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# Account Saving

**Account saving** links your game progress to an external service. Without linking, achievements, purchases, currency and progress can be lost when reinstalling the game or switching devices.

### How to link

Main menu → **Settings** → **Save account** → pick a service:

* **Google** - sign in with a Google account;
* **Apple** - sign in with your Apple ID;
* **Facebook** - sign in with a Facebook account;
* **Email** - sign in with email and password;
* **Recovery code** - sign in with a code, no email or socials needed.

You can link several services at once - any of them will work for sign-in.

### What is saved

Progress lives on the server: level and XP, purchases, currency, skins and unlocks. Signing in through a linked service pulls everything back automatically.

### Email sign-in

Enter your email and pick a password (6+ characters). After sign-up you will get a letter - open it and confirm the address, otherwise you cannot sign in. Forgot the password - tap "Forgot password?" and a reset link will arrive. "Log out" only switches to a guest account, the email link stays.

### Recovery code

A code like `XXXX-XXXX` is a way to sign in with no email or socials: no personal data needed at all.

* **Get a code:** settings → "Recovery code". The code is shown once - save it right away (screenshot, notes). You cannot view it again, only issue a new one.
* **Sign in with a code:** login window → "Recovery code" → enter it. The current guest on the device will be replaced by the restored account.
* The code works until you reissue it. Reissuing and signing in with a code logs out all other devices - that is by design: whoever holds the code owns the account.
* Lost the code and the account - only support can help after verification (nickname, level, purchase receipts). So save the code in advance.