Editing Ascension (section)

== Sparks and the score ==

Every point of your '''Ascension score''' that's a new all-time high pays exactly '''1 Spark''' the moment you walk through the Door — rebuilding a stat back to where it used to be pays nothing, only genuinely new progress does. Twenty-five separate categories feed the score, each worth points per unit:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Category !! Points per unit
|-
| Skill levels (sum across all 13) || 2
|-
| Skills at 99 || 150 each
|-
| Mastery levels above 1 || 0.2
|-
| Mastery milestones || 40 each
|-
| Museum skeletons mounted || 25 each
|-
| Museum wings completed || 200 each (+400 flat for the finished Grand Hall)
|-
| Patrol clears (capped per biome) || 2 each
|-
| Guardians felled || 120 each
|-
| Arena tiers won || 60 each
|-
| Rift patrol/boss clears (capped) || 4 each
|-
| Rift Ranks conquered || 60 per Beta first-clear, 100 per Alpha
|-
| Field notes found || 10 each
|-
| Quest steps completed || 15 each
|-
| Chronicles notes || 12 each (+300 flat for holding The Sigil)
|-
| Camp Material Age reached || 100 per Age
|-
| Rival tribes bested || 80 each
|-
| Completion log entries || 2 per item, 6 per species
|-
| Pets found || 50 each
|-
| Blueprints learned || 8 each
|-
| Veteran dino levels (levels above 1, stable + stasis) || 1 each
|-
| Achievements earned || 10 each
|-
| Lifetime Amber earned || √(total ÷ 1,000)
|-
| Lifetime Warden's Marks || total ÷ 50 (once the [[Rifts#The Rift Bazaar|Bounty Board]] is live)
|-
| Deepest bloodline (Mutation Lines) || 15 per mutation depth (once live)
|-
| Lifetime Primal forged casts || 75 each (once [[Blueprints#Cast quality|Item Quality]] is live)
|-
| Niched species kept (stable + stasis) || 25 each (once Niches is live)
|}

The last four rows are '''zero until their own systems unlock''' (Rift Ranks at your first Ascension, the Bounty Board and Mutation Lines and Item Quality each at their own later Ascension gates) — nothing scores before the system that produces it actually exists for you yet.