How to beat poachers and bronze dragon?

[Konesery]

I have beat chapter 9, but can't beat these two in a fight. My run is ca. 25 min long and I have 1090 Cobat Instinct and ca. 10m health.


Is there something I am missing?

[lolikus]

with that stats you are able to beat poachers.... but only with manualy getting rest and time to eat with sabotage.... beat both, dragon and poachers, is only possible after the next chapters.... i think...

[DSJ and Co.]

yeah its not the first time there have been tasks that are generally expected to be done either later or balanced for when new content arrives (the dragons in chapter 3, the tavern in chapter 5, the optional combats in 6,7 and 8)

of course you can just grind runs of current content till you beat them

[robbie.price]

Hopefully you set up a mill, because that's a lot of grinding. may as well get some flour at the same time.

[tuti250]

I was able to beat both just yesterday, after grinding a lot. I'm on generation 416 after grinding the post-game of the current content but not the post-game of chapter 5. Technically I only reached the end of the content 6 times, once by choice and 5 times because I had a little too much HP left. This can be done without ever reaching the end of the content if you manage your HP correctly.

Here's what it took to get all but 1 of the hp multipliers.
I grinded to roughly 20e6 hp after Belt, 1157 Combat instincts, 26 hourglass funnels, 29 shield funnels and 16 tooth funnels.
In chapters 1-5 I go trough the mine for the Reinforced Belt and the Combat tool. The only Instinct tools that I build are the two Combat ones; now that I think about it you can probably achieve this earlier if you make the Gemstone Pendant in chapter 4.
I went to chapter 7 first and paused the automations at the Bull so that I could train Combat before Hunting it. I save the bull meat for the Dragon fight. I fight the Chimera and rejected the shield earlier.
Then in chapter 6 I went trough the Jaguar and Gorilla without issues. I took the first hourglass but not the second one.
Then in chapter 8 I rushed cooking Falcon and going down the two damaging steps to try to preserve some of the chapter 6 food. Then I continue like normal until the Bronze Dragon. I start the fight for 2 seconds then cook 15 bull meat. The Dragon fight at this point takes less than 25 seconds but the excess meat will be eaten when falling in the Frozen Lake and will help catch the Seals. At this point catching Seals is rather easy, you should be able to Follow the Poachers with a nearly full inventory. Even though your health is low when you reach the Poachers fight you can attempt it then right-click the Sabotage to take time to regen, it should give you enough health to beat them. If not, you still have 15 Bull Meat you can dig into.
After that rush to the food source in chapter 9 to save your other reserves. When it is time to jump, cook the rest of the Bull meat. You should end up with enough health to build the first HP multiplier without issue. You probably want to build the Hut too to make your run longer, you probably have more hp than what the rest of the current content takes. Still far from what you need for the last HP multiplier though.

[Konesery]

Ok, I beat both today 11,4M Health base, 1115 Combat Instinct, I can cook bull during dragon so I can both automate dragon and proacher kill. I'm finnaly free from this game! or at least until the next update. Or maybe i grind until I don't need the belt ;)