Show Up, Get Paid

Zenko's daily loop hands you free resources just for logging in, resting, and finishing quick tasks. Under the shipped 2026-07-01 economy, almost all of this pays in Gold — the abundant grind currency (Gold values are ×2.5 across the game). Gems stay scarce and are earned mainly from the community-funded Epoch and the free weekly stipend. Everything on this page is repeatable — most of it every UTC day.

The 7-Day Calendar

Claim once per UTC day. Each claim advances your streak by one and pays that day's tile. After day 7 the cycle loops back to day 1 with a fresh grand chest. Miss a day and the streak resets to 1 — you start the calendar over. Every tile pays Gold.

A full uninterrupted week banks 135,000 Gold. Each claim also awards +200 account XP toward your trainer level.

Quests track your live account state — no separate event log to grind. When a task's target is met, claim it for the reward. There are three periods: a one-time onboarding chain, resetting daily tasks (UTC day), and resetting weekly tasks (UTC week). Every quest claim also grants +150 account XP.

Getting Started (one-time)

A brand-new trainer is Gold-walled to a handful of creatures, so this chain hands out Eggs and Gold along the natural first-hour loop — pacing you organically toward a ~20-creature squad. It's the one place daily play grants free Eggs and a starter Gem drop.

Chain total: 16 basic + 2 forest Eggs, ~36,500 Gold, one Common relic, and 5 Gems. The Gold buys ~14 more cheap basic Eggs on top — 20 creatures is very reachable.

Daily Tasks · reset every UTC day

All four dailies together = 13,500 Gold per day, on top of the login streak.

Weekly Tasks · reset every UTC week

The three weeklies pay 65,000 Gold per week.

Passive Idle Trickle

Every creature placed on your island dribbles a little Gold each hour just by being there — your town is alive even while you're gone. Since the economy rework, this is a deliberately tiny "ambient" faucet: dungeons and raids are where Gold really comes from. Per-creature base rate by rarity & life stage (Gold/hour):

Happiness (×0.5 to ×1.5), variant, relic charms, and each combat level (+1.5% income/level) multiply on top — but the base stays deliberately negligible next to dungeon Gold. Idle income accrues while offline up to an 8-hour cap.

Resting at the AFK Zone

Park your trainer by the campfire in Town to start a rest session. While resting you bank two things at once:

• Boosted Gold — you accrue 150% of your hourly Gold rate (a +50% bonus on top of your normal idle income), collectable whenever you return.
• Faster Stamina — +1 Stamina every minute while resting, exactly double the passive +1-every-2-minutes regen.

A rest session banks up to the same 8-hour cap, then stops accruing until you collect and re-rest.

Stamina (the dungeon throttle)

Stamina is the soft gate on dungeon runs. The bar caps at 180 and refills +1 every 2 minutes passively (a full empty-to-full in ~6 hours, or ~3 hours while resting). In a hurry? Buy an instant full refill for 150 $ZOLANA — one flat offer, regardless of how empty the bar is. The $ZOLANA is routed to the treasury and burned.

Fainting & Revival

Stamina isn't the only cost of a run. A squad creature whose HP hits 0 during a dungeon or raid faints — up to 2 creatures per run — and is benched until you pay to revive it. This is the real bite of over-reaching a floor: send a party that comfortably out-powers the content and casualties fall to zero.

Reviving a fainted creature costs either Gold or a flat $ZOLANA skip:

• Gold — 400 + 400 × Level^1.30, scaling with the creature's own level (≈8,400 at Lv 10, ≈65,000 at Lv 50). Legendary and Mythical creatures pay ×1.5.
• $ZOLANA — a flat 50 $ZOLANA per creature at any level, the premium "get me back in the fight" skip.

Each creature has a combat level (1–100), a progression axis separate from its evolution stage. Levels come purely from dungeon EXP — every creature in a claimed party gains 20 × dungeon ID EXP per run — and they apply automatically. There is no Gold cost and no button to press: the moment a creature banks enough EXP, it levels up on the spot.

Leveling rework (faster, especially early): the EXP curve was reworked so leveling is quicker across the board, with the biggest boost to the early levels — a fresh hatchling climbs fast, and because evolution is level-gated, quicker leveling means quicker evolutions too. Higher levels still ramp up so the cap stays a real achievement.

So leveling is a double reward: more combat power to push deeper dungeons, and a gentler bump to that creature's idle Gold. Levels are hard-capped at 100.

EXP table (milestones)

EXP needed to reach the next level, and the total banked to reach that level from Lv 1. "Dungeon" is roughly the deepest a creature of that level can farm (each run there gives 20 × dungeon ID EXP).

Highlighted rows are the evolution gates — a creature evolves to Adult at Lv 25 and Elder at Lv 50 (Juvenile at Lv 10). Every party creature in a claimed run banks the same EXP, so leveling several at once is efficient — and sacrificing fodder transfers EXP directly for an even faster path.

Note: your trainer's account level is a separate track, gained from daily/quest claims, hatching, and breeding — it's what quests like "Reach account level 5" measure.

The Epoch crystal is the game's shared, community-funded Gem faucet. It runs in three phases: players donate resources to fill live global bars → once every bar hits its goal the Epoch opens → then everyone races to mint Gems first-come-first-served until the pool runs dry. Donating IS the purchase — there's no double-pay.

1 · Fill the bars (donation phase)

Every Epoch rolls a hidden Gem pool tier that sets how much the community must collectively donate. The four live bars — Gold plus the three base dungeon materials — must all be filled:

A Big Epoch is a rare server-wide event (30M Gold + 12k/6k/2.4k materials). Since every dungeon drops all three base materials, any player can contribute to every bar.

2 · Mint Gems (open phase)

Once open, each Gem costs a fixed recipe and is claimed FCFS from the rolled pool until empty:

Gold is the heavy sink and is never refunded. Each claim rebates a random 1–26% of that Gem's materials (not Gold) as credit toward your next one — the "use again" hook that keeps you minting while the pool lasts.

3 · Your claim cap ($ZOLANA-gated)

How many Gems you personally may mint from an open pool scales with the $ZOLANA you hold:

The pool itself is the hard cap on total emission — even Whales are bounded by how many Gems remain when they arrive, and every minted Gem burns 100k Gold plus 74–99% of its materials.

Separate from the Epoch, every wallet can claim a free weekly Gem stipend — no materials, no Gold, paid on top of the Epoch pool. It comes in two forms:

• F2P floor — 4 Gems/week for everyone, once your account reaches level 5 (an anti-bot gate, so throwaway accounts can't farm free Gems).
• Holder bonus — hold ≥ 10,000 $ZOLANA and you skip the level gate and get a bigger, concave, hard-capped bonus instead. Holding always pays more.

The holder curve is bounded and sub-linear — it uses a square-root scaling so whales can never runaway-mint. Holdings above 250,000 $ZOLANA earn no extra, and the weekly ceiling per wallet is 40 Gems:

Your live on-chain balance is re-synced at claim time, so the stipend reflects what you hold right now. The cooldown is a rolling 7 days per wallet.