Combat
Architect's Sanctum
Farm Architect bosses for unique weapons and upgrade materials.
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What Is the Sanctum?
The Architect's Sanctum is a series of ancient vaults sealed since before the colony arrived. Each wing contains several combat rooms, optional bonus rooms, and a powerful boss. Clearing a wing requires fighting through every combat room — retreating early means you keep whatever you collected on the way.
Kill Count & Points
Each room you clear earns points. Optional rooms — skill gates and resource caches — award bonus points if you complete their challenge. The more points you earn in a run, the better your odds of receiving the wing's unique weapon drop when you defeat the boss.
Unique Drops
Every wing boss has a unique weapon that cannot be found anywhere else. The drop is not guaranteed — you must defeat the boss and then pass a luck roll. Your odds improve with your points total for that run, and Hard Mode doubles your chances. Keep track of your dry streak in the wing entry screen.
Optional Rooms
Skill gate rooms reward bonus points if your relevant lifeskill is high enough. Cache rooms let you spend materials for extra points. You can always skip optional rooms at no penalty — but the bonus points improve your unique drop odds.
Hard Mode
After clearing a wing on Normal, Hard Mode unlocks. Enemies hit harder and have more health, but you earn more points per room and your unique drop odds double. Hard Mode is the fastest way to farm a specific unique weapon once you're strong enough.
Retreating
You can retreat at any time from the run screen. You keep all rewards collected so far — scrap, materials, and XP earned in completed rooms. You lose nothing except the run itself. Defeat in a combat room also ends the run but keeps your loot.
More in Combat
Fighting Enemies
How combat works, loot drops, and enemy rarity tiers.
Combat Mechanics
How stats, weapons, and equipment translate into combat performance.
Boss Encounters
Summon and fight zone bosses for named trophy loot.
Scrap Crates
Randomized loot crates dropped by enemies — crack them open for rewards.
Combat Protocols
Automate consumable usage, skill forcing, and shard breaking with conditional rules.
Kill Streaks
Build momentum by chaining kills for escalating XP and scrap bonuses.
Protocol Buffs
Activate protective buffs in combat that drain Protocol points each turn.
Elite Encounters
Dangerous ambush predators that attack you on sight in higher zones.
Signal Runes & Spellcasting
Fuel your signal spells with crystallized signal runes.
Signal Archive — Archivist Prime
The Signal Archive boss and its unique weapon: the Cipher Blade.