Prestige
Ancients has two independent prestige tracks, and you can chase both at once: player prestige, which pushes your mining level past 100, and pickaxe prestige, which permanently upgrades a single Ancient Pickaxe (branded the Path of the Ancients).
This section covers player prestige in full and gives a short overview of pickaxe prestige — its dedicated pages carry the deep mechanics.
Player Prestige
Open the menu with /prestige. There are three tiers, each tied to a level:
| Prestige | Level required |
|---|---|
| Prestige I | 100 |
| Prestige II | 101 |
| Prestige III | 102 |
Each prestige resets you to level 1 and raises your personal max level by one. You can only prestige once the season-wide level cap has climbed far enough to allow the next tier — cap 101 for P1, 102 for P2, 103 for P3 (see Levels & The Level Cap for the cap schedule).
Be warned: every prestige run is harder than the last. Each per-level XP requirement is multiplied — 1.5× on your P1 run, 2× on P2, 3× on P3 — so the grind back to 100 gets steeper every time.
Prestige I
- Max level raised to 101
- +1 max heart
- 50% increased energy gain
- Ores you mine respawn 2× as fast
- 25% increased Calcite Caverns time
Prestige II
- Max level raised to 102
- Ores respawn 3× as fast
- 25% increased Calcite Caverns key-component drop rate
- 25% increased calcite charge drop rate
- At level 102: netherite gear unlocked, plus access to
/summonmeteor(2h cooldown) — see Meteors & Meteorites
Prestige III
- Max level raised to 103
- Ores respawn 4× as fast
- At level 103: access to
/fly(stand on the ground for 3s to activate)
Pickaxe Prestige
The second track is the Path of the Ancients — each Ancient Pickaxe prestiges on its own, up to Prestige 11. Hold the pickaxe and run /pickprestige (alias /pickaxeprestige) to open its menu.
Every prestige asks two things of that pickaxe: mine enough of your tier's ore with it, and pay Ancient Energy stored on it. Prestiging preserves everything — level, stored energy, and enchants all carry over.
The detailed requirements, the perk and stat rewards, and the P11 specialization live on their own pages:
- Pickaxe Prestige (Path of the Ancients) — how a prestige works
- Pickaxe Prestige Rewards: Paths, Perks & Stats — what each prestige grants
- Tartarus Prestige (P11) — the final hard-trade specialization
Looking for prestige inside the Rift instead? That's a separate system — see Rift Prestige.
Version history
v2.0.0
- Prestiging your level (P1/P2/P3) no longer hands out a reward lockbox — the milestones still grant all their usual unlocks, only the bundled box is gone.
- Levelling gets harder after each prestige: P1 runs now cost 1.5× the base XP per level, P2 2×, and P3 3×.