The dropdown at the top of the Action Window is where you pick what skill you're training. Skills are fully custom, so build your own list. Each one has its own XP bar and levels up on its own.

Choose your session length with the preset buttons, or enter a custom time:

25 MIN Short Quest, good for a quick focused burst
50 MIN Standard Quest, balanced XP and loot
90 MIN Epic Quest, max XP and better loot odds
CUSTOM Set any duration in minutes

The timer counts down in real time. When it hits zero, your session completes automatically and rewards go out.

START: Begins your session. The timer counts down and XP starts adding up.

PAUSE: Freezes the timer with no penalty. Wilderness restrictions lift while paused, so you can step away safely. Click RESUME to pick up right where you left off.

ABANDON: Shows up once you've paused. Click it to end the quest early and give up all XP and gold from that session. If you're mid-dungeon, this also resets your dungeon progress. Use it when you need to bail completely and aren't coming back to that session.

BREAK: Appears after you finish a session. Starts a rest timer (no XP, no penalties) so you can recover without losing your flow.

Before your first quest you choose one of three classes. The choice is permanent, and it multiplies the XP of every skill you will ever train.

MAGE +20% XP on every quest, and flashcards pay 8 XP a card instead of 5. The scholar’s path. Starts with a Magic Scroll.

WARRIOR +20% XP on every quest, half the gold lost on a Wilderness death, and a 5 second ghost cooldown instead of 15. Starts with two Health Potions.

RANGER +15% XP on every quest and +10% gold on every payout. Less XP, more money. Starts with two Candles.

XP earned each session comes from a stack of factors:

Base XP = set by study type and session duration
× Event Multiplier (1.0–3.0× from random mid-session events)
× Combo Multiplier (up to 1.5× from consecutive sessions)
× Prestige Multiplier (bonus after prestiging a skill)
× Buff Multiplier (from equipped items or shop consumables)
× Class Multiplier (Mage +20% · Warrior +20% · Ranger +15%, applies to all skills)

The XP Float animation shows how much XP you earned on each session.

Event Multiplier: Random events pop up mid-session (like "⚡ Focus Surge! 2× XP"). These are temporary boosts that expire after a few seconds, so watch the event zone above your session stats.

Combo System: Every session you complete bumps your Combo counter by 1. Your Combo multiplier is 1 + (combo × 0.05), capped at 1.5×. Hit a 10-session combo and every session earns 1.5× bonus XP.

Daily Event: the banner across the top of the screen names one bonus running for the whole day. It is the same event for every player, picked by the calendar date rather than at random, and it rolls over at local midnight. Twelve events rotate, doing one of four things: 2× quest XP, doubled streak bonuses, 3× Wilderness rewards, or a doubled daily login reward.

The Sage’s Riddle: one of the random events that can interrupt a quest. Answer it and you get 2× XP for 90 seconds plus 50 XP into the skill you are training. Two attempts: miss the first and you get a hint, miss the second and it tells you the answer.

The Wandering Merchant is the other one worth stopping for. It opens a shop mid-session with stock you cannot always find elsewhere.

Flip on Wilderness Mode with the skull toggle in the Action Window before you start. Here's how it works:

• Switch browser tabs and you'll trigger a 3-second Grace Period countdown
• Don't return in time and you die, losing every XP point from that session plus 10% of your gold
• Losing window focus triggers the same warning
• Survival Reward: finish the session without dying for +25% XP on your trained skill, plus a richer loot roll
• Every slip gets its own full countdown, so returning in time always saves you. The warning just gets blunter the second time
• Die and you are a ghost for 15 seconds before you can start again. A Warrior loses only 5% gold and waits 5 seconds
• 30-minute cooldown after every Wilderness session, whether you survived or died
• Your Day Streak is never touched. Dying only costs that session's XP and some gold
• ⚠ Can't be used during a Dungeon run (the two don't mix)

Click ENTER DUNGEON in the Action Window to begin a run. It costs 100 GP to enter and takes 4 consecutive study sessions to clear.

While in a Dungeon run:
• All sessions earn +50% bonus XP
• The whole UI shifts to a red theme, so you know you're in the danger zone
• A progress bar tracks how many of the 4 sessions you've completed

Dungeon Clear Rewards:
• 4 loot rolls (vs. 1 from a normal session), each at boosted rarity odds
• A guaranteed rare item on top of those
• One further 40% roll for a legendary for the run as a whole
• 2,500 GP base gold bonus

Rules:
• Abandoning any session forfeits the whole run, resets progress to 0 and costs a further 100 GP
• A 2-hour cooldown follows a run either way: after clearing it, and after leaving one you had already completed sessions in. Leaving before your first session costs only the gold
• Cannot be used with Wilderness Mode active (mutually exclusive)
• Your Day Streak is never affected. Abandoning a dungeon run doesn't reset it

Your Character Sheet (right panel) lists all your skills. They're fully custom: tap ✚ MANAGE in the Action Window to add, rename, or remove one at any time. Each skill has its own XP bar tracking progress toward Level 99.

Skill Icons: Give any skill a custom icon. In Manage Skills, hit 🎨 EMOJI to pick from a grid, or upload your own PNG/JPG/GIF.

Clicking a skill opens the Skill Detail modal: total XP, current level, milestones, and an estimate of when you'll hit the next level.

At Level 99, a skill can be Prestiged. It resets to Level 1 but grants a permanent XP multiplier for that skill. Prestiging never lowers your Combat Level.

The MILESTONES panel on your Character Sheet records the badge tiers you have reached. Every skill is one you created yourself under ✚ MANAGE, so this means any skill in your own list. Take one of them to any of these levels and the badge is yours:

LV 10 LV 25 LV 50 LV 75 LV 99

Each tier is its own gemstone, cut and coloured differently so you can tell them apart at a glance. There are always five, always in the same place. A stone lights up as soon as any skill reaches its level and stays dark until then, so an unearned tier still shows you the shape of what is coming.

Hover or tap a stone to see which skills earned it. If more than one did, its label carries a ×2 or ×3.

Stones are a record, not a bonus. They grant no XP, gold or stats, and they are separate from Achievements.

Items drop from completed sessions and land in your Inventory at the bottom of the Character Sheet. Click any item to use, equip, sell, or discard it.

Equipment Slots (3 total): Equippable items are temporary. Each has a set number of charges and disappears once they run out. A charge is spent on every completed session, whether or not that session actually triggers the item's bonus.

🦉 Pixel Owl: +5% XP all sessions · 8 charges
🪶 Dragon Quill: +8% XP on sessions 45 min+ · 8 charges
🔮 Crystal Ball: +10% XP all sessions · 10 charges
📖 Ancient Tome: +15% XP on sessions 60 min+ · 8 charges

Charge count shows on each equipment slot. Hit 0 and the item's gone, so grab another from loot or the Shop.

Consumables: One-time items (Health Potion, Tallow Candle, etc.) that activate immediately and expire after one session.

Selling: Any item sells for gold: Common 25 ⬡ · Rare 50 ⬡ · Legendary 100 ⬡.

Gold (⬡) is the main currency. You earn it by:

• Completing study sessions
• Completing daily/weekly quests
• Daily login bonuses
• Wilderness Mode survival (double gold)
• Random mid-session events
• Selling inventory items (Common 25 ⬡ · Rare 50 ⬡ · Legendary 100 ⬡)

Spending gold: Visit the Shop tab to buy consumable buffs (XP boosts, shields) and unlock exclusive display titles. The Mystery Chest is also purchased with gold.

The Log is your real-time activity feed, recording XP gains, level-ups, item drops, quest completions, random events, system messages, and more.

Messages are color-coded:
■ Gold: System messages
■ Green: Positive events, level-ups, rewards
■ Red: Warnings, deaths, penalties
■ Blue/Purple: Special events

The Quests tab has four sections:

Daily Challenge: A high-reward challenge that resets every 24 hours.

Daily Quests: 3–4 quests that reset every 24 hours. Types include: complete N sessions · earn X total XP · study for N minutes · survive Wilderness · hit a Combo · earn XP in multiple skills · use a consumable item.

Weekly Quests: Longer quests that reset weekly with bigger gold rewards.

Bounties: Optional bonus objectives with special rewards.

The History tab is a full record of every study session you've ever completed (up to your save limit). Each entry shows:

• Date and time
• Study type / skill trained
• Duration and XP earned
• Whether Wilderness Mode was active

Use it to spot your study patterns and see which subjects you're actually spending time on.

The Heatmap shows your study consistency across a full year, similar to GitHub's contribution graph. Each square is one day.

Darker gold means more study time that day. Grey means no activity. The legend at the bottom shows the intensity scale.

Below the heatmap you'll find stats like your longest streak, total active days, and most productive month.

151 achievements unlock automatically the moment you hit a milestone, across categories like:

Sessions 1 → 10 → 50 → 200 → 1,000 → 5,000
Streak 3 → 10 → 21 → 50 → 100 → 250 → 500 days
Hours 1 → 5 → 10 → 25 → 50 → 100 → 500 → 1,000 → 10,000
Skill Level 10 → 25 → 50 → 75 → 99 in up to 10 skills
Combo 3 → 15 → 20 → 30 → 50 → 75 → 100 sessions in a row
Wilderness Survive 1, 5, 25, 50, 100, 150 times
Dungeon Clear 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 dungeons
Gold 1k → 5k → 25k → 100k → 500k → 1M → 2M GP
Items Equip, sell, use consumables, collect Legendaries
Prestige Prestige 1, 3, 5, 10, 15 times total
Quests Claim 1, 25, 100, 500 quest rewards
Flashcards Build decks, create cards, master a deck

Each achievement has a tier, bronze, silver, gold, or platinum, based on how tough it is. Unlock one and a full-screen celebration pops up on the spot, colored to match its tier, with a sound to match. Locked ones stay dimmed and grey in the grid; unlocking one reveals its tier color there too.

The Leaderboard shows real-time global rankings of all players, sorted by hours studied this season. Your row is highlighted.

Columns: Rank · Name · Combat Level · Hours (this season) · Sessions · Streak

Seasons: The admin can reset the leaderboard to kick off a new season. Everyone's displayed hours drop to 0, but your character data is never touched.

The Stats tab shows a bar-chart breakdown of your study time by skill and subject.

You can see at a glance which subjects you've put the most time into and which ones need more attention. It updates in real time after every session.

The Cards tab is a built-in spaced-repetition flashcard system linked directly to your skills.

Decks: Create one deck per subject. Each shows how many cards it holds and how much of it you know. Studying a deck always runs through every card in it, in the order you wrote them.

Adding Cards: Pick a deck, then type a question (front) and answer (back). Images can go on either side.

Reviewing: Cards flip with a 3D animation. After seeing the answer, mark it ✓ Got it or ✗ Missed. Every correct answer earns +5 XP toward the deck's linked skill, or +8 XP if you are a Mage. A study run always plays every card in the deck, in the order you wrote them — nothing is held back or rescheduled.

Status dots on each card: 🔵 New · 🟠 Learning · 🟢 Mastered. The mastery bar fills as cards reach Mastered.

The Chat tab is a real-time global chat room for all Quest of Mind players. Messages auto-delete after 24 hours.

🔔 LIVE / 🔕 MUTED: This button mutes or unmutes notification sounds for new messages. You can also toggle it in Settings.

Click any username to open a menu where you can add them as a friend or block them.

If you've bought a title from the Shop, it shows next to your name in chat.

The Friends tab lets you add other players by their display name and see their online status.

• Type a player's exact display name and click ADD
• They'll get a friend request
• Once accepted, their online/offline status shows on your friends list
• You can also add friends directly from Chat by clicking their username

The Shop has two sections:

Consumables: Spend gold on one-time buffs: XP boosts, combat shields, tallow candles, and the Mystery Chest. Most have a cooldown, shown as a timer while active.

🎁 Mystery Chest (100 ⬡, 6hr cooldown): Rolls a random reward: +50% XP surge · ×2 XP (Double XP) · a random rare Title. An animated reveal shows exactly what you got.

Titles: Buy display titles that appear next to your name in chat, then equip or unequip them from this section.

The Guide tab is a quick-reference text guide covering all the major systems: custom skills, game mechanics, items, and tips. It's always there as a static reference.

The News tab has the patch notes for every major update, so check it to see what's changed.

For a fully interactive walkthrough of every feature (like this one), open Settings → HELP TUTORIAL at any time.

Opening the game each day earns a Daily Login Reward: gold that scales with your streak, so the longer the streak the bigger the payout. The reward itself only asks that you turn up; the streak is what asks for a session.

Your Streak (shown in your stats and Character Sheet) is how many days in a row you've completed at least one session. Skip a day entirely and it resets, but any session length counts, even a short one.

Important: Multiple sessions in the same day still only count as one streak day, since it increments once per calendar day. It's never affected by dying in Wilderness Mode, abandoning a Dungeon run, or anything else in-game.

Your streak is shown on the Leaderboard next to your name, though ranking there is by hours studied this season, not by streak.

A living tree grows on your Character Sheet, tied directly to your Day Streak. It starts as a bare seed and grows a little more every day your streak continues: new branches, a fuller canopy, glowing gold blossoms.

Growth stages:
• Day 1: first sprout appears, tree wakes up
• Day 5: full branch structure grown in
• Day 7: first blossom blooms
• Day 10: petals begin falling
• Day 20: canopy fills in, fireflies appear
• Day 28: tree reaches full size
• Day 30: full bloom, every blossom present
• Day 45: a radiant golden halo appears, the final visual stage

Stage labels beneath the tree track your progress: Taking Root (1) → Sapling (3) → Sprouting (6) → Branching Out (9) → Leafing Out (14) → In Full Blossom (20) → Iron Will (30) → Diamond Mind (60) → The Century (100) → Six Months Strong (180) → A Full Year (365). The higher tiers reuse your streak achievement names, so the tree and your achievements always stay in sync.

Miss a day and the tree withers back to a bare skeleton, right along with your streak resetting to zero. It regrows from the seed once you start a new one.

Open Settings with the ⚙ button in the header (or press B).

Sound Effects: Toggle all game audio on or off
Ambient Sound: Choose background audio: Rain · Fire Crackle · Tavern Hum · Off
Chat Notifications: Toggle chat ping sounds
Background: Re-tints the whole interface. Stone · Dungeon · Forest · Midnight · Arcane · Ash · Onyx · Rose · Teal, with Onyx as a near-black dark mode
Reset Save: Permanently delete all progress (irreversible!)
Reset Leaderboard: Admin only, starts a new season
Sign Out: Signs out of your Google account

Quest of Mind supports full keyboard navigation:

SPACE Start session
ESC Close any overlay
1–8 Switch between tabs
W Toggle Wilderness Mode
B Open/close Settings
← → Navigate tutorial slides

Tricks experienced players actually use:

⚒ Build your skill list first: tap ✚ MANAGE and add the things you actually do in real life
🔥 Complete every session to keep the combo growing for max XP
💀 Use Wilderness for +25% XP when you're locked in (your streak is never at risk)
⚔ Do daily quests every day: fastest gold income in the game
🛒 Buy the Mystery Chest every 6 hours, titles are worth the chat prestige
🃏 Use Flashcards during breaks to squeeze in extra learning
🏰 Enter the Dungeon on marathon days: +50% XP, 4 loot rolls, 40% Legendary chance, and 2,500 GP
📖 Equip Ancient Tome for 60+ min sessions: +15% XP, the best equip bonus in the game
⬡ Sell unwanted items any time to turn duplicate drops into gold