I have been a daily player on Kamigotchi world for some time now, having played almost religiously on the quest to get the world passport. Here are a few things I learned along the way about the overall game that I think could help starting players.

This guide is split into 3 parts. Part 1 is where I cover the basics of the Kamigotchi world; how to interact with the world and start out on your adventure. Part 2 is where I cover key aspects such as items, stats and quests. Part 3 is where I include some of my own personal recommendations for builds, harvesting and play-style.

Moving

Moving is the main action, besides crafting or interacting with Kamis (which we will get to later), that a player can take in the Kamigotchi world.

To move, you need to open the map sub-menu on the top left, highlighted in red. Your locational tile is green on the map, while the tiles you can move into are red.

Moving costs 5 stamina, which is replenished at a rate of 1 stamina per minute (1 move every 5 minutes). Stamina can be replenished using items.

This is the first quest you should complete, which is to move 3 times in the Kamigotchi world. With this quest you will receive the minting ticket, with which you can get your first Kami.

To mint your first Kami, you need to move to the Vending Machine tile, where you can mint from a pool of Kamis that you pull from (the pull is randomized). An important aspect with this is that you can reroll your Kamis! If you are not satisfied with your first roll (the stats don’t match up, it doesn’t look cool etc.), you can re-roll up to 10 different times, but it will always re-roll to a Kami that is in the pool you’re rolling from. I will cover what stats to be on the look-out for when getting your Kamis in a bit.

If you ever run low on mONYX, you can always drip the faucet to fund your operator. I think the maximum amount of mONYX I’ve used in a single day was >500, so you should be good to go for a while.

Harvesting

Harvesting is the point of origin for the entire economy of the Kamigotchi world. You must harvest to earn MUSU, which is the currency with which you purchase items and complete quests.

To begin harvesting, you need to first have a Kami, which you gain through minting. Then, you can add that Kami to the node that you want to harvest from. Through harvesting you gain MUSU, and the chance to roll for an item from the node.

When you have filled the bar through collecting MUSU through your Kami, you can Scavenge, which will give you one (or multiple, depending on the number of rolls you have) item from the node. These items have different drop chances based on their rarity and are useful for crafting, using on Kamis or for quests.

Keep in mind that the MUSU needed for scavenging ranges from node to node, usually nodes that have rarer items require more MUSU. So be strategic about how you collect certain items in nodes.

When a Kami is harvesting, there are 4 things to look out for:

1. As noticeable on the left hand side, you can see the amount of MUSU that the Kami is earning, as well as the amount of HP it is losing per hour. In Kamigotchi, HP has to be lost for MUSU to be earned by Kamis, in both harvesting and murdering.

2. The amount of MUSU currently harvested is displayed on the right hand side, which can be collected.

3. An important aspect of Kamigotchi is cooldowns; your Kami will always have a cooldown when doing a task, besides consuming items. If you remove the Kami from a node, murder another Kami or collect it’s harvest, you will put it on cooldown, which can often leave your Kami vulnerable to other Kami looking to murder.

4. Actions

When harvesting, a Kami can do 3 things;

• Stop harvesting: This means that you pull the Kami out of the node and collect all the MUSU.

• Feeding: You can feed healing items, potions and candies to your Kami to give different effects.

• Collecting harvest: You can just collect MUSU without taking your Kami away from the node.

Collecting or stopping a harvest will cause the Kami to go on cooldown, while feeding your Kami will not.

Murdering/Liquidating

A fourth action you can do is murdering with your Kami. If there are other Kamis in the node that have low enough HP, you can murder them, at a cost of HP to your murdering Kami. Usually, murdering gives you roughly half of the MUSU harvest of the collecting Kami, but this can be increased or decreased depending on Kami skill points and stats.

When liquidating a Kami, you get a percentage of their harvested MUSU as reward, while taking damage yourself (named Karma). Besides the amount of MUSU you earn, the damage you receive is also dependent on the stats of your Kami and the enemy Kami. So be careful when murdering a Kami, as you might be murdered in return!

Reviving

If your Kami has been murdered, you lose access to it temporarily, until you revive that Kami. To revive your Kami, you need to have access to a Red Gakki Ribbon. When you revive a Kami, it will get back to 10 HP, so you will either need to heal it or let it heal on it’s own if you don’t want to risk it dying again while harvesting.

You might be asking “What if my Kami died and I don’t have access or the funds to buy a ribbon?” Well, don’t worry, as the developers have a free ribbon available at the Temple By the Waterfall tile.

Healing

Healing is another important aspect of the Kamigotchi world. There are two ways to heal, naturally or through items.

Your Kami will naturally heal as it is resting in your party. The recovery rate is determined by their harmony and skill points. You can also heal your Kami artificially using candies or items purchased from the shop. These items can be fed either while your Kami is resting or while it is in the node.

Leveling Up

A final crucial part of the Kamigotchi world is leveling! Your Kami naturally gains experience as it collects MUSU, and you can artificially feed it XP either through candies or through XP potions.

You get a skill point for use when leveling up your Kami, and your Kami must be resting in order to level up. Skill points can be used to specialize your Kami; making your Kami more threatening, resilient or bountiful. Besides the base amounts, skill points are one of the very few ways with which you can increase stats.

There are 4 main stats that are available for you Kami. Stats are determined by the body parts of your Kami, which include their hands, body, face, color and background, we will get onto body appendages at a later point. For now, the main stats are:

Health

Health is a very straightforward concept; it determines the amount of damage your Kami can take until it runs out of HP. There are certain nuances to it, like effective HP scaling with different body types, but more health is always better.

Usually, a base HP of >80 for Normal body types and >150 for Typed body types is a great starting point. Having high HP means that you can harvest MUSU with less effort on your part. More HP is always better.

Health is the easiest stat to increase, as all skill classes have a +10 HP per level option in the first tier, however it is important to have a good base starting HP as well if you want to specialize quickly.

Violence

Violence is another straightforward concept; it is the amount of damage your Kami can deal. Higher violence will mean that you can murder another Kami at a higher health threshold, as you deal more damage. Higher violence also means that you will deal more damage to a Kami that murders you.

Damage in Kamigotchi is not straight forward. You do not deal damage in the same way you take damage. You can only murder another Kami once they have fallen below a certain threshold, which is determined by your animosity (calculated using the violence stat). When you attack a Kami, you always kill it (as you cannot attack it if it’s HP does not fall below this culling threshold), which is why the game refers to murder as liquidation from time to time.

Usually, a base violence level above 20 is a good starting point for a murdering Kami. I’ve personally seen 25 base violence Kamis, which are obviously a great choice. Realistically, you can increase your violence by ~8 in the first 25 levels of your Kami, so if you’re going for a predator Kami, this is the most important stat to look out for.

High violence goes hand in hand with high HP, as you want to have greater base HP if you want to be able to survive the “Karma” when murdering another Kami. The damage you take is determined by your and the enemy’s violence (as well as the HP remaining on the enemy Kami and the total MUSU they’ve collected), so attacking higher violence targets will increase the risk of a reciprocation kill on your Kami.

Power

Power directly affects the Fertility of your Kami, which is the amount of MUSU it collects per hour. A base power level of 20 is a great starting point for any Kami, as your Kami will mostly be collecting from a node.

Correlated aspects to power, which increase Fertility (the base level of MUSU earned) and harvest Intensity (MUSU earned after a period of time, increasing every hour) can be increased, so this is not as vital of a stat as violence is, but having ~20 base power level for an active harvesting Kami is a very important starting point as well.

Much like violence, you can increase your power by ~8 in the first 25 levels of your Kami, so if you’re going for a harvesting Kami, this is an important stat to look out for.

High power is ideal when you want to take a more proactive approach to the game, as it usually comes at a drawback to harmony (defensiveness), but you can get up to 60 base MUSU per hour (without upgrades), with just base power level if you get lucky, possibly increasing it to 200-400 MUSU per hour with upgrades!

Power also goes hand-in-hand with violence, as a higher power level will increase the total MUSU you get from murdering another Kami.

Harmony

Harmony is the defensiveness of your Kami, it decreases the amount of Strain (damage taken) while harvesting in a node, increases the healing rate while resting and increases the amount of effective HP your Kami has when being attacked (a higher harmony level will shift the kill threshold for your Kami, making it more resilient to being liquidated).

Harmony effectively makes your Kami more resistant when harvesting, and is ideal for when you want to take a more AFK approach to the game, for example if you want to leave your Kami harvesting overnight. Maxing harmony is a great start for players who want to earn MUSU with as little effort as possible.

Beware of your Kami’s body type and the node’s type when leaving them overnight! They may be taking more damage depending on the node they’re in.

Different stats are useful for different builds, as I outlined previously.

For an active predator build, Violence is the most important aspect, while Health and Power are secondary (as you will need to be active to hunt for other Kamis anyways).

For an active harvester build, Power is the most important aspect, while Health and Harmony are secondary (high Power will give you great short bursts of MUSU).

For an AFK harvester build, Health and Harmony are both equally important, while Power is less important. Harmony will decrease the amount of damage your Kami takes in a node and increase it’s murdering threshold, while Health will increase the overall amount of time you can stay AFK for.

Quests are how you get reputation in the testnet, which is how you unlock Kamis and work towards gaining the World Passport.

Quests also often provide items when completing them, which vary from candies to crafting items and even the Mana Mochi, which provides a permanent harmony buff to one of your Kami. Each quest has an objective, reward and a description that gives clues about how to complete the quest.

When you give items for a quest, you burn the items, meaning you lose access to them. Therefore, if an item is very important, maybe try getting a second one before using it on a quest! I highly recommend stockpiling quest items, which I’ve outlined at the end.

There are usually 6 types of quests:

1) Mobility Quests: The simplest type, which is completed once you move a certain amount of tiles. Keep in mind that this is NOT retroactive, so you have to accept the quest before moving the certain amount, or else it won’t count. Also, previous movements from other quests do not count either.

When starting out, try to complete these quests as fast as possible! These are the easiest type of quest to do, and can help you unlock new Kami faster to complete other quests faster as well.

One thing I did was set a gentle reminder once every 100 minutes to remind myself that my stamina reset in Kamigotchi world, so that I could move around to progress these quests fast. You can easily get a few hundred movements in a day to progress these quests. Besides, by being pro-active you can possibly scope out some easy pickings for your predator Kami to scrape up.

2) Kami-Related Quests: These are quests related to your Kami party. They vary from very easy quests like leveling up a Kami once to very hard quests such as having a Kami at level 30 (one of the hardest quests).

3) Item & MUSU Related Quests: Items & MUSU are crucial parts of the Kami world, and the quests highlight this. A lot of the quests are item related, especially the late-game ones, where you have to collect uncommon, rare or even exotic items.

Very crucial items you should be on the lookout for when harvesting are; mint (found in Clearing), black poppy (found in Forest: Old Growth, Forest Road 1 & 4) and pine cones (found in all forest tiles). If there are any other exotic items, they may also be very useful for quests or crafting later down the line. Keep in mind that rarity increases are exponential in Kami, so the earlier you can grab these items the better.

4) Discovery Quests: These are another easy quest type, as they only need patience. They usually require either harvesting for a certain amount of time in a specific tile, or visiting tiles such as the shop. Completing this quests early are also vital for getting a quick head start in the game!

5) Event Quests: Event quests are a bit rarer. For example, there are currently a bunch of event quests for Christmas in Kamigotchi, where there are special items to collect for use and to collect to fulfill quests. An example is in the image I shared above, where you have to collect 3 mistletoe to gain an XP bottle and 2 reputation.

A second type of event quest is the co-op quests. These are in a completely different UI, and are pretty easy to miss if you’re not attentive.

Co-op quests are hard to notice, they can only be interacted with in a specific tile once you’ve clicked a specific spot. To know when a co-op quest is happening or is about to happen, I highly recommend you join the Kamigotchi Discord or follow them on X.

They usually require you to contribute an item, however in the past did require MUSU to unlock. They fill up really fast, the one above already has 8% after ~ 6 hours. If you contribute a certain amount, you get special rewards. For example in this case if you contribute 3 Candles, you gain the Bronze Reward, but you have to contribute 99 Candles to gain the Gold Reward.

6) Reputation Quests: These are the quests with which you gain Kami Gacha Tickets. You can accept them at anytime, and you can see the reputation progress with the blue bar at the bottom of the Quests UI. Make sure you complete these quests as they reward you extra Kamis to use!

7) Crafting Quests: These are a fairly new type of quests added in a previous patch. They came along with the ability to craft items. They are fairly simple, and are very similar to the Item and MUSU quests.

Keep Up-to-date

Once again, I want to recommend that you keep up-to-date with the Kamigotchi world. I personally think the best way to do so is through the Discord, as they post their announcements on there, and there is a friendly community to help with any questions or bugs that you might face.

There’s also some really cool theory crafting that goes on in the Discord server, with some discussions that you can learn a lot from.

Items are a very important part of the Kamigotchi world, and can be harvested, bought from the shop or gained through quests. Items can be found in your inventory.

Before getting into items, let’s take a look at the crafting menu.

To craft, you need 3 essential things: stamina, the main ingredients and the container. Stamina is the amount of movement that you have left, and as already covered, recovers at a rate of 1 stamina per minute.

In a future update you will also be able to gain XP from crafting (the XP that you see in the crafting menu is not for Kamis), which will be useful in leveling up your profile. There will likely be profile level related content and quests as well.

As I already covered, items are very crucial for different quests, but they are also great for using on your Kami or on yourself.

Please note that the probabilities listed per item are based on personal experience as well as a few resources found on the Kamigotchi Discord, there are no clear spreadsheets that define drop rates and they are subject to change.

There are 5 types of items:

Small Candy: 50 XP

Medium Candy: 100 XP

Large Candy: 250 XP

Huge Candy: 1000 XP

Spice Grinder & Portable Burner: Bought from the Shop for 2500 and 4000 MUSU. They need to only be bought once.

Mint: Used for crafting a Respec potion. Dropped from the Clearing at a very low drop rate (~1.5%). You will get mint for free from quests, DO NOT WASTE THEM as they are needed for another quest and are very rare.

Pine Cone: Used for crafting pine pollen, which is used for XP potions. Dropped from all Forest tiles at a rare drop rate (~5%).

Daffodils: Used for crafting essence of daffodils, which are used for Bless and Grace potions. Dropped from Shady Path at an uncommon drop rate (~20%).

Black Poppy: Used for crafting the Grace potion. Might be more useful further down the line. Dropped with a legendary drop rate (~0.5%).

Glass Jars: Used only for a greater XP potion for now, but might be used for another greater potion in the future. Dropped from the Airplane Crash tile with a pretty low drop rate (>3%).

Plastic Bottle: Used for all other potions. Dropped from scrap tiles as well as Airplane Crash at a common drop rate (~50% in airplane crash, ~5% in scrap tiles).

Red Gakki Ribbon: Revives a Kami and restores 10 health. Gained from a quest and can be bought from the shop for 100 MUSU.

Maple-Flavor Ghost Gum: Restores 25 HP to a Kami. Can be obtained once from a quest or through the shop for 60 MUSU. This is great for topping off HP for a Kami if you’re going to be away for a while.

Pom-Pom Fruit Candy: Restores 50 HP to a Kami. Can be obtained from the shop for 100 MUSU. Also great for topping off HP every once in a while.

Gakki Cookie Sticks: Restores 100 HP to a Kami. Can be obtained from the shop for 160 MUSU. Great for large batch heals.

Cookie sticks are the most cost effective healing item, but it is also my least used, as I use the gum and fruit candy much more often, and only really use the cookie sticks for when my Kami is murdered or for my high HP Kamis.

I think overall having a 15/15/10 ratio for the items is a great way to proceed, as realistically you’re mostly going to be topping off your Kamis HP if you’re relatively proactive.

XP Potion: Grants 1000 XP to a Kami. Can be crafted using 250 pine pollen and a plastic bottle. Great for early game levelling if you’re looking to progress fast.

Greater XP Potion: Grants 15000 XP to a Kami. Can be crafted using 2500 pine pollen and a glass jar.

I recommend crafting this, as it is around 50% more cost effective (depending on your luck) in terms of pine cones.

Respec Potion: Crafted from mint essence and a plastic bottle. Allows you to reset skill points for a Kami, doing the exact same thing as the mint used to do. This is great for if you want to change your mind for a specific Kami, I’ve used it once when I wanted to respec my Kami from a harvester to a guardian.

Grace Potion: Crafted from black poppy essence, daffodil essence and a plastic bottle. Allows you to “Grace” your Kami, making them take 25% less damage in a node until it’s next action. Next action is any of the 3 actions you take with the Kami, so even if you feed it, the blessing will wear off!

Bless Potion: Crafted from daffodil essence and a plastic bottle. Allows you to “Bless” your Kami, making them harvest 25% more until it’s next harvest. Your Kami takes more damage while blessed, so be careful when applying this potion!

Holy Dust: Used for renaming your Kami if you want to personalize it. Can only be obtained from harvesting with a pretty low drop rate (>3%).

Scroll of Shop Teleportation: Allows you to immediately travel to the shop without spending stamina. This is great for if you want to make a bulk purchase at the shop, but are too far away from the shop to be able to return to your tile immediately. It costs 250 MUSU, and is a great thing to have 1 of in your inventory in the late-game.

Ice Cream: Restores 20/40/80 stamina depending on it’s level. Ice cream is an item that

For early game players, ice cream is great to have for emergencies (1 or 2 would suffice). If you manage your time well, you will not need ice cream very often. In the late-game, ice-cream is great for if you’re going on a murdering spree, as checking every tile is difficult to do all at once, but with ice-cream it is not a hassle.

Also for the early game, ice cream is a great way to convert MUSU to reputation, as you can move more after consuming ice cream, so you can easily complete the movement quests.

Stick, Stone: Used for quests (>50% drop rate in most tiles).

Scrap Metal: Used for quests (~50% drop rate in Airplane Crash, ~5% drop rate in scrap tiles).

Screwdriver: Not used for quests (~0.5% drop rate in Scrap Confluence).

I’ve already laid out some recommendations here and there, but I want to dedicate this section for my own personal opinions, which may not be the most optimal strategy, but what I found out to be the best for me.

General Practice

• I absolutely recommend that you feed your Kamis while harvesting if you have disposable MUSU. You will not only get rid of the downtime from having to heal normally (which costs both MUSU and XP for your Kami), but you will also not miss out on a key reward, intensity. I will cover intensity later, but essentially, your Kami harvests more the longer it is in a node, while taking more damage as well. Taking it out will reset this massive bonus, and will harm your MUSU production.

• I briefly mentioned this, but tile-hunting using your predator Kami is a great way to earn MUSU. I’ve noticed that during non-peak hours players can often forget their Kamis or leave them out for too long. This makes for some great profiting! I’ve spent a lot of time with my predator Kami, just going around different tiles looking for easy pickings. Preferably, I’d go through tiles that are more important to me at that point, like tiles where I have quests.

• A suggestion I have that might be controversial is to scavenge whenever possible. I’ve seen a lot of players wait for 50 or 100 rolls to scavenge from a node, but I personally think that scavenging at the quickest point is the most time efficient way for completing quests.

  From what I understand and my experience, the game’s drop rates are not pseudo-random (which implies that the drop chance gets greater the more rolls you have), but are truly random.

  This means that at any roll, even if it is 1 singular roll, you have a chance to get a very rare item (which has happened for some players). Getting an item in the first 10 rolls (if you are lucky), rather than after 100 rolls will allow you to get ahead of the curve and complete quests pretty quickly.

• My personal opinion (after trying out the Predator, Guardian and Harvester builds), is that having one predator Kami, and the rest of your Kamis as guardians is a great path for players who are looking for both proactive and worriless gameplay.

  By going the guardian path, you can essentially AFK for a long time in the game, without having to worry about your Kamis getting murdered.

Harvesting Recommendations

The map above highlights the types, drops and locations of tiles. To give a quick rundown:

Types: This is the body type that you see on your Kami. Kamis that have matching types tend to harvest much more, while Kamis that do not tend to harvest much less. Knowing the type of a node and which of your Kamis work well with it can help you optimize your MUSU output.

For example, an [eerie body/insect hand] type Kami will harvest much more in an insect/eerie node, but will also take much more damage. If this same Kami harvests in a scrap node, it will harvest much less, but will also take much less damage. In a normal node, it will be the default amount. Keep these in mind when you’re looking at where to harvest.

Drops: There are different drops that you should look out for.

• The initial big drop that you are gonna be going for in Kamigotchi is the daffodils, which can only be found in the Shady Path. It’s going to take a few days for you to get the required daffodils, but you will also drop sticks and stones which are useful for later quests.

• I recommend while your Kami are harvesting, check out the rest of the map to both get your movement quests going and to unlock the scouting quests (for example, you unlock the lab scouting quest by going around there, and then have to harvest for a certain amount of time). The more proactive you are, the quicker you get your MUSU production going for the late-game!

The next few big drops are going to be the plastic bottle, scrap metal, holy dust, a bunch of sticks and stones.

• If you are not a low level and harvesting sticks & stones, I highly recommend going to the Clearing tile, as you can get started on harvesting mint, while also collecting sticks and stones for your other quests. If your Kamis are below level 10, stick them in the starting tiles.

• If you are harvesting plastic bottles and scrap metal only, and have level 10 or above Kamis, I recommend instead heading to the Airplane Crash tile (also drops glass jar) or the Scrap Littered Undergrowth tile (also drops cheeseburger). This is because in those tiles plastic bottles and scrap metal are common, thus have around a 1/2 chance of dropping (much higher than the 5% in the scrap tiles). Airplane Crash does have a higher scavenge threshold, but the drop rate makes up for it.

• If you’re looking for Holy Dust, I actually recommend that you go to Forest Insect Node, as there you also have a chance for dropping pine cones, which are very useful for late-game quests.

• For black poppy and mint, it does not really matter where you harvest, as black poppy drops from 4 tiles (which are mostly eerie except for 1) with the same scavenge thresholds, and mint drops from only 1 tile. You’re going to be harvesting at these nodes for a while (can take up to 200 scavenge rolls).

• For pine cones, all forest nodes are fine, but I usually go for the ones with black poppy for the possibility of black poppy dropping randomly.

• If you’re done with quests, I recommend harvesting at the Blooming Tree, as that has a very rare drop that might be useful for a future quest or crafting recipe. You could also harvest pine cones at any forest tile, as those are used for XP potions.

Honestly, the way these harvests and the order works is purely based on how lucky you are with your rolls. One thing is for certain; the key factors for harvesting are the type of the tile, the scavenging threshold and the types of drops. As long as you consider all of those, you should be able to make an informed decision.23

List of Items Needed for Quests

Below are the list of all items that you will need for quests, so if you’re stockpiling, make sure you do it right! A lot of these items are also gained from different quests, so make sure to not waste them. I’m also including some of the items they’re crafted into, so that there’s no confusion.

Holy Dust: 1

Daffodils: 3

Sticks: 25

Stones: 25

Plastic Bottles: 13 (3 crafted into microplastics, 5 crafted into XP Potions)

Cheeseburgers: 5

Scrap Metal: 10

Pine Cones: 20 (10 crafted into pine pollen, with 3 used for XP Potions and 5 used for a Greater XP Potion)

Mint: 3 (2 are received from a quest)

Better Ice Cream: 5

Scroll of Shop Teleportation: 15

Black Poppy: 1

Glass Jar: 1 (crafted into Greater XP Potion)

Bug Handling

If you ever run into visual, operational or other types of bugs, there are a few ways to try to fix them before contacting support. Luckily, the devs of Kamigotchi have implemented a few of their own fixes.

When clicking on the More > Settings option on the top right part of the page, you can use Sync Kamis if there are any visual bugs with your Kamigotchi, or Sync Location if you have moved and it’s not showing up. You could also just refresh your browser page, as sometimes inactivity can cause bugs to show up.

If those do not fix any bug you run into, you can either Hard Refresh, or reset cookies on your browser to fix any issues you might have run into.

If refreshing or resetting cookies don’t help, there’s still one more thing you could do! There have been previous bugs that were caused by updates, so removing the yominet custom network from your wallet, and then refreshing the Kamigotchi page will let you reset your network, allowing you to be on the updated chain.

I have also had cases where just waiting worked, as sometimes during updates things break that are fixed eventually.

If none of these work, it might be time to either go on the Bug Reports channel on Discord or file a support ticket.