In-game description
Little is known about the Faceless, but it is said they did not possess individual minds, instead they were all connected to a central consciousness which governed all their choices and behaviours.
Affiliating yourself to the Faceless Faction will boost your production based on your past choices while giving progressively better bonuses.
Alignment: Neutral
The Faceless feature upgrades that becomes stronger with time. Their Heritage is based on the highest amount of buildings owned in the current reincarnation, and thus can easily be improved by doing a Goblin Bloodline run.
Unlock Requirements:
Note: These requirements can be done in different game plays.
Bone Fragment 1
Description: We discovered a sundial shaped artifact, probably made of animal bones.
Type: Quest Artifact
Requirement: 15 Excavations
Description: 1st clue required to unlock the Faceless Alliance.
Bone Fragment 2
Description: We discovered an artifact shaped like the number 36, probably made of animal bones.
Type: Quest Artifact
Requirement: 30 Excavations
Description: 2nd clue required to unlock the Faceless Alliance.
Octopus Shaped Spine
Type: Upgrade
Requirement: 2 Bone Fragments, 36 hours playtime (All time)
Cost: Price: 1 No (1e30), 25,000 Fairy Coins, 25,000 Undead Coins
Faction spell
Brainwave
Effect: Increase production of all buildings by a cumulative 2% for 10 minutes.
Spell Trophy & Upgrade
Faceless Overmind
Requirement: Affiliate with the Faceless 5 times in a row.
Effect: Increases Brainwave ticks to 3% per second.
Upgrade Cost: 10 Dd (1e40), A1+ Free
Proof Of Neutrality
Type: Alignment Upgrade
Requirement: Collect the 2 quest artifacts of any Neutral Faction.
Cost: 10 Qa (1e16)
In order to affiliate with a Neutral Faction, like for Vanilla Factions, you first need to choose the alignment. The alignment upgrade for Neutral Factions is called the Proof of Neutrality.
To get Proof of Neutrality you have to unlock at least 1 of the neutral factions.
Tier 1 Upgrades
Faceless Trade Treaty
Cost: 250 Fairy Coins + 250 Undead Coins
Effect: Unlocks Tier 1 Faceless Upgrades.
Territorial Expanse
Cost: 500 Qi (5e20)
Effect: Increase the production of Citadels / Necropolises / Labyrinths (based on your Alignment) based on the amount of assistants you own.
Formula: (50 * ln(1 + x) ^ 2.5)%, where x is the amount of assistants you own.
Evolutive Mutation
Cost: 5 Sx (5e21)
Effect: Increase Faction Coin find chance based on the highest amount of Labyrinths you built in this Reincarnation.
Formula: +floor(3 * x ^ 0.6)%, where x is the highest amount of Labyrinths you built in this Reincarnation.
Deep Memory
Cost: 50 Sx (5e22)
Effect: Multiplicatively increase assistants based on the time spent on your longest game session in this Reincarnation.
Formula: (0.3 * x ^ 0.7)%, where x is your Playtime (Longest Session) stat this Reincarnation.
Tier 2 Upgrades
Faceless Friendship Pact
Cost: 2,500 Fairy Coins + 2,500 Undead Coins
Effect: Unlocks Tier 2 Faceless Upgrades.
Gold Synthesis
Cost: 5 Sp (5e24)
Effect: Increase the production of Neutral buildings based on the amount of coins owned.
Formula: (0.2 * ln(1 + x) ^ 2)%, where x is the amount of coins owned.
Mitosis
Cost: 50 Sp (5e25)
Effect: Gain additional Faceless Assistants based on the amount of buildings you own.
Formula: +floor(0.5 * x ^ 0.5), where x is the amount of buildings you own.
Overgrowth
Cost: 500 Sp (5e26)
Effect: Increases production based on the highest amount of buildings purchased in a single game in this Reincarnation.
Formula: (0.8 * x ^ 0.8)%, where x is the highest amount of buildings purchased in a single game in this Reincarnation.
Tier 3 Upgrades
Faceless Alliance
Cost: 10,000 Fairy Coins + 10,000 Undead Coins
Effect: Unlocks Tier 3 Faceless Upgrades.
Magical Treasure
Cost: 50 Oc (5e28)
Effect: Increase mana regeneration based on the amount of assistants you own.
Formula: +(2.5 * x ^ 0.5), where x is the amount of assistants you own.
Abominations
Cost: 500 Oc (5e29)
Effect: Increase the production of assistants based on the amount of active spells.
Formula: (20 * x ^ 0.9)%, where x is the amount of active spells.
Hive Mind
Cost: 5 No (5e30)
Effect: Increases production based on total time spent affiliated with Faceless. Persists through Reincarnations.
Formula: (x ^ 0.5)%, where x is time spent as Faceless (All Time).
Faceless Heritage
Requirement: Faceless Champion Trophy
Cost: 25,000 Fairy Coins, 25,000 Undead Coins
Effect: Your production is increased based on the highest amount of buildings purchased in a single game.
Formula: (0.25 * x ^ 0.75)%, where x is your Buildings Owned (Max) stat.
Faceless Research Requirement
Sunken Cities Quest
Description: C-uh'e sll'ha hrii nog nwyar. Kn'a wgah'n ph'sgn'wahl. (Those unpronounceable words with no apparent meaning have spoken directly to your mind: you have to build enough Labyrinths.
Requirement: R22, 2000 Labyrinths
Cost: 10 Dtg (1e100)
Sunken Cities
Upgrade Labyrinths to Sunken Cities, boosting their production based on time spent in your longest game session and unlocking more unique perks for the building.
Formula: (75 * (x / 3600) ^ 0.9)%, where x is is your Playtime (Longest Session) stat.
Effect: Also allows access to the Research Facilities (after completing Secrets of the Ancients).
Cost: 10 Ttg (1e103)
Key to the Lost City
Requirement: R23+, 1,500th excavation
Effect: Unlocks the Secrets of the Ancients.
Secrets of the Ancients
Requirement: Key To The Lost City artifact, Any Neutral Unique Building.
Cost: 10 Noqag (1e151) Coins, 1 M (1e6) Fairy, Elven, Angel, Goblin, Undead, Demon coins
Effect: Unlocks research for Titan, Druids and Faceless and increases production by 100,000%, plus an additional bonus based on Economics research points.
Note: Required once throughout the entire game play and does not count towards the bought upgrade stat.
Ancient Device
Description: This strange device seems to react to the Ancient Races magical capabilities... We may channel its power to increase their research potential!
Type: Quest Artifact and Upgrade
Requirement: Play any Neutral Faction, have their Unique Building and over 2,000 excavations.
Cost: 100 QiSxg (1e200)
Effect: Adds 2 extra slots to the Neutral faction you are playing.
Note: Faceless research is related to Spellcraft and Divine.
Chance: 0.2% per excavation
Unique Building
Upgraded from Labyrinths
At R22, Faceless' Labyrinths can be upgraded to a Unique Building: Sunken Cities, which is required for some challenges and research quests.
Ascension 2 - R100+
Additional Alignment: Chaos
Forbidden Library Quest
Description: Het'ankd gewob iiray. Gan'il Knes'fj pha'rgn wahl. (Those unpronounceable words with no apparent meaning have spoken directly to your mind: you have to excavate enough).
Requirement: 5,000 Excavations
Cost: 1 Ud (1e36) Emerald Coins
Effect: Grants access to Unique Building.
Unique Building Upgrade
Requirement: Forbidden Library Quest
Cost: 1 Td (1e42) Emerald Coins
Effect: Gives Forbidden Library Unique Building.
Unique Building
Upgrade Monasteries to Forbidden Libraries, boosting production based on spells cast and unlocking more unique perks for the building.
Effect: Increase production based on spells cast.
Formula: (18 * (ln(1 + x) / ln(x % 10 + 2)) ^ 1.8)%, where x is spells cast.
Effect: Grants access to Faction Union.
Tier 4 Upgrades
Faceless Union
Requirement: Forbidden Library Unique Building
Cost: 1 Qi (1e18) Fairy and Undead Coins
Effect: Grants access to Union Upgrades.
Effect (R111+): Increase assistants additively based on amount of time spent all time as a random faction. Updates every 3 minutes.
Formula: +(65 * x ^ 0.5), where x is time spent all time with a given faction.
Primal Knowledge
Requirement: Faceless Union
Cost: 1 Nod (1e60) Emerald Coins
Effect: Multiplicatively increase Faction Coin find chance based on the highest amount of Forbidden Libraries you built in this Reincarnation. Grows over time and resets every 15 minutes.
Formula: ((t % 900) / 75 * x ^ 0.4)%, where t is time spent this game, x is the highest amount of Forbidden Libraries you built in this Reincarnation.
Forbidden Language
Requirement: Faceless Union
Cost: 100 Qivg (1e80) Emerald Coins
Effect: Increase spell durations based on the amount of Reincarnations made.
Formula: (0.8 * x ^ 0.8)%, where x is the number of times you have reincarnated.
Dimension Door
Requirement: Faceless Union
Cost: 100 Tg (1e95) Emerald Coins
Effect: Increase the production of all buildings based on the highest amount of Maximum Mana you had in this Reincarnation.
Formula: (2 * ln(1 + x) ^ 2)%, where x is highest Maximum Mana this Reincarnation.
Advanced Faceless Heritage
Requirement: Faceless Master trophy and 6 hours activity time (This Game) of Brainwave.
Cost: 1 Sp (1e24) Fairy and Undead Coins
Effect: Gain assistants based on the amount of Unique Buildings owned (additive).
Formula: +(2.5 * x ^ 0.8), where x is Unique Buildings owned.
Note: When using their lineage, Advanced Heritage powers are multiplied by the level of the lineage.
Formula: *(1 + 0.3 * level)