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On August 8, 2023, Habitica removed the Tavern and all Guilds, so any guild links in this page should be ignored.
Simultaneously, tiers will no longer be awarded for Socialites, Comrades, Artisans, or Scribes.
The status of Storytellers and Ambassadors is currently unclear.
Only Blacksmiths, Linguists, and Challengers are definitely staying.

 

This is a featured article!
This page was featured as part of the Wiki Wednesday series. Once a month, Habitica staff highlight a helpful post from the Wiki with tips about productivity, wellness, and optimizing your use of Habitica!


Habitica is an open-source project that can help you achieve goals. Everyday people with everyday lives devote their time and energy to creating and maintaining everything you see here on this wiki and at Habitica. Whether you want to earn the contributor rewards and titles or you just like the open-source model, we welcome you to contribute to the project. Please jump in where you feel comfortable contributing; there are a wide range of roles available. Contributors are really appreciated.

Feel free to join the Aspiring Legends: Contributing to Habitica guild to talk about giving back! Please note that most of the methods of contributing also have their own guilds (noted in the sections below). If you have a question about contributing, post a message to the appropriate guild, or to the Aspiring Legends guild for general questions about contributing. It is recommended that you don't post the same question to more than one guild, to avoid duplicate efforts to help you.

First-Party Coders (Web & Mobile)[]

Main article: Guidance for Blacksmiths
GitHub
Art by MazHem

Blacksmith contributions are desperately needed! For details about contributing code for the website, see Guidance for Blacksmiths. Also, join the Aspiring Blacksmiths (Coding For Habitica) guild to meet and see how you can help other Habiticans working towards making Habitica's code even better!

Main article: Guidance for Fletchers: Android and
Main article: Guidance for Fletchers: iOS

Fletchers are like Blacksmiths for the mobile app. Your contributions are needed and appreciated! For more info on how to contribute, check out Guidance for Fletchers: Android or Guidance for Fletchers: iOS. Join the Aspiring Blacksmiths (Coding For Habitica) guild as well. It has information on how to code for the mobile apps, and the people there who code for Habitica will be happy to help you.

Translators[]

Main article: Guidance for Linguists

Both the game itself and this wiki can benefit from translation help from people who are native speakers or very fluent in the language being translated to. See the main article or the Commonwealth of i18n (formerly Aspiring Linguists of Habitica) guild for more details on how to get involved.

Writers[]

Things we need help with:

  • Scribes: Make a Fandom Wikia account and help the community by writing and contributing to articles here on the wiki. See Helping on the Wiki below.
  • Storytellers: Become a Storyteller and submit quest text to the Habitica Quests Trello Board.
  • Challengers: Create challenges for Habiticans to jump start their productivity. Join the Guild Leaders & Challenge Creators guild to learn more. Tiers in this title are quite rare and are awarded for consistently creating many valuable challenges that benefit the Habitica community.
  • Ambassadors: Very rarely, a user's post will go viral, causing a spike in traffic, and on those occasions, the admins may decide to award a contributor tier as a thank-you. If you believe that your post resulted in a significant and lasting growth for our userbase (e.g. people made accounts and stuck around for a while), please email us at admin@habitica.com with your User ID and the URL of your post and the admins will check the analytics. Blogs and social media accounts with more prestige, traffic, followers, comments, and visibility are more likely to receive a tier. Note that an example of the kind of traffic we're referring to would be that resulting from this Lifehacker post.

Deprecated contributor types[]

Designers[]

In the past, volunteer Designers have assisted with the appearance of the website and their efforts were very much appreciated. Habitica's current website was designed by Habitica's staff and they are the only people who do design work now.

Music and Sound Effects Artists[]

Main article: Guidance for Bards

Currently, new submissions are not being accepted at this time.

Statisticians[]

In the past, Statisticians have provided in-depth analysis of Habitica's data; however, currently, there isn't a need for statistical analysis and so this contribution type is not in use at this time.

Third-Party Coders (Scripts, Styles, & Other Tools)[]

Main article: Guidance for Comrades

If you're a developer interested in building third-party tools using the Habitica API or creating userstyles, you're welcome to join the ranks of Comrades of Habitica. You can learn more on the Guidance for Comrades page. Come and share your ideas and tools at the Aspiring Comrades guild.

Pixel Artists[]

Main article: Guidance for Artisans
PublicGuilds

Jump onto the Habitica Pixel Art Trello Board, and join the Pixels in Progress (Aspiring Artisans) guild if you want to make arts for Habitica. There is a whole vibrant community of artists such as yourself, waiting for you to join the fray! They will give you directions as to how you can help Habitica the most.

Helping on the Wiki[]

Main article: Guidance for Scribes
HabitRPG-Community-Guidelines-Wiki

Helping Other Players in Habitica Chat Forums[]

Main article: Guidance for Socialites
PublicSpaces

The Tavern and the Habitica Help: Ask a Question guild have many friendly people who answer each other's questions about Habitica as well as give advice about how to make the most of the site. If you'd like to join in, you're absolutely welcome to! Start small by giving answers that you're sure about to questions that don't already have replies - but don't worry if someone posts a reply at the same time as you! That happens often and is jokingly referred to as being ninja-ed. In addition, feel free to join us at the Aspiring Socialites guild!

If you're not certain about how to help someone, you can read the wiki carefully and give a summary of what you find. It's also helpful to post links to relevant wiki pages so that the player can learn extra details if they want to. However, avoid giving abrupt "RTFM" ("Read the Freaking Manual") responses; be aware that new players might not know about the wiki, or might feel overwhelmed by all the information in it, so sensitively consider their needs for gentle assistance.

If a player has been posting helpful, relevant, accurate advice for some time, the staff will often award them with a Tier 1 Socialite Contributor Reward. If they continue to provide consistently positive and helpful assistance over time, they may be granted further Tiers.

Socialite Tiers are usually only awarded for assistance provided in the Tavern and the Habitica Help: Ask a Question guild because it is harder for the staff to notice ongoing assistance in other areas. However, under special circumstances, a Socialite Tier might be awarded for other assistance, at the discretion of the staff.


Requesting Features/Submitting Ideas[]

If you have an idea for improving Habitica:

  • Use the Habitica User Feedback and Suggestions Google Form to request a feature. It's available from the website at Help > Request a Feature and on the mobile apps through the menu's "Help & FAQ" option.
  • Report bugs with Habitica's website by going to Help > Report a Bug.
  • Report bugs with the mobile apps through the app's menu at About > Report a Bug.

Feature requests and bug reports are very much appreciated but do not count towards Contributor Rewards, so you won't get a tier or gear.

For More Info About the Project[]

Requesting a Contributor Tier[]

Each category of contribution on Habitica has a specific process for requesting and awarding a Contributor Tier. A summary can be found on the Contributor Rewards page but for full details about how specific tiers are judged and how you can apply for them, see the "Contributor Tier Process" section in the appropriate Guidance pages.

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