Extraction & the Relic Codex

Every world's Song was silenced by the Dissonance. Extraction is how you dig it back up: send Avatars to work a Journey node you have already cleared, wait out the dig, and claim a relic — a Resonant Echo of that world's lost Voice. Each world has a finite Codex of them (Cinderfall's has 12). Fill it and the world remembers.

One thing to collect (relics), one number to watch (Codex N/12), one choice to make (which cleared node to dig).

Where it lives

Everything is on the Journey map of the world:

• The header shows 📖 Codex N/12 for the world you are looking at. Tap it to see every relic in the Codex as its real art — the ones you hold are lit, the rest are dimmed with their number and rarity.
• Every cleared node carries a dig chip beside its status:
  • ⛏ Dig — nothing committed here yet.
  • ⛏ 43% — a dig is under way.
  • ✨ Claim relic — a dig finished; tap to claim.
  • 🔒 Dig — you don't hold this world's Cultivator's Codex yet (see below).

Nodes you have not cleared show no chip. Extraction is only ever on ground you have won.

Sonentius — the Beyond's dig (no Codex needed)

During The Beyond (Stage 2, Hull) every Sonentius node you have cleared can be dug by everyone — there is no Codex to buy. Tap ⛏ Dig and go. The first time you see a diggable Sonentius node, Sonentius, Aspect of the Planet walks you through it herself.

Every Sonentius dig brings up Lattice Resonite — always, one per dig — and the node's own ground:

Node type	Materials (one roll per dig)	RSNC
Standard	Sonentite Ore · Slag · Xeno-Protein · Voidsteel Ore · Living Resin	40–90
Swarm	Xeno-Protein-heavy: Xeno-Protein · Sonentite Ore · Slag · Living Resin · Voidsteel Ore	40–90
Elite	Sonentite Ore · Voidsteel Ore · Living Resin · Cultivated Aetherspore · Aetheric Crystal	90–160
Boss (all of Chapter 4)	Voidsteel Ore · Cultivated Aetherspore · Living Resin · Aetheric Crystal	160–300

The dig panel shows this table for the node you are on — real art, quantities and odds — so you always know what the ground holds before you commit. Lattice Resonite is its own Vestige: there are no duplicates and nothing melts; a dig is simply more Resonite.

Where to use it: take Resonite to Kitchen › Seasonal and cook Resonite Plating (1 Lattice Resonite + 4 Sonentite Ore → 40 fragments). That is what raises the Hull. The claim ceremony links you straight there.

Dig Power — why your strongest Avatars should dig

Dig Power is the Avatar's stats (its HP + ATK + DEF + Speed budget — the thing you raise with Essence tiers). Gear does not dig; stats do. Power is only ever a bonus, never a penalty:

Band	Dig Power	Loot
Faint	0+	×1
Steady	140+	×1.25
Strong	420+	×1.75
Mighty	1,120+	×3 and rare rows twice as likely

• A Mighty digger brings up three times the material and RSNC of a fresh one, and finds the rare and mythical rows (Voidsteel, Aetherspore, Aetheric Crystal) twice as often.
• An Avatar whose element matches the ground digs ×1.5 — on Sonentius and Cinderfall that is a Volcanic Avatar. The panel names the element for each world.
• Each committed Avatar shows its band and loot multiplier on its tile ("Mighty · ×3 loot · Volcanic ×1.5"), and the loot table scales to your best digger.

How many digs can I run?

• Up to 3 Avatars per node.
• Every cleared node can host its own dig at the same time — there is no cap on nodes, only on Avatars: an Avatar digs one site at a time.
• A dig takes 4 hours. Release an Avatar with ✕ at any time; nothing is lost.

The key: the Cultivator's Codex

Each world's Extraction opens with one Research unlock, "Cultivator's Codex — <World>", bought for 2 Scrolls in the Research Center. You can buy it straight from the map: tap any 🔒 Dig chip or the 🔒 Codex pill and the unlock card appears in place, showing the price against your Scroll balance.

The Research Center only lists a world's Codex once that world is open and Extraction is live for you — you will never be offered a Codex you cannot use yet.

How a dig works

1. Tap ⛏ Dig on a cleared node. Up to 3 Avatars can work one node at a time. The panel opens with the node's loot table, the dig length and the Dig Power ladder.
2. Pick an Avatar from the same tiles you use for Choralis Farms — send your strongest (see Dig Power above). An Avatar whose element matches the world digs ×1.5. An Avatar that is busy elsewhere (a run, a quest, a producer, a farm) is shown greyed with the reason — free it there first.
3. A committed Avatar is locked across the game until you claim or release the dig (the same rule as every other commitment). Release with ✕ at any time; nothing is lost.
4. When the bar fills, tap Claim. The ceremony reveals each Avatar's whole haul — the relic, the node's material and the RSNC, with the digger's Dig Power — and frees the Avatar. Send it back to dig again.

Relics, duplicates and Vestiges

• Relics come in standard, rare and mythic tiers. Each node favours certain relics — a named node (Karsh, Veyla, the Stilled Forge-Hall…) leans hard toward its own memory, and deeper chapters lean toward the rares and the two mythics.
• The rarity of the relic you surface writes the node's Extract star (★ / ★★ / ★★★), the third track beside Fight and Cook.
• A relic you already hold melts into a Vestige — the world's fungible dig material. There is nothing to manage and no duplicate to be annoyed by: Vestiges spend at the world's Artifact shop.

Rune Descent (optional)

When you commit an Avatar you may burn Runes to dig deeper: the dig takes longer, and the odds of a rare or mythic relic rise. Depth never adds a fourth tier and never fails a dig — it only shifts the odds.