# Earning mana points

> ### <mark style="color:purple;">How to earn mana points in BandZai?</mark>

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**MANA :** \
ZAI mana stockpile.

**MANAMAX** : \
The maximum amount of mana a ZAI can have in its gauge.
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A Zai can gain mana points by going to a laboratory to learn sorcery.

Each time a ZAI goes to a laboratory for a sorcery apprenticeship, the ZAI's manamax gauge will increase.

At the end of the apprenticeship, the ZAI must leave the slot and find a new slot in order to gain manamax again.

The manamax gauge is 10,000 maximum.

The first 2 apprenticeships earn 1000 manamax points each and the following ones 100 points.

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**Example :** \
After 24 hours of learning in a laboratory slot, the ZAI's manamax gauge will increase to 1000.

The ZAI then starts a second apprenticeship in sorcery in another slot, after 24 hours his gauge will be at 2000.

Then for each new learning made by the ZAI, this one will gain after 24h 100 points to increase his manamax gauge.

According to this logic, on the 10th day of learning, the ZAI will have a manamax gauge of 2800 points.
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