Cartridges

**Cartridges** are found in the game world at the end of certain levels, and they are how the player gains both power (in the form of passive buffs and stat increases) and skills (such as dashing), with each cartridge using its own currency. This currency can be gained by playing the optional mini games on the cartridge (in most cases this only helps to mitigate the cost needed to start the mini game) and by playing different modes of the main game.

Every minigame can be disabled individually in the Options menu. When minigames are disabled, currency is spent directly to buy the upgrade.

## Skill Tree

> *Main article: Skill Tree*

This cartridge is first one found and requires gold to progress, and the mini game for this cartridge is a platformer style game inspired by Super Mario Bros.. In this skill tree you find upgrades for health and ammo capacity, higher resistance to elemental damage, being able to keep higher level weapons, as well as skills such as the dash or double jump.

## Topaz Tree

> *Main article: Topaz Tree*

This is the second skill tree found in the game and it requires topaz.   **100** is rewarded to player for completing a normal level, and can be gained by battling or selling creatures in the topaz game. The cartridge sees the player capturing different creatures as well as battling random creatures for topaz, or NPCs to unlock new zones or passive buffs. Scattered throughout the map are different chests, each chest has a pill in it.

### Objects in Mini Game

Throughout this mini game there are several items:

* **Food** restores creatures HP
* **Blue computers** buy player's creatures for   **1** each
* **Yellow** and **green computers** convert   **10,000,000** and   **100,000** into   **100**
* **Chests** can be looted for pills
* **Crystals** upgrade player's creatures for   **100** per level

### Pills

Pills can be equipped to give the player a large buff such as X% damage reduction or X% more gold. The maximum number of pills that can be equipped at any one time is 5. Pill slots are unlocked by NPCs in Topaz Tree world that give +1 pill. Along with buffs, the pills also give add up to a toxicity score which can be seen nearby as a green skull. The higher this score is, the more intense are the random side-effect debuffs the player will receive. These range from X% more damage taken to X% more negative random events.

Pills can not be changed mid level, so make sure to have the right ones on before you start any level.

## Jade Tree

> *Main article: Jade Tree*

This cartridge is the third one found and uses jade for currency. Jade is awarded to the player each time the player beats a round of the arena mode. It can also be found inside the Jade Tree world in pirate raids and mining fields. The gameplay for the mini game is a on rails space shooter where a random set of enemies will come to the player and if these ships are destroyed with the player's weapon [space bar by default] they will drop jade that will move towards the player. After the mini game is played the player will unlock that node which could be

* A gate- used to travel to new zones
* Bonus level- another level plays so the player could get more jade (will always be a mining field)
* Mining field- like a normal level but with lots of rocks instead of pirate ships
* Wreck- gives the player a large amount of jade
* Space station- where the player buys pets,skills (for both player and pets), and passives (for both player and pets), as well as upgrades for their ship

### Arena

This is a fighting arena where the player will go against a number of waves of enemies in set locations, the first one unlocked is the sewers. While the rooms are not randomly generated the enemies fought are. Every 5 rounds in the arena will be an elite enemy round, and every 10 will be a boss wave, Your wave progress is saved after these boss fights so dying on wave 14 will bring you to wave 11 when you next enter this zone again.

#### How to get to the arena

Once you progress enough in the story you will be able to go out of your room and go through the gate to the left of your door, From here make a right and then a left and a door will be in front of you. In this room is a bed and sleeping in it brings the player to a 4 level select zone, to exit this zone you can go down the stair case in the center room and exit through the portal.

### Pets

Pets can be bought in space stations and so can their skills, each pet can have up to two skill equipped at one time but each pet has multiple skills. The current pets are

* Aggressor-will deal elemental damage if skill is equipped
* Protector-heals the player or can reflect damage and charm enemies
* Finder- will find treasures and secrets on the map
* Soul- can make corpses explode, give power ups, and weaken enemies

Pets can not be changed mid level, so make sure to have the right ones on before you start any level.