¶ Balam (Demo)
Balam is a demo island. The map, hunts, and city services may still change while we test it. Come for the crimson wilds — and know that Full PvP is allowed on this island.
Recommended hunting: L50–150
Travel gate: L50–150
Access: Demo · Full PvP
Size: 512×512 tiles · floors z4–z10 (ground is z7)
¶ Full PvP — read this before you sail
The whole island is a Full PvP world except temple sanctuary.
- There is no skull system here: no white or red mark, no frags, no travel surcharge from a skull. You attack another player with a single tap — no confirm.
- Dying still costs you. Your bag drops, up to one worn item can drop, and you still lose experience and skills. This is not a Battle Arena.
- A skull you earned on another island is hidden while you stand here. It is not washed; it comes back when you leave.
- Temple greens stay sanctuary — no PvP on the shrine. Streets and wilds outside that disc are open season.
- You cannot walk into that shrine (or take the travel guide into sanctuary) while a player fight is live. Hitting someone and sprinting to the depot is not an escape. Wait until the fight mark fades (~10 seconds after the last player blow).
- Teleport portals and the travel guide will not carry you out of an active fight.
Rules in full: PvP & Skull System.
¶ Lore
Balam lies on the crimson frontier of the Kingdom of the Jade Serpent. Its cities grew from old causeway shrines, each in its own manner, and the wilds between them still answer to older powers — war-camps on the surface, and warrens sunk beneath them.
¶ Cities
- Jade Landing — Cenote-city of priests and night-folk: healing, herbs, the honored dead, and dark rites. North shore.
- Yaxalún — Capital. Maize-city of warriors and traders; temple-pyramid, market, and vault at the heart of the island.
Both cities keep a shrine sanctuary. Everything past the teal disc is Full PvP.
¶ Surface hunts
Toggle Zones on the map (or Z on the minimap). Creature names stay English.
Packs on this island are drawn from the creature catalogue inside the L50–150 window.
¶ War-camps
Three designed camps sit on the surface. Each has tents above and a stair into its warren:
- The Crimson Tents (swamp, ~L63–90) — Twilight Seraph, Bacab, Xic, Midnight Jaguar
- Burrows of the Blazing Root (crimson, ~L73–90) — Chaac, Bacab, Ek-Balam, Midnight Jaguar
- The Bloodfang Palisade (swamp, ~L73–90) — Ix Chel, Bacab, Ahalpuh, Midnight Jaguar
¶ Named wilds
The far grass is a crimson-dominant mix (swamp, mountain, mangrove, lava, obsidian, inferno, and cloudforest). The named stretches are:
- Rotwater (swamp, ~L65–75) — Ek-Balam, Bacab
- Bloodleaf (crimson, ~L85–105) — Doomsday Dragon, Chicchan
- Vermilion Grove (crimson, ~L75–77) — Void Elemental, Jade Serpent
- Vapourwood (cloudforest, ~L105–140) — Zenith Archon, Cloud Serpent
Ek-Balam also walks the northern crimson. Treat every pack past the city collar as a PvP hunt — another player can open on you with no skull.
¶ Below the surface
Stairs drop you through three hunting floors. Names on the map repeat across distant halls; trust the level band and the creatures, not a unique title for every disc. The island gate is L50 — ignore any leftover under-window vermin and hunt the lords in band.
| Floor | What you find |
|---|---|
| z8 caves | Under-tunnels (~L55–75): Chamiabac, Xic, Cuchumaquic, Xiquiripat, Ahalpuh, Star Seraph. Chamber of Sealed Secrets (~L87–103) — Xbalanque, Principal Bird Deity. |
| z9 dungeon | Frontier vaults (~L55–85): Void Elemental, Chaos Elemental, Midnight Jaguar, Ek-Balam. The Hollow King's Vault (~L117–133) — Basalt Golem, Chicchan, Tempest Quetzal. |
| z10 deepest | Contested temples (~L65–105): Abyss Serpent, Jade Serpent, Kisin, Principal Bird Deity, Itzam Cab Ain. Remote godsworn halls (~L84–140): Chicchan, Void Wraith, Primordial Hydra, Volcanic Titan, Cloud Serpent, Storm Titan. The Sealed Vault of Shadows (~L142–150) — Primordial Hydra, Void Golem, Volcanic Titan. |
¶ Quests
Regional contracts and chronicler culls fire from both cities. Names are listed without solutions:
- The Burrows of the Blazing Root Menace — cull Chaac at the burrows and stand inside the camp
- The Sealed Gate of the Crimson Tents — twin levers in the warrens, then World Turtle
- Sealed-door and glyph hunts in the underworld (The Keeper Below, What the Door Holds Back, The Warded Hoard)
- City bounties on Bacab, Doomsday Dragon, Principal Bird Deity, Zenith Archon, Cloud Serpent, Void Golem, and Primordial Hydra
See the in-game Quest Log for your current objectives. Kill steps name the zone when the world knows it.
¶ Continue exploring
- PvP & Skull System — Full PvP vs skull worlds vs Battle Arena
- All Worlds & Regions
- Hunting Guide
- Bestiary
- Quests