How to Play PyroChibis

PyroChibis are elemental fire spirit NFT heroes. Each hero has 9 randomized traits that determine their rarity tier and visual appearance. Your goal is to build a powerful collection, raid dungeons for shards, craft items to summon even stronger heroes, and fuse compatible heroes together to forge a more powerful child.

The game runs on FOGO chain, a Solana-compatible blockchain. In-game currency is FOGO. Future versions will support additional blockchain tokens.

The PyroChibis economy revolves around three layers:

• ▸FOGO — primary currency. Used to buy items in the Store.
• ▸Ember Seals 🔴 — required to summon. Buy from Store or craft from Ember Shards.
• ▸Forge Seals ⚒️ — required to fuse two heroes. Buy from Store or craft from Ember Shards + Flame Essence.
• ▸Shards — looted from dungeons. Craft into Seals, Pacts, and Blessings — or redeem directly for FOGO.

Summoning costs 1 Ember Seal per ritual. You can optionally equip an Ancestral Pact and/or Sanctum Blessing to influence the outcome — both are consumed on summon. After the ritual animation completes, a summoning cinematic plays before your hero is revealed.

Ancestral Pacts

Pacts bind a specific race bloodline to your hero. The chosen race's favored traits have a 75% guaranteed chance in key trait slots.

Sanctum Blessings

Blessings shift the per-trait rarity roll distribution, making higher-quality traits more likely.

Every hero has 9 traits: Base Flame, Expression, Hat, Armor, Weapon, Wings, Aura, Pet, and Background. Each trait is independently rolled to a rarity tier.

Each trait contributes points to the hero's total score based on its rarity (Common = 2 pts, Rare = 5, Epic = 8, Legendary = 15). A hero's Final Tier is determined by their total score across all 9 traits.

Legendary Star Rating ⭐

Legendary heroes display a star rating that reflects quality within the tier. Stars are cosmetic only — they do not change raid mechanics — but a higher-star Legendary hero has a meaningfully higher score and therefore more raw raid power.

Every PyroChibi belongs to one of 6 races, determined by the dominant bloodline traits rolled during summoning. Races affect dungeon power through race affinity bonuses — heroes fighting in a dungeon that favors their race deal significantly more power.

• ▸⚔️ Warrior — battle-forged bruisers. Shine in Ember Caves and Cyber Nexus.
• ▸😈 Demon — shadow-touched powerhouses. Best in Abyssal Rift.
• ▸👑 King — regal and commanding. Dominate Frostfire Wastes and Royal Sanctum.
• ▸🤖 Cyber — technological constructs. Favored in Cyber Nexus.
• ▸❄️ Frostfire — paradox elementals of ice and flame. Thrive in Frostfire Wastes.
• ▸🧚 Fairy — ethereal and elusive. Provide synergy bonuses in Abyssal Rift and Royal Sanctum.

A hero's race is detected from the proportion of racial traits across their 9 trait slots. Heroes with a strong majority of one race's traits are classified as Pure, while mixed heroes become Hybrids — contributing partial bonuses from both bloodlines.

Race also matters for Hero Fusion — only heroes whose combined bloodlines span at most 2 races can be fused together.

The Ember Sanctum Store has four product tabs:

• ▸🔴 Ember Seal — buy summoning tokens (100 FOGO each). Buy up to 10 at once.
• ▸✨ Blessing — buy tier-boosting blessing orbs (100–500 FOGO each). Buy up to 10 at once.
• ▸🧬 Race Pact — buy bloodline pacts (50 FOGO each). Each card shows a race preview video. Buy up to 10 at once.
• ▸⚒️ Forge Seal — buy hero fusion tokens (75 FOGO each). Required to fuse two heroes in the Hero Forge.

Crafting items from shards and viewing your item transaction history are found in Collection → Inventory.

Send a team of heroes into a dungeon to loot shards. Raids are timed — your heroes are deployed and you return to claim the loot when the timer expires.

Team Requirements

Easy Dungeons

Hard Dungeons

Legendary Dungeons

How Race Affinity Works

Each hero earns an individual power bonus based on how many of their 9 trait slots carry the dungeon's favored bloodline. A hero needs at least 3 traits of a favored race before any bonus kicks in. Beyond that, the bonus scales proportionally:

Hybrids benefit from both of their bloodlines simultaneously — every qualifying race contributes its own share to the bonus.

Example — Abyssal Rift (Demon +50%, Fairy +20%)

A pure Demon hero in the Abyssal Rift hits +50% power per hero, meaning 5 pure Demons would have roughly 1.5× the base team power compared to an off-race team — before synergy bonuses are even applied.

Race Synergy (Team-wide Bonus)

In addition to per-hero affinity, the whole team gets a flat multiplier when multiple heroes share the dungeon's primary favored race:

Raid Outcomes & Loot

Every dungeon has a unique loot table. Ember Shards drop from every raid (amount depends on outcome). Bloodline and Essence Shards each have an independent chance to drop per raid.

Easy Dungeons

Hard Dungeons

Legendary Dungeons

* On a Conquest outcome there is a 50% chance to receive a second bloodline shard from the drop. Narrower outcomes scale the ember shard amount down proportionally.

Shards are the crafting currency of PyroChibis, looted exclusively from dungeon raids.

Crafting is done in Collection → Inventory → Craft. Higher-difficulty dungeons drop rarer shards — Aether Essence only drops from Eternal Flame and Primordial Flameheart.

PyroChibis is a Play-to-Earn game. Every shard looted from a dungeon raid can be redeemed for real FOGO sent directly on-chain to your wallet — no middleman, no lock-up period.

Shard Redemption Rates

Shards are redeemed by rarity. Higher-rarity shards are worth significantly more FOGO:

Harder Dungeons = Better Rewards

Easy dungeons drop Common Ember Shards and occasional Rare bloodline shards. Hard dungeons add Epic shards to the pool. Legendary dungeons can drop Legendary Aether Essence — the most valuable shard at 30 FOGO each. Forge Seals also drop exclusively from Legendary dungeons (Conquest only).

Rules & Limits

• ▸Minimum 1 FOGO per redemption — use the quantity selector to combine shards until the total reaches 1 FOGO or more.
• ▸Maximum 200 shards per single redemption call — submit multiple redemptions if needed.
• ▸You can redeem each shard type separately — redeeming Ember Shards doesn't affect your Aether Essence balance.
• ▸FOGO is sent on-chain directly to your connected wallet. Redemptions are irreversible.

How to Redeem

1. 1.Go to Collection → Inventory → Redeem Shards.
2. 2.Select the shard type you want to redeem and set the quantity using the stepper.
3. 3.The FOGO preview updates live. The Redeem button is disabled until the total reaches 1 FOGO minimum.
4. 4.Click Redeem and confirm in the popup — the FOGO is sent to your wallet on-chain.

Every summoned hero is saved to your Collection, which is organized into three sub-tabs:

• ▸🔥 Heroes — your full hero grid with tier and race filters. Click any card to open a detail modal showing all 9 traits, scores, and actions (awaken, send).
• ▸⚒️ Hero Fusion — fuse two compatible heroes into a more powerful child. Requires a Forge Seal.
• ▸⚗️ Inventory — craft shards into items, and view your full purchase and crafting history.

Heroes in your collection are available for dungeon raids. The higher their tier and the more they match a dungeon's favored race, the more power they contribute.

Every hero summoned starts in a Dormant state. A dormant hero exists in your local collection but has not yet been minted as an on-chain NFT — they cannot participate in dungeon raids until they are Awakened.

Awakening is the process of minting your hero as a real Metaplex Core NFT on FOGO chain. During awakening:

• ▸Your hero's image and metadata are permanently uploaded to Arweave — a decentralized, immutable storage network.
• ▸A unique NFT is minted to your wallet on FOGO chain with the hero's full trait data embedded in the metadata.
• ▸Once awakened, the hero is a true on-chain asset — viewable on block explorers and tradeable on NFT marketplaces.

Dormant vs Awakened

To awaken a dormant hero, open your Collection and click the ⚡ Awaken Herobutton on any dormant card. The minting process takes a few seconds and requires no FOGO — it's handled automatically.

Hero Fusion lets you combine two awakened heroes into a single, more powerful child hero. The child inherits the best traits from both parents and is automatically awakened as an NFT. Parent heroes are permanently consumed in the process.

Requirements

• ▸Both heroes must be Awakened (minted as NFTs).
• ▸Their combined bloodlines must span no more than 2 races — e.g. a Pure Warrior + Pure Demon is valid (2 races), but a Warrior-Demon Hybrid + Cyber hero is not (3 races).
• ▸You must have at least 1 Forge Seal ⚒️ (or 2 if either parent is Legendary tier).

How Traits Are Inherited

For each of the 9 trait slots, the higher-rarity trait from either parent wins and is passed to the child. When both parents have the same rarity in a slot, the Kept Race acts as a tiebreaker — traits belonging to the kept race are favored. Any remaining ties are resolved randomly.

Forge Seal Cost

How to Fuse

1. 1.Go to Collection → Hero Fusion.
2. 2.Click the left slot to pick Hero A, then click the right slot to pick Hero B.
3. 3.Incompatible heroes are automatically dimmed in the picker.
4. 4.Choose the Kept Race — this determines the child's dominant bloodline and breaks trait ties.
5. 5.Review the Trait Merge Preview to see which parent wins each slot.
6. 6.Click ⚒️ Fuse Heroes. The child is generated and automatically awakened on-chain.

Awakened heroes can be sent directly to another player's wallet — no marketplace required. This is a free, on-chain transfer using the hero's Permanent Transfer Delegateplugin, which allows the backend authority to execute the transfer on your behalf.

How to Transfer

1. 1.Go to Collection → Heroes and click the hero you want to send.
2. 2.Click the 📤 Gift this Hero to Player button (only visible on Awakened heroes).
3. 3.Enter the recipient's FOGO wallet address.
4. 4.Click Confirm Send. The NFT is transferred on-chain and removed from your collection.

Requirements & Limits

PyroChibis has 82 achievements across the following categories:

• ▸First Steps — summon your first heroes of each rarity tier
• ▸Races — discover each of the 6 races
• ▸Legendary Race — summon your first Legendary of each race
• ▸Epic Race — summon your first Epic of each race
• ▸Milestones — collection size and rarity count goals
• ▸Race Masters — collect 5 Legendary or Epic heroes per race
• ▸Dungeons — raid counts, conquest streaks, and clearing all dungeons
• ▸Loot — shard collection milestones and ember seal goals
• ▸Traits — per-hero trait rarity challenges (Legendary and Epic ladders, purity goals)
• ▸Special — prestige feats: max score, all races, all rarities, eternal order

Achievements are automatically unlocked when you meet their criteria. Check your progress on the Achievements page.

Medal Tiers

• 🏅BronzeStarter milestones
• 🥈SilverMid-game goals
• 🥇GoldEndgame challenges
• 🏆TrophyLegendary feats
• 🔱DiamondPrestige milestones