Hidden Valley Capture

- A War game content cooperating with your clan members to occupy the Darksteel mining area in each valley by competing with other clans, and the occupying clan gets a special benefit as the owner of the Hidden Valley.

Preparation

[Hidden Valley Capture Schedule]

① Voting: Can stake at anytime

② Retrieval: Can retrieve at any time except for the Retrieval Cooldown

③ Server Confirmation: Wednesday 00:00 (UTC+8)

④ Operating Time: Wednesday 22:00 ~ 23:00 (UTC+8)

1. Server Confirmation

- The available servers will be determined through the Valley Capture Governance, based on the amount of staked DOGMA of each server every Wednesday, 00:00 (UTC+8)

Please refer to 'Game Info > Governance' for more details.

2. Participation

1) Criteria

① Clans of servers confirmed from Hidden Valley Capture Governance

② Clan that has 'Capture' skill

※ Hidden Valley Capture will be unlocked upon reaching Character Level 25, and the character must complete the main quest required for the entry of each Valley.

2) Precautions

① Any clans of Governance Benefit server that has 'Capture' skill can participate in the Hidden Valley Capture without any extra procedure.

② 1 Clan can occupy 1 Valley out of 3 Valleys (among Bicheon/Snake Pit/Phantasia Area)

(However, clans can capture all 3 Valleys during the Valley Capture operation period.

③ If the Valley Capture ends when 1 clan has occupied more than 1 Valley, the clan will be entitled to the ownership of the Valley they have occupied the latest, and the ownership of the other 2 Valleys will remain empty.

④ Death Penalty (Deduction in EXP / Loss of Item) will be applied to your characters upon death by PvP in the Valley.

Battle Stage

- Hidden Valley Capture will begin on Wednesday, 22:00 (UTC+8), and an intense battle will take place between the Defense (Valley Owner) and Offense (Ones trying to occupy the Valley) side to own the single Capture Stone located at each Valley once the event starts.

1) Valley Capture Rules

- Valley Capture will last for an hour in each Valley, and ownership of a specific Valley will be entitled to a clan who has succeeded in occupying the Capture Stone at the end of the War.

※ Kick/Join member and Clan disband will be deactivated during the Valley Capture period, and players cannot open/enter the Clan Dungeon.

■ Destroying the Capture Stone: Clan that has [Capture] skill can destroy the Capture Stone, and the ownership will be granted to the clan that has the member who dealt the final blow for destruction.

② All characters except for the members of the occupying Clan will be automatically moved to the base village after 1 minute if the ownership of the Capture Stone changes.

③ Characters that got moved to the base village automatically can still proceed on the Valley Capture after re-entering the valley.

■ Protecting Capture Stone: Capture Stone has to be protected to avoid getting destroyed until the end of the Valley Capture.

① The Capture Stone that got its ownership changed upon destruction will be respawned with 25% HP and will be invincible for 1 minute, while the HP will be regenerated gradually after the invincible mode is removed.

② Capture Stone has to avoid getting damaged for more than 10 seconds to get its HP regenerated.

■ End of Valley Capture: The Clan that occupies the Capture Stone at the end of the Valley Capture will have the right to become the owner of the Hidden Valley.

2) Valley Capture Areas

- Valley Capture will proceed in 3 Valley areas Bicheon, Snake Pit, and Phantasia 4F concurrently.

■ You can warp to any Valley floor whether the Valley Capture starts or not, however, you cannot target any monsters or minerals to warp except for the entrance point.

※ Once it begins, you can Auto-move to the Valley by using the [Move to Entrance] button located in the Hidden Valley menu.

3) Penalty for Non-Hosting Servers

- Remaining servers that do not host the Hidden Valley Capture will have certain penalties applied.

① Forfeit of Hidden Valley Ownership

- Hidden Valley Owners of servers where the Hidden Valley Capture is not held will have their Hidden Valley ownership forfeited and the Valley will become a non-owned state.

※ Darksteel Taxes will still be stored on the Hidden Valley Storage even if there is no owner.

② Darksteel Distribution

- Servers not holding the Hidden Valley Capture will supply their Darksteel to the servers holding the event.

- Darksteel stored on the Hidden Valley Storage will be automatically transferred to that of the servers holding the Hidden Valley Capture every 00:00 (UTC+8)

③ If unfulfilling the minimum requirement

- Any server that does not meet the minimum voting requirements in Hidden Valley Capture Governance will be penalized with a 50% reduced Darksteel mining rate.

End Stage

1. Occupying Clan Rewards

- Clan that owns the Capture Stone at the end of Valley Capture will have the Hidden Valley Ownership.

- Hidden Valley Owner can manage the Darksteel Storage of the occupied Hidden Valley.

2. Individual Rewards

- Clan members of the Clan that occupies the Capture Stone will obtain 1,000 Contribution Tokens.

- MVP (Character that has dealt a final blow to destroy the Capture Stone) among the Clan Members will obtain an additional 1,000 Contribution Tokens.

3. Hidden Valley Storage

- The taxes levied on the mined taxes from the Hidden Valley will be stored in the Hidden Valley Storage.

Category (Distribution Limit)		Distribution Quantity
Provide to Individuals	Clan Member	Daily Max Darksteel distribution for Clan members is 10,000,000. Daily Max Darksteel distribution for 1 clan member is 5,000,000. ※ Daily Max Darksteel distribution available for clan members cannot be driven to 1 clan member.
Provide to Individuals	Other Users	Daily Max Darksteel distribution for other users is 3,000,000. Daily Max Darksteel distribution for 1 user is 1,500,000. ※ Daily Max Darksteel distribution available for other users cannot be driven to 1 user.
Clan Distribution	Provide to Clan Storage (Valley Owner Clan)	Daily Max Darksteel distribution available for Clan Storage is 10,000,000.
Clan Distribution	Provide to Other Clans	Total Daily Max Darksteel distribution for other clans is 5,000,000. Daily Max Darksteel distribution for 1 other clan is 5,000,000.

※ The available distribution will reset at 00:00 every day (UTC+8)

① Darksteel Tax: 15% of the mined Darksteel will be stored on the valley's Hidden Valley Storage as tax.

※ 15% less Darksteel can be obtained by mining Darksteel in the Hidden Valley areas due to the tax.

② The Darksteel taxes from Non-Hosting servers will be provided to Hosting servers at 23:55 daily (UTC+8), and the distribution rate will differ depending on the number of Hosting servers and Governance Ranking place.

[Number of Holding Servers/Darksteel Tax depending on the Governance Ranking]

Number of Servers in World	Maximum servers holding Hidden Valley Capture	Darksteel Storage Provision rate of non-holding servers
Number of Servers in World	Maximum servers holding Hidden Valley Capture	To 1st Place	To 2nd Place	To 3rd Place	To 4th Place
1	1	0%	-	-	-
2	2	40%	-	-	-
3	2	40%	30%	-	-

■ If 2 holding servers exist, each non-holding server will pay 40%/30% Darksteel tax to the corresponding Valley's Storage of 1st~2nd place server.

■ Even if the server is ranked at the top, the Hidden Valley Capture will not be held if the Minimum Voting is not fulfilled. (※ All the Darksteel taxes except for taxes that are distributed to the Valley Capture servers will be burnt.)

Ex) If 1 server of a 3-server world solely fulfills the minimum voting, the Hidden Valley Capture will proceed on only 1 server, while 40% of the Darksteel will be supplied to the 1st place server and the remaining 60% will be burnt.

③ The Hidden Valley Owner can freely distribute Darksteel stored on the Hidden Valley Storage to Clans and Individuals.

※ Distribution fee will be incurred depending on the Darksteel distribution target.