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key: mechanic/rpg-grind--stamina-attempts
type: mechanic
id: rpg-grind--stamina-attempts
lang: en
title: Regenerating attempt budget
summary: >-
  Activities consume a resource restored over time or through play, limiting
  repetition frequency.
updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
status: active
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aliases: []
tags:
  - RPG grinding
  - Schedule and pacing
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sources:
  - id: source-fc1e96448c00cb53
    title: Shop Titans
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/'
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  - catalogId: rpg-grind
    id: stamina-attempts
    title: RPG grinding
    url: 'https://gamemechanics.pro/en/mechanics/rpg-grind/#stamina-attempts'
    categoryIds:
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attributes:
  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Regenerating attempt budget
    description: >-
      Activities consume a resource restored over time or through play, limiting
      repetition frequency.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/rpg-shop-titans-01.webp
      width: 1440
      height: 810
      game: Shop Titans
      sourceUrl: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/'
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      rights: >-
        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or
        publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT
        and CC BY 4.0.
      caption: There is insufficient energy to apply a surcharge
      alt: There is insufficient energy to apply a surcharge
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        - x: 92
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          label: Surcharge costs 865 energy with only 784 available
    tips:
      - Show attempt costs and ways to restore the available budget.
    examples:
      - title: Shop Titans
        url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/'
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provenance: >-
  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/rpg-grind
---
# Regenerating attempt budget

id: rpg-grind--stamina-attempts
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--stamina-attempts
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--stamina-attempts/

Activities consume a resource restored over time or through play, limiting repetition frequency.

## At a glance

![There is insufficient energy to apply a surcharge](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/rpg-shop-titans-01.webp)

[Shop Titans](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Surcharge costs 865 energy with only 784 available

- Show attempt costs and ways to restore the available budget.

- [Shop Titans](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/)

## How it works

Activities consume a resource restored over time or through play, limiting repetition frequency.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="stamina-attempts-options"></a>

- Spend energy per attempt. <a id="stamina-attempts-option-1"></a>
- Use separate budgets for different activities. <a id="stamina-attempts-option-2"></a>
- Accumulate a bounded reserve for a longer session. <a id="stamina-attempts-option-3"></a>

## Design example

A hero has a gathering stamina reserve and chooses the most needed veins.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [Shop Titans](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/) (id: source-fc1e96448c00cb53)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors