Wow, I’ve only got 8 Carpentry. I did make it to z48 before when I had even fewer though. You’ll have to let me know how it’s going for you since I’m planning on pushing to z60 too.
I’ll hit z37 a little later today and I’ll have to decide whether to go all in with Wormholes. Since I’m doing a Balance challenge at the same time I don’t mind spending on Wormholes if it gets me to z60.
So, I’ve just reached zone 50 vfor the first time, and I have a choice of 3 golden upgrades. Which to choose?
The 3% increase in attack and health sounds probably the most useful. Is it a permanent upgrade, ie does it survive when I portal?
Is there a new type of house available anytime soon?
I’ll bet you can make it. I’m up to zone 57 and it looks like I am going to hit 60. I have 17 wormholes and am now up to 37 collectors. I’m able to keep fighting on because of my massive block, but it’s slow going because the bad guys at this stage have so much health compared with my damage. I just counted and it took 34 hits to beat the last bad guy. So I’m making progress, but only by letting the game run in the background for a long time.
I’ve got enough bones for an exotic Import. Which should I get first?
Okay, I’m in. Bought my WHs, ramped up production and I’m sitting at the bottom of z40 with 250% production bonus. I’ll check back in a bit, buy some more storage and let it sit overnight.
The FAQ suggests Whipimps, then Tauntimps, then Venimps. That’s what I did. I’m happy with them.
Well, my strategy to hold off on buying Wormholes went tits up. I could have used the Portal and spent the extra Helium, but I wanted to get to 60, which I really can’t do without keeping up with Coordination, which requires more trimps. Maybe next leg I’ll do it, but I really don’t like to reset.
That sucks. I was just looking ahead, and Collectors cost 500B gems. I have 345B right now, but I’ll have to buy lots of things with gems before I hit z50. I’ll just keep piling on the Tributes I guess.
OK, I’m zone 60. What’s the strategy here? The enemies are really tough, and it’s extremely slow going. I even ran 10 maps to get the 200% attack bonus and it’s still slow. Equipment costs being cut by 90% isn’t as much of a bonus as I thought it was going to be. Do I just need to portal and come back with higher perks?
Made it to z52. I was able to buy 15 Collectors which helped quite a bit with Coordinations, though I’m at least 4 behind now I think and my other upgrades have gotten silly expensive. If I’m patient I’m confident I can slog my way to z55. For some reason my block is really good and that’s what’s keeping me moving.
Got my first Golden Upgrade. I chose the helium one. Who doesn’t like more He?
Z60 is looking pretty hard, but I’ll see if my block helps when I get more at 55. Not sure if I’ll be able to buy enough more Collectors to get one more Coordination. My next one costs 71K trimps or something. Well, I said this was going to be a nice long run.
I suggest you set all your workers to gather food, then spend the food on tributes. Gem production skyrockets. It won’t be long before you can get more Collectors. I’m on zone 53 with 30 collectors, and getting a new one about every 50 minutes.
Oh boy howdy. It gets insane. I’m on Z58 producing 27B gems/sec and getting a Collector about every 30 minutes. I’m still way behind in Coordinations, it says 51(+5) but if i didn’t get another one at least once in a great while it’d be impossible. It’s so slow going though. I’m doing 7.75Qa dmg and my enemies have something like 300Qa health to chip away at. My block is still well above their damage to me though. They’re doing around 200Qa dmg and my block is 700Qa.
Fun stuff.
Just hit Z60. Yay me. But, portaling seems the only choice now. I’m stuck on the final cell of the first map. I was hoping to at least unlock my first Warpstation but now I’m not sure it’s possible. I think I’ll let the game sit until I can buy one more Coordination and see if that helps but if not, it’s time to portal and get on the three new challenges I have.
Reducing Trimp breeding speed was so mean.
I wound up putting too many Trainers into play. My block is 1.19 Qi, about 10 times what the enemy is damaging. I’m on zone 58 with about half the output that Lev lists. Should have fed more Tributes. I’ll keep nickle-and-diming till 60, then Portal and respec.
Well, don’t forget you can fire some lumberjacks and miners and put 'em to work on food. You probably won’t be upgrading much before 60 anyway.
I now have 51 Collectors but I don’t think buying anymore will do much good at the moment, so I fired all my lumberjacks and farmers and put it all on miners so I can get some more weapon and health upgrades and maaaybe get that damn Warpstation. Frankly it’s a waste of time for one little achievement but oh well.
Anybody ever find that you end up in a “death metal spiral” where basically all your efforts go toward producing and storing metal? Why is that always where my game ends up?
Edited to add: I think I’m behind the rest of you on the advanced game. I’ve got portals, I get perks, and I trade bones for 36 hours of production. This talk of collectors,carpentry, and whatnot is foreign to me. I keep resetting around z30. Where do I need to be branching out?
Sounds like you need to do more challenges. At zone 35 you unlock the Size challenge, which gives you the Carpentry perk you can then work on leveling up.
Have you been buying Imports with your bones, or just bonuses? You should buy the Imports first, as their benefits are permanent.
Collectors are a building you unlock at zone 50.
So, work on getting to higher levels and doing challenges. They’re on the right side of the portal screen. You click on the one you want to do before portaling.
I just portaled. My first push to 60 was kind of a waste. I’d been figuring I’d portal at 65, and do my void maps at 60, right after getting a gymystic. Well, I forgot to do the void maps, and hit 61, so I thought I’d do them at 65. Pushing on to 65 was an incredible slog. When I finally got there, I didn’t see a book symbol mid-map, which is where you usually get your gymystic. So I consulted the wiki and learned that you stop getting a gymystic every 5 levels at 55. My void maps had 400-450% difficulty, so, figuring it was going to take DAYS of farming metal and wood to buy many more gyms and equipment upgrade before I could even consider attempting them, I gave up and portaled.
Yeah, I learned that lesson too. I got a Void Map sometime after Z55. Things were going so slow at that point I figured I’d wait for that nice juicy Gymystic at 60. Imagine my surprise when there was no Gymystic (so they’re gone forever at that point?).
I did manage to get a Warpstation, but 60 was so hard for me I’d never have gotten through a Void. I should have tried the Void map as soon as I got it. Oh well. Maybe I’ll be better prepared once I’ve got the next two challenges under my belt. Did Scientist II already. That was so easy this time. Much easier than the first one.
Any advice on Decay and Trimp? Which one first? With Trimp, you only have to make it to The Block, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy.
What exactly does carpentry do?
Each level allows you to hold 10% more Trimps in each building you make. I just raised mine to 10, so my buildings hold 100% more now. Makes things faster and easier, which is kinda what the game’s all about.