Gear & combat
Grow stronger, one swing at a time
Click a creature to attack. Every hit you land trains your skills, every level unlocks better gear, and every piece of gear changes how you fight and how fast you waddle.
Four skills
- Attack: how often you hit.
- Strength: how hard you hit.
- Defence: how often you are missed.
- Hitpoints: how much you can take.
Pick a style to choose what your hits train: Accurate, Aggressive or Defensive. A new penguin starts at combat level 3 with 10 hitpoints. If you are knocked out you wake up on a portal islet with full health, and you keep all your experience.
Five tiers of gear
Weapons, shields, helmets and armour. A weapon needs that level in attack, the other pieces in defence.
- DriftwoodFor anyone
- IceFrom level 10
- MoonstoneFrom level 20
- AuroraFrom level 30
- StarfallFrom level 40
Pick your style
Each tier has a choice, and the choice changes your walking speed too: every penguin starts at 100%, the fastest gets to 125% and the slowest to 80%.
| Kind | How it fights | Speed |
|---|---|---|
| Sword | Balanced | ±0% |
| Spear | Hits more often, lighter | +10% |
| Club | Hits less often, harder | −10% |
| Dagger | Swings faster, wears faster | +15% |
| Light tunic | Guards less, hardly wears | +10% |
| Heavy plate | Guards most, wears fast | −10% |
Wear and the blacksmith
Gear wears while you fight: a weapon with every swing, armour with every blow aimed at you. A piece lasts a few hours of fighting at its full bonus, then it breaks and comes off, and waits in your inventory until it is mended.
The blacksmith by the Forge Line's cable car station on the Lower Ring mends it for 15% of its shop price, or for ore from your igloo's harvest, and sells every piece of gear the inn sells.
Mage staffs
The magician's stand on the Lower Ring sells the only ranged weapon on Moon Isle. A staff casts ice bolts from a short distance, but it needs both wings: no shield and no heavy plate while you hold one.
| Staff | Level | Reach | Krill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frostwood Staff | 15 | 2 tiles | 180 |
| Moonglass Staff | 30 | 3 tiles | 450 |
| Glacier Staff | 45 | 4 tiles | 800 |
Your LUNC Penguin fights too
Wear a LUNC Penguin and its armour, helmet, weapon and shield become real gear on Moon Isle, as strong as the penguin is rare, with no level needed. A Legendary penguin fights in starfall gear from day one.
It wears and is mended like any gear, but it belongs to the penguin: it can't be sold or traded, and it moves on with the NFT.
| Rarity | As strong as |
|---|---|
| Common | driftwood |
| Uncommon | ice |
| Rare | moonstone |
| Epic | aurora |
| Legendary | starfall |
Fair fights in the Moon Arena
The ring round the statue's feet, behind red banners, is the only place where penguins fight each other. The fight lasts only while both stand inside, so walking out over a bridge ends it.
- Whoever falls wakes up on a portal islet, with the gear they wear; what they carry drops.
- Clanmates can't hurt each other.
- No vehicles: you get off at the arena's edge.
