Time Heroes

Shadow Grove

Shadow Grove opens at level 70 for 550,000,000,000 coins and two Paradox resets, and an egg here costs 30,000,000,000 coins. Tungsten Ore enters here and dominates the table while cobalt drops back to a thin seam.

Shadow Essence is Celestial, a band above Mythical and outside the seven rarity tiers eggs use. By this depth the essence is no longer what you spend on the next door, because the doors ask for resets. It is raw material for the deep shuttle modules instead.

What it takes to open

Player level
70
Paradox resets required
2
Coin cost
550,000,000,000

What drops here

Shadow Grove
MaterialChance per rockWhat it is
Copper Ore9.0%Raw unrefined copper, waiting to be smelted.
Tungsten Ore7.0%An extraordinarily dense, heat-proof metal. The backbone of frozen-world hull work.
Iron Ore6.8%Raw unrefined iron, waiting to be smelted.
Coal6.8%Combustible black rock used for basic smelting operations and low-tier fuel refinement.
Cobalt Ore3.0%A brilliant blue metal prized for high-strength alloys and charged circuitry. It peaks in the storm worlds.
Crude Oil3.0%Thick, unrefined petroleum liquid used directly in chemical synthetics.
Shadow Essence2.6%The umbral essence of Shadowvale, gathered under a dead moon

These are chances per rock you break, not shares of one whole, so they do not add up to 100 percent. Anything not listed is plain rock.

Eggs, essence and damage

Egg price here
30,000,000,000
Signature essence
Shadow Essence
Essence rarity band
Celestial

The boss that holds the way out

Boss
Umbryx
Level needed to challenge it
80
Time limit
90 seconds
What beating it pays
1 Coin Bag 3, 5 Loot Box 7

The creatures of this world

Shadow Grove
CreatureRarity
VantyrCommon
NyxieUncommon
LunetteRare
CorvynEpic
UmbrixLegendary
SylvaneMythical
NihilarchSecret

Vantyr Common

It hangs upside down from moonbeams and calls that 'resting'.

Nyxie Uncommon

Every shadow it crosses seems to purr along with it.

Lunette Rare

Hops between moonbeams, never once touching the dark in between.

Corvyn Epic

Carries the wisps of those the grove forgot, and never once complains of the weight.

Umbrix Legendary

The grove's oldest hunter; even the dark steps aside for it.

Sylvane Mythical

Ancient and vast, it remembers the grove before the shadows ever fell.

Nihilarch Secret

It has no face to read, only a silence that decides your fate.

A quieter world than the one before it

Where Stormspire is one loud electric family, Shadow Grove is a dead forest under moonlight, and its roster is named for it: Vantyr, Nyxie, Lunette, Corvyn, Umbrix, Sylvane and Nihilarch. Mechanically it is the calmest stretch of the late ladder, one new ore and no new rule.

Umbryx

Umbryx holds the exit at level 80 on a 90 second timer and pays 300 Shadow Essence and six loot boxes. Boss essence rewards climb by exactly 25 per world all the way from Elderoot, so nothing about the fight is arbitrary.

The ore handover, in one place

Tungsten arrives at exactly the share cobalt held one world earlier, and cobalt falls to exactly the share platinum held before it. Every deep world runs this two ore pattern: one metal arriving at full strength, one fading out. Knowing which world a metal peaks in is most of what late game mining is, because nothing down here drops everywhere.