Like many other gacha games, Neverness to Everness boasts a frankly overwhelming amount of different currency types, so you might need some help figuring out what they all do and where to earn them. Let’s break down each of the main currencies in Perfect World’s new F2P open-world RPG and give you a hand in navigating NTE’s myriad menus so you can start your adventure on the right foot.
If you’ve played similar games and have a feel for the various currencies in Arknights Endfield, Zenless Zone Zero, or Wuthering Waves, to name but a few, you’ll likely have an idea of just how overwhelming these kinds of experiences can be at the start. It’s a serious case of information overload, with myriad items, systems, and materials to get your head around.
Somewhat abstract naming conventions make Neverness to Everness one of the most confusing games of the lot in my experience, so here I’m going to break down what each of the dozen-odd in-game currencies is used for, as well as how you can earn them and a little general advice on how best to spend and save in order to optimize your experience. Also, bear in mind that on top of the listed ways to earn each of these currencies, you may also get them from things like events, emails, and redemption codes. But enough yapping already… show me the money!
Beetle Coins
How to earn: General gameplay and exploration
Neverness to Everness has two forms of basic cash, with Beetle Coins being the one used to fund upgrades to your characters and gear. While you’ll have plenty of ways to earn Beetle Coins just by playing NTE normally, you’ll likely find that it’s one of the currencies that dries up quickest in the early-to-mid-game when you have the most investment to make in your new squad. As such, try to spend frugally and focus on your main team of characters until you’re deep enough into the game and rich enough to start working on additional units. Once you hit the Hunter Level cap of 60, you’ll also earn some Beetle Coins in place of any wasted XP, though that milestone is likely a fair way off at this point.
Fons
How to earn: General gameplay, exploration, Hethereau Hobbies
While Beetle Coins will pay for your squad upgrades, most general purchases out in the world will instead require Fons, which you’ll both earn plenty and need to spend a lot of as you progress. Property and vehicles can both get pretty expensive and while you can earn Fons from both business activities and Hobbies (the latter in exchange for City Stamina, a resource that recovers weekly), income will probably be slow until you can do more lucrative activities such as the Pink Paws Heist, so try to avoid frivolous spending and focus on investments that will help you earn more, and faster.
Annuliths
How to earn: Mission rewards, Exploration Guide dailies, Achievements, Hunter Exchange
This one should be familiar for anyone with any gacha game experience. Annuliths are drip-fed in decent quantities for exploring all of NTE’s content and can be exchanged for Scarborough Fair banner pulls or Arc Shop weapon pulls at a rate of 160 a pop. As is typical of these games, Neverness to Everness is heavily front-loaded with opportunities to earn these, with availability drying up in the endgame, at which point you’ll mostly be getting them from daily/weekly activities or events.
Tri-Keys
How to earn: Fair Exchange, Hunter Exchange
Arcs can be seen as NTE’s weapons for your characters, and while you’ll get plenty from in-game loot drops and from Fair banner pulls, you can also hit up the Arc Shop using Tri-Keys. Here, you have two options—an Arc banner pull (with a chance to get the current featured banner character’s signature gear) for 10 keys, or purchasing directly from a curated list of S-rank options, which are a fair bit more costly at 25 Tri-Keys each. These useful keys are rare to see as rewards, although there are 25 guaranteed ones awarded in the Anomaly Hunter’s Journey as you hit Hunter Level milestones up to 40… that’s either a couple banner pulls or an S-rank of choice before you need to start spending Annuliths in the Mall or Fons in Hunter Exchange to get more keys.
Riftcrystals
How to earn: Riftcrystal Extract
Riftcrystals are NTE’s paid currency, and there’s no other way to earn them other than purchasing them for real money. As such, if you’re planning on going fully free-to-play, you’re never going to see that number in the top-right of the Fair (gacha) screen go above zero. These can be used to purchase new cosmetic items in the Mall—although some of these can instead be bought with Fons—or converted into Annuliths at a 1:1 rate. This is pretty typical compared to similar games (which is to say rather expensive), but I’m not here to tell you how to spend your money… if you want to whale away then all power to you.
Lost Pieces/Warp Pieces
How to earn: Fair banner pulls
These two currencies are something you will earn passively from all of your Scarborough Fair banner board game shenanigans, with silver Lost Pieces exchangeable for all kinds of useful stuff in the monthly Lost Exchange store, while the rarer gold Warp Pieces are for the Warp Exchange. Lost Pieces should be plentiful enough that you can pick up whatever you need once you’ve grabbed the monthly banner currencies (which, as usual, should really be your priority), while there’s no cap on how many things you can buy with Warp Pieces beyond how many of them you actually have to spend. With these, banner currencies are typically the best investment (timed banner especially), although you do have the option to buy S-rank characters directly if you’re willing to save up for them.
Fabricated Dice
How to earn: Fair Exchange, events
The blue Fabricated Dice are your standard Fair banner currency for the permanent banner, each worth a single pull attempt. At 160 Annuliths each (which, for whatever reason, seems to be the standard rate across a lot of these games), Fabricated Dice cost the same as the Arc and premium banner currencies, meaning you’re probably unlikely to buy these outright, instead just using the ones you get from progression rewards and events while you focus more on the timed banners, which is where the hot new characters and gear are always going to be found.
Solid Dice
How to earn: Fair Exchange, events
Solid Dice are the red counterparts to Fabricated Dice, and are used to pull on the featured character banner. Unless you’re desperately chasing a particular Arc, these will typically be the most common thing you’ll be spending your Annuliths to pick up, as you only have a limited time to try and score the featured unit of the moment. There’s also a variant form of these red dice which are specifically used for the current featured banner and will only be obtained via event rewards… for Nanally, these are Tiger Dice but each featured character will have their own kind, and with all of these, you’ll want to make sure you use them before the current banner rotates out or they’ll be useless to you.
Carrotas
How to earn: Rabbit Hole Anomaly Zone, mission rewards
The final currencies to discuss in NTE are the three rarities of Carrotas, which come in Bronze, Silver, and Gold varieties. These are used to obtain additional Modules with which to enhance your character’s Console equipment, with the higher rarities coming into play as you advance to gain access to better Modules. You do this via the Rewind feature, which can be found either in the Console tab of any character’s page or in the Console section of the Exploration Guide. Since Modules come in all shapes and sizes and carry random stats, you’ll likely need to go through quite a lot of these chasing Modules that have the ideal stats for each individual character. Still, with Carrotas awarded as a secondary payout in the Rabbit Hole Anomaly Zone where you unlock new Cartridges for your Consoles, at least upgrading these can effectively all be done in one place.
Of course, there are countless more resources in Neverness to Everness beyond just these, but once you have a decent working knowledge of what each of these basic currencies can be used for, hopefully the rest will all fall into place. Enjoy your time in Hethereau, and best of luck with your pulls!
