Field Buffs

Every field (except portals) can have one or multiple field buffs. The current backend source of truth defines five buff types: Attack, Defense, Mining, Recruiting and Harvest.

Buff Types

Attack

Gives an attack buff to all attacks sent from this field.

Defense

Gives a defense buff when the field gets attacked.

Mining

Increase the mining rate of this field.

Recruiting

This field recruits units faster.

Harvest

Harvest buffs increase wild essence production. This buff exists in the current backend/shared source of truth even though older Orb pages did not mention it.

Buff Level

The exact runtime values now come from shared backend tuning. Each buff type has a base value and four level factors in the source of truth. In the shared config, most buffs use factors of 2.5, 5, 10, 25, while Harvest uses 1.5, 3, 6, 12.

That means the current shared maximum values per buff type in Dominion/Tutorial are 100% Attack, 100% Defense, 100% Mining, 300% Recruiting and 120% Harvest.

Ove uses a different shared tuning for Recruiting and Harvest because it is the long-term progression mode: Recruiting reaches 120% and Harvest reaches 120%, while Attack, Defense and Mining still follow the default shared values.

Ove

Home Island

Ove home islands are the protected long-term progression base. Random field buffs are not the main progression layer there. Instead, long-term production and development come from the home-island systems, while the shared tuning still defines how field-related values behave where Ove uses them.

Event Island

Ove event islands can spawn with random field buffs. Larger islands generally have more and stronger buffs than smaller ones. Strong Mining, Recruiting or Harvest buffs can massively improve your economy, but those islands are still contested spaces and can pull you into siege situations.

Dominion

Starter islands do not begin with field buffs. Inner islands can spawn with random buffs, and Dominion fights can revolve around controlling the strongest buffed positions.

Dominion also supports additional field upgrades such as Healing and Plague in the current type system, so older Orb descriptions that only listed the classic buff categories were incomplete.