Streak freezes, and what each currency is for
Skydex has two currencies, and until today the line between them was blurry. Tridents 🔱 bought frames, titles and gear for your bird and drone. Feathers 🪶 bought boosters and a mission swap, plus two name plates and two profile themes that could just as well have cost Tridents.
So we wrote the rule down. Tridents buy things you keep forever. Feathers buy things you use up. If you'd still have it a month from now, it costs Tridents. If it gets spent, runs out or covers a single day, it costs Feathers. Nothing in either shop buys XP or a place on a leaderboard, and nothing buys extra scans.
What moved
The two name plates (Dawn patrol, Brushed steel) and the two profile themes (Slate, Sand) now sit in the Trident Exchange with Trident prices. Nobody had bought any of them yet, so nobody loses anything. The Exchange page now says in one line what it sells and where the Feathers side lives.
Streak freezes
The first new thing Feathers buy is protection for your daily streak.
- A freeze costs 150 🪶 and you can hold two. You don't spend it by
hand: if you miss a UTC day, the next time you fly or close a mission the freeze covers the gap on its own. Two freezes can cover two missed days in a row. A freeze keeps your count, it doesn't add to it, so it pays no daily Feathers and can't carry you to a milestone.
- If the gap is longer than the freezes you hold, none of them are spent.
We won't burn your Feathers on a run that ends anyway.
- The bell tells you when a freeze was used and how many you have left.
Streak repair
If your streak ended after one to three missed days and you had no freezes, the missions board offers a repair for 400 🪶 on the day you come back. It brings the old run back and adds today on top. You can repair once every 30 days, so it stays a rescue and not a habit. The bell tells you the moment your streak ends, and if a repair is on offer that day, tapping the notification takes you straight to it.
Where to find it
Everything lives on your missions board, next to the week strip and your Feathers balance. Days a freeze or repair covered show as an ice-blue dot instead of an orange one, so the strip still tells you which days you actually played.
More Feathers items are coming, all of the same kind: time-limited scouting in the air, a deeper look at a tail's history, an extra mission for the day. If you have ideas for something you'd like to spend Feathers on, the Discord is the place to say so.