Progression — Warehouse IT Wiki

01 Leveling

XP is earned from quests, kills, PvP, and tunnel exits. Each level awards +5 HP, +3 Stamina, +2 DMG. All XP sources are reduced by 20% globally to extend time in each gear tier window.

XP to Next Level

xpNeeded = max(20, floor(15 * level^1.35))

Kill XP

Source	Formula
Warehouse Normal	8 + floor(scaledLevel × 2.0)
Warehouse Boss	30 + floor(scaledLevel × 4)
Tunnel Normal	Base XP × depth scaling
Tunnel Elite	1.5× normal tunnel XP
Tunnel Boss	~1.2× normal tunnel XP

Stats per Level

HP per Level

Stam per Level

DMG per Level

Max Level

100

02 Level Titles (40 Ranks)

Your job title changes every few levels. Displayed in the status panel.

Lv 1Intern (Probably Lost)
Lv 3Intern (Found the Bathroom)
Lv 5Junior Helpdesk Analyst
Lv 8Certified Cable Untangler
Lv 10Helpdesk Analyst I
Lv 13Professional Rebooter
Lv 15Desktop Support Technician
Lv 18Senior Rebooter
Lv 20Systems Technician
Lv 23Networking Enthusiast (Unverified)
Lv 25IT Specialist
Lv 28Keeper of the Patch Cables
Lv 30Systems Administrator
Lv 33Wrangler of Rogue Devices
Lv 35Senior Sysadmin
Lv 38Slayer of Printer Gremlins
Lv 40Infrastructure Engineer
Lv 43Distinguished Ticket Closer
Lv 45Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Lv 48Lord of the Server Room
Lv 50Cloud Whisperer
Lv 53Principal Have-You-Tried-Rebooting Officer
Lv 55Solutions Architect (PowerPoint Edition)
Lv 58Senior Cloud Whisperer
Lv 60Staff Engineer
Lv 63VP of Turning It Off and On Again
Lv 65Principal Engineer
Lv 68SVP of Clearing the Cache
Lv 70Distinguished Engineer
Lv 73Executive Director of Cable Management
Lv 75Senior Distinguished Engineer
Lv 78Grand Poobah of the MDF
Lv 80VP of Infrastructure
Lv 83SVP of Things Only I Understand
Lv 85CTO (Shadow IT Division)
Lv 88Executive VP of Blinking Lights
Lv 90Acting IT Manager
Lv 93IT Manager (Provisional)
Lv 95IT Manager
Lv 98Senior IT Manager
Lv 100✦ IT Warlock

03 Ticket System

Press T to open the ticket board. Each player has a private pool of 8 tickets tailored to their level. Pools refresh every 80 seconds. Tickets expire after 5 minutes if unclaimed, 10 minutes once accepted.

Difficulty tiers: easy · MED · HARD · LEGENDARY

Efficiency & Rewards

80-100%Under ~2 min. Full XP/gold. 20% loot. FAST CLOSE!

50-80%2-5 min. Partial rewards. 10% loot chance.

30-50%5-10 min. Reduced rewards. No loot drop.

Ticket Boss Encounters

Every time you interact with a ticket POI (E), a themed boss spawns at the location. Multi-step tickets spawn a boss on every step, so a 5-step HARD ticket means 5 bosses. There’s a 5-second cooldown between steps — you can stack bosses for AoE efficiency or clear them one at a time. Bosses auto-scale to your level on first hit, just like warehouse bosses.

Ticket Boss Categories (56 names)

Each boss is drawn from a pool of 56 IT-horror names across 7 categories. Your ticket type determines which nightmares management has scheduled for you today.

Category	Code	Example Bosses
Printer	PRN	PC LOAD LETTER Demon, The Paper Jam Phantom, Toner Ghost
Network	NET	47-Tab Browser Beast, DNS Propagation Specter, Packet Loss Wraith
User	USR	Reply-All Revenant, Capslock Crusader, Desktop Shortcut Hoarder
Hardware	HW	Blue Screen Behemoth, Thermal Throttle Titan, POST Failure Phantom
Security	SEC	Ransomware Reaper, Expired Certificate Lich, Zero-Day Zealot
Warehouse	WH	Barcode Banshee, Conveyor Belt Basilisk, Forklift Fury
Software	SFT	Memory Leak Hydra, Dependency Hell Demon, Infinite Loop Lich

Exploit Protection

Completing a ticket in under 30 seconds awards only 50% rewards.

Ticket XP Scaling

Ticket XP and gold rewards scale with player level:

scale = 1 + (level − 1) × 0.15
XP = round(baseXP × scale + level × 4)
Gold = round(baseGold × scale)

This ensures ticket rewards keep pace with increasing XP requirements at higher levels.

Ticket Loot

Completing a ticket can drop equipment as bonus loot. The chance and quality scale with ticket complexity:

Steps	Loot
1 step	25% chance of a random item
2 steps	Guaranteed item drop
3 steps	Weapon + armor drop
4+ steps	Boss-tier drop + gadget

Cleanup tickets always use 1-step loot logic regardless of actual step count.

Dynamic Ticket Timers

Ticket time limits scale with player level so high-level players have meaningful time pressure:

perStepMin = 1 + min(max(0, level − 100) / 80, 3)

Type	Formula
Regular	`(3 + steps × perStepMin) minutes`
Cleanup	`(2 + steps × perStepMin × 0.5) minutes`

Level	4-Step Regular	4-Step Cleanup
Lv 100	7 min	4 min
Lv 200	12 min	6 min
Lv 300+	19 min	8 min

Ticket Categories (181 tickets total)

Printer Hell

15 tickets

Jams, network printers, toner, label printers, calibration drift

Networking

13 tickets

VLANs, fiber, switches, WiFi dead zones, bandwidth hogs

User Issues

15 tickets

Password resets, deleted System32, screen rotations

Hardware

10 tickets

Failing drives, RAM, UPS batteries, overheating

Security

8 tickets

Phishing, crypto miners, expired certs, rogue devices

Warehouse & Shipping

12 tickets

Scanner pairing, pallet wrappers, conveyor systems

Cloud & Software

11 tickets

S3 buckets, licensing, SaaS outages, Teams chaos

Infrastructure

8 tickets

Server room floods, full storage, UPS failures

Access & Identity

7 tickets

Badge access, AD lockouts, multi-site VPN

Truly Absurd

13 tickets

Monitor not on, coffee in keyboard, AI disasters

Cable & Physical

7 tickets

Cat5e over 100m, cable trays, extension cord violations

Facilities

3 tickets

HVAC, humidity alerts, flooding emergencies

ITAD

4 tickets

Asset disposal, drive wiping, e-waste compliance

Management Requests

4 tickets

Full audits, exec laptop emergencies, board presentations

Open Office

10 tickets

Desk setups, shared drives, printer queues, docking nightmares

Bathrooms

5 tickets

Occupancy sensors, hand-dryer firmware, door badges

Front Reception

7 tickets

Visitor kiosks, lobby displays, badge printers

Kitchen

6 tickets

Smart fridge firmware, coffee machine crashes, microwave display

Gym

4 tickets

Treadmill firmware, TV casting, keypad entry

MPOE

4 tickets

Demarc extensions, ISP handoff, fiber termination

Legendary

15 tickets

High XP multi-step epics spanning the whole building

Cross-Zone Office Tickets

Some tickets require leaving the warehouse. We know. We’re sorry.

Starting at level 30, certain tickets will direct you to one of 5 office buildings scattered across the jungle surrounding the warehouse. GPS breadcrumbs guide you across zones — warehouse to outdoor to building entrance — so you won’t get lost. Probably.

Building	Code	Specialty
Research Lab	RES-	Lab equipment, server racks, mysterious blinking things
Server Bunker	BNK-	Rack rows, cooling units, cable runs nobody documented
Admin Tower	ADM-	Corner offices, conference rooms, suspiciously empty desks
Bio Lab	BIO-	Sensors, climate controls, things that should stay refrigerated
Control Center	CTL-	Monitoring stations, dashboards, the one screen nobody watches

How Office Tickets Work

Your ticket step targets a specific piece of furniture inside the building — a desk, server rack, copier, whiteboard, filing cabinet, or whatever HR decided was “mission-critical.”
Walk to the highlighted furniture and press E to interact. A ticket boss spawns, because of course it does.
GPS breadcrumbs update in real-time as you cross zones. If you enter the wrong building, the GPS politely redirects you to the exit.
Completing all steps in the office building returns you to the warehouse. Your therapist is standing by.

04 Reputation

Build reputation with warehouse zones by completing tickets in that area. Higher rep gives vendor discounts.

Tier	Points	Buy Discount	Sell Bonus
Neutral	0+	0%	0%
Known	10+	5%	5%
Trusted	25+	10%	10%
Respected	50+	15%	15%
Legendary	100+	20%	20%

Decay: -1 per zone every 5 minutes of inactivity.

Zones: PRINTER, KITCHEN, SERVER, FRONT, SHIPDOCK, ITAD, MDF, MPOE, GYM

05 Salvage

Press Z on an item in inventory to salvage it into materials. Higher tier gear yields rarer materials.

▪Scrap Metal — from any gear

~Salvaged Wire — from tier 3+

⊞Circuit Board — from tier 6+

06 Crafting Recipes

Available at the vendor's Craft tab. 6 consumable recipes.

Recipe	Materials	Result
Field Medkit	2 Scrap	Med Kit (heal 50% HP)
Triple-Shot Espresso	1 Scrap	Coffee (+40 stamina)
Stim Pack	3 Scrap, 1 Wire	Stim Pack (+50% speed 15s)
EMP Grenade	3 Wire, 1 Circuit	EMP Grenade (3-tile stun)
Repair Drone	2 Scrap, 2 Wire, 1 Circuit	Repair Drone (HoT 20s)
Smoke Bomb	2 Scrap, 2 Wire	Smoke Bomb (fog 8s)

06b Gear Enhancement

Enhance any weapon, armor, or gadget at the vendor's Craft tab. Spend salvage materials to permanently increase an item's stats. Every drop becomes valuable as salvage fodder for upgrading your favorite gear.

How It Works

Where	Vendor → Craft tab. Equipped items appear first, sorted by enhancement level.
Weapons & Gadgets	+1 DMG per enhancement level
Armor & Accessories	+3 HP per enhancement level
Display	Enhanced gear shows a +N suffix — e.g., “Acid Sprayer Mk.III +3”
Cap	No hard limit — the exponential material cost is the natural cap
Salvage Return	Salvaging enhanced gear returns 50% of all invested materials

Enhancement Cost

Cost scales per level: Scrap = level × 5, Wire = level × 2, Circuit = floor(level / 3)

Level	Scrap	Wire	Circuit	~Items to Salvage
+1	5	2	0	~3–4
+2	10	4	0	~5–6
+3	15	6	1	~8–9
+4	20	8	1	~11–12
+5	25	10	2	~14–15

Upgrade vs. Replace

There's no need to enhance forever — when you find a higher-tier item, salvage your old enhanced gear (recovering 50% of materials) and start enhancing the new one. Enhancement lets you push your current gear further while you farm for upgrades.

06c Gear Scaling

Gear that drops from enemies and tunnel loot scales with the zone level (tunnel depth or enemy level at time of drop). Shop and crafted items use base values only.

Drop Level Scaling

scaleMult = 1 + floor(dropLevel / 50) × 0.3

Drop Level	Scale Mult	Example (10 DMG base)
1–49	1.0×	10 DMG
50–99	1.3×	13 DMG
100–149	1.6×	16 DMG
150–199	1.9×	19 DMG
200–249	2.2×	22 DMG
300+	2.8×	28 DMG

Required Level

reqLevel = max(item.minLevel, dropLevel − 10)

Dropped gear requires a level close to the zone it came from. You can still equip items up to 10 levels above your own zone.

Enhancement Scaling

Property	Base (dropLevel <50)	At dropLevel 200
DMG per enhance level	+1	+5
Material cost	1×	2×

Affix Scaling

affixMult = 1 + floor(zoneLevel / 50) × 0.25

Affix bonus values on dropped gear scale with the zone level, making high-level drops noticeably stronger than their base-tier equivalents.

Salvage Scaling

Salvage yields from scaled gear are proportionally higher — a scaled T5 item yields more materials than a base T5.

Backward Compatible

Existing gear from before the scaling update works normally at base values. Shop and crafted items are never scaled — only enemy drops and tunnel loot benefit from zone-level scaling.

06d Score Milestones

Earn score from kills, tunnel completions, and PvP. Reach milestones to unlock permanent titles shown as a chat prefix: [IT Legend] PlayerName: message

Score	Title
1,000	IT Rookie
5,000	IT Veteran
10,000	IT Expert
25,000	IT Master
50,000	IT Champion
100,000	IT Legend
250,000	IT Mythic
500,000	IT Transcendent

Permanent Titles

Once earned, titles are permanent — your score can drop from deaths but your highest achieved title stays forever.

06e Score Vendor Discounts

High lifetime score unlocks permanent vendor discounts. These stack with reputation discounts up to a combined maximum of −45% buy / +45% sell.

Score	Buy Discount	Sell Bonus
25,000	−5%	+5%
100,000	−10%	+10%
250,000	−15%	+15%
500,000	−20%	+20%

06f Source Run Rewards

A Source Run is triggered by entering a tunnel for a biome that’s currently breaching the warehouse (see Tunnels → Source Run). It’s harder than a normal tunnel run, but the payoff matches.

Feature	Details
Enemy density	2× normal — every enemy is cloned
Timer	15-minute countdown (ejected if expired)
Breach Core destruction	Bonus XP, gold, and score + 3 loot drops at the core
Incursion cleared	Biome pressure reset to 0%, warehouse breach zone begins shrinking

The Fastest Way to End an Incursion

Sealing the breach at the gate takes 30 seconds and can be interrupted. A Source Run is riskier but destroying the Breach Core ends the incursion instantly with better rewards.

07 Party System

Team up with up to 3 other players for scaled challenges, shared tunnel instances, and split XP.

Party Overlay — P key

Press P to open the party management overlay. From here you can:
Not in a party: browse online players and press Enter to invite.
In a party: see members (HP, level, tunnel status), then use:
I — invite L — leave K — kick (leader) M — promote to leader

Shared Tunnel Instances

When a party member enters a tunnel and picks a biome, other party members can walk onto the gate tile to join the same tunnel instantly — no biome picker, no loading screen, no existential dread. You’ll appear at the tunnel entrance alongside your teammates.

Enemy Scaling in Tunnel

Enemies get tougher with more players. Both HP and damage scale with party size — bringing friends doesn’t make it easier, just more chaotic.

Party Size	Enemy HP	Enemy DMG	Boss HP
1 (solo)	x1.0	x1.0	x1.0
2 players	x1.5	x1.2	x2.25
3 players	x2.0	x1.4	x3.0
4 players	x2.6	x1.6	x3.9

OVERLORD DAEMON — Party Boss

Party tunnels replace the standard boss with the OVERLORD DAEMON, a 2×2 behemoth with upgraded stats and a deep personal grudge against your SLA compliance. Coordinate your gadgets — you’ll need them.

08 Multiplayer

Feature	Details
Shared item world	Dropped and quest items visible to all players
All-chat	Global text chat. Server broadcasts level-ups, boss kills, quest completions
Leaderboard	Live top-20 scoreboard via `TAB`
Concurrent tunnels	Gate relocates on each use — everyone gets their own instance
Party tunnels	Shared instance, real-time movement, split XP, OVERLORD DAEMON boss
Persistent saves	Character saved per name, reloaded on reconnect
Forklifts	4 shared vehicles — first to mount it drives it
Surveillance cameras	6 cameras sweep the warehouse — avoid the red cones