New Player Recommended Route
Your First Run
- Buy a BossRush Ticket from the base merchant
- Grab the free Achievement Medal + buy the Adventurer's Journal
- Pick the DEMO Ultimate Challenge map (default, easiest)
- Choose Easy difficulty (1 Boss/wave)
- Beat everything, grab the reward crate, extract
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.
| Spend | Cost | What it buys you |
|---|---|---|
 Duck King Codex | 4000 | Logs every Boss you kill. The first entry alone returns 50,000 in achievement cash |
| Mailbox | 500 | A daily paper with a bounty and a check-in wall that pays high-quality prizes as it fills |
| Campaign Board | 500 | Takes the six Duck King Campaign contracts. Chapter 1 pays 20,000 |
Then: Take Chapter 1
The board's Chapter 1, "Echoes of the Ring" 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 trophy showcase, chapter 3 the jukebox tracks.
Meet the NPCs
- Find Dingdang and Yuori on normal maps
- Chat + gift daily → build Affinity
- Dingdang Lv.2 = shop (Affix Forge Stones stocked here) / Lv.4 = Cold Quench Fluid → start reforging
- 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 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 + Banner. Multi-faction chaos
Black Market Duck Cup ★★★ — just a Ticket. You never fight; two signed fighters do it for you, so you never take a hit. The difficulty isn't in the aiming, it's in the decisions you make before the bell
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
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