The Dragon's Hoard

Every death feeds it. The first to win takes it all.

One pot

When a run ends in death, the gold you were carrying falls to the dragon. Not to your dragon: to one pot shared by every player of the game. The end screen says "412 gold to the dragon's hoard.", and your Ledger keeps the running total: "Left to the dragon's hoard".

• Only deaths feed it. Abandoning, winning or clearing the free Cellars sends nothing.
• A death in a Daily Descent or a Season Descent feeds it too. A seed-code run's does not.
• A death sends the gold, the floor and the hero. No name.
• Free players' deaths count like anyone's.
• Deaths while offline are kept on the phone and sent later.

The glass on the title

Once the game has read the pot, the title screen shows it: a glass of gold held in a dragon's claw in the vault's doorway, with a brass plate above it reading "DRAGON HOARD", the pot's size, and "ENDS IN 28D 6H". Coins fly in when new deaths arrive. Tap it for the panel:

EVERY DEATH FEEDS IT. FIRST TO WIN TAKES IT ALL.

Seasons

A season is a calendar month. The pot grows all month, and if nobody takes it, it carries over whole into the next.

The Season Descent

The way to take the pot. On the panel, "Steal it", then "Descend".

• It needs the full game and a name on the board.
• One try a day. "Today's one try. It counts." There is no practice run.
• A random hero and a fresh dungeon, dealt when you start. The hero may be one you have not unlocked.
• Greed 10, and harder still: on top of all ten Greed rules, every enemy has 2 times the health and 1.6 times the attack.
• Base passive only, every set in the loot, no treasure boons, no trials.
• Starting one ends any run you have in progress.

The panel sums it up: "Hard: random hero, 1 try a day".

Winning it

Break the curse in a Season Descent and your run is sent to be checked: every action of it is played again with the same rules, and it counts only if it replays to a win. The end screen waits: "Checking your win with the hoard..."

• First of the season: "THE HOARD IS YOURS". "The dragon's hoard is yours: [the pot] gold. Your name is on it for the season."
• A real win, but late: "A real win, but the hoard was already taken this season by [name]."

The prize is your name on the hoard. The plate reads "TAKEN BY" and your board name until the month ends, later seasons remember it as "Last taken by", and your Ledger gains "Took the dragon's hoard, season N". The gold is a score, not something you carry into a run. After a claim the pot starts again from the deaths that follow.

For your own progress

A Season Descent is an ordinary run for your records: best floor, hero unlocks, borders, set wins and treasures all count. Its deaths count toward Anselm's 1,000.

On floor 30, Avarax's card reads the pot back to you: "He lies on [the pot] gold of the dead".

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Written from the game's own rules, version 2.9.4. Spotted something wrong? Tell us on Discord.