Neverness to Everness Gacha System and Pity Explained

The Neverness to Everness gacha system is called Scarborough Fair, and instead of a plain card flip it is a board game: you spend dice to move a piece around a looping board and collect whatever tile you land on. Limited characters cost Solid Dice, the standard board uses Fabricated Dice, weapons (Arcs) have their own Tri-Key board, and the rules are friendlier than most of the genre, with hard pity at 90 pulls, no 50/50 on limited boards, and pity that carries from one banner to the next.

We checked this against Icy Veins' gacha guide, Dexerto's pity breakdown, AllThings.How's dice guide, Game8's pity page and Final Weapon's Version 1.4 announcement coverage in November 2026. Where those sources disagree on a number, we say so.

How the Scarborough Fair Board Works

Every pull is a die roll. Dexerto describes a piece called a Chuppa that moves one to six tiles per roll, and the tile it stops on is your reward. Most tiles hold ordinary prizes, but some are special: Apprentice Chest and Hero Chest tiles carry small chances at the featured S-class character, Lost Pieces tiles pay shop currency, and catching a Guardian awards 30 Warp Pieces, which Dexerto equates to one extra pull.

You cannot steer the dice, so the board is mostly presentation, but it does change how pity feels. Instead of a hidden rate slowly creeping upward, the board itself transforms when you get close to pity, and you can watch the S-class tiles appear. Icy Veins explains that once the change triggers, roughly every fifth or sixth tile becomes an S-class tile until you land on one, after which the board resets to normal.

Ten-pulls come with a bonus. Every 10 pulls includes one extra A-class item for free, either a character or an Arc, so a 10-pull gives you 11 prizes. That makes 10-pulls strictly better than ten singles when you have the dice.

Your current pity count is always visible. Game8 notes it appears under the board name in the Scarborough Fair menu and in the top left corner of the board screen, so there is no need to track it by hand.

The Currencies and What They Convert To

NTE has more pull currencies than most gacha games, but they fit together simply once you see the chain.

• Riftcrystal is the paid currency. It converts to Annulith one to one.
• Annulith is the main free premium currency from quests, events and codes. It buys dice at 160 Annulith per die, so a 10-pull costs 1,600 Annulith.
• Solid Dice (red) roll on Limited Boards, the rate-up character banners.
• Fabricated Dice (blue) roll on the permanent standard board, Strange Encounters. Neither die works on the other's board.
• Tri-Keys pay for the Arc Research Program, the weapon gacha, and Arc pulls only come in 10s.
• Warp Pieces come from duplicates and board tiles and are exchanged in the Warp Exchange shop for a monthly allotment of Solid Dice.
• Lost Pieces are another shop currency from board tiles. AllThings.How lists a monthly exchange of 700 Lost Pieces for 5 dice, but advises checking the in-game shop for the exact terms.

The practical takeaway: Annulith is flexible until you convert it. Once it becomes Solid or Fabricated Dice, it is locked to that board type, so do not convert in bulk until you know which board you want.

Rates, Pity and Why There Is No 50/50

The headline number is 90. If you go 89 pulls on a Limited Board without an S-class character, the 90th is the featured character. Game8 notes the developers stated that any S-class character from a limited board will always be the currently featured one, which is why there is no 50/50 coin flip as in many similar games.

The second number is 70. At 70 pulls without an S-class, the board switches to its modified layout, which Dexerto and Icy Veins both put at a 19.59% S-class rate per roll. That is a sudden jump rather than a gradual ramp: at roughly one chance in five per roll, a modified board rarely takes long to pay out, and the 90th pull is the backstop if it does. A-class pity is much shorter: if nothing A-class or better shows up in nine pulls, the 10th pull delivers one.

The base S-class rate is where the guides split. Icy Veins lists 0.99%, while Dexerto lists 1.87% and AllThings.How 1.88%. The board format makes a single per-roll rate hard to pin down, since some tiles hold chests with their own small odds. Whichever figure is right, the planning math does not change much: budget for 70 to 90 pulls per limited character and treat anything earlier as a bonus.

The rule that most separates NTE from its peers is carryover. All limited character boards share one pity counter, so if you stop at 40 pulls on one character, you start the next limited board at 40 of 90. Final Weapon's summary of the Version 1.4 rules confirms this shared counter covers the Board Modification progress too. The standard board keeps its own separate counter, so pulling there never resets your limited progress.

Cosmetic Milestones on Limited Boards

Limited Boards also pay out cosmetics just for pulling. According to Dexerto and Icy Veins, each Limited Board awards a glider skin at 50 pulls, a vehicle skin at 120 and a character outfit at 200. You can also land on those cosmetics early: Dexerto lists the outfit's base drop rate as 0.33%, rising to 0.68% once pity activates.

This progress works differently from character pity. It is tracked per board, so moving to a new character's board starts the new cosmetics at zero. However, it is saved: when a board with the same name returns as a rerun, your old count comes back with it. Icy Veins gives the example of 40 pulls on Nanally's launch board leaving you 40 of 50 toward the glider, 40 of 120 toward the car skin and 40 of 200 toward the outfit, with that count waiting for you when Nanally's board returns.

For most players these milestones are a side effect, not a goal. Reaching 200 on a single board is far beyond what it takes to get the character, so only chase them for a character you plan to build fully.

How the Arc Board Differs

Arcs are NTE's weapons, and each limited character has a signature Arc on the Arc Research Program boards. For example, Akane Rin's phase runs alongside the Celestial Special Arc program from October 21 to November 11, 2026. The Arc board has its own rules:

• It uses Tri-Keys, and you can only pull in 10s.
• Icy Veins reports an S-class Arc by 60 pulls at the latest, with a 25% chance that it is the featured signature Arc.
• If that first S-class Arc is not the signature one, the featured Arc arrives within the next 20 pulls, so the worst case is 80 pulls for both a standard S-class Arc and the signature.
• Leftover Arc pity carries over to the next Arc board.

Unlike the character boards, the Arc board does have a coin-flip element at the first S-class, which is why the worst case is longer. Icy Veins' tier list also notes that some characters lean heavily on their signature Arc, so check a character's build before you commit Tri-Keys. For free players, the priority is usually characters first, signature Arcs second.

The Standard Board and Starting Perks

Strange Encounters, the standard board, holds six S-class characters: Sakiri, Baicang, Fadia, Hathor, Daffodill and Jiuyuan. It shares the same core rates and pity numbers as the limited boards, but it has two perks for new accounts:

• A beginner discount: your opening 50 rolls here cost 20% less, so each batch of ten takes only 8 Fabricated Dice.
• A free pick: clearing those 50 rolls unlocks a selector for any one of the six standard S-class characters, with no expiry date and no penalty if the dice already handed you one.

New players also collect a fair number of free pulls early. Game8's beginner guide puts the free pulls available after the prologue at up to 40, and Icy Veins notes that A-class support Haniel comes automatically from the tutorial pull. Versions add more on top, including City Tycoon reward tracks; the one added in Version 1.4 handed out two standard character selection boxes and one Arc selection box along the way.

The common advice for spending all of this is simple. Finish the discounted 50 standard pulls with Fabricated Dice, hold your selector until you see what the board gives you, and send your Annulith toward the limited character you want most. The NTE banner schedule shows who is coming through December, the tier list breakdown helps you decide who deserves your dice, the codes guide tracks the small free Annulith drops, and the beginner guide explains which story content pays the most Annulith early on.

Starting With Characters Already Unlocked

Even with friendly pity, a single limited character can take 70 to 90 pulls, and characters who already left the boards are out of reach until a rerun. Some players look at accounts that already have them instead, and the store's NTE account page carries listings from independent sellers, normally labeled with the server region, the S-class characters and sometimes leftover currency. What is listed changes from day to day.

Keep in mind that Perfect World's Terms of Service for the game do not allow players to sell, give away, lend or transfer an account, and the same terms say virtual items have no monetary value. Saving pulls on your own account, with the carryover pity, is the slower but simpler route.

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