Overview #
XP generates automatically, roughly once a second, with no clicking required. The moment you have enough banked, it is immediately spent to buy the next point of Temporal Power. Temporal Power is a passive gauge: it is the running total of how far you've progressed, and it's the single stat that Time Leaping reads to decide your tier.
You'll watch your progress in two places: your XP bar (your level is your current Temporal Power, the bar fills toward the next point) and the giant honey jar in The Origin, which visibly rises as you climb.
XP #
XP is the raw material for Temporal Power. It ticks in on its own about once per second, and how much you earn per tick is scaled off almost everything you own: your Ticks, Moments, your ores, and, most heavily of all, your Seconds.
A few things speed up how often XP is collected, on top of how much you get each time:
Between these the interval can drop as low as 0.1s (ten collections a second), a tenfold speed-up over the base rate.
Temporal Power #
Every point of Temporal Power costs more XP than the last. The cost grows exponentially, so early points come in a flood and later ones take real investment.
XP is spent the instant you can afford the next point, so you rarely see a large XP stockpile. It converts straight into Temporal Power. That conversion is what fills your XP bar and the honey jar in The Origin.
Gating your Time Leap #
Temporal Power's whole purpose is to gate the Time Leap. Each of the 36 Time Leap tiers, from Novice up to Timelord, requires a minimum Temporal Power. You cannot leap to a tier until your Temporal Power meets its threshold.
| Tier | Name | Temporal Power | Unlocks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Explorer | 10 | The Mines (Coal) |
| 4 | Miner | 20 | The Bronze Mine |
| 5 | Caveman | 30 | The Iron Mine |
| 7 | Peakbound | 45 | The Peak (Strength) |
| 8 | Cloudwalker | 60 | Skyspire (Intelligence & Era) |
| 10 | Starforged | 90 | Era Tier Up (The Stone Age) |
| 12 | Diamond Breaker | 115 | The Diamond Mine |
| 20 | Temporal Master | 300 | The Bronze Age |
| 36 | Timelord | 1,000 | Max tier |
See the Time Leap page for the full 36-tier table and the per-tier resource multipliers each leap grants.
Temporal Power also feeds a Time Leap boost of its own: your best XP gain gets a ×1.5 multiplier for every Time Leap tier you hold above Explorer, so climbing tiers makes future XP, and thus future Temporal Power, snowball.
What happens on a reset #
Temporal Power and XP never reset anything themselves. They are only ever cleared when you actually perform the reset they gate:
- A Time Leap wipes your XP and Temporal Power back to zero (alongside Ticks, Moments, Seconds, and their upgrades, plus Chrono Dust unless you have the Chrono Dust Keeper passive). In exchange every resource gains a permanent multiplier, and your Temporal Power immediately begins building again, faster than before.
- The lower resets, buying Seconds or Chrono Dust, do not touch your Temporal Power. In fact they help it: more Seconds means more XP.
Tips #
- Stuck on your next Time Leap? Farm Seconds. They boost XP harder than anything else, and XP is your only path to more Temporal Power.
- Grab Temporal Flux early. Lowering the cost base from 5 to 4.75 compounds hard as the exponent grows. It's one of the better Pure Diamond Upgrade Tree picks for pushing tiers.
- Genesis accelerates XP. If you're leaning into the early game, the Genesis alignment's Temporal Amplifier passive and Temporal Reservoir upgrade both speed up how fast XP comes in.
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/timeleapto open the Time Leap menu and see exactly how much Temporal Power your next tier needs. For a full walkthrough of any system,/guideopens this wiki in your browser.