Set It Going, Come Back to a Haul

When I teased this one on Discord a while back, the reaction was instant. It turns out a lot of you wanted exactly this: a way to keep fishing, mining, and foraging ticking along on the days you'll only have a few seconds to play. So I'm happy to say Auto Mode is built and feeling good in my dev builds.

Here's the short version of how it'll work. You turn it on for an activity, it plays the routine for you, and you come back to a full bag. No tapping through every cast or every strike when life is busy. Set it going, put the phone in your pocket, get on with your day, and your steps are still doing something.

What Auto Mode is

It's an opt-in loop that sits on top of the step economy. It'll spend your banked steps the same way you would and hand back the loot. The walking you do in the real world is still what powers it - Auto Mode just takes the tapping off your plate.

Three activities will have it: fishing, mining, and foraging. It's built for the days you're short on time. Send it off in a few seconds, live your life, collect when you're back.

Fishing

Auto handles the casting for you, so each cycle is just a quick 5 second pacing bar and then your catch - and you can tap to skip the bar whenever you'd rather not wait. Perfect for steadily stocking up on commons and byproducts while you're out and about.

It's tuned to be the easygoing option, so it leans toward the everyday catches rather than the rare and legendary fish, and mastery comes along a touch slower than a hands-on trip. The big trophies are still the reward for sitting down and casting yourself - which is half the fun of chasing them.

Mining

Mining auto actually plays the strike minigame for you. The pickaxe swings with varied timing and breaks through every rock. Best part: the loot is identical to playing by hand. A clean strike and a perfect strike drop the same items, so your haul doesn't suffer at all.

The catch is mastery. Landing perfect strikes earns bonus mastery XP, and auto's varied timing lands them far less often than a focused player would by hand. So auto is a great way to bank materials, but your own timing levels mining noticeably faster if you're pushing to climb.

Foraging

Foraging auto walks the woods and picks the spots for you. Because the finds are pure luck either way - the loot is tucked into hidden spots before you ever pick - your haul is identical to a manual trip. Same finds, same chance at the rare stuff.

Like mining, the one thing a hands-on trip adds is faster mastery progress. Auto still earns plenty; manual just levels a bit quicker. Either way you come home with the same basket.

A quick note on the tradeoffs

I designed Auto Mode so it never quietly becomes the only smart way to play. Each one gives up a little something versus hands-on, so there's always a reason to jump in yourself when you've got the time:

Nothing here is a punishment. Mining and foraging give you the exact same haul, and even fishing on auto is a perfectly good way to stock the everyday stuff. The tradeoffs are just small enough nudges that chasing trophies or pushing mastery still feels best in your own hands.

Your steps, your call

That's really the whole idea. Some days you'll want to sit with an activity - feel the cast, time the strike, peek under one more log. Other days you just want the routine handled while you get on with life. Auto Mode lets you do both, and your banked steps count either way.

It's entirely optional. If you love every cast and every strike, you never have to touch it. It's just there for the busy days.

Beta is launching June 21, 2026, and Auto Mode will be in from day one.