Category: Help

  • Settings & Performance

    Settings & Performance

    What it is

    The settings screen (title and pause menu) controls performance, appearance and comfort. The adaptive quality governor watches your FPS and trims effects automatically if it dips below 30, restoring them when performance recovers to 55+.

    Settings worth knowing

    • Quality — manual preset; changing it resets auto-trims.
    • Chicken texture atlas (faster) — batches all chicken sprites into one draw call; great on low-end devices.
    • Defence help on hover — turn off once you know your towers so the guide never covers the bar.
    • Language — six languages included; switch any time, even mid-siege.
    • Battle speed (B) — double game speed for grinding.

    Pro tips

    On a phone or low-end laptop, enable the atlas and let the governor do its job — it trims effects before they hurt your run, never the other way around.

  • Run Report & Share Cards

    Run Report & Share Cards

    What it is

    Both end screens show a RUN REPORT: your MVP tower with total damage, the top 3 damage and kill towers, farm-door damage taken, leak count and worst leak type, and the best combo with the wave it happened on.

    Share cards

    • Click Share Run to render a 1200×675 parchment share card: game title, mode, medal art, rank and run stats, plus the game URL.
    • On desktop the image is saved and opened for posting; in the browser it downloads as a PNG.
    • Your stat summary is also copied to the clipboard as a fallback.

    Pro tips

    Your run history keeps the newest 200 runs, so you can compare yourself against past you. Share cards are the easiest way to brag — or to recruit someone to beat your score.

  • Cloud Saves

    Cloud Saves

    What it is

    Cloud saves sync your progress between devices — browser to browser, or browser to Steam. You get a 6-character code that names the save and a private key that actually unlocks it.

    How to use it

    • Open CLOUD SAVE on the title screen and generate a code.
    • Press Upload to push your save, or Download to pull it on another device.
    • The private key is stored only on your device — write it down; the code alone can’t read or overwrite anything.

    Pro tips

    Treat the private key like a password — anyone with it can restore your save. Use the same code and key on a new device and your bank, medals and settings come with you.

  • Challenge Codes

    Challenge Codes

    What it is

    A 6-character challenge code recreates your exact map, mutators, setup and 500 eggs — same seed, same everything. Friends race the identical challenge, and your best survival time is saved per code.

    How to use it

    • Copy your current map to share from the CUSTOM MAPS panel.
    • Send the code to friends — they enter it and race your challenge.
    • Beat a shared code’s best time to earn the Code Breaker medal.

    Pro tips

    Challenge codes are perfect for community tournaments and friendly rivalries. The code is the challenge’s identity — share it widely, then go set the time to beat.

  • The Map Editor

    The Map Editor

    What it is

    EDIT MAP mode turns you into a map designer: paint water, forests, hills, pits, rocks and corn tile by tile, add decorative farm objects, and publish your creation to the community gallery with a name, author and download count. You can also generate themed farms (lakes, forest, mountains, death pits, rivers) in one click.

    How to use it

    • Enter EDIT MAP from the title screen.
    • Paint terrain and objects, then publish with a name.
    • Load anyone else’s map from the gallery with one click.

    Pro tips

    Terrain blocks placement — design lanes deliberately. Funnel chickens where your towers can see them, and use pits to delete anything that strays.

  • Medals Explained

    Medals Explained

    What it is

    Medals are your bragging rights and they persist forever. There are 28 achievements (leaderboard placements plus a roster of ridiculous behaviour badges), 24 rank medals for daily placement, 13 worst-performance medals for gloriously failing, plus weekly event and season medals.

    Examples

    • Daily Champion — #1 on today’s board.
    • Chicken Whisperer — converted 10 chickens to your side.
    • Cluck of Shame — lost the siege to a baby chick.
    • Code Breaker — beat a shared challenge code’s best time.
    • Chicken God — finished a season at the top tier.

    Pro tips

    Rank 1–24 each map to a themed chicken medal (1st is The Cluckening, 24th is The Baby). The Medals page shows the full collection with art and unlock conditions.

  • Daily Quests & Streaks

    Daily Quests & Streaks

    What it is

    Every UTC day rolls 3 daily quests from a pool — kill chickens, place defences, earn eggs, clear waves. Each quest has a MINI goal (easy, ~150 eggs) and a BIG goal (hard, up to ~1000 eggs). Playing on consecutive days builds a streak with milestone bonuses.

    How to use it

    • Open DAILY QUESTS from the title screen to see today’s goals.
    • Claim each tier once — rewards are bank eggs.
    • Streak milestones pay +100 eggs a day, with +500 at day 7, +1000 at day 14 and +3000 at day 30.
    • Buy a streak shield for 300 bank eggs (max 3 held) to survive a missed day.

    Pro tips

    Some quests track your best single run (e.g. 1500 kills in one game) rather than daily totals — those need a focused long run. Check which type you drew before you queue up.

  • Leaderboards & Names

    Leaderboards & Names

    What it is

    Chicken Siege’s boards rank survival times: the Daily board updates live, the Weekly board sums your best runs, and the Season board tracks the whole league. Equipped emblems show beside your name.

    How to use it

    • Enter a 1–4 character leaderboard name before your first Daily run (changeable in pause settings).
    • Your rank is polled every 30 seconds mid-run, so the top bar shows your live position (“TOP 14%”).
    • Your own row is highlighted in gold; top 3 get medal-coloured borders.

    Pro tips

    Names are profanity-filtered server-side, so pick something family-friendly. Your emblem from the TITLES & EMBLEMS panel rides along on every board row — equip your rarest one.

  • Weekly Events

    Weekly Events

    What it is

    Every UTC week the game rolls a themed event — Cluckstorm Week, Boom Week, Midnight Clucking, The Swarmening, Legal Nightmare, the Drumstick Derby and more — each with its own mutator set and an exclusive medal.

    How to use it

    • Events are opt-in from the title screen — you choose whether to take on the twist.
    • Reach the event’s goal wave (12–15 depending on the event) to earn its exclusive medal.
    • Event medals are awarded once per week.

    Pro tips

    Read the event’s mutators before starting — they’re a curated difficulty twist, so expect the theme to matter. The full event calendar and medal list is on the Medals page.

  • Weekly Board & Seasons

    Weekly Board & Seasons

    What it is

    The weekly board aggregates your best run per day (Mon–Sun UTC) into one weekly score. Seasons are 28-day leagues with rank tiers from Bronze all the way to Chicken God.

    How to use it

    • Play the Daily Challenge each day — your best run per day feeds the weekly board automatically.
    • Survive 10+ minutes in a week to unlock the Weekly Champion flag.
    • The season progress bar on the title screen shows your tier and the season’s remaining time.

    Pro tips

    Weekly and season rewards are paid once by your final tier, so a strong finish matters more than a strong start. The Chicken God tier earns an exclusive season medal.