The map is a 20×20 grid of hexagons — each one a different biome (plains, forest, mountain, swamp, desert, coast, ruins, or town). Most hexes start hidden as ?. You reveal them by moving into them.

Each hex has a Threat Level (T1–T5) based on how far it is from the starting town. T1 is safe; T5 is lethal. The further you explore, the tougher — and more rewarding — the world becomes.

A day has 4 Watches: Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night. Each watch you get:

• 2 Moves — spend them to walk to adjacent hexes
• 1 Activity — one of: Explore, Forage, Investigate POI, biome action, or class abilities

Each watch costs 1 food. When you Camp, the watch ends and you heal HP. When you run out of moves or activity, press ⏳ Pass Watch.

⚠ Evening and Night watches have higher encounter rates. Be careful.

Use the direction pad (NW/N/NE/SW/S/SE) to move to adjacent hexes. Each hex shows a move cost:

• 1 move — Plains, Coast, Ruins, Town
• 2 moves — Forest, Swamp, Desert, Mountain

Injuries, storms, and skills can change these costs. If you can't afford the cost, you need to Pass Watch to refresh your moves.

Each hex offers different actions in the Actions panel:

• 🔍 Explore — thoroughly search the hex. Costs your activity. Chance of loot and XP.
• ⛺ Camp — rest and heal HP. Ends the watch. Chance of night encounter.
• 🌿 Forage — search for food and herbs. Costs your activity.
• 🗺️ Investigate POI — examine a Point of Interest (shown as 🟡 on map). High loot chance, also risk of combat.
• Biome actions — each biome has a unique action: Hunt (forest), Mine (mountain), Fish (coast), Gather Herbs (swamp), Scavenge (desert), Scout (plains), Delve (ruins).

Actions marked with a risk label (☠ %) have a chance of triggering combat.

When you encounter an enemy, a pre-combat screen shows the enemy's stats and description. You choose to Attack or Flee (fleeing costs HP).

In combat you pick a Stance each round:

• ⚔ Aggressive — +2 ATK, but you're reckless (enemy AC lower to hit you)
• 🎯 Precise — no ATK bonus, but damage is upgraded one tier
• 🛡 Defensive — -2 ATK, but +2 ARM this round

You also have a Class Ability, can use Items, and can attempt to Flee mid-fight. If you die, you lose gold and gain an injury — on Normal difficulty, you survive at 1 HP. On Hardcore, it's permanent death.

• HP — your health. Reaches 0 = defeated. Heals from camping, potions, class abilities.
• ATK — your attack bonus added to a d20 roll vs the enemy's AC. Higher = more hits.
• ARM — your armour. Added to your AC. Enemy rolls d20+ATK vs your 10+ARM.
• DMG — your damage die (d4/d6/d8/d10). Result converted to 0/1/2/4 damage.
• XP — gained from combat, exploring, and quests. Fill the bar to level up.

You consume 1 food per watch. If you run out, you starve — losing 1 HP each watch. Always keep a food supply. Forage, buy rations in town, or hunt in forests to restock.

When you earn enough XP, you level up and gain 1 skill point. You also start with 2 free points. There are no automatic stat gains — all power growth comes from skills.

Open 🌟 Skills to spend points. Key stackable skills:

• Toughness — +2 Max HP (buy as many times as you like, 1pt each)
• Weapon Training — +1 ATK permanently (stackable, 1pt each)
• Iron Flesh — +1 ARM permanently (up to ×5, 2pt each)

Each class also has 16 exclusive skills. Some require a prerequisite skill first (shown as 🔒 Locked).

You carry 8 items by default (Ranger's Pack Light skill adds +2 per rank). Items include:

• Weapons & Armour — equip from inventory to improve your stats
• Consumables — potions, antidotes, poison vials — use them with the Use button
• Trade Goods (shown in gold) — must be sold at a merchant in town for full value. Cannot be used directly.
• ✦ Rare items — powerful magical equipment with special properties, found at threat 4+

Loot scales with threat level — higher threat zones drop better items and more gold.

Towns are safe havens. In town you can:

• 🏪 Buy — weapons, armour, supplies, accessories
• 💰 Sell — your loot and trade goods
• 🍺 Rest — fully restore HP and heal all injuries (costs gold)
• 📋 Noticeboard — pick up side quests, bounties, and main quests
• 🏆 Collect Rewards — claim gold for completed quests
• 🎲 Gamble — risk gold for more gold

Accept quests from town Noticeboards or NPC encounters in the wild. Three types:

• ★ Main Quest — find a specific dungeon and defeat its boss. Multiple rooms, big reward.
• Side Quests — explore certain biomes, kill enemies, investigate locations.
• ⚔ Bounties — hunt a named enemy. They can appear anywhere in the right biome.

Completed quests must be returned to a town to collect the reward.

Moving into hexes can trigger encounters. Most are hostile enemies — but some are neutral creatures (brown bears, deer, wandering merchants). For neutral encounters you choose: Attack for loot or Leave in peace (gains a small XP reward for restraint).

Evening and Night watches increase encounter frequency. Skills like Trackless and Shadow Step reduce it.

• Drag the map to pan. Scroll wheel (or pinch on mobile) to zoom.
• Press ⊙ to re-centre the map on your position.
• 🟡 Gold dots on hexes = unvisited Points of Interest.
• ⚪ White dot = your current position.
• Click any visited hex to see its description.
• The Cartographer skill reveals adjacent unvisited hexes. Scout Ahead in plains reveals 8 surrounding hexes.

• ⚔️ Fighter — tankiest. Shield Bash stuns enemies. Potions heal +2 extra. Best for beginners.
• 🏹 Ranger — lowest encounter chance. Aimed Shot ignores armour. Eats less food. Best in open terrain.
• 🗡️ Rogue — first strike ×3 damage. Smoke Bomb escapes. Best gold economy. Fragile but deadly.
• 🔮 Mage — free damage every round (fray die). Spells for burst damage, healing, shields. Weakest HP but most versatile.

The game auto-saves after every combat and move. You can also press 💾 Save manually. Your save is stored in your browser — clearing browser data will erase it.