Events Overview

Ancients runs a set of recurring events that fire across the network all map long. The fastest way to see what's live is the in-game /events menu. It lists every timed server event with a one-line description and a live countdown or status for each.

Ambient content that runs continuously rather than on a clock is no longer in that menu: shades and wraiths and the Tartarus Rift were both taken out of /events.

Many events stay locked until the community pushes them open. Most are gated behind the Community Fund: a locked event shows Locked (/fund) in the /events menu until its tier is funded. As the Fund fills, more of the rotation comes online.

The kinds of events

Combat & PvP

Fight other players for high-value rewards.

• King of the Hill (KOTH): hold the hill, claim the crate.
• Skywars: a sky-island last-one-standing fight.
• The Black Market Auction House: bid on contraband-grade loot.

The Erebus Cap (LMS) has been removed from the game, along with /lms and its daily reward. Regular Erebus Guards still patrol The Pit, and the Lower Pit holds its elites and the Confluence altar.

Sky & mining

Events that drop out of the sky or light up the mines.

• Meteors & Meteorites: meteors, meteorites, and meteorite showers.
• Mining Events: Mining Competitions and Mining Rushes.

Wilds (PvE)

Roaming threats and traders out in the open worlds.

• Erebus Tears: a breach opens in the overworld and pours out waves of spirits until its Tearkeeper falls.
• Shades & Wraiths: the haunts of the Forgotten Polis.
• The Sacred Way: a late-map PvP road and the only source of uber keys.
• Warden of the Ash: a world boss on the Sacred Way, woken by ringing a bell.
• Erebus, the Unlit: wakes in the Lower Pit once enough pit kills fill its bar.
• The Oracle: a wandering trader with one-off goods.

The Tartarus Rift is its own thing now

The Tartarus Rift is not a scheduled server event. It's a personal daily activity you start by talking to the Rift Keeper at spawn whenever you like.

Shared rewards

Events feed the same progression systems as everything else: Hunter XP (/hunter), Clue Scrolls, Season Pass challenges, quest contracts, and shared loot like boss essence, flares and booster boxes.

Version history

v4.0.0 (Map 4)

• Skywars now unlocks at Fund I, down from Fund II.
• Hot Zones were removed.
• Erebus Tears now open at Fund IV, up from Fund II.
• New world bosses: the Warden of the Ash on the Sacred Way and Erebus, the Unlit in the lower Erebus Pit.

v3.0.0

• New event: Erebus Tears — a breach opens in the overworld once the Fund reaches tier II, and sealing it calls down Erebus Crates.
• Shades, Wraiths and the Tartarus Rift have been removed from /events, which now lists timed server events only.
• The /events grid recenters itself around whatever is listed.
• LMS and Caravans have been removed from the game, and are gone from /events and the /fund feature list.
• Chat Games have been removed from the game.
• KOTH now runs at the same time every day, 6 PM Pacific, instead of alternating slots.
• Skywars now unlocks at Server Fund tier 2, down from tier 3.

v2.0.0

• KOTH now runs once a day in the evening (down from twice daily), with a shorter cap.
• New event: Skywars — a sky-island last-one-standing fight every 2 hours.
• The Tartarus Rift is no longer a scheduled event — it's now a personal daily activity via the Riftkeeper.