Areas

Upon reaching wave 50 of an area, the next area is unlocked. Each world has 9 areas with the 9th being a boss area. In a boss area, the boss potato will spawn one copy at wave 25, two copies at wave 50, three copies at wave 75, and four copies at wave 100. Drops in boss areas have a guaranteed special bonus found on each item, depending on the boss area, details in the Equipment page. Each area has potential buffs applied to enemies, a maximum item rating able to be dropped, and a maximum number of bonuses able to be found per item, effectively a max item tier. There are currently 3 difficulties per area, with plans to add a fourth difficulty in the future.

Medium difficulty is unlocked by reaching 2-8-50 and after Reincarnation. It increases the difficulty of the potatoes (as well as their rewards), doubles the maximum rating of equipment dropped, and doubles the number of worms dropped. Waves in each area require 5 or 10 additional potatoes, and the maximum wave is increased to 200. Max bonuses remain the same, as do potential enemy buffs.

Hard difficulty is unlocked in Ascension 7 by reaching 4-3-50. It functions similar as medium, except the number of worms dropped is tripled, and the maximum wave is increased to 300. The maximum rating of equipment in Hard is 4x that of easy.

## Which area should I be fighting for...

One of the big questions a lot of people seem to have is which area it is best to farm, or where they should linger for a while before trying to push farther. It all kind of depends on what you're trying to do, but here are some general rules.

* One basic idea that is tricky to notice is that your reincarnation multiplier improves based on unique waves cleared in a given run. That means you want to clear 200/200 of as many medium (and later, 300/300 hard) stages as you can. Clearing a stage on medium (and hard) also clears it on easy. What I do personally from the start of a reincarnation is clear stages on medium up to wave 50 until I can't reach 50, then I switch to easy and push until I can't go farther. This is to unlock as much of the confections and potato upgrades as possible. Then I spend a few minutes sitting at that wall gaining class levels to let my talents fill out. Next I go back to the first area on my list that isn't 200/200 on medium, I turn on auto-advance, and I walk away for a bit. This fleshes out my reincarnation multiplier and also brings in some worms to get my confections going strong. After I've reached my medium wall at that point, it is time to decide where I want to farm for the rest of my reincarnation.
* Area 9 of any world is bad for farming skulls. Skulls are awarded for waves cleared and clearing a wave in area 9 always takes at minimum 4 times longer than any other area. (Minimum 20 potatoes vs minimum 5 potatoes.)
* Speed of spawns matters. Before settling in for a long haul, check the 3rd page of the skulls menu. It will show you how quickly potatoes spawn, how many spawn at once, how many are allowed on screen, and how many per wave. Ideally, you want 5 potatoes per wave, spawning at 0.25 sec, spawning 5 at a time, and 50 allowed on screen. If you can't pull that off when you're at your wall, you're going to need to balance a few more variables when figuring out where your farming wall is.
* If you want to gain class exp, potatoes, and skulls all at the fastest rate you can, you likely want to be in easy difficulty on the highest area (other than 9) that you can reach and still have maximum speed. You need a place where you can clear more than 10-15 waves, and that is if you are actively there to reset the farmer each time he wipes. If you aren't and can't make it to wave 100, that 15 second timer to reset is going to kill your gains. Go back one area and you'll likely be able to reach wave 100. That will likely be more efficient for you.
* If you want Equipment upgrades, you want to be in the highest medium difficulty where you can kill potatoes. You don't need to clear many waves, but you should at least be killing 5-10 potatoes before you fall. You're also going to need to be attentive. Equipment in medium is twice as strong as easy. You should be Freeloader with its special class nodes on the talent tree. Also get as many of the item drop nodes on the talent tree as you can pull off. (Don't forget their neighboring reincarnation nodes if you don't want the run to be a bit of a waste other than gear, but maybe wait to buy those until you're using the last of your talent points instead of getting them early.) If your rate of potato killing is very slow on your highest possible medium, getting gear is going to be very inefficient. It is probably better to either do another 2-hour reincarnation level run with a different class and then try again (the gains from that will likely make your kill rate much better so the gear comes a bit quicker.) Alternately, spend a little while farming skulls/potatoes/class exp at your normal farming wall to boost your power a bit more, then come back at the end of your run to try to gather gear for a little while before you reincarnate. Spending an hour to fill your bag just to scrap it all for not being upgrades is a waste of your time and is bad farming. If that's happening, try again later when you can be more efficient about it, even if you really really really want that new bonus type.
* If you are looking to maximize your worms while also being efficient with class exp, potatoes, and skulls, the same idea applies, just on medium. You want an area where you can at least go past wave 100, not area 9 of a world, and also one where you have max spawns happening (Note, the spawn rates on medium are slower than easy until you level up page 3 of skulls more). If you're not attentive, you're going to slow down some from the 15 second reset timer, but it isn't quite as bad because each run is a bit longer (more than 100 waves at max speed). Your rate of gain for class exp, potatoes, and skulls will likely be lower than your easy wall, but your worm gain rate will be considerably higher.
* I strongly do not recommend doing this next one, but if you want to min/max your gain of worms, you want medium 1-9 if you have it at max speed. If you can to 2-9 on medium all the way at max speed, that's better because the equipment materials are better, but your bag is going to fill up. This is assuming you aren't being attentive. The boss areas are better for that simply because running through them takes longer, and so the 15 second reset doesn't hurt as badly. Your rate of income for all of the other valuable currencies is going to be terrible, though, which will hurt your overall reincarnatione xp, which is more valuable than an extra cow in the long term.

Most areas also have a special location that can be clicked to gain a hidden achievement.

## Some Stats on the Areas

Some of the details in these tables drop off because different upgrades either make the number irrelevant or hard to figure out. For instance, it is hard to figure out potatoes per wave when you've already cut them down to minimum. Likewise the base equipment rating is hard to figure out when you have inherent bonuses to equipment. Odds are, by the time you've reached those stages, you won't be looking at this page anymore for info about them, you'll know what it all means.