Two modes in one panel
The Depths panel has a BOSS view and a ZONES view. In BOSS you challenge the ten dungeon bosses in order from Rotfang to Veilbreaker Xal'Thor. In ZONES your active idle zone passively farms gold, XP, equipment, pet food, and Veilstone Pass XP.
Boss cooldown
Boss attempts share a single cooldown of 2 hours, reduced by 10% with Premium. Failed attempts do not refund the cooldown, so pre-fight preparation matters. Only one boss can be in-progress at a time.
Parallel idle farming
Idle farming runs in parallel to the boss cooldown. You don't have to sit and wait — your zone earns rewards while the cooldown ticks down.
Veilstone Relic
Each boss defeat evolves the Veilstone Relic in your relic slot, granting stacking +% XP, +% Gold, and +% ATK. The Relic is the permanent progression thread through the 10 bosses.
Idle VP rule
Idle zone claims grant 10 Veilstone Pass XP per full idle hour. Partial hours don't count — claiming every minute gives zero VP. Come back after 1h+ for credit.
Bestiary
53 entries
Rotfang the Gnoll
legendarySent down to map the first gallery and report back by supper. Came back eleven months later, on all fours, and has been extremely territorial about the supper question ever since.
Widow Queen
legendaryShe does not spin to catch. She spins to keep records — every thread a name, filed by the date they came down the stair. The archive is enormous and growing and she is, by any reasonable measure, very good at her job.
Ironjaw Golem
legendaryBuilt to hold a door shut. Nobody wrote down which door. Nobody has been able to ask since the jaw fused, and it is not taking questions.
Shade of Malachar
legendaryMalachar himself died on the fourth floor, quietly, of something boring. What waits there is the dent his absence left in the room, and it has had two hundred years to practise the walk.
Emberclaw Drake
legendaryOther drakes hoard gold. Emberclaw hoards warmth. It has been drawing the heat out of that chamber since before your grandmother, and the walls are now cold enough to take skin off.
The Frost Lich
legendaryDoes not freeze you in order to kill you. Freezes you in order to keep you. Has a great many of you already, arranged by height, and is beginning to run out of shelf.
Voidborn Sentinel
legendaryWas not born and was not built. It arrived, in the way a hole arrives, and has stood on that one flagstone ever since. It has never explained the flagstone and nobody has pressed the issue.
Queen Arachnia
legendaryThe only thing in the Depths that keeps a court. The court is beautifully dressed, impeccably mannered and has been dead for some time. Nobody has had the heart to mention it.
Obsidian Titan
legendaryA titan is not a large person. It is a piece of the world that stood up one afternoon, and the world has been politely asking it to sit back down ever since.
Frequently asked questions
What is The Depths in Grindveil?
Ten dungeon bosses and parallel idle farming — fight the boss on cooldown, farm the zones meanwhile.
How does The Depths work?
The Depths panel has a BOSS view and a ZONES view. In BOSS you challenge the ten dungeon bosses in order from Rotfang to Veilbreaker Xal'Thor. In ZONES your active idle zone passively farms gold, XP, equipment, pet food, and Veilstone Pass XP.
Is Grindveil free to play?
Yes. Grindveil runs in your browser, needs no download, and you can start playing without creating an account.