Avatar Customizations

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

One of the things many people love about Habitica is the ability to level up and get great gear for their avatars, but that’s not the only way to make your avatar your own. Did you know that there are seasonal skin colors, which allow you to dress up as a skeleton, deck yourself with holly, or try out a new pastel skin-tone? And that’s not the end of the options available. The Wiki is the perfect guide to this, and here’s an excerpt to get started:

Avatar customization includes all hair and body styles, skin colors, backgrounds, shirts, and extras (glasses, wheelchairs, flowers, earrings, animal ears, animal tails, and headbands).

Avatar customization has no in-game benefits; it just represents how you appear in the game.

Want to read up more about how to customize your avatar? Check it out on the Wiki!

Backgrounds

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

Have you picked out a favourite Background? Habitica’s contributors have worked hard on a whole range of Backgrounds to help bring our avatars to life — riding in a sleigh, anyone? Tiptoeing through a dragon’s hoard? Or is a deep-sea environment more to your taste? If you haven’t ventured yet into the world of backgrounds, then the Wiki has all the information you could need, plus a chance to preview some of the gorgeous images!

Here’s the introduction from the Wiki:

Backgrounds are optional scenery that can be placed behind player avatars. They have no in-game effect and exist only for aesthetic value. As of March 28, 2017, the violet background from the Plain Background Set is the default background (previously, the default background was a featureless light slate color). All existing players were also given the violet background and can choose to equip it if they wish to.

Thinking of going shopping now? Here’s the Wiki article to guide your choices!

Profile

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

One of the joys of Habitica is carefully collecting equipment, backgrounds and pets to adorn your avatar, in order to show everyone how hard you’ve been working. But have you thought about your profile, too? Here’s the Wiki Wizards’ introduction to your profile, and everything it means:

The Profile is a set of publicly available information about a player. It can be accessed by clicking on the player’s username or avatar in any chat, the Hall of Heroes, or member/participant lists in parties, guilds, and challenges. Private information (tasks, gems, email, financial details, etc.) is not displayed.

A user’s profile has three parts. The “Profile” page shows user identifiers and personal information a player chooses to share. The “Stats” page displays a player’s stats, equipment, costume, pets, and mounts they have equipped. The “Achievements” page lists badges achieved, challenges won, and quests completed.

If you need more info about your profile, you can start with the excellent page on the Wiki! Is it time to marvel at all your Achievements? Or are you on a quest to get them all?

Pets

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

In all your adventures on Habitica, your party can be great companions… but have you thought about teaming up with a wolf, a dragon, a polar bear or a friendly pumpkin? Habitica’s pets are all friendly and ready to help you achieve your tasks, but be careful — that Shade Wolf wants to eat all your chocolate!

There are so many pets, the options might seem overwhelming: don’t worry, as usual, the Wizards of the Wiki have your back.

Players can choose to hatch Pets from eggs and hatching potions. The eggs and potions, depending on their type, can be obtained from random drops when completing tasks, or from quests, and can be purchased with gems in the Market. Additionally, rare and special pets may be awarded for special events.

Pets do not require food, but most pets can be fed so that they grow into mounts. Rare and Wacky pets cannot be raised into mounts.

Check out the full article here! What’s your favourite pet…?

Class System

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

A lot of people join Habitica because they’re interested in games, and the idea of making your own life into a Roleplaying Game sounds amazing. Others come for the cute art and the to-do lists, and some of the gameified aspects of the site are a little baffling. As always, our Wiki editors have your backs, and this month we’re highlighting their page on the Class System.

The Class System is a gameplay feature that is unlocked at level 10. Until that point, every player is a Warrior by default, although several features of the Warrior class are not available until level 10 and above.

There are four classes, each having their own specific stat bonuses, special skills, and equipment that increase their effectiveness.

Whether you’re a gaming newbie who needs a basic primer, or someone just looking to figure out the quirks of Habitica’s system, you can check out the full page here!

Achievements

Illustration by Cosmic Caterpillar

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

Have you ever wondered how to get more shiny badges for your Profile? Or what exactly that new badge you got represents? This month, we’re highlighting the Wiki page on Achievements, which covers what they are, how to get to them, and what all those coveted badges look like!

A player’s Achievements and the corresponding badges are found in the Achievements tab, located in the player’s profile.

All obtainable achievements that have yet to be earned by a user are represented by a grey question mark icon.

The existing achievements and their corresponding badges are listed in the following sections, sorted by placement on the user Achievements tab. Some achievements, such as Kickstarter-related achievements, are no longer available. Some achievements can stack, while others can only be obtained once

Piqued your curiosity? Itching for your next big win? Find out more about Achievements on the Wiki!

Guilds Guide

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

Habitica’s social side is part of what makes the app so useful and enjoyable for many people: there are places to hang out, places to get advice, and places to get accountability. But have you ever looked at the list of Guilds and felt a bit overwhelmed? Not to worry — the Wiki has a Guilds Guide, a non-exhaustive guide to the different corners of Habitica, where you can jump to sections that contain Guilds of interest to you.

Let’s allow the Wizards of the Wiki to start us off by explaining what’s included in the Guide:

There are more than 870 open guilds in Habitica. This Guild Guide to the larger public guilds of Habitica is a work in progress. While it gives a good overview over the great and medium-sized guilds grouped by topic, it can never be complete since new guilds will be created, grow, shrink, and be abandoned and deleted every day.

If you’re interested, check out the full article on the Wiki! Don’t forget that the Wiki is always a great source for all kinds of info about Habitica, so many questions can be answered there!

Tavern

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

Here’s a useful tip for your travels in Habitica: make sure you check out the Tavern! It’s a great place to chat with other users, ask questions and share your struggles and successes. The Wiki Wizards have cooked up a great article explaining all the ins and outs:

The Tavern is the in-game establishment that provides lodging and entertainment for travelers. You can rest at the Inn when you need a break from your Dailies, or you can join other travelers in the Tavern Chat, where any user is welcome to participate or simply observe. You will find the Tavern under the Guilds tab.

You can check out the article on the Wiki… don’t forget that you can check in and take a load off! And Daniel’s always got a slice of cake waiting for you…

Market

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

This month, we thought we’d highlight an article about one of the essential areas of Habitica: the Market! This is where you can buy equipment that doesn’t appear in your rewards tab and all kinds of other items, like eggs and food for your pets… but are you familiar with everything the Market has to offer? The Wizards of the Wiki are!

At the Market, accessible through the Shops tab of the toolbar or through the Shops choice in the menu of the mobile apps for iOS or Android, players can purchase items and class-specific equipment. Tended by Alex the Merchant, the Market sells equipment, eggs, hatching potions (both standard and magic), food, saddles, cards, and special items, such as the Fortify Potion, Orb of Rebirth, Key to the Kennels, and gems. The storefront showcases some of these fine wares in a rotating selection of Featured Items. Players can also sell their unwanted items to the Market in exchange for gold.

Do you need to read up on it? Here’s the full article!

Costume Carnival

Cosplays by Habiticans Branderwall, UncommonCriminal, Viccthor and Patrick

It’s Wiki Wednesday! Once a month we highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!

One of the things people regularly mention enjoying about Habitica is the ability to collect a bunch of items and then create wacky costumes for their avatars. That can even provide some of the motivation that gets you ticking things off: “gotta do my tasks so I can earn enough gold to buy this last armor piece I need for my Pirate Kitty outfit!” This month, we wanted to highlight the creativity of users and the joyous chaos a few outfits can produce… and the Wiki does a great job of introducing you to the wild world of Habitican dress-up/cosplay:

In Habitica’s Costume Carnival, you’ll see fantastical creatures such as fairies, angels, mermaids, mad scientists, and more. This avatar costume art is created from the rich imaginations of the artists in the Costume Carnival guild. Each entry of avatar art will also include instructions on how to construct the costume for anyone who wants to make their own.

Itching to pick up some ideas? Check out the full article on the Wiki!