Total Battle Crypts Guide - All Crypt Types, Levels, Materials and Best Setup

Crypts come in three types in Total Battle: common, rare and epic. Each type burns its own tar and covers its own level range. Each crypt favors specific crafting materials or gems. Below, you will find a quick comparison of all three types and the research that unlocks each level. You also get the full list of crypts with their main materials, clan chest points by level, and the Carter setup that clears crypts in one march. Let's follow LDShop and break down everything a crypter needs in one place.

Total Battle Crypts at a Glance

Detail	Common Crypts	Rare Crypts	Epic Crypts
Level Range	5 to 25	10 to 30	15 to 35
Tar Used	Common Tar	Rare Tar	Epic Tar
Key Required	No	Yes	No
First Unlock	Available from the start	Crypts II research	Crypts III research
Main Rewards	Equipment materials, resources, silver, experience	Gems plus common materials	Materials for unique equipment
Number of Crypt Types	12	2	17

Crypts are unguarded spots on the map. You send a captain, not an army. Every crypt you finish drops a chest for your clan, so crypting grows your whole clan's wealth. If you are still learning how the kingdom map, captains and clans work, start with our beginner guide.

Common and epic crypts can drop two of their signature material instead of one. Rare crypts do not give this double gem chance.

 

Crypt Levels and Academy Research Unlocks

Higher crypt levels open through the Archeology branch in the Academy.

Research	Crypt Level Unlocked
None	5
Crypts II	10
Crypts III	15
Crypts IV	20
Crypts V	25
Crypts VI	30
Crypts VII	35

Crypts II opens rare crypts, and Crypts III opens epic crypts. Common crypts stop at level 25, and rare crypts stop at level 30. Only epic crypts reach level 35.

 

Full List of Total Battle Crypts and Their Main Materials

Generic materials drop from every crypt. The signature material is what makes each crypt worth targeting. Pick your crypt based on the equipment piece you plan to craft next.

Common Crypts

Crypt	Main Material
Adamantium	Adamant Shard
Cobra	Enchanted Leather
Desert	Royal Griffin Hide
Dwarven	Old Gnome Cogwheel
Fates	Runic Thread
Fire	Green Dragon Scale
Imperial	Imperial Silk
Inferno	Magma Coal
Phantom	Phantom Iron Shard
Siren	Siren Tears
Skull	Ashen Hydra Hide
Thorian	Thorium Ore

The Cobra crypt is the only common crypt that drops Enchanted Leather. Crypters need this material to upgrade their crypting armor, so the snake-themed crypts should be your first target.

Rare Crypts

Crypt	Main Reward
Dracorne	Gems and common materials
Geodrake	Gems and common materials

Gems are the real reason to open rare crypts. Players report that only the horned rare crypt has a chance to drop Amber, the crypt efficiency gem. Check the reward preview before you use a key.

Epic Crypts

Crypt	Main Material
Abandoned	Bone Infusion
Ancient	Ancient Moss
Ancient Warrior	Bronze Ingot
Bastion	Black Glass
Beast	Beast Skin
Cobalt	Enchanted Cobalt
Crimson	Scarlet Silk
Elven	Elven Rope
Harpy	Harpy Feather
Horrors	Batwing
Minos	Minotaur's Horn
Pyramid	Ancient Calx
Scarab	Ancient Scarab
Scorpion	Scorpion Poison
Titanium	Titansteel
Trillium	Unprocessed Trillium
Turtle	Old Shell

 

Crypt Clan Chest Points by Level

Many clans track chest points for their members, often with a daily or weekly target. Players have tracked these clan wealth values for each crypt level.

Level	Common	Rare	Epic
5	13	-	-
10	35	66	-
15	75	130	75
20	167	319	598
25	550	800	1,000
30	-	1,200	1,184
35	-	-	about 1,480

The table reveals three useful patterns:

• Level 25 commons pay over three times more than level 20s. Push for 25 as soon as you can clear it in one march.
• Level 15 epics give the same points as level 15 commons. Save your epic tar for level 20 and above.
• Rare 30s slightly outscore epic 30s. Rare tar is also easier to collect, so rare 30s are the better points deal.

 

How to Get Tar and Keys for Crypts

• Common Tar: Tar Workshop, Wellspring Ruins, clan chests, Gold purchases and the Triumphal Challenge.
• Rare and Epic Tar: Tournaments, clan chests, sales, Gold purchases and the Triumphal Challenge. No building produces them.
• Rare Crypt Keys: Capture an Elven Citadel of the same level as the crypt. You can also buy keys in the Fenrir's Invasion shop during Ragnarok.

Rare and epic tar run out fastest, and Gold is one of the few steady ways to restock them. A quick total battle top up keeps your Gold ready for tar purchases, so your crypt runs don't stall between tournaments. The best platform to make the top-up is LDShop, it lets players top up for less and it is a great way to save money.

Active clans collect huge amounts of tar from events against the Ancients. Your Tar Workshop also stops producing once storage passes its capacity. So talent points in tar production are rarely worth it.

 

Best Captain for Total Battle Crypts: Carter Setup

Carter is the only captain with crypt bonuses. His crypt efficiency and tar capacity grow with his level. Players report that these bonuses stop growing at level 300.

Slot	Best Choice
Gear	Tomb Raider early, Omniscience later
Gems	Amber
Enchantment	Pioneer
Artifact	Torch of Olympus, or War Drum as a stopgap

If your torch's random bonus only boosts common or rare crypts, reroll it. Aim for the overall or epic crypt bonus instead.

 

Crypt Exploration Efficiency Bonuses to Stack

Turn on every one of these before a crypting session:

• Academy: Crypt Exploration Efficiency, Exploration Cost and Chance to Explore Twice.
• Hero talents: Crypt efficiency and cost nodes in Archeology, saved as a separate crypt preset.
• Premium title: Great Archaeologist, which boosts crypt efficiency and march speed.
• Personal bonus: Crypt efficiency under the plus icon.
• Watchtower: Reveals crypts on the map, including high-level ones.
• Extra tar: Carry more tar than the crypt needs to get a 10% efficiency bonus.

Your hero's talent points also matter outside crypting. Keep your combat preset built around a strong hero, and check our hero tier list before you invest in one.

 

Crypt Efficiency vs Cost Explained

Efficiency decides how much of a crypt one march clears. Cost decides how much tar each march burns.

The game rounds marches up. A crypt that needs 6.2 marches still takes 7. So an efficiency upgrade only saves tar when it removes a full march. Cost reductions save tar on every march.

Note how many marches your target crypt takes right now. Then stack efficiency toward the next whole-march breakpoint.

 

Crypting Tips for Faster Clan Growth

• Clear every crypt in one march. If you need two or three captains, drop a level.
• Finish what you start, because other players can complete your half-explored crypt and take the chest.
• Never explore a rare crypt someone else unlocked, since that counts as poaching.
• Clear all crypts within a short radius before marching further out.
• Redeem the latest gift codes regularly, since free rewards help you save Gold for tar.

 

Conclusion

Crypts in Total Battle work best when you treat them as a planned hunt, not a random click. Use the crypt list to target the materials you need. Use the chest points table to pick levels that give your clan the most value. Build Carter properly and stack every efficiency bonus. Once you can clear crypts in one march, you will grow faster and get far more from every drop of tar in Total Battle.