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Dicevaders Guide

Dicevaders Units - Chess, Aliens & Special Pieces

Every unit in the Dicevaders game with confirmed mechanics: how each one enters your board, what it does when scored and which commander engine drives it.

Unit Types (3)

Every unit on this page falls into one of three confirmed categories — the distinction drives which effects care about them.

Unit Types (3)
TypeUnitsHow They Arrive
ChessQueen, King, Bishop, Knight, Pawn (The Duchess)Drafted/spawned while The Art Of War is active
SpecialApple, Worm, Web, Mini DiceAuto-spawned or generated by commander engines
AlienKraken Die (base roll), Token UnitsBase-roll attachment (The Core) or effect spawns
The "non-Token" wording on an effect is the tell for whether it interacts with chess and drafted units versus engine-spawned ones.

How Units Scale

Units carry STR (strength) and charge/shield states, and effects constantly move STR around: Rocketship (+15 STR per Budge), Dread Knot (+150 STR to all units on a quadruple), Bone Eater (+50% to a column's bottom units), Whalefall (20% STR inheritance). The practical takeaway: a unit's contribution is its current STR times how reliably your engine scores it — feed both sides.

All Units

Chess Units (Queen, King, Bishop, Knight, Pawn)

Chess

Available while playing as The Duchess, whose The Art Of War starter perk grants access to her unique chess units.

Score / Trigger: Each piece is a distinct unit with its own behavior; Pawns additionally carry the confirmed Stone Chisel interaction.

Apple

Special

Spawned by Whisperer's Frugivore starter perk on a random empty tile at turn start — only when no Apple is already on the board.

Score / Trigger: Scored as part of a pair: the Apple is destroyed and you gain +3 Mini-Dice.

Worm

Special

Spawned two at a time on random tiles whenever an Apple is destroyed, via Whisperer's Wormfection perk.

Score / Trigger: A spawned unit from the Apple destruction chain — treat Worms as board pressure that follows Whisperer's engine.

Web

Special

Spawned on a random tile at turn start while The Exalted's Galactic Web artifact is on the board.

Score / Trigger: When scored, Web units give +2 XP to the artifact in their column (Galactic Web).

Kraken Die

Special

Added to your standard roll while playing as The Core (From the Deep starter perk).

Score / Trigger: Launching the Kraken Die grants +10 XP to any artifacts in its column.

Mini Dice

Special

Generated by effects: +3 at turn start from Blob Girl's Amalgram, +3 per destroyed Apple (Whisperer), +3 per Cyclotron reroll (The Riftmaker).

Score / Trigger: Mini Dice pile up as score — Blob Girl's Amalgram gives a scored Mini Dice's column artifact +2 XP.

Token Units

Alien

Generated by effects across kits — the game's generic spawned-unit category.

Score / Trigger: Token units are scored like any unit but are excluded from "non-Token" effects — a rules distinction that matters for building.

The full release ships additional units beyond the demo pool (patch notes reference units such as Warped Spitter and Dragon alongside unrevealed line-up). This page tracks the units with confirmed mechanics from official Dev logs and news posts, and updates as new unit details become official.