Neverness to Everness Annulith Farming Guide

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This guide farms two currencies, and they are not interchangeable. Annulith is the premium currency that buys gacha pulls; Fons is the city currency that buys property, cars, businesses and — through the Hunter Exchange — a slow drip of Annulith and Tri-Keys. Players who treat Fons as “the free currency” and spend it on cars before City Tycoon Level 16 lose the double-rewards breakpoint and weeks of progress. Players who treat Annulith as spending money and convert it the moment it arrives lose pulls. The farming guide’s job is to keep the two apart and to show you, for each one, where it comes from, what it costs to get more, and what it should never be spent on. One more honesty note up front: no verified Fons-per-hour or Annulith-per-hour rate exists. The figures in this guide are either official mechanics (pull prices, pity counts, exchange rates) or labelled single-site estimates. Where a number is an estimate, it says so next to the number.

Neverness to Everness has been live since April 29, 2026, and its economy has had six months to settle. It is a gacha economy with a city-life economy bolted onto it, and the two halves feed each other in exactly one place: the Hunter Exchange, where Fons become Annulith and Tri-Keys. Everything else is separate. Annulith comes from story, quests, achievements, events and dailies, plus Riftcrystal conversion for paying players. Fons comes from city activities, businesses, heists, vaults and quests, gated by a weekly City Stamina pool. Beetle Coins pay for levelling. Solid Dice, Fabricated Dice and Tri-Keys are pull tickets that Annulith buys. Riftcrystal is real money. Lunaria is a secondary premium currency the wiki reports but this guide flags as wiki-only. Learn the map before you spend anything, because the most expensive mistake in NTE is spending the right currency on the wrong thing.

The Currency Map: Six Names, No Shortcuts

Three separations to burn into memory. First, Fons are not a pull currency: they cannot buy dice directly, only through the Hunter Exchange’s small Annulith and Tri-Key allowances. Second, Beetle Coins are not a pull currency either and cannot convert into Annulith at any rate. Third, Solid Dice and Fabricated Dice are not interchangeable: Solid Dice pull on limited (featured Esper) boards, Fabricated Dice on the standard (permanent) board, and at least one secondary guide swaps the two labels — the wiki and the top-up guides agree on Solid = limited, Fabricated = standard, and this guide follows them while carrying the note. If a guide tells you to spend Fabricated Dice on a limited banner, it has the labels backwards.

Annulith: The Pull Currency

Annulith is the currency the whole game revolves around, because Annulith is pulls, and pulls are Espers and Arcs. One pull costs 160 Annulith; a 10-pull costs 1,600. That price is the same on every banner — limited, standard and Arc — which makes every Annulith decision a pulls decision: spending 1,600 Annulith on a stamina refill is spending a 10-pull on stamina, and you should feel the weight of that before you do it.

Where Annulith comes from

How much can a free-to-play player expect? One site (nte.wiki) estimates roughly 6,800 Annulith a month from recurring sources — about 42 pulls — including ~1,600 from the free battle-pass track. That is that site’s estimate, built from its own accounting of dailies, weeklies, events and the free track; it is not a verified rate, and it moves with the event schedule. Treat it as a planning figure (roughly one 10-pull a week from recurring play, before story and achievements) and not as a promise. The honest free-to-play truth is that story and achievements front-load your Annulith — the launch giveaway alone was worth 470+ guaranteed pulls across the currency lanes, including ~28,565 Annulith — and that after the one-time sources dry up, your income is the monthly drip plus events. Plan your pulls around the drip, not the launch windfall.

The Pity Math: What a Guarantee Costs

NTE’s gacha is unusually honest, and the honesty is mathematical. There is no 50/50 on limited characters: every S-class character you pull on a limited board IS the featured Esper. The guarantee is 90 pulls. The Arc banner guarantees the featured Arc by 80 pulls, with an S-class Arc within 60. At 160 Annulith per pull, the worst cases are fixed numbers, and you should know them before you pull anything.

The base S-class rate is ~1.87–1.88% per pull (sources vary slightly: 1.87% base per one guide, ~1.88% consolidated across a full pity cycle including soft pity per the wiki, with a base per-tile rate of ~1%). The difference between 1.87% and 1.88% does not change any decision; the guarantee does. The farming rule that follows is simple: never pull on a limited banner unless you can afford the guarantee, or unless you are willing to lose the Esper. A player with 8,000 Annulith who pulls on a 90-pull guarantee is gambling, not planning — and the game will happily take the 8,000. Save to 14,400 first, then pull. For Arcs, the same rule at 12,800. And remember the banner windows: Akane Rin’s Dazzling Star board ran October 21 – November 11, 2026; a banner you cannot afford before it ends is a banner you skip, not a banner you chase with Riftcrystal.

Fons: The City Currency

Fons are the cash of Hethereau. They fund nearly every aspect of daily life in the city: property purchases, vehicles and vehicle parts, business operations, fashion outfits, auction-hall items and most NPC services. They also fund City Tycoon levelling and the Hunter Exchange. Unlike Annulith, Fons cannot be spent on gacha pulls directly. Unlike Beetle Coins, Fons are the currency that grows: the more property and business you own, the more Fons you earn, which buys more property and business. It is a self-contained loop, and the players who understand it early are the players with millions of Fons by Tycoon Level 16.

Every Fons source

The estimates in that table (Realm of Greed ~200,000, Hobbies ~100,000+, Deliveries ~50,000, dailies ~20,000) all come from a single site (nte.wiki) and are labelled as estimates. They are useful for one thing only: ordering your week. The Heist first, then businesses, then Hobbies, then the rest — because the Heist pays the most for the least stamina (none), and the businesses pay while you are offline.

Pink Paws Heist: The Big Fons Payday

The Pink Paws Heist is the highest-throughput repeatable Fons activity in the game, and it deserves its own section because players get it wrong in three specific ways. It unlocks at City Tycoon Level 10. Each attempt runs about 12 minutes. It is a co-op bank heist: you and other players rob a bank, and the payout depends on how quickly and cleanly you clear it — guides report hundreds of thousands of Fons per run depending on clear speed. It costs no City Stamina. And it is capped at 1,000,000 Fons every two weeks per account through the shared Tycoon Incentive Fund.

The three mistakes: first, players who have not reached Tycoon 10 yet spend their City Stamina on low-value activities instead of pushing Tycoon — the Heist is worth more than a month of taxi fares, and every week before Tycoon 10 is a week without it. Second, players who have unlocked it forget the two-week cap and assume the Heist is unlimited — it is not, and once you hit 1,000,000 Fons in the cycle, further runs pay nothing until the next cycle. Third, players miss the event multiplier: during the Gold Clash event (October 26 – November 11, 2026) the Heist paid Fons at 2× efficiency, which is the best time to run it — and that event has now ended, so do not plan around it. The Heist routine is: unlock Tycoon 10, run the Heist until you hit the cap, then stop and spend your week on businesses and Hobbies.

City Tycoon: The Fons Engine

City Tycoon is where Fons stop being spending money and start being investment capital. The system opens during the guide quest “Good Morning, Hethereau”, after the early story fight against the Viewfinder: Chiz approaches you in Bridge Crossings Plaza, offers a debit card, and accepting it activates the system with your first 100 City Stamina. From there, Tycoon Level rises on two conditions per level: a cumulative Fons total and a short list of objectives. The level-up is manual — open the menu and press Level Up once both are met.

The investment logic is the same as any business game: buy the income first, buy the toys later. The Cafe at Tycoon 4 is the cheapest long-term Fons investment in the game at 20,000 Fons, and it pays forever. The Wiener Apartments at 200,000 Fons unlock the Hunter Exchange, which is where Fons turn into pulls. Every Fons spent on a luxury car before Tycoon 16 is a Fons not compounding toward the double-rewards breakpoint — and the guides are unanimous that City Tycoon levelling takes absolute priority until level 16. After 16, spend freely: cars, outfits, auction-hall items, whatever makes Hethereau fun. Before 16, you are building the engine.

City Stamina: The Weekly Budget

City Stamina is the weekly energy bar for city activities, separate from Character Pixels (combat stamina). It refreshes every Monday — the weekly pool resets Monday at 05:00 server time — and unspent stamina is lost. City activities that consume it include car races, bank heists (other than Pink Paws), taxi driving, Mahjong, fishing, part-time jobs and Hethereau Hobbies. Once the pool is empty, the activities remain playable for fun but stop awarding Fons until the reset.

The management rules are short. Spend it all before Monday 05:00, every week, without exception — an unspent point is a Fons you will never get back. Spend it on the highest-value activity you have unlocked (Hethereau Hobbies after Tycoon 16, for the double rewards). Do not spend it on activities whose Fons payout you have not checked — some pay far better than others, and the game does not rank them for you. And do not confuse City Stamina with Character Pixels: they are separate pools, separate caps, separate resets, and spending one never helps the other.

Hunter Exchange: Turning Fons into Pulls

The Hunter Exchange is the one place the two economies touch, and it is the most important shop in the game for a free-to-play player. It unlocks with the Wiener Apartments at Tycoon Level 5, and it sells two things that matter:

Buy both, every refresh, once your Tycoon engine is running — the Annulith especially, because 15,000 Fons is a rounding error against a Heist cycle that pays up to 1,000,000. The Tri-Keys are the bigger decision: 8 × 24,000 is 192,000 Fons per refresh, which is real money in the Fons economy, and worth it only if you are pulling on the Arc banner. If you are saving for a limited Esper and have no interest in Arcs, skip the Tri-Keys and bank the Fons toward Tycoon 16 or the next Heist cycle. The Exchange refreshes on the shop schedule; check it on the same day you collect business earnings, so it becomes part of the weekly loop instead of a forgotten tab.

Beetle Coins: The Levelling Currency

Beetle Coins are the general-purpose free currency: the standard combat currency for levelling Espers, Arcs and skills, and for general shop purchases around Hethereau. They are earned from commissions, daily activities, events and Battle Pass rewards. They are plentiful in the early game and brutally expensive late: levelling an Esper from 60 to 80 costs over two million Beetle Coins (Exe’s published total is ~2,343,000+ for levels and ascension, plus 1,818,000 for abilities). Beetle Coins are not a pull currency and cannot be converted into Annulith at any rate — do not go looking for an exchange, there is not one. The farming advice is the same as the levelling advice: spend them on Esper levels first, Arcs second, skills third, and never let a shop purchase eat the coins your next ascension needs. Excess Hunter XP converting to Beetle Coins at 1:10 past an uncompleted Appraisal gate is reported by a single source and is not a farming method — do the Appraisal Quest instead.

Measure Your Own Week

There is no verified Fons-per-hour rate, so here is how to make your own — by the week, because Fons is a weekly economy.

1. Record your Fons balance on Monday morning (after the City Stamina reset) and again the following Monday morning, before spending anything.
2. Log your sources. For one week, note what each activity paid: Heist runs, business collections, Hobbies, deliveries, dailies, vaults. A notes app is enough.
3. Subtract your spending. Tycoon investments, Exchange purchases, cars, outfits — the week’s net is balance gained minus balance spent.
4. Read the split. If the Heist and businesses are less than half your income, you are spending your City Stamina on low-value activities. If they are more than three quarters, your engine is working and the rest is garnish.
5. Re-measure monthly. Your Tycoon Level changes the numbers every few weeks; a rate from Tycoon 8 is not a rate for Tycoon 16.

For Annulith, the same method works on a monthly scale: record your balance on the first of the month, log every source (story, achievements, events, dailies, Exchange), and compare against the ~6,800-a-month planning figure from nte.wiki. If you are well above it, you are still clearing one-time sources; if you are below it, you are missing dailies or events. Either way, the measured number is yours, and it is worth more than any printed rate.

The Weekly Fons Loop

Events: The Calendar Is the Farm

Events pay the most Annulith per hour of play of any source in the game, and they are the only source that expires. A player who does every event and a player who does none can have the same Hunter Level and differ by tens of thousands of Annulith over six months. The Version 1.4 season (September 30 – November 10, 2026) shows the shape: seven events running across the season, including Blackbird’s Invitation, Puka Lucky Flip, Coal Lump’s Treasure, Pukaland Travelogue, Runaway Echoes, Snap! Golden Crackshot and Terminal Depths in Phase 1, then Snap! Golden Crackshot, Gold Clash, Puka Lucky Flip and the Pukaland Fest Special Gift Pack in Phase 2. Gold Clash is the instructive one: during October 26 – November 11 it paid Fons at 2× efficiency in Pink Paws Heist, which made those two weeks the best Fons weeks of the version — and then it ended, and the rate went back to normal. The rule is to play the event that is running, not the event you remember: check the in-game event list every time you log in, prioritise the tasks with Annulith and Solid Dice rewards, and never assume an event rate survives its end date. Version cadence runs roughly six weeks — 1.0 on April 29, 1.2 on July 8, 1.3 on August 19, 1.4 on September 30 and October 21, 1.5 scheduled November 11 — so a new season, with new events and a new board, is never more than a few weeks away. The farming habit is to treat each version as a harvest: clear its events, bank its Annulith, and be ready for the next board the day it opens.

A Sample Month, Worked

Put the numbers together and the free-to-play plan becomes concrete. Take the planning figure of ~6,800 Annulith a month from recurring sources (nte.wiki’s estimate) and the guarantee prices from the pity table, and the calendar writes itself.

Three conclusions follow. First, a free-to-play player who does dailies, weeklies and events can guarantee roughly one limited Esper every two months — five or six a year — which is why the no-50/50 system matters so much: every one of those guarantees is the featured character, not a coin flip. Second, the Esper-plus-Arc pair is a four-month project, so choose per banner: the Esper this version and their Arc next time it reruns, or the Arc now and the Esper on rerun. Third, the Hunter Exchange drip and event payouts sit on top of the ~6,800 figure — the Exchange adds up to 100 Annulith per refresh, and a good event season can add thousands — so an active player beats the table. The plan is not “save for two months and pull” in the abstract; it is “save to 14,400, pull on the board you want, then start saving for the next one while the version’s events pay you back”.

Spending Priorities

Annulith and Fons Traps

Patch State

At writing (November 9, 2026) the live game is Version 1.4 Phase 2 (build 1.4.9, October 21, 2026). The current limited board is Akane Rin’s Dazzling Star (October 21 – November 11, 05:59 UTC+8), with her signature Arc Far Side of the Moon on Celestial Special over the same window. Half-year anniversary gifts (2,000,000 Fons + House Special outfit) run to November 11. The Gold Clash event (2× Fons in Pink Paws Heist) runs October 26 – November 11. Version 1.5 is scheduled for November 11, 2026, with the S-Rank Chaos Esper Exe expected in Phase 2 (banner expected December 2–23, 2026, per EnjoyGM — not officially confirmed). Re-check triggers: the Version 1.5 patch notes (any currency or exchange change lands there), the Exe banner dates, any change to Hunter Exchange prices or limits, and any official publication of Fons earn rates — if Hotta ever publishes them, the estimates in this guide should be replaced with the real numbers.

FAQ

Sources

Every fact in this guide carries its source. Official mechanics (pull prices, pity counts, exchange rates) are stated as mechanics; single-site estimates are labelled as estimates. Last checked November 9, 2026.

• The Games Wiki: Currency Farming Guide (Annulith sources, Fons routes, Pink Paws Heist 1M cap, City Stamina weekly reset)
• The Games Wiki: Fons (city currency, Cafe 20,000 Fons, Hunter Exchange 24,000 Fons/Tri-Key and 150 Fons/Annulith)
• The Games Wiki: Currencies (six currencies, Riftcrystal paid, Fon endgame role, Lunaria)
• The Games Wiki: Gacha System (Scarborough Fair, no 50/50, ~1.88% S-class, Solid vs Fabricated Dice, Tri-Key exchange)
• NTE.wiki: Currency Guide 2026 (8 currencies, ~6,800 Annulith/month F2P estimate, Fons source estimates, Tycoon 16 priority)
• RPGStash: NTE Top Up (90-pull guarantee, 14,400 Annulith, Riftcrystal 1:1, Arc 60/80)
• Keygold: NTE Top Up (Riftcrystal 1:1, 160 per pull, Arc S within 60 / featured by 80, monthly pass)
• Grecharge: NTE Top Up (Fons/Annulith/Riftcrystals split, 1:1 conversion)
• OfZenAndComputing: Gacha System Explained (board, banners, 1.87% S-class, currencies)
• Shigjeta: NTE Tycoon Level Fast Track (Cafe, Wiener Apartments 200,000 Fons, heist, Tycoon 16, Chiz at 18)
• Game8: October 21 Patch Notes (1.4 Phase 2, Akane Rin, Gold Clash 2x Fons Oct 26 – Nov 11, 2M Fons anniversary gift)
• The Games Wiki: October 21, 2026 Update (Dazzling Star board, Celestial Special, event windows)
• Perfect World (official): NTE Official Launch April 29 (global launch, platforms, cross-play)
• NTECodex: Character Leveling Guide (Beetle Coins, Tycoon 16 breakpoint, Fons uses)