What is Big Leaf Crunch? And when to do it FIRST TIME

In Steam there are several guides about efficient 'Big Leaf Crunch' farming, but they all start assuming you already have millions of Big Leafs and know all about them. In this guide we will cover the basics: how to unlock them, what are they and when to do your first big reset!

What is Big Leaf Crunch?

In Leaf Blower first reset system called "Prestige": all basic stuff resets (leaf upgrades, science potions, resources stock), but you gain 'yellow coins' in return, which can be spent on many nice upgrades. Second reset system is called BLC (Big Leaf Crunch): now all basics reset, PLUS everything bought for yellow coins. This is sort of full reset. In return, you receive "BLC-coins", we will call them Red Coins for clarity.

Red Coins have their separate shop with different upgrades. After 'BLC-resetting' you start game from the begging like it was never installed and played before, with benefits.

DO NOT RESET for 1 Red Coin reward, this is literally suicidal action which ruins everything you reached so far for no outcome. Do first Big Reset after farming thousands of Red Coins.

How to start farming Red Coins?

First of all, progress through Science Potions. After reaching Black Science, next one gonna be Strange Science... It's different from others: has unique rewards and takes a lot more potions of previous rank to produce, so have patience.

1) Improve Strange Potions production speed. I reached '243k Black > 15k Strange' until it became hard to improve any further. Do not invest into 'Strange Converter Output' more than 25/100, since it gives way too small rewards. Instead, upgrade "C++ All converter output by +10" to 15 lvl or so. This improves all converters like crazy.

2) Unlock Exotic Leaves (another Strange Science upgrade). To farm them - switch Area to "The Abyss". Exotic Leaves are just like any other leaves, but have more upgrades, including bonuses to Red Coins ammount during reset. After several basic upgrades i checked how many Red Coins will get for first reset — 1k. But we should continue.

3) Within Exotic Leaves buy "BLC++" and "Moar BLC", it will take just a small ammount of time (minutes) to get them, since you gonna make millions of those leaves without effort. When prices rise to 10+ millions, stop. Go back to science potions, make sure you increased their income. In Strange potions buy only "BLC++". It's expensive, but quickly bumps Red Coins for BLC reset.

4) By this point of time you should have gathered 75+ red gems, this is real-world vip currency which slowly accumulates for doing achievements. Enter the Red Gems shop and buy "All Leaves +750%" bonus. Immediate increase of all leaves reward forever by extra % — now even 10 million upgrades is nothing special.

5) Go to 'yellow coins' shop and turn off all autobuyers to not waste Exotic Leaves for useless upgrades. Instead, spend those leaves to further increase BLC. Max out "BLC++" to 10/10 and upgrade "Moar BLC" to atleast 10/100.

When BLC for the first time?

I decided to give it a go at 36,000 red coins. This is my first big reset.

What Red Shop offers, was it worth resetting at that stage???

Game started from zero, i got access to Red Shop:
- 42 unlocked upgrades and many locked;
- 16 of those upgrades were cheap enough to buy (price 1-3 red coins).
Let's look at some of these:

Permanent Bonuses
*Faster Converters - speed x2 per upgrade (cost 1/3/9 Red Coins). Just buy it thrice and potions will produce x8 times faster. Maxed out, let's move on;
* Fruit move towards you - single upgrade for 1 Red Coin;
* Nucler Power +40% - 5 upgrades, overal 25 or so red coins - maxing out;
* Daily reward +2 red gems;
* ALB robots can equip our tools;
* Auto teleporter for area;
* Auto-bot to buy yellow coin upgrades for you - automation;
* Auto-science for 50 Red Coins - buys science for us.

So, after spending just 140 Red Coins i was able to buy all permanent upgrades and got extra 35 thousands for remaining small thingies like:
— Prestige +++++ = increases prestige reward by 200% (price 1/2/4/8 etc red coins). Obviously, this will make our second run to BLC much faster;
— Leaves rewards +400% (price 1/2/4/8 etc). Now we are talking!;
— Fruit rewards +500% (price 1/2/4/8 etc). Good;
— Combo multiplier +200% (price 2/4/8/16 etc). Ok for active playstyle;
— BLC++ = increases BLC points by +1 (well that is for second big reset);
— Converter output +1 (worth to put few upgrades in);
— Printer upgrade, can be ignored. Never really used them at this point.

All other upgrades require 100,000+ Red Coins up to millions, so there is simply no point to grind your first BLC run too much, just reset at 20-30 thousands.

How fast your reached Science on second run?

5 minutes. Yeah, THAT FAST, no joking. Since now game buys everyting for us using yellow coins (thanks to permanent upgrade we bought for Red Coins). So, once again, do not hesitate to BLC like it's some sort of end of the world.

List of changes

• 29.09.2021: corrected typos, shortened guide.

[The Russian Hacker]

my first time was with 1m

[0celot]

thanks! I used this guide and did my first blc for 50.74K!

[Anthonyy17]

Helpful thx

[CheesyDinos]

well you couldn't stop me then. I RESET WITH 1 RED COIN MY FIRST TIME HEHEAHHEHAHAHAHHA

[Mateon1]

My first reset was for like 5 BLC, don't remember exactly. I idled for 2 months after setting up converters, got a bunch of BLC Science lv1 upgrades, and could easily reset for 140k BLC

[Mauriceツ]

my first time i resetted with 1 red coin lmao

[Nirkee]

fuck

[killerraindrops]

but what about mlc

[Cotija]

Oh man brad, I reset with 22K BLC XDD man, that's bad news for you..

[bradmull83]

i reset with 1 red coin
:(