Progression?

[DefectiveChaos]

I've been looking at all the useful guides and a bunch of discussions. Is the Tower supposed to unlock at 100 billion BLC? I've seen 100 trillion mentioned. Are the silver/gold coin shops supposed to unlock with the tower? Cause I don't have them. I can't even survive floor 1 of the tower as it stands, and otherwise there's nothing new to do. If I just need to grind BLC till I get up into the trillions I can do that, but there's just no explanation of what to do and I feel like something is broken/unbalanced. Any help is appreciated!

[Some White Flour Fanatic]

After initial BLC crunch, the grind is exponential. There are many different ways to handle the primary path of this game. Start -> Coins -> BLC -> Tower -> MLC -> Crafting -> Pyramid -> Leafcension -> Electricity? -> ??????? -> Profit

[Some White Flour Fanatic]

Its honestly a discovery type of game, the updates make it fresh but the grind gets harder each time the dev updates this game. Everyone is just groping in the darkness on how to best handle getting to the next tier. Each time you "reset" you just try to make your next run more efficient than the last

[Daunmi]

Originally posted by DefectiveChaos:

Is the Tower supposed to unlock at 100 billion BLC? I've seen 100 trillion mentioned.

You purchase the Leaf Tower for 1e11 BLC Coins (100,000,000,000). It used to be more expensive, however a patch lowered the cost (that was before a bunch of the upgrades for getting more BLC Coins, so it was legitimately a grind to unlock the Leaf Tower).

Originally posted by DefectiveChaos:

Are the silver/gold coin shops supposed to unlock with the tower? Cause I don't have them

They unlock once you have a number of tokens to spend in them.

Originally posted by DefectiveChaos:

I can't even survive floor 1 of the tower as it stands, and otherwise there's nothing new to do.

Yes, the first attempts at the Leaf Tower are always a bit disappointing. The Leaf Tower is a massive shake up in regards to how you need to play the game. Everything prior to this point has been about blowing leaves off the screen (and upgrading your ALBs).

The Leaf Tower is ENTIRELY about damage. Damage is literally the only stat that matters to you at this point. You need approximately e111 or e12 damage (slapping or blowing) to complete the tower but... when you start you'll be lucky to have something like e6.

There's (more or less) only 2 ways to increase your damage at this point.

The first is from the BLC Shop; purchase Bigger Bag upgrades then buy damage upgrades from the various leaf shops, unlock Crafting and make some crafted leaves that boost your damage, get materials to get the Crabbo Pet and Bone Leaf/Fire Leaf to level 10.

The second is to just tough it out in the Leaf Tower. Kill as much as you can (even if it's only a little) and save up for buying damage upgrades in the Silver Token Shop (the flat damage increase is better than the percentage increase, especially for your first purchase). Then save for the Item Drop Rate upgrade and farm for equipment drops in the Leaf Tower.

If you are trying to kill things in the Leaf Tower, don't play the way you usually do. You want to circle the screen edge and blow the leaves INWARDS instead of out. Don't turn off your ALBs, even if they blow leaves off the screen they still probably do more damage than you (or enough to help) at this point.

From now on, your main focus will be to increase your damage.