Warp Drive

The Warp Drive screen

Warp Drive is one of the systems in Unnamed Space Idle, unlocked on reaching sector 22. It allows spending warp cores to jump to specific locations and run a short gauntlet of enemies, gathering Warp Essence from defeated ones, which can then be spent on upgrades in the upgrade tree to boost various systems.

When first unlocked, 5 Warp Cores will be available, 3 of which will start charged. Each core has a base charge time of 5 hours, which can be increased with verious upgrades.

When in a Warp, multiple waves of predetermined enemies will spawn and attack the player, with a boss at the end. As opposed to normal sectors, these waves will spawn gradually regardless of if the previous wave has been cleared, and modules like Void Beacon thus have no effect.

Warp Locations

There are multiple different Warp Locations, unlocked by defeating "Elite" sectors (such as 22B) which have much harder enemies than their non-elite counterparts (usually being about 3 sectors ahead in difficulty). Upon unlocking the Warp Drive, locations Alpha, Beta and Ceta will already be unlocked.

At any given time, a selection of all unlocked warp locations will be available to run, and every 8 hours a Warp Shift happens, which removes the bottom-most location from the list, and adds a new, uncapped location. Once all unlocked locations are capped, warp shifts will have no effect, despite the timer still counting down. At first, 2 locations will be available, and this amount can be increased up to 5.

A warp location can be opened for 6 minutes by spending a charged warp core on it, during which it can be attempted as many times as desired until the time runs out, or the warp is closed manually. If beaten, the next higher difficulty may be attempted immediately, though players will only gain essence of their highest run. If a warp is not fully completed, it will still grant a partial amount of its warp essence, depending on how many enemies have been defeated.

The difficulty of a warp location is rated in 0.5s of a sector, i.e. a warp location at difficulty 50.0 will be about as hard as the beginning of the actual sector 50. Each difficulty increases the Warp Multiplier, which increases the amount of essence gained from completing warps. The warp multiplier uses the formula [Warp Essence Unique Completions Coefficient]^[Unique Difficulty Completions]. The coefficient starts with a base value of 1.05 and can be increased with various warp upgrades, and [Unique Difficulty Completions] refers to how many times the difficulty has been increased for any warp. For example, if the dificulty of Alpha and Beta are both at 24, [Unique Difficulty Completions] would be 8.

It is extremely important to increase the difficulty of all warp locations as much as possible, and to unlock any new locations from elite sectors whenever strong enough to kill their bosses. Ignoring warp locations will result in significantly hindering progression.

List of Warp Locations

Name	Unlocks from	Starting difficulty	Max difficulty	Enemies
Alpha	N/A	22	41	Armored Fighter Dual Laser Fighter +
Beta	N/A	22	46	Shield Regen Sniper Shield Juggernaut Mega Juggernaut
Ceta	N/A	22	51	Beam Fighter + Beam Skirmisher +
Delta	22B	22	58	Armored Skirmisher Armored Fighter
Epsilon	30B	31	69	Armored Sniper + Sniper +
Fenix	37B	38	70	Armored Swarmer Armored Skirmisher
Gamma	40B	43	71	Armored Regen Fighter Armored Regen Skirmisher Armored Regen Juggernaut Armored Regen Sniper
Helius	45B	48	72	Hull Fighter + Hull Big Weapon Hull Skirmisher + Hull Huge Weapon Platform
Iota	53B	54	73	Phase Fighter Phase Juggernaut Phase Skirmisher
Jovis	61B	61	74	Phasing Armored Regen Fighter Phasing Armored Regen Huge Weapon Phasing Armored Regen Skirmisher Phasing Armored Regen Juggernaut

Massive Warp Drive

Major Spoilers for Sectors 78+ (click here to dismiss)

After reaching sector 78, warp drive can be upgraded to massive warp drive.

Upgrading to massive warp drive makes warp cores charge 100 times slower, but also multiplies warp essence gained by 1.00e5, and unlocks the second tab of warp upgrades.

Warp Locations

Massive Warp Drive Locations

Name	Unlocks from	Starting difficulty	Max difficulty	Enemies
Keres	77(either path)	77.5	99.5	Massive Weapon Capital Ship Armored Swarmer + Armored Fighter +
Limos	77(either path)	77.5	99.5	Massive Hull Capital Ship Shielded Sniper + Shielded Skirmisher + Shielded Huge Weapons Platform +
Machai	86B		99.5	Capital Ship Anti Fighter Huge Barrier Regen Frigate Phase Fighter Phase Juggernaut Phase Big
Nomos	95B		99.5	Capital Ship Barrier Huge Barrier Regen Frigate Large Shield Skirmisher Large Shielded Platform Large Shield Sniper

Upgrades

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