Ruins

Ruins are abandoned structures on or near some islands. There are 6 different ruins to explore using Dragons. Exploration is the only way to obtain shards for Chronos, and it also earns other prizes. Each Island and its associated ruin must be unlocked before the Trainer can explore it.

Interface[edit source | edit]

Selecting any ruin opens the Ruin Exploration window. Presented are buttons for each of the 6 ruins, the current ruin Level 1 (level) button, Chronos, the Weekly Jackpot, and ? button for brief tutorial information. Locked ruins display a lock icon at the bottom-right of their button.

Unlocking Ruins[edit source | edit]

Each ruin is level-locked, a certain Player Level must be reached and unlocking done before exploration can commence. Accessing the Ruin Exploration window, selecting the desired ruin to unlock, and then paying the required Gold unlocks it after a set time passes. Gems can be used for instant unlocking (each island having a different unlock cost).

Ruin	Location	Player Level	Unlock Cost	Unlock Time	Experience	Seal Name	Exploration Name (E/M/H)^[1]
Mystic Cave	Main Island	10	20,000	1 Hour	800	Seal of Darkness	Scout the Entrance
							Mapping the Cave
							Explore the Depths
Ghost Ship		14	180,000	10 Hours	7,200	Seal of Adventure	Fix the Ramp
							Scout the Main Deck
							Loot the Hull
Wildfire Marsh	Distant Marsh	18	360,000	12 Hours	14,400	Seal of Secrets	Lit the Torches
							Enter the Staircase
							Locate Treasure Room
Skull Gate	Faded Earth	20	900,000	16 Hours	36,000	Seal of Souls	Inspect Entrance
							Solve Riddle
							Locate Artifact
Ancient Palace	Lost World	23	2,800,000	14 Hours	112,000	Seal of History	Cut Down Vines
							Explore During Day
							Explore During Night
Magma's Lair	Magma's Land	27	5,000,000	24 Hours	200,000	Seal of Dragonfire	Survey the Temperature
							Explore Upper Area
							Descend to the Bottom

↑ "E/M/H" is short for "Easy", "Medium", or "Hard", which refers to the difficulty of each exploration quest. Each quest difficulty has a different title, these appear in corresponding order for each respective ruin.

Exploring Ruins[edit source | edit]

Pressing the button of any unlocked ruin, opens the exploration window for that ruin, providing corresponding ruin exploration options. On the left are exploration quest difficulties easy, medium, or hard. Each level of difficulty displays the rarity and level of Dragons required, rewards obtained, required time, Ruin XP earned, and a ruin chest for exploration. Each visit requires the selection (or auto-selection) of three Dragons, meeting the minimum requirements.

On the right is an image of the shards to be found, 3 Dragon slots to fill, and the Auto-fill
and Start button below them. Auto-fill and Start auto-selects 3 Dragons meeting the exploration criteria, and commences exploration (using the last used difficulty selection, unless another difficulty is first tapped). Alternatively, Dragons may be manually selected by tapping any empty slot to open the Dragon selection window. A Feed button appears in the Dragon selection window below Dragons that don't meet exploration criteria. Selection of a Dragon fills that slot and returns to the previous screen. Any slot currently filled can be tapped again to select a different Dragon. If Dragons are manually selected, the Auto-fill
and Start button changes to a Go! button after slots are filled, and pressing it commences exploration.

Levels and Difficulty[edit source | edit]

The higher the ruin exploration quest difficulty, the stronger the Dragons each quest requires, but they also yield bigger bonuses and are quicker to explore. During exploration, Ruin XP is earned, which levels up ruins automatically when a certain threshold is met. Information about the current ruin level (and the next) are accessed by pressing the current Level 1 ruin level button.

Exploration Time[edit source | edit]

Ruins have set times required for exploration, regardless of ruin level:

Easy – 8 hours
Medium – 7 hours
Hard – 6 hours

Outside of Ruins, exploration time can be reduced through:

Forging Chronosian Seals or activating Chronos's power, both of which reduce timers by 6 hours.
Timer Boosts, from visiting Trainers, which reduce certain individual timers by 5 minutes.
Watching ad videos in exchange for a Skip 1h 1-hour time reduction when a icon appears above it.

Relic of Exploration[edit source | edit]

Ruins Exploration time is influenced by use of the Relic of Exploration, which is only usable by selecting a Ruin to open the Ruin Exploration screen, pressing the Skip button, and then confirming by pressing the Skip button. Once activated, the relic decreases the timer of any one ruin exploration by 8 hours.

Leveling XP Requirements[edit source | edit]

The amount of Ruin XP , required to progress to the next ruin level, changes as the trainer progresses. To check the amount required for the next level, press the Level button near the top-right of the Ruin exploration screen. A dialogue appears providing Ruin information and the bottom line of text indicates Ruin XP required for the next level followed by the amount of required; pressing OK returns to the previous screen. The total Ruin XP required per level is:

Level:	1	2	3	4	5	6
XP to Collect:	0	2,000	5,000	10,000	20,000	40,000
Level:	7	8	9	10	11
XP to Collect:	60,000	100,000	140,000	180,000	240,000

Leveling Difficulty[edit source | edit]

As ruins are leveled, the Dragon levels and rarities required to continue exploring also increase. Exploring a particular ruin cannot be done until Dragons fulfilling its criteria are obtained. For example, if a Trainer gets promoted to a new ruin level and has Dragons that meet the Rarity criteria but not the Level criteria, they cannot explore that ruin, and need to feed their Dragons to meet the criteria.

Note: This also affects Clan Quests involving ruins, and Daily Tasks involving ruins. If a Trainer is promoted to a level they cannot search, they cannot complete these tasks until they can.

Dragon Level and Rarity Requirements
Ruin	Level 1			Level 2			Level 3			Level 4
Ruin	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	!Hard
Mystic Cave	6	8	10	7	9	11	8	10	12	10	12	14
Ghost Ship	8	10	12	9	11	13	10	12	14	12	16	20
Wildfire Marsh	10	12	14	11	13	15	12	16	20	14	18	22
Skull Gate	14	16	18	15	19	23	16	20	24	18	22	26
Ancient Palace	18	22	26	19	23	27	20	24	28	22	27	32
Magma	23	27	31	24	28	32	25	30	35	27	32	37

Ruin	Level 5			Level 6			Level 7			Level 8
Ruin	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	Hard
Mystic Cave	13	17	21	18	22	26	24	28	32	30	35	40
Ghost Ship	15	19	23	20	24	28	26	31	36	32	37	42
Wildfire Marsh	17	21	25	22	27	32	28	33	38	34	39	44
Skull Gate	21	26	31	26	31	36	32	37	42	38	48	58
Ancient Palace	25	30	35	30	35	40	36	46	56	42	52	62
Magma	30	35	40	35	45	55	41	51	61	47	57	67

Ruins	Level 9			Level 10			Level 11
Ruins	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	Hard
Mystic Cave	36	41	46	44	49	54	53	63	73
Ghost Ship	38	43	48	46	56	66	55	65	75
Wildfire Marsh	40	50	60	48	58	68	57	67	77
Skull Gate	44	54	64	52	62	72	61	76	91
Ancient Palace	48	58	68	56	71	86	65	80	95
Magma	53	68	83	61	76	91	70	85	100

Rewards[edit source | edit]

After any ruin exploration is complete, a chest icon appears above all, and pressing it opens the Ruins interface, where the prizes are collected. Each chest may contain Gold, Food, (possible) Gems, Ruin XP, a chance to win the Weekly Jackpot prize (if there currently is one), and a chance to get a shard. Shards are used to unleash Chronos, and once unleashed, the seals can be obtained again to level up Chronos and summon Chronoids. Only a successful exploration can result in a chest containing a Chronosian Shard.

Ruin XP[edit source | edit]

The amount of Ruin XP rewarded depends on the ruin and on exploration quest difficulty:

Ruin	Quest Difficulty
Ruin	Easy	Medium	Hard
Mystic Cave	10	15	20
Ghost Ship	20	25	30
Wildfire Marsh	30	35	40
Skull Gate	40	45	50
Ancient Palace	50	55	60
Magma's Lair	60	65	70

Chests[edit source | edit]

The chests have different prizes, whose quality increases with the level of difficulty previously chosen. Each chest has an i button that, when pressed, opens the Possible Rewards screen; this screen shows possible rewards, the chance to win the Weekly Jackpot (if there is one), any possible shards to collect, and an ok button to exit the screen.

Easy Chest	Medium Chest	Hard Chest

Gold, Food, Gems[edit source | edit]

Possible Food, Gold, and Gems rewarded depend on Ruin level, and difficulty:

Level	Easy	Medium	Hard	Level	Easy	Medium	Hard	Level	Easy	Medium	Hard
Level 1	5,000	8,000	12,000	Level 5	11,000	17,600	26,400	Level 9	18,000	28,800	43,200
	400	500	700		880	1,100	1,540		1,440	1,800	2,520
	0 - 5	0 - 7	0 - 10		0 - 8	0 - 10	0 - 13		0 - 11	0 - 13	0 - 16
Level 2	6,000	9,000	14,400	Level 6	12,000	19,200	28,800	Level 10	23,000	36,800	55,200
	480	600	840		960	1,200	1,680		1,840	2,300	3,220
	0 - 6	0 - 8	0 - 11		0 - 9	0 - 11	0 - 14		0 - 11	0 - 13	0 - 16
Level 3	7,000	11,200	16,800	Level 7	15,000	24,000	36,000	Level 11	25,000	40,000	60,000
	560	700	980		1200	1,500	2,100		2,000	2,500	3,500
	0 - 7	0 - 9	0 - 12		0 - 9	0 - 11	0 - 14		0 - 12	0 - 14	0 - 17
Level 4	10,000	16,000	24,000	Level 8	16,500	26,400	39,600
	800	1000	1400		1,320	1,650	2,310
	0 - 7	0 - 9	0 - 12		0 - 10	0 - 12	0 - 15

Shards[edit source | edit]

Chronosian Seals were long ago lost in the ruins, each broken into 3 pieces that are only found during exploration. Shards that can, or have been, collected are seen at the top-right of each individual Ruin's exploration screen, or all can be viewed concurrently by tapping the Chronos button or the i button at its top-right corner.

Each time a Shard is found, all running timers on the Islands are decreased by 45 Minutes. Once all 3 shards for each seal are found, they are forged back into 6 separate seals. When all 6 seals are collected, Chronos is unsealed from its stone statue and begins decreasing timers whenever its power is used.

Each Chronosian Shard has a different drop rate, depending on the ruin, the Chest difficulty, and the part itself.

Ruin	1st Shard			2nd Shard			3rd Shard
	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	Hard	Easy	Medium	Hard
Mystic Cave	100%	100%	100%	20%	22%	26%	8%	9%	10%
Ghost Ship	28%	31%	36%	15%	17%	20%	5%	6%	7%
Wildfire Marsh	20%	22%	26%	12%	13%	16%	4%	4%	5%
Skull Gate	18%	20%	23%	10%	11%	13%	3%	3%	4%
Ancient Palace	12%	13%	16%	4%	4%	5%	3%	3%	4%
Magma's Lair	10%	11%	13%	3%	3%	4%	2%	2%	3%

Chronos[edit source | edit]

The Chronos button allows the full collection of seals to be viewed. When tapped, the seals that need to be collected, need to be forged, or have been completely collected and forged appear. A Find This Seal button appears below seals not yet collected, sending the Trainer to the corresponding ruin. A green checkmark appears on seals collected and forged. A Forge! button appears on seals when its shards have been collected, but still need to be forged into a seal. Pressing the Forge button provides the Trainer with a Restore Chronosian Seal dialog featuring an image of the seal when made whole, as well as a Forge Seal! button, used to confirm forging the seal.

See Chronos for more information about the functions of Chronos, and about Chronosian Seals.

Weekly Jackpot[edit source | edit]

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The Weekly Jackpot button houses additional prize(s) that can be obtained by opening Ruin Chests. When the Weekly Jackpot is active, the i button displays information about the current week's jackpot. When no Weekly Jackpot is active, "Coming soon!" appears on the button, and pressing the i button reveals the message: "Jackpot Reward: No jackpot reward is available at the moment. Please check back later."

View a list of past Weekly Jackpots in the Ruin Events section below.

Information Button[edit source | edit]

The ? button, when pressed, provides the following help/tutorial information panels:

Ruin Events[edit source | edit]

Weekly Jackpots[edit source | edit]

The following is a list of Weekly Jackpots that have been featured as extra potential Ruin prizes.

2021[edit source | edit]

Month	Dates	Prize
January	25 January - 1 February	1-8 of Snowman Dragon

Guaranteed Treasure[edit source | edit]

Occasionally, a Milestone Reward-like event is started for the Ruins, where Trainers can earn rewards by collecting Ruin XP points.

15-21 January 2021 Rewards

	(20,000*lvl)	5	2	10	2	(5,000*lvl)	15	10
	50	100	300	700	1,200	1,800	2,400	3,000

2-9 August 2021 Rewards

The table below is ← scrollable →, hold the Shift key while using the scroll wheel (with your pointer over the table) on desktop to scroll horizontally.

	1	300,000	2	5	2	2	180,000	5	2	5	3M	3	5	375,000	12	100
	250	500	750	1,000	1,500	2,000	2,500	3,000	3,500	4,000	4,500	5,000	5,500	6,000	6,500	8,000

Seasonal Buff[edit source | edit]

A buff is typically a strengthening or increasing effect on an in-game character, tool/item, or ability; though in this case, the Seasonal Buff is an item that immediately activates a special Seasonal Treasure Ruins event. The buff is obtained from a major event's non-premium Milestone Rewards (e.g., an Island's Event's Milestone Rewards), at a particular milestone.

Seasonal Treasure[edit source | edit]

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Seasonal Treasure is a time-limited event that increases ruin exploration rewards, by activating am add-on set of milestone rewards. Thereafter, ruins can continue to be explored and any Ruin XP earned is added to the Seasonal Treasure event's milestone progress, in addition to the normal Ruin level/leveling XP count. Ruin XP continues to accumulate in this second milestone rewards counter, until the event ends, when Ruin XP accumulation behavior reverts to normal.

Once the event is activated, a mini Ruin XP progress bar appears at the top-left of the Ruins interface:

990/1000 – Displays the progress towards only the next milestone.
i – Displays the full set of event milestones.

Note: Tapping either the mini progress bar to the next milestone, or its i button, opens the Seasonal Treasure event dialogue.

In the full event milestones, each milestone requires 1,000 Ruin XP to reach and provides a reward once reached. The higher level the ruins are, and the exploration quest difficulty chosen, the more points are awarded and the faster the quest milestones can be reached. Exploring all ruins concurrently also maximizes points produced.

History[edit source | edit]

Update 7.3: Introduced the Seasonal Buff item, that unlocks a special Seasonal Treasure ruin exploration bonus rewards event. The Seasonal Buff is unlocked from a major event's (e.g., Tyrant Event's) non-premium Milestone Rewards. Seasonal Treasure item holders can then continue to explore the Ruins for extra rewards.
Update 6.9: Added the option to watch ad videos in exchange for a 1-hour time reduction.
Update 5.9: Changed finding a Shard to reduce all running timers on the Islands by 45 Minutes.
Update 5.7: Reworked Ruins to introduce leveling, change Dragon selection options, reduce time spent exploring, improve user experience, and added extra rewards.
- Also added a new interface and Chest system. The former Ruins can be found here.
Update 2.9: Changed Ruins to not ask for the same set of Dragons after refreshing the current selection.
Update 2.8: Added buttons for when a recommended Dragon is unavailable to explore because they are busy elsewhere, indicating the activity keeping the Dragon busy and taking the Trainer to where the Dragon is.
Update 2.7: Changed Ruins to no longer require specific to explore.
Update 1.1: Changed the exploration times for some Ruins.

Pages in category "Ruins"

The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.

A

Ancient Palace

G

Ghost Ship

M

S

Skull Gate

W

Wildfire Marsh

[exploration-1] "E/M/H" is short for "Easy", "Medium", or "Hard", which refers to the difficulty of each exploration quest. Each quest difficulty has a different title, these appear in corresponding order for each respective ruin.

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