🤠 Season 5 – Wild West – The Golden Wasteland of the Land of Liberty, ruled by the violent and greedy sheriff King Spade

Alliances from 8 warzones will gather on the same battlefield, competing for the ultimate glory of becoming the true overlord! This season introduces a massive new map, the Bank system, and a cross-zone Trade Train. Are you ready to take on a new challenge where wealth and war intertwine?

🔥 Season Highlights

Massive Map ExpansionThe season’s battlefield is now 9 times larger than before, with more complex terrain and a richer distribution of resources and strongholds. Moving troops across regions and sending long-distance reinforcements will become key strategic elements. A larger map means more choices—every alliance can find its own path to survival and expansion.Battle Time OptimizationNo more 24/7 battles! Fierce fights now take place only during 3 fixed war time slots per day. Alliances can set an immunity time, granting members up to 15 consecutive hours of rest to recover. During immunity, you’re still free to attack others—ensuring you can rest while keeping your offensive edge.Cross-Warzone Trade TrainA Trade Train will continuously travel across the continent, stopping at multiple stations where everyone can trade. You can consign goods on the train for profit, or launch raids along the way for extra rewards, clashing directly with other commanders. Every stop is an opportunity—high risk, high reward, and only those who seize the right moment will prevail.Bank StrongholdsClassic strongholds from previous seasons have now been fully upgraded into Banks. Banks allow you to deposit seasonal resources—the longer they are stored, the greater the returns. But beware: if a bank falls, all deposits will become spoils for the enemy.

Get Ready For Season 5! Welcome to Wild West! 🤠

This is the mail you will receive on your account when Season 5 is about to start.

The Mission

In the Golden Wasteland of the Land of Liberty, wealth and violence collide. Money rules above all, and the law exists only to serve the rich. Capitalists control the resources, the masses are reduced to cheap labor, and a few elites indulge in luxury, indifferent to the struggles of the common people.

The ruler of this chaotic wasteland is the great mine lord, King Spade. Once a legendary sheriff admired across the West, he has now become its wealthiest man, building a vast empire through control of CrystalGold mining. CrystalGold is a rare energy resource that powers weapons and mechs, and circulates as currency across the market.

King Spade’s rise was not driven solely by firearms and cunning schemes, but through his alliance with Dr. Nier, who enhanced King Spade’s subordinates with a virus, granting them superhuman strength. Even King Spade himself benefited from its effects. He can command other infected individuals, turning them into unpaid laborers, massively expanding his mining empire. At Nier’s urging, King Spade has set his sights on us, sending the Commander a deadly invitation.

Yet, we will not stand idle. Under your command, the hero Venom, a former officer from a small town in the Golden Wasteland, will lead our forces westward, determined to expose King Spade’s collusion with Nier, dismantle the CrystalGold Empire, and stop the expansion of the Doom Legion.

Commander, the Golden Wasteland is on the verge of chaos. A fierce battle over CrystalGold is about to erupt, and the fate of the land will be rewritten.

Start of Season 5

Season 5 will start with Pre-Season events, you will see a new icon below Duel VS (or Meteorite Iron War) with a 14 days countdown on your server.

You could also see a download icon that tracks the progress of the season package being installed.

Once you click on the download icon or the Season 5 icon for the first time, the download of the new Season 5 resources starts.

Once the download is completed you will receive an email with 100 diamond as reward.

If you are still in a server without Season 5 and through a link you access a server map that already has Season 5 you can click on any building and the game will ask you to download the resource pack. Accept the download to see the new graphics for the servers with Season 5.

Once the Season starts you will receive this additional email:

Season 5 Video Preview

Season 5 start video day 1 week 1 with all the elements of the new season.

Please open the video on Youtube and access the video description section, I created there links to the chapters of the video so that you can view the video in the most effective and fast way, no need to watch it all unless you want to 🙂 .

Season 5 – Wild West Timeline

Season 5 is accessible clicking on the Season 5 Event icon right below the Duel VS icon (or Meteorite Iron War) .

Pre-Season

Season 5 has a Pre-Season of 2 weeks, similar to Season 4.

Read all the details in the dedicated Season 5 – Pre-Season guide.

Below you will find a simple overview of the events available in the 2 weeks of Pre-Season.

Season 5 main timeline tile

This tile allows you to enter the main Season 5 timeline, but during the Pre-season only a few buttons are available:

During the first pre-season week the following elements of the menu appear:

During the second pre-season week the following elements of the menu are available:

Additionally a Capitol Conquest will take place.

In game manual – Rules

For those who want to see the in game manual here we go, you will find such rules explained in the various section of this guide anyway

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Season 5 Cheat Sheet

There are some similarities between Season 5 and Season 4 and also Season 1, so to make it easier let’s create a comparison for a few topics:

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Official Season 5 Event Calendars

This is the official Season 5 Calendar released by staff:

Click the following link if you want the high quality version of the image: S5 Event Calendar

Official Calendar for conquests

This is an additional calendar released by staff regarding City/Bank Capture timings.

Click the following link if you want the high quality version of the images: Season 5 Calendar part 1 , Season 5 Calendar part 2

New Basic Resources – Coffee , Coffee beans, CrystalGold and Whiskey

Additional resources are available now in the game: Coffee , Coffee beans , CrystalGold and Whiskey

Coffee:Used for constructing and upgrading seasonal buildings.

You can earn Coffee through:– First Time Level Doom Elite Kill Rewards– Using Hero’s Return Recruitment ticket in S5: Legend Returns– Completing Season Quest missions – Completing Season 5 Goals– City first capture reward– Generated by Coffe Factory

Coffee Beans:Used for constructing and upgrading seasonal structuresYou can earn Coffee Beans through:– First Time Level Zombie Kill Rewards (Map zombie found with magnifying glass)– First Time Level Doom Elite Kill Rewards– Using Hero’s Return Recruitment ticket in S5: Legend Returns– Doom Walker First Blood Kill (First DW kill of a day)– Visitors (in front of the wall of your base)– Completing Season Quest missions – Completing Season 5 Goals– Weekly Pass and Season Battle Pass (biggest boost)– City and Bank first capture reward– High Noon mini-game, each stage gives huge reward– Purchase in CrystalGold Shop

CrystalGold:CrystalGold is a rare resource used to purchase items in the CrystalGold ShopYou can earn CrystalGold through:– First Time Level Zombie Kill Rewards (Map zombie found with magnifying glass)– First Time Level Doom Elite Kill Rewards– Generated / hour by Cities controlled by the alliance– Investing in Banks can yield interests– High Noon mini-game: clearing stages rewards, and starting from week 3 also through duel mode– Selling Whiskey in the Wasteland Trade (week 2)

Whiskey:Whiskey is a considered hard currency, sellable for CrystalGold during week 2 event.You can earn Whiskey through:– Visitors (in front of the wall of your base)– Trucks– Plundering the Fortune in the Wasteland Trade (week 2)

The World and the Map

The map of Season 5 is huge, it is approximately equal to the size of 9 S0 (Season 0) maps.

The map is composed by many different types of buildings:

Cities

Banks

Tradeposts

This time you will not find yourself stranded at the edge of the server, but during the Season 5 Pre-season you choose the area of the map in which you want to be ported based on how much priority you were able to gain during the Area Selection event.

The other base concepts of Season beginnings remain: all cities, bank strongholds, trade posts are neutral and events will unlock them in time allowing you to fight for capturing them.

Doom elite monsters are transformed into bears, and most of the zombies need a high virus resistance to be killed. There are 3 types of map zombies, and they will unlock in time.

Zombies unlock following the Purge Action event schedule:

This event is divided in stages:

Click the following link if you want the high quality version of the maps: Overview Map

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Visitors

2 new types of visitors arrive in front of the wall every once in a while (the ones on the left after a few hours, the one on the right once daily), and they gift coffee beans and whiskey resources .

Simple visitor

A simple visitor will provide rewards just click on them.

Visitor with radar task

A visitor with radar task will allow you to enter radar mode and complete a special mission to retrieve rewards, in this case it is just a simple click to complete mission.

Radar Missions

There are no new radar mission specific to Season 5. The only radar new mission if we want to call it that way is the one triggered by the Visitor as shown in the section above, but no new minigame as we were used to in Season 4 and before.

New Buildings

New seasonal buildings are available during Season 5:

IMPORTANT: Seasonal buildings will disappear at the end of Season 5 (day 7 of week 8).

Only purchase items to upgrade them if you fully understand that they are temporary and will only be useful during Season 5.

Caffeine Institute

The Caffeine Institute allows you to enhance your resistance to virus, to defeat zombies and Bank Stronghold protectors.To upgrade it you need Coffee , it can go up to max level 60.

Build Caffeine Institute

We are already used to the fact that new seasonal buildings can be unlocked killing zombies, in this case you have to kill one simple zombie (Map Zombie).

Coffee Menu: Unlock recipes for powerful buffs

The Caffeine Institute can also provide special buffs, clicking on the Coffee symbol you will access the Coffee Menu.

Each recipe provides a very specific buff and can be unlocked by the corresponding recipe item (they can be earned in many ways, especially purchasing them in the CrystalGold Shop).

Black Coffee

Pure coffee with raw aroma and true bitterness. Buff: Increase Virus Resistance by 200

Black Coffee is immediately available, it doesn’t need unlocking.

Espresso Coffee

Bold and aromatic, the true spirit of coffee. Buff: Increase Virus Resistance by 200 and Construction Speed by 5%

Specialty Coffee

Endlessly creative, uniquely flavored.Buff: Increase Virus Resistance by 200 and Training Speed by 2%

Cowboy Coffee

Rugged and straightforward, brimming with wildness.Buff: Increase Virus Resistance by 500

Latte Coffee

Smooth and gentle, a serene blend of milk and coffee.Buff: Increase Virus Resistance by 500 and Research Speed by 5%

Caramel Coffee

Sweet and mellow, a perfect harmony of caramel and coffee.Buff: Increase Virus Resistance by 500 and Skill Damage by 5% (Only on World Map)

Mocha Coffee

Sweet and mellow, a perfect harmony of caramel and coffee.Buff: Increase Virus Resistance by 500 and March Speed by 5%

Cream Coffee

Silky smooth, rich in creamy aroma.Buff: Increase Virus Resistance by 500. Also increase Food, iron and Coin Output by 5%

Truffle Coffee

Rich and luxurious, with a lingering truffle aroma.Buff: Increase Virus Resistance by 500 and Damage Against Monsters by 5%

The Plague Rooster spawns randomly after killing map zombies starting week 2.

As you can see the Truffle Coffee is not a guaranteed reward, it is among the potential rewards.

Levels and VR Resistance

IMPORTANT: Virus Resistance: Servers 3-68 and Servers 69+ differ in Virus Resistance starting from level 37Coffee Requirement: Servers 3-68 and Servers 69+ differ in Coffee Requirement starting from level 36

The info about levels, resource costs and time can also be found in the following Google Docs Spreadsheet: Link to document

Find out more tools for Season 5 in the Community page
Coffee Factories

Coffee Factories produce Coffee , they are similar to Quartz Workshops in Season 4. They can go up to max level 30.

Multiple Coffee Factories are available. To unlock them level up the previous Coffee Factory (they are named Coffee Factory I / II / III / IV / Weekly Pass). Once a factory reaches level 15 it unlocks the next factory to be built.

To level up Coffee Factories you need Coffee Beans , so refer to the article about the new resources in season 5 to know how to retrieve them.

Optimal upgrade strategy

One important thing to note about Coffee Factories is that all level ups will increment the production by 720/h regardless of the level, while the coffee bean cost to level up a factory increases with the level.

So to maximize coffee production follow this strategy:

If you buy the weekly pass you have an extra coffee factory since the beginning. The extra coffee factory differs from the others because once it reaches level 11 it requires you to have coffee factory I at level 15, so you need to take that into account for upgrade.Given the special requirement of the extra coffee factory this is the best strategy:

The info about levels, resource costs and time can also be found in the following Google Docs Spreadsheet: Link to document

Find out more tools for Season 5 in the Community page
Protector’s Field

We already know all about Protector’s Field, but let’s dive into the details of their power.

IMPORTANT: At the beginning of the Season bring the Protector’s Field only up to level 10 and not further, because starting from level 11 it requires Coffee Beans that are important for other seasonal buildings. Furthermore level 10 will already give you access to the full Desert Protectors’ features, so it not essential to level it up further in the first days.

Desert Protectors Skills

Protectors, blessed by the desert, have superior combat power. They’re stronger than units of the same level.

Each hero can carry Protectors equal to 1/10 of the number of units (Even with this limit, Protectors are stronger than soldiers at the same level).

Unlike regular units, Protectors who participate in battle will not return, they return to the desert, so use them wisely. If they are deployed but don’t engage in combat, all Protectors will return.

Based on how many Desert Protectors are stationed in your Protector’s field progressive skills unlock.

Power of Adaptation (unlocks at 500 or more Protectors stationed in Protector’s Field)

Protectors have additional resistance to curses (+250). This makes them perfect to attack enemies for which your current resistance to curse is not enough.

Troops carrying Protectors automatically receive activated buffs: Protectors gain additional curse resistance

Giant Protector (unlocks at 750 or more Protectors stationed in Protector’s Field)

Provides the Protector Attack Boost 25%

Blue Flame Spell (unlocks at 1000 or more Protectors stationed in Protector’s Field)

If a squad carrying Protectors wins an attack on another commander’s base, it inflicts the Blue Flame Spell, engulfing the enemy base in inextinguishable blue flames for 1 hour.

Unlock additional powerful curse effects by mastering specialization skills!

Protector Rally (unlocks at 1250 or more Protectors stationed in Protector’s Field)

Enables Protector Rally!

Rally Restriction: Allies joining the rally must deploy squads carrying Protectors.

Rally Countdown: Protector Rallies have a 1-minute preparation time.

Leader Buff: All squads in the rally benefit from the leader’s active Protector enhancements.

Rapid March: Gain an additional 3x march speed boost when joining or deploying a Protector Rally.

Desert Protectors Conversion

In simple terms this is how you create Desert Protectors:

If your base get’s breached the Desert Protectors in the Protectors’s Field will not be affected

Desert Protectors attributes

Here a comparison between the normal soldiers and the corresponding Desert Protector version for some versions.

Level 10

Level 9

Level 7

The buffs you currently have enabled thanks to the amount of Protectors stationed in the Protector’s field can be seen in your buffs overview (the list of icons next to your avatar, and below your main resource count)

Levels and attributes

The info about levels, resource costs and time can also be found in the following Google Docs Spreadsheet: Link to document

Find out more tools for Season 5 in the Community page
Tanker Bar / Pilot Bar / Missileer Bar

These new season buildings are used to boost damage caused by their corresponding hero types:

All 3 buildings behave in the same way: same levels, same resources needed to upgrade them and they need you to reach level 60 Caffeine Institute to be unlocked.

Also these buildings need to be unlocked killing zombies

Levels and attributes

The info about levels, resource costs and time can also be found in the following Google Docs Spreadsheet: Link to document

Find out more tools for Season 5 in the Community page
Alliance Resource Tiles/Farms

As we know from Season 4:

Alliance Resource Tile that may drop after defeating Doom Elites will no longer include Season-Resource-Type Resource Tiles.(We apologize that this change limits the opportunity for alliance members to collaborate through Alliance Resource Tiles. However, it also eliminates the imbalance in season resource production caused by differences in alliance size and activity levels.)

Many of us were using these Alliance Resource Farms in previous Seasons to allow to an elected Virus/Curse Resistance Leader to progress very fast to be able to kill sooner Doom Elites and Digging Strongholds Guardians.

Cities

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Bank Strongholds

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Trade Posts

In Season 5 Trade Posts are again available and they follow the same logic as previous seasons.Level 1-4 Trade Posts will open every 2 weeks: week 3, week 5, week 7.

Below you can find all levels and the corresponding items available for purchase:

Heroes and Weapons

Season 5 brings news regarding heroes and weapons, their availability differs in time.

Venom Upgrade to UR

It will be possible to upgrade Venom to . The event will happen day 1 of week 3, read more about it here[link soon available].

Mason, Violet, Scarlett and Sarah upgrade to UR

If you have an UR upgrade item available it will be possible to upgrade Mason, Violet, Scarlett and/or Sarah to even during Season 5.To do so go on Mason, Violet, Scarlett and Sarah and use the “Promote” button. Make sure you execute the upgrade before week 8 starts, because afterwards you need to wait for the Season 6 window.

S5: Legend Returns

S5 Legend Returns starts day 1 of Season 5. Use Hero return Tickets right away to get some additional Coffee and Coffee Beans.

Recruit Heroes
S5: Weapons of Legends

S5 Weapons of Legends will start day 4 of week 1. The reset countdown is of 2 days and 1 hours for a free recruitment (it might be possible to lower it with survivors).

Exclusive Weapons

Season 5 will bring the following new Exclusive Weapons: Fiona, Stetmann, Morrison

Fiona’s Exclusive Weapon

Fiona’s Exclusive Weapon Battle Pass and Shard Roulette will be available day 4 of week 1 and it will be available for 1 week.

Check more details about this event in this guide of Week 1

You can see all the details of Fiona’s Exclusive Weapon in this video.

Stetmann’s Exclusive Weapon

Stetmann’s Exclusive Weapon Battle Pass and Shard Roulette will be available day 4 of week 3 and it will be available for 1 week.

Check more details about this event in this guide of Week 3

You can see all the details of Stetmann’s Exclusive Weapon in this video

Morrison’s Exclusive Weapon

Morrison’s Exclusive Weapon Battle Pass and Shard Roulette will be available day 4 of week 6 and it will be available for 1 week.

Check more details about this event in this guide of Week 6

You can see all the details of Morrison’s Exclusive Weapon in this video

Professions

In Season 5, the Level Cap for professions is at Lv.100.The Diplomat profession is not available in Season 5 .

To find out about Professions and Skills of Season 5 please go to the dedicated Season 5 Professions guide.

Tactic Cards for Season 5

To find out about Professions and Skills of Season 4 please go to the dedicated Season 5 Tactics Cards guide.

Season 5 Goals

As usual we will have Season Goals and they are:

Individual goals can be met earning CrystalGold (check here to know how to earn them).

Some rewards are great, of which the best ones are:

The Alliance goal rewards can be earned when the Alliance captures Bank Strongholds.

CrystalGold Shop

CrystalGold Shop is a nice shop that has all sorts of items. It is similar to Magatama Shop of Season 4.

You will need to build the Shop on the usual Season dedicated section right outside your walls.

This time the item availability and refresh are completely different.

Every week, for almost each availability block , there are new items, check below the timeline of unlocks.

Unlock Timeline
Week 1

One time availability throughout the whole Season (no refresh):

Daily Refresh of the following items:

Week 2

One time availability throughout the whole Season (no refresh), new items added:

Some details about the items:

Check out the Caffeine Institute section to know what those recepies are used for.

Daily Refresh of the following items (same as week 1)

Weekly refresh (new category unlock):

Week 3

One time availability throughout the whole Season (no refresh), new items added:

Some details about the items:

Check out the Caffeine Institute section to know what those recepies are used for.

Daily Refresh of the following items

Weekly refresh (new item):

Some details about the items:

Week 4

One time availability throughout the whole Season (no refresh), new items added:

Added:

Some details about the items:

Check out the Caffeine Institute section to know what those recepies are used for.

Daily Refresh of the following items

Weekly refresh (same items as week 3):

Some details about the items:

Week 5

Added to Season availability:

Week 6

One time availability throughout the whole Season (no refresh), new items added:

Some details about the items:

Check out the Caffeine Institute section to know what those recepies are used for.

Added:

Daily Refresh of the following items

Weekly refresh (same items as week 3):

Some details about the items:

Week 7

Season Availability adds only these new items:

Week 8

Season Availability adds only these new items:

Season 5 Boost

When the Season starts the boosts regarding the heroes will be hidden and they will be shown again when the corresponding hero event happens, enabling the actual corresponding boost. Below the whole info about Season Boost as visible during Pre-Season.

Season 5 Quests

The Quests section (icon above Heroes button) gets enhanced with newly added season main and secondary Tasks.

This addition is quite important because the main rewards are coffee and coffee beans.

The logic is the same as the daily quest missions you are used to since the beginning of the game.

Below an example of current tasks:

Season 5 Alliance Milestones

Season 5 re-introduces milestones, as the ones we saw at each Season.

You can access the Milestones and claim rewards going to “Alliance” button -> Season Milestones.

Here we can find some hints of what is going to happen in the Season.

Season 5 Rewards

Season 5 comes with very interesting Rewards.

This time there are no faction rewards, you will have the usual Alliance rewards there are the new Challenge rewards (also these are alliance rewards).

Checkout out the video to see all the details.

For reference find below the top tier of Alliance and Challenge rewards:

Season 5 Contributions

There are some metrics to rank who did the most contributions during the season. You can access it from Season 5 menu -> Season Contributions.

These ranks don’t give you rewards, but your R4/5 could decided based on these metrics to reward you with loot rewards. Loot rewards are earned by the alliance capturing territories and can be distributed by R4/5 as they want.

CrystalGold:

Capture:

Kills:

Season Passes

During Season 5 you have access to multiple passes that will help you throughout the season and to power up your heroes.They are similar to Season 1/2/3/4 passes.

Season Battle Pass

The Season Battle Pass lasts 48 days and it gives you lots of goods that you absolutely need in this new Season 5 to start with an advantage.

The Season Battle Pass is structured in 3 sections:

One of the most important item is stone coffee beans .

IMPORTANT PURCHASE LOGIC:

To see all the details check out this video in which you can see:

You will be able to purchase this pass during the whole season (48 days). It is not available week 8.

Once purchased it will last for 7 days. During these 7 days you will have access to the exclusive additional Coffee Factory.

Items:

Regardless you will be able to collect some daily rewards

Coffee Beans Packs

In the first week of Season 5 it is possible to purchase Coffee Beans Packs.

Even if it says the availability is 1, actually you can purchase multiple packs, but each pack progressively doubles in cost and in coffee beans amount (~ 5/10/20/50 $)

Season 5 Trucks

The trucks in Season 5 change a bit: you will see different skins of trucks but also you will see Whiskey barrels as new rewards.

Season 5 Rampage boss
Season 5 Stores

Let’s explore the changes in the stores, there are some additions in some of them

Honor Store

Armament Cores were added right before Season 5, this might be applied to newer servers earlier.

Campaign Store

A new item introduced in Campaign during Season 5 starting from early servers is the Battle Data 100K for 2000 Campaign medals.

Season Store

The Season 5 store is the same as Season 4 store with the addition of Tenryu Palace. The Store items will reset their availability the moment Season 5 starts on your server.

More details about the available base skins:

Tenryu Palace Skin

Cosmetics Store

Season 5 features Turkey Parade Float as base skin with seasonal boosts (check out here the details), it can be purchased in the Cosmetics store (~400$).