City Stamina in Neverness to Everness is the weekly resource that fuels Hethereau Hobbies and feeds straight into City Tycoon progression. Every point you spend pays out a flat rate of Fons, so the only real question is how fast you can burn through the bar before the weekly reset wipes whatever you did not use.
Quick answer: Spend City Stamina on Super Sound (the rhythm game), running 20-stamina tracks for 20,000 Fons each in roughly two minutes per run. The Fons rate is fixed at 1,000 Fons per 1 City Stamina across every hobby, so the fastest activity wins.
How City Stamina converts to Fons
Every Hethereau Hobby pays the same conversion rate. One point of City Stamina returns 1,000 Fons regardless of which mini-game you choose. That makes raw playtime the deciding factor, not the activity itself. A perfect S-Rank does not change the Fons total either, only the speed and feel of the run.
Because the rate is flat, the optimal play is the hobby that lets you dump the most stamina per minute with the least friction. Long matches, loading screens, and intro cutscenes all eat into your effective rate.
Stamina cap and weekly reset
City Stamina does not regenerate over time like Character Pixels. It refills to full once a week at the Monday 5:00 AM server reset. The cap scales with your City Tycoon level, and at Tycoon 16 the cost and rewards both double, so a single high-cost run still pays the same 1,000 Fons per stamina but burns the bar twice as fast.
| Tycoon Level | City Stamina Cap | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | Starting cap |
| 5 | 200 | Cafe by Origen unlocked |
| 10 | 350 | Pink Paws Heist unlocked |
| 16 | 500 | Stamina cost and rewards doubled |
You can also use a Refresh Recharge to restore 100 City Stamina, but the bar will not accept a recharge while it is overflowing the cap. Spending 100 Annulith also restores stamina, capped at 10 uses per week and reset on the same Monday timer. Annulith is a premium currency, so this is rarely worth it.
Ranking the hobbies by speed
Since every hobby pays 1,000 Fons per stamina, sort options by how quickly they drain the bar. Super Sound is the clear leader because it lets you spend up to 20 stamina in a track that lasts about two minutes. A 200-cap player can clear the entire weekly bar in roughly 20 to 30 minutes by replaying the highest-cost track on loop.
| Hobby | Stamina per run | Time per run | Speed rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Super Sound (rhythm) | Up to 20 | ~2 minutes | Fastest |
| Online Racing | 18 | ~2 minutes, instant queue | Very fast |
| Normal Race Challenges | Variable | Short, gives Annulith on 3-star | Fast with side rewards |
| City Delivery / Taxi | Variable | Medium, depends on route | Moderate |
| Cafe by Origen | Variable | Quick orders | Moderate |
Online Racing is the backup option if you want a no-skill drain. The race uses 18 stamina per run regardless of finishing position, and you can launch it directly from the menus, so each cycle takes only a couple of minutes. Use it when you want stamina gone with zero practice required.
Hobbies that do not consume City Stamina
Half of the Hethereau Hobbies can be played without burning the bar at all. These are the activities to keep on rotation after your weekly stamina is gone, since they still produce Fons and other rewards.
- Pink Paws Heist: Weekly cap of 1,000,000 Fons, no City Stamina cost. Unlocks at Tycoon 10.
- Sea Angler: Fishing itself is free. Stamina is only consumed when you sell the fish, so you can keep catching without paying.
- Little Sparrow: The mahjong mode runs without consuming City Stamina.
- Tetrominoes: The Tetris-style mode also runs without consuming City Stamina.
Heist runs in particular are mandatory weekly content if Fons are your goal. The full million per week comes out of Pink Paws Heist alone, which is more than most players will earn from a complete stamina dump.
Optimal weekly routine
Step 1: Clear the weekly Pink Paws Heist for the 1,000,000 Fons cap. This costs zero City Stamina and pays the largest single chunk of money in the game per week.
Step 2: Open the Super Sound menu and replay your highest-cost track on loop until the City Stamina bar reaches zero. Each 20-stamina run returns 20,000 Fons in about two minutes.
Step 3: If you cannot reach S-Rank in Super Sound or you dislike rhythm play, switch to Online Racing for 18-stamina runs from the menu instead. The Fons rate is identical.
Step 4: Spend any leftover stamina on whichever hobby you have not unlocked Super Sound for yet, or on activities that double up with City Tycoon objectives, such as City Delivery for the Tycoon 8 unlock task.
When to break the speed rule
Pure speed is the right call once your hobbies are unlocked, but early on it pays to spread stamina across modes you have not tried. Each hobby has first-time tasks tied to City Tycoon levels, and some Tycoon ranks require spending a specific total amount of City Stamina (Tycoon 4 requires spending 10 City Stamina to unlock the Cafe by Origen). Knock those gates out before settling into a Super Sound loop.
Normal Race challenges are also worth a detour because three-star clears award Annulith on top of the standard Fons. Annulith is the pull currency, so a few minutes spent here per week is more valuable than the same time in Super Sound.
What to avoid
Do not let City Stamina sit at the cap going into Monday reset. Anything above the cap at the moment of reset is lost, and any unspent stamina under the cap is overwritten by the new weekly amount rather than added to it. Spending Annulith to refill the bar is also a poor trade outside of competitive whale play, since the same Annulith is far more useful for character or weapon pulls.
Avoid grinding a single hobby to completion before touching the others on a fresh account. The Tycoon level objectives reward more long-term Fons capacity (higher caps, the Hunter Exchange, Chiz at Tycoon 18, her weapon at Tycoon 21) than any short-term Fons gain, so spreading early stamina pays better than min-maxing the conversion rate from day one.