Obols
Obols are the premium currency of Ancients — separate from Money and Ancient Energy, and the one wallet that follows you everywhere. Your balance is network-wide (it carries across the prison and the Forgotten Polis) and, unlike the other currencies, it does NOT reset between seasons.
Run /obols to check your balance — it's also shown at the top of every store menu. Everything Obols can buy lives in /store; see The Obol Store for the full catalogue.
Earning Obols
Discord server tag
Link your Discord with /link, then equip the Ancients server tag in Discord. While the tag is active you passively earn 2 Obols per hour, even while offline. Pending rewards stack to a cap of 48 Obols, so check in at least once a day and run /claimtag to collect.
Boosting the Discord
Boost the Ancients Discord and, for as long as your boost is active, you get:
- 500 Obols per boost, every month: claim with
/claimboost - 5% more XP
- 5% more Ancient Energy
- The ✦ Tartarus Patron chat title
Two boosts on the server earn the Obol reward for both.
Gang Top payouts
The top 3 gangs on the Gang Leaderboard earn an Obol stipend, paid to each gang's leader. Over the map, #1 takes 15,000 Obols, #2 takes 10,000, and #3 takes 5,000, split across the season:
| Place | Weekly (weeks 1–4) | Grand prize (final Friday) | Map total |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 2,250 Obols | 6,000 Obols | 15,000 Obols |
| #2 | 1,500 Obols | 4,000 Obols | 10,000 Obols |
| #3 | 750 Obols | 2,000 Obols | 5,000 Obols |
Ranking is by Gang Points. Run /g top to see the full reward schedule with a live countdown to the next payout. See Gang Leaderboard & Payouts for the details. If a leader is offline, the Obols still land on their balance and they're notified next time they join.
Weekly leaderboards
/weeklytop runs three rotating Weekly Boards each week, and the top 5 on each pay Obols: 1,200 / 800 / 500 / 300 / 200. Each board pays on its own. Boards close and pay at 11 AM Pacific every Friday, the same time as Gang Top, for the first 5 weeks of a map, and payouts require mining level 10.
Weekly Vote Race
The top 5 voters each week split 3,125 Obols (1,000 / 750 / 575 / 450 / 350), paid with the weekly boards. You need at least 7 votes that week to be paid.
Season Pass tiers
Several tiers on both the free and paid tracks of the Season Pass award Obols when claimed. Open /pass to see exactly which tiers pay out and how much.
Topping up
You can buy Obols on the web store at buy.ancients.gg: run /buy in game for a clickable link. Store purchases arrive in game within about 15 seconds of paying.
Paying other players
Send Obols to anyone with /obols pay <player> <amount>. The transfer is instant (even to offline players), and an online recipient gets an on-screen notice that the Obols landed.
Version history
v4.0.0 (Map 4)
- New Weekly Vote Race: the top 5 voters each week split 3,125 Obols.
- Weekly boards run for the first 5 weeks of a map.
- Store purchases now arrive in game within about 15 seconds of paying, instead of up to two minutes.
v3.0.0
- Added
/weeklytop: three rotating weekly leaderboards paying the top 5 on each 1,200 / 800 / 500 / 300 / 200 Obols, settled at 11 AM Pacific every Friday. - Each board pays on its own.
v2.0.0
- Gang Top is now ranked by Gang Points, and the Season 2 payout schedule changed: #1 / #2 / #3 earn 15,000 / 10,000 / 5,000 Obols over the map, paid as 2,250 / 1,500 / 750 at the end of each of the first 4 weeks, plus a 6,000 / 4,000 / 2,000 grand prize on the final Friday (end of week 5).
/g topnow shows the full reward schedule with a live countdown, and the Gang Top info badge displays last week's winners.