How long is a tick in Valiant?

The world resolves every 15 minutes. Each combat tick simulates about four encounters, banking XP, gold, and loot that you collect when you return.

What happens while I'm offline in Valiant?

Your active expedition keeps resolving in 15-minute ticks while you're away, up to a cap of 8 hours (32 ticks). Anything beyond 8 hours isn't lost time in the sense of dying — it simply stops accumulating until you collect and send your character out again.

Do I lose progress if I don't log in?

No. Progress banks safely and waits for you to collect it. The only thing you 'miss' is accumulation beyond the 8-hour cap, so checking in roughly every 8 hours (or using shorter sessions) makes the most of your time.

How Idle Works

Valiant's world advances in 15-minute ticks. You send a character on an expedition lasting anywhere from 15 minutes to 8 hours; it fights and gathers rewards each tick, even while you're offline, up to an 8-hour bank. You then collect to claim everything.

What is a tick?

A tick is one 15-minute step of the game world, driven by the server (not your browser). On a combat expedition, each tick resolves roughly four encounters — rolling damage, loot, and XP — and deposits the results into your idle bank. Because it's server-side, ticks happen whether or not the game is open.

Sessions & duration

When you deploy, you choose how long the expedition runs: 15 minutes to 8 hours, in 15-minute increments. A longer session means more banked before you need to return; a shorter one suits frequent check-ins. Either way, you can open the game at any time to resolve progress immediately rather than waiting for the next scheduled tick.

Offline progress & the 8-hour cap

Valiant banks up to 32 ticks — a full 8 hours — of offline progress. Sleep, work, a long day out: your character keeps earning. Accumulation pauses once the bank hits 8 hours, so the ideal rhythm is to check in roughly every 8 hours, collect, and send your character back out.

Fact	Value
Tick length	15 minutes
Encounters per combat tick	~4
Minimum expedition	15 minutes
Maximum expedition	8 hours
Offline bank cap	8 hours (32 ticks)

Collecting & the battle report

Nothing enters your inventory until you collect. Collecting flushes the bank — loot to your bag, materials to your shared bank, gold to your account — and produces a Session Report narrating what happened, including any rare or legendary drops. Collect & Repeat claims and immediately re-launches the same expedition in one tap.

Note

Gathering and crafting don't use your character's expedition slot — gathering runs as a separate, account-wide dispatch and crafting is instant. See the Crafting, Gathering & Provisions guide.