Kin and Conquest Blessings List Overview

This Kin and Conquest Blessings list page documents how permanent level-up upgrades are structured, which effect categories appear across runs, and how to record verifiable entries from your own climbs. The Fox Knocks does not publish a static spreadsheet alongside the game; offerings appear as selectable cards with tooltips when you level. Our approach favors confirmed mechanics—like Chain Lightning jumping between nearby foes after Steam patch fixes—over inventing names or numbers that could change in the next balance pass.

Use this overview with best blessings, builds, and the Blessing Picker when planning a run from Getting Started through the Evil Geomancer fight.

What a Blessing is

Blessings are permanent major upgrades granted at level-up. They differ from:

• Shop gear upgrades — bought with gold from mining and combat, incremental stat growth.
• Skill tree nodes — purchased with skill points, organized into Survival and Cunning paths with nodes like Thorns, Gale Runner, and Unbreakable Spirit.
• Temporary floor effects — totems, elite modifiers, or encounter-specific hazards.

A Blessing changes your run’s rules: new procs, stat ceilings, or mechanics that persist as you transition floors and raise difficulty.

Documented pool size

Third-party trackers during the demo cited approximately nineteen unique Blessings in rotation. The 1.0 release expands Kin and Conquest content; expect additional Blessings beyond demo counts. Treat nineteen as a historical demo baseline, not a cap.

You will not see all entries in one climb. The game curates subsets per level, so “completionist” players need many runs—or careful note-taking—to see every tooltip.

Effect categories (framework)

Until an official exhaustive list ships, group discoveries by function when logging your runs:

Direct damage and scaling

Blessings that increase weapon damage, critical outcomes, or conditional burst when you play proximity combat correctly. These amplify Survival builds that scale Thorns off Damage and Cunning Haste builds that need fast pack melts.

On-hit and area chains

Chain Lightning is the best-documented example: attacks chain to nearby targets if they are close enough. Patch notes explicitly fixed chaining behavior and preload stutter—if your run lagged the first time Chain Lightning procced, update the game before judging performance.

Similar blessings (names vary—verify in-game) reward grouping enemies, which interacts with mouse or keyboard positioning from the controls guide.

Survivability and sustain

Effective health, healing triggers, Absorb interactions, or damage reduction. Strong when higher difficulties speed up non-boss enemies and punish standing in telegraphs.

Survival skill nodes already modify Absorb and Thorns; defensive Blessings should complement—not duplicate—those investments. Read Survival path before stacking redundant effects.

Economy and progression

Bonuses tied to coins, essence, experience, or shop value. Often underrated on long climbs where incremental gold snowballs. Pair with consistent ore mining routes noted in the walkthrough.

Utility and quality of life

Pickup radius, projectile clarity, or mechanics that reduce visual clutter. Demo patches merged coins and essence visually while preserving pickup triggers—utility blessings that affect collection remain valuable on dense floors.

How offerings present at level-up

Typical flow:

1. Gain enough experience from combat and objectives.
2. Level up; the game pauses progression choices.
3. Read each Blessing tooltip fully.
4. Pick one; effects apply immediately unless the tooltip states otherwise.

Hold expand buttons on skill nodes for comparison—Blessings should be weighed against your next planned skill tree purchase, not in isolation.

Recording your personal list

Because public wikis lag patches, maintain a simple table from your saves:

Blessing name (exact tooltip)	Category	Synergy notes	Floor obtained
Chain Lightning	On-hit chain	Melee packs, Cunning pulls	Example

Share screenshots with exact tooltip text when reporting errors—paraphrasing causes bad advice across builds hub discussions.

Weapons and Blessing alignment

Six weapon types—including Books and Staffs—change swing timing and range. A blessing strong on slow melee may weaken on ranged stutter-stepping unless it triggers on hit regardless of range. Cross-check weapons tier list assumptions before labeling a blessing “must pick.”

Floors, difficulties, and totems

Floor transitions can reset some temporary states but not Blessings—permanent picks accumulate value across the mountain.

Difficulty modifiers (see hover tooltips in run select) may make defensive blessings outperform raw damage if enemy speed outpaces your reactions.

Totems alter risk/reward on a floor. Offensive blessings shine when totems force extra spawns; defensive blessings help when golden totems threaten instant activation at spawn—move first, then fight.

Demo vs 1.0 expectations

Demo players saw fewer floors, fewer weapons at launch, and roughly nineteen blessings. Release adds breadth:

• More blessing variety (exact count patch-dependent).
• Deeper skill tiers unlocked in updates like 0.5.2.
• Floor 3+ and Books/Staffs integration.

Re-run best blessings recommendations after major patches instead of trusting demo-era tier lists blindly.

Related resources

• Blessings hub — Conceptual intro.
• Best blessings — Pick priority by archetype.
• Blessing Picker — Side-by-side comparison tool.
• Beginner build — When to stop chasing list completion and start winning runs.

Kin and Conquest rewards players who read tooltips and document outcomes. This list page is a living framework—fill it with verified names from your runs rather than expecting every entry pre-written before you play.