General guide

[AndrewDaFeesh]

Firstly, to beat the game you will have to die a l o t of times before ever reaching the endgame, about 8 hours of gameplay minimum if you are learning stuff on your own. It is very slow but that is what we are given with this new patch.

for upgrades do not even bother touching the acid, cat, or smithy, and base teleport those are useless upgrades

instead upgrade assembly line, tesla, and blueprint decoder

first goal : upgrade the hell out of the tesla since you can one shot a lot of the lairs with its buffed damage, the max damage is 5000 so with this you can one shot the grassland lairs and whatever comes before, this is the most guaranteed way of surviving with the Lairs spawning more often especially if you want to survive with the absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you get for undead parts early in the game.

second goal : you will want to generate as much gold as you can to force assembly line upgrades until you can get to mechanoid or steel golems, those will carry you through the early game and ensure you get to late game

third goal : upgrade blueprints ( do this last its super ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ expensive)

*DO NOT USE THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CAT EARLY GAME YOU WILL DIE IMMEDIATELY*

early game : try to avoid coming into contact with many lairs and slowly clean out the circles of the map by using a single strong unit (orc skeleton etc) because if you let a lot of units wander and you arent well prepared you will get swarmed and end up dying a whole lot more. this is where smiting the lairs with the tesla upgrade becomes useful, it is a fast reliable way of killing lairs without having troops sit on lairs long enough for a wave of mobs to form.

mid game : repeat cleaning circles out one by one as said in the early game until you reach the outer circles. when you get to the rim of these outer circles stop advancing and kill all of your mobs, just afk for gold ( yes this is boring and no there is not really a better way of doing this on a fresh save )

late game ( MECHANOIDS HIGHLY SUGGESTED ) : once you have the mechanoids this is when you can really finish the game since mechanoids are units you can use to get to biomes where you find draconids. draconids have to be the most broken thing in this entire game, since you can just stand on a lair and it will melt in seconds, only allowing one wave to spawn. Use the mechs up till you get the draconids, after you get the draconids send all your mechs to the base and force them to stay still as a means for tower defense while you control your draconid and run around destroying every lair in the map. fair warning though when there are no mobs to kill the projectiles for some reason start to bug and persist on the map causing a lot of entities to be on the screen and lag the game.

the return : do not immediately activate the cabin blueprint, it will spawn many outer ring lairs to try and kill your tower, to set up for this phase spam 15 draconids, they do the most dps in this game and with the new ai the draconids will run the new mobs to death. you will be able to kill all the lairs before the 90 second timer runs out if you have high enough stats from blueprint upgrades

Combos : https://steamsplay.com/necrosmith-list-of-secret-recipes-with-images/

[Celestorius [FR]]

Hum i guess it was viable before the update since you have to wait in your mid-game strategy and some spawners will activate automatically you won't have the time to wait for gold income anymore. Making the entire guide after that point impossible to complete. Reaching golems and dragons seems really undoable now with that crappy update.

Anyways i will try something there inspired by your guide, thanks.