Shooms are the main permanent currency in Creatures of Sonaria, used to buy creatures from Gachas, the Rotation Store, and Trial Creatures, or to convert into Tikits. Maxing out your Shoom count comes down to one thing above all else, which is staying alive for as long as possible while stacking the other smaller sources on top.
Quick answer: You earn 5 Shooms for every 2 minutes your creature stays alive, which equals 150 Shooms per hour. For the fastest hands-off grind, AFK with a high-appetite aquatic herbivore or a water-only photovore so it can survive untouched while the timer keeps paying out.
Every way to earn Shooms in Creatures of Sonaria
Shooms come from several stacking sources. The passive survival timer is the backbone of any grind, but missions and event drops add meaningful amounts when you are actively playing.
| Source | Reward |
|---|---|
| Staying alive | 5 Shooms every 2 minutes (150/hour) |
| Region missions (repeatable) | 4 Shooms each |
| Death reward, 250 points | 25 Shooms |
| Death reward, 500 points | 50 Shooms |
| Volcanic Eruption meteors | 2 Shooms per dropping meteor |
| Shoom Piles on the map | Collected directly |
| Daily and Login rewards | Varies |
| Trading World exchanges/giveaways | Varies |
| Robux purchase (cheapest) | 120 Shooms for 39 Robux |
Death reward points build up from staying alive, visiting different biomes, killing players, surviving natural disasters, and completing missions. Region missions appear on the right side of the screen as small tasks and can be repeated, so cycling through them across the map adds up quickly. Note that redeem codes have historically granted Shooms, but those have all been removed.
Best creatures for AFK Shoom farming
AFK Farming means racking up the 5-per-2-minute payout while you are away from the keyboard. The whole method depends on a creature that can survive on its own without starving, drowning, or getting hunted. The longer it lasts untouched, the more Shooms you bank.
Appetite is the stat that decides how long a creature lasts without eating. One point of appetite is worth 30 seconds, so 60 appetite gives a full 30-minute window. Pick creatures with the longest possible appetite and the easiest survival needs.
- Photovores that only need water to survive.
- Creatures with a long appetite of roughly 30 minutes or more (60+ appetite).
- Omnivores with a flexible diet that can eat both meat and plants and do not deplete fast.
- Aquatic creatures, especially herbivores and omnivores, with a high appetite that do not need to drink water.
Aquatic herbivores and omnivores are preferred over aquatic carnivores because they survive with the least effort. For active volcano farming instead, a small fast creature like a Puffwump makes it easier to dart in, dodge the red ground markings, and grab the floating Shooms after the meteors land.
Shoom grind rates and time to target
The passive rate is fixed at 150 Shooms per hour as long as you do not die. To work out a grind, divide the amount you need by 150. For example, 1,000 Shooms divided by 150 is about 6.67 hours, so roughly 6 hours and 40 minutes of survival.
Two quick formulas cover the math. To find Shooms earned in a set time, use (minutes / 2) * 5. To find the minutes needed for a target, use (Shooms / 5) * 2.
| Time survived | Shooms earned |
|---|---|
| 2 minutes | 5 |
| 10 minutes | 25 |
| 30 minutes | 75 |
| 1 hour | 150 |
| 6 hours | 900 |
| 12 hours | 1,800 |
| 24 hours | 3,600 |
| 5 days | 18,000 |
| 10 days | 36,000 |
| 100 days | 360,000 |
How to confirm your grind is working
Your Shoom counter ticks up by 5 every two minutes while your creature is alive, so a rising total is the clearest sign the passive grind is running. If the number stops climbing, your AFK run has usually broken for one of these reasons.
- Your creature died, which ends the survival timer until you respawn.
- A natural disaster such as a hurricane, flood, or earthquake forced movement or killed the creature.
- Poor water quality drowned or starved a creature that relies on water.
- Another player spotted and hunted your parked creature, which disasters and missions make more likely by pushing others to move around the map.
Once you have the Shooms saved up, spend them on Gachas, Rotation Store items, materials, Trial Creatures, or convert them into Tikits for the Royalty, Celestial, and Mystery Gachas. In trading, you will see Shooms called “mush,” “shrooms,” or just “m,” and a price like 450m simply means 450 Shooms. Keep your survival timer running, layer missions and event drops on top, and the totals climb steadily toward whatever you are saving for.
