SimCity BuildIt Daily Tasks and Login Rewards Guide
SimCity BuildIt Daily Tasks and Login Rewards Guide
A short daily routine earns more in SimCity BuildIt than occasional long sessions, and this SimCity BuildIt daily tasks and login rewards guide explains the routine: what to collect, what to queue, and what to check every day. The game rewards players who return every day, not players who play for six hours once a week and then disappear.
The daily chest and Golden Chest
Log in every day and open your daily chest. Community guides report that every seventh daily chest is a Golden Chest, and that a Golden Chest can contain up to 30 SimCash, as well as Golden Keys. That makes the daily chest the most valuable single tap in the game. Even on a day when you cannot play properly, open the game, collect the chest and close it. Missing a day breaks the run to the next Golden Chest.
City tasks
City tasks appear in the bottom corner of the screen and ask you to do simple things, such as checking a shop or collecting an item. Community guides report completing a city task rewards at least 1,000 Simoleons, and that a run of tasks can be worth around 20 SimCash and 10,000 Simoleons in total. Treat those figures as community-reported, not guaranteed. City tasks do not appear often — one guide notes they appear most often after a long absence — so complete them whenever they show up rather than dismissing them.
The five-minute daily loop
Experienced players use a short loop on every visit: collect finished factory and shop items, refill production queues, collect taxes and Trade Depot sales, check the cargo ship and Contest assignments, and complete one affordable upgrade. One community guide describes a routine of under ten minutes that collects taxes and sales, runs a short production cycle and lists the results for around 16,000 Simoleons. Production continues after you close the game, so queue long items before you log off and short items while you are active.
Daily login bonuses and offers
The game often rewards daily logins with free items, including SimCash, according to community guides. Watch for the video icon that offers a short ad for a small SimCash reward, and for limited-time offers in the game. Availability varies by region and day, so do not plan around offers, but take them when they appear. Daily login bonuses are separate from the daily chest — collect both.
War items and the daily routine
War Items deserve a daily check too, because they are part of the same routine. War Items are the 12 items used to launch Disaster Cards in Club Wars, according to the game wiki. You get them by completing War Deliveries in the War Deliveries Depot near the airport, by repairing damaged buildings from war attacks, by collecting them from opinion bubbles or War Chests, and by buying them in the War Store with War Simoleons, according to community guides. War Simoleons themselves are earned by taking part in Club Wars and through the Vu Pass, and they are spent only in the War Store. The War Store sells 6 War Items and refreshes every hour, according to the wiki, and Disaster Cards refresh every 3 days. Community advice is to get War Items from War Deliveries first and save War Simoleons for Battle Boosters, which are harder to obtain than War Items. Check War Deliveries daily during a war, and keep a small stock of War Items ready before a war starts, so preparation phase is not spent from zero.
What to check before you close the game
Before you log off, check five things: production is queued, storage has free space, taxes and sales are collected, the daily chest is opened, and any cargo, contest or war delivery that is about to expire is finished or safely left. A city left with full storage, idle factories and uncollected taxes earns nothing overnight. A city left with queued production, free storage and a collected chest earns while you sleep.
FAQ
What is the daily chest in SimCity BuildIt?
A reward you open every day by logging in. Every seventh daily chest is reported to be a Golden Chest, which can contain up to 30 SimCash.
How do I get the Golden Chest?
Log in and open the daily chest for seven days in a row, according to community guides.
What are city tasks in SimCity BuildIt?
Short tasks that appear in the corner of the screen and pay Simoleons and sometimes SimCash when completed.
How do I get War Items daily?
Complete War Deliveries, repair war damage, collect them from bubbles or War Chests, or buy them in the War Store with War Simoleons.
What is the best daily routine in SimCity BuildIt?
Collect finished production, refill queues, collect taxes and sales, open the daily chest, check cargo, contest and war deliveries, and do one upgrade — in under ten minutes.
Start at our homepage — and read our Club Wars guide in this series for how War Items and War Simoleons work in a war.