Field Guide

Crew work while you play and while you are logged out. Every account gets 5 Workers and 7 Mercenaries free, with nothing to unlock.

Both maps have an idle-crew CAMP bottom-left. Drag a member onto a node or monster and it starts working. Three ways to do it:

• DRAG a chip from the camp onto the target.
• TAP the chip, then tap the target. Works with mouse or finger; try this first if drag misbehaves.
• RIGHT-CLICK a working chip to send just that one home (desktop only).
• Drop a chip back on the camp to bring it home.

Two bulk controls above the camp: AUTO ASSIGN asks what you want to farm (gold, EXP or a specific drop) and splits the roster evenly across your best unlocked targets; RECALL ALL brings everyone home. Both bank earnings first, so a reshuffle never costs farming time.

Several crew can share a target and each earns in full: two Mercenaries on a stage bank twice as fast. A worked marker shows a green streak with its crew chips hanging off its edge.

• A MERCENARY NEEDS A STAGE YOU CLEARED BY HAND. On a monster you have never beaten it earns nothing, with no warning. This is the most common wasted deployment.
• Mercenaries never fight and never lose: they bank a defeat on a fixed clock, your stats do not change the rate, and every defeat pays.
• Workers gather on the node’s own cooldown, and a full Misc. bag stops them — they are recalled and you are told why.
• Earnings arrive in batches about once an hour. Nothing is lost; the server pays for every second.
• Offline, crew keep earning for up to 24 hours. Past that the shift expires: the full window is still paid, but they come home and need re-posting.

You cannot gather a node or fight a monster by hand while your crew works it. Both screens offer to recall them first.

Above the idle crew camp on the Battle and Gathering maps are two buttons that move everybody at once, which is faster than dragging a dozen chips one at a time.

• AUTO ASSIGN asks what you want to farm — Gold, EXP, or a particular drop — and splits your whole roster evenly across the best cleared stage for each thing you tick.
• Ticking four drops that all come off ONE monster counts as one destination, not four. You cannot farm one of them harder without farming the rest exactly as hard.
• It moves the whole roster, deployed crew included, because an even split is only even if it counts everyone.
• RECALL ALL sends every one of that kind home.

Moving crew resets their earning clock, so every bulk button BANKS what is owed first, in the same breath. Nothing is lost by rearranging, and re-running the same plan moves nobody who is already in the right place.

A crew chip sitting on a marker can be sent home three ways, and they all do exactly the same thing: drag it back to the camp, right-click it, or press and hold it on a phone.

Tapping a chip and then tapping a marker also works, on a phone and with a mouse alike. If dragging ever misbehaves, that is the thing to try first.

• The Shop’s Gold tab sells more of both. Crew are the best gold purchase: each earns around the clock from the moment you buy it.
• Premium packs carry crew that go past the gold limits.
• Crew Training (its own page beside the Workshop) MERGES idle crew into one higher-level member that works at a multiple of the rate. It trades headcount for rate and is permanent. See Crew Training below.