Mom and Dad Daily (Spot On)
Spot On at a glance
| Level | 1 or higher (no upper limit) |
|---|---|
| Quests | Spot On : An Interesting Chore and Spot On : Go See Mr. Spot |
| Mom and Dad | Mom and Dad in Meet the Parents (Amoria), through a portal in Henesys Hunting Ground III |
| Mr. Spot | Mr. Spot in Kerning City |
| Reward | 500 EXP, plus one VX Prepaid card worth 100 Maple Points (95%) or 250 Maple Points (5%) |
| Chore resets | 23 hours after you hand the Allowance to Mr. Spot |
| Card resets | One card per account per day, at 00:00 UTC |
Spot On is the daily errand that most players mean by "doing Mom and Dad". You carry a computer mouse from Mr. Spot to Mom and Dad, carry their allowance back to Mr. Spot, and he pays you a VX Prepaid card. It is the quickest everyday way to earn Maple Points, and it needs only level 1.
Despite its name, the VX Prepaid card does not add VX. Using the card credits Maple Points, the wallet you can earn in play. The Cash Shop spends Maple Points first and VX second, so for shopping the two behave almost alike. See VX Prepaid Cards.
What you get
| Step | Reward |
|---|---|
| Hand the Mouse to Mom and Dad | 500 EXP and one Allowance (a quest item for Mr. Spot) |
| Hand the Allowance to Mr. Spot | One card: VX Prepaid - 100 points (95% chance) or VX Prepaid - 250 points (5% chance) |
| Double-click the card in your ETC tab | 100 or 250 Maple Points, added to your account at once |
On average one run is worth 107.5 Maple Points. For comparison, one run buys about a quarter of a four-slot bag expansion (400 points), and two runs a day (see Game On Daily (Dinner Fixins)) buy one roughly every two days. A Gachapon Ticket costs 100 points.
Where everyone is
| Who | Map | How to get there |
|---|---|---|
| Mom and Dad | Meet the Parents (Amoria) | Leave Henesys through the west edge of town into Henesys Hunting Ground I. Each of the three Hunting Grounds is a climb, with its onward portal near the top of the map: I leads to Henesys Hunting Ground II, II leads to Henesys Hunting Ground III, and the portal at the top of III leads into Meet the Parents. A portal in Meet the Parents leads back out to Hunting Ground III. |
| Mr. Spot | Kerning City | He stands on the town's main street, a short way east of Rooney, in the western half of the town. From Henesys the quick way is the Regular Cab: 1,000 Vesos each way (a Beginner pays a tenth, 100). Walking is free. |
The Hunting Grounds hold Pigs (level 7), Ribbon Pigs (level 10) and Green Mushrooms (level 15), so a brand-new character should level a little first, or fetch the Mouse and the Allowance in two careful trips. Meet the Parents itself has no monsters.
Step by step
- Talk to Mom and Dad in Meet the Parents and accept Spot On : An Interesting Chore. They ask you to fetch a better mouse from Mr. Spot in Kerning City.
- Travel to Kerning City and talk to Mr. Spot. Listen to his pitch and accept Spot On : Go See Mr. Spot. He gives you the Mouse on the spot. He only offers this errand while the chore from Mom and Dad is open.
- Go back to Mom and Dad and talk to them again. They take the Mouse and give you 500 EXP and an Allowance. Spot On : An Interesting Chore is now finished.
- Go back to Mr. Spot with the Allowance and finish Spot On : Go See Mr. Spot. He takes the Allowance. The card appears in your ETC tab and the chat log says, for example, Received VX Prepaid - 100 points. USE it to redeem 100 Maple Points.
- Open the ETC tab of your bag and double-click the card. A green +100 Maple Points (or +250) appears and the chat log shows your new balance.
Hello, dear. Would you like to give Mom and Dad some help?— Mom and Dad
Warning Keep the order: accept Mom and Dad's chore, accept Mr. Spot's errand, hand the Mouse to Mom and Dad, hand the Allowance to Mr. Spot. Mr. Spot checks that the chore is open when you take his errand, and that it is finished when you hand him the Allowance. Never take Mom and Dad's next chore before you have given the Allowance to Mr. Spot, or the errand locks (see the table below).
Different from the original game Mr. Spot's dialogue says the card will turn into Maple Points "in two weeks" or "after the Event ends". In MapleVerse there is no waiting: you redeem the card yourself, whenever you like, by double-clicking it. The card only works for the account it was issued to.
When it resets
Two separate clocks apply.
- The chore (Mom and Dad): ready again 23 hours after you finish Mr. Spot's errand (when you hand him the Allowance), counted per character on the game's own clock (not your computer's). Mom and Dad wait for Mr. Spot, so the two quests always come back together. Until then the Quest Log says Mr. Spot is ready again in and the time left. Reaching the next day early lets your daily routine drift earlier instead of later.
- The card (Mr. Spot): the game pays one Spot On card per account per UTC day. The day changes at 00:00 UTC. Every character on your account shares this one card.
The later of the two always wins, so in practice: after a run you wait for the 23 hours and for the next UTC midnight. A run that ends with Mr. Spot at 18:20 UTC can be repeated from 17:20 UTC the next day. A run that ends with Mr. Spot at 00:30 UTC cannot be repeated for its card before 00:00 UTC the following day, even though the chore itself is ready at 23:30.
00:00 UTC is 8:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time, 7:00 pm Central Daylight Time and 5:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, and 1:00 am British Summer Time. Clock changes in autumn move these by an hour.
Different from the original game The original game made this a once-every-24-hours daily. MapleVerse shortens every 24-hour daily to 23 hours so the time you play does not creep later each day. The card limit, however, follows the calendar day in UTC.
Nothing builds up if you skip days. There is no streak and no catch-up card. Each day's run is independent.
Common problems
| What you see | Why | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Mr. Spot only chats and offers no errand | Mom and Dad's chore is not open (not accepted yet, or already handed in today). | Accept the chore from Mom and Dad first. If you finished it today, wait until 23 hours after you gave Mr. Spot the Allowance. |
| Mom and Dad offer no chore, though 23 hours have passed since you handed it in | They wait until Mr. Spot's errand is ready again, 23 hours after you gave him the Allowance. | Open the Quest Log: it says when Mr. Spot is ready again. Come back then. |
| Mr. Spot only says Thanks for your help! | His errand was still on its 23-hour timer when you took the chore. | Mom and Dad only give the chore once Mr. Spot is ready, so this should not happen now. If it does, finish the chore and check the Quest Log for when Mr. Spot is ready again. |
| Mom and Dad: Looks like you forgot the Mouse, dear. | You have not got the Mouse yet. | Accept the errand from Mr. Spot. He hands it over at once. |
| Mr. Spot: Looks like you have some dirt, but not your Allowance. | You have not handed the Mouse to Mom and Dad yet. | Go back to Meet the Parents and hand it in. |
| The Mouse is gone (dropped, or you deleted it) | The Mouse exists only while the errand is open. | Open the Quest Log, give up Spot On : Go See Mr. Spot, then talk to Mr. Spot again. He gives you a fresh Mouse, as long as Mom and Dad's chore is still open. |
| Mr. Spot no longer takes the Allowance, and the Mouse is gone too | You accepted Mom and Dad's next chore before giving the Allowance to Mr. Spot. The new chore reopened the finished one that Mr. Spot checks. | Give up Spot On : Go See Mr. Spot, accept it again from Mr. Spot for a new Mouse, hand it to Mom and Dad, then hand an Allowance to Mr. Spot. You will keep one spare Allowance, which is harmless. |
| Please check if you have enough space in your inventory. | The card needs one free ETC slot. Each card takes a slot of its own. | Free a slot in the ETC tab and talk to Mr. Spot again. Nothing was taken. |
| Reward unavailable right now - please talk to the NPC and turn it in again. | The card could not be issued: the connection to the game dropped, or your account already received today's Spot On card (for instance on another character). | Nothing is lost. Your Allowance is returned and the errand stays open. Try again after reconnecting, or after 00:00 UTC if another character took today's card. |
| has no issue record - it cannot be redeemed | The card did not come from Mr. Spot's hand-in on your account. | Only cards issued to your account by the game work. Use the one you were given. |
| could not be redeemed (already used, or offline) | The card was already redeemed, or the connection dropped. | Check your Cash Shop balance; if it did not change, try again once you are back online. |
There is also a safety limit: once an account has been credited 2,000 or more Maple Points within the last 24 hours, the game stops handing out and redeeming cards for that account until the total falls back under 2,000 (a card you hold stays in your bag). The two daily cards add up to at most 500 points a day, so only large coupon codes can bring you near that limit.
Questions players have asked
- "Mom and Dad's second chore talks about a Game Card. Is that the same card?"
- No. Mom and Dad give two different dailies. This page is the level 1 errand with Mr. Spot, which pays a VX Prepaid' card. The level 20 chore, Dinner Fixins, pays a different Allowance that you take to a store vendor for a MapleVerse Game Card. Both cards pay Maple Points, and they are separate items. See Game On Daily (Dinner Fixins).
- "I have Allowances and nobody will take them."
- There are two Allowances with the same name. The one from Spot On : An Interesting Chore (item 4031529) is taken only by Mr. Spot. The one from Dinner Fixins' (item 4031864) is taken only by the store vendors. Check the item's description: one says it can buy a VX Prepaid, the other a MapleVerse Game Card. A spare Allowance never expires, so it is not wasted; it is simply used on a later day. The game pays only one card of each kind per account per day.
- "The game said it would reward me, then said Reward unavailable. Is the errand lost?"
- No. The Allowance goes back into your bag and the errand reopens, so you can hand it in again as soon as the game can issue the card (see the table above). It does not sit finished on a 24-hour timer.
- "My ETC tab was full when I handed in the Allowance."
- Mr. Spot checks your ETC tab before he takes anything. If there is no room for the card he keeps your Allowance with you and tells you to check your inventory, so the card is never lost. Free a slot and talk to him again.
- "Why is it ready after 23 hours instead of 24?"
- Every 24-hour daily in MapleVerse runs on a 23-hour timer so that finishing a little later one day does not push tomorrow's run later and later. Turn on Daily Reminders (Settings, Gameplay) and the chat shows The [Spot On : An Interesting Chore] quest is available again. when the chore is ready.
Tips
Tip Use one main character for the card. Maple Points belong to the account, so every character spends the same balance, and only one Spot On card is paid per account per day. A second character that runs the loop on the same day still gets the chore's 500 EXP, but Mr. Spot's payout is refused until 00:00 UTC (you keep the Allowance). If you would rather not wait, give the errand up on that character.
- Take the Regular Cab between Henesys and Kerning City so each run is only the Hunting Ground trip and two cab rides.
- Keep at least one free slot in your ETC tab for the card.
- At level 20 add the second daily card, Game On Daily (Dinner Fixins), from the same Mom and Dad.
- Check the Daily Activities list for what else resets at the same time, and turn on Daily Reminders in Settings (Gameplay) to get a chat line when a daily is ready again.