New player guide
How to play Ironbound
Your fighter battles automatically. Your decisions are about which upgrades to buy, how to build your gear, and when to move into a harder region.
Start with the Combat tab
- Watch your health, damage, attack speed, and critical chance.
- Buy damage, speed, health, armor, and critical upgrades when you have enough gold.
- Defeat the champion at the end of each wave to advance. If your fighter falls, the current wave restarts and earned gold is kept.
Open the next roads
Each region has its own wave record. Clear wave 100 in the current region during the current run to unlock the next region, then use the King's Road to travel there. The order is Greenwild, Frostfall, Ashen Wastes, then Cursed Kingdom.
Rebirth becomes available at a displayed wave milestone. It resets the current run to Greenwild and grants permanent progress. Later rebirths require higher regional milestones.
Weapons, tools, and crafting
Weapons can be collected from chests, upgraded, and equipped in the Armory. Duplicate weapons form stacks. Unlock up to three weapon slots and attacks rotate through equipped weapons.
Toolboxes award equipment for Gloves, Shield, Pants, Hat, and Shirt. Their bonuses add to your combat upgrades. In Crafting, combine three identical tools of the same rarity, slot, and tier to create the next tier; Forge Tier III takes 27 base copies.
Accounts and online play
Use Account to register or sign in, Leaderboards to view server-recorded rankings, Friends to share presence, and Trading Post to make item offers. Never reuse an important password. Offline saves and online accounts are separate and never sync. Online characters get a small, capped amount of idle gold while away.
Plinko uses game gold only. It is not real-money wagering.