How to Unlock and Complete Incursions in Necesse Step by Step

To unlock Incursions in Necesse, defeat Sage and Grit to open the Deep Desert Temple, then beat the Fallen Wizard on its second floor to get your first Gateway Tablet. With that tablet in your inventory, craft a Fallen Altar and place a tablet inside it to open a portal to the Incursion linked to that tablet. Incursions are temporary post-endgame areas, and each one has its own objective, biome, tier, modifiers, and boss.

Each biome has a minimum tier before it can appear. The table lists the boss, boss drop, and Hunt and Extraction rewards for every biome.

Defeat Sage and Grit and the Fallen Wizard to Get Your First Tablet

Sage and Grit unlock the Deep Desert Temple, so that's where you start. Once they're defeated, the temple opens, and the Fallen Wizard waits on its second and final floor. Beating the Fallen Wizard drops a Gateway Tablet every time, since its drop rate is 100%.

That tablet is what unlocks the Fallen Altar recipe. You don't get to choose its biome, because it's a random Incursion tablet. The Fallen Wizard also drops 60 Altar Dust every time, and you'll spend that dust on perks later.

Craft the Fallen Altar at a Tungsten Workstation

The Fallen Altar is where tablets turn into Incursions, so it's the next thing to build. You craft it at a Tungsten Workstation with these materials:

• 10 Tungsten Bars
• 10 Glacial Bars
• 10 Mycelium Bars
• 10 Ancient Fossil Bars
• A Gateway Tablet in your inventory

The altar does more than open portals. You'll also use it to open the perk tree and to finish Incursions, so place it somewhere you can get back to easily.

Open an Incursion With a Gateway Tablet

Gateway Tablets don't appear under that name in the game. Each one is named after its biome, such as Forest Deep Cave Tablet or Graveyard Tablet. Every tablet is linked to one Incursion and can be used only once.

1. Place the Fallen Altar and interact with it.
2. Hover over a tablet to see its biome, tier, objective, special rewards, and modifiers.
3. Place the tablet in the altar and use it to open the portal.

Read the hover details before you commit, because the tablet is used up once it opens its portal. Check that the objective and modifiers match what you're ready for.

Tier 1 tablets can be crafted at the Fallen Workstation for the four Deep Cave biomes:

• Forest Deep Cave Tablet: 10 Tungsten Bars and 10 Ectoplasm
• Snow Deep Cave Tablet: 10 Glacial Bars and 10 Glacial Shards
• Swamp Deep Cave Tablet: 10 Mycelium Bars and 10 Silk
• Desert Deep Cave Tablet: 10 Ancient Fossil Bars and 5 Worm Carapaces

Biome tablets from Tier 2 and up can't be crafted. They come from enemy drops, boss rewards, and perk unlocks.

Complete the Hunt, Extraction, or Trial Objective

Every Incursion has one objective, and finishing it opens the boss portal. The objective type is part of the tablet, so check it before you open the portal.

• Hunt: Kill 100 enemies. At Tier 2 and up, enemies drop their unique mob drops only in Hunt Incursions.
• Extraction: Mine 100 of the target ore blocks. Enemies start spawning in as you progress, so the longer you mine, the more you'll be fighting.
• Trial: Fight the boss directly from the start. Trials only appear in the Moon Arena and Sun Arena.

The Hunt and Extraction rewards in the table are the items you collect while working through the objective. Certain mob drops only appear in Hunts, and certain ores only appear in Extractions, so the objective type changes what you gather.

Beat the Portal Boss and Collect Incursion Rewards

Finishing the objective opens a portal that leads to the boss. From that point, normal enemies retreat and no new ones spawn, even after the boss dies.

Before the boss fight starts, you can leave, die, or return at any time without penalty. Once the fight begins, the attempt ends if no living player remains in the Incursion, and the boss's Essence isn't awarded for that attempt. Boss-summoning items can't be used inside Incursions.

Each boss drops its biome's Essence when you kill it, along with its boss drops. Rewards fall into two groups. Default rewards, shown in white, include objective rewards and boss drops. Special rewards, shown in orange, can include upgraded weapons and armor or Gateway Tablets of an equal or higher tier, and every Incursion boss guarantees a Gateway Tablet among its special rewards.

When all attempts are used up, the progress bar shows the Incursion as complete. To fight that boss again, start a new Incursion. When you're finished, select Complete Incursion from the Fallen Altar's menu. Everything left inside is deleted except Banners and Banner Stands, so take out anything you want to keep first.

Understand Incursion Tiers and Modifiers Before You Enter

The tier sets how hard an Incursion is. A higher tier makes enemy modifiers stronger and gives better rewards, and biomes unlock at their minimum tier.

Modifiers come in two kinds. Stat modifiers are simple buffs and debuffs. Green ones help you with Loot, Movement Speed, Damage, and Attack Speed, and red ones boost enemies with Health, Movement Speed, and Damage. Loot applies to ordinary drops from ores, barrels, enemies, and bosses, but not to unique rewards. For example, +30% Loot gives an ore block that normally drops one ore a 30% chance to drop a second.

Named modifiers are separate effects. Tier 4 to 7 tablets have two of them, and Tier 8 and up have three:

• Alchemical Interference: Buffs granted from potions have 50% less duration.
• Crawlmageddon: All enemies are accompanied by a crawling zombie.
• Explosive: Enemies explode 1.5 seconds after they die. The explosion doesn't damage nearby terrain.
• Flameling Infested: A Flameling tries to spawn every 10 seconds after the last one disappears. It stays for 4 seconds and fires 18 fireballs in a circle.
• Frenzy: Below 40% health, enemies increase their attack and movement speed by 50%.
• Storming: Three lightning bolts strike near you in quick succession every 10 seconds. Each strike is marked on the ground about 3 seconds before it lands.
• Tremors: Every 25 seconds, your movement speed drops by 50% for 5 seconds. Only the player is slowed.

Climb the Necesse Incursion Biome Ladder With Altar Dust

The higher biomes are unlocked through the Fallen Altar's perk tree. Access perks come in a fixed order, and each one needs the perk before it plus a completed Incursion at the right tier. Unlocking an access perk also gives you that biome's tablet the first time.

The first perk to buy is "More dust!" for 30 Altar Dust. It makes enemies in Incursions sometimes drop Altar Dust, which pays for the rest of the climb. From there, the access perks run in this order:

1. "Mother comes..." costs 100 Altar Dust and requires "More dust!" It unlocks Slime Cave tablets and gives you a Tier 2 Slime Cave Tablet.
2. "Fear the Endless Night!" costs 150 Altar Dust and requires "Mother comes..." plus a completed Tier 2 or higher Slime Cave Incursion. It unlocks Graveyard tablets and gives you a Tier 3 Graveyard Tablet.
3. "The Empress awaits..." costs 225 Altar Dust and requires "Fear the Endless Night!" plus a completed Tier 3 or higher Graveyard Incursion. It unlocks Spider Castle tablets and gives you a Tier 4 Spider Castle Tablet.
4. "Darkness falls..." costs 320 Altar Dust and requires "The Empress awaits..." plus a completed Tier 4 or higher Spider Castle Incursion. It unlocks Moon Arena tablets and gives you a Tier 5 Moon Arena Tablet.
5. "Dawn arises!" costs 470 Altar Dust and requires "Darkness falls..." plus a completed Tier 5 or higher Moon Arena Incursion. It unlocks Sun Arena tablets and gives you a Tier 6 Sun Arena Tablet.
6. "Crystalline beauty..." costs 680 Altar Dust and requires "Dawn arises!" plus a completed Tier 6 or higher Sun Arena Incursion. It unlocks Crystal Hollow tablets and gives you a Tier 7 Crystal Hollow Tablet.
7. "Feed the Machine..." costs 1,010 Altar Dust and requires "Crystalline beauty..." plus a completed Tier 7 or higher Crystal Hollow Incursion. It unlocks Scrapyard tablets and gives you a Tier 8 Scrapyard Tablet.

Spend carefully along the way. If you use up all your Altar Dust before buying "More dust!", you can lock yourself out of upgrades until you beat the Fallen Wizard again.

Upgrade Tablets and Reach the Ascended Incursion

Once you have a tablet for a biome you like, you can raise its tier at an Upgrade Station. The tablet goes up one tier and its special rewards and modifiers are rerolled, but the biome and objective stay the same. The cost is 25 Upgrade Shards times the tablet's current tier, so a Tier 7 Forest Deep Cave Hunt Tablet costs 175 Upgrade Shards and becomes a Tier 8 Forest Deep Cave Hunt Tablet with different rewards and modifiers. Gateway Tablets can be upgraded as high as Tier 10.

Tier 9 doesn't add a new biome. Its perks extend drops and modifiers, and they lead to the final Incursion:

1. Keep working through the perk tree past "Feed the Machine..." and buy a Tier 9 perk.
2. Buy "The Beginning of the End" for 2,300 Altar Dust. Once it's bought, Tier 8 and higher Incursion bosses drop Ascended Shards, including the Mutant Hydra in the Scrapyard.
3. Collect 5 Ascended Shards from those bosses.
4. Craft an Ascended Incursion Tablet at the Fallen Workstation from 5 Ascended Shards.
5. Place the tablet in the Fallen Altar and open the final Incursion, where the boss is the Ascended Wizard.