Age of Origins Medici's Treasure Guide: Formation, Floors & Zombie Troops

Part of the Events series:

• Event Schedule: Where Monday's fixture fits in the week.
• Intimacy Guide: The Biochemical Lab line that unlocks this event's MVP troops.

Quick Answer

• Medici's Treasure runs every Monday after server reset, for 24 hours: a dungeon crawl through underground floors, 19 at the deepest, with richer rewards and nastier enemies per layer.
• The event's MVPs are Biochemical Zombie troops — they auto-heal after every battle, and only they can damage the item-immune Poisonous Monster-Tyrant boss.
• The "Medici formation" everyone searches for is the opposite of PvP instinct: balanced troops, backline-heavy — roughly 60%+ long-range with modest front and mid lines — not the all-in stacks you'd march at players.
• Superior Strike auto-clears floors up to your historical best minus 7 — your deepest run permanently discounts every future Monday.
• Rewards are late-game gold: uranium, Titan materials, intimacy items, biochemical materials — leftovers convert to biochemical materials at event end.

What Monday Actually Asks of You

Medici's Treasure is the calendar's dungeon crawl: descend layer by layer, fight what's on each floor, collect the buffs and Fortify powers scattered through the exploration (they stack power for the run — grab everything), and push as deep as your army allows. Depth is the whole scoreboard: deeper floors pay better, and your best-ever floor sets your Superior Strike line — the auto-clear that lets you skip everything above (best minus 7) on future runs.

Read that mechanic the way veterans do: every floor you push past your record pays forever. A Monday where you gain three floors isn't three floors of loot — it's three floors of skipped grinding on every Monday after. Push on the weeks your army is fresh; the record compounds.

The Formation Question, Settled

"Medici formation" is one of the game's most-searched puzzles because the event punishes exactly what PvP teaches. Your march formation guide instincts — committed stacks, extreme ratios — get ground down across a dungeon's sequence of fights. The event wants sustain and coverage:

• Balanced classes, backline-heavy: the community-settled template runs 60%+ long-range (the EMP/cannon/sniper tier of your roster) over a modest front and mid line — think 10/10/80 if your strength is long-range, 20/70/10 if it's mid-range.
• Maximum zombie troops, always. Biochemical Zombies auto-heal between battles — in a multi-fight gauntlet, a troop type with free full resets is worth more than its stats suggest. Certain nodes (the Underground Factory) let you bring triple zombie loads; take the offer every time.
• The Poisonous Monster-Tyrant only falls to zombies. The boss is immune to items and resistant to your regular army — no Biochemical program, no boss. If your zombies are weak, this event is your reason to fix that: the whole line runs through the Biochemical Lab and intimacy system.

Grab the zombie-flavored pickups during exploration too — Fortify powers like Corpse Mountain (more zombie capacity) and zombie-attack buffs multiply exactly the troops doing the heavy lifting.

Why the Rewards Matter More Than They Look

Medici's payout list reads like a who's-who of late-game bottlenecks: uranium (the Main Hall 31+ gate), Titan equipment materials (the Titan grind's scarcest inputs), intimacy items (the Lucy and Saya accelerant), and biochemical materials (your zombie program's fuel — and what unused event items convert into when the clock runs out, so nothing hoarded is wasted). For accounts past the mid-game, Monday is quietly one of the highest-value days of the week.

The Monday Routine

1. Go in healed and fresh — the gauntlet punishes armies that start damaged.
2. Superior Strike through the discount floors to your record-minus-7 line.
3. Fight the live floors with the balanced, zombie-max formation — collecting every buff on the way down.
4. Push the record when strong; bank the run when not. Any Monday that moves your best floor is a Monday that pays forever.
5. Spend or hold event items deliberately — the biochemical conversion at event end is the floor, not the ceiling.

Then Tuesday brings Doom's Iron Grip and the week rolls on, per the event schedule.