128 hours and cant get far ever

[xShapelessx]

LOL ok so like..uhhh what are the strategies? i know the game super well at this point in terms of surviving, wands, various spells etc, but I can't *actually* ever make progress and any boss seems totally impossible. I know the trick with the emerald scroll thing to get gold, but beyond that I don't know any other tricks. I don't really use mods

[morbosfist]

Plasma weapons will eat the boss alive, especially with homing. Most bosses die to that, in fact.

Beating the Alchemist boss and getting the Greek letter spells allow you to infinitely cast spells that have a cast limit. From that you make an infinite healing wand and winning is pretty easy.

Before the infin-healing wand, try to spare at least two of the pink healing enemies in the Hiisi base. You can exploit them for infinite healing until you can pick up a spell. Helps to have a Homebringer Teleport Bolt to drag them where you want, but they do chase you.

[xShapelessx]

Originally posted by morbosfist:

Plasma weapons will eat the boss alive, especially with homing. Most bosses die to that, in fact.

Beating the Alchemist boss and getting the Greek letter spells allow you to infinitely cast spells that have a cast limit. From that you make an infinite healing wand and winning is pretty easy.

How do I get plasma wand?

[xShapelessx]

I mean this is all up to chance. Ive only found a homing perk like 3 times in 128 hours?

[morbosfist]

There are three different Plasma-type spells: Plasma Beam, Plasma Cutter, and Plasma Cross. I would be shocked if you didn't find at least one of those by the Hiisi Base. Homing is less common, but again, you should stumble upon it sooner or later. There are a lot of wands to be found, and odds are you'll run into the good ones eventually, you just have to get down far enough.

[very special]

get good at backtracking and getting the resources you need
in an ideal run you should have a decent dps wand, a good digging wand, a tp wand, and a healing wand by the third or fourth biome
you wont get all of these in every run but make do with what you have
from the third or fourth biomes backtrack to the surface, kill the alchemist for greek letter spells and use them to get infinite heals and black holes
use infinite heals and infinite digging to explore more and get more resources and upgrade your DPS wand and snowball until bosses/enemies arent a problem anymore.

[xShapelessx]

Originally posted by very special:

get good at backtracking and getting the resources you need
in an ideal run you should have a decent dps wand, a good digging wand, a tp wand, and a healing wand by the third or fourth biome
you wont get all of these in every run but make do with what you have
from the third or fourth biomes backtrack to the surface, kill the alchemist for greek letter spells and use them to get infinite heals and black holes
use infinite heals and infinite digging to explore more and get more resources and upgrade your DPS wand and snowball until bosses/enemies arent a problem anymore.

Is the alchemist the huge boss all the way past the lava to the right of the first area?

[very special]

Originally posted by xShapelessx:

Is the alchemist the huge boss all the way past the lava to the right of the first area?

alchemist is to the left. you can get to him by going through the dark water cave on the left side of the first biome (dangerous) but most people go to the surface and to the snow biome and dig down to him as it's safer.
you can kill him with a single personal tentacler spell attached to a projectile spell if you have access to that. personal lightning caster and personal fireball thrower work as well but take longer and are more dangerous.

[5hadowfax]

Get a decent non-shuffle wand with decently low cast delays, and put these spells on it in this order: chainsaw, double spell, spark bolt. You can replace spark bolt with anything you like, so long as you have spells like double spell which will cause the casting to "overflow" back to the start of the wand where it hits the chainsaw again.

The above, and the fact that water turns toxic sludge into... water, are probably the two tips that improved my gameplay the most.

This is a good video about the chainsaw wands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1hFMDaTZgA

[tom tomorrow]

I always recommend to just check out the wand building guides on the wiki. Particularly the Expert Draw Guide. Once I really understand how the wand mechanics actually functioned, rather than just copying what I'd seen or repeating things I'd stumbled on in the past, I started to be a lot more successful in my runs.

[Percussigant]

If you are willing to put in a solid 45min of walking around the map before actually starting your run, this is the method I used to get my first god run :

1. Start with dynamite (or the other bomb that can explode in the air, forgot the name), dig a hole in the cliff at the entrance, fly up, walk right

2. Grab the orb above the mountain, keep walking right, grab the pyramid orb, keep walking right past the essence eater (don't touch it yet). Grab a tablet on the way, too

3. At the wall at the end of the desert, climb up. Fly to the diamond-shaped structure, break it open with your dynamite/small bombs, grab the essence of earth

4. Walk back to the essence eater, destroy it, grab the tannerkivi (don't kick anything from now on), walk back to the entrance

5. Walk left to the giant tree and climb it using the tannerkivi. Keep going left through the snow fields. Grab the paha silma. Keep going left until you reach the lake

6. Find the cabin at the start of the lake, throw the tablet inside. A portal will spawn. Go through it, grab the wand and the spells (careful about the enemy, don't fight it, just grab the wand and some spells and leave through the portal again)

7. Go back to the entrance. When you climb back down the tree, there will be 10 acid flying eyeball enemies waiting for you. Kill them from above with your new wand.

8. Enter the mines. Go to the lava lake and cross it. Cross the chasm and grab the orb. DO NOT go back the way you came, instead fly to the top right corner of the orb room and use the combination of tannerkivi + paha silma at roughly a 45° angle to the top right to dig yourself out.

9. Walk to the right all the way to the right-end wall at the end of the desert again. Fly up again and to the top the diamond. From there, fly straight up and start digging into the ceiling up and left at at 45° angle

10. Keep digging for a few minutes. You will eventually find a room named "the Gold", which, aptly, is full of gold powder (about 250k). It takes about 10 minutes to completely absorb all the gold. Be careful not to drown in it

(10.5 Optional : once you have become Jeff Bezos, if you are willing to spend another hour preparing your god run, you can go back down the world wall and dig straight down for a very long time until you reach the machine gun wand. This step really does take about an hour. Unless you're really determined and desperate enough to get a god run going, I wouldn't recommend it, but you can do it if you want)

11. Go back to the entrance and start your run.

You now have a very good wand to carry you through the early game, 250k gold in the bank to reroll perks and buy stuff, 175 max hp, a way to dig through literally everything, and probably a light pain in your keyboard hand from holding down your keys for so long.

[joyous18]

Originally posted by xShapelessx:

I don't really use mods

One mod I definitely would get is Spell Labs. It has a pretty in-depth tutorial on wand crafting so you could boot up the mod, learn a bit, then turn it off for your regular runs

[ShadyLurker]

Originally posted by xShapelessx:

I mean this is all up to chance. Ive only found a homing perk like 3 times in 128 hours?

That's because the dev's are complete garbage and don't know how to make a proper game.

[Percussigant]

Originally posted by ShadyLurker:

That's because the dev's are complete garbage and don't know how to make a proper game.

Maybe you're just not very good ?

[xShapelessx]

Originally posted by ShadyLurker:

Originally posted by xShapelessx:

I mean this is all up to chance. Ive only found a homing perk like 3 times in 128 hours?

That's because the dev's are complete garbage and don't know how to make a proper game.

I love the game and think these devs are gods

[xShapelessx]

Originally posted by Percussigant:

If you are willing to put in a solid 45min of walking around the map before actually starting your run, this is the method I used to get my first god run :

1. Start with dynamite (or the other bomb that can explode in the air, forgot the name), dig a hole in the cliff at the entrance, fly up, walk right

2. Grab the orb above the mountain, keep walking right, grab the pyramid orb, keep walking right past the essence eater (don't touch it yet). Grab a tablet on the way, too

3. At the wall at the end of the desert, climb up. Fly to the diamond-shaped structure, break it open with your dynamite/small bombs, grab the essence of earth

4. Walk back to the essence eater, destroy it, grab the tannerkivi (don't kick anything from now on), walk back to the entrance

5. Walk left to the giant tree and climb it using the tannerkivi. Keep going left through the snow fields. Grab the paha silma. Keep going left until you reach the lake

6. Find the cabin at the start of the lake, throw the tablet inside. A portal will spawn. Go through it, grab the wand and the spells (careful about the enemy, don't fight it, just grab the wand and some spells and leave through the portal again)

7. Go back to the entrance. When you climb back down the tree, there will be 10 acid flying eyeball enemies waiting for you. Kill them from above with your new wand.

8. Enter the mines. Go to the lava lake and cross it. Cross the chasm and grab the orb. DO NOT go back the way you came, instead fly to the top right corner of the orb room and use the combination of tannerkivi + paha silma at roughly a 45° angle to the top right to dig yourself out.

9. Walk to the right all the way to the right-end wall at the end of the desert again. Fly up again and to the top the diamond. From there, fly straight up and start digging into the ceiling up and left at at 45° angle

10. Keep digging for a few minutes. You will eventually find a room named "the Gold", which, aptly, is full of gold powder (about 250k). It takes about 10 minutes to completely absorb all the gold. Be careful not to drown in it

(10.5 Optional : once you have become Jeff Bezos, if you are willing to spend another hour preparing your god run, you can go back down the world wall and dig straight down for a very long time until you reach the machine gun wand. This step really does take about an hour. Unless you're really determined and desperate enough to get a god run going, I wouldn't recommend it, but you can do it if you want)

11. Go back to the entrance and start your run.

You now have a very good wand to carry you through the early game, 250k gold in the bank to reroll perks and buy stuff, 175 max hp, a way to dig through literally everything, and probably a light pain in your keyboard hand from holding down your keys for so long.

Sick. I am going to follow this