Currencies

 in Curse of the Dead Gods are spent to buy or unlock various weapons, relics, or upgrades. Gold is the only one that is spent within explorations, and the rest are spent in The Underworld for making permanent upgrades and unlocks.

Gold
Gold is the main currency used throughout explorations, and is lost upon death.

There are several ways to earn gold in Curse of the Dead Gods:


 * By defeating enemies, Champions, and Bosses.


 * By finding it on the ground or in jars that you can destroy.


 * By opening chests.


 * By completing challenge rooms.


 * By offering items that are converted into gold.


 * By getting Golden Mask, a relic that converts a percentage of damage you take to gold.

You can increase the gold you get from kills with the "Greed kills". Every kill you perform without being hit raises the greed kill counter by one. Every greed kill count adds a percentage of gold earned from kills (to a maximum of +500% at 10 greed kills). If you get hit or wait too long between hitting enemies, a perfect dodge, or a parry, the greed kill counter resets to 0. Hitting an enemy, perfect dodges and successful parries reset the time allowed to continue the combo.

You can increase the gold you get from the ground, jars, and enemies with the Perception Stat. (+5% for each point)

You can use gold to buy Weapons, Relics or Stats from the sanctuaries. Your gold is lost from a run to another.

Divine Favors
Divine Favors allows you to re-roll the offerings at weapon and relic sanctuaries.

At first, you start the game with 0 Divine Favors, but you can buy them using Crystal Skulls at the Underworld, for up to a maximum of 10 Divine Favors. With each new exploration, your Divine Favors are restored to their maximum capacity.

Crystal Skulls
Crystal Skulls are a somewhat common meta-currency used to make general upgrades.

They can be used to buy Blessings or extra Divine Favors, as well as unlock and upgrade weapon altars.

Regular enemies have a low chance to drop a single skull upon dying, Elites will always drop one, while Champions and Bosses always drop 10 or more. Additionally, in Events, 2 are awarded for each and every completed room, and an extra 10 are awarded if the player manages to beat the entire event.

Jade Rings
Jade Rings are used to unlock new weapons from the Forsaken Weaponry.

They can only be acquired by beating Champions and Bosses. Champions award 5 Jade Rings, while Bosses will net the player 10 Jade rings.

Blood Emblems
Blood Emblems are used to unlock access to new explorations and certain Blessings. They can't actually be spent in any way.

They are only able to be acquired by completing explorations, which will enable access to further explorations to new areas in the process.