What Changed in Zenko

🦝 New — Limited-Time Event

• Safe Jimothy is here. Bust the trash-panda out of The Pound — a solo crawl down a rainy Seattle back-alley, past packs of raccoon bandits, to the Coyote Warden (4,000,000 HP) guarding the cage. Beat it, free Jimothy, and open a 6-chest reward.
• Free entry — 2 runs a day, level 15+. No cost, no paid extra.
• Rewards found nowhere else: the Legendary Jimothy himself (event-exclusive, ~1 in 1,000 — the only place he drops) and the Jimothy Mask (~1 in 150), plus gold and materials on every clear.
• It’s time-boxed — when the event closes, the Legendary and the mask are gone with it.

🔧 Fixed

• You’re in control the moment you join a co-op raid. Some players — usually joining by code, or reconnecting mid-fight — would drop into the Manticore Raid stuck behind the lobby screen, unable to move. Joining, force-starting, and reconnecting now put you straight into the fight.

⚔️ Balance

• The Mythical Manticore hits about 15% harder. The rarest creature in the game now deals damage worthy of a 1-in-1,000 chase — the buff carries across raids, dungeons, and Gladiator.

🧹 Under the hood

• Backend stability work so the world stays fast as it grows.

The biggest drop since the Abyss: a full nine-arena raid gauntlet that ends at the Manticore, Gladiator becomes the PvP with Season 1, and breeding is rebuilt from the ground up — off Gold, onto $ZOLANA and slots.

🐉 The Manticore Raid — a nine-arena gauntlet

• One unbroken chain, three bosses. Fight through 3 creep rooms → the Black Bull → 3 more creep rooms → the Sand Man → the Manticore’s Roost. Nine arenas, back to back, ending at the live finale.
• Boss health: Black Bull 2,500,000, Sand Man 2,000,000, the Manticore 3,500,000. Bring a real team.
• Up to 4 players co-op — host a room and share the code — or run it solo, fully scaled so it’s beatable alone.
• The Skyhunt. When the Manticore takes to the air, you climb a ballista, drop into a first-person view, and shoot it out of the sky before it comes back down on you. Nothing else in Zenko plays like it.
• Rewards pay only on a FULL clear — you have to beat the Manticore. Do it and you open a six-chest, pick-2 reward: choose two of six, over 15 exclusive drops in the pool, topped by an apex Mythical at 1-in-500.
• Entry: 3 free runs per day, plus 3 more unlocked for 1,000 $ZOLANA. Resets at UTC midnight.

🏆 Gladiator is now THE PvP — Season 1

• Async 3v3 and 5v5 are retired. Gladiator — real-time 5v5 on one shared ladder — is the PvP mode from here on.
• Season 1 opens at 14:00 UTC. One ladder, one climb, a fresh season.
• The Champion aura is a living trophy. It’s never minted and never owned — it rides on whoever sits at #1, and the moment someone takes the top spot, it moves to them. Hold first place, wear the crown.
• 10 ranked runs per day, and you can recharge with $ZOLANA when you want more.

🥚 Breeding, rebuilt

• Breeding no longer costs Gold. Instead, each breed pays a small on-chain $ZOLANA fee scaled by rarity — 200, 350 or 600 $ZOLANA — with the Legendary jackpot breed a flat 1,000.
• Breeding runs on slots. You start with 3, gain +1 every 24 hours, and your slot cap grows with your $ZOLANA holdings, up to 12. Out of slots and impatient? Refill instantly for $ZOLANA.
• Unlocks at Level 15.
• Mastery is a floor; holdings are the ceiling. Your lifetime breeds raise the minimum Legendary-jackpot odds — a floor that only goes up. Your $ZOLANA holdings raise the ceiling — both your slot cap and the jackpot’s apex, up to 18%.
• You never lose your fee for nothing. A failed breed refunds the slot and pays XP, and any breed that can’t complete after you’ve paid is always refunded in $ZOLANA — never silently kept.

Every element now fights with its own signature skill, and the Gladiator ladder gains a permanent all-time Rank — Novice to Ascendant — shown right on your character.

⚔️ Element Signature Skills

Your creature’s battle skill is now fixed by its element rather than derived from stats, and it’s consistent everywhere combat happens — Gladiator, the Witch Trial and co-op raids. Higher rarity scales how strong the signature is.

Each signature has its own cast VFX, and new buff / debuff aura rings show at a glance who’s shielded, slowed, healing, or having their healing cut.

🏆 Gladiator — All-Time Rank

Winning rated Gladiator matches earns all-time points that never reset. They build a permanent named Rank, shown on your character in town, right above your name. Both brackets feed one Rank — 5v5 and 3v3 — but a 3v3 win is worth half. A win pays more the stronger the opponent; NPC / practice fights pay nothing, and a daily cap keeps the board honest. Check the All-Time board in the Arena to see where you stand.

⚖️ Gladiator balance

• Healer + tank “fortress” teams are no longer unkillable. Healing loses strength as a fight drags on, tank shields refresh instead of stacking, and damage ramps up sooner when a match stalls — a pure-sustain wall can finally be broken.

Dynamic Risk Scaling. Dungeons no longer hard-lock you out — you can challenge any floor, but your faint risk scales with how your power compares to the floor’s Recommended power. The faint tables in the v0.29 notes below have been updated to match.

• Required power = the bar to enter. Recommended power = where risk drops to a small floor. Risk scales: well below Recommended → High (up to 2 faint), just under → Medium, at Recommended → Low (~6%, rarely >1 creature).
• Full farm status = over-gear it. Reach 20% above Recommended and faint risk hits 0%. Between Recommended and that point there’s a small always-on chance, so at-level farming keeps a little stake (and a little Gold sink) alive — out-gear the floor for true safety. The dungeon card shows the exact 0% number.
• Recommended scales with depth — ≈ Required on the earliest floors (safe for new players), up to 1.5× Required on the Abyss. A run never knocks out more than 2 of your party, but every creature you send can faint — including a solo one (no party size dodges the risk).
• Revives ~40% cheaper at every level (new curve 400 + 400·L^1.30): a Level 10 revive fell from ~14,000 to ~8,400 Gold, a Level 50 from ~118,000 to ~65,000. Calculated at revive time, so anything already fainted gets the cheaper price automatically.

The biggest content drop yet: a permanent solo raid boss with her own exclusive relic set, four endgame Abyss dungeons each guarding a unique Legendary + a brand-new Skill Relic, and a Faint system that finally puts stakes on every dungeon run. Everything below is the exact numbers — bookmark this page.

🕯️ The Witch — permanent solo Raid Boss

• Where: Town → the Raid Boss gate → pick The Witch (solo). Minimum account Level 15.
• The fight: she has 2,000,000 HP and summons the dead in three waves as her health drops — 8 → 11 → 15 skeletons at the 100% / 60% / 30% health gates. Click to focus-fire what matters. You have a 10-minute time limit; only a real clear pays out.
• Runs: 3 free per day, plus 3 paid runs unlocked by a one-time 1,000 $ZOLANA payment for that day — 6 total per UTC day. Resets at UTC midnight.
• Reward: beat her and open 1 of 3 chests (you pick; the other two are shown but not granted). Every chest is an independent roll on the table below.

Witch chest drop rates (per chest you open)

• These five relics are witch-exclusive — she is the only source. The Witch Stone is a genuine long-haul trophy: at ~0.2% per chest you open, that’s roughly 1 every 500 runs.
• Witch Stone’s Freeze passive: equipped on a creature as a combat relic, it has a 35% chance on a boss hit (off a 6-second per-creature cooldown) to freeze the boss for 1 second. Works in Raids and the Gladiator Arena (not PvP).
• The 40.3% floor is never empty — 35% of it is Gold, 65% is a tiered materials bundle. The rare tier (10% of bundles) includes 1–2 Gem Catalyst — the premium crafting material.

🌑 The Abyss — four endgame dungeons

• A brand-new region gated at 100,000+ power — true endgame. Each of the four depths is a distinct element, guards its own exclusive Legendary, and drops its own Skill Relic. Runs are 30 minutes each (the game’s longest, highest-stamina dungeons).
• Legendary drop rate: ~1.5% per clear of that dungeon’s own Legendary — a dedicated named drop, not the old shared pool.

The four Abyss Legendaries (base stats: HP / ATK / DEF / AGI)

⚙️ Skill Relics — a new relic class

Unlike the Witch Stone’s random freeze, a Skill Relic casts a guaranteed team buff on a fixed cooldown — no dice. Each carries a modest base stat (the buff is the payload), and each Abyss dungeon drops its own.

• In dungeons: only the flat +8% stat counts (it adds to your party power — dungeons are a power check, not a live fight).
• In Raids & the Gladiator Arena: the timed buff fires — every carrier casts on its own cooldown, so multiple Skill Relics stagger their windows. Fully deterministic: same fight, same buffs, no RNG.
• The four Skill Relics work in the Witch raid, the Manticore co-op raid, and the Gladiator Arena.

🩸 The Faint System — every run now has stakes

• Dynamic Risk Scaling (v0.30): your creatures can faint when your party is below the floor’s Recommended power, and the risk scales with how far under you are. At Recommended there’s a small Low-risk floor (~6%); reach 20% above Recommended for a true 0%. The table shows the per-creature faint chance at each key point, by floor depth:

• A run can never knock out more than 2 of your party, but every creature can faint — including a solo one, so no party size is a free pass. The small always-on Low-risk floor at Recommended keeps a little Gold flowing out of the economy — out-gear the floor (20% over Recommended) for true 0% full-farm safety.
• A fainted creature can’t fight until revived — but it can still breed. Revive with Gold or a flat 50 $ZOLANA per creature.
• Gold revive cost scales with the creature’s level (Legendary & Mythical cost ×1.5). ~40% cheaper across the board as of v0.30 (curve 400 + 400·L^1.30):

Anti-exploit note: a fainted creature stays fainted when sold or transferred — you can’t launder a revive cost by selling and rebuying. The buyer inherits the creature and its revive bill.

🎟️ Also this drop

• Abyss Gold ×4: because Abyss runs are 30 minutes, their base Gold was quadrupled — the Abyss is now the best Gold-per-hour content in the game (roughly 400k–470k Gold/hour), not a downgrade from the shorter dungeons.
• Prismatic Wings raffle: a limited raffle for 1× Prismatic Wings (Mythical accessory) — 10 $ZOLANA per ticket, running for a few days. Buy as many tickets as you like; the winner is drawn provably-fair from the published commit-seed.

Team up for real-time co-op boss fights, and choose your bracket in the Arena — 3v3 or 5v5, each with its own team and ladder.

Co-op Boss Battles

• A brand-new real-time co-op boss mode: gather your squad, walk into the arena, and take down a towering boss together.
• Party up with a friend — host a room and share the code, or fight it solo. Every player sees the same fight in perfect sync: the boss, your teammates, their creatures, cosmetics and all.
• Server-authoritative combat — the boss telegraphs its charges and slams, so read the fight, dodge, click-to-target, and burn it down as a team.
• Rolling out gradually while we tune the balance — more bosses on the way.

Arena: pick your bracket

• The Arena now runs two brackets side by side: 3v3 and 5v5. Switch between them right on the ladder.
• Each bracket has its own team and its own rating — build a 3-squad AND a 5-squad, and climb two separate ladders.
• 3v3 is a lower barrier to jump in; 5v5 is the whale bracket for a full roster of heavy hitters. Still Pre-Season — free to play, no rewards yet while we tune it.

A clear guide to why a bred Legendary comes out tradeable (you can sell it) or bound (yours to keep and use — it shows a SOULBOUND tag and can’t be sold) — and exactly how much $ZOLANA to hold to keep yours tradeable.

Two roads to a Legendary

• Every breed takes the higher of two roads, never both: your $ZOLANA holdings (raise your Legendary chance up to a 25% cap) or your trainer level (raises it up to a 10% cap).
• Holdings win → tradeable. You minted it with real skin in the game, so you can sell it.
• Level wins → bound. You’re high-level but hold little $ZOLANA, so you grinded it — yours to use, but not to sell. This keeps the market from flooding with farmed Legendaries, so everyone’s Legendaries keep their value.

How much $ZOLANA to keep it tradeable

Hold at least this much at the moment you breed (the game reads your live balance) and your Legendary comes out tradeable:

• Level 10–25: any amount — always tradeable.
• Level 30: ~191,000 · Level 40: ~284,000 · Level 50: ~387,000 $ZOLANA.
• Level 60: ~497,000 · Level 70: ~614,000 $ZOLANA.
• Level 75+: ~658,000 $ZOLANA — and it stops rising here (the level road caps at 10%), so it never asks for more no matter how high you level.
• The rule only switches on at Level 26 — below that, a lucky low-level roll is never bound.

Example scenarios

• Grinder — Lv 51, holds 27k → BOUND (level road 7.8% beats holdings 2%). Would need ~387k to flip it tradeable.
• Mid holder — Lv 28, holds 463k → TRADEABLE (holdings 8.4% beats level 2.4%).
• Whale — Lv 25, holds 8.6M → TRADEABLE (holdings maxed at the 25% cap).
• Bought-in low level — Lv 12, holds 1M → TRADEABLE (buying in is a legit road to a sellable Legendary).

Two things to remember

• It’s your live balance at breed time that counts — you can top up right before breeding.
• A bound parent still forces a bound child no matter how much you hold — a tradeable Legendary needs two tradeable parents and enough $ZOLANA for your level.
• Legendaries from a Mystery Egg (not breeding) are always tradeable. Full details & the complete level table are on the new Bound vs Tradeable Legendaries page.

A brand-new PvP arena is open! Build a 5v5 squad, challenge other trainers’ ghost teams in a real-time auto-battle, and climb the ladder. We’re launching in Pre-Season — free, unlimited, and reward-free — so everyone can test the system and tune their squads while we balance it.

New — The Gladiator Arena

• Visit the new Colosseum in town (northwest of the fountain) to enter the arena.
• Set a 5-creature defense team (1 front, 4 back), then Challenge another trainer’s ghost team — walk your avatar to position your squad while your creatures fight.
• Matchmaking is power-aware: you face squads close to yours in rating and power, so fights stay fair.
• Climb the ladder — rating is earned only from real trainer-vs-trainer battles.

Squad tips

• Put a real tank up front — the front creature draws enemy fire and shields your back line. Terra creatures make the best tanks.
• Balance it: a tank, damage dealers, and a support healer beats five of one kind.
• Relics carry into the arena — attack, crit, lifesteal and ward all matter. Kit your squad before you fight.

Pre-Season

• Battles are free and unlimited during Pre-Season — play as much as you like.
• No rewards yet — real prizes arrive when Season 1 begins. For now it’s all about experimenting and climbing.
• Live real-time PvP is coming soon — ghost battles are live today. Get your Zenkos ready.

Also fixed

• Hall of Fame opens instantly again — fixed a timeout that appeared as the leaderboards grew.

Breeding just got fairer for loyal players: you can now grind your way to better breeding, not just buy it. Your daily breeding follows the higher of two roads — how much $ZOLANA you hold, or how high your Level is — whichever is greater. You never lose your current tier.

New — Two Roads to breed

• Grind up: a dedicated free player can reach the same daily free breeds and daily limit as a mid-tier holder just by leveling — no tokens required.
• Hold up: $ZOLANA is still the fast road, and the only road to the very top — the rarest Legendary breeding odds stay a holdings chase.
• The two roads are never added together — you always get the better of the two, per limit.
• Breeding now unlocks at Level 10 — a small floor that keeps brand-new alt accounts from mass-producing on day one. Almost everyone is well past it.

Fixed — Marketplace

• Fixed a bug where a Gem-priced listing could get stuck “locked” after listing — forcing a delist/relist that burned your daily listing limit. Gem listings buy instantly and can no longer be locked.
• Cancelling a listing no longer counts against your daily listing limit — only live and sold listings do.
• When a buyer opens a purchase and backs out, the listing returns to available instantly. A listing is only ever removed by you, the seller — a buyer changing their mind never cancels it.

Fixed — Relics

• A relic's enhance level now shows the same number everywhere — the Forge and the equip screen no longer disagree on a relic's “+N”.

The Relic Forge is now a high-stakes upgrade system: a safe track everyone can reach, then a risk track where a failed push can permanently destroy the relic — unless you protect it. Plus fixes to breeding Gem charges and the community Gem Chest.

New — Relic Enhancement Rework

• Safe Zone (+0 → +5): 100% success, no risk. Each level adds +50% of the relic's base stats — every relic reaches +5 safely.
• Risk Zone (+6 → +15): each attempt is Success or BOOM — on failure the relic is permanently destroyed (no downgrade). Each risk level adds +7% more stats on top of the +5 floor. A destroyed relic is unequipped and returns 25% of its craft materials as shards.
• Protection Scroll (Gems): optional on any risk attempt — if the enhancement fails, your relic is NOT destroyed (the scroll is consumed instead), and it also raises your success chance.
• Every risky enhance shows a confirmation with the exact success %, destroy %, and cost before you commit. Your existing enhanced relics keep all their power.

Fixed

• Breeding — no more surprise Gem charges. Past your free daily breeds, extra breeds cost Gems — you now always get a clear "Pay X Gems?" confirm before any Gem is spent.
• Breeding daily limits fixed. Every holdings tier now has a proper Gem-paid buffer before the daily cap (some tiers previously hit the wall with no option, and a display quirk showed more free breeds than the limit allowed).
• Community Gem Chest — smooth, instant claims. Claiming no longer feels laggy or randomly fails with "Just missed that Gem"; your Gold and materials now update the instant you click.
• Marketplace — enhanced relics now show their true (enhanced) stats on their listings.

A major balance update: Mythics reclaim the throne, the Mythic Altar's pity becomes a powerful luck boost, creatures evolve by level instead of waiting, and breeding rewards now scale with how much $ZOLANA you hold.

New

• Evolve by LEVEL, not by waiting. Evolution timers are gone. Creatures now evolve when they reach a level: Baby → Juvenile at Lv 10, Juvenile → Adult at Lv 25, Adult → Elder at Lv 50. Send them into dungeons to earn XP, hit the level, pay the Gold, and evolve.
• Holder breeding tiers. Breeding now scales on a smooth live curve of your exact $ZOLANA balance — the more you hold, the more you breed and the better your odds at the rare Legendary jackpot. Every extra $ZOLANA nudges your numbers up (the tiers below are just labelled points along one continuous curve). Titans (4M+) also get −40% Gem cost on Boosted Breeding.

Free players keep a generous free daily allowance. Holding whole always beats splitting across accounts — a single Titan out-produces any way of scattering the same $ZOLANA.

How the daily limit works: your first breeds each day are free (Gold only). Past that, up to the Daily limit, each extra breed costs Gems (5 → 10 as you go) — so the gap between Free breeds and Daily limit is your gem-paid buffer. At the Daily limit you're capped for the day (resets 14:00 UTC). Hold more $ZOLANA to raise both.

Balance

• Mythics are the true apex again. Mythical power has been buffed so a normal Mythical now matches a Legendary Rainbow — and a Mythical Rainbow towers over everything, across PvP, dungeons and raids.
• Mythic Altar — Pity reworked. Pity is now a powerful luck boost rather than a hard guarantee: at 50 sacrifices every ritual rolls at a 70% Mythic chance, and your pity is kept if you miss — you stay at 70% until a Mythic finally lands.
• Starter gold retuned. Gold from Meadow Hollows & Tidal Caverns (dungeons 1–10) is down ~30% to keep the early economy healthy. Ember, Shadow & Celestial dungeons are unchanged — deeper runs pay the same.

A big balance fix to make Legendary raid creatures a true chase again, two new holder servers, a stunning remodel for Wishling, and a smoother interface on smaller screens.

New

• Two new VIP servers — Aurora & Celeste. A new mid-tier home for holders of 10,000+ $ZOLANA, sitting between the open servers and the 100k whale servers.
• Wishling, reborn. The Day-30 exclusive Wishling is now a god-tier Celestial Wish-Star Spirit — much larger, with an always-on animated starlight aura befitting its Mythical status.

Balance

• Legendary raid drops fixed. Legendary raid creatures (Tidalord, Magmarok, Umbraxis, Geargrove) were dropping far too often — in some regions almost every few raids. They're now a proper rare chase (roughly 1 in 100 raids). Creatures you've already earned are completely safe — nothing was removed.

Fixes

• Smoother on smaller screens. The desktop HUD and panels now scale gracefully on laptops and smaller windows — no more oversized or cramped chrome.
• Marketplace & shop polish. Fixed the Marketplace title overlapping its tabs and centered the Shop's Eggs/Decor tabs.

Earn and show off Titles for your greatest achievements, chase the new Astral Vanguard auction bundle, and enjoy a marketplace that finally shows every listing.

New

• Titles. A full title system — earn ranks for your holdings (Coffer-Keeper → Vaultlord → Goldtide → Fortune Sovereign), deep exploration (Spire Warden), Mythic ascension (Ascendant), Founder status, and more. Equip your favorite on your profile.
• Astral Vanguard. A new auction bundle featuring an exclusive set — a fresh chase for collectors.

Fixes

• Every listing is visible now. The Marketplace previously only searched the newest few hundred listings per category — older active listings were invisible to buyers even via search. Browse, search, filter and sort now cover all active listings, server-side.
• My Sales, redesigned. A cleaner view of your active listings and sales history.
• Legendary Cobble fix. Premium eggs no longer produce off-spec "Legendary Cobbles" — every elemental egg now hatches its correct element and rarity.
• Cancel & refund safety. Cancelling a stack listing now refunds atomically — no more rare edge cases.

A brand-new gacha pool for free players, color-coded rarity variants everywhere, pixel emblems for your titles, and a fix for a stuck incubator slot.

New

• Soulbound Capsule. A new gems-only capsule where free players can even pull Legendary gear — but everything comes out Soulbound (marked across your whole inventory, creatures included). It also grants a bonus mystery egg every pull.
• Convert to Tradeable. Want to sell a Soulbound item? Pay 10,000 $ZOLANA to unbind it — a simple one-tap Convert button wherever a bound item shows.
• Variant badges everywhere. Shiny · Golden · Shadow · Rainbow now show a clear color-coded badge on every screen that displays a Zenko (Rainbow shimmers!) — so you always know your rare variants at a glance.
• Title emblems. Earned titles like Witch Watcher now carry a hand-made pixel emblem, and your equipped title reads crisp and sharp on your profile.

Fixes

• Incubator slot fix. A nest slot could get stuck showing empty but unusable (the nest read as full). Fixed the underlying cause and repaired every affected nest — no eggs lost; any over-cap eggs are back safe in your inventory.

A new server-wide moment when Mythics are born, a living aura for Cosmium, a big buff to the Heart of the Phoenix, clearer recycling, and important marketplace + anti-exploit fixes.

New

• Mythic Born billboard. When any trainer hatches a Mythic, the whole server sees a celebration banner with the creature and the trainer's name.
• Cosmium's aura is alive. Cosmium's signature aura now animates, and Mythic auras shimmer on your following companion.
• Recycling clarity. The recycle screen now shows exactly what materials you'll get, by rarity, before you commit.

Balance

• Heart of the Phoenix. This Mythic relic now grants +50% HP and +45% ATK — and every existing owner has been buffed automatically.
• Rarer top-tier relics. Legendary & Mythic combat relics are now a much rarer chase from capsules and deep raids (Mystery-egg Legendary hatch 25% → 18%).

Fixes

• Marketplace balance (mobile + desktop). Many players couldn't load their $ZOLANA balance to buy or sell. Fixed the on-chain read and added a "Refresh balance" button on the Market.
• Closed a Storage exploit that let creatures mature and breed faster than intended via the vault.

A quality-of-life wave straight from community feedback — a new language, bulk gear recycling, listing from storage, clearer relic stats, and a batch of important fixes (including a reforge double-charge we've already refunded).

New

• Español. The whole game is now fully localized in Spanish — switch language in Settings (English · 中文 · 日本語 · Español).
• Equipment Recycling. Bulk-select junk relics in Relics → Collection and recycle them for materials in one tap — no more clearing them one at a time.
• List from Storage. Sell items straight from your Storage vault — no need to withdraw them first.
• Auto-update prompt. When a new version ships, you'll get a one-tap Reload so you're always on the latest.

Relics & Marketplace

• All stats, everywhere. Relics now show every stat they carry (not just the main one), and the Collection tab tells you which creature each relic is equipped on.
• Reforge is a real gamble. Reforging a trainer relic now re-rolls which stats you get — a true gamble, not a tiny nudge.
• The Sell button now states the Level + $ZOLANA hold required, up front — no more surprise at checkout.

Fixes

• Reforge double-charge. A mobile double-tap could charge you twice. Fixed — and everyone affected has been refunded in Gold (check your in-game notifications).
• Closed a loophole that let bound Elders be sacrificed at the Mythic Altar.
• Items sold from Storage now arrive ready to use for the buyer instead of hidden in their vault.

The biggest update since the Economy Rework — a limited leaderboard event, a new endgame chase, creature retirement, three new servers, full Chinese & Japanese localization, and a wave of combat + quality-of-life upgrades.

The Witch Trial — a limited leaderboard event

• Seal the pact. Sacrifice 3 Elders (account Level 10+) for a one-time event pass, then face the Witch in a real-time boss fight — you personally dodge her attacks in the arena while your 3-creature squad auto-battles. The whole town turns cursed while she's here.
• Two leaderboards. Climb 🗡️ Most Damage (cumulative) and ⚡ Fastest Clear (best single-kill time) across the event window — 2 runs per day, up to 10 minutes each, and re-pick your squad before every run.
• Prizes at settlement. 🐺 the Witch Dog — a 3-headed Void cerberus Legendary, only 10 will ever exist (top 5 of each board) · 5,000,000 Gold + 1,000 Gems across the top 50 · Witch Slayer / Witch Watcher titles for your nameplate.
• A new town countdown billboard shows the live time remaining until the event ends.

New systems

• Mythic Ascension. A new Mythic Altar tab in Breeding — offer Elder Legendaries for a chance at a Mythic Egg (+2% per Elder, up to 20%, with a pity guarantee). The ultimate endgame chase.
• Creature retirement. Bred a creature to its lifetime limit (8)? Now you can Renew it with Gems to breed again, or Let it Go for a one-time Gold payout.
• Three new servers — Haneul, Lotus, and Fuji join the roster.
• 中文 & 日本語. The entire game is now fully localized in Chinese and Japanese — switch language in Settings.
• Titles. Earn and equip titles, shown on your nameplate around town.

Combat & creatures

• True combat stats on the card. A creature's stat card now includes its rarity power bonus (Mythical ×4, Legendary ×2.8) plus stage & variant — so a Mythical finally reads as strong as it actually fights (no more "why is my Mythical's Attack lower?").
• The god-tier Mythicals now hit harder — the defensive ones had their base Attack raised.
• Cosmium — the one breedable Mythical — now renders god-sized with a radiant cosmic aura.
• Relic fixes. Fortune now genuinely boosts raid Gold + material drops, Breed Speed actually shortens breeding, and the Aurora Banner maxes your idle coins.

Quality of life & fixes

• Unequip-all in Relics · a BOUND tag in the breed picker so you never mix them up · a bound creature's relics are never stranded when it's sacrificed.
• Gacha Possible Rewards panel + pull history · the Dex now counts vaulted creatures.
• The Marketplace shows a creature's level + breed count on its card, and never silently loses a paid-but-late purchase.
• A much faster Witch fight start, instant renew / release, and a batch of server correctness fixes.

A new camera control, a visual fix so your aura shows off to everyone, and a batch of quality fixes.

• Drag to look around. Press and hold anywhere on your island or in town and drag to pan the camera — let go and it glides back to your character. Great for taking in the view or lining up decor.
• Auras now show to everyone. Your trainer-relic aura used to appear only on your own screen — now other players in town see it too (rainbow Aurora Banner included).
• Breeding hatch time fixed. Mystery Eggs quoted "3 min" but actually hatched over their real per-tier time — the Nest and Incubate screens now show the true duration up front.
• Raid team, less scrolling. The SEND button now sits at the top of the team picker and stays pinned as you scroll — no more hunting for it under a long roster.
• Casino payout fixed + refunded. A brief window paid winning bets less than intended. That's fixed, and everyone affected has been refunded the difference in Gems — check your notifications.

A big batch of systems, social, and quality upgrades — plus a fresh, cleaner look across the game's screens.

• Town chat, reimagined. Chat now lives permanently in the lower-left like a real MMO, and sending a message pops a speech bubble above your character — seen by players near you in town. A Global channel stays for shard-wide talk.
• Relics, Gems & Marketplace redesigned. Relics is a clean 4-tab flow (Equip / Amulet / Forge / Collection) with a visual creature picker + live combat-stat readout; the Gem/Epoch screen shows the full community chest and mint-from-bag; the Marketplace gains an item-detail drawer + a fungible order-book. Every clunky dropdown is gone.
• Weekly bonus — tier top-up. Grow your $ZOLANA mid-week and jump a tier? Claim the difference right away, without waiting out the cooldown.
• Dungeon drops clarified. Every raid now correctly shows all three base materials at every depth.
• Fixes: mobile Phantom sign-in, PvP defense teams (place any owned Elder), the jetpack cosmetic staying equipped, and correct relic names + stats everywhere.
• Wiki upgrade. A full visual Bestiary — all 105 species with portraits — plus complete pages for Economy, Dungeons, Breeding, Combat, Elements, Abilities, Town, Casino, Progression, Glossary and FAQ.

The biggest rebalance since launch. Two clean currencies now: Gold is abundant (the dungeon / AFK grind) and Gems are scarce (the premium tier). The confusing third currency — Shards — is gone entirely.

• Gold ×2.5. Every dungeon's Gold payout was multiplied by 2.5 vs the old base. Gold is now the main dungeon reward, not a side prize — a run pays 300–750 × depth^1.4 Gold (Dungeon 1 ≈ 300–750; Dungeon 25 ≈ 27.7k–69.3k).
• Shards removed. The Shard currency was deleted from the game. Anything that used to cost or grant Shards was converted to Gold; the old database column is kept inert only for history.
• Breeding pays Gold only. No more Shard cost and no more Shard "guarantee." New costs by parent tier: 3,000 / 10,000 / 30,000 / 80,000 Gold. A failed breed refunds 50% of the Gold (1,500 / 5,000 / 15,000 / 40,000) plus trainer XP — so a miss is a soft sink, not a wipe.
• New stamina model. Regen is fast and generous — +1 every minute passively (60/hr), and double while resting in the AFK Zone (+1 per 30s). An empty bar (0→180) refills in ~3h active / ~1.5h resting, or buy an instant full refill for 50 $ZOLANA.
• Materials ungated on every dungeon. All 25 dungeons now drop all three base materials (Glimmer Dust, Mana Shard, Astral Core), scaling 1.0× → 1.5× with depth. Any player can gather a full Gem recipe from low-level raids — only Gem throughput stays gated, never the materials themselves.

WHY THE SPLIT

One abundant currency (Gold) and one scarce premium currency (Gems) makes value legible. Idle income was already cut to a trickle (cap ~10 Gold/hr for a Legendary) back in June, so Gold now comes almost entirely from playing dungeons — and Gems stay a genuine premium, minted through the recipe (50 Glimmer + 25 Mana + 10 Astral + 5 Catalyst + 90,000 Gold per Gem).