Dot Abyss Tavern Guide

The Tavern is not open from the start. It unlocks once you have three characters at bond level 1 or higher. That threshold is deliberately low — the game wants you inside the system within your first evening of play. Bond Lv1 costs only a couple of gifts per character, and the unlock itself hands back extra presents, so the startup cost pays for itself immediately.

1. Clear main story chapter 1 — this opens the Interaction (交流) menu and other base facilities you need for gifting.
2. Open Interaction and give gifts (presents) to three different characters. Reaching bond Lv1 takes only a couple of gifts each; see the bond guide for gift sources and preferences.
3. Return to the Frontline Base menu — the Tavern icon appears once the third character hits Lv1. The unlock popup also rewards bonus gifts you can feed right back into bond growth.

Business (営業) runs once per day and doubles as a daily mission objective, so never skip it. The phase plays like a light card game: you assign staff, then play proposal cards to raise customer satisfaction. Your final score decides the reward tier — not your combat power, not your account level, just how well you ordered the cards and staffed the floor.

• Hold conditional cards until their condition is met. Cards like "staff rated X or higher gain +Y% satisfaction" are wasted if played before those staff are on shift.
• Save percentage-scaling cards for the end. A +% card multiplies your current satisfaction, so the later you play it, the bigger the payoff.
• Staff quality matters. Higher-rated and higher-bond staff produce more base satisfaction for the same cards — bond investment directly raises business scores.
• Chase the high-score thresholds. Reward tiers jump at score breakpoints; a slightly better card order can mean a whole extra reward bracket.
• Rotate new recruits. Working shifts triggers potential awakening (可能性の開花), which teaches powerful new skills — assign every new pull at least once.

Everything tavern-related lives on the Frontline Base hub screen after chapter 1. If you cannot find a menu, you are probably still gated by story progress — push the main quest until Interaction unlocks first.

• Tavern icon — on the base map once three bond-Lv1 characters exist. Tap it for staff registration, upgrades and the daily business button.
• Interaction (交流) — separate menu for gifting; this is where bond levels rise and where you check which girls can legally work shifts.
• Soul exchange shop — inside the tavern menu. Trade Souls (ソウル) earned from business for character training materials.
• Ability unlock screen — also reachable from character detail pages; Souls spent here are the cheapest permanent power gains in the game.
• Upgrade panel — shows current staff slots, floors and the total bond level required for the next expansion.

The tavern punishes inconsistency harder than it rewards optimization. One missed business day is gone forever — there is no makeup pull — and unspent Souls sit idle while ability unlocks stay locked. Protect your streak and your currency with a simple daily habit.

• Run business before logging off. Treat it like a daily mission checkbox; the reward tier you miss today cannot be recovered tomorrow.
• Spend Souls on abilities, not hoarding. Ability unlocks compound combat power immediately; letting Souls pile up while your main team lacks skills is wasted growth.
• Do not register zero-bond staff. They cannot be assigned anyway, and trying wastes planning time — gift first, schedule second.
• Link your account before deep investment. Tavern progress is account-bound; an unlinked mobile save lost to a device wipe is unrecoverable. Finish your reroll, then bind through the account transfer guide.

Completing the tavern loop means three parallel tracks: daily business for Souls, bond breadth for slot upgrades, and shift work for outfits and potential awakening. The game is rated 17+ and the tavern is its flagship mature-theme content — tavern outfits and private scenes gate behind bond milestones detailed in the bond guide.

1. Gift broadly across the roster — ten characters at bond Lv1–2 advance tavern upgrades faster than one character at Lv10.
2. Register your highest-bond, highest-rated units for business days when chasing score thresholds.
3. After each bond level bump, open the upgrade screen — slot expansions are easy to miss.
4. Re-check skill kits after potential awakening; mid-tier units sometimes become main-team worthy overnight.

• Slot upgrades — the tavern levels up from your total bond level across all characters. Each upgrade adds staff slots (and floors), raising your daily score ceiling.
• Tavern outfits — raising a character's bond unlocks her exclusive tavern outfit, shown during business shifts with dedicated animations.
• Potential awakening — working shifts awakens hidden potential and teaches powerful new skills. For mid-tier characters this is often a bigger jump than several levels.
• Character stories — bond milestones unlock personal story chapters alongside outfit rewards.

Optimizing the tavern is optimizing bond economy plus card sequencing. The flywheel is simple: gifts → more total bond → more staff slots → higher business scores → more Souls → cheaper ability unlocks → stronger exploration → more gifts. Break any link and the whole loop slows.

• Breadth beats depth early. Spread Lv1–2 across many characters to rush slot upgrades; deep bond pushes on one favorite can wait until the engine runs.
• Front-load conditional cards, back-load multipliers. Build base satisfaction with flat bonuses first, then slam percentage cards when the number is already high.
• Match staff to card conditions. Before starting business, read your hand — if a card cares about staff rating or bond, swap assignments instead of playing it weak.
• Sync with launch resources. Pre-registration gems and pickup banners from the gacha guide decide which SSRs you staff; a strong reroll start from the reroll guide means better-rated workers on day one.