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Leagues and Covens of Umbra

What a challenge league is, the trade, Hardcore, Solo Self-Found and Standard versions, what happens when a league ends, and how 3.30's Covens of Umbra works: Fates, Viscera and the Wickerman.

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Leagues and Covens of Umbra

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Leagues and Covens of Umbra

  1. 1League startsEveryone begins again with a new economy.
  2. 2About 3–4 monthsPlay the new mechanic and its challenges.
  3. 3League endsYour characters move to the Standard league.
A league starts, runs about three to four months, then its characters move to Standard.

What a league is

Every three to four months a new challenge league starts. Everyone begins with new characters and a fresh economy, and the league adds a new mechanic to play with.

Your characters only meet players and items in their own league.

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What a league is

Every three to four months a new challenge league starts. Everyone begins with new characters and a fresh economy, and the league adds a new mechanic. Your characters only meet players and items in their own league.

Pick how you play it

  • Covens of Umbra: the new league, with trading.
  • Hardcore Covens: one life. Die and the character carries on in Covens of Umbra.
  • SSF Covens: the same league with no trading or parties.
  • Standard: the permanent league, without the new content.

When the league ends

Its characters and items move to the permanent Standard league. Some league mechanics also join the core game later: in 3.30, Mirage did.

Covens of Umbra (3.30)

Covenites perform rites to summon their Queen. Disrupt a rite and you choose a Fate for the boss of the area you're in; each Fate makes the boss harder and the rewards bigger. A Fate-empowered boss can drop its Viscera, which you place on your own Wickerman to claim a scrap of that boss's power. Every campaign boss and Atlas map boss has its own Viscera, more Fates raise the chance to drop it, and Viscera can be traded.

Challenges

Covens has 40 challenges with cosmetic rewards you can only earn in this league. From the 19th challenge and every third after, you get a piece of the Covens Totem Pole for your hideout.