Your Frost Hunter Level in Moonfrost runs from 1 to 41, and only two things raise it: finishing tasks and crafting a recipe for the first time. Every fifth level adds Max Stamina and most of those add inventory slots too. Higher levels also open new blueprints and decorations to craft. Decorations pay far more XP than anything else, so if you want levels, furnish your house.
How XP Works
You earn XP in two ways:
- Tasks. Each task in a quest pays its XP reward the moment you complete it. Most pay 5 to 50 XP, many story steps pay 100, and 14 key moments pay 150 to 500.
- First crafts. The first time you craft a recipe you’ve unlocked, you get that recipe’s XP. Only decorations made at the Decorations Workbench pay any. Cooking, tools, seeds and refined resources give nothing, and crafting the same decoration a second time gives nothing either.
The first time you craft a decoration at the Decorations Workbench, a First Time Craft jigsaw opens: drop each piece into a column until you’ve rebuilt the picture. Finish it and the decoration is made. Mistakes only cost you a bonus: solve it with no mistakes and you get 15% of the materials back, or 5% with one mistake. The recipe’s XP is paid for that first craft either way.
Buying a blueprint doesn’t pay XP on its own. The blueprint unlocks a decoration recipe, and the XP arrives when you craft that decoration for the first time. So a blueprint you buy and never use is XP left on the table.
The bar beside your level shows how far you are into the current level, such as “12 / 30 XP”. A big reward can carry you through several levels at once, and you collect every bonus along the way. At level 41 the bar reads MAX LEVEL and further XP does nothing.
XP Needed for Each Level
Each column is the XP one level costs, from level 2 on the left to level 41 on the right. Darker columns are the levels that come with a stat bonus. Hover over a column for its exact numbers, or see Every Level below.
- 3,444 XP
The first levels go by fast: levels 2 to 10 cost 15 to 30 XP each, and you’ll pass most of them during the opening tasks. The climb gets steep after level 30. You need 3,905 XP in total to reach level 30, and the last two levels alone cost 6,364 XP, more than the 4,571 XP it takes to get to level 31.
Level Rewards
You start with 50 Max Stamina, 100 health and 24 inventory slots. Levels change the first two numbers only:
- Max Stamina: +5 at levels 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40, for 90 at level 40.
- Inventory slots: +5 at level 5, then +2 at levels 10, 20, 30 and 40, for 37 slots at level 40.
- Health stays at 100 whatever your level.
The stamina bonus matters more than it looks. Every swing of a hoe costs 0.3 stamina, so your starting 50 stamina covers 166 swings and 90 covers 300 before you need to sleep in a tent or bed on your farm. The Tools guide lists what every other tool costs. The level-up screen lists the bonus each time you get one.
Levels don’t gate Build Mode, sleeping or fishing; tasks open those. What levels do gate is crafting. A blueprint above your level, or a decoration you’ve unlocked but can’t make yet, still shows at its station marked Reach Level N to Craft, so you can see what’s coming.
Every Level
XP for this level is what that level costs on its own, the number the XP bar counts towards. Total XP is everything you need from the start. Recipes that open counts the blueprints, decorations and tools you can buy or craft from that level, provided you’ve unlocked them; the Furniture guide lists each one.
| Level | XP for this level | Total XP | Bonus | Recipes that open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — |
| 2 | 15 | 15 | — | 2 decorations |
| 3 | 17 | 32 | — | 1 decoration |
| 4 | 17 | 49 | — | — |
| 5 | 19 | 68 | +5 Max Stamina, +5 inventory slots | 1 blueprint, 12 decorations, 3 tools |
| 6 | 21 | 89 | — | 2 blueprints, 9 decorations |
| 7 | 22 | 111 | — | 1 blueprint, 2 decorations |
| 8 | 25 | 136 | — | 1 decoration |
| 9 | 27 | 163 | — | — |
| 10 | 30 | 193 | +5 Max Stamina, +2 inventory slots | 37 blueprints, 53 decorations |
| 11 | 34 | 227 | — | 3 decorations |
| 12 | 38 | 265 | — | 3 decorations |
| 13 | 44 | 309 | — | 1 decoration |
| 14 | 49 | 358 | — | 1 decoration |
| 15 | 56 | 414 | +5 Max Stamina | 11 blueprints, 26 decorations |
| 16 | 65 | 479 | — | 1 blueprint, 3 decorations |
| 17 | 75 | 554 | — | 6 blueprints, 6 decorations |
| 18 | 86 | 640 | — | — |
| 19 | 100 | 740 | — | — |
| 20 | 116 | 856 | +5 Max Stamina, +2 inventory slots | 20 blueprints, 43 decorations |
| 21 | 136 | 992 | — | 4 blueprints, 8 decorations |
| 22 | 158 | 1,150 | — | 12 blueprints, 13 decorations |
| 23 | 184 | 1,334 | — | 10 blueprints, 12 decorations |
| 24 | 216 | 1,550 | — | 7 blueprints, 7 decorations |
| 25 | 253 | 1,803 | +5 Max Stamina | 16 blueprints, 20 decorations |
| 26 | 297 | 2,100 | — | 11 blueprints, 14 decorations |
| 27 | 348 | 2,448 | — | 7 blueprints, 9 decorations |
| 28 | 410 | 2,858 | — | 6 blueprints, 7 decorations |
| 29 | 481 | 3,339 | — | 8 blueprints, 8 decorations |
| 30 | 566 | 3,905 | +5 Max Stamina, +2 inventory slots | 15 blueprints, 16 decorations |
| 31 | 666 | 4,571 | — | 8 blueprints, 8 decorations |
| 32 | 784 | 5,355 | — | 8 blueprints, 8 decorations |
| 33 | 924 | 6,279 | — | 3 blueprints, 3 decorations |
| 34 | 1,088 | 7,367 | — | 6 blueprints, 6 decorations |
| 35 | 1,282 | 8,649 | +5 Max Stamina | 7 blueprints, 7 decorations |
| 36 | 1,511 | 10,160 | — | — |
| 37 | 1,781 | 11,941 | — | — |
| 38 | 2,100 | 14,041 | — | — |
| 39 | 2,476 | 16,517 | — | — |
| 40 | 2,920 | 19,437 | +5 Max Stamina, +2 inventory slots | — |
| 41 | 3,444 | 22,881 | — | — |
Level 35 is the last level that opens anything new. Past that, the levels only add XP and, at level 40, the final stamina and inventory bonus.
Best XP Sources
Decorations
Crafting each decoration once is worth about 23,000 XP spread over more than 350 decorations, nearly two and a half times the XP every task in the game pays together. If you’re chasing levels, craft one of everything you unlock before you craft extras of anything.
These are the decorations that pay the most for a first craft. Level is the level you need to craft it, and Recipe from says how you unlock it: a quest reward, or a blueprint and its price.
| Decoration | XP | Level | Recipe from | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Hot Tub | 1,000 | 1 | Quest reward: A Home for Ash |
 | Ice Cream Van | 1,000 | 28 | Quest reward: A Magical Mess |
 | Well | 1,000 | 27 | Quest reward: Proving One’s Worth |
 | Green Modern Basic Double Bed | 720 | 34 | Blueprint (40 Star Tickets) |
 | MCM Dog Statue | 500 | 26 | Blueprint (7,500 Sil) |
 | Black Modern Basic Double Bed | 480 | 34 | Blueprint (19 Star Tickets) |
 | Cozy Armchair | 480 | 20 | Blueprint (3,000 Sil) |
 | Cozy Red Sofa | 480 | 15 | Quest reward: Housemates |
 | Cream Modern Basic Double Bed | 480 | 34 | Blueprint (19 Star Tickets) |
 | MCM Armchair | 480 | 24 | Blueprint (3,000 Sil) |
 | MCM Fridge | 480 | 28 | Blueprint (3,000 Sil) |
 | MCM Upright Shelf | 480 | 26 | Blueprint (3,000 Sil) |
Most of these need level 20 or higher, so early on your XP comes from the smaller pieces that open sooner. The Hot Tub needs no level at all, but its recipe comes from A Home for Ash, which only starts once you’ve finished Inner Beauty. It costs 2,000 Sil, 10 Copper Bars, 10 Silver Screws and 5 Moonfrost Shards, and at 1,000 XP it ties with the Ice Cream Van and the Well as the best first craft in the game, so make it as soon as you have the recipe.
Blueprints come from the Blueprint Vending Machine in the Village, which shows a different set every 24 hours, and from three more blueprint machines that open once you finish Fixing Lemmon’s, Drifting Away and A Magical Mess. The Furniture guide covers where each set is sold and what it costs.
The donation box in the Village unlocks a few more. Items you leave in it turn into points worth their sell value the next day. Each of the first twelve rewards unlocks one decoration recipe, 15,000 points in all, but they’re small pieces worth 530 XP together, so treat the box as a way to clear out spare items.
Quests
Every quest pays XP through its tasks. Tasks with XP counts the tasks in that quest that pay any, and XP is the quest’s total. The people listed are the ones you talk to during it.
| Quest | People | Tasks with XP | XP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inner Beauty | Gerald, Ronen, Alba, Ash | 13 | 1,800 |
| The Frosty Moon | Ronen, Ash, Ava, Kyung, Celeste, Walter, Gerald | 10 | 1,650 |
| The Red Thread | Sabrina, Gerald | 13 | 1,090 |
| Fixing Lemmon’s | Walter, Gerald | 19 | 720 |
| Drifting Away | Gerald | 13 | 580 |
| A Magical Mess | Celeste, Alba, Gerald | 10 | 460 |
| A Home For the Siblings | Alba, Kyung, Ava | 3 | 400 |
| A Home for Celeste | Celeste | 3 | 400 |
| A Home for Gerald | Gerald | 3 | 400 |
| Housemates | Sabrina | 4 | 400 |
| Outer Beauty | Ash, Gerald | 7 | 340 |
| Something Fishy | Ronen | 5 | 300 |
| A Home for Ash | Alba, Ash | 2 | 200 |
| Rebuilding The Village Square | Alba, Gerald | 9 | 180 |
| Grave Matters | Crow | 5 | 100 |
| A Second Chance | Ash, Walter, Alba | 3 | 70 |
| Pub Crawl | Ronen, Gerald | 5 | 70 |
| Proving One’s Worth | Ash | 1 | 50 |
| Crow’s Concoctions | Crow | 8 | 45 |
| FHA Exams | Ash | 8 | 40 |
| Farming Away | Walter | 6 | 40 |
| Refining your Skills | Ash, Walter | 6 | 35 |
| Sea Food | Walter | 6 | 35 |
| Cooking 101 | Walter | 5 | 30 |
| Building a Home | Ash, Walter | 3 | 15 |
| Fishing 101 | Ronen | 2 | 15 |
| Learning the Ropes | Ash, Walter | 3 | 15 |
| The Pity Party | Walter, Ash | 1 | 10 |
All the tasks together pay 9,490 XP, enough to reach level 35 and no further, so the last six levels have to come from decorations. Tasks and first crafts together pay about 32,500 XP, well past the 22,881 XP level 41 needs. Inner Beauty and The Frosty Moon pay the most, and the last step of The Frosty Moon is the biggest single task in the game at 500 XP.