Contraband

Contraband is smuggled loot — a sealed stash (it looks like an ender chest) that you crack open for rewards. It's one of the most common prizes on Ancients, and a steady source of Ancient Energy, money, and enchanting materials.

Rarities

Contraband comes in eight tiers, from least to most valuable:

Simple → Uncommon → Elite → Ultimate → Legendary → Godly → Divine → Exceptional

Higher rarities pay out noticeably more energy and money, and unlock rarer items in the reward pool.

Opening contraband

Hold the contraband and right-click to open it. You can only open contraband in a safe zone (or right around spawn) — crack it somewhere safe before showing off your haul.

Each contraband gives three rewards, revealed with a short opening animation. In a hurry? Turn on the skip-animation option in /toggles to get all three instantly.

What's inside

Rewards are drawn from the contraband pool for that rarity. The kinds of things you'll see:

• Ancient Energy — the staple reward at every rarity, with the payout growing steeply at higher tiers.
• Money — every tier pays out a cash note that scales with rarity, from roughly $15 at Simple up to around $15,000 at Exceptional.
• Enchanting materials — enchant dust and scrolls, plus enchant rerolls at the lower tiers (see below).
• Utility items at higher tiers — things like home expansions (Uncommon and up) and vault expansions (Elite and up), with the rarer pulls unlocking as you climb the tiers. The top tiers hide a few chase rewards worth holding out for.

Enchant Rerolls are early-game now

Enchant Rerolls have become an early-game drop. Simple and Uncommon keep their full rate, Elite and Ultimate are reduced, and Legendary and rarer contraband no longer drop rerolls at all. Contraband no longer drops Enchant Erasers at any tier.

Where contraband comes from

You don't buy contraband — you win it. Sources include:

• Mining Shards — the shards you collect while mining can pay out contraband
• Clue caskets from clue scrolls
• Heroic meteors — a source of the highest tiers
• Mystery Contraband Boxes — found among other lootboxes & crates
• Season Pass reward tiers

Version history

v2.0.0

• Contraband boxes reworked — they no longer drop Enchant Erasers, Enchant Reroll output is cut to roughly a quarter, and they now pay out money scaling with rarity (about $15 at Simple up to $15,000 at Exceptional).
• Chat games were removed, so they're no longer a contraband source.
• Enchant Rerolls are now early-game only — Legendary and rarer contraband no longer drop them.
• Contraband and its reward items now show their proper custom icons.