Time Wasting Simulator Guide: Your first steps
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OverviewTime Wasting Simulator is an incremental Roblox game where you start with the most basic tools and work your way up to powerful gear through jobs, crafting, and exploration. The map is massive, with dozens of areas to discover across early game, mid-game, and beyond. This guide walks you through every major step, from your first box delivery to tackling the Abyss and unlocking late-game jobs.
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Your first steps: getting the map and starting quests
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When you first load in, you are at the Top layer. Everything starts with climbing down the ladder to Underground, where the Adventurer NPC sits in the middle of the room. Talk to them and you will receive the Adventurer's map at no cost, which shows the entire game world. From there the Adventurer walks you through each job in order, so just follow their quest text and you will naturally visit every important area.
- Climb down drop down the ladder from the Top layer to reach Underground.
- Grab the map talk to the Adventurer in the center of Underground to get the free map.
- First quest pick up a box from the pile at Top and carry it to Shop; repeat until you have delivered 3 boxes.
- Second quest find the mop to the left of the box pile in Shop and clean 5 puddles with it.
- Third quest travel to Bar via the Dark Room wizard at Garden and the Metro elevator (press the Floor 3 button), then make 3 pizzas following the tutorial sign next to the dough.
- Return after each quest come back to the Adventurer every time you finish a task to unlock the next one.
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Early-game jobs and how to reach them
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The Adventurer introduces six jobs before mid-game. Each one requires you to travel to a specific spot, and several of those spots are not obvious at first. Use the map you got from the Adventurer whenever you are unsure which direction to head.
| Box delivery | carry boxes from Top to Shop (closest) or Office (furthest; also restocks pizza ingredients). |
| Janitor | pick up the mop in Shop and use it on puddles until each one disappears. |
| Pizza making | reach Bar through Garden's Dark Room wizard, then Metro elevator Floor 3; follow the sign next to the dough. |
| Fishing | get a rod from Bio's Shop on Sky Island, fish in the pool there by clicking the moment the bobber splashes. |
| Mining | climb the faint ladder on Sky Island up to Clouds, ride the cannon to Miner's Island to grab a pickaxe, then take the second cannon to Frozen Island to mine. |
| Unique fish | to reach Hecc's lava lake, go through the Bar bathroom toilet into the Sewers, then through Machinery and down through the highlighted area near the lava faucet. |
Fishing tips that save you runs
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Fish live in specific pools, so going to the wrong spot means you simply cannot catch what you need. Different rods are built for different purposes.
- Click the instant the bobber splashes — fish escape fast, so hesitating costs you the catch.
- Different fish only appear in their own pools: magma fish live in Hecc's lava, frozen fish and cloudy fish live in their respective areas.
- The shiny fishing rod raises your odds of catching golden fish.
- The crystal fishing rod raises your odds of catching crystal fish.
- The ocean fishing rod pulls fish faster but cannot catch fish that are exclusive to pools.
- To get back from Hecc, talk to the person near the lava lake who returns you to the Dark Room.
Reaching mid-game: the Platinum Hammer upgrade
StepOnce you have completed enough early quests and gathered the right materials, the Researcher in Metro can upgrade your hammer. This unlocks mid-game content, including gardening, the planetarium, the Abyss, and catching. Check recipes both on the crafting table in Warehouse and on the map itself — some recipes only appear when you click them on the map to add them to your crafting menu.
- Check recipes go to the hammer table in Warehouse and click any map-pinned recipes to add them to your menu.
- Craft an early-game item make at least one item that qualifies as an early-game craft.
- Gather hammer materials collect everything the Platinum Hammer upgrade requires.
- Get the Ender Chest first climb to the top of the frozen mountain (the Stronk Legs potion helps) and grab the portable Ender Chest before heading to the Researcher.
- Talk to the Researcher find them in Metro; if you have the early-game item and all materials, they will upgrade your hammer and move you to mid-game.
Mid-game jobs unlocked after the Platinum Hammer
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After upgrading to Platinum, the Adventurer and the Progression Helper NPC in Metro guide you through four new areas.
- Gardening started go to Sky Island, talk to the Seed NPC (not the Ghost, who appears at night), spend 50 Bobux plus one completed quest to get a seed bag, then plant seeds in Garden.
- Seed combining understood planting a new seed where an existing plant is produces a combined plant; for example a Rose plot followed by a Sunflower produces a Sunrose.
- Night plants acquired the Ghost NPC appears only at night and sells night seed bags; night plants only grow at night while you are actively playing.
- Planetarium Globe crafted use ores and night plants to craft the globe, then find it in Metro to reach the Planetarium and unlock Astronomy.
- O2 Mask made before entering the Abyss the recipe is located near the Researcher; also bring a weapon and a pickaxe, and note that powers like Gate do not function inside the Abyss.
- Fallen Sapling crafted for Catching activate it to reach Garden of the Fallen, grab a catching net, and begin trapping creatures.
Astronomy: finding constellations and avoiding meteors
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Inside the Planetarium you control a telescope across a large grid. As you move toward any objective the indicator blinks faster and the tone rises in pitch; when you are directly on top of it the indicator vanishes and you get a +1 count. There are three things in that grid and you want to interact with two of them while avoiding the third.
Gardening: passive income and plot upgrades
TipsGardening is one of the 8 jobs in the game. Plants you buy from the Flower Lady (daytime only) grow even while you are offline. Special plants bought from the Ghost NPC (nighttime only) require you to be online and only grow at night.
- The Flower Lady only appears during the day. The Ghost NPC only appears at night and sells night seed bags; night plants do not grow offline.
- Placing rare items on a plot speeds up growth: Demon Soul gives 1.25x speed, Time Pieces 2x, Heart of the Abyss 2.5x, Divine Core 3x, and Celestial Star 5.5x.
- The Teapot cuts a plant's remaining grow time by 10 minutes when placed on the plot.
- The Spade removes a plant from a plot entirely.
- Combining plants works by planting a second seed in the same spot as an existing plant — this produces a new combined variety.
- Rain weather doubles plant growth while actively playing and even lets night plants grow during the day.
Glossary
Glossary- Bobux
- The main in-game currency, earned through jobs like box delivery and gardening.
- Ticks
- A premium currency that Roblox Premium members earn passively just by staying in the game.
- Platinum Hammer
- The upgraded hammer you receive from the Metro Researcher that marks the transition from early game to mid-game.
- Ender Chest
- A portable storage item found at the top of the frozen mountain.
- O2 Mask
- Protective gear you must craft before entering the Abyss safely; the recipe is located near the Researcher in Metro.
- Unique Constellation
- A rare telescope target in the Planetarium that grants a permanent efficiency buff to one specific job, stackable up to +100%.
- Rainbow Box
- A special box that appears every 100 deliveries instead of a normal box.
- Darkum (Dark Room)
- The dark area reached from Garden through the wizard NPC, used as a transit hub between the surface and Metro.
Common questions
FAQHow do I get to the Bar?
Talk to the Dark Room wizard in Garden to enter Darkum, then head down to Metro and use the elevator. Press the Floor 3 button and you will arrive at the Bar. To return, ride the elevator back to Metro and talk to the NPC in Darkum who sends you back to spawn.
How do I reach Frozen Island?
From Sky Island, climb the faint ladder upward to reach Clouds, then ride the cannon there across to Miner's Island. Pick up a pickaxe on Miner's Island first, then take the second cannon to reach Frozen Island.
The Seed Lady or Ghost NPC is not showing up — what do I do?
The Flower Lady only appears during the day. The Ghost NPC only appears at night. Wait for the right conditions before heading to Sky Island.
What happens if I get disconnected?
The game will automatically attempt to reconnect you on its own.
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