Survival Mode Season 4 – Reward System Rework Incoming
🚨 Survival Mode Season 4 – Reward System Rework Incoming
Survival Mode is getting a major upgrade for Season 4. (March 30, 2026)
Following the approved SPS proposal:
👉 https://peakd.com/@sps.dao/sps-governance-proposal-survival-mode-reward-structure-adjustment
We’re introducing better rewards, stronger competition, and new ways to win.
🗓️ This update goes live at the start of the next season.
🎟️ NEW: Glint Tournament Token & Champions Cup
This is one of the biggest additions to Survival Mode.
Top players won’t just earn rewards — they’ll earn access to an exclusive tournament.
🔥 Top 25 players in every bracket receive a Glint Tournament Token
🏆 Entry into the Seasonal Champions Cup
⏳ Event runs for 2 days after the season ends
This is where top players across all brackets come together and compete at the highest level.
⚠️ Rules
- One entry per human / household / family
- No bots or automation
- Violations can result in maximum penalties
🎟️ Tokens are:
- Non-transferable
- One-time use
- Automatically burned after the event
⚔️ Core System – Performance Still Rules
Rewards are still based on rshares contribution within your bracket:
Your rewards = your rshares ÷ total bracket rshares
💎 40,000,000 Glint Total Rewards
Each bracket receives a fixed seasonal allocation:
| Bracket | % | Glint |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1% | 400,000 |
| 2 | 2% | 800,000 |
| 3 | 3% | 1,200,000 |
| 4 | 3% | 1,200,000 |
| 5 | 9% | 3,600,000 |
| 6 | 12% | 4,800,000 |
| 7 | 3% | 1,200,000 |
| 8 | 5% | 2,000,000 |
| 9 | 5% | 2,000,000 |
| 10 | 42% | 16,800,000 |
| 11 | 15% | 6,000,000 |
🏆 Leaderboards
To qualify:
✅ Minimum 100 matches played
💰 Leaderboard Glint Rewards
Top placements earn additional Glint rewards based on bracket and rank.
| Rank | B - 1 | B - 2, 7 | B - 3, 8 | B - 4, 9 | B - 5, 11 | B - 6, 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 125,000 | 250,000 | 500,000 |
| #2 | 20,000 | 40,000 | 62,500 | 100,000 | 200,000 | 375,000 |
| #3 | 15,000 | 30,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 150,000 | 250,000 |
| #4 - #10 | 10,000 | 25,000 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 | 175,000 |
| #11 - #25 | 7,500 | 15,000 | 30,000 | 40,000 | 75,000 | 125,000 |
| #26 - #50 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 30,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 |
| #51 - #75 | 4,000 | 7,500 | 10,000 | 17,500 | 25,000 | 50,000 |
| #76 - #100 | 3,000 | 5,000 | 6,000 | 10,000 | 12,500 | 25,000 |
| #101 - #150 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 5,000 | 7,500 | 10,000 | 15,000 |
| #151 - #250 | 1,500 | 2,500 | 4,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
🎴 Survival Bonus Card (SBC)
A new collectible reward is introduced. We will be testing out the introduction of a Survival Bonus Card as an additional bonus. Initially we are putting out a very modest number of these cards so we can judge the effectiveness of the plan. If successful, we might increase the distribution rates and/or add more cards to the program.
Winrate SBC
Play 100+ matches AND end with a 50%+ winrate = Earn 1 card
Meet Darkguard Hellion 😎
Element: Death / Fire
Bloodline: Fiend
Mana Cost: 9
Stats (MAX LEVEL)
Attack: 5
Speed: 5
Health: 8
Abilities
Flying
+25% chance to evade physical attacks. No effect if the attacker also has Flying. Immune to Earthquake.
Enrage
+50% melee power and speed (rounded up) if not at full health.
Scavenger
+1 health and max health each time any unit is defeated.
Life Leech
Increases health and max health by 50% of damage dealt (rounded up).
Bloodlust
+1 to all stats after dealing a killing blow.
🗣 This is a fun one! Worth the chase!
Oh, and he has skin variations... wonder how these will be delivered? 😎
🎴 Leaderboard SBC Rewards
Additional cards are also awarded through leaderboard placement. See Table below.
| Rank | B - 1 | B - 2, 7 | B - 3, 8 | B - 4, 9 | B - 5, 11 | B - 6, 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| #2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| #3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| #4 - #10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| #11 - #25 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| #26 - #50 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| #51 - #75 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| #76 - #100 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| #101 - #150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| #151 - #250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
🎲 Fortune Draw Bonus
- Win 50 matches
- Earn 25 Ranked Fortune Draws.
Note: if successful as an incentive, then we could replace this mechanism with a special Survival Only Fortune Draw.
⚖️ Anti-Whale Protection
Max payout per each player is capped at 10% of a bracket’s Glint rewards
🎯 Final Thoughts
Season 4 makes Survival Mode more competitive, more rewarding, and more skill-driven.
Climb the bracket. Earn your token. Enter the Champions Cup.
These are some exciting changes for Survival Mode. Thank you for continuing to innovate this new gameplay mode.
I think it's a great change, even if it means I might not be playing Survival Mode anymore. Is that weird to say?
I'm curious, why won't you??
Because I don't want to play manually and I think I'd have to pay the bot service too much if there are no SPS rewards. That said, Splinterhub is waiving the fees for a season, so I'm giving it a shot to see how it goes.
Well balanced rewards for Survival mode. We all need more glints. Awesome reward card too. I will definitely play this mode.
Looking forward to next season, some great changes, really interesting to see how the tournament evolves
I am loving the recent changes. Keep it up. Survival Mode is exciting and I love it.
The removal of leagues, I'm sorry to say, was a bizarre and unforgivable betrayal of the core values and initial design of the game. Splinterlands hasn't been the same in years now BUT this one change to Survival mode is exactly what I personally wanted to see from the game.
Other than tournaments there's not really a very competitive scene at the moment but now players of all levels will potentially have a fun and fair environment to compete in and look forward to every season. I'm very excited and curious to see how it shapes out!
Well done 😉👏👏
You must do something similar for the main game mode too now, the experience there is unfair and utterly unenjoyable. I know there's challenges with match liquidity and such but any change that will bring us closer to having leagues or brackets or whatever you wanna call them will be a good change. Bring this same philosophy to Modern Ranked and the game will finally be FAIR and FUN again!
As soon as we feel we have the liquidity bots dialed in properly, then we will definitely incorporate the latest prop that passed regarding the leagues. Also hopefully we can add a few more things that we are going to learn from Survival Mode as well.
Thanks for the feedback papageno!
Thank you, Dave. Great to have a direct line with you here!
I'm sorry if I was harsh but this is the issue I care about the most when it comes to Splinterlands so I had to be emphatic there.. but I'm excited for what's to come 👍
Good to see that the proposal for Modern passed with a comfortable majority. A lot of bickering as usual around some details that affect everyone's bottom lines but ultimately it seems that the community very much agrees with the spirit of the proposal, which is great.
that's a great assessment and I'm happy that you weighed in papageno! :)
What will the prizes be in the Champion's Cup? More Glint? SPS? Cards? What?
I'm just trying to determine why a scholar would play Survival. Or won't they?
@clayboyn is handling that aspect, but there will be a 10m Glint prize pool in that tourney. H