DomiNations Update 12.20 - Mythical Artifacts

Greetings Leaders,

For DomiNations Update 12.20, we bring massive changes to the Museum with Mythical Artifacts and the Museum Showcase. With a massive influx of benefits from utilizing your entire Legendary Artifact collection, your troops will now become more powerful than ever. We’re also bringing updates to the rewards dropped from League Chests, giving you even more opportunities to claim Legendary Tokens simply for climbing the ranks! There’s still plenty more to cover but lets get right into what's coming in next week's update.

Mythical Artifacts
Mythical Artifacts will be special versions of currently existing Legendary Artifacts with higher starting values in their new Mythical tier. Each Mythical Artifact will have a total of 6 benefits, and even though they start higher than their Legendary counterparts each line can be upgraded to level 10!

• Mythical Artifacts can only be displayed in the 3 Mythical Artifact Displays
  • 3 for War Hall & 3 for Main Hall
  • These displays are unlocked when the Museum is constructed at level 1!
  • A mythical Artifact can’t be assigned to the Hermitage Museum
    
    
    
• Mythical Artifacts will have a special look to them to help differentiate from their Legendary counterparts.
  • Mythicals will have 6 stars
  • Their ‘Mythical’ benefit will be at the top of the benefit list and feature a unique text.
  • Mythicals will have a unique ribbon denoting they are the Mythical version.
    
    
• You can display a Legendary and Mythical Artifact of the same name at the same time.
  • EX. Supermarine Spitfire Engine in a Legendary Artifact display and a Mythical Supermarine Spitfire Engine in a Mythical Artifact Display.Like Legendary Artifacts, you cannot display duplicate Mythical Artifacts.
  • Currently only the following Mythical Artifacts will be available post 12.20 release:
    
    

    Main Hall	Stats
    Napoleon’s Bicorne Hat (Available through Marco starting 7/28/25 - 9/1/25)	Mythical Buff - Airstrip Troop HP +11% Barracks Troop DMG +11% Barracks Troop HP +11% Factory Troop DMG +11% Factory Troop HP +11% Airstrip Troop DMG +11%
    Ruyi Scepter (Available through 8/11/25 - 8/25/25 Step-Up sale)	Mythical Buff - Factory Troop HP +11% Enemy Defender Spawn Time +16% Enemy Anti-Tank Gun DMG +16% Enemy Catapult DMG +16% All Enemy Defensive Towers HP +11% All Enemy Defensive Towers DMG +11%
    Double-Headed Serpent (VIP Level 15 Store Only)	Mythical Buff - Library Tech Resource Cost -11% Oil Looted +16% Oil Looted +16% Heavy Tank DMG +11% Fighter DMG +11% All Resources Looted +11%

    
    
    

    War Hall	Stats
    Supermarine Spitfire Engine (Available through Marco starting 7/28/25 - 9/1/25)	Mythical Buff - Airstrip Troop DMG +8% Bomber DMG +14% Bomber HP +14% Bomber HP +14% Heavy Tank DMG +14% Fighter DMG +14%
    Asdic Type 113x (Available through Marco starting 7/28/25 - 9/1/25)	Mythical Buff - Invading Generals HP -14% Invading Barracks Troop DMG -14% Invading Factory Troop DMG -14% Invading Airstrip Troop DMG -14% Defender Spawn Time -14% Missile Silo DMG +14%
    Da Vinci’s Flying Machine (Available through 7/28/25 - 8/11/25 Step-Up sale)	Mythical Buff - Fighter HP & DMG +7% Fighters DMG +11% Fighters HP +11% Fighters HP +11% Heavy Tank DMG +11% Heavy Tank HP +11%
    Gemini 8 Gloves (Available through 8/25/25 - 9/8/25 Step-Up sale)	Mythical Buff - Defender Movement Speed +9% Defender HP +12% Enemy Defender Spawn Time +12% All Defensive Towers HP +12% All Defensive Towers DMG + 12% Enemy Missile Silo DMG -12%

    
    You may notice that not all Legendary Artifacts have received a Mythical version at launch. We still have more on the way that are being reserved for future releases.

Artifact Showcase
While you’re waiting and speculating for future Mythical Artifact releases, you’ll want to take a look at the Museum Showcase! The Museum Showcase will give use to all of your Legendary Artifacts in storage, and even the new Mythical Artifacts you collect that aren’t on display. The showcase allows you to select one benefit from each Legendary & Mythical Artifact in your inventory to add to your overall benefits list.
You will have a separate Showcase each for the Main and War Hall. You’ll first see your mythical artifacts and then your legendary artifacts when scrolling through the showcase.

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• All Showcase displays are available when you build the Museum at Level 1!
• Legendary & Mythical Artifacts on their normal displays cannot be activated as a Showcase artifact.
• Your currently active buffs will be displayed right beneath the Artifact in the showcase.
  • You’ll also be able to view all benefits that are currently active in your showcase.

Tapping the ‘Assign' button on an empty display will show you your currently available Legendary or Mythical Artifacts (including duplicates available for that specific display). After selecting the Artifact you wish to use you’ll be able to choose the benefit you’d like active. By default the first benefit in an Artifact will be active, but you can choose a different benefit by tapping any of the checkboxes on the right side of the benefit window.

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• If an artifact is in an active Display it will be inactive in your Showcase Display, the Artifact will remain in the Showcase display however.
  • The display slot in the showcase will show ‘Assigned to War/Primary Hall’ if you have it currently displayed.
  • Duplicates cannot be displayed. Ex. You can’t have a Da Vinci’s Flying Machine on your War Display and also on your Showcase Display if you have more than one of the Legendary Artifact.
• War Showcases work just like War Hall when it comes to World War. Your Artifacts will be locked when Planning Day ends.
• You will be able to Spy War Showcases
• Showcases cannot be saved to Museum Loadouts.
  • If you switch to a Loadout that has an Artifact currently active in your Showcase, the showcase will deactivate that Artifact in favor of the Loadout.
  • If you switch out of a Loadout that has an Artifact displayed in your Showcase, the showcase will reactivate that Artifact.
• An ‘Assign All’ Button is available to display all currently owned Artifacts that aren’t assigned in your showcase.
• With this release we’re also increasing the maximum Artifact storage to 1,000!
  • Your base Storage is now increased to 50.

Changes to Artifact Crafting
Artifacts can now be crafted with three or more benefit lines of the same type.

• Artifacts will still be unable to roll with more than two identical percentages. (ex. Air Defense DMG +3% and Air Defense DMG +3% is the maximum an artifact can have in two out of five benefits. But it can also have Air Defense DMG +6% alongside it.)

This is a MASSIVE wave of incoming possibilities that we can’t wait to see you take advantage of! We look forward to seeing how you bolster current strategies, or emerge victorious with new ones.



League Chest Update

In Update 12.20, we’re making changes to the League Chest rewards and League Boat rewards. For both League Chests, and Boats you will no longer receive randomly generated rewards. You will ALWAYS be able to select one of the new rewards for each League. Notably, League Boats will now include Legendary Tokens!

League Chest Rewards

League	League Chest Reward
No League	10,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Copper III	20,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Copper II	30,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Copper I	50,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Silver III	200,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Silver II	300,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Silver I	400,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Gold III	1,000,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Gold II	2,000,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Gold I	3,000,000 Food & Gold, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Kingdom III	2x 30m Generic SpeedUp, 10x NTG Shipments, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Kingdom II	2x 30m Generic SpeedUp, 11x NTG Shipments, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Kingdom I	2x 30m Generic SpeedUp, 12x NTG Shipments, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Empire III	3x 30m Generic SpeedUp, 13x NTG Shipments, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Empire II	3x 30m Generic SpeedUp, 15x NTG Shipments, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Empire I	3x 30m Generic SpeedUp, 17x NTG Shipments, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Dynasty III	2x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 20x NTG Shipments, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Dynasty II	2x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 25x NTG Shipments, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing
Dynasty I	3x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 30x NTG Shipments, 1x 1h Instant Retrain Blessing

League Boat Rewards

League	League Boat Reward
Copper III	2x 5m Generic SpeedUp, 20,000 Food & Gold
Copper II	3x 5m Generic SpeedUp, 30,000 Food & Gold
Copper I	4x 5m Generic SpeedUp, 50,000 Food & Gold
Silver III	5x 5m Generic SpeedUp, 200,000 Food & Gold
Silver II	6x 5m Generic SpeedUp, 300,000 Food & Gold
Silver I	7x 5m Generic SpeedUp, 400,000 Food & Gold
Gold III	8x 5m Generic SpeedUp, 1,000,000 Food & Gold
Gold II	9x 5m Generic SpeedUp, 2,000,000 Food & Gold
Gold I	10x 5m Generic SpeedUp, 3,000,000 Food & Gold
Kingdom III	1x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 1x Legendary Token, 10x Platinum
Kingdom II	1x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 1x Legendary Token, 20x Platinum
Kingdom I	1x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 1x Legendary Token, 30x Platinum
Empire III	2x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 1x Legendary Token, 40x Platinum
Empire II	2x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 1x Legendary Token, 50x Platinum
Empire I	2x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 1x Legendary Token, 60x Platinum
Dynasty III	3x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 2x Legendary Token, 60x Platinum
Dynasty II	3x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 2x Legendary Token, 70x Platinum
Dynasty I	4x 1h Generic SpeedUp, 3x Legendary Token, 70x Platinum

New Councilor - Hammurabi (Leader)

Hammurabi is our next Councilor to join DomiNations!

Hammurabi ascended to the throne of Babylon around 1792 BCE, inheriting a modest kingdom hemmed in by more powerful rivals. But through a mix of shrewd diplomacy and calculated warfare, he transformed Babylon into the dominant power of Mesopotamia.

In DomiNations Hammurabi will improve your Redoubt and Tower DMG, and even bolster your Air Defenses when they’re seated in your Council Chambers. Hammurabi will be available starting 8/4!

Main & War Hall

Common	Uncommon	Rare	Epic	Legendary
Redoubt DMG +9%	Redoubt DMG +11%	Redoubt DMG +13%	Redoubt DMG +16%	Redoubt DMG +20%
	Redoubt DMG +11%	Redoubt DMG +13%	Redoubt DMG +16%	Redoubt DMG +20%
		Tower DMG +11%	Tower DMG +13%	Tower DMG +16%
			Tower DMG +13%	Tower DMG +16%
				Air Defense DMG & HP +18%

Additional Updates

• Visual Updates to Detachments during combat
  • We’ve updated how deployed Detachments look in your Troop Tray to assist in making it easier to identify whether they’ve been deployed. A deployed Detachment’s Troop Tray art will now appear slightly transparent when in combat.
    
    
    
• Fixed an issue where an arrow and continue button appeared in the Detachment first time tutorial.
• We’ve removed the arrow in this instance as it wasn’t a clickable space to proceed through the tutorial. We hope this clears some potential confusion as players work through the tutorial.
• Added a visual update to the Demolition War Tactic.
  • With the change to Demolition functionality, you may have sometimes noticed that there was a fuse on the field with nothing at the end. We’ve added Dynamite to the end of this fuse, but like ACME Dynamite it’s purely visual, and it does feel a bit better to have something at the end of the fuse.
• Fixed an issue where you could tap ‘fill’ after already using the Speed Up Autofill
  • When using the auto-fill SpeedUp function players could tap ‘fill’ and then once the SpeedUps are auto-filled to your upgrade you could tap ‘fill’ again and it would show a blank popup. Tapping confirm here would unselect your SpeedUps. In update 12.20 you will no longer be able to tap the ‘fill’ button when SpeedUps have already been auto-filled.

 

....How much will mythicals cost in crowns?

Mythicals will cost 1,000 Tokens.
The best "deal" I've seen on Tokens at Marco is 60 Tokens for 4,500 Crowns.
60 goes into 1,000 16 2/3s times (1000/60=16.667). 16.667 times 4,500 (16.667x4500) = 75,001 Crowns.
So, one Mythical artifact will cost (if you're only using crowns) 75,001 Crowns.

At the straight base rate of 100 Crowns for a dollar you will get 75,000 for $750.
If you get your crowns 1/2 off a Mythical will cost $375.00

I understand that there are free tokens to be had/won.
I understand that crowns can be available on a wide variety of deals.

But that (I believe) is the basic math.
Please feel free to check my calculations... I'm not that great at mathematics.

Keep in mind that there will eventually/probably be more than 100 Mythical Artifacts available.
100 x 750 = $75,000.00

 

Mythicals will cost 1,000 Tokens.
The best "deal" I've seen on Tokens at Marco is 60 Tokens for 4,500 Crowns.
60 goes into 1,000 16 2/3s times (1000/60=16.667). 16.667 times 4,500 (16.667x4500) = 75,001 Crowns.
So, one Mythical artifact will cost (if you're only using crowns) 75,001 Crowns.

At the straight base rate of 100 Crowns for a dollar you will get 75,000 for $750.
If you get your crowns 1/2 off a Mythical will cost $375.00

I understand that there are free tokens to be had/won.
I understand that crowns can be available on a wide variety of deals.

But that (I believe) is the basic math.
Please feel free to check my calculations... I'm not that great at mathematics.

Keep in mind that there will eventually/probably be more than 100 Mythical Artifacts available.
100 x 750 = $75,000.00

BHG now

 

It is also "interesting" to note that (so far only) one Mythical Artifact is only available at the VIP store to Level 15 VIPs.
That means (again, feel free to check my math) that only people who have spent >$7,500 on DomiNations will have access to this (and probably future) Mythical Artifacts.

Bottom Line: Only those who spend a lot of money (well, a lot to me) will be acquiring Mythical Artifacts and, therefore, remain in the top tier of players.

 

It is also "interesting" to note that (so far only) one Mythical Artifact is only available at the VIP store to Level 15 VIPs.
That means (again, feel free to check my math) that only people who have spent >$7,500 on DomiNations will have access to this (and probably future) Mythical Artifacts.

Bottom Line: Only those who spend a lot of money (well, a lot to me) will be acquiring Mythical Artifacts and, therefore, remain in the top tier of players.

fyi vip 15 is around 50k - 75k going with the standard 1 dollar per 2 vip points.

 

Hi Harlem - with the amount of tokens that is required for new mythic legendary. Is it possible the development team could make the air drops for tokens permanent to help us out? I don’t see how 3 tokens to potentially 20 tokens a day would hurt with such a huge amount needed for M legendary.

@Harlems369th

 

Is there a chance that we will have a beta testing on this and if yes when will it be?

 

Hi Harlem - with the amount of tokens that is required for new mythic legendary. Is it possible the development team could make the air drops for tokens permanent to help us out? I don’t see how 3 tokens to potentially 20 tokens a day would hurt with such a huge amount needed for M legendary.

@Harlems369th

We'll be keeping an eye on the Legendary Token economy. But as noted in the original release here, we've increased the Legendary Token totals that you'll be able to collect through the same means you've done so in the past.

 

Is there a chance that we will have a beta testing on this and if yes when will it be?

We're targeting the release of 12.20 for next week.

 

We'll be keeping an eye on the Legendary Token economy. But as noted in the original release here, we've increased the Legendary Token totals that you'll be able to collect through the same means you've done so in the past.

Ok. Thank you for reaching out.

 

How can we decide to change the way crafting works after eight years of the museum's existence, certainly the building in which players spend the most time and invest the most money?
This is really taking your gaming community for idiots

Changes to Artifact Crafting
Artifacts can now be crafted with three or more benefit lines of the same type.

• Artifacts will still be unable to roll with more than two identical percentages. (ex. Air Defense DMG +3% and Air Defense DMG +3% is the maximum an artifact can have in two out of five benefits. But it can also have Air Defense DMG +6% alongside

 

Remove dominationworld button from the main ingame screen. Put it in the settings. Who is making those decisions needs to be fired immediately wtf. You putting game exit button on the main screen…lol

 

We're targeting the release of 12.20 for next week.

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that 42 alliances are already against the 12.20 update. They have renamed their names in protest. Please pass this information on to the leadership
You can see it here: https://domistats.com/alliances?search=12.20

 

@Harlems369th @TheWise @Davis - The Emissary

stop ignoring us

 

@Harlems369th @TheWise @RAH-66 @Davis - The Emissary @Archimedes

I think the community is trying to tell you something.

 

I think we should be more grateful with developers. Yes, this is a new feature to make money, of course, it's a company after all. But you can still play it for free, so what's the problem?

I like the idea to have to change my strategy to face the new threats when I advance to a new age, and this includes the new mytical artifacts. I would like to see the introduction of new comitees from the parliament but it's ok for now.

I'm very excited with this update, adding new content is always good news. So, good job.

 

I think we should be more grateful with developers. Yes, this is a new feature to make money, of course, it's a company after all. But you can still play it for free, so what's the problem?

I like the idea to have to change my strategy to face the new threats when I advance to a new age, and this includes the new mytical artifacts. I would like to see the introduction of new comitees from the parliament but it's ok for now.

I'm very excited with this update, adding new content is always good news. So, good job.

I think the main problem isn't the new Mythical Feature but the change that allows 3/4/5 lines to be generated in the museum of the same thing (Bomber Damage for example). I personally just think that to get three lines of something effective will be nearly impossible unless you re-roll a third line and spend 20,000 crowns to get 10 or 12% more. I don't think we're going to be seeing attackers with 5 lines of bomber damage. If we do that's a serious problem that really spits in the face of people that have worked years on their current museums.

 

I think we should be more grateful with developers. Yes, this is a new feature to make money, of course, it's a company after all. But you can still play it for free, so what's the problem?

I like the idea to have to change my strategy to face the new threats when I advance to a new age, and this includes the new mytical artifacts. I would like to see the introduction of new comitees from the parliament but it's ok for now.

I'm very excited with this update, adding new content is always good news. So, good job.

Hours of work put in to creating good museum artifacts is thrown Down the drain , that is what hurts especially when you have multiple accounts

 

I think we should be more grateful with developers. Yes, this is a new feature to make money, of course, it's a company after all. But you can still play it for free, so what's the problem?

I like the idea to have to change my strategy to face the new threats when I advance to a new age, and this includes the new mytical artifacts. I would like to see the introduction of new comitees from the parliament but it's ok for now.

I'm very excited with this update, adding new content is always good news. So, good job.

Yes, I agree. If BHG decided to sack all its developers and leave the game as-is, I would not be very happy. Changes make the game more interesting. I think we have some people who have spent large resources (time, money) to get the perfect combination for the game as it is at present, and don't want the game to change anymore so that they can stay on top. This is a shortsighted point-of-view as a stagnant game will, in the long run, see players leaving. BHG is planning to make the game interesting and sustainable, which I agree with.

 

3 line artifacts already showing up (suprisingly frequently in my small sample size 2/40, and not AV). And without an update…

 

As a 10 year veteran of the best mobile game available please do not release bombers with potentially 302% hit points. Defenders can only nerf -85% or you risk making mediocre museums useless. Bonbers, which are already impossible to stop because we are cat that minus 85 and all the changes you have made the offense they will be invincible with 300% hit points. Do not release this update!!!!!!!!