Fishies 0.8.1

field-guide/en-GB/reference/accounts.md

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+# Accounts, guests and saving progress
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+_How guest play, sign-in and account deletion work, and what happens to your aquarium in each._
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+## Playing without an account
+
+Anyone can open Fishies and start playing as a guest at once, with no account needed. See [Signing in & saving progress](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/signin) for what a guest aquarium can and cannot do, and how to save it before it is lost.
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+## Linking a sign-in
+
+Once you decide to keep your aquarium, you link one of these to it from the account centre:
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+- Google
+- X
+- Apple
+- Discord
+- Steam (sign-in only works once an aquarium is already linked to it)
+- a phone number
+
+## What is stored, and where
+
+Your aquarium, its fish, coins, level and decorations, lives on Fishies' own servers, on the same clock for every player. A sign-in only proves which aquarium is yours; it never creates a separate Fishies password.
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+## Deleting your account
+
+The account centre's Delete account option removes your sign-in and its linked data for good. There is no way to undo it, so save anything you want to keep, a screenshot of your aquarium, for instance, before you do.
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+In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/accounts · Fishies 0.8.1
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+This page is generated. Its text lives in [`locales/en-GB.json`](../../../locales/en-GB.json) under `wiki.topics.accounts`; correct it there.