Battle Log
Battle Log is Primal Idle's after-action report system: a running record of your recent fights in Expeditions, Delving, and Rivals, each kept separately. In the game the panel itself is labeled Battle report — the button that opens above an action list, or near the top of the Rivals ladder — "Battle Log" is the name for the system behind it. Added in v0.38.16, it fixed a bug where your fight history lived only in the browser tab and vanished on every refresh; it's part of your save now.
The running tally
[edit | edit source]Rather than list every individual run, each log holds a running tally: one line per unique target-and-pack combination. Fighting the same target — a specific patrol, Guardian, cave, or rival tribe — with the exact same companion roster adds to that line instead of starting a new one.
- What opens a new line. Only your roster's identity — which dinos are in the active party — decides a line. Adding or removing a companion opens a fresh line; a companion levelling up, or its stats changing, does not, so ordinary progress never fragments a session's record.
- What a line shows. A running Wins/Losses count with a win rate, your pack — the companion party that fought — at the stats it fought with on its most recent run (not today's, so the line stays a fair snapshot of the roster that earned it), and every item those runs have brought home, summed into one running total per item.
- Full-bank drops are marked, not hidden. If the Bank had no room when a run's loot would have dropped, that stack shows a → amber chip for exactly what got converted, rather than pretending you kept it (see when the bank is full).
Depth per surface
[edit | edit source]Expeditions, Delving, and Rivals each keep their own log, entirely independent of the other two — the Expeditions and Delving panels share the same look, but switching between those two pages shows only that page's own lines.
Every surface holds your 6 most recently active lines. Fighting a line bumps it back to the top; once a surface already holds six distinct lines, starting a seventh drops whichever one you touched longest ago. A line you keep returning to never ages out on its own — only the ones you've stopped fighting fall off.
Hunting and Taming fights don't get a Battle Log entry — it covers only the three surfaces above.
What counts as a loss
[edit | edit source]What lands in the Losses column differs by surface:
- Expeditions and Delving log a loss when your pack flees the fight — food ran out and the swiftness escape pulled you clear (see Death and reclaiming gear). A run that ends in death instead is never logged at all — the attempt didn't resolve, so there's nothing to tally.
- Rivals logs a loss when you fall in the gauntlet. Since v0.38.16 a raid defeat counts against its line exactly like a win does — before that patch, only victories were ever recorded.
Where to find it
[edit | edit source]The Battle report isn't a menu page of its own — it's a collapsible panel built into the pages that generate it, and it only appears once you have at least one resolved run to show:
- On the Expeditions and Delving pages, it drops down above the action list and never replaces it.
- On the Rivals page, it sits near the top of the page, under the intro and above the tribe ladder.
Its header shows the surface's total win/loss tally whether the panel is expanded or collapsed.
Ascending — the endgame prestige reset — clears the battle log along with other run-scoped progress, the same as your active party or a live raid.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Expeditions — patrols and Guardian runs, one of the three logged surfaces.
- Delving — cave runs, the second logged surface.
- Rivals — the raid ladder, the third logged surface.
- Trail — the stage-by-stage view of a live expedition, as opposed to its after-action report.
- Bank — what happens to loot when there's no room to hold it.
