Cosmetics and where they come from

A cosmetic in Time Heroes has a name, a piece of art, a rarity and a note of where it came from. There is no damage number on it, no luck number and no income number, so nothing you equip for looks will move anything on your stat sheet.

What a cosmetic does change is what other people see. Your frame, banner, chat bubble, pet aura and pickaxe skin all show up on your profile and in world chat.

Every cosmetic slot

• Golden Ornate
• Alpha Hexagon
• Secret Runes
• S1 Trophy Frame
• Power Circuit
• Volunteer Beacon
• Lifeguard Beacon
• Crystal Border
• Void Edge
• Galaxy Frame
• Ivy Frame
• Time Frame

The families that ship

• Profile: avatar frames, banners, nameplates and cursors
• Chat: chat bubbles, the frame drawn around your message in world chat
• Pet: auras, the ring and particles around a pet, and pedestals, the slab underneath it
• Gear: pickaxe skins for mining and bag skins for your inventory
• Shuttle: deck backgrounds, shuttle skins and deck props
• Emotes, which rotate on their own daily shelf

How one reaches your account

There is no single storefront. Where an item came from is written on the item itself, and that is what decides whether you can ever buy it again. Only items marked as shop stock are for sale at all.

• The Cosmetic Bazaar, which sells shop stock for Prism
• Cosmetic cases in the Vault, opened with Style Keys
• The season pass, which pays out cosmetics along its track
• Badges and milestones, for the things you cannot buy
• Mystery points out on the Dial, whose drops are never sold anywhere
• Subscription ladders

Prism

Prism is the Bazaar's currency and the only thing that buys profile cosmetics. It comes in packs, it drops on the season pass track, and you get some of it back by dusting duplicates that cases handed you. A cosmetic you bought outright cannot be dusted.

No price is typed in by hand. Each one is worked out from the item's rarity and its category, so a Common frame and a Legendary frame always sit a predictable distance apart and the shelf cannot drift as it grows. The top prestige tiers carry no Prism price at all, so those items are earned and never sold.

Soulbound

Cosmetics arrive soulbound. The item attaches to your account and there is no path that moves it to another player: no sell back, no trade, no gift. Auras behave differently in one way worth knowing. A single aura copy binds to a single pet species, so putting the same aura on a second species means buying a second copy at full price. Frames, banners and the rest are one time purchases, and the Bazaar tells you when you already own one.

Cosmetics survive every reset

Both reset layers keep your look. A Paradox press and a Supernova collapse each take your level, your coins and most of your pets, and each leaves your frames, banners, auras, skins and badges exactly where they were. Nothing you dress your hero in is at risk when you press.