Neverness to Everness Gacha Explained: How the Scarborough Fair Board Works

The Scarborough Fair is Neverness to Everness’s gacha system, where you roll dice and move a token across a board to collect rewards based on the tile you land on, instead of watching a standard summon animation. Each dice roll moves your game piece (called a Chuppa) between one and six tiles forward on the board, and whatever tile you land on becomes your reward, which can include S-class characters, A-class characters, weapons (Arcs), cosmetic skins, currency, or bonus dice rolls. Developed by Hotta Studio and published by Perfect World, the system is the game’s take on the familiar banner pull—but it works nothing like Genshin Impact or Wuthering Waves.

The board game presentation is cosmetic—tile placement is determined by internal drop rates, not player skill or choice. But the visual feedback makes progress feel more tangible than a generic summon screen, especially when the board reconfigures at soft pity and fills with high-value tiles.

To move around the Scarborough Fair Board, you roll six-sided dice; players have the option to roll once or roll 10 times consecutively, and depending on where the player’s piece lands at the end of each die roll, players can obtain various rewards. The board can contain S-Class characters, A-Class heroes, Arcs, upgrade materials, cosmetic items, and various other rewards.

The system splits into two main board types:

Limited Board

The Limited Board is the equivalent of a time-limited banner; it features the current limited S-class character and is only available for a set period, and one roll on this board costs one solid die. Limited-time Event banners require Solid Dice instead of Fabricated Dice and have one promotional S-Class character and three featured A-Class characters. Each die costs 160 Annulith, which is the premium currency in Neverness to Everness, making a 10-pull cost 1,600 Annulith.

Standard Board (Strange Encounters)

The standard banner “Stranger Encounters” is always available and requires Fabricated Dice to roll; after 50 rolls, you are given the opportunity to pick an S Class character of your choice. The Standard Board has a beginner discount that makes it so that your first five 10-pulls will cost 8 Fabricated Dice (instead of 10), saving new players 10 dice total. The standard banner shares the same S/A rates and the same pity thresholds as the Limited Board.

There are two types of gacha currency that can be used on Scarborough Fair Boards: Solid Dice and Fabricated Dice; Solid Dice can only be used on limited-time boards, and Fabricated Dice can only be used on the Strange Encounters standard board. This hard split means you cannot accidentally spend limited currency on the wrong banner, but it also means you need to plan which board to prioritize.

There are two banner types: the Limited Board, which features time-limited characters and uses Solid Dice, and the Standard Board, which is permanent and uses Fabricated Dice; both boards follow the same core mechanics and rates. The key difference is availability: Limited Boards rotate every few weeks, while the Standard Board is always present.

NTE’s gacha pity is 90 rolls; if no S-Rank character has appeared after 89 consecutive rolls, the next dice roll is guaranteed to award an S-Rank character, and the Limited gacha guarantees the S-Rank Limited Rate-Up character. This is the hard pity ceiling, but most players will pull an S-class before reaching it thanks to soft pity.

Soft pity activates at 70 pulls; the board visibly reconfigures—Hero Chest tiles get replaced with Journey Together tiles, putting an S-class guarantee roughly every 5 to 6 spaces—and the effective S-class rate jumps to about 19.59% per roll until you land one. Unlike soft pity systems that gradually increase rates with each pull, Board Modification applies the full rate increase at once when you hit 70 pulls.

There is no 50/50 system in Neverness to Everness; any S-class character pulled from the Limited Board is guaranteed to be the featured character, and this is a significant departure from games like Genshin Impact or Honkai: Star Rail, where you can lose the featured character to a random standard unit.

The Scarborough Fair board contains multiple tile types, each with different rewards and drop rates. The most common tiles award crafting materials or low-rarity Arcs, while rare golden tiles have significantly higher S-class odds.

The Secret Fair is a special golden section of the board accessible through specific entry tiles; this bonus area has fewer total tiles but higher-quality rewards, including the Multiple Surprises tile (5 free dice), limited character outfit tiles, vehicle skin tiles, and S-class character tiles. When you land on a space next to a panel with a yellow arrow, a Rainbow Bridge appears, allowing you to enter the Secret Fair, which contains many luxurious reward panels such as Hero Chests and S-Rank Journey Together panels.

On the Limited Board, the base S-class character rate is 1.87% per roll, the A-class rate (characters and Arcs combined) sits at 22.98%, and every 10 pulls guarantees an additional A-class item on top of your 10 normal rewards, so a 10-pull technically gives you 11 prizes.

The exact per-tile probabilities vary depending on which tile your Chuppa lands on. Some sources report slightly different base S-class rates (0.99% to 1.88%) due to how the board game format distributes probabilities across tiles. For the most accurate numbers, always check the in-game banner details screen, which breaks down the exact rates for each board and tile type.

Character Rewards

The primary chase: S-class and A-class characters. S-class units are the top-tier rarity and include both limited characters (only on their respective Limited Boards) and standard characters (available on both boards). A-class characters drop more frequently and fill support or secondary DPS roles.

Arcs (Weapons)

Arcs are NTE’s weapon system. The Scarborough Fair boards award B-class and A-class Arcs as consolation prizes, while S-class Arcs are the primary chase on the separate Arc Research Program banner. Some S-class Arcs are also farmable from world bosses, reducing the pressure to roll on the weapon banner.

Currencies and Materials

Landing on currency tiles awards bonus Solid Dice, Fabricated Dice, Warp Pieces, Lost Pieces, or Fons (upgrade materials). As you move around the board, you’ll collect warp pieces and lost pieces, which you can spend in the Fair Exchange shop for more dice, tri-keys, fons, and upgrade materials; when the shop refreshes, you can trade lost pieces for 20 tri-keys, which you use on the Arc Research Program banner.

Myth: You Can Control Where Your Token Lands

The dice roll is purely RNG. You cannot manipulate the outcome by timing your tap or choosing a specific moment to roll. The board game presentation is cosmetic—tile placement is determined by internal drop rates, not player skill or choice. The visual board is just a representation of the underlying probability table.

Myth: Limited Board Pity Resets When the Banner Ends

Pity in Neverness to Everness carries over between banners; if you make a certain number of pulls without obtaining an S-Class character, your progress does not reset when the banner ends—for example, if you spend 60 pulls on one limited banner, the next banner will continue counting pity from that same value, allowing players to safely build pity and plan their pulls for future characters. This is a massive quality-of-life feature that differentiates NTE from many competitors.

Myth: The Secret Fair Is a Trap With Worse Rates

The Secret Fair is a bonus zone with better rewards, not a bait. This bonus area has fewer total tiles but higher-quality rewards, including the Multiple Surprises tile (5 free dice), limited character outfit tiles, vehicle skin tiles, and S-class character tiles. Entering the Secret Fair when the Rainbow Bridge appears is always a net positive.