Age of Origins Chaosland Guide: The Merge Decider You Can't Lose Troops In

Part of the Events series:

• Server Merger Guide: Why this event decides which map survives.
• Kill Event Guide: The scoring rules Chaosland borrows.

Quick Answer

• Chaosland is a multi-nation battle arena run before a server merge — and the nation ranked #1 becomes the "settled" nation whose map everyone moves into.
• Structure: three time slots, and you may join two. First entry is free; re-entry after leaving costs a Chaosland Pass or 2,000 gold.
• Troops cannot die here. The event has its own hospital and wounded auto-recover when you leave — and no resources can be plundered.
• Scoring follows Void War rules: only T5+ kills score, plus points from Chaosland zombies (the "blood wyrms").
• Streaks pay: consecutive successful attacks build a battle bonus, and ending someone else's streak pays a bonus too. Ten point-goal levels award Chaosland Permits for battle items.

One currency note: community coverage indicates an event called Ironblood Battlefield has taken over Chaosland's slot as the recurring PvP arena on some schedules, with players describing it as similar in shape. If your event pane shows Ironblood rather than Chaosland, the mechanics below are still the right mental model — but trust your in-game screen for the specifics.

The Highest-Stakes Consequence-Free Event

Chaosland is a strange and wonderful thing: an arena where nothing you bring can die, attached to the outcome with the longest shadow in the game.

The stakes first. Chaosland runs before a nation merge, and the top-ranked nation becomes the settled nation — meaning its map survives. Everyone else gets folded in, their cities randomly redistributed across a map they didn't grow up on, with all troops force-returned home. As the merger guide explains, keeping your map means keeping your alliance's territory cluster, your neighbors, and the Elite Mines and City Ruins you've built routines around. Winning Chaosland is the difference between absorbing newcomers and being absorbed.

Now the mechanics, which invert everything else this handbook teaches:

• Troops cannot be killed. Chaosland has its own hospital, and wounded auto-recover when you leave.
• No resources can be plundered.
• Your home city is under system protection while you're inside (and you can't act in your home nation during that time).
• You can't attack your own nation's commanders.

Which means the hide-your-troops doctrine is suspended, the healing bill is zero, and there is no such thing as a bad trade. Bring everything.

Entry Rules

• Three time slots; you may join two. Plan which two with your alliance — spreading your roster thin across slots wastes the coordination that wins fights.
• First entry is free. If you leave mid-event, coming back costs a Chaosland Pass or 2,000 gold, so don't wander out casually.

Scoring

Points come from killing enemy commanders' troops and from Chaosland zombies (blood wyrms). Crucially, the community documentation is explicit that the rules match Void War — only T5 and above score, on the same steep tier curve laid out in the kill event guide, where a T13 kill is worth roughly fifteen times a T5 and Titans and warplanes are worth thousands.

Then the twist that shapes the whole event: streaks. Consecutive successful attacks build a battle bonus, and ending another commander's streak earns a point bonus of its own. That single rule creates the event's texture — hunters building runs, and counter-hunters stalking the people on runs. If someone in your slot is visibly snowballing, ending them is worth more than another farm kill.

Rewards: hitting point goals unlocks ten levels of phase-goal rewards and Chaosland Permits, which exchange for stackable battle items — fleet size, attack, defense, shield, and fog boosts. Those items then feed back into your performance, so the players who clear levels early compound through the rest of the event.

How to Play It, By Budget

Free and low-spend players. The threat isn't dying — you can't — it's being hospitalized en masse by a whale and losing your ability to score. The community answer: park your army in a 30-minute rally so it isn't sitting available, then disband to hunt blood wyrms or to pile onto weak cities alongside teammates. You score steadily, you never present a fat target, and your permits accumulate.

Spenders and big accounts. Build the streak deliberately: teleport around hitting weak cities to clear all ten levels fast, then use the accumulated bonus and permit items to go after stronger cities and small hives, teleporting continuously so nobody pins you and ends the run. The streak bonus rewards momentum more than raw power, which is why an organized mid-sized account can out-score a lazy whale.

Everyone. Coordinate slots, hunt streak-holders from rival nations, and remember the actual objective: nation ranking, not personal glory. Chaosland is scored individually and decides something collectively.

One Week That Sets Up a Year

It's worth restating what's actually on the table, because players routinely treat Chaosland as just another event and then wonder why their map vanished. The nation that wins keeps its geography; everyone else starts over somewhere unfamiliar. Given that troops can't die, that entry is free, and that the merge notice arrives a week or two ahead, there is no defensible reason to sit this one out.