Mana & QuickCast
Stay hydrated, stay sharp. Your Mana bar depends on it.
What Is Mana?
In traditional RPGs, Mana is the resource that powers your spells. In MainQuest, Mana represents your hydration level. Every time you drink water, you log it in the app and your character's Mana bar fills up.
It is a simple system with a simple goal: drink enough water throughout the day to keep your Mana bar full. Hydration is one of the most impactful yet most neglected health habits, and the Mana system turns it into something you can actually see and track — and, as it turns out, spend.
Logging Water Intake
Open the Mana screen and log each glass, bottle, or cup of water as you drink it. Each log entry adds to your daily total and visually fills your character's Mana bar.
Best practices for logging:
The Mana bar resets daily at midnight — a different clock than the 3 AM day boundary used for habit streaks, the daily XP cap, and QuickCast's own daily limits (more on those below). Read more about the 3 AM boundary in the Daily Rhythm guide.
The Mana Bar
Your character has a visible Mana bar alongside their HP bar and XP progress. As you log water throughout the day, the Mana bar fills up, giving you a clear visual representation of your hydration status.
Spending Your Mana
Mana isn't only a visual tally — it can genuinely be spent. A Shard of Life consumable converts your banked Mana straight into HP (100 Mana for 1 HP), draining the bar as it heals you. Staying hydrated pays off twice: a full Mana bar, and an emergency HP reserve when you need one.
What Is QuickCast?
QuickCast is your action bar — a set of 4 equipped slots, each holding one of 7 preset actions. Think of it like equipping spells in an RPG: you choose which presets to keep at the ready, and they become accessible with a single tap from your main screen.
A fully custom, user-defined action is planned for QuickCast but is not live yet on either platform — today, every slot is filled from the fixed preset list below.
Setting Up QuickCast Slots
To configure QuickCast, open the QuickCast settings and assign a preset to each of the 4 slots. You can change which presets are equipped at any time — swap them out as your daily routine evolves.
The 7 preset actions:
Water Intake, Healthy Snack, Power Burst, and Box Breathing are equipped by default (Flutter starts with Brain Dump in the fourth slot instead). See the Classes & Attributes guide for how those stat points fit into your character sheet.
Daily Limits
Most QuickCast presets can only be triggered twice a day. Once you hit that limit for a specific action, it becomes unavailable until the next reset. Water Intake is the exception — it has no cap, since it's just logging what you actually drink.
Why Daily Limits?
Daily limits exist to keep the system meaningful. Without them, an attribute-mapped preset could be tapped repeatedly for free stat points. The 2-per-day cap ensures each use represents a genuine moment, not repetitive tapping. Limits reset at the 3 AM day boundary.
Mana and QuickCast in Your Daily Routine
Mana and QuickCast are already paired by default: Water Intake is one of your starting QuickCast slots, making hydration logging a one-tap action from your main screen from day one.
Throughout the day, the rhythm looks like this: drink water, tap the Water Intake slot to log it, watch your Mana bar fill. Use the other three slots for the attribute-mapped presets that match the stats you're trying to grow — each one doubles as a quick win for your Class.
Pair these systems with your daily habits and Quick-Add to build a comprehensive productivity loop. Mana keeps you physically fueled, QuickCast keeps your actions fast, and habits and Quick-Add keep you progressing. Explore the full system in the Getting Started guide.
