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Dispatch — send a run to play itself

Dispatch hands a gauntlet run to the server and lets it play in the background. Once a run is dispatched it advances whether or not the app is open — close the tab, lock your phone, switch to desktop, and it keeps clearing nodes and banking loot on its own. It's the Journey's idle-play mode: the same 16-node gauntlet you'd play by hand, run for you.

Dispatch is live for everyone

Dispatch is open to all players. If a run can be played as a gauntlet, it can be dispatched.

What Dispatch is (and isn't)​

A dispatched run is an ordinary gauntlet run — same chapter, same locked team of three, same node order and checkpoints. The only difference is who presses the buttons: instead of you tapping through each fight, the server advances the run on a ticker (roughly every couple of minutes) and resolves each node against your team.

Because it's a real run and not a shortcut:

  • Every node still costs Attunement (energy) and every node still drops its loot — the loot is banked node by node as the run advances, exactly as if you'd played it.
  • It follows the same rules as hand-play. Your team is locked for the run, a wipe ends it, and one-time first-clears/stars are banked the same way.
  • It is gauntlet-only. A single-node play has no Dispatch button — Dispatch is for the full 16-node run.
Not a 24/7 loot faucet — it runs on your energy

A dispatched run spends real Attunement per node, so it pauses the moment your Attunement runs out and auto-resumes when your pool regenerates (or the instant you Refill). You can't leave it running forever on an empty tank — it drives your normal energy rhythm, hands-free, rather than bypassing it.

How to dispatch a run​

There are four places to send a run to the background — pick whichever you're already looking at:

  • 🛰️ Start & Dispatch — on the gauntlet team-pick screen. Choose your team, hit Start & Dispatch, and you're dropped straight back to the map with the run already dispatched.
  • 🛰️ Dispatch on the map — the map's Gauntlet button splits into ⚔ Gauntlet (play it live) and 🛰️ Dispatch (send it to the background) side by side. A run you've already started shows a Dispatch button beside Continue/Repeat on its continue-run card.
  • 🛰️ Dispatch on an active run — each active run in the runs panel carries its own Dispatch button.
  • 🛰️ Dispatch mid-fight — while you're playing a run live, a Dispatch button sits in the combat chrome next to Repeat. Tap it to hand the rest of the run to the server and walk away.

The Dispatched-runs shelf​

Every dispatched run shows up as a single line on the Dispatched runs shelf (in your Active Effects shelf), so you can watch several at once at a glance:

🛰️ Cinderfall Ch.2 · running · Node 7/16 · 🎁 12 loot · 74% win · next node in ~2m   [Enter] [Withdraw]

Each line tells you:

  • Status — running, paused (out of Attunement), or defeated.
  • Progress — the node it's on (N / 16) and a live "next node in ~Xm" countdown.
  • A running tally — 🎁 loot banked so far and the run's Win %.
  • Run totals — ⏱ time active, ⚡ energy burned, and 💰 RSNC earned (energy and RSNC appear once they're above zero).

At the top of the shelf, ⚡ Refill tops up your Attunement and resumes every paused run at once — because Attunement is a single per-account pool, one refill un-pauses all of them.

"RSNC earned" may read 0 for now

The per-node RSNC payout is rolling out. Until it's switched on, a dispatched run's 💰 RSNC earned reads 0 and lights up automatically once node clears start paying RSNC directly. Loot, Essence, and materials bank normally in the meantime.

Enter, Withdraw, and the closure card​

Two buttons on each shelf line decide what happens next:

  • Enter — jump into the live run at whatever node it's currently on. You take the controls back mid-run (you land right in the fight, not on a resume screen). Dispatch it again any time.
  • Withdraw — end the run early and free the team so you can use those fighters elsewhere. Withdrawing leaves a closure card instead of just wiping the run away.

When a dispatched run ends — you Withdraw, it clears node 16, or it's defeated — it leaves a closure card that recaps the run:

  • It shows the real loot the run banked (actual item art and names), not a summary. That loot is already in your inventory — the card is a record of the haul, not a second payout to claim. Press 🎁 Collect & clear to acknowledge it and clear the card.
  • Restart re-dispatches the same team on the same chapter, so a good farming setup is one tap to send back out.
  • A defeated run stays on the shelf with its final record until you clear it, so a background wipe is never silent — you'll see what happened.
Turn on defeat pings

When a dispatched run wipes in the background, Dispatch can fire a defeat notification (in-app toast and a device push) so you're not left wondering why your loot stopped climbing. Toggle it under Settings → Notifications (the dispatch category).

When to reach for it​

  • Farming a chapter you've mastered. Dispatch a run and let it grind while you do something else — it banks ingredients, Essence, and gear on your energy, hands-free. It pairs naturally with Repeat Battle: both keep the loop turning without you re-selecting the fight.
  • Playing across devices. Start & Dispatch on your phone, and the run is exactly where you left it when you open desktop — the server, not the tab, is running the fight.
  • Grinding a long chapter in the background while you cook, trade, or build your Roster.

Keep it for chapters your locked team can actually clear — Dispatch plays your team's hand well, but it can't out-fight a wall, and a run that keeps wiping just burns Attunement.

See also​

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