What does harvesting do?

[SethAnthony]

The game lacks descriptions for the stats - would be a great feature. Ive worked them out now except harvesting?

And what happens to the money that ends up in the bag at the round end screen? Is that lost?

[ElOhTeeBee]

You can check what stats do on the pause screen.

Harvesting gives you resources at the end of each wave, and resources in the sack double that many resources you pick up until the sack's empty.

[butterdog]

When I end a wave with stuff still on the ground they go into the money bag icon but they don't seem to affect my coin or XP count, is harvesting what lets you receive some of that money bag haul? If not, what the hell is the money bag

[LT KCh]

I think money bag is used for meta progression, item unlock, permanent upgrade, etc
We just don't have it in demo version

[JustSmile]

Originally posted by butterdog:

When I end a wave with stuff still on the ground they go into the money bag icon but they don't seem to affect my coin or XP count, is harvesting what lets you receive some of that money bag haul? If not, what the hell is the money bag

Originally posted by LT KCh:

I think money bag is used for meta progression, item unlock, permanent upgrade, etc
We just don't have it in demo version

Do you guys not read? The first reply explained exactly what it does. The bag doubles your next wave's income until it runs out.

[Nightcodex✅]

so if you focus on harvesting you should pick up as less as possible from monsters? or is it just a flat gain based on harvesting

[174 cm]

Originally posted by Nightcodex✅:

so if you focus on harvesting you should pick up as less as possible from monsters? or is it just a flat gain based on harvesting

bruh harvesting is just the amount of additional Materials you get every wave, and improves by 5% every wave

[174 cm]

The sack has NOTHING to do with harvesting, it just "saves" uncollected dropped materials for next wave (by doubling the next materials you get)

[Isolate Nomad]

Ok l understand that as a theory, but it still doesn't make any sense because I still only go into the next wave with whatever I had after purchases, and still collect the same amount as l did the previous wave, and still go into the shop with exactly what l collected in the wave - that sack is useless. I think the original post was right - they need to explain what the stats mean and what everything means a lot better.

[AN]

Originally posted by Isolate Nomad:

Ok l understand that as a theory, but it still doesn't make any sense because I still only go into the next wave with whatever I had after purchases, and still collect the same amount as l did the previous wave, and still go into the shop with exactly what l collected in the wave - that sack is useless. I think the original post was right - they need to explain what the stats mean and what everything means a lot better.

Pay attention to what you pick up at the beginning of a wave where you had left over materials at the end of the last one. You'll see that the first dropped materials are bigger and when you collect them a little X2 will display, this is because your sack materials are being put one at a time in the newly dropped materials. That's how it works.

[xhaowell]

people really play with their eyes closed

[Pirate]

At the end of a wave (when the timer reaches zero), if you have positive harvesting, you will instantly in that moment gain a bonus to your resources equal to your harvesting score. This is indicated both by the total resources going up, and a green +# with a harvesting symbol appearing by your character when it happens. Again, that happens at the end of a wave (when the timer reaches zero). Not at the beginning of the next wave. Not during a wave. Not while in the shop. The moment the wave ends (the timer reaches 0) is when this happens.

If you have negative harvest, you will LOSE resources at this moment instead. You will see your resources go down, and the number that appears by your character will be red and be negative.

The resource bag is unrelated to harvesting.

The bag is simply a collection of all resources you did not pick up that wave. These are carried over into the next wave and are added to the initial resources dropped by enemies until they are all spent. This is shows by those initial resources being slightly larger, and when collected will show "x2" indicating it was worth 2 resources instead of only 1. As those are created and collected, you will see the number by the bag going down by the same amount, until the bag is empty/goes away, then all resources dropped go back to being normal.

(things like the metal detector can also increase the value of the resources, so if you have that item, you will see the larger resources that show "x2" when picked up even more frequently. If you have the bag carrying over resources and you have a metal detector, you will sometimes get "x4" resources from a single pickup, as the bag adds 1 to make it double, then the detector doubles it again. When that happens, it still only counts as -1 from the bag)