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Love and Deepspace’sinteractive September event is here! Mountain Journey is a road trip event you can take with all your Love Interests as you follow the winding paths of an ancient treasure map. In Mountain Journey, you can play minigames, complete map explorations, earn Guidebooks and Souvenir Photos, and complete special storylines with each of the Love Interests.
Mountain Journey has separate storylines and text adventures for each one of the Love Interests, and there’s no single-lock-in for any of them. That means that you can play every storyline for free without having to complete one before unlocking another.
The Mountain Journey event willonly last from 5:00 a.m. September 23rd to 4:59 a.m.to October 8thserver time. After the event ends, youwill notbe able to earn any limited edition rewards or items from the Traveller’s Shop.
If you would like to revisit this event once it has ended, you can referencethis guideto learn how.
Updated on August 01, 2025, by Eva Csaki: We’ve updated this guide to add daily stage information for each Map Exploration of the Mountain Journey Event.
Mountain Journey Stages
In Mountain Journey, you and your companions are given a Treasure Map toexplore new locations. Each love interest has aseparate storylineand location to explore on your quest for treasure.
Mountain Journey hasthree different game modesto explore: a minigame, a storyline, and map quest stages.
Treasure Map Quests
On the main screen of Mountain Journey, is theTreasure Map Quest. There aretwelve locationson the treasure map. Each day, you will be givenone exploration attempt per characterto be used to enter the exploration stages. Yourattempts stackand don’t expire the next day.
Each location on the map has a different challenge. Some stagescontain battles, while others aretext messages or mini-storiesto read through, offering information on your trip and your days spent with each Love Interest.
Characters will havedifferent stage typesper Exploration location, separate from the other characters. For instance,only Rafayelhas a Chat stage in Binsha Ancient City, whileall other characters enter combatthere.
Since you getone exploration attempt a day per character, we recommend choosingdifferent event stages each dayfor each character.
Combat stages havethree difficulty levelsto complete;Easy, Normal, and Hard, each one offering different rewards. Completing a high level willautomatically clear the lower level stagesand give you its rewards. So, passing a Hard stage would automaticallyclear both Easy and Normalversions of that stage.
Getting a character’sfive-star event memoryfrom theconcurrently running, Wander In Wonder eventwill buff your battledamage by 20%during their Mountain Journey combat stages.
The following tables show the breakdown of Combat and Chat stages per character. All Combat stages reward thesame rewards, but Chat stagesdo not provide rewardsfor completion.
No rewards
Treasure Hunt
Treasure Hunt is a match-two game withtwo game modes;Precise Search and Infinite Storage.
InPrecise Search,you are given adaily gem targetto reach. To complete the challenge,combine two identical gemsto merge them into larger gems. Keep merging gems until youreach the target gemsshown in the taskbar at the top of the Gem Fall box.
There areeight stages of Precise Searchto complete during the event. The following table shows the breakdown of stages and their gem goals.
Stage 8
One Large Silver Pendant
Infinite Storagefollows thesame rulesof Precise Search (match two gems to upgrade them), but you cancontinue matching infinitely. There is no timer or gem goal.
However,hitting the fill lineat the top of the screen will trigger a three-second countdown. The game ends if your gems touch the fill line forover three seconds.
The mechanics of Treasure Huntapply to past eventsand will likely apply to future events, as well. The match-two game systemtends to recurfor large events like this.
As you add gems to the gem box, you’re able to alsouse your companion’s special skillas a power up to help you complete the challenge. Each companion can use their powerthree timesduring a round and will run out of charges once they’ve used their third one.
Xavier
Knight’s Advent
‘Select a spot and Xavier’s sword will drop directly onto it. The sword splits the first gem it touches into two random low-level gems.’
Zayne
Foreseer’s Edict
‘After you select a gem, Zayne will merge it with gems of the same type. The merged gem will drop from the top. you may’t select the highest-level gem on the field.’
‘Rafayel will bring waves to shift the gems’ positions.'
Fiend’s Greed
‘Sylus randomly takes away a high-level gem.’
Use physicsto your advantage. If a gem isn’t where you want it to be,try knocking it out of placewith another one!
There areten sizes of gemsin total. Once you’ve merged a gem into the tenth size (the giant Silver Pendant) youcannot merge it anymore. That means that the Silver Pendants willtake up too much spacein your gem box, and you’ll need to either use a companion power-up to get rid of them, or quit the game and start over.
A great strategy to employ is to only use certain character’s power-up abilitiesat the later stagesof the game when yourgem box is filledwith large, high-level gems.Sylus’sability, Fiend’s Greed, in particular, ismost usefulwhen your gem box is filled with high-level gems.
Similarly, Xavier’s ability isgreat for splitting large gems, but not great for clearing the board.
Journey Footprints
In Journey Footprints, you unlock anew story stage each day. There aresix story stagesto complete, not including the prologue which is unlocked upon entering the event and willautomatically playthe first time you enter Mountain Journey with one of the Love Interests.
Each character has adifferent storyto follow in Mountain Journey, so it’s worth the effort toplay each storylinewhile you can. These storieswill not returnafter the event is over!
To unlock Journey Footprint chapters, you need towait until the chapter is openserver-wide, and you need touse Souvenir Photos(collected as a reward for completing Mountain Journey tasks) to unlock the stage.
Youneed 20 Souvenir Photosto unlock every character’s chapters throughout the event.
Rewards And Shop
Mountain Journey has atask system, the Travel Guidethat rewards you withGuidebooks, the currency used in the Traveller’s Shop, as you complete challenges and meet story milestones during the event.
To earn Guidebooks,complete story stageswith each one of the characters,Treasure Huntlevels,Explorations, and earn100 Daily Task pointsin your Agenda.
As you earn Guidebooks, you willhit Guidebook milestonesand earnSouvenir Photosto be spent on opening Journey Footprint stages each day.
Remember, youcannot open Journey Footprint stageswithout Souvenir Photos! You will have tocomplete as many tasks as you canin order to earn enough Souvenir Photos to unlock every chapter for every character. You’ll earn Guidebooks for completing chapters, too.
The Traveler’s Shop
The Traveller’s Shop is a limited-time shop available during the Mountain Journey eventand for one extra day after Mountain Journey ends. You can use Guidebooks in the shop topurchase limited edition itemslike Deepspace Wishes Limited,character outfits, accessories, and more.
You canpurchase up to ten Deepspace Wishes Limitedfrom the Traveller’s Shop to be used in theaccompanying Wander In Wonder event Wish Pool.
Once you have purchased every limited quantity event item, you canstill earn more Guidebooksto spend oninfinite stock itemslike Gold.
The developers of Love And Deepspace have always been fair when it comes to events of this type. You caneasily earn the required numberof Guidebooks to purchase every item in the shopwell before the event period ends, so long as you are committed to completing the event’s tasks and logging in daily.
Youcannot purchase Guidebooks with Diamondsor with real world currency. You can only earn Guidebooks by completing event tasks.
Upcoming Events
During thesecond halfof the Mountain Journey event period, you may alsoplay the Chansia Journey event. Chansia Journey is asix-day investigation eventwhere you can earn Zayne’s limited-time five-star memory,Frozen Nightfall.
Chansia Journey and Zayne: Frozen Nightfall alsotie into Zayne’s Thorns Under The Moonmain storyline branch, released on the same day as Chansia Journey.
