SYSTEM UNLOCKS

Systems open one at a time as you climb. Each rung of the ladder is a floor: beat it and the system's control appears, with one arrow pointing at it until you click it once. Nothing is hidden behind money or time — the Tower alone opens the game.

The ladder

The table is codex/unlocks.csv, which the client reads at boot; the floor numbers here are the game's. Single hatch and single dismantle are open from floor 1 (ruling 2026-09-09), and the soul bag window is open from floor 1 so eggs can hatch (2026-10-23).

Floor	Opens	What it is	Page
1	Class soul	The soul your class gave you. Click it to see what it does.	index
8	Hatch All	Hatches every egg in the bag in one go.	eggs
8	Dismantle All	Breaks many pieces into materials in one go.	item
6	Autoplay	The AUTOPLAY button on the floor	index
12	Souls	Souls live in their own bag. Seat one on gear for its power.	equipment
12	Devour		devour
15	Auto PvP	Queue your team against other players' teams.	auto-pvp
20	Auto-optimise	Wears the strongest pieces in your bag for you.	equipment
25	Breeding	Two creatures in a pen make eggs over time.	breeding
30	Scrolls + enchanting		upgrading
40	Grading	Enhancement grading	upgrading
40	Upgrade All		upgrading
40	Shadow Trader	Stock changes over time. Come back for new wares.	shadow-trader
50	Buy classes	Class unlocks table on index.html	index
60	Competitive PvP		pvp
100	Dimensional Rift	The rift to Herumon Dungeon is open. Send a creature through: a copy, free, once. It arrives at level 1 and keeps its grade.	client-shell

The opening and the arrows

• Floors 1–5 are played by hand — the scripted opening (T6 part 4) teaches the fight, the portal and gear grading; Autoplay opens at floor 6 and the opening ends there.
• One arrow per rung (T6 part 3) — when a system opens, an arrow with its label points at the control, follows it across windows, and goes away the first time you click that control. It never blocks play.
• A locked control is shown locked, with the floor that opens it, so you know what is coming.
• The class soul is yours from creation — its UPGRADE opens with the souls rung at floor 12 (D: “class soul earlier — at the beginning”).
• Breeding pens open with Ichor, not floors, once breeding itself is open at 25 (codex/pen_unlocks.csv, Breeding).

Implementation notes

• UNLOCK_SYSTEMS in play/app.js is the key list (class_soul, hatch_all, dismantle_all, souls, devour, auto_pvp, auto_optimise, breeding, scrolls, grading, upgrade_all, trader, classes, competitive_pvp, autoplay + transfer); the markup binds lk.<key> before the csv loads (T6 part 1).
• Columns: Anchor is the control the arrow points at, Via the window path to it, Ready the condition besides the floor (an egg in the bag, a soul, a pair), Line the one-line tip.
• The floor is judged on the server's save; the client only paints the lock. POST /api/unlock is the door for the paid class unlocks on Classes, not for this ladder.

Changelog

• 2026-11-03 — page written (D 2026-11-03: “add whatever sections and systems we have in the game but not on the codex”; dfmc-client lane codexreview-b). WIKI ONLY, no game behaviour. The unlock ladder (codex/unlocks.csv, T6 parts 1-4, 2026-10-22/23; the transfer rung T48 2026-11-03) was described only inside index.html § Character system. One page for the ladder, the opening and the arrows.