No. You can begin with mining when it is open and, if eligible, the free one-time Squire Setup. dGems come from playing: mining, quests and prizes. They cannot be bought. Recorded DGEN is a separate balance used for a few activities, such as creating a Curated Carnage showdown.

Primetime Joust spends the displayed dGem entry fee and can earn verified Joust Strikes, not Golden Tickets. You can keep or gift Strikes, sell them at the Iron Bank’s displayed recorded-DGEN quote, or use them if the current Arena entry rules accept them. Golden Tickets have separate sources: mining, eligible Squire Setup, Knight Rescue, Curated Carnage prizes, gifts and player listings. Check the Arena panel for that week’s required entry items and DGEN prize pool. A paid entry or a Strike does not guarantee a ticket or prize; only qualifying final results award prizes.

Open the Knight Rescue tab. Link your wallet in the Knights panel there (one free signature per wallet), then choose a Knight, pick its post and review the displayed DGEN send fee. The NFT stays in your wallet. Up to five Knights can be on your crew each week; a rescued Knight still holds its seat until Monday. A successful rescue returns a random unguarded sent Knight to its owner and gives the rescuer a Golden Ticket.

Every crew Knight is stationed at the Mine, the Arena or the Rescue Camp, and its class plus its post decides its boost. Robot at the Mine: 2 automatic strikes per Robot per mining day (8 AM to 8 AM ET). Robots take the next veins that open, so early-morning veins can use up the day’s Robot strikes; a strike you make yourself in the Strike Room does not use one. Humans guard: a Human at any post protects every other crew Knight at that post from rescue, and two Humans at one post guard each other. At the Mine: each Alien opens one Wormhole a day to strike a vein you missed in the last 30 minutes. At the Rescue Camp: each Alien adds +5 points to your rescue success (Abduction), and each Robot returns 25% of a missed rescue's price (max 75%). Only active Knights count. At the Arena: each Human adds +0.5 Armor, each Alien unlocks Exosurveillance (the field's most-picked positions, snapshotted daily and 2 hours before lock; more Aliens show more), and a Robot runs Lock guard, an optional toggle that pre-pays the dGem entry and, if you haven't entered 15 minutes before lock, enters the armorer's lineup for you (refunded if you enter yourself). Change posts as often as you like from 8 to 10 AM Eastern, Monday to Saturday; a new Knight picks its first post when you send it. Rescue odds are shown on the wheel: the base rate plus 5 points per Camp Alien.

In the Knight Rescue tab's Knights panel, connect each wallet and sign the free ownership message once. An account can link up to 10 wallets; a wallet belongs to one account and linking is permanent. After that, each linked wallet has a Rescan button that needs no signature (once every 2 minutes per wallet). Knight Rescue only uses Knights from a scan in the last 24 hours, so rescan before sending. Holder rewards pay one share per account, however many wallets you link.

In the Vault, choose an enabled collection and sign a free ownership scan with your linked wallet. Each physical card can be registered only once. The owner may choose a saved card to send to the Dynamite Mine pool; the NFT stays in the wallet. Winning a new Dynamite auction grants one chance to receive a pledged card in the winner’s in-app Vault. An in-app transfer changes that Vault record, not on-chain NFT ownership. Realm Health controls which collections may be scanned.

You must be 18 or older and legally permitted to participate where you are physically located. Do not participate from a restricted area. Void where prohibited. New miners confirm eligibility when creating their profile; this is a self-attestation, not age or location verification. Signing in, owning DGEN or seeing an available activity does not establish eligibility. Read the Beta & fair-play notice before proceeding.

Yes—when mining is open, collect Gems while the weekly Forge is closed. Having Gems does not open forging early. The weekly guide says “Keep mining. Forge opens later” and disables its Forge step until an open slate and Forge availability are confirmed. Weekly Forge availability starts Wednesday at 10 AM Eastern when the schedule and projections pass verification; missing data is retried hourly before Sunday noon. The slate and projections are visible after that week’s Forge admission. The guide updates when the Forge actually opens. Squire Setup is a separate free welcome gift; it does not unlock forging or enter a contest. If you already own the required eligible positions, you can build a lineup while Arena entry is open. A saved entry remains viewable after lock.

New surprise strikes that find a random relic, ladder relic or Golden Ticket award the item instead of common dGems. Otherwise, an eligible strike has a 10% chance at 100 recorded DGEN, subject to the shared 20,000-DGEN promotional pool and 800-DGEN allowance per activation-relative 24 hours. Of the remaining ordinary payouts, 50% become an unowned Common position instead of dGems while a weekly catalog is open. A Bank relic boosted payout keeps its dGems unless a rare-tier position hits; then the dGems are replaced and the relic remains unused. Rare-tier position and Common position finds can still coincide, without ordinary dGems. A flexible Forge Gem can coincide with the ordinary payout. Successful strikes always advance your track. A missed or unavailable item roll keeps the ordinary dGems. Daily +200 Gems and the Legendary five-striker Gold/Diamond group bonus are unchanged. This does not remove rewards from earlier strikes.

Check the Mine’s remaining supply and allowance reset time. DGEN is not taken from the Iron Bank Treasury and is not an on-chain transfer. Reopen Your last strike to read its result; the Vault keeps your latest 20 DGEN mining receipts. New treasure chests keep the displayed Gem cost and verifiable randomness, with 25-dGem common rewards, a 5% relic chance and a rarer 1% roll for 100 DGEN from that same capped pool. Old sealed chests keep their original rewards and proof.

Click your DGEN balance in the Vault or Iron Bank to open your private history. It shows recorded credits and debits, transaction labels, times and resulting balances when recorded—including mining treasure, prizes, Council income, purchases and admin transfers. Only your signed-in account can see your personal history. Older balance changes without receipts are flagged as a history gap; the ledger does not invent transactions or change your balance. Load older pages or refresh when needed. These reads do not call the sports provider. DGEN is separate from mining dGems, and withdrawal requests still go through Send a Raven for manual review.

Swap dGem rewards, the donation box and the Squire dGem package have been retired, so dGems can no longer be bought. New recorded-DGEN deposits ended earlier. Transfers sent before the published deposit cutoff keep their recorded DGEN; use Send a Raven for help with an earlier claim. Do not send funds to an old deposit or donation address.

New Iron Bank relic and treasure-chest payments accumulate in a held DGEN pot, shown at the top of the Bank. Like every Council source, it is part of the Stock Pile and is not paid out by hand: when a nightly Winter draw hits, the whole pile is paid to the active Council seats using the split policy active at that time (see “What is the Stock Pile?”). The default is equal shares; custom positive weights are normalized across eligible members, and whole-DGEN rounding preserves the total. Empty or expired seats receive no share, and an empty Council leaves the pile held for the next Winter.

New Plunder and Dynamite dGem payments are held separately. Forge admission also uses dGems. None creates DGEN Council income. Council seat payments stay in the Realm Treasury as available DGEN. The retired Pitch & Toss reserve remains available for historical fund management and eligible Council distributions. Each Stock Pile source pays 100% of its balance on a Winter night. Already-allocated historical payments retain their original settlement rules. Existing Treasury funds are not swept, and mining treasure or Joust redemption credits are not Bank purchase income. Confirmed distributions appear in Council receipts, private DGEN history and admin ledgers. Income depends on activity and is not a guaranteed return.

The Stock Pile is the Council’s combined DGEN pot, shown at the top of the Alliance Council. It adds up every Council source: the Iron Bank pot, the Auction House pot, the Curated Carnage Council share of each settled showdown, DGEN paid to enter tournaments, and the Sanctioned Plunder and Dynamite pots. Council seat payments go to the Realm Treasury and are not in the pile.

Every night at 9 PM ET, “Winter is Coming” draws once. Odds start at 10% and rise 10 points after each night without Winter, so Winter is certain by the tenth night; after a Winter they go back to 10%. When Winter comes, the pile pays out automatically to the active Council seats, using the split policy in place at that time (equal shares by default). Empty or expired seats receive no share.

Each draw uses the first drand quicknet round at or after 9 PM ET, which is fixed in advance and can be checked by anyone. The frost dial shows the roll, the Winter odds and the drand round, and Recent nights lists the last five draws. The owner can switch the Stock Pile off in Realm Health; while it is off, there are no draws or automatic payouts.

Treasure chests and weekly Forge admission can offer a reviewed DGEN option. These are separate checkouts, not a balance conversion, and nothing sells dGems. New contest entries and Common Forge recipes do not accept direct DGEN payment. Higher-rarity Forge positions still require physical Gems earned through gameplay or received from another player. Review each activity’s current requirements.

The owner can adjust the master valuation rate and chest price in Realm Health. Changes affect new payments; existing balances keep their terms.

Squire Setup is a one-time welcome gift: two free treasure chests and one Squire Golden Ticket, awarded after both chests finish. It is for verified accounts with no recorded gameplay, including existing accounts that have not played. Signing up or depositing DGEN alone does not disqualify an account. No dGems or DGEN are spent, and chest prices and exchange rates do not affect the gift. Normal random chest rewards apply; the gift does not guarantee a full lineup or automatically forge positions. Interrupted claims can be resumed without losing completed rewards. Review your chest rewards in Iron Bank and your items in Vault, then build and enter your lineup yourself under the tournament's current rules. The welcome gift does not reset weekly.

For newly opened Sunday Arena weeks starting October 18, the default entry choice is 2,000 dGems, 2 Joust Strikes, or 1 Golden Ticket. Choose one. A week's saved entry rules and Realm Health changes may set a different requirement; always review the displayed fee before entry. Edits do not cost another, and previously submitted entries stay valid. Second-String Siege and Joust are unchanged.

Each successful surprise strike has an independent, adjustable chance to find one ticket, instead of that strike’s dGem payout. Check the current percentage in the Vault or Iron Bank; a percentage is not a guaranteed ticket after a fixed number of strikes. You can also receive tickets from another player, buy a player-listed ticket in Auctions, or receive one through the one-time Squire welcome gift if eligible. The Iron Bank no longer sells tickets. Sell an unused ticket to the Iron Bank at the displayed sellback price: it is permanently retired and the credit appears in your DGEN history. Review the current quote before confirming. Sellback price changes affect future sellbacks only; historical receipts keep their original amounts. Sale credits do not draw from the Treasury and are not on-chain transfers.

Unused Golden Tickets stay in your Vault across weeks and beta resets. Send them to another verified player from the Vault; transfers are gifts, not guaranteed swaps. Once consumed by an entry or sold, a ticket cannot be transferred or reused. Keep one if you still need your next Arena entry.

Check the current Arena panel before entering. Available rules may require dGems, Golden Tickets, Joust Strikes or specific relics, either together or as listed alternatives. New direct DGEN-paid contest entries are unavailable; legacy DGEN-only fees convert to a reviewed dGem quote at the current master rate. Review and confirm the available requirements before your first entry. Entry items are consumed permanently. Only unused, unexpired relics for the entry’s current calendar week are eligible. Consuming an active relic removes its bonus, and your new lineup must fit the remaining Armor allowance. Existing entries are never charged again, their recorded payments remain unchanged, and lineup edits remain free before lock.

The total Arena DGEN pool is adjustable before lock; first through fifth keep 40% / 25% / 15% / 10% / 10%. Whole-DGEN rounding goes to first place, and only occupied prize places pay. The pool and entry rules freeze at lock. Previously awarded prizes do not change. Second-String Siege keeps its separate position-token rewards.

Common dGems forge team RB2 and WR2 cards, which can fill Second-String Siege. The main Arena also needs QB, TE and D/ST cards. Those team cards are Silver under the original catalog; when an OddsBuilder catalog is applied, they can be Silver or Gold according to their position’s projection ranking. Division and conference cards use the current policy shown in the Forge. You can spend a higher-rarity Gem on a lower-rarity card, but the entire Gem is consumed and no change is returned. Owned tokens keep the rarity they had when received.

Main Arena base Armor is 20 for October 11 and later weeks. Earlier weeks keep their original allowance; October 4 was 16. Realm Health can set a different allowance before entries begin. Second-String Siege stays at 12. One eligible Armor relic can add +1, +2 or +3 to an entry when needed; relic bonuses do not stack. Armor limits card weight, not fantasy points. Check the allowance on the entry screen.

For Week 1 (Sunday, September 13), Sunday Knight Arena awards up to 50,000 DGEN across the top five: 20,000 / 12,500 / 7,500 / 5,000 / 5,000. Only filled prize places are awarded; there is no Gem participation payout. Second-String Siege pays dGems to the top five (1,500 / 900 / 500 / 250 / 125) and also awards one Diamond position token for first, two Gold for second, and one Gold for third. Siege positions are randomly assigned and automatically delivered to the Vault after final, verified results, ready for the September 20 beta week. Check the Arena’s prize panel for each week’s rewards.

Your recorded DGEN balance appears in the Vault, separately from spendable dGems. Tournament DGEN prizes, mining DGEN finds and confirmed Joust Strike redemptions add to that balance. Recorded DGEN can pay for Council seats or single-use relics at the Iron Bank. There is no automatic conversion of your balance. Recording a prize is not an on-chain deposit. Send a Raven for withdrawal → Winterfell reviews and processes requests manually. Submitting a Raven does not instantly withdraw funds. Never share a seed phrase or private key.

The Iron Bank does not sell dGems or individual higher-rarity Forge Gems, and has no Gem exchange. It sells featured single-use relics at the displayed DGEN price, including Crypt Armor relics when listed. You can buy one relic per family per assigned week; variants share that limit. Use it before Monday midnight ET. Other Bank and Armor relics come from ladder rewards or player trades. The Auction House can offer player-listed tickets and relics, but not Gems. Existing receipts and protected inventory remain intact.

Direct Gem exchanges have ended. Existing Gems retain their saved inventory and protection. Earn higher-rarity Gems through gameplay or receive them from another player.

Unspent Bank-purchased Gems keep their existing beta-reset protection. Ordinary Gems are spent before protected Gems. Spending a Gem in the Forge consumes it normally; the resulting position follows the normal Vault rules. All relics, including bought and gifted copies, are single-use and expire Monday at midnight ET; buying one does not protect it from that expiration. Recorded DGEN and completed transaction history are not cleared by the weekly relic reset.

No. A Joust Strike is a collectible earned by your chosen primetime player. It adds no fantasy points, Armor or mining bank-rate benefit. After final verification it can be kept, sent to another knight, or sold at the Iron Bank at the current displayed DGEN price while buying is open. Open the Strike history in your Vault or the Bank to see where each quantity came from or went.

After kickoff, look beneath the primetime player scores for Riders in the lists. It shows each knight’s username, selected rider and Strikes earned in that game only—not their mining count. Live totals are provisional until final verification; refunded entries are marked separately. Picks stay hidden before kickoff. This table reads saved game data and makes no extra sports-provider calls.

Each verified Strike sold is permanently retired, not held by the Treasury or returned to circulation. You receive the displayed recorded DGEN amount per Strike. This does not deduct from the Realm Treasury, require a funded Treasury balance, or touch mining Gems and other Vault items. The sale and DGEN amount appear in your Strike history. It is an in-game balance credit, not an automatic on-chain transfer.

Joust reuses the saved player-stat updates, not a play-by-play feed. A recorded scorer touchdown counts; otherwise the player needs a net gain of at least 6 fantasy points in one accepted update and a new score high. Several plays may arrive in one update, and negative points may offset gains. A score surge and a touchdown are not both paid from the same update. Updates can be delayed, and Strikes stay provisional until final verification. A missing first score baseline cannot create a surge award.

Do not start another transaction. The saved request can be retried to confirm its original outcome without a second debit or payout. Pending requests block new sends and sales until resolved. Check the quantity and recipient carefully before the first confirmation: gifts are not trade offers waiting for acceptance.

Open Live Battlefield for NFL scores, game clocks and Arena standings. Tap a miner to inspect a lineup after lock; other miners’ lineups stay private before lock. Select a game for the latest saved player and position scores. Check the update timestamp: delayed stats may leave positions pending or at their last verified points. Rankings are provisional until final stats are complete. Battlefield Pulse shows changes between saved updates, not individual plays. DGEN and dGem rankings are in the separate Leaderboards tab.

The current random scheduling interval is 18–36 minutes, not a fixed countdown from your last strike. Surprise veins stay open for 30 seconds, with their exact opening revealed during the final two minutes. Ale Pub shows the interval until a saved opening is available, then shows the countdown or open window. Collect your daily seam first. Tap Ready my pickaxe and wait for the server confirmation before leaving. That saves one automatic strike for the announced vein, even if your device sleeps or you close the page. It does not arm future veins, bypass maintenance pauses, or award a missed past strike. Push alerts are separate. Return to check the saved result; service interruptions can still prevent a strike.

Text messaging is off. Tap a knight in Knights in the Realm to raise a shared toast to them. Connected players can see the clink and hear its sound when alerts and device settings allow. Knights in the Realm shows connected players, not necessarily players reading the Pub; mobile shows the names without expanding. Closing the Pub or switching main-app views keeps clinks for this page visit. Leaving or reloading clears your local history; other players may still have theirs. Nothing is saved for your next visit.

In the Vault, select an unused, unexpired relic and choose Send to player. Confirm the recipient and serial number. Gifting is free and is not a guaranteed swap. Eligible DGEN sales use the separate Auction House and its displayed rules and fees. Gifting transfers one copy, and never resets either player’s weekly strike progress. The recipient gets the same Monday expiration; a gifted Bank relic starts on the next vein. Reserved, used or expired items cannot be gifted. Existing contest-lock restrictions still apply.

Player-rented Council seats use the same daily DGEN fee, including the first three. Seat five is reserved for the Knights of Degen holder pool, not a personal rental. Choose an available rental seat. The Council shows the current price before you confirm; it is charged from your separate recorded DGEN balance, with daily renewal at 8 AM Eastern. Seat payments go to the Realm Treasury; they are not shared with the Council. The first charge lasts until the next 8 AM renewal. Realm Health can change the daily fee. New claims use the updated price immediately; existing holders use it from the next eligible 8 AM renewal, with paid time preserved and no retroactive charges. Stale price confirmations are rejected until refreshed. Mining Gems are not spent. Stop renewal to end future charges; insufficient balance frees the seat without debt. Existing Gem-payment consent does not authorize DGEN charges.

The fifth Council seat represents the Ethereum Knights of Degen collection. Its Council proceeds collect in a separate holder pot. Link your wallets in the Knight Rescue tab’s Knights panel: each wallet is verified once with a free signature, then rescans need no signature. An account can link up to 10 wallets; each wallet belongs to one account. NFTs stay in your wallet. Each Knight keeps its first registration as history. A transfer does not create another first registration; the new owner must scan that Knight with a wallet linked to their own account before it can count for future rounds.

For new reward rounds, Winterfell can preview and manually allocate the pot among accounts whose linked wallets hold Knights verified at an Ethereum snapshot. Each eligible account gets one equal share, regardless of Knight count or how many wallets it links; the account’s oldest eligible linked wallet claims it. Whole-DGEN leftovers carry forward. A transfer removes the old wallet’s future eligibility for that Knight after ownership is verified, while the new owner can qualify after scanning. Earlier rounds keep their saved account and wallet entitlements; later transfers do not move those claims or the shared holder pot. Sign a free ownership message with the wallet eligible for that round to claim once. These are site-DGEN credits, not on-chain transfers or guaranteed rewards. Staked or custodied NFTs are not inferred as personally owned.

Automatic dGem resets remain disabled. dGems, higher-rarity Gems, recorded DGEN and positions keep their existing carry-over rules. Relics are different: every unused relic expires Monday at midnight Eastern, and used relics are burned. Weekly ladder progress and Forge admission also reset then. Historical receipts and previously saved lineup allowances remain intact.

Separate, admin-confirmed beta resets may replace ordinary mining Gems or remove unused non-prize positions and eligible non-prize relics. These are not automatic Monday actions; prize items, unspent Bank Gem purchases and submitted lineups are protected by the reset controls. That protection does not extend a relic’s Monday expiry. A 2,000-Gem beta reset is not a recurring weekly grant.

Yes. The Mine’s push-alert control connects this device to mining calls and tournament rank changes. After a quiet first baseline, verified moves up or down in Sunday Knight Arena or Second-String Siege can trigger one combined alert per scoring update—even with the site closed. Tap it to open Live Battlefield. These use saved standings, with no additional sports API calls. Unchanged ranks stay quiet; incomplete or stale scoring updates wait. Turn off alerts on this device to stop both types. The realm’s separate notification pause stops both; a mining pause stops only mining calls. Device notification permissions, Focus modes, and browser restrictions still apply.

Yes. Enter the same email and request a fresh six-digit code. It signs you into the same account and syncs your Gems, positions, relics, and lineup; it does not create a duplicate.

You submit one seven-position lineup against the entire Arena leaderboard. Scoring uses full-PPR fantasy points on the Sunday main slate, with best-ball selection for broader division and conference cards.

It is a separate weekly side tournament using RB2 and WR2 cards. The required count is fixed for each slate and shown on its entry screen: the October 11 slate uses two RB2 and two WR2, and slates from October 18 use one of each. It has its own entry and leaderboard. Review the displayed free or dGem entry rule before entering. New direct DGEN-paid entries and DGEN payment alternatives are unavailable; a legacy DGEN-only fee converts to the reviewed dGem price at the current master rate, not free entry. Earlier entries keep their recorded terms. A card can be reserved for only one tournament at a time. Edit free until lock; only the final selected cards are burned.

Leaderboards shows separate rankings for in-game DGEN and dGem holdings. The dGem High Table displays the top ten eligible holders. sdot is excluded from both. Each table has its own admin-set DGEN prize pool and rank split; payouts are manual, once per round, and rankings can change until payout. Tied holders share the prizes for the ranks they occupy, including ties beyond the visible top ten. A zero pool means no prizes are scheduled.

Yes—both the Sunday Knight Arena and Second-String Siege allow free edits until the displayed contest deadline. Choose Edit lineup, make your swaps, then Save changes. Your saved entry stays entered while you work. Swapped-out cards return to your Vault only after a successful save. Cancel discards your draft and restores the saved lineup. There is no editing fee or Armor penalty, and your original entry time is preserved for ties. One contest-wide lock applies; it is not a rolling lock at each player’s kickoff. At lock, editing closes and your final roster is burned.

Yes. Lineup submission does not close the Mine. Random relic drops remain, and the ladder now awards Bank, Armor and action relics. Each find belongs to its calendar week, even after Sunday lock; it expires at Monday midnight ET. Relics no longer grant passive score bonuses to new entries. A saved main Arena entry can explicitly attach one eligible score relic before lock; that copy burns for its listed points. Historical entries keep their original scoring rules.

An unused forged position remains in your Vault for future eligible weeks. A submitted position is reserved for its entry. Before lock, you can swap it out and save to return it to your Vault. Positions left in the final lineup at lock are burned and cannot be reused.

Push alerts are enabled separately on each device. Open de-fs.com in Safari, Chrome, or Edge—not another app’s built-in browser. On iPhone or iPad, first use Share → Add to Home Screen, open Knight Miners from that icon, and enable alerts in the Mine. If permission was blocked, use Fix alert permissions in the Mine. Also check Focus or Do Not Disturb mode. Use Send test alert after setup; an enabled switch does not guarantee that your device will display every alert. Readying a pickaxe and enabling push alerts are separate actions.

A wooden Closed sign names the feature that is unavailable. Mining and Forging have separate pause controls, so the Mine can reopen while the Forge stays closed. Neither pause by itself closes Live Battlefield, your saved Vault or the rest of the site. Entry and transfer controls can be paused separately, and the Iron Bank can stop buying. Saved items and lineups remain viewable; a maintenance pause does not promise to extend the contest deadline. Check the displayed lock time and any message from the team.

Use Send feedback in the menu or Send a raven in the Alliance Council to contact Winterfell. Include what happened, which page you were on, your device/browser, and the steps that led to the problem. Open Ravens in the top bar to see your messages and Winterfell’s replies. Ale Pub is for shared clinks—not text messages or private support. Never send passwords, sign-in codes, seed phrases or private keys.

Sunday Arena and Siege scoring use API-Sports. Primetime Joust uses ESPN event summaries and position stats for its saved games. Sleeper supplements roster and depth-chart context. Scores may change as providers correct their feeds; final prizes wait for verified settlement.

Official-feed corrections may update scores before results settle. Ties are ordered by the earlier valid Arena submission, then by the saved entry ID.