Iota Farming in In Falsus

Iota are the hexagonal crafting material that drives Card Integration. You earn them by clearing Encounters — not by grinding free-play songs. This guide explains what drops from which Encounter, what conditions unlock a drop, and how the farming planner computes the fastest order to close your collection gaps.

How Iota drops work

Every Encounter has a fixed drop pool of roughly 12 Iota pieces: four colors × three shapes, all at one Tier. When you Connect an Encounter, the game selects from that pool. The pool does not change based on difficulty or your current loadout — it is a fixed table per Encounter.

Drop conditions are binary. A run qualifies when both are true:

1. Connect — you won the Resolve race. Your Total Power and the opponent’s attacks left you standing.
2. Dive Clear or better — you finished the chart with HP above zero. Dive Failed pays nothing even if you Connect.

Full Link and Perfect Dive runs also qualify. Any result above Dive Clear works.

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Reading drop pools

A typical Encounter drop pool from community captures:

Color	Shape A	Shape B	Shape C
Red	Tier 1 piece	Tier 1 piece	Tier 1 piece
Green	Tier 1 piece	Tier 1 piece	Tier 1 piece
Purple	Tier 1 piece	Tier 1 piece	Tier 1 piece
Yellow	Tier 1 piece	Tier 1 piece	Tier 1 piece

The pool is color-first and shape-first. If you need a specific Red hex of a specific shape, you farm the Encounter that drops Red in that shape — not any Red from any chart.

Community databases (such as infalsus.org/guides/database) list every known Encounter drop pool. Use them to target gaps rather than running random charts.

Farming strategy

The naive approach — running every Encounter once — works. It is also slow. A better approach:

1. Open the Iota Farming Planner and filter by the colors and shapes your Blueprints actually need.
2. The planner intersects your filter with every known Encounter drop pool and ranks sources by how many of your targets they cover.
3. Run the top-ranked Encounter until your target pieces drop, then move to the next in the list.

The planner breaks ties toward easier charts. You spend time on Encounters that advance multiple gaps simultaneously.

Blueprint color requirements

Each of the five character Blueprints favors a specific color. A quick reference:

Character	Blueprint	Color	What to farm
Nia Cana	Path to Reality	Red	Red shapes first
Mei Alder	4AM	Blue	Blue shapes first
Ayame Takatsuki	A Warm Gaze Seeking Others	Green	Green shapes first
Iris Leal	Lost Garden of Bonds	Yellow	Yellow shapes first
Story Étienne	First Drop of Abyss	Purple	Purple shapes first

Match the color you are farming to the Blueprint you are building. A mismatched color still fills Zones and contributes to Power and Defense — but the color advantage cycle in Encounters means same-color cards resist same-color enemies.

Higher tiers and Infusion

Each character has an Infusion skill that gates which Iota tiers you may slot per color. Higher Infusion levels unlock higher tiers for that color. As you level a character, return to their Blueprint with better-tier pieces.

Demo players at 0.3.0 are working with a limited set of Encounters and tier-1 Iota. The farming planner tracks tier filtering so you do not grind tier-2 pieces before your Infusion allows them.

Practical farming checklist

1. Pick the Blueprint you are building toward.
2. Note the color and shapes its Zones require.
3. Open the Iota Farming Planner and enter those filters.
4. Run the top-ranked Encounter until you Connect and Dive Clear.
5. Check whether the drop filled a gap. If yes, update the planner or your mental list.
6. Repeat until your Blueprint is worth Integrate.

Do not over-farm in the demo. The 0.3.0 library is six songs. The launch roster expands every Encounter. The farming loop gets richer after September 9, not before.

Related pages

• Card Integration for how to use Iota once you have it.
• Card Integration for the five boards and their color assignments.
• Encounters for how to read the Connect / Dive Clear conditions.
• Blueprint Solver to validate placements before you commit Iota.