Dungeons

Dungeons are an activity in which a player explores a monster filled dungeon. One needs to be Tier 3 in order to access them. Dungeons have a certain number of floors which depends on the Tier of the player opening it. Further floors may only be accessed once the previous floor has been completed. At the end of a dungeon, players obtain additional rewards such as materials or other items (oftentimes referred to as EoD/EoG rewards, for End-of-Dungeon/Gauntlet rewards).

There exists 2 kinds of dungeons: Battle Dungeons and Exploration Dungeons.

Battle Dungeons

Battle Dungeons are the original dungeons that were introduced into the game. They feature a fight per floor, which the player must win in order to access the next one. Once the fight has ended, the next one can be immediately started, making Battle Dungeons an efficient way of fighting numerous enemies.

Once the dungeon has started, players have no opportunity to rest. Dungeons can be fled from to change gear/class/pet and re-entered with a new loadout. In this case, Ward/HP/MP may be clamped if the max Ward/HP/MP of the new loadout is lower than the current Ward/HP/MP when the dungeon was last fled from. Also, the enemies on the floor that was currently being fought will be fully healed.

Although one cannot heal between battles (only through healing spells and items if not in Hard mode), status effects do remain from one floor to the next one. There are some exceptions to that such as Doom, which will dissipate when completing a floor. A common strategy which makes heavy use of that is to use the first floor(s) to apply as many buffs as possible, which can be kept until the end of the dungeon, in order to one shot as many floors as possible.

The Battle Dungeon ends when the player has successfully defeated all floors or when the player is defeated. If the player is defeated, no End-of-Dungeon rewards are awarded.

Bosses defeated in a Battle Dungeon only reward 1/4 of their base Gold, Orn and Exp rewards. There is no known reduction for item drops.

Exploration Dungeons

Overview

Exploration Dungeons were released with 3.9.3 on November 29th 2023. They are made available through Mystic Caves and Goblin Fortresses, which are since no longer available as Battle Dungeons.

With Exploration Dungeons, players enter a top-down 2D view of the floor where they can freely move from room to room. Rooms may contain different entities such as monsters, bosses, mineable resource nodes, (Kingdom) Orns / Gold, Kingdom Florens and Materials.

Contrary to Battle Dungeons, the objective for each floor is not always to defeat enemies. It is one of:

• Defeat X monster(s)
• Defeat X boss(es)
• Find the exit (hidden behind a mineable decoration)
• Reveal and activate the 4 floor switches (hidden behind mineable decorations) then proceed to the exit

Exploration Dungeons have much fewer floors than Battle Dungeons, but each takes much longer to be completed.

Exploration Dungeons also reward 5 End-of-Dungeon rewards and have no fight rewards reduction for bosses as Battle Dungeons do.

Mining

Mining is the activity exclusive to Exploration Dungeons. This can either be done by manually tapping the resource nodes or the pickaxe to the bottom-left of the UI. If the pickaxe is held down, the character will walk from one resource node to the other and automatically mine them. If the pickaxe is repeteadly tapped, the mine animation will be interrupted but still completed, meaning it is very slightly faster than holding down. Once there is no longer any resource node in the room, the pickaxe will be greyed out.

If using the pickaxe, it may happen that the character stucks itself looping over 2 tiles. If that happens, the pickaxe must be released until the character stops on a tile and then re-tapped. Also, there may be resource nodes in out-of-reach places for the character. While they are in the room, the pickaxe will not go grey, but the character will not move when tapping it. The resource nodes must be mined by tapping on them directly.

When mining, the character gathers remnants of resource nodes, which can later be exchanged for Deep Shards. The process is explained here. Mining is also sometimes required to progress further into the dungeon, to uncover the exit or the floor switches.

Fighting

Monsters and bosses roam the floors of the dungeons. They may appear in any room which is not in the bottom-most row. They can be fought by tapping them (short or long, as on the overworld). This starts the battle as it would in the overworld.

Unlike with Battle Dungeons, no status effect carries from one fight to the other. The character also starts each fight with full health and mana. Being defeated in an Exploration Dungeon does not end the run as it would with Battle Dungeons. Instead, the fight is stopped and the game returns to the floor view, where the player can re-try the fight as many times as they want (starting with full HP/MP), until the Dungeon timer expires.

The last floor of a dungeon always has 2 rooms only: the starting room and a single boss in the room immediately up, which must be defeated to complete the Dungeon. When defeating it, the rewards screen will show up both the fight reward and Dungeon completion rewards.

Gathering pickups

Any room in any floor has a chance of containing one or more pickups. They can be collected by tapping once on them.

These pickups may contain:

• Kingdom Gold
• Kingdom Orns
• Kingdom Florens (~80-120)
• Gold
• Orns
• A random material (10-20)

Prior to tapping on them, there is no way of knowing if a gold/orn pickup is personal Gold/Orns or Kingdom Gold/Orns.

UI

1. Quick-access buttons (Codex, Quests, Map, Items). The Map button displays a layout of the floor as seen in Floor Layout.
2. The resources collected. Here, they are from top to bottom the 10:1, 5:1 and 2:1 resources respectively. The green bar shows the progress to the next Deep Shard (80%, 20%, 50% respectively).
3. The floor quest. Completing it will reveal the portal to the next floor.
4. Active buffs.
5. The portal to the next floor. On floors with the 4 switches quest, there is no portal but a dedicated room with the path to the next floor.
6. A monster (Lost Memory).
7. A resource node.
8. A mined resource node.
9. A boss (Enlightened Prince). Like on the overworld, bosses appear larger than monsters.
10. An Orns or Kingdom Orns pickup.
11. The Deep Kiln in the starting room, to smelt resources into Deep Shards.
12. Path to the previous floor in the starting room.
13. The directional pad to move from room to room and the pickaxe to direct the character to move and mine a resource node. Direction to which the player can go have white arrows, while those to which they cannot have greyed arrows.

Floor layout

The layout of a floor can be seen as a grid of size at least 1x3 and at most 4x5. Not all cells have to have a room.

Players start in one room on the bottom row of the floor. Rooms on the bottom row often but not always branch up. They may also branch sideways.

Once we go up from a room in the bottom row (if there is a path), there will be other rooms until we reach the top-most row of the floor. If there is a free space to the left or right of the room, there is a low chance that a room can be hidden there. It is sometimes needed to find it if the exit or a floor switch is located there.

Most floors will have a W shaped pattern, with a bottom row of rooms all having upwards rooms.

Here are some examples of layouts:

The color of the squares indicate what the room contains:

• White: Nothing noteworthy.
• Blue: The starting room.
• Yellow: A room containing a portal or one or more floor switches.
• Green: The room where the player is.
• Purple: In the "Find 4 floor switches" floors, this is where the path to the next floor is.

If the player (green) is on a colored room, the room will be shown half of that color and half green.

Mining for Deep Shards

The count of which resources were mined is stored and shown at the bottom-right of the UI. There are, for each Exploration Dungeons, 3 different kinds of resources. They can be smelt at the Deep Kiln, located in the starting room of each floor. Since resources are kept when progressing the dungeon, they can be all smelt on the last floor. However, if they are not smelt when the dungeon expires, they are lost and the player gets no Deep Shard from the exploration. Similarly, if there are leftovers resources that cannot be smelt into 1 Deep Shard, those are lost when the dungeon expires.

The ratio of resource-to-shards is not 1:1 and depends on the kind of resource. It can be 10:1, 5:1 or 2:1.

Cooldown and party-play

Exploration Dungeons interact uniquely with party-play. There is no dedicated button to open the exploration to the party as there is to invite the party in a Battle Dungeon. Instead, the exploration is open to everyone in the party. Once opened and until the cooldown is over, players in the party can freely join the exploration. Rewards for party-play exploration are however not duplicated for each member in the exploration (fights, mining, ...). For instance, players are unable to pick up a resource that was already picked up by another player. This creates a "race" between players where the progress of one hinders the progress of others.

Since everyone in a party can join an exploration, the cooldown of an Exploration Dungeon is not tied to the player, but to the party leader. This implies the following:

• Opening an Exploration Dungeon at a Wayvessel spot prevents other players from opening the dungeon themselves. If the player opening has no Unfelled Concord, they would lock the entire party (including players joining after the dungeon has been opened) from opening the dungeon again for 6 hours.
• The same Exploration Dungeon can be run multiple times within a 1-hour timeframe if using different party leaders (which may be alts).

The latter point can be used to farm Orns, End-of-Dungeon items (at high quality) and Deep Shards effectively. The method has been explained by Knight411 in the Orna Legends Discord server. It summarizes to the following:

• Equip your best Orn gear and max your Anguish
• Get physically close to a Goblin Fortress (Wayvessels do not work)
• Run the dungeon and kill every Elite Kobold Lord, Elite Orc Lord and Kobold Lord that you can. These are the fights that reward with the most Orns.
• Don't forget to visit the Deep Kiln!
• Join an alt party where your alt is the party leader. The party leader has changed, your dungeon is off cooldown. Rinse and repeat.

You'll need to cycle through multiple alts, so that you don't re-use the same alt within a dungeon cooldown timeframe.

Finding dungeons

The main source of dungeons is the world map, where they can be found as buildings. They do not move, nor do they disappear. They may appear randomly, as can any other building. They cannot be built by players. They appear on the "Show dungeons" or "Show dungeons & towers" layer of the map.

Other means of running dungeons are:

• Through a Wayvessel, running dungeons accessible from the remote Wayvessel.
• In the Fortress / Castle, which have one dungeon that can be opened only by the Fortress / Castle owner (note: the Keep does not have a dungeon).
• In the main menu, using the Menu Gauntlet (note: this dungeon is personal and cannot be run with the party).

It is common for people to "share" their dungeon spots. They create another account whose purpose is to build a Wayvessel in reach of a maximum of dungeons and to invite others to come to their Wayvessel to run dungeons. Some Discord servers have that kind of service available, and Kingdoms usually have their own member-restricted system.

Themed dungeons

There exists multiple dungeon themes, which change what families of monsters can be encountered in the dungeon. Dungeon themes rotate for existing dungeons every week at Monday 00:00UTC. At that time, each dungeon's theme is rolled for the next week (it may happen that a dungeon keeps the same theme for 2 weeks in a row). Not all themes weigh equally in the roll and some dungeons are rarer than others.

Each theme requires the player to be at least a certain Tier in order to view them. If the player does not meet that Tier requirement, they will see the dungeon as a regular one. For example, Valleys of the Gods require the player to have reach T10. Where a Valley stands, a T9 or less player will see a regular dungeon.

The full list of themes can be found on the playorna website.

While Regular Dungeons have tiers set to each floor where an enemy of that tier will appear, Themed Dungeons work differently. Players can only encounter monsters of their Tier or below in Themed Dungeons. The level of enemies of lower Tiers will be scaled up to match the Tier of the player. For example, when encountering a T1 Goblin Lord at T10, its level will be in the T10 range.

Battle Dungeons

Menu Gauntlet

The Menu Gauntlet, also sometimes called the "Personal Gauntlet", is a Dungeon that is available for players upon reaching T3. It can be accessed from the Menu under the "Dungeon" tab. Note that this is the only Dungeon to have been called a Gauntlet, although the term is often used interchangeably within the community.

It behaves much like a Regular Dungeon, with the following differences:

• It cannot be run Horde mode.
• It cannot be run with a party (only the player can enter)
• The cooldown for it are greatly reduced

Regular dungeons

Regular dungeons are the most common ones. They may contain any monster in the game as long as it doesn't belong to an inactive event (e.g.: Follower of Kerberos outside of Beastfelled) or is locked to a specific dungeon theme (e.g.: Glatisant, only found in Dragon Roosts). They do not have any specific reward boost upon completion.

Regular dungeons offer the best balance for farming content.

Beast Dens

Beast Dens are available starting Tier 3. They contain only monsters in the Animal family. They reward additional Orns upon completion.

They have boss floors which, even if the dungeon was run non-horde mode, will contain multiple enemies.

Farming them is a great way to stock up on Hardened Steel. Running them Hard-Horde is also a great way of piling Orns up. Most of the time, people do not bother too much about them because the drops from the monsters are not noteworthy.

Dragon Roosts

Dragon Roosts are available starting Tier 5. They contain only monsters in the Draconian Forces and Dragon families. They reward additional Orns upon completion.

They are mostly farmed for Glatisant, which can show up Tier 9 onwards, for its Questing weapons and a chance at Godforging. Note that Glatisant will not appear in Tiers 5 to 8.

During the Wyrmhunt event, Dragon Roosts are very popular due to every event boss having a chance to Godforge items.

Chaos Portals

Chaos Portals are available starting Tier 6. They contain only weather- or time-restricted monsters. They reward additional End-of-Dungeon items upon completion.

They are primarily farmed for Summoning Scrolls, as Balor Gateways are Moonlight-restricted monsters. Other than that, the key cost and difficulty make it an often skipped dungeon.

Battlegrounds

Battlegrounds are available starting Tier 8. They contain only monsters in the Lyonesse Forces and Nothren Forces families. They reward additional End-of-Dungeon items upon completion.

They are primarily farmed for Baldr gear and Godforges (Arisen King Meliodas and Baldr). While very hard, Hard-Horde Battlegrounds reward with huge amounts of Orns.

Underworld Portals

Underworld Portals are available starting Tier 9. They contain only monsters in the Balor Forces family. They reward additional End-of-Dungeon items upon completion.

They are the most popular dungeon for their Balor Gateways and farming Summoning Scrolls.

Valleys of the Gods

Valleys of the Gods are available starting Tier 10. They contain only arisen monsters. They reward additional Gold, Orns and End-of-Dungeon items upon completion.

They have boss floors which, even if the dungeon was run non-horde mode, will contain multiple enemies.

Although expensive (20), they are the best option for Godforging items.

Exploration Dungeons

Exploration Dungeons' are mainly attractive due to their Deepshards, which can be exchanged for Shrine of Luck and Shrine of Wisdom, and their End of Dungeon Rewards.

Goblin Fortresses

Goblin Fortresses are available starting Tier 3. They contain only monsters in the Orc Horde and Goblin Horde families.

They can be a great source of Orns, with the Elite Kobold Lord, Kobold Lord and the Elite Orc Lord.

Mystic Caves

Mystic Caves are available starting Tier 3. They contain only monsters in the Magical and Ancient families.

They house some enemies which may be difficult to encounter in the world such as the Elemental Cores. Codexers might want to visit them to complete their entries.

Aside from the Deepshards and End-of-Dugeon Rewards, they are not very popular.

Theme dungeons infographics

Dungeon	Tier		Difficulty	Encounters	Reward boost
	??	1	Normal	Any monster that is not locked to an event / theme	None
	??	1	Normal	Orc Horde Goblin Horde	Gold
	??	1	Normal	Magical Ancient	Orns
	3	1	Normal	Animal	Orns
	5	2	Normal	Draconian Forces Dragon	Orns
	6	5	Hard	Any weather- or time-restricted monster	Items
	8	5	Brutal	Lyonesse Forces Nothren Forces	Items
	9	5	Hard	Balor Forces	Items
	10	20	Brutal	Arisen monsters	Gold, Orns and Items

Dungeon options and key cost multipliers

Alongside themes, other difficulty modifiers can be applied to the dungeons for increased rewards, some of which may increase the key cost or dungeon cooldown.

These modifiers are split into 2 categories:

• Modes (Normal, Horde, Endless), one of which exactly must be selected at a time
• Options (Hard, Boss, Include event content) which are all independent

Any combination except for Endless/Boss is valid. Themed dungeon cannot be run as Endless nor Boss. Additionally, Exploration Dungeons cannot be run Horde or Endless.

Normal mode

This is the default setting for a dungeon. On each floor you will face 1 monster only, except for boss floors for some themed dungeons which may have 1 or 2 additional monsters.

Horde mode

Horde mode was introduced in 2022 to help combat the reliance on party play and alts. This allows a single player to encounter multiple enemies per floor, much like you would when doing party dungeons in a group. Horde mode is available in all dungeons, except for your personal gauntlet. Choosing horde mode will not increase the dungeon cooldown timers.

Horde mode does not incur a key cost multiplier, except on regular dungeons where the key cost is multiplied by 3.

Endless mode

In Endless mode, instead of having a set number of floors, dungeons may go infinitely deep and end when the player is defeated. With each floor enemies' stats increase, but so do their Gold, Orns and Exp rewards. The rewards multiplier for a floor in endless is floor_number/30. Since they do not have an "end", endless dungeons do not reward any End-of-Dungeon rewards.

Endless mode is only available on all regular dungeons, including the personal menu gauntlet. It does incur a 5x key cost multiplier and increases the cooldown timer on the dungeon.

Hard Option

The Hard option is available in all dungeon types. It prevents players from using consumables (potions and whatnot) in the dungeon. Hard mode doubles the amount of Gold, Orn and Exp gained from defeating monsters and guarantees the End-of-Dungeon rewards are at least of Superior quality.

The Hard option incurs a x5 key cost multiplier and increases the cooldown timer on the dungeon.

Boss Option

The Boss option is only available in regular dungeons, including the one in your Castle/Fortress and your personal guantlet. With it, every monster spawned in the dungeon will be a boss. The Boss option further halves Gold, Orn and Exp rewards.

The Boss option incurs a x5 key cost multiplier and increases the cooldown timer on the dungeon.

Include event content Option

The default state for this is option is on. This option is available for all dungeons except the menu Gauntlet (where it is always enabled). It allows controlling whether event monsters that would normally appear in the dungeon do appear. For some events, players may prefer to not have event monsters dilute the spawn selection of the dungeon and would uncheck this option.

Activating or not this option does not incur any key cost multiplier.

Key costs multipliers

When selecting multiple options, their key cost multipliers are not added, but multiplied together (e.g.: Hard is x5, Boss is x5, so Hard-Boss is 25x).

An additional multiplier is applied when starting party dungeons. The key cost of opening the dungeon is multiplied by however many members are in the party up to a maximum of 4x (since no more than 4 players can join a dungeon).

The maximum key cost for a dungeon would be 400 for a Valley of the Gods (20 base cost) with the Hard Option (x5 = 100) and in a party of 4 (4x = 400).

Tier of a dungeon and relation to depth

Battle Dungeons

As your tier increases the number of floors in dungeons increases. The following chart shows, for each tier, what the tier of monsters in each floor is, as well as how many floors a Battle Dungeon has.

Below is the number of regular monster floors of each tier with relation to the Battle Dungeon tier. Each column corresponds to a dungeon tier. Each row corresponds to a floor tier. This can be used to know which Tier is best to farm when hunting for a specific material. For instance, Ortanite drops from T9 monsters (and T9/T10 bosses), making T10 the best Tier to farm it.

Exploration Dungeons

In Exploration Dungeons, there is no monster tier assigned to floors with relation to the depth. Enemies of any tier may appear at any floor during exploration, but they are scaled up to the player's tier.. The following table lists the number of floors in the Dungeon at each tier.

End of Dungeon rewards

Successfully defeating the last floor of a dungeon rewards with a currently unknown amount of Exp, Gold and Orns. An additional selection of randomly selected materials is awarded to the player.

Finally, the game rolls in the End-of-Dugeon (EoD) item pool for rewards. This pool includes all quest (including event ones) rewards. It also includes a blank space, meaning that there is a chance to not gain an item for each roll. This blank space is notably used when new items are added to the pool to avoid chipping the drop chance of already existing items.

The process is as follows (repeated for each EoD roll):

• The game randomly rolls from the pool.
• If the blank space is rolled, the process is aborted.
• If the player has completed the quest, the item is awarded.
• If, however, the player has not completed the quest, the item is not awarded and the player does not receive the quest item.

The quality of the item follows the same rules as other items. The only way of increasing the quality is to run Hard dungeons, Exploration Dungeons or Monuments, all of which guarantee that the items will be of Superior or higher quality. No other factor plays in how the game selects the quality. If the Dungeon was not an Exploration Dungeon or Monument nor run as Hard, the items may be of any quality (including Poor and Broken).

The number of item rolls given depends on the dungeon that was run.

The increased number of items awarded by Exploration Dungeons as well as their increased quality make Exploration Dungeons a very lucrative farm for End-of-Dungeon items. They have low key cost (especially compared to Hard Dungeons) meaning the EoD item per key ratio is very high. Bands of Gods of high quality can be most easily farmed in Exploration Dungeons.

Any dungeon can reward with any item whose quest has been completed, no matter the tier. There are reports of players receiving a T9 Band of Gods from low-tier Dungeons.