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📜 Runes

Runes

Stacking boosts to your resource gains, rolled at rune buttons out in the world. The more copies of a rune you own, the bigger its boost, and unlike almost everything else, runes are never lost to a reset.

How Runes Work #

Runes are permanent, stacking boosts to your resource gains. You collect them by standing on a rune button, a pad hidden in the mines. While you stand on it, the button rolls repeatedly (about once every 1.5 seconds), charging its cost each time and dropping a random rune into your collection. Open it any time with /runes.

Every copy of a rune adds to its boost, so runes stack additively: owning ten Coal runes gives ten times the boost of owning one. Because the cheap runes roll constantly and the rare ones almost never do, your collection naturally fills with commons while the rare runes stay genuinely scarce, which is exactly why they're worth so much more.

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Like every item in Timelords, runes are kept through every reset: Seconds, Chrono Dust, Time Leap, Intelligence, and even an Era reset. What you roll, you keep forever.

Rolling & Rarity #

Each roll works from the rarest rune down. The button checks the top-tier rune first (a 1-in-10,000 Ruby, say), then the next, and so on. The first one that hits is what you get. If nothing rarer lands, you fall back to the pack's guaranteed common. So the listed odds are the chance for each rune to be reached and land, and rarer runes are dramatically harder to see.

Every roll costs its pack's price whether or not it produces a rare rune, so a single rare rune can be worth thousands of ordinary rolls. If you can't afford a roll, the button simply stops paying out until you top up.

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Leave yourself parked on a rune button while you do other things. It keeps rolling on its own as long as you're standing in the pad and can pay. Watch your Bronze, Seconds, and Pure Diamonds so the rolls don't stall.

Fracture Pack #

The first pack you'll meet, found in the fractures of the mines. Its rune button unlocks at the Bronze Mine, and each roll costs 10 Bronze + 1,000,000 Seconds. Its runes push your early economy: Ticks, Moments, XP, Coal, Seconds, Bronze, and Strength.

RuneRoll ChanceBoosts
Wood1 / 1XP
Stone1 / 4XP
Coal1 / 6.5Ticks & Moments
Bronze1 / 20Ticks & Moments
Iron1 / 100Ticks & Moments
Diamond1 / 1,000Coal & Seconds
Ruby1 / 10,000Strength & Bronze

The commons stack fast and keep your Ticks and Moments climbing, while Diamond and Ruby are the payoff for grinding thousands of rolls.

Geode Pack #

The high-end pack, hidden deep in the diamond geode. Its rune button unlocks at the Diamond Mine, and each roll costs a single Pure Diamond. Because Pure Diamonds are one of the scarcest resources in the game, every Geode roll is a real investment. Its runes reward you with Iron, Diamonds, Chrono Dust, Strength, and Intelligence Generation.

RuneRoll ChanceBoosts
Calcite1 / 1Iron
Quartz1 / 10Iron & Chrono Dust
Jasper1 / 100Strength
Amethyst1 / 250Intelligence Generation
Opal1 / 1,000Diamonds & Chrono Dust

Since each roll burns a Pure Diamond, a single rare Opal is worth thousands of ordinary rolls, and its Diamonds boost feeds right back into more Pure Diamonds down the line.

Tips & Related #

Rack up commons
The guaranteed floor runes (Wood, Calcite) drop on nearly every roll, so parking on a button for a long session steadily grows their stack. Small per-copy, but they add up.
Save the Geode for later
Don't burn Pure Diamonds on Geode rolls until your Upgrade Tree needs are covered. Pure Diamonds are precious, and the Fracture Pack costs only mining resources.
They stack with everything
Rune boosts stack on top of your artifacts, accessories, alignment boosts, and Time Leap multipliers. They're just one more layer in the pile that grows your gains.

Runes are one of several boost-item systems. See also Artifacts, Accessories, Charms, and Potions, or head back to the Items & Gear overview.

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New to the game? /guide opens this wiki right in your browser, a handy jump-off point when you're figuring out where a rune button is or what to spend on next.