Card farming or Hours Boost
Every bot does one of two jobs. They sound similar, but they are not: one collects items and finishes, the other builds up playtime and never finishes.
Cards Farm
Steam gives out trading cards as you play games you own — up to a fixed number per game, then no more. Most accounts have a backlog of games whose cards were never collected.
Cards Farm works through that backlog: it plays each game long enough for the drops to arrive, collects them, moves to the next. When there is nothing left owed, it finishes and stops. That is the natural end of the job, not a failure.
Choose it when you want the items — to sell, to craft badges, or to level up your Steam profile.
Hours Boost
Boost makes the account appear in-game on titles you pick, so recorded playtime rises. It never runs out of work: it keeps going until you stop it.
Choose it when you care about the hours on your profile rather than the items.
Choosing
| You want trading cards, badges or items to sell | Cards Farm |
| You want hours on specific games | Hours Boost |
| You want both, on one account | Farm first, then Boost |
| You want both at once | Two bots, two accounts |
A bot is not locked to the module you picked. Change it from the Dashboard whenever you like — progress on the other module is not lost, and nothing needs re-adding. A common pattern is to farm an account dry, then switch the same bot to Boost.
Why not both simultaneously
Steam reports one account as playing a limited number of games at a time, and card drops depend on which of those games is actually being played. Splitting the same account between farming and boosting slows both down and makes the result unpredictable. One job per account gives you a clean answer.