★★ — unlimited waves, find your ceiling
  • Zombie Mode ★★★★ — Horde Invitation to enter. Naked against an endless horde, running its own Purification Point economy. It shares nothing with the modes above, and Duck King Campaign chapter 5 sends you here
  • Fate Echo ★★★★★ — Current gear + Ticket + Relic. Bosses counter whatever you did last wave
  • Blood Hunt ★★★★★ — Naked + Ticket + Transponder. The hardest challenge

The Black Market Duck Cup is relaxed to play, but it lets you bet money or backpack items: you back the team you picked, a loss hands your stake to the house, and in the long run the house always wins. Nothing from your warehouse is ever staked. Betting is off by default and entirely optional, so you can play a full season without it. New players should not bet.

Economy ​

  • Early: sell items from reward crates
  • Early-mid: Codex milestones (1/10/20 entries pay 50k / 150k / 400k) and daily bounties. Neither costs you extra time - you earn them on the way
  • Mid: chase achievements. All 45 together are worth nearly 20 million
  • Late: Infinite Hell cash pool + milestone rewards; the six campaign chapters total 480,000
  • Always: Affinity discounts cut reforge, affix and healing costs

Hotkeys ​

  • L — Achievement panel (configurable)
  • K — Abandon a Fate Echo run (configurable)
  • Ctrl+F10 — Boss Filter