Dark War: Survival Tools, Guides & Community

Upgrades in Dark War: Survival are cheap to start and brutal to finish. The in-game screens only ever show you the next step, so it is hard to judge whether a goal is a week away or a season away. These calculators total the whole path for you from your current progress.

• Exclusive Weapon CalculatorPick your current star and your target, and it returns the exact number of Universal Exclusive Weapon Fragments left, across Gold Stars, the Breakthrough and Red Stars.
• Red Gear CalculatorTotals the Power Cores, Boost Ore and DX Blueprints needed to carry a piece through its remaining promotion stages and breakthroughs.
• Chip CalculatorPlans a full chipset: every Star Rise checkpoint, the chip copies and Advanced Chip Material still owed, and the Resonance level your set will actually reach.
• Industrial Buildings CalculatorWorks out Precision Parts per notch and per Industry tier, including the Watch Tower prerequisites that gate the rest of your base.
• Server Time ConverterA live ST world clock: type an event time in Server Time and read it back in your own timezone or any city you follow.
• Hive PlannerNot a calculator but the tool most people arrive for — draw a hive layout tile by tile, then share it with your alliance.
• Black Gold Battlefield PlannerBuild a roster, position shelters around the objectives and script each phase, then export the plan as one image for your team.

Read the calculator guide if you are not sure which one fits the problem in front of you, or the hive layout guide and Black Gold guide for the planners.

Migration decides who you play with for the next season, and it runs on rules that are easy to get wrong: you can only move inside your announced bracket, your migration score is locked from the historical peak CP of your top three troops, and Commander, Elite and Advanced players need a Presidential Invite from the destination state before the move is even possible.

The Migration Center is where that research happens. Alliances publish listings with their power, open spots, language and play style, and you contact the recruiter directly — there is no automatic matching and no middleman.

ATLANTIS Arena is a community power ranking that spans states rather than sitting inside one. Players submit a screenshot of their profile, the entry is checked before it is published, and the board then shows how the strongest accounts in the game compare across servers and factions.

Recruiting across states is normally a scattered mess of Discord invites and screenshots. The same Migration Center that players use for research is where alliances publish what they are looking for — minimum power, timezone, war schedule, how many slots are genuinely open — so a serious applicant arrives already knowing whether they fit.

Dark War: Survival schedules everything — resets, event windows, alliance duels, rally calls — in Server Time. Server Time does not follow your phone, does not shift with daylight saving where you live, and is the single reason so many players show up an hour late to their own alliance's event.

The converter turns an ST time into your local clock and back again, and shows the same moment in cities around the world, which is what you need when an alliance spans several continents.

Each guide covers one topic properly and links straight into the tool that acts on it.

• CalculatorsEvery free Dark War: Survival calculator on AtlantisHUB and which one to open for which planning problem.
• Migration GuideHow state migration works: brackets, migration identity, Presidential Invites and the checks the game runs before you move.
• Migration Score & TiersHow your migration score is derived, what Commander, Elite, Advanced and Backbone each get, and who needs a Presidential Invite.
• Black Gold BattlefieldRoster, positioning and phase orders for Black Gold — decided before the event and shareable as one image.
• Hive LayoutCapital placement, ring order, farm accounts and landing lanes — the four decisions behind a hive that holds.
• Server TimeWhat Server Time (ST) is, why every event is scheduled in it, and how to turn it into your own local clock.
• Exclusive WeaponsGold Stars, Breakthrough and Red Stars explained, with the full Universal Exclusive Weapon Fragment cost.
• Red GearPromotion stages, breakthroughs and the Power Core, Boost Ore and DX Blueprint bill for a full red set.
• Chips & ResonanceHow chip stars, Star Rise checkpoints and Resonance interact, and what a maxed chipset actually costs.
• Alliance RecruitmentHow players find alliances and how recruiters publish listings other states can actually reach.
• Global LeaderboardWhat ATLANTIS Arena tracks, how power submissions are verified and how to read the cross-state ranking.

Beyond the tools there is a community layer: published hive layouts you can copy, a creators page for Dark War content makers, an FAQ built from the game's own answer set, and a Discord where most of the day-to-day help happens.

• Community hive layouts — real layouts shared by other alliances.
• Dark War FAQ — searchable answers to common game questions.
• Creators — Dark War: Survival content creators worth following.
• Discord — where tool requests, corrections and recruitment chatter land.

What is ATLANTIS HUB?

ATLANTIS HUB is a free, community-run website for Dark War: Survival players. It hosts planning tools such as the Hive Planner and Black Gold Battlefield Planner, upgrade calculators for red gear, exclusive weapons, chips and industrial buildings, a Server Time converter, a cross-state power leaderboard and a migration and alliance recruitment centre.

Do I need an account to use the Dark War calculators?

No. Every calculator, the Server Time converter, the leaderboard and the migration listings are open to anyone without signing in. An account only adds optional extras such as saving hive layouts, publishing an alliance listing and profile features.

Where can I find Dark War: Survival calculators?

All of them are on ATLANTIS HUB: an Exclusive Weapon fragment calculator, a Red Gear promotion calculator, a Chip and Resonance planner and an Industrial Buildings Precision Parts calculator. The calculators guide on this site explains which one answers which planning question.

Is ATLANTIS HUB official?

No. It is an independent fan project built by Dark War: Survival players and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the game's developer or publisher.