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Collection & Rank
Your museum. Your rank. Your upgrades.
Everything you excavate in FossilRun goes into your Museum — a personal record of every species you've found, sorted by rarity and condition. Your Collector Rank reflects the depth and quality of what you've collected. Fragments let you upgrade your field kit. The leaderboard lets you compete globally.
The Museum
The Museum is your collection of excavated specimens. Every genus you uncover in FossilRun is added here with its condition score (Perfect → Fragmented) and rarity tier. The Museum also tracks your completion progress — how many genera you've found out of the total catalogue.
- Specimens are organized by rarity tier and condition.
- Full field dossier accessible for each collected genus.
- Completion tracking across all 7 taxonomic groups and 12 geological periods.
Collector Rank
Collector Rank is an 8-tier progression system scored on four criteria: collection size (number of genera collected), perfect specimens (condition score), field finds (real-world GPS discoveries via RADAR), and rarity (based on how uncommon your finds are in the real fossil-occurrence record). Each rank tier shows you what your next move is to advance.
Fragments and upgrades
Excavating earns Fragments (❖), the in-game currency. There are five field-kit upgrades available:
- Detector range — expands the radius in which the detector picks up buried sites.
- Pick durability — reduces the damage from a mistimed tap, so whiffs cost you less condition.
- Mapping grid — buries an extra fossil at the site, so more turns up per dig.
- Steady hand — widens the timing-ring sweet spot for more consistent accuracy.
- Speed — increases movement speed on the dig map.
Leaderboard
The leaderboard is anonymous and opt-in. It tracks a global skill score — the sum of your best run across all biomes — plus individual per-biome boards. Score rewards accuracy and specimen condition, with a bonus for finishing quickly.