Ancient of Ruins

I · Flight

Flight, not a flight path

Most servers bolt flying on as a travel cutscene. Ours is movement code. You hold altitude, you steer while climbing, you fight from the air, and the player next to you sees the same arc you flew — down to the glide between position packets.

Controls

Numpad 1 / 2 / 3

Toggle, climb, descend. Rebindable. A contextual skill bar appears only while you are airborne, so the ground kit stays where you left it.

Ceiling

1,200 m, zone-limited

Open sky in the field. Capped or disabled in dungeons, sieges, and the arena, so flight never becomes a way out of a fight.

Passengers

Two to a mount

Ride along with a friend. The passenger keeps their camera and can dismount mid-air — the fall is yours to manage.

Sync

10 Hz, interpolated

Airborne positions send at 10 Hz and glide between updates on the receiving client. No teleport-snapping when someone climbs past you.

Landing

Gravity hands back cleanly

Toggle off at any height and physics resumes from where you are. Terrain snapping stays off until your feet are actually on it.

Cost

Free at level 15

Granted by a quest chain, not a shop. There is no paid tier of flight, no rental timer, no fuel.

Read how flight works →

II · The realm

Rates, and what we will not sell you

Ancient of Ruins is run by three people and funded by nothing. Progression is quick enough to reach the interesting content in a few evenings, and the shop sells cosmetics only.

Table

Server rates and policies
Setting	Value	Notes
Experience	×5	Flat across all levels. No weekend spikes.
Item drops	×3	Rare tier untouched at ×1 — the chase stays a chase.
Gold	×3	Vendor prices unchanged.
Tier upgrade	×2	Applies to stat transfer and fusion.
Diamonds	Earned	From dailies and events. Not purchasable, ever.
Cash shop	Cosmetic	Mount skins, dyes, housing. Nothing with a stat on it.
Wipe policy	None planned	If it ever happens you get 30 days' notice, in writing, here.

III · Workshop

What changed lately

Every build ships with its notes. Nothing goes live without a line here first.

0.9.4b
10 July 2026 Flight

Observer mounts no longer freeze after a high dismount

Toggling flight off above roughly ten units of ground clearance left the mount stuck in its airborne idle on every other client, then snapped it to the ground a second later.

Removed the ground-proximity gate on gravity restore; gravity now resumes unconditionally at fly-off.
Fly-off forces an immediate position send instead of waiting for the next 10 Hz tick.
Yaw jitter on observed pilots fixed by skipping the forward-vector write while a sprite is flying.

0.9.4
28 June 2026 UI

The airborne skill bar stops when you stop clicking

Clicking climb on the contextual bar started a climb that never ended, because a click has no release to listen for.

Climb and descend from the bar now move you one step per click, over 0.35 s.
Holding the numpad keys is unchanged and still continuous.
Auto-hover added to the bar; it holds your current altitude while you read a map.

0.9.3
14 June 2026 Realm

Passengers stopped being killed by the anti-cheat

Riding as a passenger read as impossible movement and disconnected you with a death.

Movement validation now recognises an attached sprite and checks the pilot instead.
Mount ownership is written on attach and cleared on dismount, so the realm knows whose mount you are on.

Full patch log →

IV · Start

Three things, about forty minutes

Most of that is the download. Bring the account name you want; the rest is waiting.

Create your account

One account, ten characters. Your account name is not your character name, so pick something you will remember rather than something you want people to see.
Run the launcher

A 14 MB launcher fetches the 19.4 GB client in verified pieces. Close it and reopen it whenever you like — it resumes where it stopped and re-downloads nothing it already has.
Log in and go up

Flight unlocks at level 15 through the Hollow Vault chain, which is roughly two evenings at ×5. Until then the ground is fine. It has been for twenty years.

Get the launcher

Everything hereis reachable.