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Seconds

Your first real reset. The Seconds button wipes your Ticks and Moments in exchange for permanent Seconds, which then multiply both back even higher than before.

Overview #

Seconds is the first step on the progression ladder where you deliberately give something up to grow. You spend a session banking Ticks and Moments, then hit the Seconds button in The Origin to convert all of that effort into permanent Seconds.

Nothing is truly lost. The reset trades your two starter currencies for a lasting boost that makes your next run through Ticks and Moments dramatically faster: the classic incremental cycle of reset, grow, reset bigger.

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Your items and gear are never touched. No reset in Timelords (Seconds, Chrono Dust, Time Leap, or anything above) ever removes your pickaxes, swords, armor, relics, artifacts, accessories, charms, runes, or potions. Only your currencies reset.

How the reset works #

Stand on the Seconds button in The Origin to reset. When you press it:

  • Your Ticks and Moments are wiped back to zero.
  • Your three Moments upgrades (the punchable wool blocks) reset too, so you'll re-buy them each cycle.
  • You gain your Seconds Fortune worth of permanent Seconds, added to your running total.

Everything else stays: your ores, your Chrono Dust, your Seconds upgrades, and of course all of your items. Only the two Origin currencies (and the Moments upgrades that ride on them) are cleared.

Requirement
At least 100,000 Ticks and 10,000 Moments to press the button.
What resets
Ticks, Moments, and the Moments upgrades.
What you keep
Everything else: Seconds itself, ores, Chrono Dust, Seconds upgrades, and all items and gear.

How much you earn #

Your Seconds payout scales off how far over the requirement you push before resetting, so it always pays to overshoot rather than reset the instant you qualify.

From Ticks
Every ×5 more Ticks you hold above the 100,000 requirement grants another ×1.3 Seconds.
From Moments
Every ×5 more Moments above the 10,000 requirement grants another ×1.3 Seconds, stacking on top of the Ticks bonus.
From Iron
Once you reach the Iron Mine, your Iron permanently amplifies your Seconds payout as well.
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Because both bonuses key off multiplying past the requirement, one big session before resetting is worth far more than several small ones. Grow both currencies as high as your patience allows, then cash out.

What Seconds boosts #

Held Seconds are one of your strongest early multipliers. The more you bank across cycles, the harder they pump your other resources:

  • XP: the biggest one. Seconds heavily multiply the XP you generate, which build the Temporal Power that gates your Time Leap.
  • Ores: Seconds also boost your Coal, Bronze, and Iron gains.
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Struggling to reach your first Time Leap? More Seconds is almost always the answer. They are the largest lever on your XP generation. If a leap feels out of reach, go farm Seconds.

Seconds upgrades #

Reaching Seconds also opens three permanent Seconds upgrades in The Origin, bought with your Seconds. Unlike the Moments upgrades, these survive the Seconds reset, so they're a lasting part of your account. Their headline effect is the reciprocal boost loop that makes Ticks and Moments feed each other:

UpgradeEffect
Seconds Upgrade 1 Your Ticks boost your Moments gain.
Seconds Upgrade 2 Your Moments boost your Ticks gain, closing the reciprocal loop.
Seconds Upgrade 3 Adds a per-level multiplier to your Chrono Dust gain (buyable up to 10 times).

With Upgrades 1 and 2 both bought, growing either Origin currency lifts the other, the engine that lets each Seconds cycle blow past the last.

Where it leads #

Seconds is the launchpad for the rest of the reset ladder. Once your Seconds and its upgrades are rolling, the next milestones are:

  • Chrono Dust: the next reset up. It costs 10,000 Moments + 5 Seconds and resets your Ticks, Moments, and Seconds for a boost resource that then sticks through the lower resets.
  • Temporal Power: the passive gauge your Seconds supercharge, which gates your first big prestige.
  • Time Leap: the major prestige reset that grants a permanent multiplier to every resource, Seconds included.
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