CAMP DECISIONS
Make each extra turn earn its cost.
Before resting, use every productive card already in hand. Rest only when a fresh hand and refilled energy can activate a structure, clear a useful obstacle, or reach a reward.
Compare the room's Gloom and Warmth before committing another cycle. Current player reports describe Warmth as protection against Gloom pressure, not as normal healing.
If a card or structure mentions Stored Gloom, do not assume it is the same value as the room's rest danger. Current field notes keep those contexts separate and do not publish a universal conversion rule.
After the rest, spend the new hand on the camp plan you entered for: Fix or Reveal a structure, open a chest, make food, or clear a hazard that blocks the object behind it.
Leave when another rest is buying only a redraw. Repeated cycles can reveal more hazards and make a greedy camp visit cost more health than the upgrade is worth.
Leave camp after the planned action. Unspent Explore energy is not a reason to invent a combat carry-over rule; the current sources do not publish one.
Do not confuse the room Rest action with same-name packaged Rest card variants. The current database contains multiple Rest records and does not prove which variant a normal run exposes.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
One Rest gives you a fresh Explore hand and refilled energy, and that extra cycle produces a concrete camp result. You leave before Gloom pressure and new hazards erase the value you gained.
VERSION BOUNDARY
Current Early Access reviews, an independent field guide, and player reports agree on Rest as a redraw/energy decision and Warmth as protection against Gloom pressure. They do not publish a reproducible numerical Gloom-minus-Warmth damage formula or establish every packaged Rest card variant, so this guide gives the safe decision rule without inventing numbers.
CARDS IN THIS ANSWER
Know the effect before you build around it.
Ability text is tied to the recorded Demo build. “How you get it” stays cautious where a packaged shop value does not prove a guaranteed reward.
Explore / Skill
Dark Crystal
- What it does
- Stores 1 Gloom. The current Demo record also carries Reveal interaction and six uses.
- How you get it
- Strange Geode creates one Dark Crystal. Its separate packaged shop cost of 2 does not prove that every run or shop offers it directly.
- Use it with
- Use its limited charges only when you expect to reach the Strange Geode payoff. The exact stored-Gloom conversion formula still needs an in-run check.
Explore / Camp
Strange Geode
- What it does
- Creates its camp encounter and one Dark Crystal, then consumes itself. The record marks it Revealable.
- How you get it
- The packaged Demo record lists a shop cost of 4, but does not establish a guaranteed offer or appearance rate.
- Use it with
- Take it only when you can afford extra Explore turns: Dark Crystal stores Gloom for this route, while room Gloom can still punish a greedy camp stay.