Crypto Heroes
Guide

How to play Crypto Heroes

Your goal is simple to say and long to finish: defeat monsters, clear dungeons, collect stronger gear, level your heroes, improve your Runes and keep pushing into harder stages. This page is the first hour, the loop that follows, and the answers players ask for most.

Getting started

Enter a dungeon and defeat monsters. Everything else grows out of that.

What a dungeon gives you

Every monster you defeat pays in five currencies at once:

  • EXP — your heroes level up.
  • Gold — the fuel of the Rune tree.
  • Chests — the main source of gear and materials.
  • Equipment — from the chests you open.
  • Skill points — one per hero level, spent in the Skills menu.

Your first hour, in order

  1. Equip stronger items the moment you get them. Better gear is what lets you survive longer and clear harder stages.
  2. Spend your skill points. Open the Skills menu and upgrade your hero's skills — it raises combat power directly.
  3. Open your chests by hand. Early on there is no automation; a closed chest is gear you are not wearing.
  4. Push until a stage stops you, then farm. Go back to an earlier dungeon and keep clearing it until your heroes are stronger. The dungeon does not punish patience.

The loop

The same circle, deeper every time. This is the whole game, condensed.

Basic progression

  1. Complete dungeon stages and defeat monsters, again and again.
  2. Collect what falls: EXP, gold, chests, equipment, materials and skill points.
  3. Equip the stronger items.
  4. Send spare or unusable items to Alchemy.
  5. Craft better equipment once you have the materials; equip what helps, alchemize the rest for extra value.
  6. Upgrade your skills.
  7. Upgrade your Runes — Common Chest Drop Chance first, then more Formation slots.
  8. Stuck? Farm earlier stages until the next dungeon opens.

Defeat monsters, collect rewards, equip stronger items, craft, alchemize, upgrade heroes, improve Runes, clear harder dungeons. Repeat.

Chests

Chests are the best way to get more equipment — and the extra items that feed Alchemy and Crafting.

Opening chests

In the early game you open chests manually: click one and it opens on the spot. Nothing opens by itself until you unlock it.

Automatic opening is unlocked later through the Rune tree, one node per chest type. Other Rune nodes raise how many chests you can hold and shorten the auto-open timer — the timer can be cut down to half of its starting value, never further.

The three chests

  • Common Chest — drops from ordinary monsters while you farm. The Rune tree adds to its drop chance; it is the chest you will open most.
  • Rare (blue) Chest — drops from the semi-boss at the end of stages 1–9. Your first clear of a stage always drops one.
  • Boss (orange) Chest — the floor boss on stage 10. Its room is locked by a Soulstone, which you receive for clearing stage 9 of that floor for the first time; the stone is only spent when the boss dies.

Why upgrade chest capacity?

Higher capacity lets you store more unopened chests while farming. If a chest drops while that type is full, it is lost — so capacity, together with inventory space, is what lets you farm longer without stopping to clean up.

Alchemy

Nothing you loot should sit in the inventory doing nothing.

What Alchemy is for

Alchemy turns spare items — and items you cannot use yet — into progression. Instead of letting them pile up, you melt them and keep moving.

Rare and Legendary items give a higher Alchemy value. That is why extra crafted items are never wasted: if you do not equip them, they are still worth melting.

Feed it early: Common Chest Drop Chance

The recommended first Rune upgrade is Common Chest Drop Chance. More chests means more items, more spare equipment and more materials — and all of that can go through Alchemy.

Crafting

Materials and spare items in, better equipment out.

What Crafting is for

Crafting lets you use materials and extra items to create better equipment. When you are stuck on a stage and need more power, it is the fastest way to a stronger piece.

Crafting can also produce high-rarity items. If the result fits your build, equip it. If it does not, it goes to Alchemy for a higher value and speeds up your progress anyway.

Crafting pays twice

  • You craft stronger equipment for your heroes.
  • You melt the extra crafted items in Alchemy for more progression value.

Runes

Permanent, account-wide upgrades bought with gold. They also unlock features the dungeon does not give you for free.

The Rune upgrades that matter

Common Chest Drop Chance, Formation Unlock, Inventory Capacity, Bonus EXP, Bonus Gold, Automatic Chest Opening, Chest Capacity and Chest-Opening Speed. A Rune level is paid once and never refunded, so buy in an order that compounds.

Recommended early priority

  1. Common Chest Drop ChanceMore items while farming — the upgrade every other one feeds on.
  2. Formation UnlockLets you field more heroes in your team.
  3. Bonus EXPYour heroes level up faster.
  4. Bonus GoldMore gold from the same farming — and gold buys the next Rune.
  5. Inventory CapacityFarm longer without running out of space.
  6. Chest CapacityHold more unopened chests while you are away from the screen.
  7. Automatic Chest OpeningChests open on a timer while you play — no more clicking.
  8. Chest-Opening SpeedShortens that timer.

Gold

One of the most important resources in the game, and the easiest to waste.

What gold is for

Gold mainly goes into Runes. Do not spend all of it the moment it arrives: keep farming monsters, clearing dungeons, opening chests, crafting and alchemizing, and put the gold where it compounds.

Gold comes from kills (and, at a reduced rate, while you are offline), from Alchemy, and it grows with the Bonus Gold Rune.

Skills

Skill points are per hero: one for every level, spent in the Skills menu.

Where do I use skill points?

Open the Skills menu and use your available points to upgrade your hero's skills. Each hero fights with up to two active skills; the second slot opens at Level 15.

When you get stuck

A wall is a farming spot you have not used yet.

I cannot complete a stage

Return to an earlier stage and farm more EXP, gold, chests, equipment, materials and Alchemy fodder. Then, in this order: equip better items, upgrade skills, use Alchemy, craft stronger equipment, improve your Runes. Come back when the numbers have moved.

Your party also keeps farming the last stage you played while you are away — at a reduced rate and without item drops, on the server's clock. Enter the dungeon for full rewards.

Referral system (beta)

Invite a player with your link and you both get paid when they reach Level 30.

How it works

Your link has the form cryptoheroes.game/referral/<your name> (for example cryptoheroes.game/referral/waldo.bnb). You see it right after choosing your first hero, and it uses the name you sealed.

When the invited player reaches Level 30 with any hero, both of you receive 1,000,000 gold.

  • The reward is claimed once per referred account.
  • Additional Level 30 heroes on the same account give nothing extra.
  • Self-referrals, bots and duplicate accounts are not eligible.

Beta rewards

Play during the beta, reach Level 30, get paid in Orange Chests.

What you receive

Players who reach Level 30 with any hero during the beta receive 15 Orange Chests: 5 with Level 10 items, 5 with Level 20 items and 5 with Level 30 items.

Items from these chests cannot be traded and alchemize for only a small amount of gold — they are there to make your heroes stronger, not to sell.

$LOOT and NFT, in three lines

The chain holds value; the server holds the game.

What is on chain

  • $LOOT is a token on BNB Chain. The game shows your wallet balance; premium classes, pets, bundles and account upgrades are priced in dollars and paid in $LOOT with one transaction you sign. You can buy $LOOT with BNB here.
  • Gear of Legendary rarity and above can be exported as an NFT: the item freezes in the game and is minted to your wallet. The Mailbox brings it back.
  • Gear of Legendary rarity and above can be sent to the market as NFT items and traded for $LOOT between players.

Signing in never sends a transaction — the wallet only signs a message.

Frequently asked questions

What should I do first?

Enter a dungeon and try to complete as many stages as you can. Equip what drops, spend your skill points, open your chests.

How do I become stronger?

Level up your heroes, equip better items, upgrade your skills, use Alchemy, craft stronger equipment and improve your Runes. All six, not one.

Why are chests important?

Chests give equipment and the extra items that push you forward through Alchemy, Crafting and hero upgrades.

What is Alchemy used for?

Alchemy lets you use extra items, or items you cannot use yet, so they still help your progression instead of sitting in the inventory.

What is Crafting used for?

Crafting turns materials and extra items into better equipment. Useful results get equipped; the rest goes to Alchemy for a higher value.

What is the main gameplay loop?

Defeat monsters, collect rewards, equip stronger items, craft equipment, use Alchemy, upgrade your heroes, improve your Runes and complete harder dungeons.

Does the game keep running when I close the tab?

Yes, on the server. Your party keeps farming the last stage you played at a reduced rate, with no item drops, for up to three hours of absence. Open the dungeon to collect full rewards and loot.

Do I need $LOOT to play?

No. Four classes, the whole dungeon, chests, Alchemy, Crafting and Runes are free. $LOOT buys premium classes, pets, bundles and account upgrades.