Artifacts
Artifacts are permanent upgrades you can find in Warzone Idle. Artifacts and advancements are the only things that give permanent Warzone Idle upgrades.
You may only have 3 artifacts equipped at any time. Those are the only 3 that have any effect. Some artifacts are Passive which means their effects always apply while equipped, and others must be activated and then have a cooldown until you can activate them again.
To change the three artifacts you have equipped, open the Advancements tab and click View All next to artifacts. Then drag the one you want to equip into a box at the top.
To activate a non-passive artifact, equip it and then look for the Activate button on the advancements tab. It will then "cool down" until it can be used again.
Note that you cannot un-equip an artifact that's cooling down. You also cannot equip two identical artifacts (regardless of rarity).
Getting Artifacts
Artifacts can be found by digging at dig sites that you find while playing Warzone Idle. All Warzone Idle levels have dig sites other than the tutorial, the first level, and the bonus level.
Once started, a dig site disappears from the map and will be shown on the Advancements tab.
Timing
Note that the times specified in dig sites, as well as artifact cooldown and upgrade time, are in real-world time and are not affected by how often you open the game or what your maximum Idle Time is set to.
Rarities and Upgrades
Each artifact has a rarity. Higher rarities correspond to stronger effects.
The rarities are, from lowest to highest:
- Poor
- Common
- Uncommon
- Rare
- ...
An artifact may have its rarity upgraded by sacrificing four artifacts of the same rarity. The upgrade will take some time, during which the artifact cannot be used. The amount of time required depends on the rarity:
| Old rarity | New rarity | Time required |
|---|---|---|
| Poor | Common | 6 hours |
| Common | Uncommon | 12 hours |
| Uncommmon | Rare | 1 day |
| ... |
List of artifact types
This is a (currently incomplete) list of artifacts and their effects.
| Name | Type | Effect | Rarity | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Common | Uncommon | Rare | . | . | . | |||
| Alloy Values | Passive | Alloy sell value increased by XX% | . | . | 7% | ... | |||
| Army Cache | Active | Instantly get an army cache of size XX% | . | . | 40% | ... | |||
| Army Cache Boost | Passive | Increases armies received from all caches by XX% | . | . | 4% | ... | |||
| Army Camp Discount | Passive | Reduces cost of upgrading army camps by XX% | . | . | 3% | ... | |||
| Bonus Money Boost | Passive | Increases the money received from bonuses by XX% | 5% | ... | |||||
| Damage Territory | Active | Reduce armies needed to conquer a territory by XX% | . | . | 6% | ... | |||
| Discount Army Camp | Active | Purchase an army camp upgrade at a XX% discount, usable once every 16 hours | . | 6% | ... | ||||
| Discount Mine | Active | Purchase a mine upgrade at a XX% discount, usable once every 16 hours | 3% | ... | |||||
| Discount Hospital | Active | Purchase a hospital upgrade at a XX% discount, usable once every 16 hours | . | 6% | ... | ||||
| Draft Boost | Passive | Draft values increased by XX% | . | . | 8% | ... | |||
| Fog Buster | Active | Reveals XX fogged territories on the map | . | . | 8 | ... | |||
| Hospital Discount | Passive | Reduces the cost of upgrading hospitals by XX% | 0.75% | ... | |||||
| Inspire Mercenaries | Active | Get XX% of mercenaries from a mercenary camp for free, usable once every 16 hours | . | 3% | 6% | ... | |||
| Mine Boost | Passive | Ore received from mines increased by XX% | . | 3.5% | ... | ||||
| Resource Cache | Active | Instantly get a resource cache of size XX% | . | 30% | ... | ||||
| Supercharge Mine | Active | Supercharge a mine for XX, usable once every 16 hours | . | 15 minutes | . | ||||
| Tech Discount | Passive | Reduces requirements of techs by XX% | 0.75% | 1.5% | 3% | ... | |||
| Time Warp | Active | Advance time by XX, usable once every 16 hours | . | . | 30 minutes | ... | |||
| ... | |||||||||