Zone Facts

Living page. Every number below is derived from the chronicle’s own spawn files and NPC stats. The zones listed are the ones that have been derived so far — not the whole world. See Coverage.

Where to hunt at a given level, what you’ll meet there, and whether you want a party.

The short version

1. Level (median) is the middle of what spawns there, measured from the spawn file.
2. Range is the real spread. A wide range means the zone is not uniform.
3. Shape says how mobs are packed: field, group, or room.
4. Mobs per pull is the mean monster count per spawn territory — the practical “how many come at once.”

How the level band is derived

For each zone the deriver reads the spawn file, resolves every NPC id against the chronicle’s stat XML, and takes the median, minimum and maximum of the mobs placed there.

A zone whose range is much wider than its median is telling you something real: the Forbidden Gateway spans levels 42–65 around a median of 63, so the low end is a fringe, not the zone.

Shape — field, group, or room

Shape is inferred from how densely mobs pack into each spawn territory, which the spawn file records directly:

Shape	Mean mobs per territory	What it feels like
field	under 3	Singles and pairs scattered thin — you pick your fights
group	3 to 7	Clusters; a pull brings friends
room	over 7	Enclosed territories packed with several types at once

Every figure here is measured from the spawn data.

⚠️ Shape is about packing, not aggression. A dense room of passive mobs is calmer than a sparse field of aggressive clan mobs. Whether a pull brings the whole clan depends on the mobs’ social attributes — see Party Composition, which covers how that decides party size.

Zone facts

Every row is derived from the chronicle’s own spawn files and NPC stats — the level band is the median and range of the mobs spawned there. Shape comes from how densely mobs pack into each spawn territory: a field scatters singles and pairs, a room packs many types into one enclosed territory. Mobs per pull is the mean monster count per territory.

Zone	Level (median)	Range	Shape	Mobs per pull	Spawns	Distinct mobs
Execution Grounds (Dion)	30	20–35	group	5.7	199	14
Cruma Marshlands	31	25–35	room	18.0	414	11
Catacomb of the Branded	45	40–51	group	6.0	228	16
Plains of Glory	48	45–50	room	10.8	173	6
War-Torn Plains	48	45–53	room	9.5	199	8
Fields of Massacre	60	55–65	room	13.6	477	12
Giant’s Cave	62	55–65	room	10.6	605	14
Forbidden Gateway	63	42–65	room	9.5	162	7
Catacomb of the Witch	66	60–72	group	6.0	224	19
Tower of Insolence	67	60–75	group	5.3	487	36
Blazing Swamp	71	65–75	group	6.8	402	12
Catacomb of Dark Omens	76	72–80	group	6.1	176	12
Silent Valley	77	74–79	room	10.0	40	3

Coverage — what this page does not cover

These are the zones derived so far, not a map of the world. A zone missing here is not a zone that doesn’t exist — it means no derivation has been run against its spawn file yet.

Two limits worth knowing:

Limit	What it means for you
Zone coverage is partial	Most of the world’s geodata tiles are unbaked, so absence here proves nothing.
Names collide in the datapack	“Execution Grounds” exists twice. Each row is pinned to a specific spawn file, which is why the Dion one is named as such.

Under the hood

How a row is built

For each zone the deriver walks the chronicle’s own files:

1. Read the spawn file for that zone and collect every spawn territory.
2. Resolve each NPC id against the chronicle’s stat XML to get real levels.
3. Take the median, minimum and maximum across the mobs placed there.
4. Count mobs per territory to classify the shape as field, group or room.

Nothing in that chain consults a zone name or a label written by hand, so a row can disagree with a name you expect.

Related

• Tower of Insolence — one zone in full, floor by floor
• Party Composition — how the party for a zone gets assembled
• Smart Roam — how a party decides to move somewhere better

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