Offline Progress

How you go offline

Close the browser, or press Log Out. They are identical — the clock starts when your last open tab disconnects.

Maximum time counted

8 hours

Time beyond that

Discarded, not banked. Away 48 hours pays exactly the same as away 8.

Rate

Full — the same speed as playing live

Shortest window that counts

60 seconds. Reconnect sooner and that time is gone rather than added to the next gap.

When it is paid out

Begging, Fishing, Lumberjacking and Mining and dungeon fighting are worked as they happen, about every fifteen minutes: your pack and your skill really are moving while you are away. Skill training and a crafting batch are worked out when you next load the game. Either way the welcome-back tells you the whole absence at once.

Start one of these, then close the browser. This table is generated from the same rule the server uses to decide, so it cannot fall out of step with the game.

• A crafting batch. Set one running and it keeps producing offline, training that craft skill as it goes — until it runs out of materials or of tools, or reaches the target you gave it (a "Craft x" or "Make x" count, a commission's count, or the Crafting Bench's stop-at-skill level), which it stops on exactly where live crafting would. It wears its tool exactly as live crafting does, and the Crafting Bench is no different: left running without the tool for its skill, it makes nothing — save plain Iron Tinker's Tools, which it makes with nothing in hand (as it does at the keyboard) so a broken pair never strands you, though it trains no skill doing it.
• Auto Battle, but only inside a dungeon. Left running in a town or the overworld it earns nothing. Offline fighting trains your weapon skill, Tactics, Anatomy, Healing and Camping, and pays the gold and loot — and you can genuinely die down there while logged out.

• A full backpack. Gathering stops dead the first time a tick would put you over your carry weight, at the moment it happens — you put your tools down, exactly as you would if you were watching, and nothing more is gathered until you are back. Turn on the Overweight Alert (Options, Discord) and you are sent a Discord message when it happens, even while logged out. Bank your haul before you log off; carry space, not time, is usually what limits an overnight session.
• Running out of tools. Mining, Lumberjacking, Fishing and Animal Taming (its Animal Tackle) all need one, as does crafting wherever it needs one live — the Crafting Bench included — and the night burns through the spares in your pack (and a carried Tool Bag) exactly as live play would, Waste Not and all. When the last one breaks, the window ends there.
• Running out of Training Locks. Lockpicking spends one use per attempt at a six-second cadence, so a single lock covers ten minutes. Carry as many as you want the night to last.
• Running out of Practice Maps or Practice Curios. Cartography and Item Identification spend one use per attempt at a four-second cadence, so one of either covers about seventeen minutes. An eight-hour night is twenty-nine of them.
• Moving before you log off, if you are gathering. Mining, Lumberjacking, Fishing and Begging are re-checked against where you are actually standing — Recall out of a mine mid-Mining and the time pays nothing rather than paying you the wrong resource.
• Nothing to show for it is not a loss. If the window pays out nothing at all, the time is handed back rather than spent, so you can fix the problem and log off again.