Arcade mode: the daily ticket, the rank ladder and what the run chest pays.

Rank A at Wave 67, S at 120, SS at 5.4M points — and no SSS in sight.

Arcade mode is the run type update 1.7 added on 10 October 2026, and it is the one place in the game where your build is assembled live. You take a free daily ticket to a map called Kuraigana, pick one artifact out of three every time you level, clear boss blocks that pay out in Diamonds, and finish with a Run Chest sized by the rank your run earned. This page is built from two complete runs recorded on 17 October 2026 — one stopped at Wave 120, one went to Wave 420 — because the developer publishes the mode’s name and nothing else about it.

How a run is set up

1. Choose Arcade at the mode select. The mode picker sits in the lobby, and the arcade entry opens on its own screen — the map is already Kuraigana, not one of the survival islands. If you are picking a survival map, you are in the wrong mode.
2. Check the ticket line before anything else. The entry screen reads TICKET READY — Your free run for today. That is the run you get; nothing on the screen promises a second.
3. Set the party. The entry screen carries a party size line; both runs here were solo, so nothing on this page describes how a larger party splits artifact picks.
4. Start, then pick an artifact at every level. The pause that interrupts the run reads LEVEL 87! Arena paused — pick an artifact for this run, and the three options are rarity-labelled: a typical hand was a Rare Healing Orb, a Legendary Tamamo’s Comb and a Legendary Oil Procession Lantern.
5. Treat the picks as the run’s build. They last for that run only, which is why the same fruit can feel different two runs apart — the artifacts, not the fruit, decide what your damage does at Wave 300.

What the artifact picks look like

The pool spans the whole rarity ladder, and the rarest tier does appear as a pick, not only in chests. Across the two recordings the options included Commons (Chopper’s Hat, Leaf of the Oji Tree), Uncommons (Seastone Cuffs), Rares (Zoro’s Bandana, Guard Bubble, Split Kitsune Mask) and Legendaries (Whitebeard’s Bandana, Ryuma’s Sabre, Law’s Spotted Hat, Nine Tails Drum), with two Mythics offered in the Wave 120 run: Moria’s Scissors and Straw Hat.

What that means for your choices: the pick is the cheapest power in the game, because it costs a level you were going to earn anyway. Take the slot that covers the job you are missing — sustain on a run where you keep dying to chip damage, damage when the boss blocks are timing out — rather than the highest rarity on offer. A Legendary that does not fit the build is a wasted level.

The rank ladder, as far as it can be read

Rank shows up twice: in the HUD while you play, and on the end panel with the run’s final numbers. Neither screen prints the threshold, and no official surface lists the ladder — so the table below is two runs, not a rulebook.

What the Run Chest paid

Two chests is a small sample, and the second one is why this page does not promise rarity: every single item in it was already owned. The visible difference between the two is the count — six against five — which is exactly the effect the SS-run creator describes, that rank raises the number of artifacts and not their tier. His fuller claim, that Rank S pays exactly four, is not something either recording shows.

What a run pays

Do not build a Diamonds-per-minute model on these numbers. Two runs, one rank change, and two mid-run notices that read larger than the run’s own total are not a rate — they are a floor and a ceiling for what a long arcade session can hand you. What is solid: the payout moves with how deep you go, and the deep end is where the big notices sit. For the repeatable income sources outside arcade, see Diamond farming.

Bosses you will meet in an arcade run

All four were seen in these two runs. The Ice boss in the Wave 20 slot is described in more detail on the wave page, including its arena-edge prompt, because survival mode uses the same boss.

Watch both runs

What the recordings do not prove: the rank thresholds, whether Rank SSS exists, whether more than one arcade run a day is available, how party size splits the artifact picks, or what the arcade chest can drop at the top of the rarity ladder. None of those is published by the developer, and two runs cannot settle them.

What is still unknown

• Rank thresholds. No surface prints the score or wave needed per rank. The ladder above is observation only.
• Whether Rank SSS exists. Not seen at 5.42M points and Wave 420. Absence of evidence, not evidence of absence.
• Ticket supply. One free run per day was shown. Whether extra runs cost Robux, Diamonds or nothing is not shown.
• Drop rates. The chest prints a count, not odds. Nothing here says the SS chest is more likely to contain a Mythic artifact — only that it held more items.
• Multiplayer. Both runs were solo, so this page says nothing about how a four-player party splits picks or score.

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Where this comes from: the in-game PATCH NOTES 1.7 panel read on 10 October 2026, plus two complete arcade runs recorded on 17 October 2026 (groundon7828) and read end to end. Panel text, ranks, counts and payouts are quoted as displayed; the one creator claim repeated here as a claim — that rank raises artifact count rather than rarity — is labelled as his.