#habitica pets

[habitica]

GHOST, VAMPIRE, AND SPOOKY POTIONS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET!

Stop into the Market and browse this month’s Magic Hatching Potions! From now until November 21 you can snag the Ghost, Vampire, and Spooky Magic Hatching Potions and add some ghoulishly cute new friends to your stable!

Magic Hatching Potions work on any standard Pet egg. And Magic Hatching Potion Pets love every kind of Pet food, so they can grow into Mounts fast!

Don’t delay, be sure to check these potions out soon. When they’re gone, it will be a year until they return!

[letgomaggie]

i keep finding potatoes and cotton candy as pet food on habitica and none of my pets like them?? being a mother is so hard :(

[ashs-nerd-den]

Habitica

An ADHD saviour

You gain points for finishing tasks and building habits.

You can get eggs and potions to hatch pets and earn food to grow your pets.

DOPAMINE!!!

You can enter challenges to get gems to join special challenges

You can join parties to work together on quests and have group accountability

You can log achievements and convince yourself to do the things you need to do (this is also great for spoonies, without it I would just never get out of bed with exhaustion)

[hundredsspoons]

I just got this app Habitica that basically turns your daily life into grinding for an rpg, and I'm really enjoying it! You make a list of to dos and stuff like laundry and homework assignments, and when you do them, you get points that you can exchange for little outfits, weapons, pet eggs, etc. You can be a warrior, mage, healer, or rogue and level up. You can join a little party and fight big bosses like "The Feral Dust Bunnies" by doing your chores and get bigger rewards, which helps me stay motivated because I would rather die than inconvenience random strangers. I guess all the potential rewards change, so it's not boring.

Right now, I've got my eye on these outfits

And I want a pet dragon, but I'm not sure if I want a moonglow dragon or a skeletal dragon. I apparently just missed the koi potion that could make the dragon half fish :/ And I hope they have a rerun of the deer pet so I can Mononoke it up.

[mari-lwyd]

I'm not dressing up as Dracula or a vampire for Samhain this year, but my Habitica avatar is! He even has a pet vampire wolf. @re-dracula

[arrgh-even-more-whatever]

me and my friends are using Habitica for tasks and habits and everything is just wonderful except for the fact that it WON'T GIVE ME EGGS FOR WOLF PETS. I have every other pet, I don't have wolves

ME! The Vovchyk Bratyk (brother wolf)!!

[bunnydevs]

Currently going through different apps (again) to find something to aid with planning. Not going too well.

For reference I do well with complete structure, schedule, and routine. That being said I will forget quickly and I need to have the information quickly and easily accessible. There also has to be something that is pretty/cute/fun about whatever I'm using a lot of the time. Otherwise I get frustrated (I don't know why).

I used habitica before and it worked somewhat but I struggled in certain areas. I find this to be an issue with nearly every productivity app I've tried.

Some features will work amazing for me (habitica offering rewards, pets, HP stats, etc) but others (lack of ability for quickly viewing routines that repeat, a view of my entire monthly schedule / timetable) lack.

I suppose I'll be needing to use two different applications + pen and paper to make things work. Hm. I'll redownload habitica but this time download an app to correspond / schedule, to make up for what doesn't work for me.

[nerves-nebula]

Ik this is a one off tag but. The app your sister showed to help you remember things. Please share, if you can.

it's called Habitica

ive made a habit out of looking at it (habits dont come easy to me but the muscle memory of continuously opening it the app helps when i forget)

also there's a little ding and u get points or whatever when u complete stuff so that's fun. and u get a buncha pet eggs and potions and stuff its a whole thing. i dont use the game part of the app very much tbh but that's ok

[creacherkeeper]

Hi!!! I saw that you youre a social worker, and thats so cool because Im also neurodivergent and wanting to become a social worker. Im curious if youd talk about your journey into becoming a social worker and how youve blended that with games and maybe what gameshave inspired you UwU

hi nonny!! i absolutely would love to talk about it!!

so i've been a social worker for over two years now. i specifically work as a disability coach, content writer, and now supervisor for a company that specializes in services for autistic adults and teens, but i've worked with a lot more clients than just autistic and have professional experience with adhd, trauma/(c)ptsd, anxiety and depression, addiction, dissociative identity disorder, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, chronic pain and fatigue, and more. i started with a specialty in autism, adhd, and trauma, but it quickly wound up that whenever we got a particularly complicated or challenging case my boss just gave them to me :P which is awesome because a lot of the time they wind up being the most rewarding clients to work with

i became a social worker from an unusual route because i actually started in advocacy work. i was a disability advocate for 7 years before i got my job as a social worker, and as an advocate sat on multiple state wide disability boards, was on the board of a center of independent living, ran a statewide autism expo, sat on lots of panels, participated in a think tank, ran community events, hosted a social group, co-wrote a local guide on voting with disabilities, and even made my own educational video game about autism. so it was all of that that caught my boss's eye when i reached out to him about joining the team, and i got the job after a 5 step interview process

after writing a 27,000 word training manual for my company i've now started working with new coaches and doing their training and have been doing their supervision hours as well. i also wrote a comprehensive introductory guide to autism for psychiatric and medical providers

the question about games and gamification goes back pretty far! i struggled very heavily with ptsd, executive dysfunction, and eating disorders through college and just found that therapy wasn't a good fit for me at the time (i didnt have enough knowledge and understanding to ask for what was helpful, and wasn't at a place in my emotional journey to start unpacking years of trauma and abuse) but games were the thing that seemed to help the most. using gamified mental health aids made the process of recovery fun and put it more under my own control. it wasn't clinical and potentially dangerous (i was at severe risk of institutionalization at the time and wanted to avoid it at all costs). using gamified apps and websites, i was able to recover from my eating disorder without professional treatment, take control over my schedule, and balance a job, college, and writing three books enough to graduate with a 3.7 gpa while being entirely financially independent. at the same time, i started playing tabletop roleplaying games like d&d, monster of the week, call of cthulhu, fiasco, starfinder, and more. this so radically improved my communication and conflict resolution skills, and expanded my emotional understanding and vocabulary to the point where i felt like a whole new person

as for inspirations, gamification is still a growing field but there's good stuff out there, and i use them a lot with my clients. they tend to be hit or miss, but they do a lot of good for the people they work for, and i've taken the lessons on how these games work and adapted them into my own individual systems i build on a client by client basis. i've built mini systems to help clients navigate making friends, improve their marriage, write original fiction, and more

habitica is the one i use most often. it's a gamified to do list split into habits, dailies, and to dos where you gain xp, get loot drops, defeat bosses, and collect pets as you accomplish your tasks

superbetter helped me a lot as a younger person, its a mental health site where you take on a secret identity and activate power ups, complete quests, fight bad guys, and recruit allies to recover and accomplish big goals

finch is a digital pet app where you power up and take care of your pet by completing self care activities like drinking water, going on walks, and reaching out to friends

plant nanny is a water tracking app where the liquids you drink in a day water your digital plant. it sends you reminders to drink if your plant is thirsty, and you have to drink enough to keep it from wilting

there's also a lot of video games out there that help you explore difficult emotions and concepts. one example that i absolutely adore is a game i'm replaying right now called spiritfarer. its a cozy resource management game where you play as a psychopomp who ferries the recently deceased to the afterlife. its a very sweet and beautiful game that packs some punches, and has a lot of meaningful things to say on trauma, disability, abuse, premature death, and a lot of other difficult topics. its such an incredibly meaningful game to me. the family gaming database has curated lists of video games that tackle emotional topics like grief, trust, or love in meaningful and sensitive ways. so that's a great place to start if you're looking for games to explore those things!

i hope that answers your question :D i know i wrote a whole novel. but im very excited about the work that i do and my plan for the future is to continue creating games like haunting to help people with mental health challenges and disabilities. this is only my first project but there are more on the horizon im really excited about. in the meantime you can check out my games at @psychhound where i post a lot of smaller systems and try to post freebies fairly regularly!

absolute best of luck with your own journey nonny, and if you ever had any more thoughts or questions please let me know!!

[cappurrccino]

nine people you'd like to get to know better

tagged by @wonderwafles! high five, forerunner buddy!!

Last song: Tomorrow in Retro by Kim Aspen

Favorite color: it's so HARD to pick just one, but probably pink!

Currently watching: MASH (I woke up early and decided I'd rather watch the rest of S3 than write a mini essay before my long ass practicum + work day)

Last movie: uhhhhhhh....... Young Frankenstein, I think?

Currently reading: Frankenstein! I let September get away from me, so it's a bit of a race to finish it up before the month ends, but I think I'll make it just fine

Sweet/spicy/savory: sweet > savory > spicy

Relationship status: i mean who even has the time

Current obsession: I don't actually know that I have anything at the moment that would fall into the "obsession" category, though maybe my own little Malev AU? everything else has simmered down into a sort of permanent sort of love and steady rate of consumption

Last thing I googled: "habitica pet food" bc someone in discord mentioned that the pets can grow into mounts and i immediately became 5,000x more invested in the pets

Currently working on: staying sane in my last semester of grad school lmao (and only partially succeeding), but also watching MASH all the way through and trying to plot out a malev mystery fic (trying to figure out how to make the stakes high but not TOO high is tough, man)

Tagging: (as always, no pressure!) @soothinghymn, @captaincravatthecapricious, @organchordsandlightning, @warlordfelwinter, @synnthamonsugar

(five's about the same as nine, right? close enough? close enough)

[habitica]

DISCOUNTED PET QUEST BUNDLE: DELIGHTFUL DINOS!

If you are looking to add some dinosaur pets to your Habitica stable, life, uh, finds a way! From now until 11:59 PM US EST on May 31, you can purchase the Delightful Dinos Pet Quest Bundle and receive the Pterodactyl, Triceratops, and T-Rex (The Dinosaur Unearthed) quests, all for only 7 Gems! That's a discount of 5 Gems from the price of purchasing them separately. Check it out in the Quest Shop today!

[sovvannight]

Y'all might like Habitica - https://habitica.com/ - it does make a little chiming sound when you complete a task and sometimes it rewards you with food to feed your virtual pets. You can also go on quests, and then you do damage to monsters when you complete tasks.

[hundredsspoons]

I'm actually so annoyed that I joined Habitica right after they ran the potion that makes all your pets half koi fish.

[thethingything]

apparently Habitica's April Fools prank is having your pets turn into mushrooms for the day

[imgae-insertshockedgasps-16]

i fucking love habitica

look at my current pet/mount

LOOK. AT. THEM.

and my previous ones??

[lycorogue]

FYI, if it also helps, there's an app that kinda does this. It's called Habitica. I used it for a few years. It's free. Actually has a website to play online if you prefer, but is also an app. You can pay a subscription to get bonuses, but nothing is really locked away in the free version.

You can get outfits and pets and backgrounds to customize your pixilated little avatar. You then start up quests to conquer various chores like dishes or laundry or dusting. You don't necessarily have to do that chore, though. Instead, you create your To Do list that you then check off. Each item you complete adds attack damage against the quest monster. Each day you don't complete your list, however, the quest monster attacks you for each remaining item. So, that is the main caveat. I know that, while being "punished" for incomplete tasks might be incentive for some, it can also cause unnecessary stress for others.

Also, feel free to put ANYTHING on your To Do list. My husband had "didn't have negative thoughts about myself" on his list 12x and he'd try to cross one off each hour.

Anyway, I enjoyed Habitica for about 5 yrs or so. However, once my friends and husband slowly stopped using the app, and each quest then took WEEKS to complete solo, I eventually dropped it too.

The app clearly isn't for everyone, but if you need that "gamify" push and you don't have the same support as OP, maybe this could work for you?

you know that post that's like "if thinking naruto would be proud of you for brushing your teeth gets you to brush your teeth go for it" well today i texted my friends and asked them to pretend to be wizards sending me on a grand quest to eat lunch and buy hand soap and it worked so well i put a load of laundry in and did the dishes too so. i don't know what the lesson is here but maybe give that a try