Controls in Zavix Tower may be re-bound by entering the tower and accessing the 'esc' menu.

Currently, there are three in-game currencies: gold, power shards, and signets. These can be used to purchase a wide range of items, upgrades, or even skill point resets (specifics on this below).


Gold is the main currency in Zavix Tower. It can be obtained by selling items and fighting enemies. For uses, please see the "Uses for Currencies" table.
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Power shards were the premium currency for Zavix Tower. They can be obtained through doing daily quests, and purchasing them via the shard store/daily deals.

This currency has been phased out as the game has gone into a paid model. When asked about the fate of currently owned power shards (during the phasing out of the currency), a developer gave this response:

Originally posted by Batholith Entertainment:

We may be performing a reset, we may convert them to Signets, and we may be doing neither because we don't want people to feel like they should buy shards to get more signets...

The phasing out of power shards involved a full game wipe for every player, to level the playing field on the high scores for new players who purchased the game.
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Signets are an obtainable form of in-game currency, which replaced Power Shards. They may be obtained from battles at random, and will often not appear until floor 4 or higher.


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*Please note, enchanting requires both signets and gold

Power Shards may also be used to re-roll the selection of heroes at the tavern, although this functionality may be changed in the next few updates. This has been changed, now you may use signets to re-roll the selection of heroes at the tavern. Additionally, there are no longer any means to spend or obtain power shards.

Leveling in Zavix tower works exactly as you might expect; heroes will level up when they gain enough experience through combat. That said, there are some special nuances in the leveling system.

Each time a hero gains a level, you gain 3 more attribute points to allocate, as well as 1 skill point. Additionally, dependent on hero race and class, some attribute points are automatically assigned.

On leveling, each race recieves an automatically assigned boost to two attributes. The attributes that are automatically boosted are dependent on the hero's race.


On leveling, each class cycles through three different boosts of two attributes. These are class dependent, and generally give an idea of the primary stats associated with their respective classes.

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Each of the 6 attributes in Zavix tower influences heroes in several ways, some of which overlap when certain skill bonuses are active. The 6 skills are:

Influences: Physical damage, Armor.


Influences: Health, Physical Resistance


Influences: Speed, Dodge Chance, Armor


Influences: Speed, Chance to Hit, Chance to Crit


Influences: Mana, Spell Power, Spell Hit, and Spell Crit


Influences: HP regen, Mana regen, Magic Resistance

• Physical Resistance
  
• Magic Resistance
  
• Fire Resistance
  
• Ice Resistance
  
• Holy Resistance
  
• Arcane Resistance
  
• Shadow Resistance

Influenced by stats and equipment, this stat reduces damage (though in exactly what way I still haven't figured out). Physical resistance is different from armor due to physical resistance's ability to help reduce physical effects (such as garrote).

There are 6 classes in Zavix Tower: Warrior, Rogue, Mage, Priest, Paladin, and Shaman. Each of these classes rely on different attributes in unique ways and have unique strategies.

At the start of the game, the paladin and shaman are not available for use. To unlock them, you must first beat floor 5 (for the paladin), and floor 10 (for the shaman). After defeating these floors, you will be able to obtain these classes via the tavern.

This section will be in a different guide, which will be linked here soon.

On first creating your world, you'll be brought to the town screen. Each of the 8 buildings in the town serves its own purpose.

The Town map
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When heroes die in Zavix Tower, the church is able to revive them, but at two costs: you will have to pay for them to be revived, and they will lose all of their gear on being revived. When the church is upgraded, heroes can keep some items when revived.
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The Cart's sole purpose is to serve as a shop to upgrade the player's inventory size, as well as the buildings in the town. All upgrades to the town are permanent, and have varying effects. Formerly you were able to use power shards here to upgrade facilities (hence the power shard symbols on the cart).
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The Tavern is where players can go to recruit/buy new heroes for their party. Heroes are randomly generated here and do not necessarily start at level 1. Keep in mind before purchasing here, you can also find heroes as random floor bonuses in Zavix Tower.
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Zavix Tower is where all the action happens. All the loot, experience, gold, and lore comes from this building. Clicking on it will bring you to the preparation screen, where you will begin your adventure.
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The Inn serves the dual purposes of acting as a bank and as a means to allow interaction with heroes while in the town. Any items stored in the bank will not be accessible while in Zavix Tower; however, they will not be lost if you die.
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The Academy is where players can purchase skills for their heroes. These skills can be equipped to the hotbar while fighting in Zavix Tower by pressing 'i'. Not all skills are available here however; some skills are earned through talent points.
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The Blacksmith serves as the only item shop in the game. Items in stock are randomly generated each time you exit the tower, so if you have some extra gold and a need for improved equipment, check the Blacksmith frequently. When upgraded at the Cart, the Blacksmith's stock expands (without upgrades, only 4 items are randomly generated)
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The Enchanter is a location that is still being developed. Currently, you can use signets and gold here to upgrade your equipment. There are no upgrades for this building at this time.

This segment is currently missing some content (lever doors). Thank you for your patience while I'm updating it.

Currently, the only objective(s) are to level up characters, get better gear for characters, and get to the highest floor possible in the Zavix Tower. The exit for a floor is shown graphically as stairs leading upwards (once you walk into it, you leave the area and gain loot as a reward for completion).

As stated by the devs:

Originally posted by Batholith Entertainment:

You leave the tower only at stair points, at which you can choose to go to the next floor, or you can exit (you can enter at floors 1,6,11,16, etc as you have gotten to them).

Meaning you can't leave until you've completed a floor, and you can only re-enter at a higher floor at every 5th floor (starting at floor 6) once you've reached it. The entry floor is selected when you set your formation (in the top right corner).



Doors have several symbols and slots for symbols, which indicate the enchantments on a room. IE: a flexing arm muscle indicates physical damage. If it's outlined in red, physical damage is reduced. If it's outlined in green, physical damage is increased. This goes similarly for all of the various enchantments.



Some doors are locked doors, which require you to find a key to open them. Keys can be found by killing enemies, however, you are not guaranteed to find a key on that floor. To unlock doors, open your bags (by pressing 'b'), then drag the key to the door, and drop it.



Anything that regularly appears in the tower may be found behind a locked door. That said, there is a chance to find a jeweled chest, which is unique to locked rooms. More on the jeweled chests below.

Another type of door is the boss room door. These only occur on every fifth level, starting on floor 5. A boss will always be found behind this door (though, which one will vary per floor), along with the floor's exit.


A tough battle awaits!

Rarely, you'll come across a chest or jeweled chest in Zavix Tower. These chests contain loot, and have different chances of spawning better loot than simple monster encounters or floor loot. To open a chest, left click while looking at it and next to it.


A regular chest can contain up to 4 pieces of juicy loot!


A jeweled chest can contain up to 5 pieces of even juicier loot!


Occasionally you'll come across a lecturn of sorts with a book on it. If you left click while looking at it, you'll gain a new bit of lore.


One of the lecturns which provides you with lore

If you come across a bowl containing a liquid, use it strategically. These bowls, or shrines as they're called, will regenerate your heroes' mana (blue liquid), health (red liquid), or both (purple liquid). Sometimes it's better to leave it and come back for the regeneration effect after you've discovered the stairs, as the bowl will be fully depleted after one use.


A bowl full of healing liquid. Use it by left clicking while looking at it.

Traps are uncommon in Zavix Tower, but still unpleasant. Traps (which share the same color coding as shrines) will knock off some of your heroes' health, mana, or both. Currently, there is no way to avoid triggering a trap, or determining where they are located before opening a door.


It's a (health) trap!

All equipment in Zavix Tower has an item rarity. In order from most common to rarest:


The different methods of obtaining equipment have varied droprates. This makes some methods better for finding improved equipment.


Equipment in Zavix Tower displays an item level, which most times is the same level required to equip it. However, various rarities reduce the level required to equip the respective items:

A good part of Zavix Tower revolves around inventory management and equipment management. As you'll be gaining loot at nearly every room, it's fairly easy to flood your inventory with loot until you don't have any space left. Here are a few techniques you can use to make this process easier and with much less pain.



When you've first started a new world, your first priority is to get at least something in your heroes' equipment slots. This means initially, you'll want to pick up everything (even common items) until every character is at least equipping something. However, after you've gotten past the initial equipment, common items are less than impressive and will flood your inventory. As a rule of thumb (with the exception of keys), you will want to drop/ignore all common items, unless you're absolutely desperate for equipment. This will save you massive amounts of time and will prevent you from micromanaging your equipment.

Even without having to deal with common items, you still might find yourself flooded with items. A simple fix for this is only collecting items you'll use, and only items worth more than a certain amount of gold. Initially, unless you're using it, try to avoid picking up items worth less than 5 gold. When you find that common items reach that price, raise your limit up by 5 gold (so you're only picking up items worth 10 gold or more). Repeat this process, and you've successfully eliminated half of the micromanagement of items.



To make keeping your heroes equipped, there are two major things you can do. The first (and more important) is to only deal with equipping heroes when either your inventory is full, or you've started the next floor. There's a fair chance it won't make much of a difference at all, unless there's a boss on your current floor.

Secondly, you'll want to look at one type of item at a time (such as boots, chestplates/robes, or gloves). Hover over each peice of equipment and compare all of them to one heroes' equipment at a time. Make sure you save equipment with added stat boosts for appropriate characters if needed. At the end of it, you can use the same method mentioned under "Selling Items" to eliminate useless equipment.

In Zavix Tower, bosses appear on every 5th floor, and must be defeated in order to progress to further levels. Before each boss floor, the stairs will have a skull on both sides of the stairs to indicate the upcoming boss.









These skulls indicate an upcoming boss on the next floor.


Boss Information

A well equipped level 6-7 party of 5 or 6 heroes can easily knock him down. Focus on the priests on the sides first (one at a time), then the imps in the back, then Redrum.

If you can't kill the priests fast enough, consider training up a bit more, or getting better gear to help out.







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Boss Information

A well equipped level 13-14 party of 6 heroes can easily annihilate Klopo, as long as the correct approach is taken. Klopo is a slime which splits into two new slimes (three different times) when one part dies. This means you aren't just fighting one boss, you're effectively fighting 15 of them.

That said, Klopo seems to be a relatively easy boss with the correct strategy. Since all of the slimes seem to have identical attack power, you want to keep the amount of slimes on the field to a minimum; target one slime/one slime's split-offs at a time to achieve this.

As with Redrum, if Klopo proves to be too difficult, try to either level up more, or go back for better equipment.
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More coming soon!

A: If you press 'i' or click the associated button towards the bottom of your screen while in combat, it will open a menu with all the skills that character can use. Click and drag skills to the hotbar for easy use!

A: To quickly sell items, go to the blacksmith, then right click the items you intend to sell.

A: When a character's portrait turns orange (or another color), this indicates that they are charging up an attack which takes multiple turns.

A: To obtain the paladin, you must first beat floor 5. To obtain the shaman, you must beat floor 10.

Have a question? Feel free to ask it in the comments below!

If you see anything incorrect, missing, outdated, confusing, or just have questions or feedback please comment below! I'm only human, I make mistakes too!

I'm posting this here as I'm editing the guide so that people can see what's on the list, and hopefully point out things that aren't on the list, or suggest changes.

• Add prices and effects of items from the cart in town
  
• Add new bosses
  
• Add complete beastiary (may be seperate guide)
  
• Add Lever doors
  
• Add Enchantment related stuff
  
• Add info on new classes

If you see anything missing from this list, please bring it to my attention/suggest it in the comments section!

Special thanks to:

• Batholith Entertainment, for producing the game and providing many of the specific details here.
  
• Double Deuce, for the Redrum strats
  
• Microsoft Word (player), for information on Klopo and reviewing for errors.
  
• Astrea_Anerada, for pointing out errors and missing features related to combat.
  
• LSK, for pointing out missing content, and for providing ideas for new content.

If you (or anyone else) wants to use content from this guide to establish a wiki for this game, be my guest! No credit/citation/permission is necessary!