Hey @IQ Game Updates ,
Patch 1.02 is now live in IdleQuest!
This update improves the Auction House with global trade history and reporting tools, brings guild and party improvements, adds new gameplay settings options, improves combat and UI clarity, and includes website updates plus multiple bug fixes and polish across the game and web client!
Jump into the #channel to read the full patch note details

Important note to Guild Leaders: Since guild functionality has changed please note that your guild will be default set to public (anyone can join), please change to Closed if you only wish to accept via applications.

The IdleQuest Team

📜 A New Path Opens… The Mentor System is Coming

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  Not every journey through Ephen is meant to be walked alone.
  Some adventurers carve their way forward with steel and spell, while others leave something more lasting behind.
  Knowledge, guidance, and the quiet pull that helps another rise faster than they ever could on their own.

Very soon, a new system will arrive in IdleQuest: The Mentor System.

You’ll find it waiting under Social → Mentor, where two paths reveal themselves.
One for those seeking guidance, and one for those ready to give it.

As an Apprentice, you’ll bind yourself to a Mentor and unlock a structured path of milestone missions and recurring challenges, designed to help you grow, explore the world’s systems, and earn long-term rewards as you progress.

As a Mentor, your influence will be felt through the success of your Apprentices, as their efforts generate points, tickets, and chances at powerful rewards, proving that leadership isn’t just about how far you’ve gone, but who you help along the way.

More details will be revealed soon.
For now, start thinking.
Who would you follow?
And who would you trust to follow you?

First Look at the Chimera Laboratory

From the depths of Ephen’s corruption, where monsters are born to spread ruin and decay, our mad scientists have chosen a different path.
Within the sealed halls of the Chimera Laboratory, the grotesque is not destroyed, it is repurposed.
The damned are not pitied, they are refined.
From flesh that brought only harm to the world, we carve purpose.
From the ugly, we create something beautiful.

The Chimera Lab is where monstrosity becomes mastery.
As you conquer a region and reach its maximum level threshold (40, 80, 120, and beyond), you will unlock that region’s dedicated subsection of the Chimera Lab.
Each unlocked wing represents deeper knowledge of Ephen’s creatures, and greater control over what they can become.

Once a subsection is unlocked, your Field Hunts will begin yielding Chimera Vials.
These vials contain preserved Chimera Body Parts, harvested from the very abominations that once stood in your way.
Each part carries latent power, unstable on its own, but potent when combined.

Within the Lab, combine five different Chimera Body Parts to construct a custom monstrosity of your own design.
These creations are not companions, they are experiments.
Completing one permanently enhances you, granting lasting stat bonuses as proof that even the worst horrors of Ephen can be forced to serve a higher purpose.

The Chimera Laboratory is not a place of mercy.
It is a place of results.
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August: Region 4 - The Spire, Summit of Ephen

A frozen, cold mountain region.

“You feel your very soul freezing from within.”

Core content system: Class Ascensions & Mastery
At this stage of the game, you will likely have grown accustomed to your characters already - this is where we expand on the Class systems.
We will offer diverging routes for each Class, giving you the option to further Master your current playstyle or step away from the trodden path and discover a completely new playstyle through Class Ascension.

Circles of Hell Boss - Greed
Can you control your own greed in the pursuit of power, or will it become your downfall?

📜 IdleQuest Content Roadmap

Game Updates

Alongside the Region releases, we aim to provide you with additional core content systems.
There may be extra content coming, that is not listed in this roadmap, as we progress - but here’s another sneak peek on our current plans for future systems.
Some have already been teased previously, but this should provide you with a clearer view of where IdleQuest is heading.

Timeframe & Major Updates

We aim to release a new region with a major content update every 2 months.

With these updates, there will be updates to most of our underlying core systems to include a new region and region boss, new tavern bounties, a new set of equipment, additional dungeon tiers, more Sylphs, a new section for the Chimera Lab and an additional Circle of Hell.

The Circles of Hell will offer the primary end-game, ranked solo challenge, standing at the end of each region.

Launch: Region 1 - Southern Lilim, Forest of Shades

Brave the devious fog and forest of Southern Lilim, where you’re unsure if you can even trust yourself…

“The forest continues further, in a direction you are no longer certain of.”

Core content system: Chimera Lab
Upon reaching the max level of a region (40/80/120… and so on) you will unlock that region’s subsection of the Chimera Lab.
Once unlocked, your Field Hunts will start dropping Chimera Vials - these contain Chimera Body Parts.
Combine 5 different Chimera Body Parts in the Lab and build your own monster, unlocking permanent stat bonuses.

Circles of Hell Boss - Limbo
Take on Limbo, he who stands as the Judge between life and death!

April: Region 2 - Iyan, the Parasite's Domain

Traverse the infested wastelands left after the downfall of Iyan, locate and combat the source of it.

“The earth rumbles with the hunger of something unknown.”

Major Core content system: The Depths
Our Roguelike system, The Depths, will offer infinite replayability, bi-weekly rankings with rewards (yes, there will be Diamonds). In being a Roguelike system, the mode will be accessible by anyone and everyone would have the same chances at winning since no outside progression or stats would apply to the system.

Tackle ever-growing monsters as you brave The Depths, challenge elites, uncover lost relics, gather and enhance gear…

It is built around you controlling an entire party with one of each class, with HP not automatically resetting between combat. You will have to explore and interact with shops, random events and stat boosts - carefully choosing your path by balancing risk vs. reward in order to grow strong enough to beat the full-party Bosses situated on every 20 Depths.

The Depths is ever-changing, and every ranking period, “League”, may offer different preset modifiers to the entire system, such as increased gold gain, guaranteed relics, deadlier foes or even solo runs!

Can you master The Depths?

Circles of Hell Boss - Lust
Fickle, devious and cruel.
Can you control your own emotions and take down Lust?

June: Region 3 - Aphelia, The Umbral Cathedral

A once prospering region fallen into the clutches of dwellers of the night…

“Your own shadow bares its fangs towards you.”

Core content system: Artifacts
Unlock the massive raw power hidden away within fabled Artifacts!
Tapping into the power of various Artifacts will let you change the tide of battle in your favour - each providing unique effects.
Artifacts will be our spin on what we originally had called Ultimates - they will not be class locked.

Circles of Hell Boss - Gluttony
A showdown to decide who has the biggest appetite for victory.

Fair Play & Game Rules

In playing IdleQuest you are expected to comply with the spirit of fair play and the given game rules.

Multiple accounts, "Alts", are allowed - but, market manipulation is not.

An example: alt farm to get additional gear and resources, funneling it to your main character through the Auction House and then listing a random item far exceeding the normal value to recoup the Diamond cost IS NOT OK*. *

Your account will be banned from the IdleQuest bot if you are caught breaking our Game Rules.

Playing organically and "buying items from yourself" at a normal price is fine.

Auction House is regulated and we have fail-safes placed to make acting outside of the realms of normal Auction House interactions more difficult.

We will add a channel for Game Rules and a page on the web site.