How to get it: a farming index
One row per thing players ask for: where it comes from, the best way to get more, and the page with the details. Drop rates are not listed. Anything you do not want can be sold: see Making money.
Currencies
| What | Where it comes from | Get more |
|---|---|---|
| Money | Ore, contraband, the Salvage Bench, selling to players | Making money |
| Ancient Energy | Mining, contraband, the Salvage Bench, the Tinkerer (/tinker) |
Mine at the level cap for 50% increased mining energy |
| Drachma | Blocks you mine by hand, once you own a base | Hold the highest base tier you can. /tribute exchange turns 3 Tribute into 1 Drachma |
| Tribute | Monster kills, once you own a base | Kill Magic and Rare monsters and bosses. They pay several times a Normal monster. /drachma exchange turns 3 Drachma into 1 Tribute |
| Obols | Discord server tag (2 an hour, holds 48), a Discord boost, the top 5 of each weekly board and the weekly vote race, Siege leagues, the web store | Link Discord with /link, turn on the Ancients server tag, and run /claimtag once a day |
| Ichor | Fissures in Expeditions at area level 100 and up. /tribute shop sells 16 for 3,000 Tribute |
A Hallowed Fissure Votive gives a map a fissure for certain. More item quantity means more Ichor |
| Rift Marks | The Tartarus Rift: rift points become marks 1 for 1 | Use your 10 minutes of rift time every day |
| Vote credits | Voting: 1 credit a vote | Vote every day. A 7 day streak adds a bonus credit per vote |
| AFK points | Standing in the AFK world at mining level 30 or higher | See AFK Shop |
Mining finds
| What | Where it comes from | Get more |
|---|---|---|
| Shards | Breaking ore | Shard Discovery (50% more chance per level), Shard Find in the Mining Tree (4% more per small node), a Shard booster, the Experience outpost major (50% increased shards) |
| Contraband | Shards, Mystery Contraband, chests in the Vaults of Plouton | Open more shards |
| Jewels | Breaking ore. Better ore gives a rarer jewel | Jewel Find in the Mining Tree. The Discovery outpost minor adds 10% increased chance to find jewels while your gang holds it. Shard bonuses do not help |
| Vault reliquaries | The Vaults of Plouton: bronze doors that open in the ore wall while you mine, and the Great Vault | Keep mining and step through within 60 seconds |
| Clue Scrolls | Rare find from any block that pays mining rewards. The tier follows your mining level | The Discovery outpost minor: 25% more clue scroll drop chance |
| XP Bottles | Clue caskets only | Finish clue scrolls |
| Calcite key parts | Calcite and amethyst clusters in the Calcite Caverns. One of each makes a Cavernheart Key | Ascension II (25% increased) and the Calcite Caverns outpost major (30% more) |
| Infernal Netherite Scrap | Typhon, or 8,000 Tribute each in /tribute shop |
Surtr at spawn takes 100 scrap for a netherite pickaxe or weapon and 50 for an armour piece. Netherite gear needs level 102, which you reach after Ascension II |
| G-Kit Beacons | Mining a kit block called down by a G-Kit Flare. Fractured blocks never give one. See G-Kits | The Obol Store sells a flare for each kit |
PvE finds
| What | Where it comes from | Get more |
|---|---|---|
| Boss keys | Expedition end bosses. /tribute shop sells each for 15,000 Tribute. Mystery Boss Summoning Keys come from the Season Pass |
Run the highest area level you can clear. The Boss Keys Found gang upgrade adds up to 20%. See Summoning a Boss |
| Etna Fragments | One from every base boss kill. One of each summons Typhon | Kill all four bosses |
| Uber fragments | Avatars on Sacred Maps. A map costs 100 Ichor. 4 fragments summon an Uber | Farm Ichor |
| Reforging Stones, Truing Stones | Every Expedition monster can drop one. The Reclaim Shop (/reclaimshop) sells both for reclaim points, which only come with a rank |
Kill more monsters per run: map modifiers raise item quantity |
| Map Votives | Completing Expeditions. /tribute shop sells them for 4,000 to 15,000 Tribute |
Higher area levels drop more |
| Orb of Moros | Pit Breach monsters, in Expeditions at area level 60 and up | A Pit Breach Votive gives a map a breach for certain |
| Water of Acheron, for jewel crafting at The Confluence | Pit Breach monsters | A Pit Breach Votive gives a map a breach for certain |
| Water of Styx, Ember of Phlegethon, for jewel crafting at The Confluence | The Pit Wardens, who come out at 40 kills in one breach at area level 75 and up | Hold the breach open by killing fast |
| Recombinator | The Pit Wardens that end a Pit Breach, at area level 75 and up | Reach 40 kills in the breach |
| Slot Expanders | The Armour and Weapon Expander Box. Expedition end bosses can drop the boxes, and the Reclaim Shop sells the Weapon Expander Box | Kill more Expedition end bosses |
| Hunter XP | Expedition monsters and bosses. See Hunter XP | High area level, your first 500 kills a day (see Daily Bonuses), a Hunter booster, map modifiers, the Hunter XP Gained gang upgrade, the PvE outpost minor (15% more) |
Routes and builds for these are on the Expeditions guide and the bosses and Typhon guide.
Enchant items
| What | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Godly enchant orbs | Mystery Godly Enchant Orbs: a bonus drop from the four bosses, 5 to 10 in every KOTH Lootbag, vault reliquaries, Legendary and better contraband, clue caskets, Rift Caches, the Black Auction House |
| Exceptional Enchant Orbs | Fracture VI and Warp Miner VI: Divine and Exceptional clue caskets. Overload IV and Enlighten IV: Expedition end bosses. Weakness VII, Lightning V and Frenzy V: the Commissary. Vault reliquaries hold enchant orbs too |
| Echo Sigil | Rift Caches |
| Tempering Sigil, Honing Sigil | Bonus drops from Hephaestus |
| Enchant Dust | Shards, contraband, clue caskets, vaults, Expedition monsters, Rift Caches, rank kits, the AFK Shop (8 for 50 points). Bosses do not drop it |
| Black Scrolls | Contraband of any rarity |
| Enchant Rerolls | Shards, Simple to Ultimate contraband, the AFK Shop (4 for 50 points) |
Pickaxe items
| What | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Tartarus Sigil | The jackpot of a Tartarus Rift Cache |
| Tartarus Reroll | Tartarus Rift Caches |
| Perk Reroll Token, Perk Swap Token | The Prestige Token Box (500 AFK points) and Rift Caches |
| Quantum Entangler | Godly and better contraband, Rift Caches, the Black Auction House, higher rank kits |
Rift Caches are bought with Rift Marks, so the rift items come down to playing the Rift every day.
Trims, offhands and pets
Trims. There are 100 this map. Each is a single piece that rolls its own stats. The kinds of places:
| Source | Trims |
|---|---|
| Expedition monsters | 37: 18 Common, 13 Rare, 6 Mythic |
| Bosses, Ubers and Sacred Map Avatars | Each has its own |
| Typhon | 4 |
| Tartarus Rift Caches | 3 |
| Meteor Shower meteorites | 3 |
| The Oracle | 3, each sold on its own |
| KOTH, bandits, the Commissary, the PvP Tournament | PvP trims |
| Contraband, the Black Auction House, the Vaults of Plouton | Mining trims |
Three copies of one trim reroll into a fresh copy at the Fusion Altar. See Salvage Bench & Fusion Altar.
Offhands. Sources are on the Offhands page.
Pets. The Mole drops from mining ore by hand. The Shade drops from Normal monsters in Expeditions. Rarer ore and higher area levels can drop rarer ones. A pet arrives as an item: right-click it to add it to /pets.
Kits, boosters and store things
| What | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Starter Cache | /kit, once per map |
| Rank kit | /rankkit, every 3 days, for your current rank. See Kits |
| G-Kits | Unlock each with its G-Kit Beacon, then claim from /gkit on a cooldown |
| Boosters | Booster Boxes from bosses, the Reclaim Shop, lootboxes and rank kits. 8 boxes of one tier craft into a Global Booster Box. The Obol Store sells x2 global boosters for 250 to 500 Obols |
| Hunter booster | See Hunter XP Booster. It only counts down inside Expeditions |
| Lootboxes and crates | /store, for Obols |