Soul Urn
The Soul Urn is a delivery objective separate from Unstable Rift. Its runner can currently shoot and use abilities, but cannot parry. Plan the route around that missing defense rather than following older advice that assumes the carrier is disarmed and silenced.
Protect the route and the reward
Enemy melee, a stun or death can make you drop the Urn. You cannot simply drop it manually, and certain teleports also leave it behind. Choose a route with teammates covering close approaches, then be ready to secure the soul orbs released at delivery.
Do not turn delivery into an endless chase
The bounty decays after the carrying grace period, so a detour can lose value even when the runner survives. Decide whether the team can clear the route before committing. Delivery is immediate at the destination; it does not begin the old contested capture process.
Update history27
- Urn spawn time and interval changed from 10/15/20/25/etc to 12/18/24/30/etc
- Urn timer now gets frozen with Frozen Shelter
- Urn no longer provides the +35% Bullet and Spirit Resist aura for the behind team when it is being carried or dropped. The aura is now only active when it is being deposited.
- Urn runner when behind now gains +35% Bullet and Spirit Resist for themselves only
- Urn drop off point is moved from the above bridge in the mid lane to under the bridge in the side lane
- Urn timer extension when contested increased from 1.25s to 3s
- Urn deposit timers for favored/neutral/unfavored increased from 3/5/10s to 5/10/15s
- Urn comeback bullet and spirit resist auras reduced from 50% to 35%
- Time holding Urn before taking damage reduced from 90s to 45s (1% max health damage per second)
- Time Urn will Autorun back to Home regardless of nearby players reduced from 75s to 45s
- Time an Urn will wait for a nearby player to pick it up reduced from 20s to 12s
- Fixed a bug where Urn can be invisibly carried on the hero by throwing it in certain areas like the air vents
- Added Breakable souls to the post game Souls by Source graph (was previously bundled in with Urn)
- Urn now reveals you immediately
- First urn is now considered for comeback mechanics (15% NW delta)
- Urn now has a visual indication on the model to indicate if its a side favored pickup
- Urn will no longer wait indefinitely for someone nearby to pick him up. He'll ignore loiterers after 20 seconds in aggregate and start running back home
Data and APIAPI
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- mechanic_soul_urn
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- soul-urn
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- objective
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- aliases
- urn, soul urn, urn run, deposit, king of the hill, koth urn, urn capture, урна, забег с урной, сдать урну, unstable rift, rift troopers
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- manual:mechanics/soul-urn
- updatedAt
- 2026-09-20T22:00:00.000Z