Daily and Weekly Routine Checklist

The routine is short if you stop treating every system as mandatory. A full daily pass is one material route, one stamina dump and one merchant check; the rest is weekly. Gaps in the sources are called out rather than filled with guesses.

The daily checklist

1. Check the Traveling Merchant first. The map flame icon shows where it is. Buy cheap ore, Element Balls and any King Ball you will actually use; stock refreshes roughly every four hours, so a second check later in the day is worth it (CN build, Season 3; single source).
2. Clear the Open-air Challenge while it still pays. It gives player XP, Prism Shards, Advanced Gulu Balls and Magic Fruit, and it is the fastest repeatable source of early ball income (CN build, Season 3).
3. Spend stamina before it caps. Priority goes to Alpha bosses and Flower Seed runs whose Codex entries you still lack. Full stamina is wasted stamina (CN build, Season 3).
4. Park at the Home farm during daylight. Starlight accumulates there while you are idle, and the Home collector buys plants for up to 1.8 million Shells a day (CN build, Season 3; single source).
5. Run one material route. Map materials respawn twice a day, so morning and evening are the two windows. Bring Jinies with the Share trait; each flower node pays at least 6,000 Shells in plant sales (CN build, Season 3; single source).
6. Catch every new Jini you pass. A first Codex entry is 100 XP and its evolution adds 600, faster than grinding battles (CN build, Season 3; single source).
7. Collect sign-in rewards; the King Balls are part of the ball budget.

Free pickups and the merchant window

Check the merchant on a timer, not once: one post puts the refresh at four hours, and the useful stock (cheap ore, Element Balls, the occasional King Ball) is gone if you only look at reset (CN build, Season 3; single source). Then run the map on a fixed route. Treasure and search points respawn like ordinary resource nodes; sparkle points and owl-star nodes do not (CN build, Season 3; single source).

If you play with a friend, catch while holding hands. Both players receive Shells for the catch, and both get a capture bonus — the cheapest co-op multiplier in the game (CN build, Season 3; single source). The Gulu Ball guide explains which ball to throw while linked.

Stamina: spend it or lose it

There is no trick to stamina beyond not wasting it. Posts recommend splitting a bar: half into first-clear Alpha bosses, which pay the largest one-off rewards, and half held for story steps that require a specific boss (CN build, Season 3; single source). After the story, the same bar goes into Flower Seed runs and the Alpha whose Codex entry you are missing.

Destined Flower Seed runs are the best-value stamina sink once they unlock at character level 40: a Flower Seed run pays 30 Magic Dust, and each Destined first clear with a new Jini pays 300 Prism Shards (CN build, Season 3; single source). Finishing an entire family pays 1,200 Shards, which is close to a Prism Ball (CN build, Season 3; single source). Treat a new rotation as a checklist: clear it once with every Jini you own.

Extra stamina comes from the Monthly Card's 5 Stamina Stones and the Season Pass's 12 weekly dungeon tickets (CN build; single source, March 2026 values). Neither is required.

The weekly checklist

1. Alchemy Pot crafts. Posts describe one fitting key and one flawed mirror a week, chosen from six eligible items (CN build, Season 3; single source).
2. Starlight Showdown. Up to 50 reward claims a week, plus one extra after a Starlight-level breakthrough; it also pays 5 Soul Ring Seals, the main income for six-star projects (CN build, Season 3; single source).
3. Shining Contest weekly tasks. They pay 5 silver keys, the main free talent-upgrade source (CN build, Season 3; single source).
4. Destined Flower Seed rotation. Level 40 and up, one rotation per period; first clears pay 2 Soul Ring Seals, and Flower Seed runs pay 30 Magic Dust (CN build, Season 3; single source).
5. Territory Trial. A clear in the current rotation paid 8 Soul Ring Seals, 1 Contract Essence, 25 Wish Stars and 2 million Shells (CN build, Season 3; single source).
6. Weekend mass spawn. Catch 20 of the featured Jini for the task; it pays 100 Prism Shards (CN build, Season 3; single source).
7. Dump leftover Shells into balls. Advanced Balls are unlimited at 15,000 each, so there is no reason to end the week sitting on a large balance (CN build, Season 3; single source).

Resets: what the sources confirm

One spawn route notes a 05:00 daily refresh for its target, the only daily reset hour any post states (CN build, Season 3; single source). Map materials refresh twice a day, which is why the route is split morning and evening. Weekly counters — Showdown claims, Alchemy crafts, the Contest tasks — reset together, but none of the posts in the corpus states the weekday or hour. The page summary uses Monday as the common convention; verify it in-game before a Sunday-night push.

This checklist cannot confirm the stamina cap, whether the 50 Showdown claims are matches or reward chests, how often Territory Trial rotates, or any numeric daily cap on King or Lightcatch Balls. A guide that gives those numbers without a build label is guessing.

For the money side of this loop, see the currency guide; for the Home farm and Starlight income, see the Home and gardening guide. If you are still in your first week, the beginner guide covers what to unlock first.