The Pond
Your pond is a grid of tiles. Drop a duck on a tile and it starts producing Feathers around the clock — the raw material for everything else you do.
🧩 Room to grow
Starts at 3×3 (9 tiles). Grow to 4×4 for 500 🪶, then to 5×5 for 10 UTYA — a real expansion journey.
🪶 Always earning
A Tier-1 duck makes 10 🪶/hr. Production multiplies ×2.2 per tier and again by the duck's rarity.
⏳ Collect often
Uncollected Feathers cap at 8 hours, then production stalls. Tap to claim and keep the taps flowing.
Feathers — the pond's fuel
Feathers are the soft currency of the pond. You earn them constantly and pour them straight back into growing your flock. (UTYA is the separate on-chain reward — Feathers stay in the pond.)
📥 You earn 🪶 from
- Ducks producing on their tiles
- Beating bosses on the ladder
- Winning PvP Arena fights
📤 You spend 🪶 on
- Feeding ducks to extend their life
- Merging ducks up a tier
- Healing battle wounds & expanding the pond
- Store gear (skills & potions)
Duck types — the 5 rarities
Rarity is a duck's grade: how much raw power it carries and what perks it's born with. Rarer ducks hit harder, earn more, and live longer — and only the top grades can roll the elite battle classes.
Battle roles — the 6 classes
When a duck is placed in the pond it rolls a battle class that shapes its stats. Rarity decides the size of the stats; role decides their shape — a tank soaks, a DPS deletes, a mage supports.
Rookie
Tank
DPS
Bruiser
Mage
Ascendant
Base per-role stats shown. Final stats = these × tier × rarity power, then a small ±15% roll. Only Rare+ ducks roll Tank/DPS/Bruiser/Mage; Legendary+ can roll the 🌟 Ascendant.
Tiers & merging
Merge two ducks to fuse them into one duck a tier higher — the core of pond growth. Each tier multiplies Feathers ×2.2 and boosts battle stats, all the way to Tier 8.
🎲 Merging is a gamble
Every merge costs Feathers and rolls a success chance. Base 70% for a matched low-tier pair, shifted by:
- +8% if both ducks share a rarity
- −14% per tier of gap between them
- −9% per tier of the higher duck
- −12% if either duck is frail (under 25% life)
🐣 What the child keeps
- The rarer parent's rarity & perks
- Half of each parent's remaining life
- Any bought skill (it survives the merge)
- The average battle level of both parents — leveling is never wasted
Feeding, lifespan & death
Ducks don't live forever. A placed duck has a lifespan — feed it to extend its days, or it passes away and drifts to the graveyard. Nothing is ever truly deleted.
Three ways a duck can leave
Duck level — the real power axis
Separate from tier, every duck earns a battle level by fighting. Ducks start out weak on purpose — leveling, not hatching, is where the power comes from.
That's a ~10× swing from a fresh duck to a maxed one. XP-per-level climbs steadily, gets steeper past Lv 25, and hits a real grind wall past Lv 30 — end-game ducks are a long-term investment.
Skills — one ability per duck
Buy a skill from the Store and teach it to a duck. It sticks for the duck's whole life and survives merges. Each skill both buffs a stat (full value on its home role, half off-role) and neutralises one boss ability — read the boss's telegraph and bring the counter.
Piercer
+40% armor penetration — your blows land in full against armored foes.
counters 🛡️ ArmorBerserker
+30% ATK, and its fury out-paces enemies whose power keeps climbing.
counters 😤 FrenzyBulwark
+60% DEF — shrugs off venomous, shield-piercing strikes.
counters ☠️ VenomWindfeather
+50% SPD and reflexes quick enough to slip crippling back-line dives.
counters 🦴 BackbreakerVampiric
Drains life on every hit and saps the enemy's own regeneration.
counters 🌿 RegenAegis Ward
A squad-wide ward: +DEF and it swallows huge periodic bursts.
counters 💥 NukeChanneler
Supercharges a Mage's aura and cleanses creeping squad-wide poison.
counters 🦠 PlagueTruesight
+crit and your strikes never miss, even against evasive foes.
counters 💨 BlurPurifier
Nullifies any one boss skill for the whole squad — but channeling it saps the bearer's own ATK. The universal fallback.
counters ❔ AnythingThe boss gauntlet
Battle is a squad of 3 ducks in a Front / Mid / Back formation versus a boss. The ladder is 10 rooms, each a 10-boss gauntlet. Every boss pays Feathers + XP; clear a room's champion (boss 10) for its UTYA reward — repeatable — and the very first player ever to clear each room grabs a one-time global first-clear bounty on top.
Puddle Gremlin
Reed Lurker
Old Snapper
Pond Serpent
Marsh Hydra
Bog Kraken
Storm Heron
Mire Behemoth
Abyss Leviathan
The Duck Reaper
↔︎ Scroll the gauntlet. Each room shown is its champion (10th boss); the nine bosses before it ramp up to it. 💰 = UTYA per clear (repeatable) · ⭐ = one-time global first-clear bounty.
Training — level up safely
The climb alone only tops a duck out around Lv 20. To push past the wall you spar — and to buff the whole roster you train. Two different tools:
🥊 Sparring · free
Re-fight any boss you've already beaten — an easy, cleared room — for battle XP only. No Feathers or UTYA reward, no ladder change. It's the repeatable grind that makes high levels reachable.
🎓 Roster Training · Store
A permanent, account-wide buff: +8% ATK / DEF / SPD to every duck in battle, stacking up to 5× (a hefty +40% at max). The price climbs with each level bought.
The Store
Everything you can buy for the pond, paid in UTYA or Feathers (your choice — a few items are UTYA-only). Skills come in three price bands; potions keep your squad in the fight.
Duck Skills
Teach one ability to a duck (kept for life, inherited on merge). Nine to choose from — see the Skills section.
Roster Training
+8% ATK/DEF/SPD to all ducks in battle. Stacks to Lv 5. Price rises each level.
Revive & Restore
Instantly heal one duck back to full battle HP.
Elixir of Life
+48 h lifespan to one duck — keep a trained keeper alive longer.
Merge Insurance
Protects one merge: on a fail, no duck dies — it just doesn't gain the tier.
Auto-Feed · 1 Week
Auto-feeds the ducks you choose from your Feathers for 7 days, then stops — re-buy to extend.
The game plan
If you only remember six things:
- 🪶 Collect Feathers often — production caps at 8 h, so idle time is wasted Feathers.
- 🪜 Merge upward for compounding output — and insure risky, high-tier merges.
- 🦆 Rarity is grade, role is job — you want rare-plus ducks in the classes your squad lacks.
- 📈 Level is 90% of your power — a maxed duck is ~10× a fresh one. Invest in a few keepers.
- 🥊 Spar cleared bosses to farm XP safely, and heal between runs — that's how you beat the Room-4 wall.
- ✨ Bring the counter — match each boss's ability with the right skill (or a Purifier) and formation.