Needs, feelings and health

Fastest drain

Hunger −10/h

Low line

Below 20

Offline floor

20

Energy to work

10+

Medicine

₦1,800

Hospital stay

₦25,000

The six needs

Your needs sit at the bottom left of the screen as six bars round your portrait, with a mood ring. Tap the portrait to open your character panel: the Needs tab shows every bar and the feelings you have right now. Each need runs from 0 to 100 and falls at a steady rate whenever you are not at work.

“Full to low” is how long a full bar takes to fall below 20 with no traits or perks.

Away from the game

Time keeps running when you close the tab, and so does the drain. It stops at 20, though: idling never pushes a need lower than that. A need that work had already pushed below 20 stays where it is.

At work

During a shift the normal drain is replaced by your work mode's rates, which are much steeper and can take a need all the way to 0. Social never drops at work. Changes per hour:

Go to work fed and rested. The jobs guide explains what each mode does for your performance.

Low needs and what they cost you

• Any need below 20 cuts the performance and skill XP you earn on a shift by 20%. It is checked when the shift ends, so a bar that crashed during work still counts.
• Energy below 10 blocks shifts and gigs altogether. The game tells you to rest first.
• A low need brings a bad feeling (see the table above), which drags your mood down for as long as the need stays low.
• Sick on top of a low need stacks: both cuts together take 36% off a shift's performance and XP.

What fills each need fastest

Below are the biggest single boosts for each need that cost ₦50,000 or less to own or to buy. Home actions need the piece of furniture; the gain shows the cheapest piece first and the best one last, because each star above one adds 10% to the gain. Times are real seconds. Gigs are left out.

🍲 Hunger

Best with what every new home already has, or free in town: 🍛 Stir a Jollof Pot (+70–84, at home, Kero Wick Stove / Cylinder Hob).

⚡ Energy

Best with what every new home already has, or free in town: 😴 Turn In (+100, at home, Thin Foam Pad / Plank Bed / Hostel Bunks / Cushioned Queen Bed / Oba's Canopy Bed).

🎉 Fun

Best with what every new home already has, or free in town: 🕺🏾 Challenge a Dancer (+35, 🍾 The Vault). Big money buys more: 🍿 Premiere Night +91 (₦16,500,000 to own); 🎮 Console Derby Match +78 (₦780,000 to own); 🫧 Hot Jets Session +65 (₦21,000,000 to own).

🗣️ Social

Best with what every new home already has, or free in town: 🗨️ Dryer Talk (+25, 💇🏾‍♀️ Aunty Kemi's Salon).

🧼 Hygiene

Best with what every new home already has, or free in town: 🚿 Rinse-Off (+80, 🏋🏾 Pump House Gym).

🚽 Bladder

Best with what every new home already has, or free in town: 🚽 Ease Yourself (+100, at home, Flush Loo).

Traits and perks that change the drain

Some traits and perks change how fast a need falls. They multiply together, so a trait and a perk on the same need both count.

Two more perks help your needs and mood in other ways:

• 🔇 Sleeps Through Anything (15 ✨): Generators, church vigils, the neighbour’s speaker. Sleep and naps restore 25% more energy.
• 🌞 Sunny Side Up (23 ✨): Good news stays with you. Good feelings last 40% longer.

Feelings and mood

Your mood score is the average of your six needs plus the mood of every feeling you have. The score lands in one of six bands, shown on the mood ring and at the top of your character panel:

Feelings come from what you do (a good meal, a hot shower, a night out), from payday and promotions, and from low needs and sickness. Doing the same thing again restarts its timer rather than stacking it. Every feeling in the game:

Stacking two or three good feelings is the easy way to a high mood: a full plate, a wash and some music before work adds up quickly.

Getting sick

Sickness only watches three needs: hunger, energy and hygiene. The clock starts the moment any one of them is at 15 or lower, and stops as soon as all three are back above it.

A worked example. You work a shift on an empty stomach and log off with hunger at 15 or lower. The fever starts 6 hours later, turns to malaria at 30 hours, and at 54 hours you are admitted. Log off with every need above 15 instead and you can stay away as long as you like.

Treating it

1. Mild: open the Phone, then Health, and tap Buy medicine · ₦1,800. A rider brings it wherever you are, and it works at once. You get “Recovering” (mood +5 for 6 h). You can't order it during a shift.
2. Serious (or mild, if you are passing): go to 🏥 Orile-Agege General Hospital. In the 🩺 Doctor’s office pick 💉 Consult & Take a Jab: ₦6,500, 12 seconds, +30 energy, and it cures any sickness. The hospital never closes.
3. Left too long: the admission happens on its own. If your wallet covers the bill it is paid at once; if not, it is recorded as owed and you pay it from the Bank app when you can. Money never goes below zero.

The Health app

Phone → Health is your one-stop check. It always shows the same three things:

• Your status: 💚 In good shape, 🤒 Feeling poorly (mild) or 🦟 Malaria (serious), with a line on what happens next and a countdown to it.
• A “Running low” line naming any of hunger, energy and hygiene that is at 15 or lower, with how long you have to fix it before the fever starts.
• Two treatment cards: 💊 Pharmacy delivery (the medicine button) and 🏥 Visit the hospital. Its Take me there button closes the phone and opens the map on the hospital.

You also get a pop-up when you fall sick, when it turns serious and when you are admitted, so you won't miss it.

A daily care routine

This keeps every bar healthy on a normal workday, using only what a new home has plus a little money:

• Morning: use the loo, have a wash at the pail, and cook something on the stove before anything else.
• Tune the radio for a few seconds of fun and a good feeling while you get ready.
• Check energy is well above 10 before you leave for a shift; nap first if not.
• After work: eat a proper meal, either at home or at the buka on the way back.
• Evening: spend time at a venue — chat to the regulars or other players to fill social and fun.
• Before you log off: full plate, full sleep, fresh wash. That buys the longest safe break.
• Open Phone → Health once a day. If it says “Running low”, fix that need first.

Common mistakes

• Logging off straight after a hungry shift. The offline floor keeps idle needs above the sickness line, but a need work already pushed under it stays there.
• Working in Full Throttle on an empty stomach: needs drain fast at work, and a low bar at the end cuts the shift's result.
• Buying medicine for malaria. Pills only treat a mild case; a serious one needs the hospital.
• Ignoring bladder and fun. They can't make you sick, but they pull your mood down and trigger the low-need cut at work.