Ciphers & the Golden Cipher

Ciphers are ancient encrypted texts that turn up among the ruins — in-world, they're argued over as either records the gods left behind or secrets the old priests buried on purpose. Mechanically they are carried loot: you find one in a match, and it is worth nothing until it leaves the map with you.

The released game carries fifteen distinct named ciphers. Three of them — Ancestral, Bloodbound and Shadow — are the ones the Golden Coffer hands out, at exactly one-third each.

• Ancestral Cipher
• Bloodbound Cipher
• Shadow Cipher
• Elder Edict Cipher
• Echo Cipher
• Ashen Cipher
• Mantra Cipher
• Nameless Cipher
• Abyssal Cipher
• Old World Cipher
• Prayer Cipher
• Lost Cipher
• Forbidden Cipher
• Survivor Cipher
• Seal Cipher

• Find a cipher in a match — they come from defeating monsters and from opening chests.
• Extract with it. A cipher lost on a failed raid is gone; nothing is banked mid-match.
• Return to Windrest and speak to a camp NPC. The prompt is simply Decipher, and the game tracks Deciphering Progress and a Decipher History for you.
• Pick which cipher to hand over. With none in your stash the menu reads 'No cipher available.'

This is the part most players miss. Any camp NPC can decipher, but each cipher type has one NPC who genuinely knows it, and the first time you bring that cipher to that person they pay an extra reward on top of the normal payout. Bring it to anyone else and you still get the base rewards — you just quietly forfeit the bonus, once, permanently for that type.

Seven NPCs handle deciphering: Soekja, Dew, Pip, Dramm, Cazarro, Sigrid and Merimo.

Golden Cipher is a limited event built for Mistfall Hunter's official launch. Golden Ciphers drop from monsters and chests across all stages and every Gyldening Intensity — there is no zone or difficulty you need to farm specifically.

To qualify for the grand-prize draw you need three things inside the eligibility window: reach level 5, unlock the Golden Cipher event feature, and successfully extract from at least one match.

During the event, participating streamers enter matches as Golden Envoys. They deliberately give away their position, and while a bounty is active they carry a marker over their head. Kill one and you are guaranteed to find one Golden Cipher in their inventory — the only guaranteed source in the event.

Deciphering a Golden Cipher rolls this table. These are the game's own published rates, not estimates — and the headline is that roughly 96 of every 100 ciphers pay out 1,000 Gyldenblod or less.

Because the rare drops are fractions of a percent, the dependable payouts are the guaranteed milestones — and they cost nothing but volume.

10 ciphers deciphered

Guarantees the Emote: Strike It Rich.

20 ciphers deciphered

Guarantees the Golden Woodling – Head cosmetic.

Virtual rewards land in-game. A physical prize instead drops a redemption code out of the cipher, which you take to the event's redemption page and use to submit your contact details. That code is the only proof of the win — it isn't recoverable and shouldn't be shared. Shipping is confirmed within two months of the event ending and is covered by the publisher, internationally.

The locked-chest rune puzzle

Locked chests in a raid run their own rune-matching minigame. The interface calls it deciphering too, but it is unrelated to ciphers, happens in-match, and pays chest loot rather than event rewards.

Gesture: Decipher

A cosmetic emote that happens to share the name. It has no effect on ciphers.

The Gylden Rush

The playtest-era event. Coverage often uses the two names interchangeably, but the Gylden Rush was the beta run — the launch event is Golden Cipher, with a different prize pool and different dates.