Min/Maxing: The Bone Zone

With the addition of the Golden Egg and the Disco of Gold Arcana, as well as other things like Limit Break and being able to limit your max weapons, The Bone Zone is without a doubt the best stage to maximize gold profit for buying eggs from the merchant. The more eggs you get on one character, the better your runs are going to become every time as well, and if you stick with it long enough you will find yourself getting the Gold Fever count up to over $200,000 before you need to pick up another bag, which should be lying right on the ground next to you once you get good at this. You're going to eventually get that first $500,000 run worth an additional 50 eggs and be amazed, but just wait until you're getting $1,100,000 or more in a run for an additional 110 eggs per run from the merchant!
Eventually you will become so overpowered with this trick that you won't even need many weapons at all, including the laurel for protection to defeat Death at the 30:00 mark. At this point you can just use the Clock Lancet if you still want to kill Death for the 5 eggs he drops, or just forgo those five eggs entirely to leave yourself with one more empty weapon slot to maximize the benefits of the Silent Old Sanctuary Arcana. Those five eggs really won't matter with how much gold you're going to be bringing in. (Silent Old Sanctuary Gives +3 Reroll, Skip, and Banish. Gives +20% Might and -8% Cooldown for each active weapon slot left empty.) Soon enough the Reroll, Skip and Banish won't matter for you, but the +20% Might and -8% Cooldown just raises that kill count higher along with the need to always be doing what you can to raise your Curse level as high as possible.
===Preferred Build:===
Character Choice: Pugnala Provola (Phieraggi Evolution is ridiculously overpowered; especially now with Limit Break bonuses; Also: +1 Might Every Level... And you will be getting a LOT of levels.)
===Character/Stage Selections:===
*Max Weapons = 3 (To get a total 60% Might and -24% Cooldown for the three empty weapon slots using Silent Old Sanctuary Arcana)
*Golden Eggs = On
*Hyper Mode = Yes
*Hurry Mode = No
*Arcanas = Yes
*Limit Break = Yes
=== Weapon Choices / Order: === 
#Phiera Der Tuphello / Eight The Sparrow (You will start with these if you use Pugnala Provola. Your biggest gold runs will be when your first chance at an evolution chest post 10 Minute mark is the Phieraggi from these with the Tiragisú Passive Item).
# Clock Lancet (It's the only way you're going to kill Death, and it will do a ton of damage to the hoards before you get there after upgraded to Infinite Corridor with the maxed out Gold Ring and Silver Ring Passive Items).
#Pentagram (You will want this to make sure you max out your levels by getting all the experience gems after it is upgraded to Gorgeous Moon with the Crown Passive Item)
NOTE: Your ultimate goal will be to only have 3 open weapon slots and will not be able to get BOTH the Clock Lancet and Pentagram until you evolve the guns to the Phieraggi at some point after the 10 minute mark. Once you start feeling comfortable with your Golden Egg super powers, I would suggest changing the Pentagram to the 2nd acquisition, making sure to choose it right after you grab a red experience gem that has been building up a lot of levels. When you get good at timing this right, you can easily max Pentagram out while just standing in one spot and have it ready for an evolution early on, with very little chance that it will clear out the gems and gold on the floor. You will also start ending up with a LOT of Reroll, Skip and Banishes so being able to pick what you want when you want it will almost become trivial.
===Passive Item Choices / Order:===
NOTE: There is no real specific order on these other than not grabbing either of the Rings or Metaglios until AFTER you have all six of your other Passive Item selections first. Until you feel that you can get by with only 3 weapons, you may want to use The Birds or complimentary weapons to the Passive Item choices below.
*Crown (Needed for Gorgeous Moon evolution. 40% experience boost when maxed).
*Stone Mask (We're maxing out gold acquisition here. 50% total gold boost when maxed. Absolutely necessary).
*Tiragisú (Needed for Phieraggi evolution. The additional two revives will be great early on but will mean nothing to you at some point here, other than a few thousand extra gold at the end of the level).
* Empty Tome (Max 40% Cooldown bonus cannot be argued against, especially with Phieraggi. Not needed for any evolution).
*Torrona's Box (Max 25% Might, 25% Projectile Speed, 25% Duration, and 25% Area bonuses at Level 8. 100% Curse IS A GOOD THING LATER)
*Early on, this is really your choice. I would prefer Duplicator or Bracer... Possibly Armor or Spinach, depending on your play style. Once you feel you can take the training wheels off though, Skull O'Maniac will give you Max 50% curse to keep even more enemies vaporizing before your eyes.
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*Silver Ring (Max 40% Duration, Max 40% Area bonuses. Needed MAXED for Infinite Corridor evolution).
*Gold Ring (Max 40% Curse. Needed MAXED for Infinite Corridor evolution).
* Metaglio Left (Max +0.8 Recovery, Max 47.7% Health. Not needed for any evolution).
*Metaglio Right (Max 40% Curse. Not needed for any evolution).
REMINDER: ONLY after you got all 6 of your choices do you go and pick up the Silver Ring, Gold Ring, Metaglio Left and Metaglio Right.
=== Arcanas / Order:===
* Starting Arcana: Disco of Gold (This is the biggest play of the run. Always the start-of-run pick. It won't be very useful for the first 5 to 8 minutes on early runs, but once you're really overpowered you'll be making use of this as early as the 3rd minute easily).
*2nd Arcana: Mad Groove (Dropped by Giant Skull at Minute 11:00. Early on, this will pull all of the Rings and Metaglios to you so you're not walking slowly all across the board without your Golden Egg Super Powers. Just be careful of the Masked Guardian that will appear when you pick it up. Masked Guardians will not chase you with Mad Groove and will only spawn after picking the items up).
* 3rd Arcana: Silent Old Sanctuary (Dropped by Giant Skull at Minute 21:00. Depending on how many weapon slots you are not filling, you will get a 20% Strength and -8% Cooldown bonus for each empty slot. If it's still early on and you're still using all 6 weapon slots, you might ditch the extra rerolls, skips and banishes and possibly go with Awake instead for the +3 Revivals and stat bonuses every time you die).
NOTE: Once you're getting really powerful, you won't want to use Mad Groove as the 2nd pick. You'll zip around so fast that it will be easy to get the Rings and Metaglios without worry. You're always going to want this one in the mix though, just because it will pull all of the gold bags you've passed up on your journey into a circle around you late-game that you can easily pick up immediately to either keep your Gold Fever counter going up or to quickly restart it if it wears off. Silent Old Sanctuary has SO many benefits, especially early on when you get an additional 3 rerolls, skips and banishes. You won't need those after a lot of eggs, but the Strength and Cooldown bonuses will help keep the crazy heightened Cursed enemy count at bay and kill them off quicker so you don't lose your Gold Fever counter. 3 of the 4 final minutes actually see your kill counter go down quite a bit from the rest of the run because you get the big bads that are harder to kill and don't spawn as quickly.
===Strategy (Early Runs): ===
From the entries above you can more or less piece together the strategy for early runs, but here are the highlights. 
*#1 Goal: Survive. It shouldn't be too difficult with Pugnala, but just be careful early on. There's no floor chicken here. Gold Fever will help with healing, but you're quite squishy right now. Spend your time upgrading the guns and the Clock Lancet and the Pentagram while getting the Metaglio LEFT ONLY after you get your 6 Passive Items first. Early on, you may also want to add The Birds for the eventual Vandelier evolution or choose weapons you like that compliment the Passive Items listed above.
*When Mad Groove comes up at 11:00 you can get Metaglio LEFT if you're ready, otherwise just move out of the way of the Mad Grove circle until you are. You especially don't want to have the Mad Grove circle in the active screen if you've got a Pentagram that isn't evolved just in case.
*You want to get Metaglio LEFT first to get the positive bonuses from it. Silver Ring is second for the positive bonuses. Metaglio RIGHT and Gold Ring are last. You need them maxed for their evolutions, but 100% additional curse can be scary here early on.
*Make sure you get the 4 eggs from the Masked Guardians as soon as they drop. Mad Groove will not pull them to you and you might end up having to travel a very far distance to get them back and that will distract you from keeping the Gold Fever running as much as possible.
*Speaking of Gold Fever, when you're on the move for any reason, even if it's just to try to spawn new torches and get some more coin bags on the ground around you, keep an eye on your Gold Fever meter and make pauses while you're moving to collect coins that are behind you. Also keep in mind that even though you don't seem to get any bonuses at all for keeping Gold Fever going on as long as possible other than an uninterrupted increase of gold accumulation, the higher the amount of gold you get the quicker the bar will deplete. You only get about 1/2 bar for picking up a bag while Gold Fever is in process, so it might just be more strategic to stand by a bag and quickly pick it up as soon as the current Gold Fever ends.
*Get a feel over time what your favorite way of leveling up everything will be and how it will change as you get stronger. You will probably want to Banish Torina's Box after Level 8 early on, but later you will actually really want that extra 100% curse for the extra gold you're going to make when you're strong enough. You will also be able to use leveling to kind of direct the flow of which weapons are evolved first in early runs when you're not getting an insane amount of experience levels.
*Save the chests after 10:00 until you're ready to evolve a weapon. The only exceptions are the 11:00 and 21:00 chests that will hold your next Arcana no matter what other chests you've picked up. You're going to want those ASAP.
* Git Gud at keeping that Gold Fever alive and strategically placing yourself near gold bags on the floor, at least until Mad Grove is acquired which will make this easier by bringing a circle of bags and coins around you. Not only will you get a higher gold count, but early on when you're weak it also gives you a health regeneration bonus that will be invaluable.
* Kill Death when your done and don't forget his 5 eggs. After you get them, you should also use this time in between to visit the merchant so you can benefit from your new egg bonuses immediately on the next run. On really early runs it is possible to intentionally avoid killing death for at least 2 minutes while making more bags and coins drop until Mad Groove comes on again at 32:00 and brings them all in a circle around you again for a little extra end-run loot.
===Strategy (Late Runs):===
*Survival will become less and less of a problem until it becomes a joke. You'll know this is really happening when the only characters you're worried about at all are the Masked Guardians and Stalker, Stalker will be the last character in this stage that will give you any trouble and you will eventually get to a point where you can just stand there and let him hit you and nothing will happen since your innate regeneration is pushing 20/second and you've got Gold Fever. But at that point he's going to be almost immediately killed off by your Pentagram with an insane cooldown time.
* CURSE IS A GOOD THING!!!! Once you're having a much easier time surviving, try to get it where you can. Experiment and add more here and there until you get to the point that you want all the curse you can get. Level up Torina's Box as quick as possible for 100% curse. Replace your 6th Passive with Skull-o-Matic for an additional 50% curse. Get the Gold Ring and Metiglio Right first and level them up quickly for an additional 50% curse.
*Leave Mad Groove until the 21:00 mark and pick Silent Old Sanctuary at the 11:00 mark. You'll be running around that arena so fast that Mad Grove would only slow you down. Just make sure to pick up all those eggs when they drop from the Guardians. They won't last long anymore.
*Try not to get bored. Your entire screen will be filled with a whirling disk between the Phieraggi and Infinite Corridor blasting at full screen with minimal cooldown, and for most 1 minute rounds you won't even see enemies invade the light anymore until the last few minutes.
*At one point you will be clearing about 120 eggs per run with over $1,100,000 gold and the 9 dropped eggs.
Now do that a few thousand times and you can put a few thousand eggs on all of your characters. (Only recommended for the truly bored and/or insane)
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=== A much better solution===
For a updated much better, faster way to get more money than you can ever spend with almost no effort, try this updated method:
Phase 1, the first run: Requires 21,000 gold funding to start. "Greatest Jubilee" weapon must be unlocked.
Disable Flashing VFX and Damage Numbers in your options!!
===Preferred Build:===
Character Choice: Queen Sigma
Character/Stage Selections:
Stage: Dairy Plant
*Max Weapons = 3
*Golden Eggs = On
*Hyper Mode = Yes
*Hurry Mode = Yes
*Arcanas = Yes
*Limit Break = Yes
*Endless Mode = Yes
Disable the following weapon and items in the collection menu; if you do not have enough SEALs then do as many as you can in this order.
*Sole Solution
*Floor Chicken
* Orologion
*Nduja Fritta
*Vacuum
*Gilded Clover
* Little Clover
*Rosary
Weapon Choices / Order: 
#Victory Sword
#Greatest Jubilee from the Candybox (Banish the 9th level of it)
#Laurel
#From the Super Candybox II Turbo, take the Gorgeous Moon
===Passive Item Choices / Order:===
NOTE: There is no real specific order on these other than not grabbing either of the Rings or Metaglios until AFTER you have all six of your other Passive Item selections first.
*Duplicator (To help maximise damage dealt).
*Crown (40% experience boost when maxed).
*Stone Mask (We're maxing out gold acquisition here. 50% total gold boost when maxed. Absolutely necessary).
*Skull O'Maniac (50% more Curse is a good thing).
*Empty Tome (Max 40% Cooldown bonus cannot be argued against. Not needed for any evolution).
*Torrona's Box (Max 25% Might, 25% Projectile Speed, 25% Duration, and 25% Area bonuses at Level 8. 100% Curse IS A GOOD THING LATER)
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*Silver Ring (Max 40% Duration, Max 40% Area bonuses.).
* Gold Ring (Max 40% Curse.).
*Metaglio Left (Max +0.8 Recovery, Max 47.7% Health. Needed for Crimson Shroud).
*Metaglio Right (Max 40% Curse. Needed for Crimson Shroud).
*Plus all the other stage items.
Arcanas / Order:
*Starting Arcana: Wicked Season (This is going to make your runs exponentially more profitable over time).
*2nd Arcana: Disco of Gold (Purchased from the merchant immediately).
*3rd Arcana: Boogaloo of Illusions
*4th Arcana: Silent Old Sanctuary
*5th Arcana: Mad Groove
*6th Arcana: Divine Bloodline
Strategy:
Start with Wicked Season and immediately buy Disco of Gold from the merchant. Begin levelling up to get the correct items and passives. Get the Gorgeous Moon when given the opportunity from the Super Candybox II Turbo. After getting your weapons and passives, go and collect all the stage items, so you can get the Crimson Shroud. After getting your remaining Arcanas simply stand on one of the stage's trap buttons and go AFK and wait for the gold to pile up. The game cannot be minimised.
The goal is 180m or more gold, this should take a few hours.
===Phase 2, going infinite:===
Requires 180,000,000 or more gold funding to start.
If you haven't already done so, disable the 7 PowerUps listed previously, then start a run on any stage with Big Trouser and purchase Golden Eggs from the merchant. You need 18,000 or more Golden Eggs, you can do this by going north on the Moongolow stage and talking to Eggman. If you have too many eggs and move too fast, head south and choose to remove all move speed related eggs.
Character:
===Preferred Build:===
Character Choice: Big Trouser
Character/Stage Selections:
Stage: Dairy Plant or Cappella Magna
* Max Weapons = 3
*Golden Eggs = On
*Hyper Mode = Yes
* Hurry Mode = No
*Arcanas = Yes
*Limit Break = Yes
*Endless Mode = Yes
Weapon Choices / Order:
#Greatest Jubilee (Banish the 9th level of it)
# Laurel
#Clock Lancet
#From the Super Candybox II Turbo, take the Gorgeous Moon
===Passive Item Choices / Order:===
NOTE: There is no real specific order on these other than not grabbing either of the Rings or Metaglios until AFTER you have all six of your other Passive Item selections first.
*Duplicator or Attractorb, depending on the stage.
*Crown or Candelabrador, depending on the stage.
*Stone Mask
*Skull O'Maniac
*Spinach
*Torrona's Box
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*Silver Ring
* Gold Ring
*Metaglio Left
*Metaglio Right
* Plus all the other stage items.
Arcanas / Order:
*Starting Arcana: Wicked Season
*2nd Arcana: Disco of Gold (Purchased from the merchant immediately).
*3rd Arcana: Mad Groove
* 4th Arcana: Silent Old Sanctuary
Strategy
Similar to before, get all of your weapon evolutions and passive items, and then collect the stage items once ready. Once you have everything set up, stand on one of the stage's trap buttons before bed and go to sleep. After 7+ hours, you should now have enough money to buy all the Golden Eggs you could ever possibly want and more besides and this number will keep growing exponentially. Happy farming!
NOTE: The game can only handle so many objects at once, I calculate this number to be somewhere around 180 Treasure Chests, so make sure to pick up all the chests lying around every 7 hours or so if you can help it. Cappella Magna makes about 10% more gold overnight, but is more prone to lag than Dairy Plant. I theorise this is due to the presence of the Stained Glass Windows counting towards the entity limit.
For a Steam guide version of this guide that is kept up to date:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2927997156Notes for people wanting to improve this build further: You might have some luck re-enabling Clover drops or the Rosary, especially for Queen Sigma, but I'm fairly confident I've exhausted basically all current possibilities in regards to weapons. Taking any more damage at all is bad as you want enemies to constantly touch you and keep Crimson Shroud permanently activated for maximum damage and also let it have the most Limit Break buffs possible.
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