Category:Delves

A delve is a cave on the Frontier your captain goes into on foot, room by room down to the bottom, through chambers, dens and hazards, with a shrine halfway.

Finding a cave

Caves sit on Frontier tiles as markers, like fish schools and wrecks. Every cave moves at midnight, and you get one try at each a day. Sail a fleet to one with the Delve mission. Once it docks, Enter Delve in Fleets Docked takes your captain in.

The run

• Every step is one room: a chamber to search, a den to fight, a hazard, or the shrine.
• What you find goes in your sack. The sack holds only so much, and nothing in it is yours yet.
• The shrine patches you up and stows the sack. Beat the den at the bottom and everything comes home.
• Walk out, or drop to nothing, and the sack stays in the dark. What the shrine stowed still sails home.

Going in with others

• A group holds up to three captains, from your friends or your alliance.
• Invite them from the first room, before your first step.
• Joining a group sends a copy of your captain to fight in the others' dens. That helps them, but pays you nothing.
• To get loot, send your own Delve fleet and go in as well. The group then fights in your dens too, and what you find is yours alone.

Classes and gear

• Go in as a Bruiser, a Mender or a Rogue. The Bruiser draws the den, the Mender keeps you standing, the Rogue ends it. Each levels on its own, and the class is picked on the Delves gear set in your inventory before you go in.
• Pack food. The ration you send with the fleet feeds your captain for the whole run.
• Gloves, coats and boots fill the empty slots on your captain, and they are only found at the bottom of a cave. Every den pays Flowstone, which raises an Heirloom from common to legendary.
• The deeper caves open with the Delving research, paid in what you bring up from them.

A page for every cave

Every cave gets a page of its own, written by captains. To start one, make a page named after the cave and put [[Category:Delves]] on its last line, and it joins the list below. Worth writing: what lives in it, who waits at the bottom, and what came up.