Field guide

Our group

Four states play Season 3 together, each led by its state president. Alliances from these states compete against each other and get to explore each other's land.

• S657

  [VAGD]XiaoAnState president
• S663

  [CfA]Thành thảoState president
• S671

  [TTN7]D - 푸른State president
• S672

  [Fu69]B a d M a nState president

All 16 states

States 657 to 672 are split into four groups of four. Each hexagon shows the state's strongest alliance. Point at a group, or tap it, to see its four states light up.

• 657VAGD
• 658VIXn
• 659CNFW
• 660HaNa
• 661NXTA
• 662Gaon
• 663Yurt
• 664FFS1
• 665OTK
• 666PUB
• 667the
• 668SPRG
• 669WATP
• 670IROn
• 671TTN7
• 672Zoe1

Strongest alliance: the alliance with the most combined power among the state's top 100 players. Top player: the highest individual power in the state. Based on the power lists of early October 2026.

Before it starts

The map turns into a prehistoric jungle. Zombies are gone and dinosaurs take their place. The core loop is the same as last season: hunt creatures, collect season resources, upgrade your virus resistance, hunt stronger creatures.

• Save your diamonds. Trade Hubs, the best shop of the season, only take diamonds. Anything you spend in the last weeks before the season is missing there.
• Pick your dinosaur. In Hatch of Legends you raise a T-Rex, Triceratops or Ankylosaurus. All three give the same bonus, so choose the one you like looking at for thirteen weeks.
• Leaders and R4s: agree now where your three Alliance Centers go. Every season building needs one, and good spots go fast on day one.
• Put a Sunday alarm in your phone for the Ancient Dino boss at 12:00 game time. It often dies within 5 to 15 minutes.

Week 1 plan

Your first week decides your last week. Everything in this season compounds, so a slow start stays slow. Tick things off as you go; your ticks are saved in this browser.

1. Build all your Bio Greenhouses on day oneThey make Fern Leaves while you sleep. A greenhouse built on day four has lost you three days of output for good.
2. Pour everything into the Biotech LabIt raises your virus resistance, and that decides the highest dinosaur you can beat. Higher dinosaurs give more of everything.
3. Switch your Specialization to SupportFaster building, more resources per kill and extra virus resistance. You can move to Combat later.
4. Help place the three Alliance CentersOnly the leader and R4s can place them, but anyone can garrison troops there to speed up construction.
5. Make your very first Velociraptor kill countFor the first 7 days a ranking runs that only looks at your first raptor kill: the higher its level, the higher you rank, and the time only matters between players on the same level. Rewards come by mail at the end. So scout first and open with the highest raptor you can safely beat, as early as you can. It shares its name with the State Ruler war, but it's a separate event.
6. Follow the season tasks and claim every rewardThe first tasks walk you through a raptor and a stego kill, two greenhouses and the Biotech Lab. Each pays 1,000 Fern Leaves and 1,000 Cretaceous Scales.
7. Leave Command Center, Armory and Fortification alone for nowThey're good buildings, just not week-one buildings. Every speedup spent there is missing from your virus resistance.

Your week

The season runs on a fixed weekly rhythm. Today is highlighted, based on your own clock.

• Alliance fights
• Bosses
• Shops

Hunting dinosaurs

Dinosaurs carry a virus. Without enough virus resistance your troops lose a big chunk of attack power, so your Biotech Lab sets how high you can hunt.

Can't beat the high levels alone?

Join a stronger player's rally. You get the same glory as the rally leader, so there's no reason to let a reward go unused.

Predator Squads

Armed squads that transport dinosaurs, up to level 200 on the map. You can kill 2 a day for rewards from Monday to Saturday and 5 on Sunday. They drop season resources, Ancient Dino Eggs, blueprints, hero EXP and Pine Cones.

Reported drops per kill: the egg drop stays at 150 at every level, while Fern Leaves and Scales grow fast. Farming for eggs? The lowest level you can clear is enough. Farming for building materials? Go as high as you can.

Glory and Glory Chests

Every kill gives Glory Points, more for higher levels. Every 8 hours you can open a Glory Chest with badges: up to about 148 per chest, or about double with the Season Journey pass. There's no prize for your spot on the glory leaderboard itself. What counts is earning badges early and adding to your alliance's season points.

Bones & Eggs Boom

Around the middle of the season a bonus switches on that lasts until the end. It doubles the Cretaceous Scales you get from raptors and stegos, which makes it the best moment to push your Biotech Lab. Guides disagree about eggs: some say they're doubled too, others say daily egg drops go down. Check your own drops in the first day.

Resources

Four season resources, each with a different job. They only exist during the season.

Watch the storage cap. Fern Leaves and Scales can't pile up forever. On a late-season account both stopped at 15 million, and anything above the cap is lost, so spend before you reach it.

Buildings

Season buildings are the ones every player places, like greenhouses and labs. They're upgraded with Fern Leaves and Cretaceous Scales and disappear when the season ends. This is the order most guides agree on.

Alliance Center rules

• Only the alliance leader and R4s can place them.
• Garrison troops in a center to build it faster.
• If a center is recalled, its durability drops to zero and the resources have to be paid again.
• In Clash for Glory, losing Alliance Center I means your alliance loses the fight straight away. Guard it.

Hatch of Legends

Raise your own dinosaur for the whole season. It's one of the biggest power boosts you can get without spending, and it costs nothing but showing up every day.

• T-Rex
• Triceratops
• Ankylosaurus

• Choose one egg: T-Rex, Triceratops or Ankylosaurus. The bonus is the same for all three, and you're locked to your choice for the season.
• Each level adds exactly 1% troop attack, up to +30% at level 30. Levels 1–5 are the egg stage, from level 6 it hatches.
• At level 16 you unlock a vehicle skin of your species. It goes on all four of your troops, and only the species you hatched can be used.
• Dino Feed goes in through the Hatch button. You earn it from five daily tasks that don't carry over to the next day.
• Pine Cones also grow your dinosaur. They go in through the Alliance Points button, 100 at a time: 300 cones gave a level 22 Triceratops 300 growth points. Later levels are slow, though; level 22 needs 45,000 points to reach 23.

Ancient Dinos

Every Sunday at 12:00 a giant dinosaur appears and the whole state attacks it. There's no limit on attacks, and you're ranked on total damage. The boss changes every week in a fixed order.

1. T-RexWeek 1
2. TriceratopsWeek 2
3. PterosaurWeek 3
4. AnkylosaurusWeek 4
5. DimetrodonWeek 5

After week 5 the rotation starts again from the T-Rex.

How to do the most damage

• No marching needed. Like Fury Lord, you attack it straight from wherever your base is, so all that matters is being online at 12:00.
• Use attack buffs right before it appears, not five minutes early.
• Attacks are unlimited, so keep attacking and healing until it's dead.
• Liliana is the burst hero built for short boss windows.
• Can't do much damage? Attack anyway. Everyone in the top 50 gets both of that week's fossils, and lower ranks still get rewards.

Titles

Each species has its own title. Only the top 3 damage dealers the first time that species is killed on your server get it. After that it's a farming week.

Fossil Album

Each boss drops its own fossils, and the album is bigger than it looks: it has 11 pages, and the first page alone holds 20 fossils. Every piece you collect adds points to a reward track with stops at 30, 50, 100, 180, 240 and 300 points; the 180 stop alone pays 5,000 Ancient Dino Eggs. Duplicates aren't wasted, they can be swapped in the album's Exchange. Missed a Sunday? Single fossil pieces also turn up in the Bio Institute Shop.

Other events

Trade Hubs · Mon, Wed, Fri at 11:00

Hubs on the map that alliances fight over, at levels 1 to 3. In week one only your own state competes; after that every state in the group does, and the hub shops are open to all four states.

• For the alliance that holds it: 20% better prices for all its members, owner-only items, and 10% tax on what everyone else spends there. One level 3 hub had collected 37,200 diamonds in tax.
• Cheap to fight over: at a hub, 10% of the troops you lose are badly wounded and none die.
• After a capture the hub is protected until the next hub day.
• What's in the shop, all for diamonds and in limited stock: Z-crates, Golden Wrenches, badges, EXP chests and speedups. For example 5 one-hour speedups for 500 diamonds.

How we play it

• Have troops in place before 11:00. Marching after the start means arriving at a fight.
• Fill reinforcements in turns so the hub is never empty for a moment.
• Let our own members shop first, then open the hub to everyone. Other players spending diamonds there pay tax to us.

Bio Institute Shop · Saturday and Sunday

The weekend shop, paid in Ancient Dino Eggs. Stock is random and some items come with big discounts. You get 14 refreshes per weekend and they cost eggs, so look at the whole board before you refresh.

Buy in this order: exclusive equipment fragments, then orange hero fragments, then badges (badges are easy to get elsewhere). Save eggs from Monday to Friday so you arrive with a stack.

To give you a feel for prices: a single fossil piece costs 4,000 eggs, or 2,400 when it's 40% off. 300 badges cost 1,800 eggs, but one board had them 80% off for 360. Discounts like that are worth grabbing.

Dino Rescue · Sunday

Predator Squads and Black Market Guardians attack headquarters directly, skipping HQ guards. Your Predator Squad limit goes up to 5 for the day. Beating squads can reveal a Black Market Guardian (up to level 350, rally only); killing it rescues an injured Spinosaurus that your alliance can nurse back for up to 10 gifts.

Dino Egg Defense

This season's Zombie Siege. Waves of dinosaurs attack every member's headquarters. The leader and R4s each start it once, and each player can be breached twice. A breach steals 5% of your eggs (up to 1,000).

• Spend your eggs before it starts, so there's less to steal.
• Aim to finish all waves. Completion pays more than ranking, up to 14 Golden Wrenches.
• The higher reward brackets also depend on the alliance total, so help your neighbours.

Heroes

Three new season heroes arrive in the first six weeks, each with their own pass and signature weapon.

At the same level their base stats are almost identical, so pick by role, or simply by which one you have the most fragments for.

Missed one? After the first six weeks the passes rotate into hero and weapon fragments, so you can still build them later. No need to panic-buy. Season recruit tickets come mainly from the Glory War and season rewards.

Hero Level Swap

All season long you can use a Level Swapper to swap levels between two heroes, so an old hero's levels move to a new one. Between heroes of the same quality the skill levels swap too, slot for slot. Between different qualities only the hero level swaps. Check star level and skill requirements first, and don't swap in the middle of a war.

It looks like Level Swap stays open after the season: on a server with 8 days of season left, its timer still showed 44 days.

Specialization

The cap goes from 50 to 70. Your skills up to 50 stay, and levels 51 to 70 bring new season skills. Below level 30 you're Support automatically; from 30 you choose.

A good moment to switch: when you beat level 60 dinosaurs comfortably and your greenhouses are in order, usually somewhere mid-season. If you mostly play for economy, staying Support all season is fine.

Alliance points and war

Our four states play this season together. Alliance season points decide the final rewards, and they come from three places.

• Personal glory of every member, from hunting and events.
• Cities. Holding a city earns points over time, and you keep those points even if you lose the city later. Cities come in five sizes: Small Town (level 1–2), Midsize City (3), Big Town (4), Big City (5) and Mega City (6). On day 1 only level 1 Small Towns can be captured, and every city starts out neutral this season.
• Clash for Glory. Winning takes 20% of the losing alliance's season points.

Clash for Glory

• On Monday an alliance picks a rival. The one who picks attacks; the one picked defends and can't refuse.
• There's a prep phase and a battle phase. You score by destroying the rival's Alliance Centers and season buildings.
• If your Alliance Center I falls, you lose on the spot.
• Pick rivals carefully. A beatable target is worth more than a proud one.

Final reward tiers

Alliance rewards are handed out by the alliance leader. Event and personal ranking rewards come by mail.

When the season ends

All season buildings and resource tiles are reset, city ownership is wiped, and the Hatch of Legends bonus and skin are removed.

If you spend

You don't need to spend to enjoy the season. Guides do agree this one is harder for free players than last season, mostly because Trade Hubs run on diamonds. If you do want to spend, these two come up again and again as the best value.

Prices are as reported by players and may differ per region. The free Season Journey track gives rewards to everyone; unclaimed rewards arrive by mail at the end.

Common mistakes

Coming from Season 2

If you played the ice and snow season, you already know most of this one. Same systems, new names.

Really new this season: Trade Hubs, the Fossil Album, Hero Level Swap and specialization up to level 70.

Still to confirm

This guide is pieced together from several fan guides. Where they disagree, we say so. If the game tells you something different, the game wins; please let Sota Ima (S672) know so we can fix it.

• Season number. This season used to be called Season 4 and has since been renumbered to Season 3. Older guides still say Season 4, but it's the same season with the same content.
• Bones & Eggs Boom: Scales are doubled for sure; reports on eggs go both ways.
• Daily dinosaur reward limit: it drops from 30 to 15 during the season, but it isn't known yet exactly when.
• Prices of packs can differ per region and currency.

Sources

Written in our own words from these community guides, which have much more detail if you want to dig deeper: LastZ.GG, Last Z Wiki, Last-Z.net and a Season 3 guide on note. Details on Hatch of Legends, the Fossil Album, the shops and Trade Hubs were checked against in-game screenshots from a player near the end of the season on an older server. The dinosaur drawings on this page are original and not taken from the game.

Updates

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