NTE Beginner Guide: Your First Week in Hethereau

Neverness to Everness (NTE) drops you into Hethereau as an unlicensed anomaly hunter — an Appraiser — and then immediately offers you a city full of distractions: cars, property, fishing, auctions, an asymmetric hide-and-seek mode. This guide is about the order to do things in so that the first week actually builds something.

Do the Prologue before anything else

Every limited board in NTE — including the current Zankou banner — lists the same unlock requirement in the official patch notes: complete the main story quest “Prologue - A New Destination - Head to Eibon Antique Shop”. Until that quest is done, your pull currency is dead weight. It is a short sequence, and it also opens the systems the rest of the game hangs off.

The second gate worth knowing about is Hunter Level. Version 1.2’s main episode “Fighting with a Dragon” required Hunter Lvl 26, and Version 1.3’s Bagel Supplies mail (Praise Jam ×56,000) went to accounts at Hunter Lvl 11 or above. Story content and free handouts both sit behind that number, so treat Hunter EXP as a real currency.

Redeem codes before your first pull

Codes hand out Annulith, the currency you spend on board rolls. Our NTE codes page tracks which ones still work — cross-checked across four separate trackers, with anything past its announced end date filed as expired rather than left sitting in the “working” column. At the time of writing there are five live codes, worth roughly 30 Annulith and 100,000 Fons between them.

Redeem them at Me → Settings → Redeem Code. Codes are case-sensitive, rewards land in your in-game mailbox, and mail expires — claim it within 60 days.

Take the free characters seriously

You do not need to pull to have a functional team:

Haniel — a free A-Rank Psyche support who hands the whole party ATK bonuses through her speaker, Hootie. She is the reason a new account can clear content without a five-star buffer.
Aurelia — an A-Rank Psyche damage dealer obtainable through events and campaigns rather than the board.
Esper Zero — the protagonist, an S-Rank Cosmos DPS you get through the story.

That trio plus one lucky board pull is a complete team. Check the full roster for elements and roles before you commit resources to upgrading anyone.

Understand the gacha before you spend

NTE’s pull system is a dice board, not a button. You roll, you move, you land on tiles. The important numbers: every 10 pulls guarantees an A-Class character or item, soft pity starts around 70 pulls, and 90 pulls is a hard guarantee for the featured limited character — with no 50/50. Pity carries over between boards, so nothing is wasted when a banner rotates out.

The pity and reroll guide covers the special tiles (ticket spaces, the rainbow road, chests) and answers the question most new players ask: rerolling is far less valuable here than in games with a 50/50, because the guarantee is absolute.

Build one income loop in week one

Fons is the city currency, and everything physical costs it — the Sirocco vehicle added in 1.3 runs Fons ×4,000,000, and Stillmeadow House costs Fons ×6,900,000 with a City Tycoon Lvl 13 requirement. You will not reach those numbers by accident.

City Stamina is the resource that gates the money-making activities in Hethereau Hobbies, so spend it every day rather than letting it cap. The Fons farming guide lists the repeatable sources, and City Tycoon and housing explains how property turns active income into passive income.

Common early mistakes

Pulling before the Prologue is done. The board is locked; you will just be sitting on currency.
Ignoring mail. Compensation, event rewards and code rewards all arrive as mail, and mail expires.
Skipping the daily City Stamina spend. It is the single biggest source of early Fons.
Upgrading four characters at once. Ascension materials are the bottleneck — pick a carry from the tier list and finish them.
Assuming the story is chronological. It is not: the developer confirmed that “Fighting with a Dragon” is told as a flashback set after the Scarlet Letter incident. See the story and quest order guide.