Bounties

The task pool

Bars are about 56% of draws and ore about 44%. A bar task counts bars you craft while it is live (ore already in the bank still helps; bars already in it do not); the rarer a metal, the less often it is asked for and the fewer of it a task wants - its count is the first metal's times how its carts' income compares (a Crimsonite task asks for about a quarter of a Tin one). An ore task counts only ore that lands in the bins while it is live, so it is sized by where balls land: each tier asks for its share of landings times how thick its ore comes, which makes every ore task about the same length - roughly twelve minutes of a maxed board at the top of a world's climb. Every world has all six bins, but a tier the board lands under 1% of the time is never an ore task - each world's emerald- and ruby-tier bins (1 launch in about 270 and 1,540) - so ore tasks ask for a world's four commonest ores. On Worlds 2-4 the fourth sits behind the world's own road (the Glacier Gate's breach, the pollen portal, the dive board), so its task leans on that. Until a task is done its button is GO - to Crafting for bars, or the board for ore - and then CLAIM.

Task (World 1)	Chance	Bounty #1	Bounty #100	Bounty #500	Bounty #1,000
Craft Tin bars	19.4%	50	9,976	63,502	140,919
Craft Copper bars	12.2%	27	5,372	34,193	75,880
Craft Silver bars	10.2%	35	6,983	44,451	98,643
Craft Gold bars	7.14%	19	3,760	23,935	53,116
Craft Verdite bars	4.08%	22	4,489	28,576	63,414
Craft Crimsonite bars	3.06%	12	2,417	15,387	34,146
Collect Tin ore	15.3%	50	9,976	63,502	140,919
Collect Copper ore	12.2%	38	7,558	48,107	106,757
Collect Silver ore	10.2%	11	2,118	13,481	29,917
Collect Gold ore	6.12%	3	555	3,532	7,837

How much a task asks for

Bar and ore tasks climb with every bounty: the first metal's count is 50 × (1 + n)^1.15, where n is how many bounties you have finished in the selected task world since your last prestige (each world keeps its own count, so switching worlds resumes that world's climb). World 1 runs from 50 bars at the first bounty to about 140,919 at the 1,000th - roughly twelve minutes of a finished fleet of five carts. Ore tasks follow the same World 1 climb, scaled by landings and richness as above.

Task worlds

World 1's tasks are always open. Each later world's tasks - and its upgrade board - open when you buy that world's unlock with Bounty Points: World 2 costs 5,000 (500 bounties' worth), World 3 costs 20,000 (2,000 bounties' worth), World 4 costs 50,000 (5,000 bounties' worth), World 5 costs 100,000 (10,000 bounties' worth). The unlock is the one purchase on the board that is permanent, and you pay it in parts: put any spare points into it whenever you like - before a prestige, say, since points would otherwise reset - and it remembers what is paid. Once a world is open (and you have unlocked it on the map), select it on the board and only that world's tasks are drawn; switching worlds redraws an unfinished task.

Each world's climb starts from the bottom - nobody makes much of a world they just opened - but later worlds' carts dig far more once their shops are bought, so each world's bar climb carries its own income: from its early-game income over World 1's at its first bounty to its finished income over World 1's at its 1,000th. Every world's climb tops out at about twelve minutes of a finished fleet in that world.

Task world	Unlock	Asks for	Its first	#100	#500	#1,000	World income ×
World 1	Always open	Tin bars	50	9,976	63,502	140,919	×1 → ×1
World 2	5,000	Frostite bars	71	17,140	240,981	1.44M	×1.4 → ×10
World 3	20,000	Stonebark bars	84	28,463	1.54M	49.67M	×1.7 → ×352
World 4	50,000	Brinium bars	189	79,933	10.58M	1.04B	×3.8 → ×7,397
World 5	100,000	Ashiron bars	165	77,474	15.49M	2.56B	×3.3 → ×18,132

Ore tasks carry a world's richer ore and the extra ORE YIELD its UPGRADES rows add on top of World 1's (those rows are one total that counts on every board): a world's ore climb runs from the yield the world before it finishes at to its own, so every world's ore climb takes about the same time on a board that has bought what it can.

Task world	Asks for	Its first	#100	#500	#1,000	Ore yield ×
World 1	Tin ore	50	9,976	63,502	140,919	×1 → ×1
World 2	Frostite ore	126	25,805	180,562	451,017	×1 → ×1.3
World 3	Stonebark ore	296	60,514	422,953	1.06M	×1.3 → ×1.6
World 4	Brinium ore	998	203,624	1.42M	3.52M	×1.6 → ×2
World 5	Ashiron ore	3,500	713,956	4.97M	12.33M	×2 → ×2.5

World 5 is the last: past its 1,000th bounty its climb keeps going at its finished income.

Every world has its own six metals, so the tasks change name with the task world. Bar tasks can ask for any of a world's six bars; ore tasks for its four commonest ores (the emerald- and ruby-tier bins land too rarely to put on a timer).

Task world	Unlock	Craft (bars)	Collect (ore from the bins)
World 1	Always open	Tin · Copper · Silver · Gold · Verdite · Crimsonite	Tin · Copper · Silver · Gold
World 2	5,000	Frostite · Rimebronze · Snowsilver · Stargold · Auroranium · Hollysteel	Frostite · Rimebronze · Snowsilver · Stargold
World 3	20,000	Stonebark · Oakbronze · Bloomsilver · Leafgold · Sylvanite · Rosesteel	Stonebark · Oakbronze · Bloomsilver · Leafgold
World 4	50,000	Brinium · Tidebronze · Pearlsilver · Sunkgold · Kelpsteel · Coralsteel	Brinium · Tidebronze · Pearlsilver · Sunkgold
World 5	100,000	Ashiron · Cinderbrass · Smokesilver · Pyrogold · Venomite · Embersteel	Ashiron · Cinderbrass · Smokesilver · Pyrogold

Streak and skips

Every bounty you finish adds one to your streak. Reaching a milestone raises the points of every bounty after it - the streak only ever changes your points; it opens nothing. A prestige does not touch the streak - only a skip sets it back to 0.

Streak	Bonus points	a bounty
100+	+10%	11
500+	+25%	13
1,000+	+50%	15
10,000+	+75%	18
100,000+	+100%	20

Pinning and alerts

You don't have to keep opening the board to see how a bounty is going. Tap PIN TO BOARD at the top of the bounty board and the live bounty sits across the top of the main board - the task, a progress bar that fills as you craft or as ore lands, and the points it pays (streak bonus included). It takes the intro task bar's place, so it waits until your intro tasks are done; tap PINNED to take it off again.

The pinned bar does the whole bounty without opening a menu. A craft bars task shows a CRAFT button with the ore you hold and what one bar costs: tap it for a bar, hold it to craft faster, exactly as the crafting page does. When the task is done the button turns gold - CLAIM hands the bounty in from the board, the points land, and the next bounty takes the bar. A collect ore task has nothing to press; the ore lands as you play.

• When a bounty is done, a gold BOUNTY COMPLETE! banner drops in once, pinned or not.
• Until you claim it, a red dot sits on MENU and on the BOUNTIES tile.
• Tap the pinned bar to jump straight to the bounty board. A finished task glows and reads TAP TO CLAIM.

Bounty upgrades

Each level of a row costs more points than the last. The Research Hall's PAIR statues raise the level cap of every multi-level row. Every board has a BOUNTY PAY row: flat extra points on every hand-in, added before the streak's percent - the engine of a run, so it is usually the first thing to buy. Each later board's rows are 1.5× the board before it, at 2.5× the price; a world's board opens with that world's unlock and, like World 1's, resets on prestige.

World 1 board

Upgrade	Per level	Levels	Maxed	First	Last	Total
Gate Damage Per Bounty	+1% Gate Damage per bounty completed	1	+1%	10	10	10
Triple Craft Chance	+1% Triple Craft chance	5	+5%	18	55	169
Super Crit Chance	+2% Super Crit chance	5	+10%	22	67	207
EXP Gain	+10% XP gain	5	+50%	30	97	293
Crit Damage	+10% Crit Damage	5	+50%	36	116	352
Gate Damage	+15% Gate Damage	3	+45%	60	126	273
Upgrade Bar Cost	-5% bar cost of UPGRADES	3	-15%	60	126	273
Prestige Point Gain	+10% Prestige Points gained	3	+30%	80	168	364
10x Craft Chance	+1% 10x Craft chance	1	+1%	120	120	120
Bounty Pay	+2 Bounty Points a hand-in	5	+10	25	96	274

World 2 board — opens with the World 2 unlock (5,000 points)

Upgrade	Per level	Levels	Maxed	First	Last	Total
Gate Damage II	+23% Gate Damage	3	+69%	150	315	683
Crit Damage II	+15% Crit Damage	5	+75%	90	290	880
EXP Gain II	+15% XP gain	5	+75%	75	242	733
Prestige Point Gain II	+15% Prestige Points gained	3	+45%	200	421	911
Bounty Pay II	+3 Bounty Points a hand-in	5	+15	63	242	689

World 3 board — opens with the World 3 unlock (20,000 points)

Upgrade	Per level	Levels	Maxed	First	Last	Total
Gate Damage III	+30% Gate Damage	3	+90%	375	788	1,707
Crit Damage III	+20% Crit Damage	5	+100%	225	725	2,197
EXP Gain III	+20% XP gain	5	+100%	188	606	1,836
Prestige Point Gain III	+20% Prestige Points gained	3	+60%	500	1,051	2,276
Bounty Pay III	+4 Bounty Points a hand-in	5	+20	156	599	1,707

World 4 board — opens with the World 4 unlock (50,000 points)

Upgrade	Per level	Levels	Maxed	First	Last	Total
Gate Damage IV	+38% Gate Damage	3	+114%	938	1,972	4,270
Crit Damage IV	+25% Crit Damage	5	+125%	563	1,815	5,498
EXP Gain IV	+25% XP gain	5	+125%	469	1,512	4,579
Prestige Point Gain IV	+25% Prestige Points gained	3	+75%	1,250	2,628	5,691
Bounty Pay IV	+5 Bounty Points a hand-in	5	+25	391	1,502	4,279

World 5 board — opens with the World 5 unlock (100,000 points)

Upgrade	Per level	Levels	Maxed	First	Last	Total
Gate Damage V	+45% Gate Damage	3	+135%	2,344	4,928	10,671
Crit Damage V	+30% Crit Damage	5	+150%	1,406	4,533	13,731
EXP Gain V	+30% XP gain	5	+150%	1,172	3,779	11,445
Prestige Point Gain V	+30% Prestige Points gained	3	+90%	3,125	6,570	14,226
Bounty Pay V	+6 Bounty Points a hand-in	5	+30	977	3,753	10,694

Tips

• After a prestige, buy Gate Damage Per Bounty first: it costs 10 points (1 bounty) and switches your whole completed count back on.
• The whole World 1 board is 2,335 points, about 234 bounties - fewer on a streak.
• Bounties never spend your bank, so bars and ore stay free for UPGRADES and the Armory. Banked ORE still helps a bar task - craft it once the task is live.
• Points reset on prestige, the next world's unlock does not: pay your spare points into it before you prestige.
• A task you can't do right now is what the 25-gem skip is for.